Buy Venezia FC tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying the last season of something. Venezia won Serie B with 82 points to come straight back up, and this is their final campaign at the Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo before the club moves to a new 18,500-seat ground at Tessera in 2027. Giovanni Stroppa stays in charge after securing the fourth promotion of his managerial career.
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The Penzo is the reason people travel here. It opened in 1913, holds 12,048, sits on the island of Sant'Elena at the eastern tip of Venice and cannot be reached by car by anyone, including the teams. Everything below covers how you actually get there, which sector to choose, what resale prices look like and where every home and away league fixture can be found.
Two things make buying for a Venezia fixture unlike anything else in Serie A. The first is the size of the ground. The Penzo holds 12,048, which is among the smallest capacities in the division, and season ticket holders take a substantial share of that before general sale exists. What reaches the public for the visits of Inter, Juventus, Milan or Napoli is a few thousand seats at most.
The second is the city. Venice has no road access to its historic centre, so every supporter arrives on foot or by water. That rules out the casual matchday decision entirely: you cannot drive over on a whim, park and walk in. Trips here are planned, accommodation is booked well ahead and prices in the city move with the tourist calendar rather than the football one. A club that opens single-match sales close to the fixture cannot serve people making those decisions two months out.
A resale marketplace closes that gap. Season ticket holders miss individual matches, plans change and seats come back into circulation from people who committed to a full campaign. Buying this way lets you fix a sector, a quantity and a price at the same moment you book a hotel in Castello, rather than gambling that a club sale will open in time and still have something left in it.
1BoxOffice has traded as a ticket marketplace since 2006, which covers most of the modern history of online football resale. That length of trading matters for a purchase where the product often does not reach your hands until the week of the match. Sellers are verified before their inventory goes live, and every confirmed order carries a guarantee that pays out well above what you spent if something goes wrong.
For a trip to Venice the value is sequencing. Accommodation in the city is expensive and rarely refundable at short notice, so knowing the seat exists before the rest is committed matters more here than almost anywhere. You can see the sector, the quantity available and the price before buying, and delivery progress is trackable from the moment the order confirms.
Venezia are the rarest thing in football: a club whose ground is a destination in its own right. Supporters travel from across the world to see a match at the Penzo without any particular attachment to the club, drawn by a stadium on a lagoon island that looks like nowhere else in the sport. Add a return to Serie A and a farewell season, and the demand profile stops resembling a promoted side entirely.
Demand still moves in waves, and knowing which fixtures compress a month of interest into one date is most of the work. The drivers below are the ones that actually move availability in the lagoon.
The practical conclusion is that Venezia rewards early decisions more than almost any Serie A destination, because the accommodation you book around the match is harder to move than the ticket. Fix the seat first and the rest follows.
Resale pricing at the Penzo is driven by the opponent and by how early you buy, with the size of the ground amplifying both. Club face values run from roughly £30 to £37 for a standard single match, but face value is often academic for a general buyer because so little reaches open sale. What you encounter on the market reflects 12,000 seats meeting Serie A demand in a city that fills with visitors regardless of the football.
Timing behaves differently here than at a larger ground. Because the pool is small and a share of the demand comes from people who have already booked travel, prices for the marquee fixtures tend to harden rather than soften as the date approaches. For mid-table fixtures the usual pattern holds and a purchase a few weeks out gets you a good seat at a sensible price.
The bands below reflect typical resale ranges across a season rather than any individual listing. They are quoted in pounds because that is how the marketplace prices, and they will not map neatly onto euro face values given the supply position.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Serie A (standard fixtures) | £45 – £170 |
| Serie A (high-demand fixtures) | £110 – £450+ |
| Coppa Italia (early rounds) | £25 – £70 |
| Coppa Italia (later rounds) | £40 – £150 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £220 – £900+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Yes. Venezia do not put a paid membership in front of general sale, and anyone can buy through the club's own channels or through resale without one. Home tickets are sold through the club's ticketing partner and a free account covers the purchase, with the fidelity card mattering mainly for away allocations in line with the Tessera del Tifoso system used across Italy.
