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Full name | Hellas Verona Football Club S.p.A. | |||
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Nickname(s) | I Gialloblu (The Yellow and Blues) I Mastini (The Mastiffs) Gli Scaligeri (The Scaligers) I Butei ("The Boys", in Venetian) | |||
Founded | 1903 1991 , as Verona Football Club | , as Associazione Calcio Hellas|||
Ground | Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi | |||
Capacity | 39,211[1] | |||
Owner | Maurizio Setti | |||
President | Maurizio Setti | |||
Head coach | Marco Baroni | |||
League | Serie A | |||
2022–23 | Serie A, 17th of 20 | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Hellas Verona Football Club, commonly referred to as Hellas Verona or simply Verona, is an Italian professional football club based in Verona, Veneto, that currently plays in Serie A. The team won the Serie A Championship in the 1984–85 season.
History
Origins and early history
Founded in 1903 by a group of high school students, the club was named Hellas, at the request of a professor of classics.[2] At a time in which football was played seriously only in the larger cities of northwestern Italy, most of Verona was indifferent to the growing sport.[citation needed] However, when in 1906 two city teams chose the city's Roman amphitheatre as a venue to showcase the game, crowd enthusiasm and media interest began to rise.[citation needed]
During these first few years, Hellas was one of three or four area teams playing at a municipal level while fighting against city rivals Bentegodi to become the city's premier football outfit.[
From 1898 to 1926, Italian football was organised into regional groups.[citation needed] In this period, Hellas was one of the founding teams of the early league and often among its top final contenders.[citation needed] In 1911, the city helped Hellas replace the early, gritty football fields with a proper venue.[citation needed] This allowed the team to take part in its first regional tournament, which until 1926, was the qualifying stage for the national title.[citation needed]
In 1919, following a return to activity after a four-year suspension of all football competition in Italy during World War I, the team merged with city rival Verona and changed its name to Hellas Verona.[citation needed] Between 1926 and 1929, the elite "Campionato Nazionale" assimilated the top sides from the various regional groups.[citation needed] Hellas Verona joined the privileged teams, yet struggled to remain competitive.[citation needed]
Serie A, as it is structured today, began in 1929, when the Campionato Nazionale turned into a professional league.[citation needed] Still an amateur team, Hellas merged with two city rivals, Bentegodi and Scaligera, to form AC Verona.[citation needed] Hoping to build a first class contender for future years, the new team debuted in Serie B in 1929.[citation needed] It would take the gialloblu 28 years to finally achieve their goal.[citation needed] After first being promoted to Serie A for one season in 1957–58, in 1959, the team merged with another city rival (called Hellas) and commemorated its beginnings by changing its name to Hellas Verona AC.[citation needed]
Success in the 1970s and 1980s
Coached by Nils Liedholm, the team returned to Serie A in 1968 and remained in the elite league almost without interruption until 1990.[citation needed] Along the way, it scored a famous 5–3 win in the 1972–73 season that cost Milan the scudetto (the Serie A title).[citation needed] The fact that the result came late during the last matchday of the season makes the sudden and unexpected end to the rossoneri's title ambitions all the more memorable.[tone][citation needed]
In 1973–74, Hellas finished the season in fourth-last, just narrowly avoiding relegation, but were nonetheless sent down to Serie B during the summer months as a result of a scandal involving team president Saverio Garonzi.[clarification needed][citation needed] After a year in Serie B, Hellas returned to Serie A.[citation needed]
In the 1975–76 season, the team had a successful run in the
