FC Guardia

{{short description|Association football club in Vatican City}}

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| clubname = FC Guardia

| image = FC_Guardia_logo.png

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| fullname = A.S.D Guardia Svizzera Pontificia

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| founded = 1924

| ground = Campo Cardinale Francis Joseph Spellman
Rome, Italy

| capacity = 500

| owner =

| chairman = Christoph Graf

| manager = Fabio Bortoluzzi, Antonio Maria

| league = Vatican City Championship

| season = 2021/22

| position = 8th

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FC Guardia is a Vaticanese football club that currently plays in the Vatican City Championship, the top level of football in Vatican City. The current club president is Christoph Graf and the current managers are Fabio Bortoluzzi and Antonio Maria.{{cite web|title=FC Guardia|url=http://www.sportinvaticano.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Guardia-FC.pdf|publisher=Sport in Vaticano|accessdate=9 May 2017|language=Italian}} The team, like all Vatican clubs, plays its matches at the Campo Cardinale Francis Joseph Spellman in Rome, Italy.{{cite web|title=Storia|url=http://www.sportinvaticano.com/storia/|publisher=Sport in Vaticano|accessdate=9 May 2017|language=Italian|archive-date=25 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225113639/https://www.sportinvaticano.com/storia|url-status=dead}} Despite being founded in 1924, the team has never won the league championship.{{cite web|last1=Mattei|first1=Giampala|title=Lo scudetto vaticano? Ai Gendarmi E per gli Svizzeri "zero tituli"|url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_quo/interviste/2009/193q08b1.html|publisher=L'Osservatore Romano|accessdate=25 July 2017|language=Italian}}{{cite web|last1=Rota|first1=Davide|title=Vatican City-List of Champions|website=RSSSF|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesv/vaticanchamp.html|accessdate=10 May 2017}}{{cite web|title=Albo d'Oro|url=http://www.sportinvaticano.com/albo-doro/|publisher=Sport in Vaticano|accessdate=10 May 2017|language=Italian}} The squad consists of members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard.{{cite web|title=Vita Nella Guardia|url=http://www.guardiasvizzera.va/content/guardiasvizzera/it/guardia/vita-nella-guardia.html|publisher=guardiasvizzera.va|accessdate=10 May 2017|language=Italian}}

In October 2017 the team was a guest of German football club FC Bayern Munich, touring their facilities and meeting with its Italian head coach Carlo Ancelotti.{{cite web |title=Vatikan Fussballer besuchen Carlo Ancelotti |url=https://fcbayern.com/de/news/2017/08/inside-vatikan-fussballer-besuchen-carlo-ancelotti |publisher=FC Bayern Munich |accessdate=1 July 2019 |language=German}}