The obstacle for a visiting supporter is timing rather than eligibility. Single-match sales open close to the fixture, which is workable if you live in the Veneto and impossible if you are booking flights and a hotel in Venice two months ahead. By the time the club opens a sale, the accommodation decision has usually already been made.
Resale removes that dependency. There is no card to activate, no presale window to catch and no residency test to pass, and the sector you choose is the sector you get. Read each listing for notes on name matching or collection before committing, because Italian grounds check identity against the ticket at the gate and the Penzo is no exception.
The season ticket carries disproportionate weight at Venezia because there is so little of the ground to distribute. A healthy abbonamento base in a stadium of 12,048 leaves a small pool for single-match sale, and the Curva Sud is effectively closed to newcomers each season. Promotion has sharpened that further, with renewal demand rising on the back of a return to Serie A.
Renewal runs in phases through the summer with existing holders given pre-emption before new applications open. Pricing is set by sector and the spread is narrower than at a large ground because there is no upper tier to price down into. The ranges below reflect typical full-season resale and secondary-market bands rather than club list prices, which are published separately each summer.
| Season Ticket Area | Typical Full-Season Range (GBP) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Curva Sud | £200 – £300 | Home ultras end. Lowest entry point and the hardest sector to enter from outside. |
| Distinti and side sectors | £280 – £420 | The temporary tubular stands along the sides. Close to the pitch with an open aspect over the lagoon. |
| Tribuna Laterale | £380 – £560 | The permanent west grandstand away from the halfway line, with cover. |
| Tribuna Centrale | £520 – £780 | Covered central seating on the halfway line, the strongest sightlines in the ground. |
| Premium and hospitality | £1,100 – £2,000+ | Central seating with lounge access across the season. Very limited inventory. |
The Penzo is not a conventional stadium and choosing a seat here works differently as a result. One permanent grandstand runs along the western side, and the other three sides are tubular structures built where a running track once sat, which means cover is concentrated on one side and proximity is unusually close on the others. Everything is small, low and open to the lagoon air.
| Stand / Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curva Sud | Atmosphere, singing, banners | Lowest | Home of the Venezia ultras behind one goal. Expect to stand throughout and to see the far end through flags. |
| Tribuna Centrale | Sightlines and shelter | Highest general admission | The permanent west grandstand on the halfway line, the only properly covered part of the ground. The natural choice for a first visit or a winter fixture. |
| Tribuna Laterale | Balance of cover and price | Mid to high | Covered but towards the corners, with a compressed angle on the far side of the pitch. |
| Distinti and side sectors | Value and proximity | Mid | The tubular stands opposite the main grandstand. Very close to the pitch and fully exposed to the weather coming off the water. |
| Curva Nord | Visiting supporters | Varies | The away end at the opposite goal, with an allocation that varies by fixture. Not sold to home support. |
| Accessible positions | Wheelchair users and companions | Varies | Limited provision in a ground of this age and construction. Contact the club well ahead rather than assuming availability. |
This is the section that matters most for anyone who has not been to Venice, because the usual assumptions do not apply. There is no car park, no shuttle bus and no taxi rank at the ground. The Penzo sits on Sant'Elena, the eastern island of the historic centre, and every supporter arrives on foot or by water. The visiting team arrives by boat as well, which is not a quirk the club advertises so much as a plain logistical fact.
The club has leaned into it. For 2026/27 Venezia launched La Serenissima, a Venetian-style vessel carrying 75 guests per match from San Marco across the lagoon to the ground, with catering and an open upper deck, debuting for the opening home fixture against Lecce. It is a premium product rather than general transport, but it captures why people travel here in the first place.
