Editing ACF Fiorentina (section)

==Colours and badge==

===Badge===
[[File:Fleur de lis of Florence.svg|thumb|100px|The badge used by Florentia Viola, consisting solely of the [[fleur-de-lis]] of Florence]]
[[File:ACF Fiorentina.svg|thumb|100px|Former crest of Fiorentina, used until 2022]]
The official emblem of the city of [[Florence]], a red [[fleur-de-lis]] on a white field, has been the staple in the all-round symbolism of the club.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Fiorentina Logo History |url=https://www.footballkitarchive.com/fiorentina-logo-history/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Football Kit Archive |language=en-US |archive-date=4 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404191302/https://www.footballkitarchive.com/fiorentina-logo-history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Over the course of the club's history, they have had several badge changes, all of which incorporated Florence's fleur-de-lis in some way.<ref name="logo">{{cite news|url=http://www.weltfussballarchiv.com/Vereinsprofilnew.php?ID=3001|publisher=Weltfussballarchiv.com|title=ACF Fiorentina|date=24 June 2007|access-date=10 January 2009|archive-date=19 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219085248/http://weltfussballarchiv.com/Vereinsprofilnew.php?ID=3001|url-status=dead}}</ref> The first one was nothing more than the city's coat of arms, a white shield with the red fleur-de-lis inside.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=fsc |date=2008-07-13 |title=Fiorentina 08/09 Lotto Home, Away, 3rd shirts - Football Shirt Culture - Latest Football Kit News and More |url=https://www.footballshirtculture.com/0809-kits/fiorentina-08-09-lotto-home-away-3rd-shirts.html |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=www.footballshirtculture.com |language=en-gb |archive-date=4 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404183741/https://www.footballshirtculture.com/0809-kits/fiorentina-08-09-lotto-home-away-3rd-shirts.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> It was soon changed to a very stylised fleur-de-lis, always red, and sometimes even without the white field.<ref name=":0" /> The most common symbol, adopted for about 20 years, had been a white [[Lozenge (heraldry)|lozenge]] with the flower inside.<ref name=":0" /> During the season they were Italian champions, the lozenge disappeared and the flower was overlapped with the ''[[scudetto]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fiorentina 1969-70 Kits |url=https://www.footballkitarchive.com/fiorentina-1969-70-kits/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Football Kit Archive |language=en-US |archive-date=4 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404191322/https://www.footballkitarchive.com/fiorentina-1969-70-kits/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The logo introduced by owner Flavio Pontello in 1980 was particularly distinct, consisting of one-half of the city of Florence's emblem and one-half of the letter "F", for Fiorentina. People disliked it when it was introduced, believing it was a commercial decision and, above all, because the symbol bore more of a resemblance to a [[halberd]] than a fleur-de-lis.<ref name="logo"/>

Until the 2022–23 season, when the club unveiled a new, stylistically simplified badge, the logo was a kite shaped double lozenge bordered in gold. The outer lozenge had a purple background with the letters "AC" in white and the letter "F" in red, standing for the club's name. The inner lozenge was white with a gold border and the red Giglio of Florence.<ref name="logo"/> This logo had been in use from 1992 to 2002, but after the financial crisis and resurrection of the club the new one couldn't use the same logo.<ref name=":1" /> Florence's ''[[comune]]'' instead granted Florentia Viola use of the stylised coat of arms used in other city documents.<ref name=":1" /> Diego Della Valle acquired the current logo the following year in a judicial auction for a fee of €2.5&nbsp;million, making it the most expensive logo in Italian football.<ref name=":1" />

