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2017–18 ACF Fiorentina Season
The 2017–18 season was the 91st season in ACF Fiorentina's history and their 80th in the Serie A, top-flight of Italian football. Fiorentina competed in 2017–18 Serie A, Serie A and the 2017–18 Coppa Italia, Coppa Italia, missing out on European football for the first time since the 2012–13 ACF Fiorentina season, 2012–13 season following an eighth-place finish in the 2016–17 ACF Fiorentina season, 2016–17 season. ACF Fiorentina are the first club in the history of Association football, football to wear 5 player kits. On 6 June 2017, coach Paulo Sousa was replaced after two seasons at the helm by former Fiorentina player and Inter coach Stefano Pioli, who signed a contract tying him to the Florence club for two seasons with the option of a third. On 4 March 2018, club captain Davide Astori died in his sleep while staying in a hotel in Udine prior to Fiorentina's match against Udinese Calcio, Udinese, proven to be caused by cardiac arrest determined from an autopsy con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ACF Fiorentina
ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional football club based in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while the actual club was refounded in August 2002 following bankruptcy. Fiorentina have played at the top level of Italian football for the majority of their existence; only four clubs have played in more Serie A seasons. Fiorentina has won two Italian Championships, in 1955–56 and again in 1968–69, as well as six Coppa Italia trophies and one Supercoppa Italiana. On the European stage, Fiorentina won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1960–61 and lost the final one year later. They finished runners-up in the 1956–57 European Cup, losing against Real Madrid, and also came close to winning the 1989–90 UEFA Cup, finishing as runners-up against Juventus after losing the first leg in Turin and drawing in the second one in Avellino. Fiorentina is one of the fifteen European teams t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
