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The advancement of Hellas Verona in the italian football league structure since the first season of a coordinated Serie A ( 1929/30 ).

Hellas Verona Football Club, normally referred to as Hellas Verona or simply Verona, is an italian football cabaret based in Verona, Veneto, that presently plays in Serie A. The team won the Serie A Championship in 1984–85 .

history [edit ]

Origins and early history [edit ]

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 clock time in which football was played badly only in the larger cities of the northwestern Italy, most of Verona was indifferent to the growing frolic. however, when in 1906 two city teams chose the city ‘s Roman amphitheatre as a venue to showcase the game, crowd exuberance and media concern began to rise. 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 kit. By the 1907–08 season, Hellas was playing against regional teams and an intense competition with Vicenza that lasts to this day was born. From 1898 to 1926, italian football was organised into regional groups. In this period, Hellas was one of the establish teams of the early on league and often among its top final examination contenders. In 1911, the city helped Hellas replace the early, farinaceous football fields with a proper venue. This allowed the team to take depart in its inaugural regional tournament, which until 1926, was the qualify stagecoach for the national entitle. In 1919, following a return to activeness after a four-year suspension of all football rival in Italy during World War I, the team merged with city equal Verona and changed its name to Hellas Verona. Between 1926 and 1929, the elect “ Campionato Nazionale “ assimilated the top sides from the diverse regional groups and Hellas Verona joined the privilege teams, yet struggled to remain competitive. Serie A, as it is structured today, began in 1929, when the Campionato Nazionale turned into a professional league. however an amateur team, Hellas merged with two city rivals, Bentegodi and Scaligera, to form AC Verona. Hoping to build a foremost classify rival for future years, the raw team debuted in Serie B in 1929. It would take the gialloblu 28 years to finally achieve their goal. 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 .

success in the 1970s and 1980s [edit ]

Coached by Nils Liedholm, the team returned to Serie A in 1968 and remained in the elite league about without interruption until 1990. Along the way, it scored a celebrated 5–3 win in the 1972–73 season that cost Milan the scudetto ( the Serie A style ). The fact that the result came late during the last matchday of the season makes the sudden and unexpected end to the rossoneri’ s deed ambitions all the more memorable. In 1973–74, Hellas finished the season in fourth-last, just narrowly avoiding delegating, but were however sent down to Serie B during the summer months as a consequence of a scandal involving team president Saverio Garonzi. After a year in Serie B, Hellas returned to Serie A. In the 1975–76 season, the team had a successful operate in the Coppa Italia, eliminating highly rated teams such as Torino, Cagliari and Internazionale from the tournament. however, in their first ever final examination in the contest, Hellas were trounced 4–0 by Napoli. Under the leadership of passenger car Osvaldo Bagnoli, in 1982–83 the team secured a fourth-place in Serie A ( its highest eat up at the time ) and even led the Serie A standings for a few weeks. The same season Hellas again reached the Coppa Italia concluding. After a 2–0 home victory, Hellas then travelled to Turin to play Juventus but were defeated 3–0 after extra time. farther disappointment followed in the 1983–84 season when the team again reached the Coppa Italia final examination, only to lose the Cup in the final minutes of the render match against defending Serie A champions Roma The team made its first european appearance in the 1983-84 UEFA Cup and were knocked out in the second round of the tournament by Sturm Graz. Hellas were eliminated from the 1985–86 european Cup in the moment polish by defending champions and chap Serie A side Juventus after a contested crippled, the consequence of a disgraceful arbitrage by the french Wurtz, having beaten PAOK of Greece in the first round. [ 3 ] In 1988, the team had their best external result when they reached the UEFA Cup quarterfinals with four victories and three draws. The decisive get the better of came from german side Werder Bremen .

1984–1985 Scudetto [edit ]