Under the leadership of coach Osvaldo Bagnoli, in 1982–83 the team secured a fourth-place in Serie A (its highest finish at the time) and even led the Serie A standings for a few weeks.[citation needed] The same season Hellas again reached the Coppa Italia final.[citation needed] After a 2–0 home victory, Hellas then travelled to Turin to play Juventus but were defeated 3–0 after extra time.[citation needed]
Further disappointment followed in the 1983–84 season when the team again reached the Coppa Italia final, only to lose the Cup in the final minutes of the return match against defending Serie A champions
The team made its first European appearance in the
In 1988, the team had their best international result when they reached the UEFA Cup quarterfinals with four victories and three draws.[citation needed] The decisive defeat came from German side Werder Bremen.[citation needed]
1984–1985 Scudetto
Although the
To mention a few of the memorable milestones[
Hellas finished the year with a 15–13–2 record and 43 points, four points ahead of
In the following season, won again by Juventus, the choice of the referees went back in the hands of the designatori arbitrali.[citation needed] In 2006, a major scandal in Italian football revealed that certain clubs had been illegally influencing the referee selection process in an attempt to ensure that certain referees were assigned to their matches.[citation needed]
Between Serie A and Serie B
These were more than mere modest achievements[tone] for a mid-size city with a limited appeal to fans across the nation.[citation needed] But soon enough financial difficulties caught up with team managers.[citation needed] In 1991 the team folded and was reborn as Verona, regularly moving to and fro between Serie A and Serie B for several seasons.[citation needed] In 1995 the name was officially returned to Hellas Verona.[4][5]
After a three-year stay, their last stint in Serie A ended in grief in 2002.[tone][citation needed] That season emerging international talents such as Adrian Mutu, Mauro Camoranesi, Alberto Gilardino, Martin Laursen, Massimo Oddo, Marco Cassetti and coach Alberto Malesani failed to capitalise on an excellent start and eventually dropped into fourth-to-last place for the first time all season on the final match day, enforcing relegation into Serie B.[4]
Decline and Serie A comeback (2002–present)
Following the 2002 relegation to Serie B, team fortunes continued to slip throughout the decade.[
In 2004–05, things looked much brighter for the team.[tone][citation needed] After a rocky start,[tone] Hellas put together a string of results and climbed to third spot.[citation needed] The gialloblù held on to the position until January 2005, when transfers weakened the team, yet they managed to take the battle for Serie A to the last day of the season.[tone][citation needed]
The
Verona appointed experienced coach
For the 2008–09 season, Verona appointed former
The following season looked promising,[
Former
On 18 May 2013, Verona finished second in Serie B and were promoted to Serie A after an eleven-year absence.[9] Their return to the top flight began against title contenders Milan and Roma, beating the former 2–1 and losing to the latter 3–0.[citation needed] The team continued at a steady pace, finishing the first half of the season with 32 points and sitting in sixth place, eleven points behind the closest UEFA Champions League spot—and tied with Internazionale for the final UEFA Europa League spot.[citation needed] Verona, however, ultimately finished the year in tenth.[citation needed]
During the
In the
The club's return to the top flight in the 2019–20 Serie A season, in which it was considered a strong relegation candidate at the beginning of the campaign, was a successful one, with a ninth-placed finish. Heavily reliant on the defensive solidity of 20-year-old centre-back Marash Kumbulla, Amir Rrahmani and goalkeeper Marco Silvestri, along with the consistent performances of midfielder Sofyan Amrabat, Verona was a surprise contender for Europa League qualification but fell out of the race after a downturn in form after the coronavirus break, which temporarily halted the season.[14] A 2–1 win at home against eventual title winners Juventus in February was a highlight of a season in which the club achieved 10 clean sheets and punched towards the higher end of the table despite its modest budget.[15]
