Gigi Riva

**Luigi Riva** (7 November 1944 – 22 January 2024) was an Italian football player. He played for Italy national team.

## Death

On 21 January 2024, Riva was hospitalized at the San Michele Hospital in Cagliari, Italy because of acute coronary syndrome. He died of a heart attack the next day at the age of 79.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|Coppa Italia|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Legnano|1962–63|Serie C|23|6|0|0|0|0|0|0|23|6||
|rowspan="14"|Cagliari|1963–64|Serie B|26|8|2|0|0|0|0|0|28|8|
|1964–65|Serie A|32|9|4|3|0|0|0|0|36|12|||
|1965–66|Serie A|34|11|3|0|0|0|0|0|37|11|||
|1966–67|Serie A|23|18|3|0|1|1|0|0|27|19|||
|1967–68|Serie A|26|13|1|0|4|3|0|0|31|16|||
|1968–69|Serie A|29|20|6|8|2|0|0|0|37|28|||
|1969–70|Serie A|28|21|6|5|0|0|2|1|36|27|||
|1970–71|Serie A|13|8|5|5|4|2|3|3|25|18|||
|1971–72|Serie A|30|21|4|3|0|0|0|0|34|24|||
|1972–73|Serie A|26|12|6|8|0|0|1|0|33|20|||
|1973–74|Serie A|25|15|1|0|0|0|0|0|26|15|||
|1974–75|Serie A|8|2|1|1|0|0|0|0|9|3|||
|1975–76|Serie A|15|6|0|0|0|0|0|0|15|6|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="10"|Italy|1965|1|0|
|1966|1|0|||
|1967|4|6|||
|1968|2|2|||
|1969|6|8|||
|1970|10|6|||
|1971|3|2|||
|1972|6|4|||
|1973|7|7|||
|1974|2|0|||

## Honours

**Cagliari**
- Serie A: 1969–70

**Italy**
- FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1970
- UEFA European Championship: 1968

**Individual**
- Serie A top scorer: 1966–67, 1968–69, 1969–70
- Ballon d'Or: runner-up: 1969; third place: 1970
- UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1968
- World Soccer's 100 Greatest Footballers of All Time: 1999
- Golden Foot "Football Legends": 2005
- Inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2011
- Inducted into the Walk of Fame of Italian sport: 2015
- Inducted into the Cagliari Hall of Fame
- Cagliari Greatest All-time Starting XI

**Orders**
    - 3rd Class / Commander: _Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana_: 1991

- 2nd Class / Grand Officer: _Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana_:2000

- CONI: _Golden Star of Sports Merit_: 2006

- CONI: _Golden Collar of Sports Merit_: 2016

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Gigi Riva
- **image**: Gigi Riva, Italia, 1968 (cropped).JPG
- **caption**: Riva with Italy national football team, Italy in 1968
- **full name**: Luigi Riva
- **birth place**: Leggiuno, Italy
- **death place**: Cagliari, Italy
- **height**: 1.80 m
- **position**: Forward (association football), Forward, Striker (association football), Striker
- **youthyears1**: 1961–1962
- **youthclubs1**: Laveno Mombello
- **youthyears2**: 1962
- **youthclubs2**: Legnano
- **years1**: 1962–1963
- **clubs1**: A.S.D. Legnano Calcio 1913, Legnano
- **caps1**: 23
- **goals1**: 6
- **years2**: 1963–1976
- **clubs2**: Cagliari Calcio, Cagliari
- **caps2**: 315
- **goals2**: 164
- **totalcaps**: 338
- **totalgoals**: 170
- **nationalyears1**: 1965–1974
- **nationalteam1**: Italy national football team, Italy
- **nationalcaps1**: 42
- **nationalgoals1**: List of international goals scored by Gigi Riva, 35
- **manageryears1**: 1988–2013
- **managerclubs1**: Italy national football team, Italy (technical director)