U.S. Fiumana

Unione Sportiva Fiumana or U.S. Fiumana is the former name of an active Italian—Croatian football football club based in the present-day Croatian city of Rijeka. The club held the name U.S. Fiumana between 1926 and 1946, at a time when the city was part of the Kingdom of Italy and was commonly referred to by its Italian name Fiume. The club's home was the present-day Stadion Kantrida, which was at the time called Stadio Comunale del Littorio.

Fiumana
Full nameUnione Sportiva Fiumana
Founded2 September 1926
Dissolved1946 (become NK Rijeka)
GroundStadio Comunale del Littorio
Capacity8,000

During its existence the club competed in the Italian league system reaching extensive notoriousness in Italy, playing in Serie A but spending most of the time in the second and third levels, finishing its last season as 4th in the 1942–43 Serie C. The club stop competing in tournaments in 1943 due to war, but continued to play under the Fiumana name until the end of 1945, and it got then restructured and rebranded as a trade union sport club under the bilingual name Quarnero - Kvarner, in line with the new sport and political organization introduced nationally by the SFR Yugoslavia. In 1954 the club was eventually rebranded again with the monolingual name NK Rijeka.

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History

The club was founded in 1926 as Unione Sportiva Fiumana after the merger of two earlier local clubs – Gloria Fiume and Olympia Fiume. Fiumana played in the First Division (Prima divisione), which was the second level of the Italian Football Championship, and reached the National Division (Divisione Nazionale), the first level of Italian football in 1928. After 1929, it competed in Serie B in the 1929–1930 and 1941–1942 seasons.

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References
  1. "Sportske novosti - Nova monografija o Rijeci: Prvi put se tvrdi da je klub zapravo 40 godina stariji nego što se mislilo..." sportske.jutarnji.hr (in Croatian). 18 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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