Although the 1984–85 season team was made up of a mix of emerging players and mature stars, at the beginning of the season no one would have regarded the team as having the necessary ingredients to make it to the end. surely, the additions of Hans-Peter Briegel in midfield and of danish hitter Preben Elkjær to an attack that already featured the annex play of Pietro Fanna, the creative abilities of Antonio Di Gennaro and the scoring touch of Giuseppe Galderisi were to prove crucial. To mention a few of the memorable milestones on the road to the scudetto : a decisive acquire against Juventus ( 2–0 ), with a goal scored by Elkjær after having lost a boot in a tackle barely outside the box, set the stage early in the championship ; an away winnings over Udinese ( 5–3 ) ended any speculation that the team was losing energy at the midway indicate ; three directly wins ( including a hard-fought 1–0 victory against a strong Roma side ) served notice that the team had kept its polish and focus integral during their equal ‘s final examination tide ; and a 1–1 draw in Bergamo against Atalanta secured the title with a plot in hand. Hellas finished the year with a 15–13–2 record and 43 points, four points ahead of Torino with Internazionale and Sampdoria rounding out the acme four spots. This strange concluding table of the Serie A ( with the most successful italian teams of the fourth dimension, Juventus and Roma, ending up much lower than expected ) has led to many speculations. The 1984–85 season was the only season when referees were assigned to matches by way of a random draw. Before then each referee had constantly been assigned to a specific match by a limited deputation of referees ( designatori arbitrali ). After the betting scandal of the early on 1980 ( the Calcio Scommesse scandal ), it was decided to clean up the image of italian football by assigning referees randomly rather of picking them, to clear up all the suspicions and accusations constantly accompanying Italy ‘s football life. This resulted in a hushed championship and in a completely unexpected final table. In the following temper, won again by Juventus, the choice of the referees went spinal column in the hands of the designatori arbitrali. In 2006, a major scandal in italian football revealed that sealed clubs had been illegally influencing the referee selection process in an attempt to ensure that sealed referees were assigned to their matches .

Between Serie A and Serie B [edit ]

These were more than mere minor achievements for a mid-size city with a restrict invoke to fans across the nation. But soon adequate fiscal difficulties caught up with team managers. In 1991 the team folded and was reborn as Verona, regularly moving to and fro between Serie A and Serie B for several seasons. In 1995 the diagnose was officially changed rear to Hellas Verona. After a three-year arrest, their last scrimp in Serie A ended in grief in 2002. That season emerging external talents such as hadrian Mutu, Mauro Camoranesi, Alberto Gilardino, Martin Laursen, Massimo Oddo, Marco Cassetti and coach Alberto Malesani failed to capitalise on an excellent start and finally dropped into fourth-to-last place for the first time all temper on the final examination couple day, enforcing relegation into Serie B .

worsen and Serie A rejoinder ( 2002–present ) [edit ]

Following the 2002 relegation to Serie B, team fortunes continued to slip throughout the ten. In the 2003–04 season Hellas Verona struggled in Serie B and spent most of the season fighting off an unthinkable relegation to Serie C1. Undeterred, the fans supported their team and a string of recently season wins finally warded off the risk. Over 5,000 of them followed Hellas to Como on the final day of the season to celebrate. In 2004–05, things looked much bright for the team. After a rocky start, Hellas put together a string of results and climbed to third smudge. The gialloblù harbor on to the position until January 2005, when transfers weakened the team, so far they managed to take the battle for Serie A to the last day of the season. The 2006–07 Serie B seemed to start well, due to the club takeover by Pietro Arvedi D’Emilei, which ended nine years of controversial leadership under chair Gianbattista Pastorello, heavily contested by the supporters in his former years at Verona. however, Verona was immediately involved in the delegating battle, and Massimo Ficcadenti was replaced in December 2006 by Giampiero Ventura. Despite a recovery in the results, Verona ended in an eighteenth invest, thus being forced to play a two-legged playoff against 19th-placed Spezia to avert relegation. A 2–1 away loss in the first leg at La Spezia was followed by a 0–0 home tie, and Verona were relegated to Serie C1 after 64 years of play in the two highest divisions. Verona appointed know coach Franco Colomba for the newly temper with the draw a bead on to return to Serie B a soon as possible. however, despite being widely considered the division darling, the gialloblù spent about the entire temper in last place. After seven matches, cabaret management sacked Colomba in early on October and replaced him with young team passenger car ( and early Verona player ) Davide Pellegrini. [ 4 ] A new owner acquired the club in late 2007, appointing Giovanni Galli in December as new film director of football and Maurizio Sarri as newfangled head coach. Halfway through the 2007–08 temper, the team remained at the penetrate of Serie C1, on the verge of relegation to the one-fourth floor ( Serie C2 ). In reaction, club management sacked Sarri and brought back Pellegrini. Thanks to a late-season surge the scaligeri avoided lineal relegation by qualifying for the relegation play-off, and narrowly averted dropping to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione in the final game, beating Pro Patria 2–1 on aggregate. however, despite the decline in results, attendance and season slate sales remained at 15,000 on average. For the 2008–09 season, Verona appointed erstwhile Sassuolo and Piacenza director Gian Marco Remondina with the purpose to win promotion to Serie B. however, the season did not start impressively, with Verona being out of the playoff zone by mid-season, and club chair Pietro Arvedi D’Emilei entering into a coma after being involved in a car crash on his way back from a league equal in December 2008. Arvedi died in March 2009, two months after the baseball club was bought by fresh chair Giovanni Martinelli. The follow season looked promise, as new transportation players were brought aboard, and fans sky-high embraced the newly campaign. Season tag figures climbed to over 10,000, placing Verona ahead of respective Serie A teams and all but Torino in Serie B attendance. [ 5 ] The team led the standings for much of the season, accumulating a seven-point leash by early in the spring. however, the advantage was gradually squandered, and the team dropped to second topographic point on the second-last day of the season, with a prospect to regain first gear put in the final regular season match against Portogruaro on home dirt. Verona, however, disappointed a crowd of over 25,000 fans [ 6 ] and, with the loss, dropped to third base place and headed towards the play-offs. A managerial switch for the post-season saw the fire of Remondina and the arrival of Giovanni Vavassori. After eliminating Rimini in the semi-finals ( 1–0 ; 0–0 ) verona lost the concluding to Pescara ( 2–2 on home dirt and 0–1 in the return key match ) and were condemned to a fourth-straight year of third division football. erstwhile 1990 World Cup headliner Giuseppe Giannini ( a celebrated captain of Roma for many years ) signed as director for the 2010–11 campaign. once again, the team was about entirely revamped during the transmit season. The team struggled in the early months and Giannini was finally sacked and replaced by former Internazionale defender Andrea Mandorlini, who succeeded in reorganising the team ‘s free rein and bring discipline both on and off the flip. In the second base half of the season, Verona climbed spinal column from the bottom of the division to clinch a play-off moor ( fifth seat ) on the last day of the regular season. The team advanced to the play-off final after eliminating Sorrento in the semi-finals 3–1 on aggregate. Following the play-off final, after four years of Lega Pro football, Verona were promoted back to Serie B after a 2–1 aggregate acquire over Salernitana on 19 June 2011.

