Best XI of all time Fiorentina

Toldo is the best goalkeeper ever played for Fiorentina. The player was the central figure who helped Italy to be the European Cup runner-up in 2000. During his eight-year career at La Viola, Toldo played 266 times. He also won the title as the best goalkeeper in Serie A in the year 2000.

Francesco Toldo

Sergio Cervato played for Fiorentina for 11 years. This tough wingback was a central figure who played important role in helping La Viola win the Scudetto in the 1955-56 season. Cervato capped 316 times and scored 31 goals.

Carlos Dunga is a former defensive midfielder who captained Brazil in the 1998 World Cup. This player was a part of Fiorentina squad in the period of 1988 to 1992. In Fiorentina, Dunga played a total of 147 matches and scored 8 goals.

Torricelli was usually positioned as a wing-back or a central defender. The player become one of the main pillars of Fiorentina during 1998 to 2002. The only title which he managed to achieve with La Viola is the Coppa Italia in 2001.

Playing for La Viola for 123 times and scored two goals in the period of 2004-2008, Ujfalusi's existence in Fiorentina's defensive line helped this team achieved considerably good position in the league.

Sergio Cervato

Dunga

Moreno Torricelli

Tomas Ujfalusi

Rui Costa is a retired Portuguese midfielder who played alongside Gabriel Batistuta and Francesco Toldo in the period of the mid to late 1990s. Rui Costa is a world-class playmaker who trusted to take penalty kicks in most of Fiorentina's matches. If Batistuta was the main goal-scorer for Fiorentina, then Rui Costa was its greatest playmaker.

Montolivo is a versatile midfielder who was raised by Fiorentina. He played for La Viola for seven years, from 2005 to 2012. Having transferred from Atalanta, Montolivo gradually started to show his capacity as one of the leading players in Fiorentina. He was even trusted to be the team captain during the period 2009 to 2012.

Kurt Hamrin is a retired Swedish striker who was a part of La Viola from 1958 to 1967. With his 150 goals he scored, Kurt Hamrin became the second top scorer in the history of Fiorentina. At this club, Kurt Hamrin won two Coppa Italia titles and one Winners Cup before he was eventually transferred to AC Milan.

Manuel Rui Costa

Riccardo Montolivo

Kurt Hamrin

Speaking about loyalty, Antognoni is probably the number one in the history of Fiorentina. He played for 15 years for this club, in a total of 341 games and contributed 61 goals. Antognoni was also an important part of the Italian national team that won the World Cup 1982 . It is unfortunate that during his 15 years playing with Fiorentina, Antognoni only won a single trophy, a Coppa Italia in 1975.

There is no other Fiorentina player who can be as great as Gabriel Batistuta. The player who familiarly called by his nickname "Batigol" is La Viola's top scorer of all time, with a record of 168 goals. Batistuta decided to stay with Fiorentina after the club was relegated to Serie B in the 1992-1993 season. After a successful return to Serie A, Batistuta directly performed brilliantly by scoring 26 goals, making him the top scorer of Serie A of that season. During nine years playing for La Viola, Batistuta won one Coppa Italia and one Supercoppa Italia. He finally moved to AS Roma in 2000-2001 season and managed to win his first scudetto.

In 2008 Gilardino moved from AC Milan to Fiorentina for €15 million. He was one of the best italian strikers in his time and scored 59 goals in 3 years in Fiorentina. He became the youngest player to score 100 goals in Serie A. He also helped his team to pass AC Milan and enter Champions League scoring 10 goals in only 19 matches.

Giancarlo Antognoni

Gabriel Batistuta

Alberto Gilardino

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