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AC Florence
Club coat of arms of AC Florence
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Football company
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Surname ACF Fiorentina SpA
Seat Florence , Italy
founding August 26, 1926
Colours violet
Shareholders 98%: Mediacom
0 2%: Firenze Viola
president Rocco Commisso
Website violachannel.tv
First team
Head coach Giuseppe Iachini
Venue Artemio Franchi Stadium
Places 43,147
league Series A
2019/20 10th place
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The ACF Fiorentina is a 1926 founded Italian football business from the Tuscan capital Florence . In German-speaking countries, the Associazione Calcio Firenze is also known as AC Florence . Other names are viola ("violet") and gigliati ("lilies").

ACF Fiorentina is a two-time Italian champion , six-time Italian cup winner , one-time Italian Supercup winner and one-time winner of the European Cup Winners' Cup .

The home arena is the 43,147-seat Stadio Artemio Franchi .

history

The beginnings

ACF Fiorentina player in the founding year 1926

The ACF Fiorentina, often called Fiorentina for short , was created on August 26, 1926 under the name Associazione Calcio Firenze , from the following year as Associazione Calcio Fiorentina , from the merger between Club Sportivo Firenze and the football department of Polisportiva Giovanile Libertas . The colors white and red were chosen as the club colors. The newly founded club played the first official match on September 22, 1929 on the occasion of a friendly against AS Roma ; In this game, the Florentines played for the first time in history with violet jerseys embroidered with the Florentine lily (Italian: Giglio). These helped the AC Fiorentina subsequently to the nicknames la viola (in German: the violet) and i gigliati (in German roughly: the lilies), which are still used today as names for the Fiorentina.

ACF Fiorentina team in 1928

In the 1929/30 season you took part for the first time in a Series B championship, which you could complete on a good fourth place in the table. In the following season 1930/31 could even win the series B, an increase for the first time in the Serie A on. On September 13, 1931, the new Stadio Comunale , which was later to be renamed "Stadio Artemio Franchi", opened with a game against SK Admira Vienna . Thus, AC Fiorentina was armed for the coming season in Serie A in this respect too.

They held up there quite well in the years to come. The best placement was achieved in the 1935/36 season with third place, but at the end of the 1937/38 season there was the first relegation to Serie B.

The first title

The 1939/40 season was anything but smooth for Fiorentina - after the immediate re-emergence from Serie B. In the end, the season ended on the thirteenth of sixteen places. The Florentines only got 24 points and got as many points as AC Liguria, which was in fifteenth place . However, this had to relegate to Serie B due to a worse goal difference compared to Fiorentina and the SSC Napoli in fourteenth place . Thus, the Florentines had only happily achieved relegation, which is why they were treated as outsiders at the Coppa Italia 1939/40 . The Fiorentina played their first game in the Christmas season of 1939, when they met the Serie C club Cavagnaro in the round of the last 32 teams . The viola won 7: 1 without any problems. In the last sixteen they met the favored AC Milan . Since they had initially separated 1: 1 in Milan , the game had to be repeated in Florence. With the support of their own fans in the back, the Fiorentina won clearly 5-0. In the quarter-finals they met another strong opponent in Lazio , but here too the Florentines won at home quite clearly with 4-1. Thus, the club reached the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia for the second time after 1935/36 and, like last time, met a team from Turin . Juventus Turin were defeated 3-0. Thus, on June 15, 1940, the final between the Fiorentina and the CFC Genoa took place in Florence . In the 26th minute, Mario Celoria managed the only goal for the viola. Thus the first title win of the still young AC Florenz could be celebrated by partly surprisingly clear results.

The first Scudetto - Montuori and the Hamrin era

In the 1955/56 season, the Violets were able to bring their first Scudetto to Florence . The then president Enrico Befani (an industrialist) and the coach Fulvio Bernardini (called "Il Dottore") constructed a top team. Above all, Miguel Ángel Montuori , an Argentine striker with Italian roots who had been signed from Chile, and the Brazilian international Júlio Botelho - known as Julinho  - significantly improved Fiorentina's offensive game and made a good team the best Italian team of the season. Fulvio Bernardini had already observed Julinho during the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland and classified him as one of the best right wingers in the world. This team marched unbeaten through Serie A for 33 matchdays and only suffered a 1: 3 defeat at CFC Genoa on the last matchday .

In the following years, too, the Fiorentina was always one of the best Italian teams, as the four second places immediately following the first Scudetto each occupied until 1960.

In 1957, AC Florence reached the final of the European Cup , but lost it 2-0 to Real Madrid , which dominated European football at the time.

From the 1958/59 season, the Swedish attacker Kurt Hamrin was hired , who stormed for Fiorentina until 1967 and set a club record with 151 goals in 289 games, which was only improved decades later by Gabriel Batistuta .