Ahead of Verona's second consecutive year in
Following another summer transfer window in which several of the club's star players were sold to Serie A rivals, namely Zaccagni transferring to
Colours and badge
The team's colours are yellow and blue.[citation needed] As a result, the clubs most widely used nickname is gialloblu literally "yellow-blue" in Italian.[citation needed] The colours represent the city itself and Verona's emblem (a yellow cross on a blue shield) appears on most team apparel.[citation needed] Home kits are traditionally blue, sometimes of a navy shade, combined with yellow details and trim, although the club has used a blue and yellow striped design on occasion.[citation needed] Two more team nicknames are Mastini (the mastiffs) and Scaligeri, both references to Mastino I della Scala of the Della Scala princes that ruled the city during the 13th and 14th centuries.[citation needed]
The Scala family
Stadium
Since 1963, the club have played at the
The ground was shared with Hellas's rivals,
Derby with Chievo Verona
The intercity fixtures against
Hellas, founded in 1903, were traditionally the main club in Verona.[citation needed] Chievo, founded in 1929, historically represented the small Verona suburb of the same name, using a small parish field as their home ground, and did not become a professional side until 1986.[citation needed] At that time, Chievo became tenants of Hellas at the Bentegodi, and began rising up the league ladder.[citation needed] By the mid-1990s, Chievo had joined Hellas in Serie B, creating the derby.[citation needed] During the teams' early Serie B meetings, Hellas supporters taunted Chievo with the chant Quando i mussi volara, il Ceo in Serie A – "Donkeys will fly before Chievo are in Serie A."[citation needed] Once Chievo earned promotion to Serie A at the end of the 2000–01 season, their fans started calling the team i Mussi Volanti (The Flying Donkeys). A 2014 story in the British football magazine Late Tackle remarked that "Hellas fans didn’t so much have their words rammed down their throat as forced through every orifice with a barge pole."[25]
In the season 2001–02, both Hellas Verona and the city rivals of Chievo Verona were playing in the Serie A. The first ever derby of Verona in Serie A took place on 18 November 2001, while both teams were ranked among the top four. The match was won by Hellas, 3–2. Chievo got revenge in the return match in spring 2002, winning 2–1. Verona thus became the fifth city in Italy, after Milan, Rome, Turin and Genoa to host a cross-town derby in Serie A.[26]
Honours
Records and statistics
Club statistics
European cups all-time statistics
Competition | S | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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European Cup | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 |
UEFA Cup | 2 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 11 | +7 |
Total | 3 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 23 | 15 | +8 |
European Cup
Season | Round | Opposition | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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1985–86 | First round | PAOK | 3–1 | 2–1 | 5–2 |
Second round | Juventus
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0–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 |
UEFA Cup
Season | Round | Opposition | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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1983–84 | First round | Red Star Belgrade | 1–0 | 3–2 | 4–2 |
Second round | Sturm Graz | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–2 (a) | |
1987–88 | First round | Pogoń Szczecin | 3–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 |
Second round | Utrecht | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | |
Third round | Sportul Studenţesc
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3–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | |
