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Origin and early history

It was founded in 1903 by high school students. The name of the club was commissioned by a professor of Western classical studies and named it Ellas (Greek in Greek). At that time, soccer was a sport that was mainly played in the metropolitan cities of northern Italy, so most of Verona were indifferent to soccer. In 1906, the city's two football teams chose the Roman Amphitheater as their venue, which aroused a passionate audience and media interest.

In the first few years, Ellas was one of the three or four teams that played mainly at the city level, while the city's rival Bentegodi became the city's first football team. Around the 1907-1908 season, Ellas played against the main teams, from which time a fierce rivalry with Vicenza Calcio developed.

From 1908 to 1926 Italian football was organized into main groups. During this time, Ellas was one of the earliest founding teams in the league and often made it to the finals. In 1911, the city of Verona helped the club turn a soccer field out of the sand into a real stadium. Ellas participated in the state tournament for the first time, reaching a place in the national leagues by 1926.

In 1919, due to World War I, all football leagues in Italy were postponed four years later, then resumed activity, merged with the city's rival team Verona and renamed Ellas Verona.

Between 1926 and 1929, "Campionato Nazionale" was recognized as the top league in many state leagues, and Ellas Verona also participated in that league.

Serie A began in 1929 when Campionato Nazionale was converted to the professional league. Elas, who was still an amateur team, merged with rival teams from the same city, Bentegodi and Scaligera, to form AC Verona. The newly created team participated in Serie B in 1929 and was promoted to Serie A 28 years later. After being promoted, it merged with other rival teams in the city of Verona in 1959 and renamed Ellas Verona AC.

Success in the 70s and 80s

Under coach Niels Rietholm, Ellas Verona returned to Serie A in 1968 and remained in the first division for most of the time until 1990. During that period, during the 1972-1973 season, he also won a 5-3 victory over the season's champion, AC Milan.

In the 1973-1974 season, the team avoided relegation at the end of the season for the fourth time from the end of the finals, but the team's president, Saverio Garonzi, was relegated to Serie B in the summer due to a manipulation scandal involving him. A year later, Ellas Verona returned to Serie A.

In the 1975-1976 season, the team performed well at Copa Italia, beating Turin, Cagliari, and Inter. They met Napoli in their first final, losing 4-0.

Under coach Osvaldo Banyoli, he finished the league in fourth place (the team's best in the league at that time) in the 1982-83 season, and was also number one for several weeks. In the same season, he advanced to the Copa Italia final and won 2-0 in the home game of the first leg against Juventus, but lost 3-0 at the end of the interjection time in the away game in the second leg.

The next season the team once again climbed to the Copa Italia final, but with the last few minutes left, they lost to Serie A winner AS Roma at that time.

Scudetto for the 1984-1985 season

Even though the squad consisted of new players and old stars in the 1984-85 season, at the beginning of the season no one thought they would do anything. At that time, the squad included Hans Peter Brigel, Danish striker Preben Elkier Larsen, winger Pietro Panna, Antonio Di Gennaro, and Giuseppe Galderici.

There were several important steps to remember on the way to Scuteto. A decisive 2-0 victory against Juventus and a 5-3 victory in the Udinese away game, but lost points due to stamina problems in the middle. However, he immediately won three straight victories (including a 1-0 victory over AS Roma) and secured the league title by winning a 1-1 draw against Atalanta in Bergamo.

Ellas Verona finished the season with 15 wins–13 draws–2 losses, 45 points, and four points ahead of Inter, Turin and Sampdoria, the top four teams in the league.

A lot of consideration took place through the results of this season's league rankings (which were much lower than expected by Juventus and Rome, who were the strongest teams in the league at the time). During the 1984-85 season, the referees who were assigned to the match were randomly selected. Prior to that, each referee was assigned to a specific match through a designatori arbitrali. The gambling scandal that took place in the early 1980s (totonero after 1980 was decided by randomly selecting and assigning referees rather than picking and assigning referees in order to renew the image of Italian football that is accompanied by illegal activities in Italian football after 1980). Other consequences were followed: the referees' choice turned back to the way through designatori arbitrali, once again Juventus won the league, and in 2006 a soccer scandal was revealed in which certain clubs committed illegal activities in the referee decision process.

Color and emblem

The team's colors, yellow and blue, and gialloblu ("yellow-blue" in Italian) are widely used as nicknames. The color represents the city and Verona's emblem (yellow cross on a blue shield) is mostly seen on uniforms. The other two nicknames, Mastini (mastiff) and Scaligeri are related to Masino Della Scala I, who ruled Verona in the 13th and 14th centuries.

The Scally Jerry crest is designed with large, powerful mastiffs on their backs, and appears on the uniform and main emblem. Essentially, the term "scaligeri" is so close to the Veronas that other Verona teams (e.g., another team, Chievo Verona, also associates themselves with the Scalligeri family-to-be precise, cangrande Della Scala) are also used.