Genoa CFC

Founded in 1893, Genoa is the oldest Italian football club still active today, boasting of 9 consecutive Scudetto won between 1898 and 1923/1924, the first of which is also the first Scudetto in Italian football history.

These successes earned Genoa a spot as of one of the first greats in Italian football, of which it remained the one with most titles won for the first seventy years of it's history,

The Genoa can also boasts among it's trophies of an Italian Cup, 6 Serie B championship titles (a record shared with the Atalanta), 2 Cup of the Alps, an Anglo-Italian cup and a Coppa dell'Amicizia, it also has participated in 2 editions of the UEFA Cup/Europa League, with the team's best result being reaching the semi-finals in the 1991/1992 edition of the competition.

In 2011 the Genoa was added to the International Bureau of Cultural Capitals, a sort of historical World Heritage for sports, and in 2013 it was admitted to the Club of Pioneers, an association representing the oldest football clubs in the world.

Il Grifone, one of the club's nicknames alongside Rossoblù and Vecchio Balordo, holds the eleventh spot in the ranking for italian sport traditions under the criteria of the FIGC.