Quarter-finals | Werder Bremen | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 |
Player records
Most appearances
- Competitive, professional matches only.
# | Name | Years | Matches |
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1 | Luigi Bernardi | 1927–1939 | 337 |
2 | Emiliano Mascetti | 1967–1973, 1975–1980 | 328 |
3 | Roberto Tricella | 1979–1984 | 324 |
4 | Rafael | 2007–2016 | 314 |
5 | Pio Gorretta | 1929–1933, 1934–1940 | 262 |
Top goalscorers
- Competitive, professional matches only.
# | Name | Years | Goals |
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1 | Arnaldo Porta | 1914–1930 | 74 |
2 | Sergio Sega | 1946–1952, 1954–1955 | 73 |
3 | Guido Tavellin | 1939–1946, 1949–1950 | 58 |
4 | Adaílton | 1999–2006 | 52 |
5 | Egidio Chiecchi | 1921–1927 | 51 |
Luca Toni | 2013–2016 |
Divisional movements
Series | Years | Last | Promotions | Relegations |
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A | 31 | 2022–23 | – | 10 (1929, 1958, 1974, 1979, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2016, 2018) |
B | 53 | 2018–19 | 10 (1957, 1968, 1975, 1982, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2013, 2017, 2019) | 2 (1941, 2007) |
C | 6 | 2010–11 | 2 (1943, 2011) | never |
90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929 |
Sponsors
Kit sponsors
- 1980–87: Adidas[29]
- 1987–89: Hummel[29]
- 1989–91: Adidas[29]
- 1991–95: Uhlsport[29]
- 1995–00: Errea[29]
- 2000–03: Lotto[29]
- 2003–06: Legea[29]
- 2006–13: Asics[29]
- 2013–18: Nike[29]
- 2018–23: Macron[29]
- 2023–: Joma[30]
Official sponsors
- 1982–86: Canon[29]
- 1989–96: Rana[29]
- 1996–97: Ferroli[29]
- 1997–98: ZG Camini Inox[29]
- 1998–99: Atreyu Immobiliare[31]
- 1999–00: Salumi Marsilli[29]
- 2000–01: Net Business[29]
- 2001–02: Amica Chips[29]
- 2002–06: Clerman[29]
- 2006–07: Unika[29]
- 2007–08: No sponsor[29]
- 2008–10: Giallo[29]
- 2010–11: Banca Di Verona/Sicurint Group, Protec/Consorzio Asimov[29]
- 2011–12: AGSM/Sicurint Group, Protec/Leaderform[29]
- 2012–13: AGSM, Leaderform[29]
- 2013–14: Franklin & Marshall/Manila Grace, AGSM/Leaderform[29]
- 2014–15: Franklin & Marshall, AGSM/Leaderform[29]
- 2015–2018: Metano Nord, Leaderform[29]
- 2018–present: AirDolomiti, Gruppo Sinergy[29]
- 2020–present: Kiratech S.P.A.[32]
Current squad
First-team squad
- As of 2 February 2024[33]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Primavera
- As of 4 January 2023.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
- As of 9 February 2024.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Club officials
Board of directors
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Current technical staff
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Managers
- Ferenc Molnár (1 July 1924 – 30 June 1925)
- Imre Schöffer (1 July 1925 – 30 June 1926)
- Aldo Fagiuoli (1 July 1926 – 26 December 1927)
- Imre János Bekey (27 December 1927 – 30 June 1928)
- Alessandro Bascheni (1 July 1928 – 30 June 1929)
- András Kuttik (1 July 1929 – 30 June 1932)
- Rudolf Stanzel (1 July 1932 – 30 June 1933)
- Imre János Bekey (1 July 1933 – 30 June 1934)
- Sándor Peics (1939)
- Karl Stürmer (1941–1942)
- Bruno Biagini (1 July 1948 – 6 November 1949)
- László Székely (8 November 1949 – 16 January 1950)
- Angelo Piccioli (17 January 1950 – 23 March 1953)
- Gyula Lelovics (23 March 1953 – 30 June 1953)
- Luigi Rossetto (1 July 1953 – 31 January 1954)
- Luigi Ferrero (4 February 1954 – 11 October 1954)
- Angelo Piccioli (11 October 1954 – 1 February 1955)
- Federico Allasio (6 February 1955 – 11 December 1955)
- Angelo Piccioli (25 December 1955 – 5 May 1958)
- Luigi Bonizzoni (6 May 1958 – 30 June 1958)
- Vinicio Viani (1 July 1958 – 18 January 1959)
- Guido Tavellin (25 January 1959 – 5 November 1959)
- Aldo Olivieri (5 November 1959 – 26 September 1960)
- Romolo Bizzotto (2 October 1960 – 30 June 1961)
- Bruno Biagini (1 July 1961 – 30 June 1962)
- Guido Tavellin (1 July 1962 – 25 November 1962)
- Carlo Facchini (2 December 1962 – 17 May 1964)
- Bruno Biagini (24 May 1964 – 30 June 1964)
- Giancarlo Cadé(1 July 1964 – 30 June 1965)
- Omero Tognon (1 July 1965 – 20 November 1966)
