Fiorentina Logo — The ACF Fiorentina (in Italian Associazione Calcio Fiorentina Firenze ) is a club football in Italy , the city of Florence , in the region of Tuscany . It was founded in 1926 (refounded in 2002 ) and plays in the Serie A .
When Fiorentina was founded in 1926, players wore red shirts and white emblem in the middle of the city. 2 The most popular shirt is very characteristic purple decolor was adopted in 1928 and has been used ever since, leading the The Viola nickname (“The Violet”). Tradition says that Fiorentina earned his purple shirt by mistake after an accident washing the old red shirts and white on the river.
The shirt has always been predominantly white, sometimes with elements of purple and red, sometimes all white. The pants are purple, when the home team plays with white pants. The third shirt of Fiorentina was the first in 1995-96 and it was all red with purple edges and two lines at the shoulders. The third red jersey has been the most used by Fiorentina, but also wore yellow shirts rare (’97-’98 and ’99-’00) and a color version sterling, mostly in the Italian Cup in 2000-01 .