On 18 May 2013, Verona finished second in Serie B and were promoted to Serie A after an eleven-year absence. [ 7 ] Their render to the acme flight began against title contenders Milan and Roma, beating the early 2–1 and losing to the latter 3–0. The team continued at a steady footstep, finishing the first half of the season with 32 points and sitting in one-sixth set, eleven points behind the closest UEFA Champions League spot—and tied with Internazionale for the final UEFA Europa League spot. Verona, however, ultimately finished the year in tenth. During the 2015–16 season, Verona had not won a single match since the beginning of the campaign until the club edged Atalanta 2–1 on 3 February 2016 in a win at home ; coming twenty-three games into the season. [ 8 ] Consequently, Verona were relegated from Serie A. [ 9 ] In the 2016–17 Serie B season, Hellas Verona finished moment on the table and were automatically promoted back to Serie A. Hellas lasted one season binding in the top division after finishing second last during the 2017–18 Serie A season and were relegated back to Serie B. [ 10 ] At the conclusion of the 2018–19 temper, Hellas finished in one-fifth position and achieved promotion back to Serie A after defeating Cittadella 3–0 in the second leg of their promotion play-off to win 3–2 on aggregate. [ 11 ] The club ‘s recurrence to the top flight in the 2019–20 Serie A season, in which it was considered a strong delegating campaigner 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 rival for Europa League qualification but fell out of the slipstream after a downturn in shape after the coronavirus collapse which temporarily halted the season. [ 12 ] A 2-1 winnings at home against eventual style winners Juventus in February was a highlight of a temper in which the clubhouse achieved 10 clean sheets and punched towards the higher end of the mesa despite its minor budget. [ 13 ] Ahead of Verona ’ s moment consecutive year in Serie A, samara players Amrabat, Rrahmani and Kumbulla were poached by Fiorentina, Napoli and Roma respectively, and loanee Matteo Pessina returned to Atalanta. This left the club with a heavily weakened police squad and it was once again expected to struggle in the league anterior to the season-opening peer. [ 14 ] Despite these losses in the transportation window, Verona again finished in the top one-half of the league mesa, ending the season in tenth station with 45 points. successful break seasons for attacking midfielder Mattia Zaccagni, who was finally called up to the italian national team as a wages for his performances, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as wing-backs Federico Dimarco and Davide Faraoni, were partially the rationality for this accomplishment. [ 15 ] At the end of the season, coach Ivan Jurić was appointed by Torino following his two impressive Serie A seasons with Verona, with the Gialloblu replacing him with Eusebio Di Francesco. [ 16 ] Following another summer transfer window in which several of the club ‘s headliner players were sold to Serie A rivals, namely Zaccagni transferring to Lazio, Marco Silvestri to Udinese and Dimarco returning to Inter, the beginning of the 2021-22 season proved to be much more unmanageable for Verona, as Di Francesco was fired and replaced with Igor Tudor after good three matches, all of which were defeats. This inadequate early-season form had left the baseball club at the bottom of the mesa. Under the steering of Tudor, the team regains competitiveness obtaining in the next eight matches three wins – including victories with Lazio and Juventus -four draw and alone one defeat. [ 17 ]