| Route | How It Works |
|---|---|
| Vaporetto to Sant'Elena | The standard route. ACTV water bus lines including 1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2 and 6 serve the Sant'Elena stop, roughly five minutes from the turnstiles. Journey times run 15 to 30 minutes depending where you board. |
| Walking from San Marco | About 30 minutes along the Riva degli Schiavoni waterfront, past the Biennale gardens and onto Sant'Elena. Flat, well signposted and the route most visiting supporters end up preferring. |
| La Serenissima club boat | A 75-guest premium vessel from San Marco to the ground on matchdays, with food, drink and an open-air upper deck. Limited capacity and sold as an experience rather than transport. |
| Arriving from the mainland | Trains and buses reach Venezia Santa Lucia or Piazzale Roma. From there it is vaporetto or foot only, so allow an additional 30 to 45 minutes to cross the city. |
| What does not work | Driving to the ground, taxis to the turnstiles and last-minute dashes. Vaporetti fill sharply before kick-off and there is no faster alternative once you are on the island. |
Away travel from Venice is straightforward once you are off the island, with Venezia Mestre on the main northern rail corridor and Marco Polo airport a short hop from the centre. Italian away rules still apply. Allocations are small, sales through club channels require the fidelity card and prefectural decrees can restrict or close sales by province of residence at short notice.
| Away Detail | What to Expect |
|---|---|
| Typical allocation | Several hundred to a few thousand depending on the host ground and risk classification. Venezia's travelling support is modest in size but consistent. |
| Away section location | The settore ospiti at the host stadium, usually an upper tier or corner segregated from home support. At the Penzo visitors take the Curva Nord. |
| Access requirements | An active fidelity card is needed for away sales through club channels, serving as Venezia's Tessera del Tifoso equivalent. No card is required for home general sale. |
| Residency restrictions | Certain fixtures limit sales to supporters not resident in the province of Venice, or close the away sector entirely. Confirm the current decree before booking travel. |
| Transport notes | Bologna, Milan, Verona, Parma, Genoa and Turin are all comfortable by rail from Venezia Mestre. Southern trips to Napoli, Lecce and Cagliari realistically mean flying from Marco Polo. |
Because the Penzo is small and every seat is close to the pitch, the decision here is less about how well you will see the game and more about shelter and atmosphere. Venice in November is damp and the wind comes straight off the lagoon, so whether a seat has a roof over it is a practical question rather than a preference.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere | Curva Sud, lower blocks | The drums, the banners and the singing all start here and run for the full match. In a ground this compact the sound carries everywhere, and the curva is louder than a stadium of 12,000 has any right to be. |
| View of the play | Tribuna Centrale | Halfway line, covered, close to the touchline with nothing in between. The clearest angle in the ground and the only sector with a roof over it. |
| Family-friendly | Tribuna Laterale | Seated support throughout, calmer surroundings and cover overhead. The better option for younger supporters at an autumn or winter fixture. |
| Premium experience | Central Tribuna or a hospitality package | Central seating with catering and an indoor space before and after the match. Inventory is very small at a ground of this size, so book as early as the fixture allows. |
| Lower-priced option | Distinti or side sectors | The most affordable regular seats and the closest to the pitch, in the tubular stands. Fully uncovered, so check the forecast and bring a hood rather than an umbrella. |
The Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo opened in 1913 and is the second-oldest football ground still in use in Italy, behind only the Marassi in Genoa. It is named after a Venetian aviator and sits at the far eastern end of the historic centre on Sant'Elena, an island that was largely created from reclaimed land in the early twentieth century. Beyond one end of the pitch there is water, and beyond that the lagoon.
Capacity is 12,048 and the construction tells the story of a club that has spent most of its life outside the top flight. There is one permanent grandstand on the western side and three tubular structures on the other three, erected on the footprint of a running track that was removed and never replaced with anything permanent. A tornado in 1971 caused damage that was never fully repaired, which is part of why the club has spent decades planning to build elsewhere.
Atmosphere sits in the Curva Sud, where the organised support gathers. Because the ground is small and low and three sides are open, the noise behaves unusually. It does not compress the way it does in a bowl but carries out over the water and back, and a full Penzo sounds far bigger than the attendance figure suggests. The Curva Nord at the opposite end houses visiting supporters.
