Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Duk da yake shekarun 1960 sun haifar da wasu kofuna da kuma kyakkyawan Serie A na Fiorentina, babu wanda ya yi imanin cewa kulob din zai iya kalubalanci taken. Lokacin 1968-69
ya fara da Milan a matsayin jagora, amma a ranar wasa ta 7, sun yi rashin nasara ga Bologna kuma Cagliari na Gigi Riva ya shawo kansu. Fiorentina, bayan farawa mara kyau, sai ya koma saman Serie A, amma rabin farkon kakar wasansu ya ƙare tare da wasa 2<unk>2 da Varese, yana barin Cagliari a matsayin jagora na gasar. Rabin na biyu na kakar wasa ta kasance gwagwarmaya tsakanin ƙungiyoyi uku masu gwagwarmaya, Milan, Cagliari da Fiorentina. Milan ta fadi, maimakon haka ta mai da hankali kan ƙoƙarinsu a gasar cin kofin Turai, kuma da alama Cagliari za ta riƙe matsayi na farko. Bayan Cagliari ya yi rashin nasara a kan Juventus, duk da haka, Fiorentina ta karɓi matsayi a saman. Daga nan kungiyar ta lashe dukkan wasannin da suka rage, ta doke abokan hamayyarta Juve a Turin a ranar wasan karshe don rufe taken ta na biyu, kuma na karshe, na kasa. A gasar cin kofin zakarun Turai a shekara mai zuwa, Fiorentina ta sami kyakkyawan sakamako, gami da nasara a Tarayyar Soviet a kan Dynamo Kyiv, amma daga ƙarshe an buga su a wasan kusa da na kusa da na karshe bayan rashin nasara 3-0 a Glasgow zuwa Celtic.