FULL NAME: Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (Ajax was a
Greek mythological hero, the grandson of Zeus and a warrior of great courage
and strength who fought against Troy in the Trojan War. Said to be the greatest
of all the Greeks next to his cousin Achilles, as described in Homer's Iliad
NICKNAMES: De Joden (The Jews - Due to the fact that Ajax's Stadium was in the Jewish Quarter of Amsterdam in the 1930's), De Godenzonen (Sons of the Gods - Due to Ajax being the grandson of Zeus, the lord of the gods in Greek Mythology or due to the fact that 'Jews' ,as Ajax are also called, are said to be the chosen people of the lord), Lancers (In one of the most famous battles during the Trojan war between the Greek Champion Ajax and the Champion of Troy Hector, Ajax wielded an enormous Lance (spear) by which he holds off the Trojan armies virtually single-handedly), Lucky Ajax (Coined by their opponents, claiming that their successes is not due to their good play and club administration but to pure Luck), .
HISTORY:Founded on the 18 March 1900 with the current name 'Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax' by three dutch men in a cafe in central Amsterdam.
NATIONAL HONOURS: UEFA Champions League, 4 - 1971, 1972, 1973, 1995. UEFA Cup Winners Cup, 1 - 1987. UEFA (Europa) Cup, 1 - 1992. Intercontinental Cup (FIFA Club World Championship), 2 - 1972, 1995. UEFA Super Cup, 2 - 1973, 1995.
FULL NAME: Società Ginnastica Andrea Doria (Andrea Doria was a
great Genoese condottiero and admiral who lived between 1466 and 1560).
HISTORY: Founded on the 5 September 1895 as 'Società Ginnastica Andrea Doria' by some athletes who left the 'Società Ginnastica Ligure Cristoforo Colombo' (founded in 1877). On the 11 August 1900 the football section was created, but on the insistence of the Fascist leaders of Genova, who wanted to create a strong club from Genova, on the 27 July 1927, it merged with the 'Associazione Calcio Sampierdarenese' (founded in 1891) to create the 'Associazione Calcio La Dominante'. In 1930 'La Dominante' took over the 'Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Corniglianese 1919' (founded in 1919) to create the 'Associazione Calcio Liguria'. But a year later 'Liguria' was disbanded again by the Fascist leaders of Genova as a failed project and the three original clubs (Andrea Doria, Sampierdarenese and Corniglianese) were again re-founded, each club going its separate way. Andrea Doria was re-founded as 'Associazione Calcio Andrea Doria' with the return of their ex-players who had rebelled in 1927 and re-founded the 'Unione Sportiva Alessandro Volta' (originally founded in 1920) who as a result seized to exist. The Club was disbanded in 1940 due to WWII but was re-founded again in 1944 with the original name 'Società Ginnastica Andrea Doria'. However due to the reorganization of the 1946/47 Serie A after WWII, Andrea Doria found themselves ineligible to play in the Serie A whilst Sampierdarenese, who could play in the Serie A, had dire financial problems. Thus on the 12 August 1946, the two football sections of the 'Società Ginnastica Andrea Doria' and 'Associazione Calcio Sampierdarenese' merged once again to form the 'Unione Calcio Sampdoria', a club that still exists today. The 'Società Ginnastica Andrea Doria' however continued until today practicing the sports of Gymnastics, Swimming, Tennis, Bowling and Martial Arts, including Savate, Judo, Karate, Kendo and Aikido.
HONOURS: Nil.
FULL NAME: Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC
NICKNAME: Picchio (Club Mascot - Woodpecker, part of the name of the city), Bianconeri (Club Colours - White-blacks), Piceni (The nickname of the people from Ascoli
Piceno)
HISTORY: Founded on 1 November 1898 as 'Società Sportiva Candido Augusto Vecchi', but the name was changed to 'Circolo Sportivo Vigor' in 1905. After WWI, in 1920, the club was re-founded as 'Unione Sportiva Ascolana', but changed the name again twice, in 1926 to 'Circolo Sportivo Vigor' and in 1929 to 'Società Sportiva Ascoli'. In 1934 the club was dissolved for financial reasons and a new club was recreated under the name 'Fascio Giovanile di Combattimento di Ascoli', a name that lasted only for one year since in 1935 the name was changed back to 'Società Sportiva Ascoli'. In 1945, after WWII, all the clubs of Ascoli Piceno were integrated into the re-founded club as 'Associazione Sportiva Ascoli'. In 1955 the Club was saved from bankruptcy by the merger with the club 'Società Sportiva Lillo Del Duca', thus forming a new club 'Associazione Sportiva Del Duca Ascoli', but in 1972 the name was changed to 'Ascoli Calcio 1898'. In 2014 the Club was declared bankrupt and re-founded on the 13 May 2014 with the name 'Ascoli Picchio F.C. 1898', a name that was changed to the current one in 2018.
NATIONAL HONOURS: Nil.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:Mitropa Cup, 1 - 1986/87.
FULL NAME: Futbol Club Barcelona
NICKNAME:Azul Grana (Club Colours - Blue-Maroons in Spanish), Blaugrana (Club Colours - Blue-Maroons in Catalan), Barca (Abbreviation of the Name), The Catalans / The Boys of Catalunya (From Catalonia - a historic region in north-east Spain of which Barcelona is the capital city), Cules (Bottoms - From the times of the old stadium 'Les Corts' which was very small and always full, thus a lot of supporters used to sit on the boundery wall to watch the match, showing there bottoms to the passers-bye outside).
HISTORY:Founded on the 29 November 1899 as 'Foot-Ball Club Barcelona', playing mostly in England and Switzerland for the first year. In 1939 the club changed the name to 'Club de Fútbol Barcelona' until 1974 when the current name was adapted.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS: UEFAChampions League, 5 - 1991/92, 2005/06, 2008/09, 2010/11, 2014/15. UEFA Cup Winners Cup, 4 - 1979, 1982, 1989, 1997. UEFA (Europa) Cup, 3 - 1958, 1960, 1966. UEFA Super Cup, 5 - 1992, 1997, 2009, 2011, 2015. Intercontinental Cup (FIFA Club World Championship), 3 - 2009, 2011, 2015. 'Laureus' World Sports Team of the Year Award, 1 - 2012. Coppa Latina, 2 - 1949, 1952. Coupe de Pyrenées, 4 - 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913.
