Fiorentina

Full name	ACF Fiorentina SpA
Nickname(s)	Viola (Purple)
Founded	August 26, 1926 (AC Fiorentina) 2002 (ACF Fiorentina)
Ground	Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy
Capacity	47,282
Chairman	Andrea Della Valle
Manager	Cesare Prandelli
League	Serie A
2004-05	Serie A, 16th
Home colours Away colours

ACF Fiorentina, formerly Associazione Calcio Fiorentina, is an Italian football club based in Florence (Firenze), Tuscany. The club's traditional colors were originally red and white but were changed to purple and white in 1928; since then, the club has been generally known as "i Viola" (the purple ones). The club usually plays at the 47,282-capacity all-seater 'Comunale' Stadium "Artemio Franchi" (known until 1991 as Comunale di Firenze, which had itself replaced the "Giovanni Francesco Berta" in the 1930s). ACF Fiorentinas badge Image by http://www. ... Stadio Carlo Castellani is a football stadium in Florence, Italy. ... Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  102 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ... This is a list of major football (soccer) stadiums, grouped by country and ordered by capacity. ... Claudio Cesare Prandelli (born 19 August 1957 in Orzinuovi) is an Italian football coach, currently of ACF Fiorentina. ... Italian Serie A Serie A is the top division of the Italian Football League, the highest football league in Italy. ... Italian Serie A Serie A is the top division of the Italian Football League, the highest football league in Italy. ... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links Kit_shorts. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links Kit_shorts. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  102 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ... Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria and Marche to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... Stadio Carlo Castellani is a football stadium in Florence, Italy. ...

The club was founded on August 26, 1926 by the merger of Libertas and Club Sportivo Firenze. The club won its first trophy in 1939-40 with the Coppa Italia and its first scudetto (Italian championship) in 1955-1956, the club were runners-up in the four following seasons. In the 1960-1961 season the club won the Coppa Italia again and was also successful in Europe, winning the first Cup Winners' Cup against Rangers. August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Coppa Italia (Italian Cup) is a Italian footballs annual cup competition. ... Serie A is the top division of the Italian Football League, the highest football league in Italy. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Cup Winners Cup was a football club competition between the winners of the European domestic cup competitions. ... Rangers Football Club is a football club from Glasgow, Scotland which plays in the Scottish Premier League. ...

In the 1960s the club won the Coppa Italia and the Mitropa Cup in 1966 and were league champions again in the 1968-1969 season. In 1974 the Viola won the Anglo-Italian Cup. Success in the Coppa Italia was repeated in 1975, but from then until the late 1990s the club found itself in the doldrums, culminating in a season in Serie B (second division) in 1993-1994. Upon return to Serie A the club again proved able in the cup competitions, winning the Coppa Italia again in 1996 and 2000 and the Italian SuperCoppa. The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... The Mitropa Cup was one of the first major international European football cups for club sides. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... The Anglo-Italian Cup was a football cup competition held between clubs in England and Italy. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. ... Serie B is the name of the second highest football league in Italy. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Italian Serie A Serie A is the top division of the Italian Football League, the highest football league in Italy. ...

2001 heralded major changes for Fiorentina, as the terrible state of the club's finances was revealed; they were unable to pay wages and had debts of around USD 50 million. The club owner, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, was able to raise some more money, but even this soon proved to be insufficient resources to sustain the club. Then, Fiorentina were relegated at the end of the 2001-2002 season and went into judicially controlled administration in June 2002. This form of bankruptcy (sports companies cannot exactly fail in this way in Italy, but they can suffer a similar procedure) meant that the club was refused a place in Serie B for the 2002-2003 season, and as a result, effectively ceased to exist. Notice of closure stuck on the door of a computer store the day after its parent company, Granville Technology Group Ltd, declared bankruptcy (strictly, administration - see text) in the UK. Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their creditors. ...