Getting there is covered in full above, but the short version is that you walk or you take a boat. From Piazza San Marco it is about half an hour on foot along the Riva degli Schiavoni, past the Biennale gardens, and the vaporetto stop at Sant'Elena is five minutes from the turnstiles. The teams arrive by water. So does the match ball, the medical kit and everything else, which is a logistical reality no other club in the top five European leagues deals with.
The area around the ground is residential and green by Venetian standards, with the Biennale gardens alongside and very few bars. Pre-match happens in Castello or around San Marco and supporters travel out together, which is why the vaporetti fill steadily from around two hours before kick-off. The club store and the ticket collection points sit behind the main grandstand.
Matchday entry follows the standard Italian pattern. Tickets are personalised, a valid photo identity document is checked against the name at the turnstile and there is no left-luggage facility, so anything you cannot carry in has to stay in the city. Given that you may be walking for thirty minutes to get there, travelling light is worth more here than at a ground with a car park.
The building has a defined end date. Venezia move to the Bosco dello Sport at Tessera, a Populous-designed stadium of roughly 18,500 with a 10,000-seat arena alongside it, targeted for the first half of 2027. That makes 2026/27 the final season at the Penzo after 113 years. Full detail on the ground sits on the Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo tickets page, and the Penzo seating plan covers the sector layout.
Hospitality at the Penzo is concentrated in the central section of the permanent west grandstand, and the inventory is small because the ground is small and old. What Venezia have that nobody else does is the arrival, and the club's premium products increasingly lean on the water crossing rather than on stadium facilities alone.
For a supporter who has travelled to Venice for a single fixture the appeal is practical as well as indulgent. You get covered central seating, catering included and an indoor space before kick-off and after full time, which matters at a ground where three of the four sides are open to the lagoon. The bands below reflect typical resale ranges across a season.
| Package | What It Includes | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Premium seating | Central seats in the covered grandstand with a dedicated entrance and access to the hospitality area | £220 – £400 |
| Hospitality lounge | Central seating with dining before the match, bar service and an indoor space at half time | £350 – £650 |
| La Serenissima boat package | Return crossing from San Marco on the club vessel with catering and upper-deck access, combined with a matchday seat | £400 – £900+ |
| Executive space | Private area for a small group with catering and service throughout the match | £600 – £900+ |
Buying through a marketplace is a short process, and at Venezia the sequencing matters more than usual because the trip around the match is the expensive part. Fix the seat, then book the city. Work through the eight steps below and you will have covered what commonly goes wrong.
Step1
Start from the fixture
Availability and price differ enormously between a mid-table Sunday afternoon and the visit of Inter or Juventus, so begin with the specific match rather than the club. The home and away fixture lists further down this page take you straight to each one.
Step2
Sign in or set up an account
An account keeps your order history, contact details and delivery preferences in one place. If you do not have one you can create an account in a couple of minutes, and it makes tracking and support far simpler later on.
Step3
Secure the seat before the accommodation
This is the step specific to Venice. Hotels here are costly and often non-refundable, while a sold-out fixture does not come back. Lock the ticket first and build the trip around it rather than the other way round.
Step4
Pick your sector with the weather in mind
Only the west grandstand is covered, so at this ground the choice is not purely atmosphere against sightline. Curva Sud for noise, Tribuna Centrale for the view and a roof, the side sectors for proximity and price.
Step5
Compare the listings
Several sellers may hold seats in the same sector at different prices and quantities. Compare the per-ticket total rather than the headline figure, and confirm whether seats are guaranteed together if you are buying for a group.
Step6
Read the listing notes
This is the step people skip and later regret. Notes cover name matching, collection arrangements, restricted view and whether seats are adjacent, all of which carry more consequence in Italy than in most of Europe.
Step7
Complete secure checkout
Enter the lead attendee's details exactly as they appear on the identity document that person will carry. Serie A tickets are personalised and the name is checked at the turnstile, so a mismatch here is the single most common cause of trouble on the day.
Step8
Follow the delivery
Confirmation lands immediately and you can follow progress through track order at any point. Many Serie A seats are issued close to the fixture date, so a quiet stretch after purchase is normal rather than a warning sign.