FORZA
AZZURRI
STATISTICS
www.forza-azzurri.info
A web site by PIERRE BONELLO
Profile lists of all the Clubs starting with the letters A and B that gave players to the Italian National team
PROFILES A-B
Clubs:
ALESSANDRIA
CITY: Alessandria
PLAYERS
20 BALONCIERI Adolfo - M, 1920(d)
6 BERTOLINI Luigi - M, 1929(d)
6 GANDINI Giuseppe - M, 1925(d)
5 CARCANO Carlo - M, 1915(d)
2 BANCHERO Elvio - M, 1928(d)
2 BREZZI Guglielmo - A, 1923
1 CATTANEO Renato - M, 1931(d)
1 FERRARI Giovanni - M, 1930(d)
1 RAVA Pietro - D, 1946
1 TICOZZELLI Giuseppe - D, 1920 (d)
Adolfo BALONCIERI
Most Games in Azzurro
Most Goals in Azzurro
Only captain in Azzurro
ATALANTA
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 35 GAMES: 113 SCORERS: 6 GOALS: 11
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
14 PESSINA Matteo - M, 2020(d)
14 TOLOI Rafael - D, 2021(d)(o)
9 SCAMACCA Gianluca - A, 2023
8 SCALVINI Giorgio - D, 2022(d)
7 DONI Cristiano - M, 2001(d)
6 RETEGUI Mateo - A, 2024(o)
5 CRISTANTE Bryan - M, 2017(d)
5 SPINAZZOLA Leonardo - D, 2017(d)
5 ZAURI Luciano - M, 2001(d)
3 BASSETTO Adriano - M, 1954(d)
3 BELLANOVA Raoul - D, 2024
3 PELUSO Federico - D, 2012(d)
2 BRESCIANINI Marco - M, 2024(d)
2 CASARI Giuseppe - G, 1948(d)
2 MALDINI Daniel - A, 2025
2 MANCINI Gianluca - D, 2019(d)
2 MARI Giacomo - M, 1948(d)
2 MASCHIO Humberto - M, 1962(d)(o)
2 PORRINI Sergio - D, 1993(d)
2 ROTA Battista - D, 1952(d)
1 BONAVENTURA Giacomo - M, 2013(d)
1 CADE' Giancarlo - M, 1952(d)
1 CALDARA Mattia - D, 2018 (d)
1 DOMENGHINI Angelo - A, 1963(d)
1 GABBIADINI Manolo - A, 2012(d)
1 GOLLINI Pierluigi - G, 2019(d)
1 INZAGHI Filippo - A, 1997(d)
1 LENTINI Gianluigi - M, 1996
1 LONGONI Angelo - A, 1956(d)
1 PETAGNA Andrea - A, 2017(d)
1 PIZZABALLA Pierluigi - G, 1966(d)
1 RONZON Pierluigi - M, 1960(d)
1 SCHELOTTO Ezequiel - M, 2012(d)(o)
1 ZENONI Damiano - M, 2000(d)
1 ZENONI Cristian - D, 2001(d)
SCORERS
4 PESSINA Matteo
2 LONGONI Angelo
2 RETEGUI Mateo
1 DONI Cristiano
1 PELUSO Federico
1 SCAMACCA Gianluca
CAPTAINS
No Atalanta player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
BASELLI Daniele - M
BASTONI Alessandro - D
BRIVIO Davide - D
CAPRILE Emilio - A
CARNESECCHI Marco - G
CIGARINI Luca - M
CONSIGLI Andrea - G
CONTI Andrea - D
D'ALESSANDRO Marco - M
GAGLIARDINI Roberto - M
GANZ Maurizio - A
GRASSI Alberto - M
RUGGERI Matteo - D
SPORTIELLO Marco - G
ZANIOLO Nicola - M
ZAPPACOSTA Davide - D
Giuseppe CASARI
First player in Azzurro
Giacomo
MARI
First player in Azzurro
Cristiano
DONI
Angelo LONGONI
First scorer in Azzurro
ATLETICO MADRID
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 3 GAMES: 11 SCORERS: 1 GOALS: 6
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
9 VIERI Christian - A, 1997
1 CERCI Alessio - M, 2014
1 SERENA Michele - D, 1998(d)
SCORERS
6 VIERI Christian
Christian VIERI
First player in Azzurro
Most games in Azzurro
Only scorer in Azzurro
AZZURRO RECORDS:Christian VIERI finished runner-up top scorer in the 1998 Wold Cup, hosted in France and won the FIFA/Addidas Bronze Shoe Award. Michele SERENA was the first Azzurro to play with the Italian National team only from a non-Italian Club.
AUSONIA
CITY: Milano
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 2 GAMES: 4 SCORERS: 1 GOALS: 2
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
2 RIZZI Giuseppe - M, 1910(d)
2 TRERE' Attilio - M, 1910(d)
SCORERS
2 RIZZI Giuseppe
CAPTAINS
No Ausonia player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
Giuseppe RIZZI
First player in Azzurro
Only scorer in Azzurro
Attilio
TRERE'
First player in Azzurro
BARCELONA
CITY: Barcelona
(Spain)
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 2 GAMES: 24 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
17 ZAMBROTTA Gian Luca - D, 2006
7 COCO Francesco - D, 2001
SCORERS
No Barcelona player ever scored in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Barcelona player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
Francesco
COCO
First player in Azzurro
AVELLINO
CITY: Avellino
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1 GAMES: 5 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
5 DE NAPOLI Fernando - M, 1986(d)
Fernando DE NAPOLI
Only player in Azzurro
SCORERS
No Avellino player ever scored in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Avellino player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
Felsinei (from Felsina - the name of the city of Bologna during the times of the
Etruscans, a pre Roman Civilization), Petroniani (from San Petronio - a Christian Bishop of Bologna during Roman times, the Patron Saint of the city of Bologna), Veltri (Hounds - used in 1929 by journalist Bruno Roghi for the club's stylistic play at the time, full of fluidity, accuracy and technical elegance).
HISTORY:Founded on the 3 October 1909 as 'Bologna Football Club'. In 1928 the club became the football section of the newly founded 'Bologna Sportiva' under the name 'Bologna Sezione Calcio', but in 1935 the 'Bologna Sportiva' was dissolved and the club became independent again as 'Bologna Associazione Giuoco del Calcio'. In 1945, after WWII, the club changed its name back to the original 'Bologna Football Club'. On the 18 June 1993 the club was declared bankrupt but was immediately re-founded with the current name.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Italian Champions, 7 - 1924/25, 1928/29. 1935/36, 1936/37, 1938/39, 1940/41, 1963/64. Coppa Italia, 3 - 1969/70, 1973/74, 2024/25.Coppa Alta Italia, 1 - 1946. Collare d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 2017. Stella d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 1969. Medaglia di Bronzo al Valore Atletico, 1 - 1933.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS: UEFA Intertoto Cup, 1 - 1998. Mitropa Cup, 3 - 1932, 1934, 1961.