In the 1960/61 season, the club won the Coppa Italia again, after having only just lost the 1958 and 1960 finals. Also this year, Fiorentina brought the European Cup Winners' Cup to Florence in the final against Glasgow Rangers . The following year she reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup again, but missed defending her title against Atlético Madrid .

A third Coppa Italia was won in the 1965/66 season .

Further successes and gradual decline

The ACF Fiorentina championship team in 1969

The 1968/69 season ended with the completely unexpected win of the second Scudetto . After the departure of important players (including the Italian national goalkeeper Enrico Albertosi ), the squad was actually not rated as particularly strong in advance. But the team around coach Bruno Pesaola managed a small miracle: The club grew beyond itself and, as in 1955/56, was with only one lost game (1: 3 home defeat on the 5th match day against FC Bologna ) and, moreover, without an away defeat master again.

The Fiorentina won a fourth Coppa Italia in 1974/75 . In the subsequent European Cup Winners' Cup , however, they were eliminated in the second round against the GDR Cup winner Sachsenring Zwickau .

The greatest days of the club were irrevocably over. In the following years, the club almost still reached single-digit positions in the table, but could not achieve any major successes and rose after four below average years at the end of the 1992/93 season in the Serie B.

The era of Cecchi Gori and Batistuta

As hardly anyone expected the 1969 championship, the 1993 relegation came as a surprise. With, among others, Stefan Effenberg , Brian Laudrup , Francesco Baiano and, last but not least, Gabriel Batistuta , the team actually had a squad with great potential, the a significantly better performance than had been expected in previous years.

In 1993, the film producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori took over as president of the association from his suddenly deceased father Mario Cecchi Gori . Not without controversy in his methods, he had the ambition and the financial means to rebuild the Fiorentina into a top team.

The squad of the relegation team from 1993 could be kept under the new coach Claudio Ranieri in essential parts in the Serie B and rounded off with young talents, so that the promotion in the 1993/94 season succeeded straight away.

In the following season Gabriel Batistuta was the top scorer in Serie A with 26 goals , and not least because of this, the Fiorentina managed to keep the class in tenth place. Batistuta scored a total of 168 hits during his time at the ACF (152 in Serie A and 16 in Serie B), surpassing Kurt Hamrin's old club record . In the 1995/96 season , the club won the fifth Coppa Italia in the club's history, where they had prevailed in the final against Atalanta Bergamo 1-0 (at home in Florence) and 2-0 (away in Bergamo). Thus, the Fiorentina for which qualified Supercoppa Italiana and met in Milan on the freshly baked Italian champions AC Milan . They lost 3-1 against this team during the championship, making AC Milan the clear favorite in their own stadium. However, AC Florence was able to prevail 2-1 . Gabriel Batistuta, who had already scored 19 goals during the championship and formed the backbone of the team during these years together with midfield director Rui Costa and goalkeeper Francesco Toldo, was responsible for the goals of Viola .

The following years were marked by efforts to further strengthen the team. However, this also led to some hasty and overpriced bad purchases and a ruinous financial policy that would later take revenge.

The third place in the championship achieved in the previous season, however, only allowed him to take part in the Champions League once in the 1999/2000 season . In 2000/01 the sixth Coppa Italia was brought to Florence.

Crash and renaissance

One of the first signs was the departure of Batistutas to AS Roma after the end of the 1999/2000 season . In September 2000, the association met in the first round of the UEFA Cup on the Austrian club FC Tirol Innsbruck . The Tyroleans won 3-1 at home and drew 2-2 in the second leg. For Fiorentina, the budgeted income from international competition was lost in the current 2000/01 season. This marked the way to financial bankruptcy.

Significant problems then emerged, not entirely unexpectedly, in mid-2001, when the financial situation no longer allowed the players' salaries to be paid and the liabilities, which now totaled 50 million US dollars, to be properly serviced. Vittorio Cecchi Gori tried to invest more money in the club, but could not create a sufficient financial basis either. Last but not least, Cecchi Gori was also accused by large parts of the Tifosi that they were responsible for the crisis in the first place, which culminated in a demonstration against the president with 30,000 participants in Florence on April 18, 2002. At the end of the championship, AC Florence was relegated. The club's license was revoked at the end of the season and it was placed under administration. Because of the bankruptcy, the club was not allowed to compete in Serie B. Finally, the association was reorganized in August 2002 under the name Florentia Viola with the support of the city administration. The new owner and shoe manufacturer Diego Della Valle managed to get the club approved for participation in the C2 series , although this classification was not originally provided for in the regulations and the regulations even stipulated that the club would have to go to the amateur camp.

