AC Milan

**AC Milan** is an Italian football club in Milan. They were started in 1899 by two Englishmen, Herbet Kilpin and Alfred Edwards after a heavy drinking session in the Fiaschetteria Toscana tavern in Milan. Herbet Kilpin became the first team coach and captain whilst Alfred Edwards became the first club president.

Their first name was **Milan Cricket and Football Club**. They have won the Serie A football league 18 times and the Coppa Italia football cup five times. They have won more trophies than any Italian club except for Juventus. In the 2005/06 season, they were punished for setting up the results. They started the 2006/07 season with an eight-point deficit, but they managed to finish fourth and win the UEFA Champions League qualification games. Milan won the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League, defeating Liverpool 2–1 in the final in Athens.

Milan play at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, also known as San Siro because Giuseppe Meazza was a star player for Inter Milan.

## Name

The club was founded by as Milan Football and Cricket Club by an Englishman named Herbert Kilpin. Because of its English origins, in both English and Italian, the club uses the English name "Milan" instead of the Italian name . A similar way of naming exists for Genoa CFC, which uses the name "Genoa" instead of  because of its English origins.

### Names

- 1899–1919 **Milan Cricket and Football Club**
- 1919–1938 **Milan Football Club**
- 1938–1945 **Associazione Calcio Milano**
- 1945–present **Associazione Calcio Milan**

## Honours

- **Serie A** **: 19**
    - 1901, 1906, 1907, 1950/51, 1954/55, 1956/57, 1958/59, 1961/62, 1967/68, 1978/79, 1987/88, 1991/92, 1992/93, 1993/94, 1995/96, 1998/99, 2003/04, 2010/2011, 2021/2022
- **Serie B** **: 2**
    - 1980–81, 1982–83
- **Coppa Italia** **: 5**
    - 1967, 1972, 1973, 1977, 2003
- **Supercoppa Italiana** **: 8** ** – shared record**
    - 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2005, 2011, 2016, 2024
- **European Cup / UEFA Champions League** : 7
    - 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, 2007
- **UEFA Cup Winners' Cup** : 2
    - 1968, 1973
- **UEFA Super Cup** **: 5  – shared record**
    - 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, 2007
- **Intercontinental Cup** **: 3**
    - 1969, 1989, 1990
- **Latin Cup : 2**
    - 1951, 1956
- **Mitropacup : 1**
    - 1982

## League position

|Season|League|Position|
| --- | --- | --- |
|2000/01|Serie A|6th|
|2001/02|Serie A|4th|
|2002/03|Serie A|3rd|
|2003/04|Serie A|Champions|
|2004/05|Serie A|2nd|
|2005/06|Serie A|3rd|
|2006/07|Serie A|4th|
|2007/08|Serie A|5th|
|2008/09|Serie A|3rd|
|2009/10|Serie A|3rd|
|2010/11|Serie A|1st|
|2011/12|Serie A|2nd|
|2012/13|Serie A|3rd|
|2013/14|Serie A|8th|
|2014/15|Serie A|10th|
|2015/16|Serie A|7th|

### Retired numbers

|No.|Player|Nationality|Position|Milan debut|Last match|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|<big>**3***</big>|Paolo Maldini|Italy|Centre back / Left back|25 January 1985|31 May 2009||
|<big>**6**</big>|Franco Baresi|Italy|Sweeper|23 April 1978|1 June 1997||
 Might be restored for one of his two sons, should either of them play professionally for the club.

## Coaching staff

|Position|Name||
| --- | --- | --- |
|Manager|Stefano Pioli||
|Assistant manager|Giacomo Murelli||
|rowspan="4"|Technical coaches|Daniele Bonera|
|Davide Lucarelli|||
|Gianmarco Pioli|||
|Luciano Vulcano|||
|rowspan="4"|Fitness coaches|Loca Monguzzi|
|Matteo Osti|||
|Roberto Peressutti|||
|Marco Vago|||
|rowspan="2"|Goalkeeping coaches|Luigi Turci|
|Emiliano Betti|||
|Team manager|Andrea Romeo||