Anglo-Italian League Cup, 1 - 1970. Torneo dell'Esposizione di Parigi, 1 - 1937.
CITY: Bologna
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 55 GAMES: 392 SCORERS: 17 GOALS: 63
CAPTAINS: 4 CAPTAINED GAMES: 5
PLAYERS
29 BULGARELLI Giacomo - M, 1962(d)
26 ANDREOLO Michele - M, 1936(d)(o)
24 BELLUGI Mauro - D, 1975
21 MONZEGLIO Eraldo - D, 1930(d)
21 PITTO Alfredo - M, 1928(d)
21 SCHIAVIO Angelo - A, 1925(d)
18 BIAVATI Amedeo - A, 1938(d)
17 DELLA VALLE Giuseppe - A, 1923(d)
17 PASCUTTI Ezio - A, 1958(d)
16 DIAMANTI Alessandro - M, 2012
13 FOGLI Romano - M, 1958(d)
11 CAPPELLO Gino - A, 1949(d)
10 GENOVESI Pietro - M, 1921(d)
10 NEGRI William - G, 1963
8 GIACCHERINI Emanuele - M, 2016
8 GILARDINO Alberto - A, 2013
7 ORSOLINI Riccardo - A, 2019(d)
7 PIVATELLI Gino - M, 1955(d)
6 BAGGIO Roberto - M, 1997
6 CERVELLATI Cesarino - M, 1951(d)
6 CORSI Giordano - M, 1935(d)
6 GASPERI Felice - D, 1928(d)
6 GIANNI Mario - G, 1927(d)
6 JANICH Francesco - D, 1962(d)
6 NERVO Carlo - M, 2002(d)
6 VIVIANO Emiliano - G, 2010(d)
5 CALAFIORI Riccardo - D, 2024(d)
4 PERANI Marino - M, 1966(d)
4 PERIN Bernardo - M, 1921(d)
4 TUMBURUS Paride - M, 1962(d)
4 VERDI Simone - A, 2017(d)
3 BALDI Gastone - M, 1922(d)
3 GUARNERI Aristide - D, 1968
3 MONTESANTO Mario - M, 1934(d)
3 POZZI Alberto - A, 1922(d)
3 SANSONE Raffaele - M, 1932(d)(o)
2 BADINI Emilio - M, 1920(d)
2 DOSSENA Giuseppe - M, 1981(d)
2 FEDULLO Francesco - M, 1932(d)(o)
2 GIOVANNINI Guglielmo - D, 1948(d)
2 POZZAN Ugo - M, 1956(d)
1 BALLACCI Dino - D, 1954(d)
1 BORGATO Giovanni - D, 1926(d)
1 BUSINI Antonio - M, 1929(d)
1 CERESOLI Carlo - G, 1938
1 FERRARI Pietro - G, 1940(d)
1 GIORDANI Alberto - M, 1927(d)
1 PAGOTTO Mario - D, 1940(d)
1 PURICELLI Ettore - A, 1939(d)(o)
1 REGUZZONI Carlo - A, 1940(d)
1 RICCI Secondo - D, 1940(d)
1 ROVERSI Tazio - D, 1971(d)
1 SAVOLDI Giuseppe - A, 1975(d)
1 SORIANO Roberto - M, 2020
1 TORRISI Stefano - D, 1997(d)
Emilio
BADINI
First player in Azzurro
First scorer in Azzurro
SCORERS
15 SCHIAVIO Angelo
8 BIAVATI Amedeo
8 PASCUTTI Ezio
7 BULGARELLI Giacomo
6 DELLA VALLE Giuseppe
3 CAPPELLO Gino
3 FEDULLO Francesco
2 BAGGIO Roberto
2 ORSOLINI Riccardo
2 PIVATELLI Gino
1 ANDREOLO Michele
1 BADINI Emilio
1 DIAMANTI Alessandro
1 GIACCHERINI Emanuele
1 GILARDINO Alberto
1 PERANI Marino
1 PURICELLI Ettore
CAPTAINS
2 BULGARELLI Giacomo
1 GIANNI Mario
1 GILARDINO Alberto
1 SCHIAVIO Angelo
UNUSED CALL-UPS
BINOTTO Jonatan - M
COLOMBA Franco - M
DI FRANCESCO Federico - A
EDERA Simone - A
FEDELE Adriano - D
MIRANTE Antonio - G
NATALI Cesare - D
PETRI Lamberto - D
RAIMONDO Antonio - A
VIGNATO Emanuel - M
Giacomo BULGARELLI
Most games in Azzurro
Most captain in Azzurro
Angelo SCHIAVIO
Most goals in Azzurro
Mario
GIANNI
First captain in Azzurro
BRESCIA
CITY: Brescia
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 9 GAMES: 19 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
7 TRIVELLINI Giuseppe - G, 1915(d)
3 TONALI Sandro - M, 2019(d)
2 BONERA Daniele - D, 2001(d)
2 PERUCHETTI Giuseppe - G, 1936(d)
1 AZZINI Giovanni - M, 1952(d)
1 BAGGIO Roberto - M, 2004
1 CARACCIOLO Andrea - M, 2004(d)
1 DEPAOLI Virginio - A, 1966(d)
1 DIAMANTI Alessandro - M, 2010(d)
Giuseppe TRIVELLINI
First player in Azzurro
Most games in Azzurro
Michele SERENA
AZZURRO RECORDS: Pioneer Club - Giuseppe RIZZI and Attilio TRERE' played in the first match of the Italian National team. Giuseppe RIZZI scored the first Away Goal of the Azzurri and is one of the first players to score in his debut match.
Michele ANDREOLO
Mauro BELLUGI
Eraldo MONZEGLIO
Amedeo BIAVATI
AZZURRO RECORDS: The Club who gave the first scorer in Azzurro from the Serie B. Raffaele COSTANTINO was the first player to score in Azzurro from the Serie B. He formed part of the Italian National team that won the 1930 Coppa Internazionale.
Giovanni
AZZINI
AZZURRO RECORDS:Corrado TAMIETTI never played with the Italian National team but formed part of the Azzurri Squad that placed first and won the Gold Medal in the 1936 Olympics Football Tournament. Giovanni AZZINI is one of only seven players to play in Azzurro only from the Serie B.
