associazione calcio chievoverona, commonly referred to as chievoverona or simply chievo [ˈkjeːvo], is a former professional italian football club named after and based in chievo, a suburb of 4,500 inhabitants in verona, veneto, and owned by paluani, a bakery product company and the inspiration for their original name, paluani chievo.during its years as a professional club, chievo shared the 38,402 seater stadio marcantonio bentegodi stadium with its cross-town rivals hellas verona.following the club's exclusion from professional football in 2021, chievo is solely running as a youth team for the current 2021–22 season.the club was excluded from professional football because of financial problems.initially the club was not officially affiliated to the italian football federation (figc), but nonetheless played several amateur tournament and friendly matches under the denomination o.n.d.chievo, a title imposed by the fascist regime.the club's formal debut in an official league was on 8 november 1931.the team colours at the time were blue and white.chievo disbanded in 1936, however, due to economic woes but returned to play in 1948 after world war ii, being registered in the regional league of seconda divisionecode: ita promoted to code: it  (second division).in 1957, the team moved to the field 'carlantonio bottagisio', where they played until 1986.in 1959, after the restructuring of the football leagues, chievo was admitted to play the seconda categoria (second category), a regional league placed next-to-last in the italian football pyramid.that year, chievo changed its name to cardi chievo, after a new sponsor, and was quickly promoted to the prima categoria, from which it experienced its first-ever relegation in 1962.under campedelli's presidency, chievo climbed through the entire italian football pyramid, reaching the serie d after the 1974–75 season.under the name 'paluani chievo', the team was promoted to serie c2 in 1986.as a consequence of promotion, chievo was forced to move to the stadio marcantonio bentegodi, the main venue in verona; another promotion, to serie c1, followed in 1989.in 1990, the team changed its name to its current one, 'a.c.chievoverona.'in 1992, president luigi campedelli, who had returned at the helm of the club two years before, died of a heart attack, and his son luca campedelli, aged just 23, became the new and youngest chairman of an italian professional football club.campedelli promoted giovanni sartori to director of football and named alberto malesani as the new head coach.under malesani, the team astonishingly won the serie c1 and was promoted to serie b, where city rival hellas verona was playing at the time.in 1997, after malesani signed for fiorentina, silvio baldini was appointed the new head coach.the following season, with domenico caso as the coach, saw the first dismissal of a coach during the presidency of luca campedelli, with caso being fired and replaced with lorenzo balestro.it was during these years that the nickname 'mussi volanti' ('flying donkeys') was born.it originated from supporters of their crosstown rivals hellas, who would mock long-suffering chievo supporters that chievo will only be promoted if 'donkeys could fly' (equivalent of the english language falsism 'if pigs could fly', denoting an impossible dream).in 2000–01, luigi delneri was signed as coach and led chievo, by virtue of its third-place finish in serie b, to promotion to serie a, the first time in team history that it had reached the top tier of italian football.however, they became the surprise team in the league, playing often spectacular and entertaining football and even leading the league for six consecutive weeks.the club finally ended the season with a highly respectable fifth-place finish, qualifying the team to play in the uefa cup.
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associazione calcio chievoverona, commonly referred to as chievoverona or simply chievo [ˈkjeːvo], is a former professional italian football club named after and based in chievo, a suburb of 4,500 inhabitants in verona, veneto, and owned by paluani, a bakery product company and the inspiration for their original name, paluani chievo.chievoverona.'