Colours and badge [edit ]

The team ‘s colours are jaundiced and blue. As a result the clubs most widely used nickname is gialloblu literally “ yellow-blue ” in italian. The colors represent the city itself and Verona ‘s emblem ( a yellow thwart on a blasphemous shield ) appears on most team dress. Home kits are traditionally blue, sometimes of a navy shade, combined with yellow details and snip, although the club has used a aristocratic and yellow striped design on juncture. 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. The Scala family coat of arms is depicted on the team ‘s new jersey and on its hallmark logo as a stylize double of two large, mighty mastiffs facing opposite directions, introduced in 1995. [ 18 ] In kernel, the term “ scaligeri “ is synonymous with Veronese, and consequently can describe anything or anyone from Verona ( for example, Chievo Verona, a different team that besides links itself to the Scala family – specifically to Cangrande I della Scala ) .

stadium [edit ]

Since 1963, the club have played at the Stadio Marc’Antonio Bentegodi, which has a capability of 39,211. [ 19 ] The ground was shared with Hellas ‘s rivals, Chievo Verona until 2021. It was used as a venue for some matches of the 1990 FIFA World Cup .

Derby with Chievo Verona [edit ]

The intercity fixtures against Chievo Verona are known as the “ Derby della Scala “. The name refers to the Scaligeri or della Scala aristocratic family, who were rulers of Verona during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. In the season 2001–02, both Hellas Verona and the city rivals of Chievo Verona were playing in the Serie A. The first always bowler hat of Verona in Serie A took place on 18 November 2001, while both teams were ranked among the top four. The meet was won by Hellas, 3–2. Chievo got retaliation in the render match in give 2002, winning 2–1. Verona therefore became the one-fifth city in Italy, after Milan, Rome, Turin and Genoa to host a crosstown bowler hat in Serie A. [ 20 ]

Honours [edit ]

Serie A
Serie B
Coppa Italia

divisional movements [edit ]

Series
Years
Last
Promotions
Relegations

A
31
2021–22

Decrease 10 (1929, 1958, 1974, 1979, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2016, 2018)

B
53
2018–19
Increase 10 (1957, 1968, 1975, 1982, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2013, 2017, 2019)
Decrease 2 (1941, 2007)

C
6
2010–11
Increase 2 (1943, 2011)
never

90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929

  • 1980–87: Adidas
  • 1987–89: Hummel
  • 1989–91: Adidas
  • 1991–95: Uhlsport
  • 1995–00: Errea
  • 2000–03: Lotto
  • 2003–06: Legea
  • 2006–13: Asics
  • 2013–18: Nike
  • 2018–present: Macron
  • 1982–86: Canon
  • 1989–96: Rana
  • 1996–97: Ferroli
  • 1997–98: ZG Camini Inox
  • 1998–99: Atreyu Immobiliare[25]
  • 1999–00: Salumi Marsilli
  • 2000–01: Net Business
  • 2001–02: Amica Chips
  • 2002–06: Clerman
  • 2006–07: Unika
  • 2007–08: No sponsor
  • 2008–10: Giallo
  • 2010–11: Banca Di Verona/Sicurint Group, Protec/Consorzio Asimov
  • 2011–12: AGSM/Sicurint Group, Protec/Leaderform
  • 2012–13: AGSM, Leaderform
  • 2013–14: Franklin & Marshall/Manila Grace, AGSM/Leaderform
  • 2014–15: Franklin & Marshall, AGSM/Leaderform
  • 2015–2018: Metano Nord, Leaderform
  • 2018–present: AirDolomiti, Gruppo Synergy

current team [edit ]

First team squad [edit ]

As of 17 September 2021 [26]

notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

On loan [edit ]

As of 17 September 2021

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Managers [edit ]

World Cup players [edit ]

The following players have been selected by their area for the FIFA World Cup finals while playing for Hellas Verona .

In Europe [edit ]

european Cup [edit ]

Season

Round

Opposition

Home

Away

Aggregate

1985–86

First round

GreecePAOK

3–1

2–1

5–2

Second round

ItalyJuventus

0–0

0–2

0–2

UEFA Cup [edit ]

References [edit ]

further take [edit ]

Media related to Hellas Verona FC at Wikimedia Commons

  • Official website ( in Italian and English )