Gian Luca ZAMBROTTA
Most games in Azzurro
AZZURRO RECORDS: Elvio BANCHERO and Andrea VIVIANO formed part of the Azzurri Squad that finished third and won the Bronze Medal in the 1928 Olympics Football Tournament, although VIVIANO never played with the Italian National team but still formed part of the Azzurri Squad. Adolfo GIUNTOLI also never played with the Italian National team but formed part of the Azzurri Squad that placed first and won the Gold Medal in the 1936 Olympics Football Tournament. Luigi BERTOLINI formed part of the Italian National team that finished second in the 1932 Coppa Internazionale.
Elvio
BANCHERO
Luigi
BERTOLINI
AZZURRO RECORDS:
Two Atalanta players became European Champions when they formed part of the Italian National Team Squad who won the 2020 European Nations Championship: Rafael TOLOI
and Matteo PESSINA. Rafael
TOLOI formed part of the Azzurri squad that finished third in the UEFA Nations League 2022/23.
Giuseppe
DELLA VALLE
Aristide
GUARNERI
Felice
GASPERI
Carlo
CERESOLI
Giordano
CORSI
Pietro
GENOVESI
Francesco
FEDULLO
Raffaele
SANSONE
BAYERN MUNICH
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1 GAMES: 20 SCORERS: 1 GOALS: 4
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
20 TONI Luca - A, 2007
Luca
TONI
Only player in Azzurro
SCORERS
4 TONI Luca
CAPTAINS
No Bayern Munich player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
Romano
FOGLI
Ettore
PURICELLI
Mateo
RETEGUI
Alessio
CERCI
CAPTAINS
No Atletico Madrid player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
ABBIATI Christian - G
Daniele BONERA
Sandro
TONALI
Alfredo
PITTO
Ezio PASCUTTI
AZZURRO RECORDS:Luca TONI is one of only twelve Azzurri players who scored in the first minute of an Azzurro match and the only one to do so from a foreign club.
Giorgio
SCALVINI
Bryan
CRISTANTE
Rafael
TOLOI
Most Games in Azzurro
SCORERS
No Brescia player ever scored in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Brescia player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
CISTANA Andrea - D
PAPETTI Andrea - D
ROMAGNA Filippo - D
TAMIETTI Corrado - D
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Andrea
VIVIANO
Lamberto
PETRI
Corrado
TAMIETTI
Leonardo
BONUCCI
Adolfo
GIUNTOLI
Alessandro
DIAMANTI
ANDREA DORIA
CITY: Genova
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 6 GAMES: 12 SCORERS: 1 GOALS: 2
CAPTAINS: 1CAPTAINED GAMES: 2
PLAYERS
4 BURLANDO Luigi - M, 1920(d)
3 SARDI Enrico - M, 1912(d)
2 CALI' Francesco - D, 1910(d)
1 DE MARCHI Adevildo - M, 1920(d)
1 FRESIA Attilio - A, 1913(d)
1 GALLETTI Carlo - D, 1913(d)
Francesco CALI'
First player in Azzurro
Only captain in Azzurro
SCORERS
2 SARDI Enrico
CAPTAINS
2 CALI' Francesco
UNUSED CALL-UPS
SANTAMARIA Aristodemo - M
Luigi BURLANDO
Most games in Azzurro
Enrico
SARDI
Only scorer in Azzurro
AZZURRO RECORDS: Pioneer Club - Francesco CALI' played in the first game of the Azzurri. He was also the first Captain of the Azzurri, the first Azzurro Captain to lead the Italian National team in an away match and the first of only four players to lead the Azzurri as Captain in his debut match.
Alberto
GILARDINO
William
NEGRI
Gino
CAPPELLO
BORUSSIA DORTMUND
CITY: Dortmund
(Germany)
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1 GAMES: 8 SCORERS: 1 GOALS: 1
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
8 IMMOBILE Ciro - A, 2014
SCORERS
1 IMMOBILE Ciro
Ciro
IMMOBILE
Only player in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Borussia Dortmund player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
MANE Filippo Calixte - D
ANDERLECHT
CITY: Anderlecht
(Belgium)
SCORERS
No Anderlecht player ever scored in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Anderlecht player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
Stefano
OKAKA
Only Player in Azzurro
LEGEND OF LISTS: Number of Games / Goals / Captained Games, Surname, Name, Position, Year of first game in Azzurro from the Club.
POSITIONS: G - Goalkeeper, D - Defender, M - Midfielder, A - Attacker.
ABBREVIATIONS: (d) - Debut - Played his first game in Azzurro in that year and with that club.
(o) - Oriundo
UNUSED CALL-UPS: Statistics covered only from Azzurro Game 299 (25 September 1971) till TODAY. It includes also the Squads for the World Cups: 1970, 1966, 1962, 1954, 1950, 1938, 1934; European Nations Cup: 1968; Olympic Games Football Tournaments: 1952, 1948, 1936, 1928, 1924, 1920, 1912.
The Players displayed for each club are not necessary the best or most memorable players from the club, but statistically they are the main players. Displayed are mainly, the first players to play in Azzurro, score in Azzurro and Captain the Azzurri from the club and the players who played the most in Azzurro, scored the most in Azzurro and Captained the most the Azzurri from the Club. Where space permitted other significant statistical players from the club were displayed.
ADANA DEMIRSPOR
CITY: Adana
(Turkey)
Mario B
BALOTELLI
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 0 GAMES: 0 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
CAPTAINS
No Adana Demirspor player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
BALOTELLI Mario B. - A
PLAYERS
No Adana Demirspor player ever
played in Azzurro
SCORERS
No Adana Demirspor player ever
scored in Azzurro
SCORERS
7 BALONCIERI Adolfo
4 BANCHERO Elvio
1 CARCANO Carlo
1 CATTANEO Renato
CAPTAINS
4 BALONCIERI Adolfo
UNUSED CALL-UPS
AVALLE Edoardo - M
GIUNTOLI Adolfo - M
MILANESE Tommaso - M
MOSELE Vittorio - G
PIEROZZI Edoardo - D
SCAGLIOTTI Cinzio - A
VIVIANO Andrea - A
Giuseppe
GANDINI
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1 GAMES: 3SCORERS: 0GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
3 OKAKA Stefano - A, 2015
Carlo CARCANO
First player in Azzurro
First scorer in Azzurro
Adevildo
DE MARCHI
Attilio
FRESIA
Carlo
GALLETTI
ASCOLI
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 0 GAMES: 0 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
No Ascoli player ever played
in Azzurro
SCORERS
No Ascoli player ever scored
in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Ascoli player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
CALIGARA Fabrizio - M
FAVILLI Andrea - A
GIOVANE Samuel - M
Andrea
FAVILLI
CITY: Ascoli Piceno
FULL NAME: Unione Sportiva Alessandria Calcio 1912
NICKNAME: Grigi (Club Colours - Grays), Orso (Club Mascot - Bear, Alpine Brown Bears that used to live near Alessandria), Mandrogni (Old nickname of the people of Alessandria).