The club was promptly re-established in August 2002 as Florentia Viola with a new owner, Diego Della Valle, and was admitted into Serie C2, one of the lower tiers in Italian football. The only player to remain at the club as they began their new life was Angelo Di Livio, whose commitment to the cause of resurrecting the club further endeared him to the fans. Helped by Di Livio, the club won it's regional section in Serie C2 with considerable ease at the end of the 2002-2003 season, which would normally have led to a promotion to Serie C1. However, due to the bizarre Caso Catania (Catania Case) the club skipped Serie C1 and was admitted into Serie B. This was only possible because the Italian Football Federation chose to resolve the Catania situation by increasing the number of teams in Serie B from 20 to 24. In the 2003 off-season, the club also bought back the right to use the Fiorentina name and the famous shirt design, and re-incorporated itself as ACF Fiorentina. Matches were still being played at the Artemio Franchi stadium. Serie C is the name of the third and fourth highest football leagues in Italy. ... Angelo Di Livio (born July 26, 1966 in Rome) is a former Italian football (soccer) midfielder. ... Calcio Catania is a Italian football club based in Catania, Sicily. ... The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) (Italian: Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio) is the governing body of football in Italy. ...

The club's unusual double promotion was not without controversy, with some suggesting that Fiorentina did not deserve it; however, the club remained in Serie B and managed to finish the 2003-2004 season in sixth place. This achievement placed the Viola in a two-legged playoff against Perugia (the 15th-place finisher in Serie A) for a position in Serie A. Fiorentina completed their remarkable comeback by winning the match 2-1 on aggregate, with both goals scored by Enrico Fantini, to gain promotion back to Serie A. In their first season back in Italian football's top flight, the club struggled to avoid relegation, securing survival only on the last day of the season, and avoiding a relegation playoff only on head-to-head record against Bologna and Parma. So far in 2005-06, their form has greatly improved, and they are currently in contention for a Champions League place. The combination of Jorgensen, Fiore and Toni proved to be dominant as Toni scored over 21 goals so far. A test match in football is a match played at the end of a season between a team that has done badly in a higher league and one that has done well in a lower league of the same football league system. ... A.C. Perugia is a football club based in Perugia, Italy. ... Bologna F.C. 1909 is a Italian football club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, nicknamed the rossoblù. They play in red and blue striped shirts with blue shorts and socks. ... Parma Football Club (formerly Parma Associazione Calcio) is an Italian football club based in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, nicknamed the Crociati (Crusaders) and the Gialloblu (Yellow-Blues). ... The Champions League logo The UEFA Champions League is an annual club football competition organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for the most successful football clubs in Europe. ...

Honours

Serie A winners

• 1955/56
• 1968/69

Coppa Italia winners

• 1939/1940
• 1960/1961
• 1995/1966
• 1974/1975
• 1995/1996
• 2000/2001

Cup Winners' Cup winners

• 1960/1961

Cup Winners' Cup runners up

• 1961/1962

Champions' League runners up

• 1956/57

UEFA Cup runners up

• 1989/1990

Current first team squad

As of February 3, 2006

No. Position Player 1 GK Sebastien Frey (on loan from Parma) 2 DF Per Krøldrup 3 DF Dario Dainelli (captain) 4 MF Marco Donadel 5 DF Alessandro Gamberini 7 MF Guilherme Raymundo Do Prado 8 FW Valeri Bojinov 10 MF Stefano Fiore (on loan from Valencia) 13 GK Marco Roccati 14 DF Davide Brivio (from youth team) 17 MF Michele Pazienza (on loan from Udinese) 18 MF Riccardo Montolivo 19 MF Luis Jiménez

No. Position Player 20 MF Martin Jørgensen 21 DF Tomas Ujfalusi 22 GK Bogdan Lobonţ 23 MF Manuel Pasqual 26 DF Giuseppe Pancaro 27 DF Marco Di Loreto 29 FW Gianpaolo Pazzini 30 FW Luca Toni 32 MF Cristian Brocchi (on loan from AC Milan) 33 GK Niccolò Manfredini (from youth team) 99 GK Gianluca Berti — MF Andrea Paolucci

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Famous players

• Adriano Leite Ribeiro
• Lorenzo Amoruso
• Giancarlo Antognoni
• Roberto Baggio
• Gabriel Batistuta
• Luciano Chiarugi
• Enrico Chiesa
• Giancarlo De Sisti
• Angelo Di Livio
• Dunga
• Edmundo
• Stefan Effenberg
• Giovanni Galli
• Kurt Hamrin
• Andrei Kanchelskis
• Brian Laudrup
• Julinho
• Predrag Mijatovic
• Miguel Montuori
• Hidetoshi Nakata
• Daniel Passarella
• Rui Costa
• Francesco Toldo
• Luca Toni

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External links

• (it) (en) (ja) Official website
• (it) ACF Fiorentina Newsgroup
• (it) ACF Fiorentina Fansite