Chiaravalle

Andrea Guidotti took over the men's side of Pallamano Chiaravalle at a club that had spent years shuttling between divisions rather than settling in one, and promotion to Serie A2 in 2019, then in 2024 the step the club had never managed before, into Serie A Gold marked a shift in that pattern. That climb ran alongside a name few outside Chiaravalle would recognise on a team sheet, Publiesse, the sponsor tag that has stood in for a nickname so completely that no one bothers looking for another. Giorgio Onorato founded the club in 1976, and it built its identity in stages rather than all at once: a first promotion to Serie B in 2002, a relegation three years later, a voluntary drop back down in 2014, and only then the steadier rise that followed. Indoors, the trophy cabinet stays empty at senior level. On sand, it does not: the women's team took the Italian Beach Handball Championship in 2024, and in 2026, the fiftieth year of the club's existence, both the senior and junior sides came away from the national beach championships with silver. The Palasport Comunale on Via Firenze holds 500, and the club has widened who plays there rather than how many can watch, fielding the first wheelchair handball team in the Marche region. Caterina Mariniello came up through the youth academy before moving to France in 2024. None of it carries the weight, locally, of the fixture with Pallamano Camerano, the Derby marchigiano.