It managed to dominate the C2 series with confidence. Christian Riganò became the top scorer with 30 goals, which ensured promotion to Serie C1 . With the repurchase of the original Florentine club name - and the associated title - as ACF Fiorentina by Della Valle, the club was then allowed to compete in Serie B without having to go through Serie C1. In a controversial decision, the Italian Football Association increased the number of teams in Serie B from 20 to 24, so that there were no more obstacles in the way. Nevertheless, the double ascent caused considerable controversy, as especially smaller clubs from the series B saw in this sport-politically motivated preference for clubs with a large following a distortion of competition. The decision was also not entirely unproblematic for Fiorentina itself, since by this time the squad formation and season preparation for the C1 series had basically already been completed and one had to “upgrade” accordingly.

Fireworks in the Curva Fiesole on the occasion of the Spareggio for the return to Serie A on June 20, 2004

With a lot of talent for improvisation, however, the coach and club management managed to form a powerful squad for Serie B and in the 2003/04 season, again thanks to the numerous hits from Riganò, to reach sixth place in the table, the relegation against the fifteenth table in Serie A entitled. The relegation itself against AC Perugia was won by the Violets 2-1 (first leg in Perugia 1-0, second leg in Florence 1: 1). So they returned to the top Italian league, in which they could secure relegation in the 2004/05 season on the last match day.

The 2005/06 season surprisingly ended Florence with fourth place in Serie A and the associated Champions League qualification, not least thanks to an outstanding goalscorer Luca Toni , who became the top scorer in Serie A with 31 goals.

Development since 2005

After the end of the season, the Fiorentina got into the vortex of the Italian soccer scandal over Juventus Turin . Diego Della Valle and his brother Andrea had resisted the Moggi system for a long time , but finally came to terms with it in the 2004/05 season in order to prevent the then threatened sporting relegation. By court order, the Fiorentina, after a forced relegation to Serie B had already been announced in the first hearing, was sentenced to a deduction of 19 points for the coming season in the appeal hearing on July 25, 2006, but was allowed to remain in Serie A. Furthermore, no participation in international competitions could take place in the 2006/2007 season, as a further point deduction of 30 points was made retrospectively for the previous season. In addition, brothers Andrea and Diego Della Valle were not allowed to hold any official positions in Italian football for three years and three years and nine months, respectively. On October 27, 2006, the court of arbitration of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) reduced the point deduction for the current season from 19 to 15 points as the last appeal instance.

The prospects for the 2006/07 season appeared accordingly bleak. However, it was possible to tie Luca Toni , who had meanwhile left the country, to the Fiorentina, and the experienced coach Cesare Prandelli , who had already done an excellent job in Florence last season, tackled the task with a highly motivated team. Already on the 8th matchday the point deduction was balanced with a 1-0 away win at FC Turin , and on the 15th matchday, after another 1-0 away win, this time at Chievo Verona , the Fiorentina left the relegation places.

At the beginning of December 2006 Cesare Prandelli was named Italy's "Coach of the Year". At the end of the first round, on January 14, 2007, the Fiorentina was on a secured 14th place in the table with a connection to the middle of the table and seven points away from the relegation zone. Without the penalty deduction of 15 points, the club would have been fourth at this point in the table. At the end of the season, after a 5-1 home win over Sampdoria Genoa on the last day of the match, Florence finished fifth, qualifying for participation in the UEFA Cup. With only 31 goals in 38 games, the Fiorentina had the most stable defense in the entire league. Without the penalty, the club would have become third in the table.

After Luca Tonis left for FC Bayern Munich , Fiorentina fell just short of expectations in the 2007/08 season, which, however, were also quite high. After all, was in the national cup quarter-finals (: 2 and 1: 2 to 1 Lazio and) UEFA Cup even the semi-finals (0: 4: 0 and 2 i. E. against Glasgow Rangers reached). The fourth place in Serie A finally qualified for entry into the qualifying round of the Champions League . There they reached the group stage after a 2-0 home game and a 0-0 second leg against Slavia Prague . In the following season 2008/09 the Fiorentina remained behind the high expectations of their fans, not least due to bad luck with injuries. Although fourth place in Serie A was achieved again, the supporters were on the other hand due to an early elimination in the Coppa Italia, an elimination in the qualifying round of the Champions League and a failure against Ajax Amsterdam in the intermediate round of the UEFA Cup disappointed.

On September 24, 2009, President Andrea Della Valle resigned after he had been criticized by fans for his transfer policy. In particular, he was accused of not having adequately replaced Felipe Melo, who had migrated to arch rivals Juventus Turin . In contrast to the fans, the team and coach declared their solidarity with the resigned Della Valle. Even if everything didn't go smoothly in Serie A after that, the Champions League qualification for the round of 16 after a 1-0 win against Olympique Lyon and in the Coppa Italia was achieved on matchday 5 of the group games Quarter finals.

In the 2016/17 season, Fiorentina reached the sixteenth finals in the Europa League and was eliminated from Borussia Mönchengladbach; after a 1-0 first leg win in Mönchengladbach , they led 2-0 in the second leg in Florence and lost 4-2 in the end.

