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Fiorentina

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Sport: soccer
Home town: Florence, Italy
Founding year: 1926
Leagues: Serie A, Coppa Italia

ACF Fiorentina is a football club from Florence in Tuscany. The team is also referred to by its home colors La Viola (Purple).

Fiorentina has historically been one of the team's just below the top-3 in the league. Star players like Kurt Hamrin, Gabriel 'Batigol' Batistuta (the club's all-time top goalscorer), and Luca Toni have played for the club.

The club was founded in 1926 when the Florence clubs Libertas and Club Sportivo Firenze merged. The original colours were red/white and it is rumoured that the purple colour was the result of an bad wash in 1929.

Fiorentina's home ground is the Stadio Artemio Franchi, 47,282.

The top honours of the club are:

- 2 Serie A titles in 1956 and in 1969 - 6 Coppa Italia (most recent 2001) - 1 Champions League Final in 1957 - 1 UEFA Cup Final in 1990 - 1 UEFA Cup Winners Cup

Players

- Franco Semioli
- Marco Donadel

Fiorentina

Game stats

Our match database contains 150 number of games played between Sep '04 - May '08 by Fiorentina in the Serie A.

During that period, they scored a total of 139 goals as a home team. Their average number of goals scored as a home team was 1.85 per game. As the away team, they scored a total of 74 goals, with an average number of goals of 0.99 per game.

The average for all teams combined within the Serie A was 1.23 goals scored per game, and an average of 1.25 goals allowed against per game. This means that Fiorentina scored more goals than the average team, and also allowed fewer goals.

The average team in the Serie A won 34.07% of its games, compared to Fiorentina's 45.33%.