Virtus Verona

Virtus Verona, founded as Unione Sportiva Virtus Borgo Venezia in 1921, sometimes referred to as Virtus Vecomp Verona for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian association football club located in Borgo Venezia, a district of Verona, Veneto. It currently plays in Serie C.

Virtus Verona

Full name	Associazione Virtusvecomp Verona
Nickname(s)	Virtussini Rossoblù (The Red-Blues) I Borgo-Veneziani (The Borgo-Venetians) I Ribelli Veronesi (The Veronan Rebels)
Founded	1921; 104 years ago (1921)
Ground	Stadio Gavagnin Nocini,[1][2] Verona, Italy
Capacity	1,200
Chairman	Luigi Fresco
Manager	Luigi Fresco
League	Serie C Group A
2024–25	Serie C Group A, 9th of 20
Website	http://www.virtusverona.it/
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

History

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.

Colours and badge

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.

Current squad

As of 16 August 2025^[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.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ITA Enrico Alfonso 4 DF  ITA Riccardo Lodovici 6 DF  ITA Manuel Daffara 7 MF  ITA Marco Amadio 10 MF  ITA Leonardo Zarpellon 11 DF  ITA Gianni Manfrin 12 GK  ITA Gabriele Fortin 14 FW  ITA Michael De Marchi 16 MF  ITA Matteo Bassi 17 FW  NGA Smith Oghosa Oni 18 FW  ITA Paul Ojeh 22 GK  GAM Sheikh Sibi 23 MF  ITA Francesco Toffanin 25 MF  ITA Nicolò Filippi 30 MF  ITA Christian Gatti

No. Pos. Nation Player 44 FW  ITA Mattia Pagliuca 47 FW  ITA Edoardo Cuel 74 FW  ITA Samuele Lerco 75 DF  ITA Tommaso Cielo 85 DF  ITA Nicolas Fiori 90 MF  ITA Christian Odogwu 96 FW  ITA Michael Fabbro 97 MF  ITA Emanuele Souza Dos Santos — MF  ITA Giammaria Fiorin — MF  MAR Hachim Mastour — MF  ALB Endri Muhameti (on loan from Atalanta) — MF  ITA Nicola Patanè (on loan from Hellas Verona) — FW  ITA Federico Fanini — FW  ITA Tommaso Mancini (on loan from Juventus)

Supporters

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]}