In June 2019, the Italian-American entrepreneur Rocco Commisso became the new owner of the club. The purchase price is approximately 200 million euros , respectively. The purchase dragged on for over a year. Commisso had previously tried to take over AC Milan .

Game and training facilities

Stadion

The first venue was the Stadio Velodromo Libertas from 1926 to 1931 . The ACF Fiorentina has played its home games at the Stadio Artemio Franchi since 1931 . The pure football stadium with around 43,000 seats was built on the orders of the first club president Luigi Ridolfi from 1930 to 1931 in what is now the Campo di Marte district in the center of Florence and has since served as one of the venues for the football World Cup in 1934 and 1990 , the European Football Championship 1968 and the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup 1960/61 .

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Fans and followers

Tifosi of Fiorentina in the Stadio Artemio Franchi

The club is deeply rooted in the city of Florence as well as in Tuscany, of which Fiorentina is undoubtedly the most important footballing representative due to its continuity in Serie A, and has numerous supporters. This bond manifests itself not least in a high proportion of season ticket holders. Even when Fiorentina played under the name Florentia Viola in the fourth-class C2 series (corresponding to the German regional league) during the 2002/03 season, there were 16,648 subscriptions , and in the successful 1996/97 season the number of season tickets sold was an impressive 32,620.

The most fanatical Tifosi , the Ultras , can be found at home games in the Curva Fiesole of the Stadio Artemio Franchi , famous within Italy's football scene , where choreographies and fireworks that can almost be described as artistically valuable are staged at top games. The “living image” of the city's skyline with its monuments on the occasion of the game against Juve in the 1990/91 season became known beyond Italy .

Fan activities are coordinated by the Associazione Centro Coordinamento Viola Club (ACCVC) and the rival Associazione Tifosi Fiorentini (ATF) , but there are also independent clubs, the most important and influential of which is the Collettivo Autonomo Viola (CAV) . There are a total of 282 registered viola clubs with around 20,000 members. Fan clubs are registered mainly in Florence and Tuscany, of course, but also in the rest of Italy and abroad. There are three clubs in the USA, two clubs each in France, England and Africa and one each in Spain, Switzerland, Romania, Albania, Russia, Malta, Japan, China and New Zealand (as of 2004).

The clubs, even if they don't all like each other, agree in an unconditional effort to support “their” Fiorentina as best they can. In addition, the ultras of the club represent one of the most important left fan groups. And there is agreement on the attitude towards the old "archenemy" Juventus , an attitude that in the past often led to violent clashes between the supporters of both clubs in direct cases Has led to encounters. Fan friendships, on the other hand, are cultivated with the supporters of Hellas Verona and FC Turin , and the fans of AS Livorno , which is not far from Florence, get along well.

Suppliers and sponsors

The supplier has been the French sporting goods manufacturer Le Coq Sportif since 2015 , and the contract runs until 2020.

In 1981 the Fiorentina signed an advertising contract with JDFarrow's, who placed their lettering on the jerseys. This was followed by Opel (1983–1986), Crodino (1986–1989), La Nazione (1989–1991), Giocheria (1991–1992), 7 Up (1992–1994), Sammontana (1994–1997), Nintendo (1997– 2000), Toyota (2000–2002), Fondiaria-Sai (2002–2004), Toyota (2004–2010), Save the Children (2010–2011), Mazda (2011–2014) and Save the Children (2014–).

Club colors and crests

AC Florence wore white and red jerseys until 1928. The signature purple player clothing was first worn in 1928. The away jersey is traditionally mostly white.

Today's club crest combines the colors of the club and the coat of arms of the city of Florence , it shows a red lily on a white background in the upper part and the acronym ACF in the lower part.

useful information

  • In 1957, Fiorentina was the first Italian team to reach a final of the European Cup , but lost 2-0 at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu to the great team of that era, Real Madrid .
  • The Fiorentina won the first ever European Cup Winners' Cup in 1961 and prevailed in the final against the favored Glasgow Rangers .
  • The Fiorentina is the only Italian club team that managed to beat an English club in the old Wembley Stadium . In 1999 the "Viola" defeated Arsenal FC , who had evaded to Wembley. Since the Wembley Stadium was demolished shortly afterwards, the Fiorentina can no longer take this record.
  • It is believed that the club colors of Fiorentina came about by chance. After the jerseys were originally dyed white and red, they turned purple - according to a legend - when they were washed in a river, probably the Arno .
  • The official club anthem is still the Inno della Fiorentina (German: "Hymne of Fiorentina") in the interpretation of Narciso Parigi from the 1950s.
  • Luca Toni won during his time at Fiorentina was the first Italian and the first player to Serie A the Golden Boot UEFA .

