Competitive Mobility Project

Italy

Fiorentina

2025/26: 15th in Serie A · 2026/27: Serie A

How high can Fiorentina realistically go?

Based on finishing 15th in Serie A in 2025/26

About 5 in 10

Of the 85 times a club finished 13th or lower in Serie A and stayed up between 2004/05 and 2020/21, 41 stayed up for all of the next five seasons.

41 of 85 (48%); likely range 33%–63%, 24 different clubs.

Reached the top six within ten seasonsabout 2 in 10
15 of 60; range 11%–43%
Reached the top four within ten seasonsabout 1 in 7
9 of 60; range 4%–30%

Fiorentina itself: 10 of the last 10 seasons in Serie A.

How do we know?

We took every season since 2004/05 in which a club finished in the same part of the same league, and followed each club forward. The figure is the share that reached each goal. Ten-year goals use finishes from 2004/05 to 2015/16, five-year goals from 2004/05 to 2020/21, so every case has had the full time to play out; results run to the end of 2025/26.

It describes what happened to clubs in this position, not a forecast for one club. A club with much more money or history than is usual for its position has better chances than the figure suggests, which is why the club's own record is shown underneath.

The likely range is a 95% interval worked out by resampling clubs rather than seasons, because the same club often appears several times. It is wide where only a few clubs have been in a position, and two leagues whose ranges overlap may not really differ. Reserve teams such as Barcelona B or Real Madrid Castilla are left out of these counts, because they cannot be promoted into their first team's division.

Counts: stayed up for all of the next five seasons: 41 of 85; reached the top six within ten seasons: 15 of 60; reached the top four within ten seasons: 9 of 60.

The story so far

Fiorentina has played 31 seasons in the divisions covered here since 1994/95: 30 in Serie A and 1 in Serie B. It has been in Serie A since 2004/05 (22 seasons), after 1 season in Serie B. Its best finish was 3rd in Serie A, in 1998/99. Its biggest climb took five seasons: from 6th in Serie B in 2003/04 to 4th in Serie A in 2008/09. It has been promoted twice and relegated once.

Final position each seasonRinged dots are titles
2025/262021/222017/182013/142009/102005/062001/021997/981stSerie ASerie B
How to read this chart

Every club in the divisions covered is placed on one ladder each season: the champions are 1st, and the top club of the second division comes straight after the bottom club of the first. Shaded bands are the divisions. Hover over or tap a dot for the season.

31seasons since 1994/95
30seasons in Serie A
0league titles
7top-four finishes
2promotions
1relegations

Against the money

Not available for Italy: wage bills are not published club by club in one place there, so this is shown for England and France only.

Clubs with a similar path

Clubs whose finishing positions over the last 15 seasons were closest to Fiorentina's, with recent seasons counting more.

In Italy

LazioItaly · 9th in Serie A, 2025/26TorinoItaly · 12th in Serie A, 2025/26RomaItaly · 3rd in Serie A, 2025/26AC MilanItaly · 5th in Serie A, 2025/26

Elsewhere in Europe

Athletic BilbaoSpain · 12th in LaLiga, 2025/26NiceFrance · 16th in Ligue 1, 2025/26Mainz 05Germany · 10th in the Bundesliga, 2025/26

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