One practical note for this ground in particular: download or print the ticket before you leave your accommodation. Mobile signal on the vaporetti and around Sant'Elena is patchy, and there is no realistic way to solve a barcode problem once you are on the island.
Most of the Penzo calendar stays reachable for a supporter who plans a month ahead. A handful of dates behave completely differently, and in a ground of 12,048 that difference is measured in a few hundred seats. The table below ranks the fixture types Venezia supporters chase hardest.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Inter, Milan and Juventus at the Penzo | Three of the largest travelling supports in Italian football arriving at one of its smallest and least accessible grounds. The away allocation fills immediately and the overflow pushes into every home sector. |
| Napoli and Roma at home | Two fixtures with large national followings that sell steadily rather than instantly. Availability in the curva and the side sectors thins noticeably in the fortnight before kick-off. |
| Veneto and northern derbies | Short-distance fixtures against regional opposition bring travelling support by rail in numbers the Curva Nord cannot hold, which redirects demand into the home sections. |
| The final home fixture at the Penzo | With the move to Tessera scheduled for 2027, the last competitive match at a 113-year-old ground carries weight far beyond the result. Expect demand for that date to behave unlike anything else on the calendar. |
| Season opener | The first home fixture back in Serie A after promotion, and the debut of the club's new matchday boat service. Promotion seasons sell their opening fixtures on optimism alone. |
Delivery depends on the seller and on how the seats were originally issued, and Serie A uses a mix of digital and physical systems. The method appears on the listing before you buy, which matters more than usual here because a postal delivery to an address you have already left is no use once you are in Venice.
Whichever method applies, read the listing notes before completing the order. They carry the seller's specific instructions, including any name-matching requirement, and following them is the difference between a smooth entry and a conversation with a steward.
Arriving early matters more at the Penzo than at any ground in Serie A, and the reason is transport rather than queuing. Vaporetti run to a timetable, they fill sharply in the ninety minutes before kick-off and there is no faster alternative once you are committed to the water. Two hours before kick-off is a sensible target if you are travelling from San Marco or beyond, and ninety minutes is the minimum from Castello on foot.
There is a second reason, which is that the walk out along the Riva degli Schiavoni and through the Biennale gardens is genuinely part of the occasion. The Curva Sud begins its build-up long before the teams appear, with flags and drums from around 45 minutes out, and in a ground this small the noise is at full volume well before kick-off.
Serie A tickets are personalised and a valid photo identity document is checked against the name at the gate. The details entered at checkout therefore need to match the person carrying the seat, and a passport covers international visitors while a national identity card covers European supporters. The same document is needed if you are collecting rather than receiving digitally.
If your ticket is digital, save the barcode offline before you leave your accommodation. Signal on the water and around Sant'Elena is unreliable, and screen brightness matters as well because scanners struggle with a dimmed display in daylight. Keep the ticket and the document together, since you will be asked for both within a few metres of each other.
There is no left-luggage facility at the Penzo and no realistic way to store anything nearby, so travel light. Only small bags are permitted and no precise dimension is published, so treat anything larger than a small handbag as a risk and leave the rest at your accommodation or in storage near Santa Lucia if you are arriving on a travel day.
Prohibited items follow the standard Italian model and are checked at the gate. Cans, glass, plastic bottles, alcohol brought from outside, flares, fireworks, laser pointers and large flags on double poles are all refused. The club also publishes a separate form covering banners, flags, drums and megaphones, which organised groups need to complete in advance rather than turning up with equipment.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Venezia Football Club |
| Founded | 14 December 1907 |
| Nicknames | I Leoni Alati (the Winged Lions), I Lagunari, Gli Arancioneroverdi (the orange, black and greens) |
| Stadium | Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo, opened 1913 (capacity 12,048) |
| New stadium | Bosco dello Sport, Tessera, around 18,500, targeted for 2027 |
| Head coach | Giovanni Stroppa |
| Captain | Gianluca Busio |
| Chairman | Duncan Niederauer |
| League | Serie A (20 clubs, 38 matches) |
| Competitions in 2026/27 | Serie A and the Coppa Italia |
Venezia's history is the most turbulent of any club in Serie A, which is saying something in a league where financial collapse is close to routine. The club has been dissolved and reformed repeatedly and has spent just 14 seasons in the top flight across 119 years. It still produced two of the players who would become the heart of one of the finest teams Italy ever assembled. The eras below trace how the Leoni Alati got here.
