AC Florence
AC Florence | ||||
Football company | ||||
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Surname | ACF Fiorentina SpA | |||
Seat | Florence , Italy | |||
founding | August 26, 1926 | |||
Colours | violet | |||
Shareholders | 98%: Mediacom 2%: Firenze Viola |
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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
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.
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 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.
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
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 |
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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
- Italian Primavera Championship : (3) 1970/71, 1979/80, 1982/83
- Italian Primavera Cup : (4) 1979/80, 1995/96, 2010/11, 2018/19
- Allievi Nazionali: (4) 1967/68, 1969/70, 1985/86, 1988/89
- Torneo di Viareggio : (8) 1966, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1988, 1992
Professional team squad (2019/20)
No. | Nat. | Surname | Date of birth | In the team since | Contract until | |
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goalkeeper | ||||||
1 | Pietro Terracciano | March 8, 1990 | 2019 | |||
69 | Bartłomiej Drągowski | August 19, 1997 | 2016 | 2023 | ||
Defender | ||||||
4th | Nikola Milenković | October 12, 1997 | 2017 | 2022 | ||
6th | Luca Ranieri | April 23, 1999 | 2015 | 2021 | ||
17th | Federico Ceccherini | May 11, 1992 | 2018 | 2023 | ||
20th | Germán Pezzella | June 27, 1991 | 2017 | 2018 | ||
21st | Pol Lirola | August 13, 1997 | 2019 | 2020 | ||
22nd | Martín Cáceres | April 7, 1987 | 2019 | 2020 | ||
23 | Lorenzo Venuti | April 12, 1995 | 2012 | 2021 | ||
29 | Dalbert | September 8, 1993 | 2019 | 2020 | ||
32 | Jacob Rasmussen | May 28, 1997 | 2019 | 2023 | ||
93 | Aleksa Terzić | August 17, 1999 | 2019 | 2023 | ||
' | Maximiliano Olivera | March 5, 1992 | 2016 | |||
midfield player | ||||||
5 | Milan Badelj | February 25, 1989 | 2019 | 2020 | ||
8th | Gaetano Castrovilli | February 17, 1997 | 2017 | 2021 | ||
14th | Bryan Dabo | February 18, 1992 | 2018 | 2021 | ||
15th | Sebastián Cristóforo | 23rd August 1993 | 2017 | 2021 | ||
16 | Valentin Eysseric | March 25, 1992 | 2017 | 2022 | ||
19th | Tòfol Montiel | April 11, 2000 | 2018 | 2023 | ||
24 | Marco Benassi | September 8, 1994 | 2017 | 2022 | ||
27 | Szymon Żurkowski | September 25, 1997 | 2019 | 2023 | ||
78 | Erick Pulgar | January 15, 1994 | 2019 | 2023 | ||
striker | ||||||
7th | Franck Ribery | April 7, 1983 | 2019 | 2021 | ||
10 | Kevin-Prince Boateng | March 6, 1987 | 2019 | 2021 | ||
11 | Riccardo Sottil | June 3, 1999 | 2018 | 2021 | ||
18th | Rachid Ghezzal | May 9, 1992 | 2019 | 2020 | ||
25th | Federico Chiesa | October 25, 1997 | 2007 | 2022 | ||
28 | Dušan Vlahović | January 28, 2000 | 2018 | 2023 | ||
77 | Cyril Théréau | April 24, 1983 | 2017 | 2020 | ||
Patrick Cutrone | January 3, 1998 | 2020 | 2021 | |||
As of September 2, 2019 |
Former players
- Italo Acconcia
- Adriano
- Enrico Albertosi
- Marcos Alonso
- Amaral
- Amarildo
- Amauri
- Alberto Aquilani
- Massimo Ambrosini
- Guillermo Amor
- Lorenzo Amoruso
- Anderson
- Giancarlo Antognoni
- Luca Ariatti
- Davide Astori
- Menotti Avanzolini
- Khouma Babacar
- Roberto Baggio
- Francesco Baiano
- Abel Balbo
