Italy national football team

**Italy national football team** is the national football team of Italy. They won the FIFA World Cup 4 times (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), and the UEFA European Football Championship twice (1968, 2020).

## Most appearances

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|1|style="text-align: left;"|Gianluigi Buffon|**176**|0||||||
|2|style="text-align: left;"|Fabio Cannavaro|**136**|2|1997–2010|||||
|3|style="text-align: left;"|Paolo Maldini|**126**|7|1988–2002|||||
|4|style="text-align: left;"|Daniele De Rossi|**117**|21|2004–2017|||||
|5|style="text-align: left;"|Andrea Pirlo|**116**|13|2002–2015|||||
|6|style="text-align: left|**Giorgio Chiellini**|**112**|8||||||
|7|style="text-align: left;"|Dino Zoff|**112**|0|1968–1983|||||
|8|style="text-align: left;"|**Leonardo Bonucci**|**109**|8|2010–present|||||
|9|style="text-align: left;"|Gianluca Zambrotta|**98**|2|1999–2010|||||
|10|style="text-align: left|Giacinto Facchetti|**94**|3|1963–1977|||||

## Top scorers

|width=15px|Rank|style="width:125px;"|Player|width=25px|Goals|width=25px|Caps|width=25px|Ratio|width=80px|Period|
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|1|style="text-align:left;"|Luigi Riva|**35**|42||||||||
|2|style="text-align:left;"|Giuseppe Meazza|**33**|53||1930–1939||||||
|3|style="text-align:left;"|Silvio Piola|**30**|34||1935–1952||||||
|rowspan="2"|4|style="text-align:left;"|Roberto Baggio|rowspan="2"|**27**|56||1988–2004||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Alessandro DelPiero|91||1995–2008||||||||
|5|style="text-align:left;"|Filippo Inzaghi|25|57||1997–2007||||||
|6|style="text-align:left;"|Alessandro Altobelli|**25**|61||1980–1988||||||
|7|style="text-align:left;"|Christian Vieri|00|49||1997–2005||||||
|8|style="text-align:left;"|Francesco Graziani|**23**|64||1975–1983||||||

## Competitive record

- FIFA World Cup

- Champions : **4** (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006)
- Runners-Up : **2** (1970, 1994)
- Third Place : **1** (1990)
- Fourth Place : **1 **(1978)

- UEFA European Championship

- Champions : **2** (1968, 2020)
- Runners-Up : **2** (2000, 2012)
- Semi-finals : **1** (1988)

- FIFA Confederations Cup

- Third Place : **1** (2013)

## Related pages

- Italy national under-21 football team
- Serie A

## Other websites

- Official website by FIGC
- Italy at UEFA
- Italy  at FIFA

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Italy
- **nickname**: _Gli Azzurri_ (The Blues)
_La Nazionale_ (The National Team)
- **badge**: Logo Italy National Football Team - 2023.svg
- **badge size**: 140px
- **association**: Italian Football Federation
(_Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio – FIGC_)
- **confederation**: UEFA (Europe)
- **coach**: Roberto Mancini
- **captain**: Giorgio Chiellini
- **most caps**: Gianluigi Buffon (176)
- **top scorer**: Luigi Riva (35)
- **fifa trigramme**: ITA
- **fifa max**: 1
- **fifa min**: 21
- **elo max**: 1
- **elo min**: 21
- **home stadium**: Various
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- **first game**: 6–2
(Milan, Italy; 15 May 1910)
- **largest win**: 9–0
(Brentford, England; 2 August 1948)
- **largest loss**: 7–1
(Budapest, Hungary; 6 April 1924)
- **world cup apps**: 18
- **world cup first**: 1934
- **world cup best**: Champions (1934 FIFA World Cup, 1934, 1938 FIFA World Cup, 1938, 1982 FIFA World Cup, 1982, 2006 FIFA World Cup, 2006)
- **regional name**: UEFA European Championship, European Championship
- **regional cup apps**: 10
- **regional cup first**: UEFA Euro 1968, 1968
- **regional cup best**: Champions (UEFA Euro 1968, 1968, UEFA Euro 2020, 2020)
- **confederations cup apps**: 2
- **confederations cup first**: 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2009
- **confederations cup best**: Third place (2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2013)