For three decades Venezia were what geography made them: a club on an island with a limited catchment, competing against clubs backed by northern industry. The Penzo was built in 1913 on reclaimed land at the eastern edge of the city, and its construction was as much a statement about Sant'Elena as about football. Promotion in 1939 came just as Europe was about to make everything else irrelevant.
This is the period that gives Venezia a place in Italian football history far beyond its size. Mazzola arrived as a teenager, formed a partnership with Loik and together they won the club its only major trophy and drove it to a third-place finish that has never been bettered. Torino bought both in a single deal in 1942 and built the Grande Torino around them, the side that won five consecutive Scudetti and supplied almost the entire national team. Both men died at Superga in 1949. Venezia's contribution to that team is the club's proudest claim and its saddest.
The pattern of this half-century is a club that could reach Serie A and never afford to stay there. Promotions in 1961, 1966, 1998 and 2001 were followed by relegations, and the financial structure underneath repeatedly gave way. Venezia went bankrupt three times inside a decade, restarting from the amateur divisions on each occasion. That anything survived is a function of the city rather than the balance sheet.
The last decade has been the most successful and the most volatile in the club's history. American ownership brought stability, a rebuilt recruitment operation and a commercial identity that turned Venezia's shirts into a global product sold well outside football. On the pitch the club has bounced: up in 2021, down in 2022, up through the play-offs in 2024 with a 1-0 win over Cremonese, down again in 2025 and back up in 2026 as champions on 82 points with a round to spare. Giovanni Stroppa's side clinched it with a 2-2 draw at Spezia on 1 May, the fourth promotion of his managerial career.
Venezia's pantheon is unusual because its two greatest figures spent barely two years at the club and are remembered as much for what happened afterwards. The rest are drawn from a century of second-tier football and from the modern era. The club has not retired shirt numbers.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valentino Mazzola | Midfielder, 1940 to 1942 | Arrived at 18 and within a year had driven Venezia to the only major trophy in their history, then to a third-place finish. He went on to captain the Grande Torino and Italy, and is regarded by many as the finest Italian player of his generation. | Coppa Italia winner 1941, third in Serie A 1942, died at Superga 1949 |
| Ezio Loik | Midfielder, 1940 to 1942 | Mazzola's partner in the 1941 Coppa Italia side and sold to Torino alongside him in the same deal. The two formed the spine of the Grande Torino and of the Italy team, and died together at Superga. | Coppa Italia winner 1941, died at Superga 1949 |
| Álvaro Recoba | Forward, 1999 to 2000 | Sent on loan from Inter and produced a season that Venezia supporters still talk about, scoring the goals that defined the club's brief late-1990s return to Serie A. A player of that quality on the lagoon was an anomaly nobody expected. | Serie A goals during the 1999/2000 campaign |
| Gianluca Busio | Midfielder, 2021 onwards | Joined at 19 from Sporting Kansas City and stayed through two relegations and two promotions when almost nobody else did, becoming captain in July 2026. He is the modern equivalent of a one-club player at a club that rarely keeps anyone. | Club captain from 2026, five seasons through three divisions |
| Andrea Adorante | Forward, 2024 onwards | Scored 17 goals in the 2025/26 campaign that took Venezia up as Serie B champions, leading the line in a side built to go straight back to Serie A. His goals were the difference in a title race decided by a single point. | 17 goals in the 2025/26 promotion season |
| Filippo Maniero | Forward, 1997 to 1999 | Led the line during the club's late-1990s Serie A spell and scored regularly in a side that was rarely favoured. He remains the reference point for Venezia forwards of the modern era before Adorante. | Serie A goals across the 1998/99 campaign |
| Giovanni Stroppa | Head coach, 2025 onwards | Took over with the club back in Serie B and delivered the title at the first attempt, the fourth promotion of a coaching career built on exactly this kind of job. He stayed after promotion rather than moving on, which at this club is not the norm. | Serie B champions 2025/26, fourth career promotion |
| Duncan Niederauer | Chairman, 2020 onwards | The former New York Stock Exchange chief executive who led the takeover in 2020 and oversaw the commercial transformation that made Venezia a globally recognised brand. The stability of the past six years is largely his. | Three promotions to Serie A under his chairmanship |
Venezia's honours list is short and one entry dominates it. A single Coppa Italia in 1941 stands as the club's only major trophy, won by a side containing two players who would die at Superga eight years later. Everything else is a record of climbing back.