- Giuseppe Baldini
- Federico Balzaretti
- José María Basanta
- Gabriel Batistuta
- Valon Behrami
- Federico Bernardeschi
- Mario Bertini
- Daniel Bertoni
- Giuseppe Bigogno
- Jakub Błaszczykowski
- Stefano Borgonovo
- Artur Boruc
- Giuseppe Brizi
- Mattia Cassani
- Sergio Castelletti
- Cristian Sebastián Cejas
- Mario Celoria
- Alessio Cerci
- Sergio Cervato
- Giuseppe Chiapella
- Alberto Di Chiara
- Luciano Chiarugi
- Giorgio Chiellini
- Enrico Chiesa
- Sandro Cois
- Marvin Compper
- Renzo Contratto
- Rui Costa
- Leonardo Costagliola
- Juan Cuadrado
- Gaetano D'Agostino
- Dario Dainelli
- Giancarlo De Sisti
- Claudio Desolati
- Modibo Diakité
- Alessandro Diamanti
- Ramon Diaz
- Marco Donadel
- Angelo Di Livio
- Carlos Dunga
- Edmundo
- Stefan Effenberg
- Felipe
- Edimilson Fernandes
- Matías Fernández
- Ugo Ferrante
- Sébastien Frey
- Diego Fuser
- Alberto Galassi
- Giancarlo Galdiolo
- Giovanni Galli
- Alessandro Gamberini
- Renato Gei
- Claudio Gentile
- Gerson
- Alberto Gilardino
- Nuno Gomes
- Mario Gomez
- Ezequiel González
- Guido Gratton
- Gunnar Gren
- Francesco Graziani
- Luigi Griffanti
- Mounir El Hamdaoui
- Kurt Hamrin
- Jörg Heinrich
- Karsten Hutwelker
- Glenn Hysén
- Giuseppe Iachini
- Josip Iličić
- Olexandr Jakovenko
- Ludwig Janda
- Stevan Jovetić
- Julinho
- Nikola Kalinić
- Andrei Kantschelskis
- Luboš Kubík
- Lefter Küçükandonyadis
- Can Bartu
- Alban Lafont
- Marcelo Larrondo
- Brian Laudrup
- Andrea Lazzari
- Adem Ljajic
- Francisco Lojacono
- Alessandro Lucarelli
- Cristiano Lupatelli
- Augusto Magli
- Ardico Magnini
- Saul Malatrasi
- Aldo Maldera
- Gianluca Mancini
- Alexander Manninger
- Mario Maraschi
- Rino Marchesi
- Enzo Maresca
- Marko Marin
- Humberto Maschio
- Daniele Massaro
- Alessandro Matri
- Romeo Menti
- Claudio Merlo
- Fabrizio Miccoli
- Predrag Mijatović
- Luigi Milan
- Aurelio Milani
- Hrvoje Milic
- Kevin Mirallas
- Riccardo Montolivo
- Miguel Ángel Montuori
- Emiliano Moretti
- Domenico Morfeo
- Gianni Munari
- Gustavo Munúa
- Luis Muriel
- Adrian Mutu
- Hidetoshi Nakata
- Matija Nastasić
- Neto
- Christian Nørgaard
- Savio Nsereko
- Christian Obodo
- Luís Oliveira
- Rubén Olivera
- Gabriele Oriali
- Alberto Orlando
- Alberto Orzan
- Egisto Pandolfini
- Manuel Pasqual
- Daniel Passarella
- Michele Pazienza
- Mario Perazzolo
- Gianfranco Petris
- Pedro Petrone
- Carlo Piccardi
- Stefano Pioli
- David Pizarro
- Mario Pizziolo
- Marko Pjaca
- Maurilio Prini
- Paolino Pulici
- Ante Rebić
- Tomáš Řepka
- Micah Richards
- Christian Riganò
- Anselmo Robbiati
- Enzo Robotti
- Gonzalo Rodríguez
- Rômulo
- Francesco Rosetta
- Giuseppe Rossi
- Mohamed Salah
- Mario Alberto Santana
- Riccardo Saponara
- Giuliano Sarti
- Stefan Savic
- Nevio Scala
- Stefan Schwarz
- Haris Seferović
- Armando Segato
- Michele Serena
- Lorenzo De Silvestri
- Mohamed Sissoko
- Sócrates
- Franco Superchi
- Giuliano Tagliasacchi
- Ciprian Tătărușanu
- Giovanni Tedesco
- Cristian Tello
- Francesco Toldo
- Nenad Tomović
- Luca Toni
- Moreno Torricelli
- Ferruccio Valcareggi
- Borja Valero
- Juan Manuel Vargas
- Matías Vecino
- Jordan Veretout
- Vinicio Viani
- Corrado Viciani
- Pietro Vierchowod
- Giuseppe Virgili
- Giancarlo Vitali
- Emiliano Viviano
- Zisis Vryzas
- Mauro Zárate
Player records
Status: end of season 2018/19; All competitive games and goals are indicated, players in bold are still active in the club