HISTORY:Founded on the 18 February 1912 as the football section of the 'Unione Ginnastica Forza e Coraggio' (founded in 1907) taking the name 'Alessandria Foot Ball Club'. On the 11 April 1920 it merged with the 'Unione Sportiva Alessandrina' and adapted the name 'Unione Sportiva Alessandria'. In 1975 the name was changed to 'Unione Sportiva Alessandria Calcio', but on the 18 August 2003 the club went bankrupt and the current club was re-founded as a direct heir to the old one with the inclusion of '1912' in the name.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Coppa Coni, 1 - 1926/27. Stella d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 1989.
FULL NAME: Adana Demirspor Kulübü (Adana Iron Sport Club - Demirspor
means 'Iron Sport', since the club was founded by Railway workers)
NICKNAME: Mavi Simsekler (Club Colours - Blue Lightings, Blue is the colour of the State Trains and Lighting refers to the speed of the players and the trains).
HISTORY:Founded in 1938 by nine workers of the Turkish State Railways, they were formally established on the 28 December 1940 with 500 members, all employees of the State Railways. By 1942, a total of 38 different clubs were established by employees of the State Railway, all known as 'Demirspor', but Adana Demirspor was the most successful from them all. They were the only 'Demirspor' club to play in the top Turkish Professional League and today, they are the only 'Demirspor' club still associated to the Turkish State Railways. They were also the first Turkish club from outside the İstanbul-Ankara-İzmir area to join the Turkish National Football League. The club used to have a total of eleven different sport disciplines, but today only five are still active: Football (men and women), Volleyball, Rowing, Table Tennis and Taekwando. The other six disciplines seized to exist by the 1980's: Athletics, Cycling, Swimming, Water Polo, Wrestling and Basketball. In particular, the Water Polo team was the first Turkish Water Polo champions and dominated the first three decades of the Water Polo Turkish League, winning 21 league titles in 25 years, from the early 1940s to the mid 1960s.
HONOURS: Nil.
CITY: Bergamo
Matteo
PESSINA
Most Games in Azzurro
Most Goals in Azzurro
Gianluca
SCAMACCA
CITY: Madrid
(Spain)
Christian
ABBIATI
Raffaele COSTANTINO
First player in Azzurro
Most Games in Azzurro
First scorer in Azzurro
Most Goals in Azzurro
Gian Luca ZAMBROTTA
BASEL
CITY: Basel
(Switzerland)
Sebastiano
ESPOSITO
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 0 GAMES: 0 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
CAPTAINS
No Basel player ever led the
Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
CALAFIORI Riccardo - D
ESPOSITO Sebastiano - A
PLAYERS
No Basel player ever
played in Azzurro
SCORERS
No Basel player ever
scored in Azzurro
CITY: Munich
(Germany)
FULL NAME: Fußball-Club Bayern München (Bayern means Bavarians in the German language, meaning the people of Bavaria, one of the
Free States that form the Federal Republic of Germany, the capital of which is Munich).
NICKNAME:Die Roten (Club Colours - The Reds), Der FCB (The FCB - Name Abbreviations), Die Bayern (The Bavarians - The people of the Free State of Bavaria), Stern des Südens (Star of the South - the best team in the south of Germany and the name of the club anthem, sung during home games, written by German songwriter Willy Astor), Der Bayerische Riese (The Bavarian Giants), FC Hollywood (Earned during the 1990's due to the controversial off-the-field incidents of some of their star players and officials that became regular features on the first pages of tabloids).
HISTORY:Founded on the 27 February 1900 as 'Bayern München Football Club' by 11 members of the football division of the Munich gymnastics club 'MTV München von 1879 e.V' who resigned after the congregation of members decided that the footballers of the club would not be allowed to join the newly founded 'German Football Association (DFB)'. The club passed through a very difficult period during the Nazi years (1933- 1945) after being taunted as the "Jew's club" and because of the new rule that football players had to be full amateurs, however after WWII, in 1945, the club managed to survive and regroup. Today, besides football (men, women, seniors and All-Stars), the club manages also other sports sections - Basketball, Handball, Bowling, Table Tennis, Chess and Football Refereeing (for Bavarian local leagues). Other sports used to be managed by the club but eventually they became defunct - Baseball, Ice Hockey and Gymnastics.
German Cup, 20 - 1957, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020. German League Cup, 6 - 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2007. German Super Cup, 10 - 1987, 1990, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020. 2021, 2022.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:UEFA Champions League, 6 - 1974, 1975, 1976, 2001, 2013, 2020.
UEFA Cup Winners Cup, 1 - 1967. UEFA (Europa) Cup, 1 - 1996. UEFA Super Cup, 2 - 2013, 2020.
Intercontinental Cup (FIFA Club World Championship), 4 - 1976, 2001, 2013, 2020. 'Laureus' World Sports Team of the Year Award, 1 - 2014.