| Competition | Record |
|---|---|
| Coppa Italia | Winners once (1940/41) |
| Serie A | Never won. Highest finish third in 1941/42, across 14 seasons in the top flight |
| Serie B | Champions in 2025/26. Promoted from the second tier nine times in total |
| Coppa Italia Lega Pro | Winners once (2016/17) |
| Serie D | Champions in 2011/12, with four promotions from the fourth tier |
Venezia's rivalries are regional and historic rather than metropolitan, shaped by a corner of Italy dense with clubs of similar size. The Veneto contains four or five sides who have spent decades trading places between the divisions, and the fixtures that matter here are the ones against them. The wider rivalries came later and are about proving a point.
The most heated fixture in Venezia's calendar and one of the sharper rivalries in the Veneto, contested between two cities barely two hours apart with a long history of trouble attached. Meetings have been placed under restriction repeatedly and away sales limited or closed. Verona's relegation in 2026 takes the fixture off the league calendar for now, which is felt in the Curva Sud more than a visiting supporter would guess, but it remains the derby Venezia supporters name first.
Venezia against Padova is the older regional rivalry, contested between two cities forty kilometres apart and separated by centuries of history that has nothing to do with football. Alongside Vicenza and Treviso it forms the cluster of Veneto derbies that have defined the club's calendar through most of its existence in the second and third tiers. These fixtures rarely appear in Serie A, which is precisely why the seasons they do carry weight.
Less an inherited rivalry than a recurring measuring stick. Inter have been the club Venezia most often faced at moments that defined a season, and the relationship runs deeper than results: Álvaro Recoba arrived on loan from Inter and gave Venezia the finest individual season of their modern era. For a club that has spent most of its life outside the top flight, the visits of the largest sides are the fixtures that tell supporters where they stand.
Venezia have never played in European competition, so there is no continental rivalry and it would be dishonest to invent one. The club's international reputation has instead been built commercially, through a kit and an identity that travel far further than the team ever has. Supporters from across the world buy Venezia shirts without having seen a match, which is a modern kind of following that no European campaign produced.
The one fixture that carries meaning beyond the table, though it is a shared history rather than a rivalry. Torino bought Mazzola and Loik from Venezia in 1942 and built the Grande Torino around them, and both men died at Superga in 1949. When the two clubs meet, the connection is acknowledged rather than contested, and for Venezia supporters it is a reminder that the club's small trophy cabinet sits alongside a genuine claim on one of the finest teams Italy has produced.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Relegation from Serie A after a single season back in the top flight, finishing in the bottom three. The side competed for long stretches without ever building the points cushion survival required. Several of the squad were sold that summer as the club reset for the second tier. It was the first of two single-season Serie A stays in five years. |
| 2022/23 | A mid-table Serie B campaign spent rebuilding rather than challenging, with the club consolidating after relegation. Promotion was never seriously in contention and the focus fell on recruitment and the academy. Gianluca Busio stayed when others left, which would matter later. The groundwork for the following season was laid here. |
| 2023/24 | Promotion to Serie A secured through the play-offs, beating Cremonese 1-0 in the final on 2 June 2024 after finishing outside the automatic places. It was a campaign built on a strong second half of the season and a play-off run that peaked at the right moment. The club went up for the second time in four years. Optimism was high for a longer stay than the last one. |
| 2024/25 | Relegation again after one season, in a campaign that came down to the closing weeks and was decided on the final day. Venezia were competitive in most matches and short of goals in too many of them. The squad was dismantled less severely than in 2022, with a core kept together for an immediate return. The club went straight back down to Serie B. |
| 2025/26 | Serie B champions on 82 points, a single point clear of Frosinone, with promotion confirmed on 1 May 2026 after a 2-2 draw at Spezia with a round to spare. Giovanni Stroppa delivered the fourth promotion of his managerial career at the first attempt. Andrea Adorante top-scored with 17 goals. The Coppa Italia run ended early on penalties against Reggiana. |
Stroppa works with one of the smaller budgets in Serie A and a squad assembled around loans, young signings and a core that has been through both promotions. Filip Stanković in goal, Armel Bella-Kotchap in defence and Simon Sohm in midfield give the group Serie A experience, with Akor Adams the most valuable asset. Market values below are approximate figures drawn from published football valuation data and converted to pounds, and they move continuously with form, age and contract length.
