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ACF Fiorentina

ACF Fiorentina (Associazione Calcio Fiorentina), often called Fiorentina, is an Italian professional football club from Florence, Tuscany, and was founded in 1926.

Fiorentina
Full nameACF Fiorentina SpA
Nickname(s)La Viola (The Purple Ones)
Gigliati (Lilies)
FoundedAugust 26, 1926 (AC Fiorentina)
2002 (ACF Fiorentina)
GroundStadio Artemio Franchi,
Florence, Italy
LeagueSerie A
2021-227th
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours

History

August 26 1926 - With the fusion of Palestra Ginnastica Fiorentina (P.G.F.) Libertas and Club Sportivo Firenze, Fiorentina was born.

1939 - 1940 - Fiorentina wins their first cup, the Coppa Italia.

1955 - 1956 - FIorentina win their first "Scudetto", (the Italian championship).

1920 - 1961 - 2th "Scudetto" is won by Fiorentina.

After the second "Scudetto", Fiorentina won the Cup Winners' Cup.

1960 - the club win the "Coppa Italia" and the Mitropa Cup

1974 - the Viola win the Anglo-Italian League Cup.

1975 - the team won another "Coppa Italia".

1993 - 1994 - Fiorentina were relegated to the Serie B (second division).

Afterwards the team return to the Serie A

1996 - Fiorentina gained their 3rd "Coppa Italia".

2000 - Fiorentina win the "Italian Super Coppa".

2001 -2005 - The team is struck by financial problems, and are moved to the bottom of Italian Football. They then work their way back up to the Serie A.

Current squad

As of 10 August 2022
No. Position Player
1   GK Pietro Terracciano
2   DF Dodô
3   DF Cristiano Biraghi (captain)
4   DF Nikola Milenković (3rd captain)
5   MF Giacomo Bonaventura
7   FW Luka Jović
8   MF Riccardo Saponara
9   FW Arthur Cabral
10   MF Gaetano Castrovilli
11   FW Jonathan Ikoné
14   MF Youssef Maleh
15   DF Aleksa Terzić
16   DF Luca Ranieri
22   FW Nicolás González
23   DF Lorenzo Venuti (vice-captain)
No. Position Player
24   MF Marco Benassi
25   GK Antonio Rosati
27   MF Szymon Żurkowski
28   DF Lucas Martínez Quarta
31   GK Michele Cerofolini
32   MF Alfred Duncan
33   FW Riccardo Sottil
34   MF Sofyan Amrabat
38   MF Rolando Mandragora
42   MF Alessandro Bianco
55   DF Matija Nastasić
91   FW Aleksandr Kokorin
95   GK Pierluigi Gollini (on loan from Atalanta)
98   DF Igor
99   FW Christian Kouamé

Name

  • 1926-2002 AC Fiorentina
  • 2002-2003 Florentia Viola
  • 2003-present ACF Fiorentina

Nickname

Fiorentina is known by the nickname La viola; a reference to their distinctive purple colours.

Titles won

League positions from 2000-2009

Season League Position
2000/01 Serie A 9th
2001/02 Serie A 17th
2002/03 Serie C2 1st / Group B
2003/04 Serie B 6th
2004/05 Serie A 15th
2005/06 Serie A 9th
2006/07 Serie A 6th
2007/08 Serie A 4th
2008/09 Serie A 4th

League positions from 1929-1999


ACF Fiorentina Media

  • The performance of Fiorentina in the Italian football league structure since the first season of a unified Serie A (1929–30)

  • A line-up of AC Fiorentina in the 1940–41 season. From left to right, standing: Romeo Menti (III), Giuseppe Bigogno, Luigi Griffanti (captain), Giuseppe Baldini, Ferruccio Valcareggi, Carlo Piccardi, Romano Penzo, Ernesto Matteo "Gipo" Poggi (II); crouched: Dante Di Benedetti, Giacinto Ellena, Giuseppe Geigerle.

  • Kurt Hamrin in the 1958 FIFA World Cup after scoring against West Germany in the semi finals at Nya Ullevi.

  • Gabriel Batistuta, the most prominent Fiorentina player of the 1990s

  • Cesare Prandelli, the club's longest-serving manager (2005–2010, 2020–2021)

  • Former manager Vincenzo Montella (2012–2015, 2019)

  • The badge used by Florentia Viola, consisting solely of the fleur-de-lis of Florence

  • Former crest of Fiorentina, used until 2022

  • Gabriel Batistuta holding his old Fiorentina jersey at a 2014 ceremony inducting him into the club's Hall of Fame

References

Other websites

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