Ilva Bagnolese was an Italian football club from the Bagnoli

Bagnoli

Bagnoli is a western seaside district of Naples, Italy, well beyond the confines of the original city. It is beyond Cape Posillipo and, thus, looking on the coast of the Bay of Pozzuoli.- History :...

 area of Naples

Naples

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. The club is most noted for competing in the early Italian Football Championship

Italian Football Championship

The Italian Football Championship was the most senior football championship in Italy from the 1897/1898 season to the 1921/1922 season. In that last season, a concurrent championship, the Prima Divisione, was played by the richest clubs, which wanted to improve their income with a more elitarian...

 competitions during the 1920s, after that period they began to decline spending the 1940s in Serie C

Serie C

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The last season of Ilva Bagnolese was played out in Serie D

Serie D

Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...

 where they were relegated to Prima Categoria

Prima Categoria

Prima Categoria is the name of a level of football in Italy. It is considered to be the eighth level in the Italian football league system and is organized by the National Amateur League by the Regional Committees. Each individual league winner within the Prima Categoria level progresses to their...

. Instead of going through with the relegation they merged with Ischia Isolaverde

A.S.D. Ischia Isolaverde

The Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Ischia Isolaverde is an Italian association football club located in Ischia, Campania. It currently plays in Serie D...

in 1960.