Virtus Verona

The club was founded in 1921 as Unione Sportiva Virtus Borgo Venezia.

Virtus Verona, the third football club in Verona behind Chievo and Hellas Verona, is a unique case in Italy of a club whose chairman, Luigi Fresco, had also been the head coach of the first team for over 38 years, since 1982, after the other historic president Sinibaldo Nocini, who was in charge for 20 years. The club is also notable for being the only Italian professional football team to field a reserve team in the regional amateur divisions.

The club was promoted into professionalism for its first time ever at the end of the 2012–13 season, after winning the national playoff tournament in which they were qualified as fourth-placed in the Girone C of Serie D. At the end of the 2017–18 season, the club return into professionalism, in Serie C, the third tier of Italian soccer.

The social colours are red and blue, traditionally arranged in vertical stripes.

The club’s historical badge is an ancile red palate, closed externally by a white crown, suitable to contain the social name (sometimes written in abbreviated form).

In 2014 this badge was replaced by a shield, in which the corporate name is simplified in Associazione Virtus Verona: the first and third words are placed in the palate field, while the second (colored red) is placed in a curved white band placed in a shield.

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  The bage from 2014 to 2022.

As of 18 October 2023.[3]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ITA Alberto Zecchin 3 DF  ITA Francesco Mazzolo 5 MF  ITA Dino Mehic 6 DF  ITA Manuel Daffara 7 FW  ITA Andrea Nalini 8 MF  ITA Gianmarco Begheldo 9 FW  ITA Matteo Casarotto 10 FW  ITA Domenico Danti 11 DF  ITA Gianni Manfrin 12 GK  ITA Michele Voltan 13 DF  ITA Marco Ruggero 15 DF  ITA Michael Ntube 17 FW  ITA Gianmarco Zigoni

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  COL Damir Ceter 21 FW  ARG Juanito 22 GK  GAM Sheikh Sibi 23 MF  ITA Francesco Toffanin 24 MF  ITA Antonio Metlika 27 DF  ITA Carlo Faedo 30 MF  ITA Leonardo Zarpellon 34 DF  ITA Edoardo Olivieri 35 DF  ITA Eddy Cabianca 39 MF  ITA Filippo Vesentini 42 DF  ITA Riccardo Lodovici 70 MF  SVN Elian Demirović 90 FW  ITA Alessio Menato

Virtus Verona supporters are known for their hardline anti-fascist and left-wing leanings. The group Virtus Fans created in 2006, was split up in 2015, from which 2 new groups emerged: Virtus Verona Rude Firm 1921 and the Lost Boys. The Virtus Verona Rude Firm 1921 have friendships with antifa supporters groups all over the world: Livorno Calcio, Cosenza Calcio, Wrexham, Olympique Marseille, FC St. Pauli, RSV Goettingen 05.[4][5]

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