Italian football clubs in international competitions

Points by season
(UEFA coefficient)[1]
Season Points
2019–20 14.928
2020–21 16.285
2021–22 15.714
2022–23 22.357
2023–24 21.000

Italian football clubs have entered European association football competitions (UEFA Champions League/European Cup, UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, UEFA Conference League and the now defunct UEFA Intertoto Cup and UEFA Cup Winners' Cup) since the 1955–56 season, when Milan took part in European Cup competition. Nowadays, Italian football is the second force in Europe according to UEFA ranking, following the English league.[1] Italian clubs have also entered worldwide inter-club competitions several times since the 1963 Intercontinental Cup.

The golden age of Italian football since the establishing of UEFA is regarded to have occurred in the 1980s and in the 1990s, when several Italian clubs won UEFA competitions, contributing to Serie A obtaining the highest confederation coefficient score for about fifteen years. Since the beginning of 21st century, the force of Italian football at international stage has decreased, mainly after the Calciopoli scandal.[2]

So far, Italian clubs have won the Champions League/European Cup twelve times (Milan, Internazionale and Juventus), the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup seven times (Milan, Fiorentina, Juventus, Lazio, Parma and Sampdoria), the Europa League/UEFA Cup ten times (Internazionale, Juventus, Parma, Napoli and Atalanta), the Conference League once (Roma), the UEFA Super Cup nine times (Milan, Juventus, Lazio and Parma), the Intercontinental Cup seven times (Internazionale, Milan and Juventus), the FIFA Club World Cup twice (Internazionale and Milan), the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup once (Roma), and the UEFA Intertoto Cup four times (Bologna, Juventus, Perugia and Udinese).[3][4][5]

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  2. ^ Hawkins, Jonathan (27 August 2013). "A preview: Death of Italian football exaggerated". CNN. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Italy, Honours". UEFA.com. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  4. ^ "Intercontinental Club Cup". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  5. ^ "FIFA Club World Championship". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 14 August 2015.