facts and figures

Club successes

National title season
Italian championship 2 1955/56 , 1968/69
Italian Cup 6th 1939/40 , 1960/61 , 1965/66 , 1974/75 , 1995/96 , 2000/01
Italian Supercup 1 1996
International title season
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1 1960/61
Mitropacup 1 1966
English-Italian cup competitions 1 1975/76
Coppa delle Alpi 1 1989
Coppa Grasshoppers 1 1957

Successes of the youth teams

Professional team squad (2019/20)

No. Nat. Surname Date of birth In the team since Contract until
goalkeeper
01 ItalyItaly Pietro Terracciano March 8, 1990 2019
69 PolandPoland Bartłomiej Drągowski August 19, 1997 2016 2023
Defender
04th SerbiaSerbia Nikola Milenković October 12, 1997 2017 2022
06th ItalyItaly Luca Ranieri April 23, 1999 2015 2021
17th ItalyItaly Federico Ceccherini May 11, 1992 2018 2023
20th ArgentinaArgentina Germán Pezzella (C)Captain of the crew June 27, 1991 2017 2018
21st SpainSpain Pol Lirola August 13, 1997 2019 2020
22nd UruguayUruguay Martín Cáceres April 7, 1987 2019 2020
23 ItalyItaly Lorenzo Venuti April 12, 1995 2012 2021
29 BrazilBrazil Dalbert September 8, 1993 2019 2020
32 DenmarkDenmark Jacob Rasmussen May 28, 1997 2019 2023
93 SerbiaSerbia Aleksa Terzić August 17, 1999 2019 2023
' UruguayUruguay Maximiliano Olivera March 5, 1992 2016
midfield player
05 CroatiaCroatia Milan Badelj February 25, 1989 2019 2020
08th ItalyItaly Gaetano Castrovilli February 17, 1997 2017 2021
14th FranceFrance Bryan Dabo February 18, 1992 2018 2021
15th UruguayUruguay Sebastián Cristóforo 23rd August 1993 2017 2021
16 FranceFrance Valentin Eysseric March 25, 1992 2017 2022
19th SpainSpain Tòfol Montiel April 11, 2000 2018 2023
24 ItalyItaly Marco Benassi September 8, 1994 2017 2022
27 PolandPoland Szymon Żurkowski September 25, 1997 2019 2023
78 ChileChile Erick Pulgar January 15, 1994 2019 2023
striker
07th FranceFrance Franck Ribery April 7, 1983 2019 2021
10 GhanaGhana Kevin-Prince Boateng March 6, 1987 2019 2021
11 ItalyItaly Riccardo Sottil June 3, 1999 2018 2021
18th AlgeriaAlgeria Rachid Ghezzal May 9, 1992 2019 2020
25th ItalyItaly Federico Chiesa October 25, 1997 2007 2022
28 SerbiaSerbia Dušan Vlahović January 28, 2000 2018 2023
77 FranceFrance Cyril Théréau April 24, 1983 2017 2020
ItalyItaly Patrick Cutrone January 3, 1998 2020 2021
As of September 2, 2019

Former players

Player records

Status: end of season 2018/19; All competitive games and goals are indicated, players in bold are still active in the club

Calls
# Surname Period Calls
1 ItalyItaly Giancarlo Antognoni 1972-1987 429
2 ItalyItaly Giuseppe Brizi 1962-1976 389
3 ItalyItaly Claudio Merlo 1965-1976 377
4th SwedenSweden Kurt Hamrin 1958-1967 362
5 ItalyItaly Giuseppe Chiappella 1939-1949 357
6th ItalyItaly Manuel Pasqual 2005-2016 356
7th ItalyItaly Giancarlo De Sisti 1965-1974 354
8th ItalyItaly Sergio Cervato 1948-1959 340
9 ItalyItaly Francesco Toldo 1993-2001 337
10 ArgentinaArgentina Gabriel Batistuta 1991-2000 332
Gates
# Surname Period Gates
1 SwedenSweden Kurt Hamrin 1958-1967 208
2 ArgentinaArgentina Gabriel Batistuta 1991-2000 207
3 ItalyItaly ArgentinaArgentina Miguel Montuori 1956-1961 84
4th ItalyItaly Giancarlo Antognoni 1972-1987 72
5 RomaniaRomania Adrian Mutu 2006-2011 69
6th ItalyItaly Gianfranco Petris 1958-1964 64
7th ItalyItaly Alberto Galassi 1947-1952 63
8th ItalyItaly Alberto Gilardino 2008-2011 63
9 ItalyItaly Giuseppe Virgili 1954-1958 62
10 ItalyItaly Christian Riganò 2002-2005 62