BENEVENTO
CITY: Benevento
Danilo
CATALDI
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 0 GAMES: 0 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
CAPTAINS
No Benevento player ever
led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
CATALDI Danilo - M
CICIRETTI Amato - M
CRAGNO Alessio - G
VENUTI Lorenzo - D
PLAYERS
No Benevento player ever
played in Azzurro
SCORERS
No Benevento player ever
scored in Azzurro
Amato
CICIRETTI
Alessio
CRAGNO
Lorenzo
VENUTI
AZZURRO RECORDS: Five Bologna players won the World Cup: 1934 - Eraldo MONZEGLIO, Angelo SCHIAVIO; 1938 - Michele ANDREOLO, Amedeo BIAVATI, Carlo CERESOLI. Mauro BELLUGI formed part of the Azzurri Squad that finished fourth in the 1978 World Cup. Giacomo BULGARELLI and Aristide GUARNERI formed part of the Azzurri squad that won the 1968 European Nations Championship, whilst Alessandro DIAMANTI formed part of the Azzurri Squad that finished Runner-Up European Champions in 2012. Two Bologna players formed part of the Azzurri squad that finished third in the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013: Alessandro DIAMANTI, Alberto GILARDINO. Four Bologna players won the Olympic Bronze Medal after the Azzurri finished third in the 1928 Olympics Football Tournament: Felice GASPERI, Pietro GENOVESI, Alfredo PITTO and Angelo SCHIAVIO, whilst Lamberto PETRI never played with the Italian National team but formed part of the Azzurri Squad that placed first and won the Gold Medal in the 1936 Olympics Football Tournament. Seven Bologna players won the Coppa Internazionale: 1930 - Pietro GENOVESI, Eraldo MONZEGLIO, Alfredo PITTO, Angelo SCHIAVIO; 1935 - Giordano CORSI, Eraldo MONZEGLIO, Angelo SCHIAVIO. Six others formed part of the Azzurri squad that finished runner-up in the 1932 Coppa Internazionale: Francesco FEDULLO, Felice GASPERI, Mario GIANNI, Eraldo MONZEGLIO, Alfredo PITTO and Raffaele SANSONE. Angelo SCHIAVIO was the Runner-up Top Scorer of the 1934 World Cup and became the first European player to score the winning goal in a World Cup final. He scored the first Italian goal in a World Cup final stage match and is the first Italian player to score four goals in one World Cup edition. Giacomo BULGARELLI scored more goals than he played matches in the 1962 World Cup edition (2 goals in 1 match). Michele ANDREOLO is the Italo-Uruguaian Oriundo to play most games in Azzurro, whilst Ettore PURICELLI is the only Italo-Uruguaian / Argentine Oriundo to play in Azzurro.
Emanuele
GIACHERINI
Gino
PIVATELLI
Roberto
BAGGIO
Riccardo
ORSOLINI
Cesarino
CERVELLATI
Francesco
JANICH
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 10 GAMES: 45 SCORERS: 4 GOALS: 13
CAPTAINS: 1CAPTAINED GAMES: 4
FULL NAME: Club Atletico de Madrid
NICKNAME: Los Rojiblancos (Club Colours - The Red and Whites), Colchoneros (Mattress Makers - the stripes of their shirt are the same as those of traditional mattresses), Indios (The Indians - after signing several South American players when the
restrictions on foreign players were lifted), El Atleti (The Athletes - from the name Atletico).
HISTORY:Founded on the 26 April 1903 as 'Athletic Club Sucursal de Madrid' by Basque students as a youth branch of the club 'Athletico Bilbao' and in 1904 it was joint by dissident members of the club 'Real Madrid'. In 1921 it became independent and after WWII, in 1939, they merged with 'Aviacion Nacional' of Zaragoza, established in 1937 by the members of the Spanish Air Force, to became 'Athletic Aviacion de Madrid'. In 1940 the name was changed to 'Atlético Aviación de Madrid' when the when the Franco regime banned the use of foreign names. In 1947 the club decided to drop the military association from its name and the current name was established.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Spanish Champions, 11 - 1939/40, 1940/41, 1949/50, 1950/51, 1965/66, 1969/70, 1972/73, 1976/77, 1995/96, 2013/14, 2020/21. Copa del Rey, 10 - 1960, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1976, 1985, 1991, 1992, 1996, 2013. Supercopa de Espana (Copa de los Campeones de España, Copa Presidente FEF & Copa Eva Duarte), 4 - 1941/47, 1951, 1985, 2014.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS: UEFA Cup Winners Cup, 1 - 1962. UEFA (Europa) Cup, 3 - 2010, 2012, 2018. Intercontinental Cup (FIFA Club World Championship), 1 - 1974. UEFA Super Cup, 3 - 2010, 2012, 2018. UEFA Intertoto Cup, 1 - 2007.
FULL NAME: Ardita Ausonia Football Club (Ausonia is a Greek and
Virgilian poetical name for Italy, recalling the territory of the Ausones, an Italic tribe
of southern Italy named after their poetical founder Auson, a son of Ulysses).
HISTORY:Founded on the 4 June 1905 as 'Ausonia Football Club' by the automobile company 'Ausonia' as an advertising sponsorship. After playing in the 1909/10 National League with the help of players loaned from the clubs Milan and Inter, it was evident that the club was not financially strong enough to continue participating in top football. Thus on the 7 January 2012 the club became the football section of the 'Società Sportiva Pro Gorla' under the name 'Società Sportiva Pro Gorla Sezione Calcio Ausonia', better known as 'Ausonia Pro Gorla'. However, the club was still unsuccessful and in 1921 the 'Societa Sportiva Pro Gorla' seized to exist due to financial problems. Thus it was decided to merge 'Ausonia' with the club 'Ardita Football Club' under the name 'Ardita Ausonia Football Club'. However, the club was again not very successful and finances were getting worst. Thus after the 1924/25 season the club was dissolved.
HONOURS: Nil.
FULL NAME: Unione Sportiva Avellino 1912
NICKNAME: Lupi (Club Mascot - Wolves, Apennine Wolves that live in the
Irpini - a pre Roman Civilization that lived in the Samnium area, including today's Avellino city)
HISTORY:Founded on the 31 August 1912 as 'Unione Sportiva Calcistica Avellinese'. Along the years the club changed the name a number of times: in 1919 to 'Associazione Sportiva Avellinese', in 1923 to 'Unione Liberi Calciatori Avellinesi', in 1927 returned to 'Associazione Sportiva Avellinese', in 1932 to 'Unione Sportiva Irpinia', in 1933 to 'Associazione Sportiva Avellino', in 1934 to 'Federazione Sportiva Avellino' and in 1937 to 'Gioventù Universitaria Fascista Avellino'. The club became in active after 1938, but was re founded in 1940 as 'Costanzo Ciano Avellino' but changed the name to 'Gioventù Italiana del Littorio Avellino' in 1942. In 1944, at the end of WWII, they changed the name to 'Unione Sportiva Avellino'. In 2009 the club was declared bankrupt but was immediately re-founded as 'Avellino Calcio.12 Società Sportiva Dilettantistica', but a year later they changed the name to 'Associazione Sportiva Avellino 1912' and in 2015 again to 'Unione Sportiva Avellino 1912'. In 2018 the club was disbanded for financial reasons but was immediately re-founded under the name 'Calcio Avellino Società Sportiva Dilettantistica', but a year later returned to the current name.
HONOURS:Stella d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 1979.