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Coach history
Head coach | |
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Term of office | Surname |
1926-1928 | Károly Csapkay |
1928-1931 | Gyula Feldmann |
1931-1933 | Hermann Felsner |
1933 | William Rady |
1933-1934 | József Went |
1934-1937 | Guido Ara |
1937-1938 | Ottavio Baccani |
1938 | Ferenc Molnár |
1938-1939 | Rudolf Soutschek |
1939-1945 | Giuseppe Galluzzi |
1946 | Guido Ara |
1946-1947 | Renzo Magli |
1947 | Imre Senkey |
1947-1951 | Luigi Ferrero |
1951-1953 | Renzo Magli |
1953-1958 | Fulvio Bernardini |
1958-1959 | Lajos Czeizler |
1959 | Luigi Ferrero |
1959-1960 | Luis Carniglia |
1960 | Giuseppe Chiappella |
1960–1962 | Nándor Hidegkuti |
1962-1964 | Ferruccio Valcareggi |
1964-1967 | Giuseppe Chiappella |
1967-1968 | Luigi Ferrero |
1968 | Andrea Bassi |
1968-1971 | Bruno Pesaola |
1971 | Oronzo Pugliese |
1971-1973 | Nils Liedholm |
1973-1974 | Luigi Radice |
1974-1975 | Nereo Rocco |
1975-1977 | Carlo Mazzone |
1977-1988 | Mario Mazzoni |
1978 | Giuseppe Chiappella |
1978-1981 | Paolo Carosi |
1981-1985 | Giancarlo De Sisti |
1985 | Ferruccio Valcareggi |
Head coach | |
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Term of office | Surname |
1985-1986 | Aldo Agroppi |
1986-1987 | Eugenio Bersellini |
1987-1989 | Sven-Göran Eriksson |
1989-1990 | Bruno Giorgi |
1990 | Francesco Graziani |
1990-1991 | Sebastião Lazaroni |
1991-1993 | Luigi Radice |
1993 | Aldo Agroppi |
1993 | Luciano Chiarugi |
1993-1997 | Claudio Ranieri |
1997-1998 | Alberto Malesani |
1998-2000 | Giovanni Trapattoni |
2000-2001 | Fatih Terim |
2001 | Luciano Chiarugi |
2001-2002 | Roberto Mancini |
2002 | Ottavio Bianchi |
2002 | Luciano Chiarugi |
2002 | Eugenio Fascetti |
2002 | Pietro Vierchowod |
2002-2004 | Alberto Cavasin |
2004 | Emiliano Mondonico |
2004-2005 | Sergio Buso |
2005 | Dino Zoff |
2005-2010 | Cesare Prandelli |
2010-2011 | Siniša Mihajlović |
2011–2012 | Delio Rossi |
2012 | Vincenzo Guerini |
2012-2015 | Vincenzo Montella |
2015-2017 | Paulo Sousa |
2017-2019 | Stefano Pioli |
2019 | Vincenzo Montella |
2019– | Giuseppe Iachini |
Club records
Series A
- Biggest win: 8-0 AC Florence - FC Modena in the 1941/42 season
- Biggest defeat: 8-0 Juventus Turin - Fiorentina in the 1952/53 season
- Record player: Giancarlo Antognoni with 341 appearances
- Record scorer: Gabriel Batistuta with 152 goals
- Most goals in one season: Luca Toni with 31 goals in the 2005/06 season
Important games in the history of Fiorentina
date | occasion | Stadion | winner | opponent | Result | Details |
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June 15, 1940 | Final game Coppa Italia | Stadio Artemio Franchi , Florence | AC Florence | CFC genoa | 1-0 | Details |
May 30, 1957 | Final European Cup | Estadio Santiago Bernabéu , Madrid | real Madrid | AC Florence | 2-0 | Details |
September 24, 1958 | Final game Coppa Italia | Rome Olympic Stadium , Rome | Lazio Rome | AC Florence | 1-0 | Details |
September 18, 1960 | Final game Coppa Italia | Giuseppe Meazza Stadium , Milan | Juventus Turin | AC Florence | 3: 2 a.d. | Details |
May 17, 1961 | Final first leg of the European Cup Winners' Cup | Ibrox Park , Glasgow | Glasgow Rangers | AC Florence | 0: 2 | Details |