Coach history

Since 2019 head coach at Fiorentina, Giuseppe Iachini
Head coach
Term of office Surname
1926-1928 HungaryHungary Károly Csapkay
1928-1931 HungaryHungary Gyula Feldmann
1931-1933 AustriaAustria Hermann Felsner
193300000 HungaryHungary William Rady
1933-1934 HungaryHungary József Went
1934-1937 ItalyItaly Guido Ara
1937-1938 ItalyItaly Ottavio Baccani
193800000 HungaryHungary Ferenc Molnár
1938-1939 AustriaAustria Rudolf Soutschek
1939-1945 ItalyItaly Giuseppe Galluzzi
194600000 ItalyItaly Guido Ara
1946-1947 ItalyItaly Renzo Magli
194700000 HungaryHungary Imre Senkey
1947-1951 ItalyItaly Luigi Ferrero
1951-1953 ItalyItaly Renzo Magli
1953-1958 ItalyItaly Fulvio Bernardini
1958-1959 HungaryHungary Lajos Czeizler
195900000 ItalyItaly Luigi Ferrero
1959-1960 ArgentinaArgentina Luis Carniglia
196000000 ItalyItaly Giuseppe Chiappella
1960–1962 HungaryHungary Nándor Hidegkuti
1962-1964 ItalyItaly Ferruccio Valcareggi
1964-1967 ItalyItaly Giuseppe Chiappella
1967-1968 ItalyItaly Luigi Ferrero
196800000 ItalyItaly Andrea Bassi
1968-1971 ItalyItaly ArgentinaArgentina Bruno Pesaola
197100000 ItalyItaly Oronzo Pugliese
1971-1973 SwedenSweden Nils Liedholm
1973-1974 ItalyItaly Luigi Radice
1974-1975 ItalyItaly Nereo Rocco
1975-1977 ItalyItaly Carlo Mazzone
1977-1988 ItalyItaly Mario Mazzoni
197800000 ItalyItaly Giuseppe Chiappella
1978-1981 ItalyItaly Paolo Carosi
1981-1985 ItalyItaly Giancarlo De Sisti
198500000 ItalyItaly Ferruccio Valcareggi
Head coach
Term of office Surname
1985-1986 ItalyItaly Aldo Agroppi
1986-1987 ItalyItaly Eugenio Bersellini
1987-1989 SwedenSweden Sven-Göran Eriksson
1989-1990 ItalyItaly Bruno Giorgi
199000000 ItalyItaly Francesco Graziani
1990-1991 BrazilBrazil Sebastião Lazaroni
1991-1993 ItalyItaly Luigi Radice
199300000 ItalyItaly Aldo Agroppi
199300000 ItalyItaly Luciano Chiarugi
1993-1997 ItalyItaly Claudio Ranieri
1997-1998 ItalyItaly Alberto Malesani
1998-2000 ItalyItaly Giovanni Trapattoni
2000-2001 TurkeyTurkey Fatih Terim
200100000 ItalyItaly Luciano Chiarugi
2001-2002 ItalyItaly Roberto Mancini
200200000 ItalyItaly Ottavio Bianchi
200200000 ItalyItaly Luciano Chiarugi
200200000 ItalyItaly Eugenio Fascetti
200200000 ItalyItaly Pietro Vierchowod
2002-2004 ItalyItaly Alberto Cavasin
200400000 ItalyItaly Emiliano Mondonico
2004-2005 ItalyItaly Sergio Buso
200500000 ItalyItaly Dino Zoff
2005-2010 ItalyItaly Cesare Prandelli
2010-2011 SerbiaSerbia Siniša Mihajlović
2011–2012 ItalyItaly Delio Rossi
201200000 ItalyItaly Vincenzo Guerini
2012-2015 ItalyItaly Vincenzo Montella
2015-2017 PortugalPortugal Paulo Sousa
2017-2019 ItalyItaly Stefano Pioli
201900000 ItalyItaly Vincenzo Montella
2019–0000 ItalyItaly Giuseppe Iachini

