AC Milan

This article is about the men's football club from Milan, Italy. For the women's team, see AC Milan Women. For other sports teams called Milan, see Milan (disambiguation) § Sports.

AC Milan
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Full nameAssociazione Calcio Milan S.p.A.[1]
Nickname(s)I Rossoneri (The Red and Blacks)
Il Diavolo (The Devil)
Founded13 December 1899; 124 years ago (1899-12-13),[2] as Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club
GroundSan Siro
Capacity75,817 (limited capacity)
80,018 (maximum)
OwnerRedBird Capital Partners (99.93%)[3][4]
Private shareholders (0.07%)[5]
ChairmanPaolo Scaroni
Head coachPaulo Fonseca
LeagueSerie A
2023–24Serie A, 2nd of 20
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Associazione Calcio Milan (Italian pronunciation: [assotʃatˈtsjoːne ˈkaltʃo ˈmiːlan]), commonly referred to as AC Milan (Italian pronunciation: [a tˌtʃi mˈmiːlan]) or simply Milan,[6] is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Founded in 1899, the club competes in the Serie A, the top tier of Italian football. In its early history, Milan played its home games in different grounds around the city before moving to its current stadium, the San Siro, in 1926.[7] The stadium, which was built by Milan's second chairman, Piero Pirelli and has been shared with Inter Milan since 1947,[8] is the largest in Italian football, with a total capacity of 75,817.[9] The club has a long-standing rivalry with Inter, with whom they contest the Derby della Madonnina, one of the most followed derbies in football.[10]

Milan has spent its entire history in Serie A with the exception of the 1980–81 and 1982–83 seasons.[11][12] Silvio Berlusconi’s 31-year tenure as Milan president was a standout period in the club's history, as they established themselves as one of Europe's most dominant and successful clubs. Milan won 29 trophies during his tenure, securing multiple Serie A and UEFA Champions League titles. During the 1991–92 season, the club notably achieved the feat of being the first team to win the Serie A title without losing a single game.[13] Two seasons later, Milan famously defeated Johan Cruyff's Barcelona "Dream Team" 4–0 in the 1994 Champions League final. Milan is home to multiple Ballon d'Or winners, and three of the club's players; Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit, and Frank Rijkaard, ranked in the top three on the podium for the 1988 Ballon d'Or, an unprecedented achievement at the time.[14]

Domestically, Milan has won 19 league titles,[15] 5 Coppa Italia titles and 7 Supercoppa Italiana titles.[16] In international competitions, Milan is Italy's most successful club.[nb 1][16][17][18][19] The club have won seven Champions League titles, making them the competition's second-most successful club behind Real Madrid, and further honours include five UEFA Super Cups, two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, a joint record[nb 2] three Intercontinental Cups and one FIFA Club World Cup. Milan's major European honours also include a joint record[nb 3] two Latin Cups.[16]

Milan is one of the wealthiest clubs in Italian and world football.[20] It was a founding member of the now-defunct G-14 group of Europe's leading football clubs as well as its replacement, the European Club Association.[21]

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  4. ^ "Relazione e bilancio al 30 giugno 2019" [Financial statement as of 30 June 2019] (PDF) (in Italian). Associazione Calcio Milan. 18 October 2019. p. 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
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  6. ^ From Sporting Lisbon to Athletic Bilbao — why do we get foreign clubs' names wrong? Archived 7 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine, Michael Cox, The Athletic, 16 March 2023
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  14. ^ Leiva, Juanma (10 May 2023). "AC Milan vs Inter: which Champions League semi-finalist is the bigger club?". AS USA. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  15. ^ "Albo d'oro". legaseriea.it (in Italian). Lega Nazionale Professionisti Serie A. Archived from the original on 18 October 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
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  17. ^ "International Cups Trivia". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 October 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  18. ^ Conn, Tom (21 December 2014). "Real Madrid match AC Milan and Boca Juniors with 18 international titles". Inside Spanish Football. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  19. ^ "Milan loses the throne. Al Ahly is the most successful club in the world". Football Magazine. 22 February 2014. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  20. ^ "Soccer Team Valuations". forbes.com. 30 April 2008. Archived from the original on 29 September 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  21. ^ "ECA Members". ecaeurope.com. European Club Association. Archived from the original on 4 June 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.


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