May 27, 1961 | Final second leg European Cup Winners' Cup | Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence | AC Florence | Glasgow Rangers | 2: 1 | |
June 11, 1961 | Final game Coppa Italia | Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence | AC Florence | Lazio Rome | 2-0 | Details |
May 19, 1966 | Final game Coppa Italia | Rome Olympic Stadium, Rome | AC Florence | US Catanzaro | 2: 1 a.d. | Details |
June 28, 1975 | Final game Coppa Italia | Rome Olympic Stadium, Rome | AC Florence | AC Milan | 3: 2 | Details |
May 2, 1996 | Final first leg Coppa Italia | Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence | AC Florence | Atalanta Bergamo | 1-0 | Details |
May 18, 1996 | Final second leg Coppa Italia | Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia , Bergamo | Atalanta Bergamo | AC Florence | 0: 2 | |
August 25, 1996 | Final game Supercoppa Italiana | Giuseppe Meazza Stadium, Milan | AC Milan | AC Florence | 1: 2 | Details |
April 14, 1999 | Final first leg Coppa Italia | Stadio Ennio Tardini , Parma | AC Parma | AC Florence | 1: 1 | Details |
May 5, 1999 | Final second leg Coppa Italia | Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence | AC Florence | AC Parma | 2: 2 | |
May 24, 2001 | Final first leg Coppa Italia | Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma | AC Parma | AC Florence | 0: 1 | Details |
June 13, 2001 | Final second leg Coppa Italia | Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence | AC Florence | AC Parma | 1: 1 | |
August 19, 2001 | Final game Supercoppa Italiana | Rome Olympic Stadium, Rome | AS Roma | AC Florence | 3-0 | Details |
May 3, 2014 | Final game Coppa Italia | Rome Olympic Stadium, Rome | AC Florence | SSC Naples | 1: 3 | Details |
Presidential history
President | |
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Term of office | Surname |
1926-1942 | Luigi Ridolfi |
1942-1945 | Scipione Picchi |
1945-1946 | Arrigo Paganelli |
1946-1947 | Igino Cassi |
1947-1948 | Ardelio Allori |
1948-1952 | Carlo Antonini |
1952-1961 | Enrico Befani |
1961-1965 | Enrico Longinotti |
1965-1971 | Nello Baglini |
1971-1977 | Ugolino Ugolini |
1977-1979 | Rodolfo Melloni |
1979-1980 | Enrico Martellini |
1980-1986 | Ranieri Pontello |
President | |
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Term of office | Surname |
1986-1987 | Pier Cesare Baretti |
1987-1990 | Lorenzo Righetti |
1990-1993 | Mario Cecchi Gori |
1993-2001 | Vittorio Cecchi Gori |
2001 | Luciano Luna |
2002 |
Ugo Poggi Ottavio Bianchi Enrico Fazzini |
2002-2004 | Gino Salica |
2004-2009 | Andrea Della Valle |
2009-2019 | Mario Cognigni |
2019– | 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
- Official website of the ACF Fiorentina (Italian, English)
- ACF Fiorentina on legaseriea.it
- ACF Fiorentina on UEFA.com
- ACF Fiorentina on FIFA.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ ViolaChannel - History. Retrieved June 3, 2019 (Italian).
- ^ On Della Valles' resignation in Kicker-Online on September 24, 2009 (accessed on October 18, 2009).
- ↑ Series A: Italian-American Rocco Commisso buys AC Florence. In: ran.de . SID , June 6, 2019, accessed June 6, 2019 .
- ↑ soccerstyle24.it - Le scadenze dei contratti tra squadre e sponsor tecnici
- ↑ violachannel.tv - Volkswagen è partner istituzionale di ACF FIORENTINA
- ↑ Squad AC Florence. In: transfermarkt.de . Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on March 2, 2019 .