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 41 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 football.

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 (coloured red) is placed in a curved white band placed in a shield.

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  The bage from 2014 to 2022.

As of 6 February 2026^[3]

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

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No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ITA Riccardo Peroni 2 GK  ITA Enrico Alfonso 3 DF  ITA Tommaso Cielo 5 FW  ITA Federico Fanini 6 DF  ITA Manuel Daffara 7 MF  ITA Marco Amadio 8 FW  ITA Federico Caia (on loan from Hellas Verona) 9 FW  ITA Michael De Marchi 10 MF  ITA Leonardo Zarpellon 11 MF  MAR Hachim Mastour 12 GK  ITA Nicholas Scardigno (on loan from Sampdoria) 14 MF  ITA Mattia Di Virgilio 18 FW  ITA Iacopo Cernigoi 20 MF  ITA Giammaria Fiorin 21 MF  ITA Marco Ballarini 22 GK  GAM Sheikh Sibi 23 MF  ITA Francesco Toffanin

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 MF  ITA Nicolò Filippi 27 DF  ITA Riccardo Passigato Rigotti 28 MF  ITA Nicola Patanè (on loan from Hellas Verona) 29 DF  ITA Filippo Saiani (on loan from Virtus Entella) 30 MF  ITA Christian Gatti 38 DF  ITA Gianmarco Ingrosso 39 FW  ITA Tommaso Mancini (on loan from Juventus) 44 FW  ITA Mattia Pagliuca 47 FW  ITA Edoardo Cuel 70 MF  ITA Andrea Devoti 74 FW  ITA Samuele Lerco 75 MF  ITA Matteo Bassi 84 MF  SUI Fabio Iaquinta 95 DF  ITA Luca Munaretti 97 FW  ITA Paul Ojeh 99 FW  ITA Michael Fabbro

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Out on loan

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

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No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ITA Riccardo Lodovici (at Ternana until 30 June 2026) — MF  ITA Christian Odogwu (at Vigasio until 30 June 2026)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ITA Giacomo Viviani (at Poggibonsi until 30 June 2026)

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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 Göttingen 05.^{[4][5][better source needed]}