The Derby della Scala, also known as Derby dell'Arena or the Verona Derby in English and Derby di Verona in Italian, is the name given to any association football match contested between ChievoVerona and Hellas Verona. Its venue is at the Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi. The name refers to the Scaligeri or della Scala aristocratic family, who were rulers of Verona during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
The city of Verona became so the 5th city in Italy, after Milan, Rome, Turin and Genoa to host a derby in Serie A. All five derbies were contested in the 2013–14 season and have been repeated in three later campaigns to date (2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18).
History Hellas, founded in 1903, were traditionally the main club in Verona. Chievo, founded in 1929, historically represented the small Verona suburb of the same name, using a small parish field as their home ground, and did not become a professional side until 1986. At that time, Chievo became tenants of Hellas at the Bentegodi, and began rising up the league ladder. By the mid-1990s, Chievo had joined Hellas in Serie B, creating the derby. During the teams' early Serie B meetings, Hellas supporters taunted Chievo with the chant Quando i mussi volara, il Ceo in Serie A – "Donkeys will fly before Chievo are in Serie A." Once Chievo earned promotion to Serie A at the end of the 2000–01 season, their fans started calling the team i Mussi Volanti (The Flying Donkeys). A 2014 story in the British football magazine Late Tackle remarked that "Hellas fans didn't so much have their words rammed down their throat as forced through every orifice with a barge pole."
In the 2001–02 season, both Hellas and Chievo were playing in Serie A. The first ever derby of Verona in Serie A took place on 18 November 2001, while both teams were ranked among the top four. The match was won by Hellas, 3–2. Chievo got revenge in the return match in spring 2002, winning 2–1.
Results Dates are in dd/mm/yyyy form.
League matches
Hellas Verona vs Chievo Chievo vs Hellas Verona Season Division Date Venue Score Date Venue Score1994–95Serie B10.12.1994Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi1 – 107.05.1995Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi3 – 11995–96Serie B28.04.1996Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi1 – 025.11.1996Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi1 – 21996–97Serie B11.10.1996Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi4 – 014.03.1997Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi2 – 01998–99Serie B19.12.1998Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi0 – 016.05.1999Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi2 – 02001–02Serie A18.11.2001Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi3 – 224.03.2002Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi2 – 12013–14Serie A23.11.2013Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi0 – 106.04.2014Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi0 – 12014–15Serie A21.12.2014Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi0 – 110.05.2015Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi2 – 22015–16Serie A20.02.2016Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi3 – 103.10.2015Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi1 – 12017–18Serie A10.03.2018Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi1 – 022.10.2017Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi3 – 2
Cup matches Season Competition Round Date Stadium Home team Result Away team2017–18 Coppa Italia Fourth round 29.11.2017 Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi Chievo 1 – 1 1 Hellas Verona
1 2017–18 Coppa Italia fourth round match won 5–4 on penalties by Hellas Verona.
Statistics Updated 10 March 2018 CompetitionPlayedChievo winsDrawsHellas Verona winsSerie A10424Serie B8323Coppa Italia1010Total19757
Most appearances (players) PlayerAppearances (Club(s)) Lorenzo D'Anna9 (Chievo) Maurizio D'Angelo7 (Chievo) Alessandro Manetti6 (Hellas Verona) Dario Dainelli6 (1 Hellas Verona, 5 Chievo) Luca Toni5 (Hellas Verona) Antonio De Vitis5 (Hellas Verona) Eugenio Corini5 (2 Hellas Verona, 3 Chievo) Michele Cossato5 (4 Chievo, 1 Hellas Verona) Enrico Franchi5 (Chievo) Andrea Guerra5 (Chievo)
Most appearances (coaches) CoachAppearances (Club(s)) Rolando Maran 7 (Chievo) Alberto Malesani6 (4 Chievo, 2 Hellas Verona) Andrea Mandorlini5 (Hellas Verona) Luigi Delneri3 (2 Chievo, 1 Hellas Verona) Fabio Pecchia3 (Hellas Verona)1 Bortolo Mutti2 (Hellas Verona) Attilio Perotti2 (Hellas Verona) Silvio Baldini2 (Chievo) Luigi Cagni2 (Hellas Verona) Lorenzo Balestro2 (Chievo) Cesare Prandelli2 (Hellas Verona) Eugenio Corini2 (Chievo) Pecchia and Maran appeared also in the 2017–18 Coppa Italia Fourth Round match
Goalscorers PlayerClub(s)Serie ASerie BCoppa ItaliaTotal Sergio PellissierChievo3014 Luca ToniHellas Verona3003 Federico CossatoChievo2103 Alberto PaloschiChievo2002 Eugenio CoriniHellas VeronaChievo1102 Fabrizio CammarataHellas Verona0202 Michele CossatoChievo0202 Roberto IngleseChievo2002
Players who played for both clubs The following players have played for both Chievo and Verona:
Elvis Abbruscato Alfredo Aglietti Jonathan Binotto Saša Bjelanović Erjon Bogdani Simone Bonomi Davide Brivio Andrea Burato Fabrizio Cacciatore Nicola Ciccolo Giuseppe Colucci Eugenio Corini Michele Cossato Dario Dainelli Fabio Depaoli Antonio Di Gaudio Caleb Ekuban Massimiliano Esposito Ivan Fatić Flavio Fiorio Paolo Foglio Alessandro Gamberini Stefano Garzon Stefano Ghirardello Matteo Gianello Tiberio Guarente Andrea Guerra Vincenzo Italiano Antimo Iunco Luigi Martinelli Martino Melis Luca Mezzano Leonardo Moracci Matteo Pivotto Nico Pulzetti Alessandro Rinaldi Matteo Rubin Marco Silvestri Mariusz Stępiński Luciano Venturini Marco Zamboni Marco Zanchi
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