Editing ACF Fiorentina (section)

===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>