Club records

Series A

Important games in the history of Fiorentina

date occasion Stadion winner opponent Result Details
June 15, 1940 Final game Coppa Italia Stadio Artemio Franchi , Florence ItalyItaly AC Florence ItalyItaly CFC genoa 1-0 Details
May 30, 1957 Final European Cup Estadio Santiago Bernabéu , Madrid Spain 1945Spain real Madrid ItalyItaly AC Florence 2-0 Details
September 24, 1958 Final game Coppa Italia Rome Olympic Stadium , Rome ItalyItaly Lazio Rome ItalyItaly AC Florence 1-0 Details
September 18, 1960 Final game Coppa Italia Giuseppe Meazza Stadium , Milan ItalyItaly Juventus Turin ItalyItaly AC Florence 3: 2 a.d. Details
May 17, 1961 Final first leg of the European Cup Winners' Cup Ibrox Park , Glasgow ScotlandScotland Glasgow Rangers ItalyItaly AC Florence 0: 2 Details
May 27, 1961 Final second leg European Cup Winners' Cup Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence ItalyItaly AC Florence ScotlandScotland Glasgow Rangers 2: 1
June 11, 1961 Final game Coppa Italia Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence ItalyItaly AC Florence ItalyItaly Lazio Rome 2-0 Details
May 19, 1966 Final game Coppa Italia Rome Olympic Stadium, Rome ItalyItaly AC Florence ItalyItaly US Catanzaro 2: 1 a.d. Details
June 28, 1975 Final game Coppa Italia Rome Olympic Stadium, Rome ItalyItaly AC Florence ItalyItaly AC Milan 3: 2 Details
May 2, 1996 Final first leg Coppa Italia Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence ItalyItaly AC Florence ItalyItaly Atalanta Bergamo 1-0 Details
May 18, 1996 Final second leg Coppa Italia Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia , Bergamo ItalyItaly Atalanta Bergamo ItalyItaly AC Florence 0: 2
August 25, 1996 Final game Supercoppa Italiana Giuseppe Meazza Stadium, Milan ItalyItaly AC Milan ItalyItaly AC Florence 1: 2 Details
April 14, 1999 Final first leg Coppa Italia Stadio Ennio Tardini , Parma ItalyItaly AC Parma ItalyItaly AC Florence 1: 1 Details
May 5, 1999 Final second leg Coppa Italia Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence ItalyItaly AC Florence ItalyItaly AC Parma 2: 2
May 24, 2001 Final first leg Coppa Italia Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma ItalyItaly AC Parma ItalyItaly AC Florence 0: 1 Details
June 13, 2001 Final second leg Coppa Italia Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence ItalyItaly AC Florence ItalyItaly AC Parma 1: 1
August 19, 2001 Final game Supercoppa Italiana Rome Olympic Stadium, Rome ItalyItaly AS Roma ItalyItaly AC Florence 3-0 Details
May 3, 2014 Final game Coppa Italia Rome Olympic Stadium, Rome ItalyItaly AC Florence ItalyItaly SSC Naples 1: 3 Details

Presidential history

Rocco Commisso
President
Term of office Surname
1926-1942 Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Luigi Ridolfi
1942-1945 Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Scipione Picchi
1945-1946 ItalyItaly Arrigo Paganelli
1946-1947 ItalyItaly Igino Cassi
1947-1948 ItalyItaly Ardelio Allori
1948-1952 ItalyItaly Carlo Antonini
1952-1961 ItalyItaly Enrico Befani
1961-1965 ItalyItaly Enrico Longinotti
1965-1971 ItalyItaly Nello Baglini
1971-1977 ItalyItaly Ugolino Ugolini
1977-1979 ItalyItaly Rodolfo Melloni
1979-1980 ItalyItaly Enrico Martellini
1980-1986 ItalyItaly Ranieri Pontello
President
Term of office Surname
1986-1987 ItalyItaly Pier Cesare Baretti
1987-1990 ItalyItaly Lorenzo Righetti
1990-1993 ItalyItaly Mario Cecchi Gori
1993-2001 ItalyItaly Vittorio Cecchi Gori
200100000 ItalyItaly Luciano Luna
200200000 ItalyItaly Ugo Poggi Ottavio Bianchi Enrico Fazzini
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2002-2004 ItalyItaly Gino Salica
2004-2009 ItalyItaly Andrea Della Valle
2009-2019 ItalyItaly Mario Cognigni
2019–0000 ItalyItaly United StatesUnited States Rocco Commisso

