ACF Fiorentina is a professional football club from Florence, in Tuscany, which plays at the Stadio Artemio Franchi. It was formed through a merger of two older Florentine clubs, Club Sportivo Firenze and Palestra Ginnastica Fiorentina Libertas, at the initiative of the marquis Luigi Ridolfi Vay da Verrazzano, and it adopted the purple shirts that give the team its nickname, the Viola. Fiorentina won the Italian league in 1955–56 and 1968–69, took the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1960–61, and reached the European Cup final in 1957, where it lost to Real Madrid. Gabriel Batistuta was its star striker in the 1990s. The club went bankrupt in 2002 and was refounded, returning under its traditional name the following year.
Before and after
- 20 November 1925Birth of Robert F. Kennedy
- from 27 November 1925 to 15 September 1926Urtatagai conflict
- from 12 December 1925 to 1 April 1979Pahlavi dynasty
- from 1926 to 1928Northern Expedition
- 1926Founding of ACF Fiorentina
- 1926Construction of Park Güell
- 1926Construction of Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
- 1926Publication of Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- 1926Establishment of Kruger National Park
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