- Ugo Pozzan (20 November 1966 – 15 January 1967)
- Nils Liedholm (23 January 1967– 30 June 1968)
- Ugo Pozzan (1 July 1967 – 30 June 1968)
- Giancarlo Cadé(1 July 1968 – 30 June 1969)
- Renato Lucchi (1 July 1969 – 30 November 1970)
- Ugo Pozzan (1 July 1971 – 30 June 1972)
- Giancarlo Cadé(1 July 1972 – 10 March 1975)
- Luigi Mascalaito (10 March 1975 – 30 June 1975)
- Ferruccio Valcareggi (1 July 1975 – 30 June 1978)
- Luigi Mascalaito (1 July 1978 – 13 November 1978)
- Giuseppe Chiappella (13 November 1978 – 30 June 1979)
- Fernando Veneranda (1 July 1979 – 30 June 1980)
- Giancarlo Cadé(1 July 1980 – 30 June 1981)
- Osvaldo Bagnoli (1 July 1981 – 30 June 1990)
- Eugenio Fascetti (1 July 1990 – 28 March 1992)
- Nils Liedholm (29 March 1992 – 30 June 1992)
- Edoardo Reja (1 July 1992 – 30 June 1993)
- Franco Fontana (1 July 1993 – 30 June 1994)
- Bortolo Mutti (1 July 1994 – 30 June 1995)
- Attilio Perotti (1 July 1995 – 30 June 1996)
- Luigi Cagni (1 July 1996 – 4 April 1998)
- Sergio Maddè (4 April 1998 – 30 June 1998)
- Cesare Prandelli (1 July 1998 – 30 June 2000)
- Attilio Perotti (1 July 2000 – 30 June 2001)
- Alberto Malesani (4 July 2001 – 10 June 2003)
- Sandro Salvioni (1 July 2003 – 23 December 2003)
- Sergio Maddè (24 December 2003 – 30 June 2004)
- Massimo Ficcadenti (20 July 2004 – 24 December 2006)
- Giampiero Ventura(24 December 2006 – 30 June 2007)
- Franco Colomba (1 July 2007 – 8 October 2007)
- Davide Pellegrini (9 October 2007 – 30 December 2007)
- Maurizio Sarri (31 December 2007 – 27 February 2008)
- Davide Pellegrini (28 February 2008 – 11 June 2008)
- Gian Marco Remondina (12 June 2008 – 10 May 2010)
- Giovanni Vavassori (10 May 2010 – 21 June 2010)
- Giuseppe Giannini (22 June 2010 – 8 November 2010)
- Andrea Mandorlini (9 November 2010 – 30 November 2015)
- Luigi Delneri (1 December 2015 – 23 May 2016)
- Fabio Pecchia (1 June 2016 – 21 June 2018)
- Fabio Grosso (21 June 2018 – 1 May 2019)
- Alfredo Aglietti (2 May 2019 – 14 June 2019)
- Ivan Jurić (14 June 2019 – 28 May 2021)
- Eusebio Di Francesco (7 June 2021 – 14 September 2021)
- Igor Tudor (14 September 2021 – 28 May 2022)
- Gabriele Cioffi (1 June 2022 – 11 October 2022)
- Salvatore Bocchetti (13 October 2022 – 2 December 2022)
- Marco Zaffaroni (3 December 2022 – 30 June 2023)
- Marco Baroni (1 July 2023 – present)
World Cup players
The following players have been selected by their country for the FIFA World Cup finals while playing for Hellas Verona.
References
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- ^ Paul, Edd (10 July 2014). "Chievo: Fairytale of the Flying Donkeys". Late Tackle. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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- ^ "Italy – List of Second Division (Serie B) Champions". The Record Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab "Hellas Verona F.C. Football Shirts". Oldfootballshirts. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "Joma Sport è il nuovo Technical Partner dell'Hellas Verona FC". Hellas Verona FC. 1 July 2023.
- ^ 1998 Verona in volo, lo sponsor a picco
- ^ "Hellas Verona, Kiratech S.p.A. is the news Sponsor of the club's youth team for season 2020/2021".
- ^ "Prima Squadra". Hellas Verona F.C. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- ^ Board of directors
- ^ Technical staff
- ^ name= "1986 Italian World Cup Team"https://www.national-football-teams.com/country/92/1986/Italy.html
- ^ name="1986 Italian World Cup Team"
- ^ name="1986 Italian World Cup Team"
- ^ name="1986 Denmark World Cup Team"https://www.national-football-teams.com/country/51/1986/Denmark.html
- ^ name="2014 Mexico World Cup Team"https://www.national-football-teams.com/country/121/2014/Mexico.html
- ^ name="2018 South Korea World Cup Team"https://www.national-football-teams.com/country/173/2018/South_Korea.html
- ^ name="2022 Australia World Cup Team"https://www.national-football-teams.com/country/12/2022/Australia.html
- ^ name="2022 Serbia World Cup Team"https://www.national-football-teams.com/country/164/2022/Serbia.html
Further reading
- ISBN 0436275953.
External links
- Official website (in Italian and English)