Sports chronology

season space Division comment
1926/27 6th Divisione 1, Girone C
1927/28 2 Divisione 1, Girone D
1928/29 16 Divisione Nazionale
1929/30 4th Series B
1930/31 1 Series B Promotion to Serie A
1931/32 4th Series A Pedro Petrone (25 goals) is top scorer together with Angelo Schiavio ( FC Bologna )
1932/33 5 Series A
1933/34 6th Series A
1934/35 3 Series A
1935/36 12 Series A
1936/37 9 Series A
1937/38 16 Series A Relegation to Serie B
1938/39 1 Series B Promotion to Serie A
1939/40 13 Series A Winning the first Coppa Italia
1940/41 3 Series A
1941/42 9 Series A
1942/43 6th Series A
1943/44 - - no competitions as a result of the Second World War
1944/45 - - no competitions as a result of the Second World War
1945/46 5 Series A
1946/47 17th Series A
1947/48 7th Series A
1948/49 8th Series A
1949/50 5 Series A
1950/51 5 Series A
1951/52 4th Series A
1952/53 7th Series A
1953/54 3 Series A
1954/55 5 Series A
1955/56 1 Series A First Scudetto , 33 games in a row unbeaten and 12 points ahead (Italian record to date), only on the last match day there was a 1: 3 defeat at CFC Genoa
1956/57 2 Series A Reached the final of the European Champions Cup
1957/58 2 Series A Final of the Coppa Italia reached
1958/59 2 Series A with 95 goals scored in 34 games (Italian record to date)
1959/60 2 Series A Final of the Coppa Italia reached
1960/61 7th Series A second win of the Coppa Italia , win of the European Cup Winners' Cup
1961/62 3 Series A Aurelio Milani (22 goals), top scorer together with José Altafini ( AC Milan ), reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup
1962/63 6th Series A
1963/64 4th Series A
1964/65 4th Series A Alberto Orlando (17 hits) scorer along with Sandro Mazzola ( Inter Milan ), finals of the Mitropa Cup reached
1965/66 4th Series A third win of the Coppa Italia , win of the Mitropa Cup
1966/67 5 Series A
1967/68 4th Series A
1968/69 1 Series A Second Scudetto without an away defeat
1969/70 4th Series A
1970/71 12 Series A
1971/72 5 Series A Reached the final of the Mitropa Cup
1972/73 4th Series A
1973/74 6th Series A
1974/75 8th Series A fourth win of the Coppa Italia
1975/76 9 Series A
1976/77 3 Series A
1977/78 13 Series A
1978/79 6th Series A
1979/80 6th Series A
1980/81 5 Series A
1981/82 2 Series A
1982/83 5 Series A
1983/84 3 Series A
1984/85 9 Series A
1985/86 4th Series A
1986/87 9 Series A
1987/88 8th Series A
1988/89 7th Series A
1989/90 12 Series A Reached the final of the UEFA Cup
1990/91 12 Series A
1991/92 12 Series A
1992/93 16 Series A Relegation to Serie B
1993/94 1 Series B Promotion to Serie A
1994/95 10 Series A Gabriel Batistuta (26 hits) Top scorer
1995/96 3 Series A fifth win the Coppa Italia and win the Supercoppa Italiana
1996/97 9 Series A
1997/98 5 Series A
1998/99 3 Series A Final of the Coppa Italia reached
1999/00 7th Series A
2000/01 9 Series A sixth win of the Coppa Italia
2001/02 17th Series A Bankruptcy and subsequent forced relegation to series C2
2002/03 1 Series C2 Promotion to Serie B, Christian Riganò (30 hits) top scorer
2003/04 6th Series B Promotion (by relegation) to Serie A
2004/05 16 Series A
2005/06 4th Series A Luca Toni (31 goals) Top scorer in Serie A and best scorer in Europe
2006/07 5 Series A With 31 goals conceded in 38 games, the most stable defense in the league. Without the deduction of points, the club would have been third in the table. Cesare Prandelli voted Italy's “Coach of the Year 2006”.
2007/08 4th Series A Reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup
2008/09 4th Series A Cesare Prandelli voted Italy's “Coach of the Year 2008”.
2009/10 11 Series A Reached the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia and the last 16 of the Champions League.
2010/11 9 Series A
2011/12 13 Series A
2012/13 4th Series A Quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia
2013/14 4th Series A Final of the Coppa Italia
2014/15 4th Series A Semi-finals of the Coppa Italia. Europa League semi-finals
2015/16 5 Series A
2016/17 8th Series A Quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia
2017/18 8th Series A Quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia, death of captain Davide Astori during the season
2018/19 16 Series A Semi-finals of the Coppa Italia

Women's team

The women's football team has been in existence since 2015 and won the Italian Championship in 2016/17, the Italian Cup in 2016/17 and 2017/18 and the Italian Supercup in 2018 .

literature

  • Giansandro Mosti: Almanacco Viola 1926-2004. Tabellini, classifiche e statistiche . Scramasax edizioni, Firenze 2004.
  • Sandro Picchi: Fiorentina - 80 anni di storia. Il gioco, i personaggi, la città. Gianni Marchesini editore, Bologna 2006.
  • Nicola Guerra, Valentina Imperi, Claudia Vardanega: I poeti della curva. Un'analisi sociolinguistica degli striscioni allo stadio. Aracne, Roma 2010 I poeti della curva (Italian, English).

Web links

Commons : ACF Fiorentina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ViolaChannel - History. Retrieved June 3, 2019 (Italian).
  2. ^ On Della Valles' resignation in Kicker-Online on September 24, 2009 (accessed on October 18, 2009).
  3. Series A: Italian-American Rocco Commisso buys AC Florence. In: ran.de . SID , June 6, 2019, accessed June 6, 2019 .
  4. soccerstyle24.it - ​​Le scadenze dei contratti tra squadre e sponsor tecnici
  5. violachannel.tv - Volkswagen è partner istituzionale di ACF FIORENTINA
  6. Squad AC Florence. In: transfermarkt.de . Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on March 2, 2019 .