### Presidential history

Milan has had numerous presidents over the course of its history, some of whom have been owners of the club while others have been honorary presidents. Here is a complete list of them.
<div style="font-size:100%">
||Name||Years||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|width="10"||valign="top"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"||||||
|align=left|Alfred Edwards|align=left|1899–1909||||||
|align=left|Piero Pirelli|align=left|1909–1928||||||
|align=left|Luigi Ravasco|align=left|1928–1930||||||
|align=left|Mario Benazzoli|align=left|1930–1933||||||
|align=left|_Commission_|align=left|1933||||||
|align=left|Luigi Ravasco|align=left|1933–1935||||||
|align=left|Pietro Annoni|align=left|1935–1936||||||
|align=left|_Regency_|align=left|1936||||||
|align=left|Emilio Colombo|align=left|1936–1939||||||
|align=left|Achille Invernizzi|align=left|1939–1940||||||
|align=left|_Commission_|align=left|1940–1944|}|width="30"||valign="top"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"|
|align=left|_Regency_|align=left|1944–1945||||||
|align=left|Umberto Trabattoni|align=left|1945–1954||||||
|align=left|Andrea Rizzoli|align=left|1954–1963||||||
|align=left|Felice Riva|align=left|1963–1965||||||
|align=left|_Commission_|align=left|1965–1966||||||
|align=left|Luigi Carraro|align=left|1966–1967||||||
|align=left|Franco Carraro|align=left|1967–1971||||||
|align=left|Federico Sordillo|align=left|1971–1972||||||
|align=left|Albino Buticchi|align=left|1972–1975||||||
|align=left|Bruno Pardi|align=left|1975–1976||||||
|align=left|Vittorio Duina|align=left|1976–1977|}|width="30"||valign="top"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"|
|align=left|Felice Colombo|align=left|1977–1980||||||
|align=left|Gaetano Morazzoni|align=left|1980–1982||||||
|align=left|Giuseppe Farina|align=left|1982–1986||||||
|align=left|Rosario Lo Verde|align=left|1986||||||
|align=left|Silvio Berlusconi|align=left|1986–2004||||||
|align=left|_Regency_|align=left|2004–2006||||||
|align=left|Silvio Berlusconi|align=left|2006–2008||||||
|align=left|_Regency_|align=left|2008–2017||||||
|align=left|Li Yonghong|align=left|2017–2018||||||
|align=left|Paolo Scaroni|align=left|2018–|}|||||
</div>

### Managerial history

Nereo Rocco is the most successful manager in the history of AC Milan with ten trophies.

