Antonio Conte

This article is about the football manager and former player. For the fencer, see Antonio Conte (fencer).

Antonio Conte
Conte with Italy in 2015
Personal information
Full name Antonio Conte[1]
Date of birth (1969-07-31) 31 July 1969 (age 55)[2]
Place of birth Lecce, Italy
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[3]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 SSC Napoli (head coach)
Youth career
1982–1988 Lecce
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985–1991 Lecce 81 (1)
1991–2004 Juventus 296 (29)
Total 377 (30)
International career
1994–2000 Italy 20 (2)
Managerial career
2006 Arezzo
2007 Arezzo
2007–2009 Bari
2009–2010 Atalanta
2010–2011 Siena
2011–2014 Juventus
2014–2016 Italy
2016–2018 Chelsea
2019–2021 Inter Milan
2021–2023 Tottenham Hotspur
2024– Napoli
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing  Italy
FIFA World Cup
Runner-up 1994 USA
UEFA European Championship
Runner-up 2000 Belgium-Netherlands
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Antonio Conte Cavaliere OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo ˈkonte];[4][5] born 31 July 1969) is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of Serie A club Napoli.

Playing as a midfielder, Conte began his career at local club Lecce and later became one of the most decorated and influential players in the history of Juventus having won, among others, five Serie A titles, one Coppa Italia, one UEFA Champions League, and one UEFA Cup, also serving as the team's captain from 1996 until 2001.[6] He also played for the Italy national team and was a participant at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000, where, on both occasions, Italy finished runners-up.

His managerial career started in 2006, leading Bari to a Serie B title, and Siena to promotion from the same division two years later. He took over at Juventus in 2011 and won three consecutive Serie A titles before taking charge of the Italy national team in 2014 until UEFA Euro 2016 where he led them to the quarter-finals. He then became Chelsea manager and led them to the Premier League title in his first season in charge,[7] then winning the FA Cup in his second season but being dismissed as they finished fifth in the league. Conte joined Inter Milan a year later,[8] leading the team to the UEFA Europa League final in his first season, then winning the 2020–21 Serie A title in his second season before stepping down in mutual consent. He joined Tottenham Hotspur in November 2021, but left in March 2023 by mutual consent.[9]

As a manager, Conte is associated with the revival of three-man defensive formations in 2010s after they had seen limited use since their popularity in late 1990s Italian football.[10]

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  3. ^ "Antonio Conte". Juventus F.C. Archived from the original on 22 February 2004.
  4. ^ Luciano Canepari. "Antonio". DiPI Online (in Italian). Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  5. ^ Luciano Canepari. "conte". DiPI Online (in Italian). Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Conte ready to carve out his Italy vision". FIFA. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  7. ^ "Only Antonio Conte could have won the Premier League title with Chelsea's squad, writes Tony Evans". Archived from the original on 13 July 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  8. ^ "ANTONIO CONTE WILL BE INTER'S NEW COACH". inter.it. 31 May 2019. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  9. ^ "Tottenham manager Conte leaves by mutual consent". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  10. ^ Cox, Michael (2020). Zonal marking : the making of modern European football. London : HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 978-0-00-829117-4.