FULL NAME: Societa Sportiva Calcio Bari
NICKNAME:Galletti (Club Mascot - Cockerels, selected in a referendum by fans in 1928), Biancorossi (Club Colours - White-Reds), Vecchia Stella del Sud (Old
Star of the South - One of the oldest clubs in the south and the southernmost club to play most
seasons in the Serie A).
HISTORY:Founded on the 15 January 1908 as 'Bari Foot-Ball Club' by a number of Oriundi merchants from different European countries, but the club was disbanded in 1915. In 1924 it was again re-founded as 'Foot-Ball Club Bari', however was again disbanded three years later in 1927. A year later, in 1928 it was again re-founded through the merger of 'Football Club Liberty' (founded in 1909) and 'Unione Sportiva Ideale' (founded in 1908) under the name 'Unione Sportiva Bari'. After WWII, in 1945 the name was changed to 'Associazione Sportiva Bari' but in 2014 the club was declared bankrupt, but was re-founded immediately as 'Football Club Bari 1908'. However in 2018 the club was disbanded again for financial reasons, but was re-founded again a month later as 'Società Sportiva Calcio Bari Società Sportiva Dilettantistica'. A year later, in 2019, the name was changed to the current one.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Stella d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 1978.
Witches, based on the legend that Benevento is the meeting place of witches), Sanniti (from Sanniti - a pre Roman Civilization that lived in the Samnium area, including today's Benevento city).
HISTORY: Founded in 1929 as 'Società Sportiva Littorio Benevento', but changed its name to 'Gioventù Italiana del Littorio Benevento' in 1938 and to 'Gruppo Universitario Fascista Benevento' in 1941. In 1945, after WWII, the name was changed to 'Associazione Calcio Benevento' but in 1953 the club was disolved for financial problems and everything the club possessed was inherited by another club, the 'Associazione Calcio Sanvito Benevento' who continued where the original club had left. In 1962 the club merged with 'Associazione Sportiva Benevento' to create the 'Società Sportiva Benevento',and in 1965 the club merged again, this time with 'Fiamma Sannita' to create the 'Polisportiva Benevento'. The name was changed to 'Società Sportiva Calcio Benevento' in 1979 and in 1990 to ' Football Club Sporting Benevento'. In 2005 it was declared bankrupt but was immediately re-founded with the current name.
HONOURS: Nil.
FULL NAME: Ballspielverein Borussia 09 Dortmund (Ball Game Club
Borussia 09 Dortmund - 'Borussia' is Latin for 'Prussia', an old German state that
Dortmund was part of, but mainly refers to the 'Borussia' beer whose brewery was
near the Club)
NICKNAME: Die Schwarzgelben (Club Colours - The Black-Yellows), Der BVB (The BVB - Name abbreviations as shown on the coat-of-arms), Die Borussen (The Prussians - People from the former German State Prussia),
HISTORY:Founded on the 19 December 1909 by a group of young men at the local pub, 'Zum Wildschütz', unhappy with the church-sponsored 'Dreifaltigkeits-Jugend (Trinity Youth)' where they played football under the stern
control of local parish priest Fr Dewald, who also tried to break up the founding meeting of the club. In 1929 the club was saved from bankrupt by an ex President of the club and local supporters after they modernized their stadium and tried to sign professional players. In the 1930's, during the Nazi era their president was replaced when he refused to join the Nazi Party and a couple of members were executed when caught producing anti-Nazi pamphlets in the clubs offices. After World War II, during the Allied occupation, an attempt was made to merge the club with two other clubs – 'Werksportgemeinschaft Hoesch' and 'Freier Sportverein 98' to create a new club - 'Sportgemeinschaft Borussia von 1898', but this was unsuccessful and when in 1949 the German national league restarted the club started playing as 'Ballspiel-Verein Borussia (BVB)'. By time the name evolved to the current one.
NATIONAL HONOURS:German Champions, 8 - 1955/56, 1956/57, 1962/63, 1994/95, 1995/96, 2001/02, 2010/11, 2011/12. German Cup, 5 - 1964/65, 1988/89, 2011/12, 2016/17, 2020/21. German Super Cup, 6 - 1989, 1995, 1996, 2013, 2014, 2019.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:UEFA Champions League, 1 - 1997. UEFA Cup Winners Cup, 1 - 1966. Intercontinental Cup (FIFA Club World Championship), 1 - 1997.
(Club Mascots - Little Swallows, due to the similarity of the blue colours of the club
shirt and the bird's feathers), Leonessa (Club - Mascot - Lioness, due to the fact that since 1877 Brescia is called the Lioness of Italy after Italian poet Giosuè Carducci paid her tribute for the valiant resistance showed against the Austrian occupiers).
HISTORY:Founded on the 17 July 1911 as 'Foot Ball Club Brescia' through the merger of 'Società Ginnastica La Victoria Brescia' (founded in 1910), 'Gimnasium Brescia' (founded in 1908) and 'Unione Sportiva Brescia' (founded in 1908). In 1936 the club changed its name to 'Associazione Calcio Brescia' and in 1976 the name was changed again to the current one.
NATIONAL HONOURS: Stella d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - ?.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:Anglo-Italian Cup, 1 - 1994. Coppa dell' Amicizia Italo-Svizzera, 1 - 1967.
Riccardo
CALAFIORI
Fabrizio
CALAGARA
Filippo Calixte
MANE
AJAX
CITY: Amsterdam
(Netherlands)
Lorenzo
LUCCA
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 0 GAMES: 0 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
CAPTAINS
No Ajax player ever
led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
LUCCA Lorenzo - A
PLAYERS
No Ajax player ever
played in Azzurro
SCORERS
No Ajax player ever
scored in Azzurro
BENFICA
CITY: Lisbon
(Portugal)
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 0 GAMES: 0 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
CAPTAINS
No Benfica player ever led the
Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
NDOUR Cher - M
PLAYERS
No Benfica player ever
played in Azzurro
SCORERS
No Benfica player ever
scored in Azzurro
Cher
NDOUR
FULL NAME: Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Benfica is a quarter in the city of
Lisbon in which the club is located).
NICKNAME:Os Encarnados (Club Colours - The Reds), As Águias (Club
Mascot - The Eagles), O Glorioso (The Glorious One - The most successful team
in Portuguese football).
HISTORY:Founded on the 28 February 1904 as 'Sport Lisboa'. In 1908 they merged with the cycling club 'Grupo Sport Benfica' (founded in 1906) and became 'Sport Lisboa e Benfica', the current name of the club. Besides football, today the club also manages other sports teams - Roller Hockey, Basketball, Handball, Volleyball, Athletics, Swimming, Rugby, Table Tennis, Billiards and Canoeing.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:UEFA Champions League, 2 - 1961, 1962. Coppa Latina, 1 - 1950.