Below is a list of Milan coaches from 1900 until the present day.
<div style="font-size:100%">
||Name||Nationality||Years|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|width="10"||valign="top"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"|||
|align=left|Herbert Kilpin||align=left|1900–1908||
|align=left|Daniele Angeloni||align=left|1906–1907||
|align=left|_Technical Commission_||align=left|1907–1910||
|align=left|Giovanni Camperio||align=left|1910–1911||
|align=left|_Technical Commission_||align=left|1911–1914||
|align=left|Guido Moda||align=left|1915–1922||
|align=left|Ferdi Oppenheim||align=left|1922–1924||
|align=left|Vittorio Pozzo||align=left|1924–1926||
|align=left|Guido Moda||align=left|1926||
|align=left|Herbert Burgess||align=left|1926–1928||
|align=left|Engelbert König||align=left|1928–1931||
|align=left|József Bánás||align=left|1931–1933||
|align=left|József Viola||align=left|1933–1934||
|align=left|Adolfo Baloncieri||align=left|1934–1937||
|align=left|William Garbutt||align=left|1937||
|align=left|Hermann Felsner József Bánás||align=left|1937–1938||
|align=left|József Viola||align=left|1938–1940||
|align=left|Guido Ara Antonio Busini||align=left|1940–1941||
|align=left|Mario Magnozzi||align=left|1941–1943||
|align=left|Giuseppe Santagostino||align=left|1943–1945||
|align=left|Adolfo Baloncieri||align=left|1945–1946||
|align=left|Giuseppe Bigogno||align=left|1946–1949||
|align=left|Lajos Czeizler||align=left|1949–1952||
|align=left|Gunnar Gren||align=left|1952||
|align=left|Mario Sperone||align=left|1952–1953||
|align=left|Béla Guttmann||align=left|1953–1954||
|align=left|Antonio Busini||align=left|1954||
|align=left|Hector Puricelli||align=left|1954–1956||
|align=left|Giuseppe Viani||align=left|1957–1960||
|align=left|Paolo Todeschini||align=left|1960–1961||
|align=left|Nereo Rocco||align=left|1961–1963||
|align=left|Luis Carniglia||align=left|1963–1964||
|align=left|Nils Liedholm||align=left|1963–1966||
|align=left|Giovanni Cattozzo||align=left|1966||
|align=left|Arturo Silvestri||align=left|1966–1967||
|align=left|Nereo Rocco||align=left|1967–1972||
|align=left|Cesare Maldini||align=left|1973–1974||
|}|width="30"||valign="top"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"||
|align=left|Giovanni Trapattoni||align=left|1974||
|align=left|Gustavo Giagnoni||align=left|1974–1975||
|align=left|Nereo Rocco||align=left|1975||
|align=left|Paolo Barison||align=left|1975–1976||
|align=left|Giovanni Trapattoni||align=left|1976||
|align=left|Giuseppe Marchioro||align=left|1976–1977||
|align=left|Nereo Rocco||align=left|1977||
|align=left|Nils Liedholm||align=left|1977–1979||
|align=left|Massimo Giacomini||align=left|1979–1981||
|align=left|Italo Galbiati||align=left|1981||
|align=left|Luigi Radice||align=left|1981–1982||
|align=left|Italo Galbiati||align=left|1982||
|align=left|Francesco Zagatti||align=left|1982||
|align=left|Ilario Castagner||align=left|1982–1984||
|align=left|Italo Galbiati||align=left|1984||
|align=left|Nils Liedholm||align=left|1984–1987||
|align=left|Fabio Capello||align=left|1987||
|align=left|Arrigo Sacchi||align=left|1987–1991||
|align=left|Fabio Capello||align=left|1991–1996||
|align=left|Óscar Tabárez Giorgio Morini||align=left|1996||
|align=left|Arrigo Sacchi||align=left|1996–1997||
|align=left|Fabio Capello||align=left|1997–1998||
|align=left|Alberto Zaccheroni||align=left|1998–2001||
|align=left|Cesare Maldini Mauro Tassotti||align=left|2001||
|align=left|Fatih Terim Antonio Di Gennaro||align=left|2001||
|align=left|Carlo Ancelotti||align=left|2001–2009||
|align=left|Leonardo||align=left|2009–2010||
|align=left|Massimiliano Allegri||align=left|2010–2014||
|align=left|Mauro Tassotti (caretaker)||align=left|2014||
|align=left|Clarence Seedorf||align=left|2014||
|align=left|Filippo Inzaghi||align=left|2014–2015||
|align=left|Siniša Mihajlović||align=left|2015–2016||
|align=left|Cristian Brocchi||align=left|2016||
|align=left|Vincenzo Montella||align=left|2016–2017||
|align=left|Gennaro Gattuso||align=left|2017–2019||
|align=left|Marco Giampaolo||align=left|2019||
|align=left|Stefano Pioli||align=left|2019–|}|
</div>

## Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

|rowspan="2"|Period|rowspan="2"|Kit manufacturer|colspan="2"|Shirt sponsor|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1981–82|Linea Milan|Pooh Jeans|Italiana Manifatture|||
|1982–83|rowspan=2|NR|Hitachi|Hitachi Europe||
|1983–84|colspan=2|Cuore||||
|1984–85|Rolly Go|Oscar Mondadori|Arnoldo Mondadori Editore|||
|1985–86|Gianni Rivera|rowspan=2|Fotorex U-Bix|rowspan=2|Olivetti|
|1986–87|rowspan=2|Kappa||||
|1987–90|rowspan=2 colspan=2|Mediolanum||||
|1990–92|rowspan=2|Adidas||||
|1992–93|rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Motta||||
|1993–94|rowspan=2|Lotto||||
|1994–98|rowspan=2|Opel|rowspan=2|General Motors||
|1998–06|rowspan=3|Adidas||||
|2006–10|colspan=2|Bwin||||
|2010–18|rowspan=2|Emirates|rowspan=2|The Emirates Group||
|2018–|Puma|||||

## Other websites

- AC Milan official website

## Infobox (football club)

- **clubname**: AC Milan
- **image**: Logo of AC Milan.svg
- **upright**: 0.6
- **alt**: AC Milan badge
- **fullname**: Associazione Calcio Milan SpA
- **nickname**: I Rossoneri (The Red and Blacks)
- **founded**: 16 December 1899 (126 years ago)
- **ground**: San Siro
- **capacity**: 80,018
- **chairman**: Paolo Scaroni
- **manager**: Massimiliano Allegri
- **league**: Serie A
- **season**: Serie A 2024-25, 2024-25
- **position**: 8th
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