===Kit and colours===
[[File:Omar Batistuta.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Gabriel Batistuta]] holding his old Fiorentina jersey at a 2014 ceremony inducting him into the club's Hall of Fame]]
When Fiorentina was founded in 1926, the players wore red and white halved shirts derived from the colour of the city emblem.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.comuni-italiani.it/048/017/stemma.html|publisher=Comuni-Italiani|title=Stemma Comune di Firenze|date=24 June 2007|access-date=27 November 2007|archive-date=3 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203012032/http://www.comuni-italiani.it/048/017/stemma.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The more well-known and highly distinctive purple kit was adopted in 1928 and has been used ever since, giving rise to the nickname ''La Viola'' ("The Purple (team)").<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=fsc |date=2009-07-31 |title=Fiorentina 09/10 Lotto Kits - Football Shirt Culture - Latest Football Kit News and More |url=https://www.footballshirtculture.com/0910-kits/fiorentina-2009-2010-lotto-kits.html |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=www.footballshirtculture.com |language=en-gb}}</ref> Tradition has it that Fiorentina got their purple kit by mistake after an accident washing the old red and white coloured kits in the river.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Florence |first=I. S. I. |date=2022-10-27 |title=Purple Pride: Connecting Florence and the U.S. |url=https://isiflorence.org/purple-pride-connecting-florence-and-the-u-s/ |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=ISI Florence - Study Abroad in Italy - Florence |language=en-US}}</ref>

The away kit has always been predominantly white, sometimes with purple and red elements, sometimes all-white.<ref name=":0" /> The shorts had been purple when the home kit was with white shorts.<ref name=":2" /> In the 1995–96 season, it was all-red with purple borders and two [[lily|lilies]] on the shoulders.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fiorentina 1995-96 Kits |url=https://www.footballkitarchive.com/fiorentina-1995-96-kits/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Football Kit Archive |language=en-US |archive-date=4 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404191312/https://www.footballkitarchive.com/fiorentina-1995-96-kits/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The red shirt has been the most worn 3rd shirt by Fiorentina, although they also wore rare yellow shirts ('97–'98, '99–'00 and '10–'11) and a sterling version, mostly in the [[Coppa Italia]], in 2000–01.<ref name=":0" />

For the 2017–18 season and the first time in its history, the club used five kits during the season, composing of one home kit (all-purple) and four away kits, each one representing one historic [[quartiere]] of the city of [[Florence]]: all-blue (Santa Croce), all-white (Santo Spirito), all-green (San Giovanni) and all-red (Santa Maria Novella).<ref>{{cite news|title=First Club With 5 Player Kits – ACF Fiorentina 17–18 Home + 4 Away Kits Released|url=http://www.footyheadlines.com/2017/07/first-club-with-5-player-kits-acf-fiorentina-17-18-home-and-4-away-kits.html|access-date=8 July 2017|publisher=Footy Headlines|date=5 July 2017|archive-date=8 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708080143/http://www.footyheadlines.com/2017/07/first-club-with-5-player-kits-acf-fiorentina-17-18-home-and-4-away-kits.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Anthem===
"Canzone Viola" (Purple Song) is the title of the Fiorentina's song, nowadays better known as "Oh Fiorentina".<ref name="lyricstranslate.com">{{cite web |url=https://lyricstranslate.com/en/acf-fiorentina-anthem-purple-song-actual-title-canzone-viola.html |title=ACF Fiorentina Anthem (English translation) |work=lyricstranslate.com |access-date=28 July 2021 |archive-date=1 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801133114/https://lyricstranslate.com/en/acf-fiorentina-anthem-purple-song-actual-title-canzone-viola.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It is the oldest official football anthem in Italy and one of the oldest in the world.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2024-10-01 |title=105 anni fa nasceva Enzo Marcacci, l'autore del testo dell'inno viola |url=https://www.violanews.com/esclusive/esattamente-un-secolo-fa-nasceva-enzo-marcacci-lautore-del-testo-dellinno-della-fiorentina/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Viola News |language=it-IT}}</ref> Dated 1930 and born only four years after the creation of the club, the song was written by a 12-year-old child, Enzo Marcacci, and musically arranged by maestro Marco Vinicio.<ref name=":3" /> It was published for the first time by the publisher Marcello Manni, who later became the owner of the rights.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} It soon achieved notoriety thanks to the printed media and the Ordine del Marzocco, a sort of original viola-club, which printed the lyrics of the song and distributed it to a home match on November 22, 1931.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fiorentinamuseo.it/inno.html |title=L'Inno |access-date=23 January 2021 |archive-date=5 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505051315/http://www.fiorentinamuseo.it/inno.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The song was recorded by [[Narciso Parigi]] in 1959 and again in 1965; the latter version replaced the original edition as the Fiorentina anthem.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} Subsequently, Narciso Parigi himself acquired the ownership of the rights, which he donated in 2002 to the supporter club Collettivo Autonomo Viola.<ref name="lyricstranslate.com"/>