Hellas Verona FC
| Full name | Hellas Verona Football Club S.p.A. | |||
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| Nicknames | I Gialloblù (The Yellow and Blues) I Mastini (The Mastiffs) Gli Scaligeri (The Scaligers) I Butei ("The Boys") | |||
| Founded | 1903, as Associazione Calcio Hellas 1991, as Verona Football Club | |||
| Ground | Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi | |||
| Capacity | 39,211 | |||
| Owner | Presidio Investors | |||
| President | Italo Zanzi | |||
| Head coach | Paolo Sammarco (interim) | |||
| League | Serie A | |||
| 2024–25 | Serie A, 14th of 20 | |||
| Website | hellasverona.it | |||
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Hellas Verona Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Hellas Verona (Italian: [ˈɛllaz veˈroːna]), is an Italian professional football club based in Verona, Veneto, that currently plays in Serie A. The team won the Serie A championship in the 1984–85 season.
The club has been associated with politically far-right ultras since at least the 1970s, and has repeatedly had racist incidents occur in the stands over the decades, including an incident in 1996 in which an effigy representing Dutch player Maickel Ferrier was hung from the stadium railing with a banner reading "Negro, get out of here" by fans wearing Ku Klux Klan attire. The club was repeated fined in the 2010s and 2020s for fans in the stands racially abusing players on the pitch.
In January 2025, it was announced that the club had been acquired by American private equity Presidio Investors.