ARSENAL
SCORERS
No Arsenal player ever
scored in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
1 JORGINHO Jorge L.
PLAYERS
11 JORGINHO Jorge L. - M, 2023
4 CALAFIORI Riccardo - D, 2024
CITY: London
(England)
FULL NAME: Arsenal Football Club (Named after the place where the
club was founded, The Royal Arsenal of Woolwich).
NICKNAME: The Gunners (The name of the club, Arsenal, means the place where
armaments and ammunition are manufactured, and where proofing and explosives research is made for the British armed forces, as reflected on the Club's coat-of-arms).
HISTORY:Founded as 'Dial Square Football Club' in October 1886 by a group of
workers, led by Scotsman David Danskin employed by the Dial Square workshop
at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. In 1987 the name was changed to 'Royal
Arsenal Football Club' and in 1891 the club turned professional and change the name to 'Woolwich Arsenal Football Club'. In 1915 they adapted the current name.
NATIONAL HONOURS:English Champions, 13 - 1930/31, 1932/33, 1933/34, 1934/35, 1937/38, 1947/48, 1952/53, 1970/71, 1988/89, 1990/91, 1997/98, 2001/02, 2003/04. FA Cup, 14 - 1929/30, 1935/36, 1949/50, 1970/71, 1978/79, 1992/93, 1997/98, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2004/05, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2016/17, 2019/20. Football League Cup, 2 - 1986/87, 1992/93. FA Charity / Community Shield, 17 - 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2023. Football League Centenary Trophy, 1 - 1988.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:UEFA Cup Winners Cup, 1 - 1993/94. UEFA (Europa) Cup, 1 - 1969/70.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 2 GAMES: 15 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 1 CAPTAINED GAMES: 1
Jorge L.
JORGINHO
First Player in Azzurro
Most Games in Azzurro
Only Captain in Azzurro
ATLETICO TIGRE
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1 GAMES: 3 SCORERS: 1 GOALS: 2
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
3 RETEGUI Mateo - A, 2023(d)(o)
SCORERS
2 RETEGUI Mateo
Mateo
RETEGUI
Only Player in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Atletico Tigre player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
CITY: Buenos Aires
(Argentina)
FULL NAME: Club Atlético Tigre (Tigre is a town in the Buenos Aires
Province in which the club was founded)
NICKNAME: El Matador ('The Killer' in the Spanish language - established in the late
1950's by a journalist when the club played successfully in the top division of Argentina and surprised everyone with its performance. It also probably refers to the clubmascot, the
Jaguars, which were called tigers, that once roamed the area before the mid- 1800's. Matador
is used in the English language to describe a bullfighter, which in Spanish is called Torero),
Azules del Norte (Northern Blues - The club hails from the northern area of Greater
Buenos Aires and the Blue is the club colour)
HISTORY:Founded on the 3 August 1902 by a group of young men as 'Club
Atlético Juventud del Tigre'. In 1911 the name was changed to the current one.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Copa de la Superliga, 1 - 2019.
ASTON VILLA
SCORERS
No Aston Villal player ever
scored in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Aston Villa player ever led
the Azzurri as Captain
PLAYERS
6 ZANIOLO Nicola - M, 2023
CITY: Birmingham
(England)
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1 GAMES: 6 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
Nicolo
ZANIOLO
Only Player in Azzurro
FULL NAME: Aston Villa Football Club ( Aston is an area of inner
Birmingham and Villa refers to the 'Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel', the area and
place where the club was founded).
NICKNAME: The Lions (Club Mascot), The Villans (The people of 'Villa',
has no link to being disliked or vilified.
HISTORY:Founded in March 1874 with the current name, by members of the 'Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel' by members of the chapel's cricket team looking for a way to stay fit during the winter months. In 1888 it was one of the founding members of the English Football League.
Football League Cup, 5 - 1960/61, 1974/75, 1976/77, 1993/94, 1995/96. FA Charity / Community Shield, 1 - 1981. Sheriff of London Charity Shield, 2 - 1899, 1901. Football League War Cup: 1 - 1944.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:UEFA Champions League, 1 - 1982.UEFA Super Cup, 1 - 1982.
UEFA Intertoto Cup, 2 - 2001, 2008.
FULL NAME: Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio (The name 'Atalanta' comes
from the female princess, athlete and huntress of Greek mythology).
NICKNAME: La Dea (Club Mascot - The Goddess), Nerazzurri (Club
Colours - Black-Blue), Bergamasci (From the city of Bergamo), Orobici
(Orobics - from the Bergamasque (Bergamo) Alps, The Alpi Orobie,), Regina delle Provinciali (Queen of the Provincial Clubs - being the most consistent club in the Serie A among the Italian clubs not based in a regional capital).
HISTORY: Founded in October 1907 by a group of dissidents from the sports association 'Giovane Orobica' (founded in 1901). In 1914 the club was recognized by the FIGC and on the 20 February 1920 it merged with the 'Societa Bergamasca di Ginnastica e Scherma' (founded in 1877 and since 1913 comprising the 'Football Club Bergamo') and changed the name to 'Atalanta Bergamasca di Ginnastica e Scherma'. By time the term 'Ginnastica e Scherma' in the name was changed to 'Calcio'.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Coppa Italia, 1 - 1962/63. Collare d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 2018. Stella d'Oro al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 1975.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS: UEFA (Europa) Cup, 1 - 2024.
FULL NAME: Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht
NICKNAME: Paars-wit (Club Colours - Purple and White in Flemish,
Les Mauves et Blancs (Club Colours - The Purple and Whites in French),
Sporting (Part of the Name), RSCA (Name Abbreviations).
HISTORY:Founded as 'Sporting Club Anderlechtois' on 27 May 1908 by a dozen football lovers at the Concordia café. In 1933 the King of Belgium conferred on the club the title 'Royal' and thus the name was changed to 'Royal Sporting Club Anderlechtois'. In 1985, the name was changed to the current one - 'Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht'.
Bebbi (The way the citizens of the city of Basel are called).
HISTORY:Founded on the 15 November 1893 as 'Fussball Club Basel' after an advert was published three days earlier on the Basel newspaper 'National-Zeitung' for football fans to unit and establish a football club. The meeting was held at the 'Schuhmachern-Zunft Pub' and eleven founder members founded the club. Eventually the founding year '1893' was added to the title.
CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
