FILA replace Reebok as the ACF Fiorentina 1997-98 season kits supplier and Nintendo was the official sponsor. Following the end of the season, Coach Alberto Malesani's accepted an offer from Parma, thus departing the club after only one season in charge. Fiorentina played an attacking 3–5–2 formation, where goal scoring duo Gabriel Batistuta and Luís Oliveira scored an accumulated 36 goals between them.
Fila originally was made and founded in 1911 in Italy, and is one of the world's largest sportswear manufacturing companies, before been takeover in 2007 by Fila Korea, Fila is now owned and operates from South Korea.