| No. | Player | Position | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Filip Stanković | Goalkeeper | 6.8m |
| 2 | Matías Moreno | Defender | 5.1m |
| 3 | Joël Schingtienne | Defender | 4.3m |
| 14 | Thierry Correia | Defender | 2.1m |
| 17 | Armel Bella-Kotchap | Defender | 6m |
| 18 | Antoine Hainaut | Defender | 3.4m |
| 25 | Redouane Halhal | Defender | 4.3m |
| 42 | Calixte Ligue | Defender | 2.1m |
| 6 | Gianluca Busio (captain) | Midfielder | 6.8m |
| 10 | John Yeboah | Midfielder | 4.7m |
| 19 | Simon Sohm | Midfielder | 6.8m |
| 26 | Toma Bašić | Midfielder | 2.6m |
| 30 | Matteo Dagasso | Midfielder | 3m |
| 32 | Alfred Duncan | Midfielder | 0.6m |
| 7 | Albion Rrahmani | Forward | 6m |
| 9 | Andrea Adorante | Forward | 3.8m |
| 45 | Akor Adams | Forward | 12.8m |
On foot or by water only, because Venice has no road access to its historic centre. ACTV vaporetto lines including 1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2 and 6 stop at Sant'Elena around five minutes from the turnstiles, and the walk from Piazza San Marco along the Riva degli Schiavoni takes about 30 minutes.
Away supporters take the Curva Nord at the opposite end from the home ultras, with an allocation that varies by fixture and is small in absolute terms. Visiting fans reach it by the same routes as everyone else, since there is no separate coach access to an island stadium.
That is the plan. Venezia are due to move to the Bosco dello Sport at Tessera, a stadium of roughly 18,500 designed by Populous, targeted for 2027. The Penzo opened in 1913 and is the second-oldest ground still in use in Italy, so demand for the final fixtures there is likely to be exceptional.
The ground holds 12,048 and a meaningful share of the demand comes from visitors combining the match with a trip to Venice rather than from local support alone. That mix keeps prices firmer than at a comparable mainland club, and ranges may change as demand shifts.
Most Serie A seats are issued digitally in the days immediately before kick-off rather than at the point of purchase, so a quiet stretch after ordering is normal. Save the barcode offline before travelling, because signal on the water and around Sant'Elena is unreliable.
Whether you are planning a weekend in the lagoon or following the Leoni Alati through a first season back in the top flight, Venezia FC tickets are listed on 1BoxOffice across every home and away fixture of the campaign. As a verified marketplace trading since 2006, every order carries a 150% money-back guarantee, so you can secure a seat before committing to a hotel in the city. Compare the listings for your fixture, pick the sector that suits how you want to watch and settle it early, because a final season at a 113-year-old ground will not stay available.
Sources: Venezia FC official club website (veneziafc.it), Lega Serie A, UEFA, Transfermarkt, ESPN, Football Italia, StadiumDB, The Stadium Business and Wikipedia.
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