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AC MILAN STADIUM - STADIO SAN SIRO / GIUSEPPE MEAZZA
Stadium name: San Siro
Capacity : 85,700
Pitch size : 105x68m
Year built : 1926
Venue for European Cup Finals 1965, 1970, 2001
Club Name: Milan Associazione Calcio s.p.a.
Year of Foundation: 1899
Stadium: Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro)
Inauguration: 19 September 1926
First Match: AC Milan vs Inter 3-6
Renovations: 1939, 1955, 1957, 1969, 1990
Team Dressing Rooms: 4
Referee Dressing Rooms: 3
Team Preparation Rooms: 1 (divisible)
Infirmaries & First Aid Locales: 11
Bars: 4
Underground Car Park: 77 car spaces, 3 bus spaces
Disabled Car Parks: 172 car spaces
The San Siro Stadium History
The
San Siro Stadium has been inaugurated on the 19th of September 1926. It
is one of the most well known stadiums in the world. On this stadium AC
Milan and Inter are playing their home matches. The stadium is a gift
for AC Milan from Piero Pirelli and it took about a year to finish. It
first had four stands with a total capacity of 10.000 seats. In 1939
the San Siro Stadium was rebuilt and the capacity raised to 55.000.
Later
in its history, the ramps were rebuilt and the stadium could seat a
total of 150.000 spectators. But, for security reasons, Milano's
council decided to forbid an attendance higher than 100.000.
Due
to the World Cup in 1990 who took place in Italy, the San Siro Stadium
was again restructured in 1989. This restructuring consisted in a
fibreglass roof and eleven stairs towers. The capacity changed to
85.000 as we know it today.
The stadium is specially designed for football. The pitch size is 105x68 metres
In their rich history they have won :
Champions League : 1963_1969_1989_1990_1994_2003
Club Championship : 1969_1989_1990
Cup Winners Cup : 1968_1973
Super Cup : 1989_1990_1994
Italian Cup : 1967_1972_1973_1977_2003
Italian Super Cup : 1989_1992_1993_1994
Serie A: 1901_1906_1907_1951_1955_1957_1959_1962_1968_1979_1988_1992
1993_1994_1996_1999_2004
COPPA LATINA: 1951_1956
AC Milan Important Facts
Most Points in a Season: 82 (2003/04)
Lowest Points in a Season: 27 (1981/82)
Biggest Home Win: 9-0 vs Palermo (1950/51)
Biggest Home Defeat: 1-6 vs Juventus (1935/36)
Most Wins in a Season: 27 (1949/50)
Least Wins in a Season: 5 (1976/77)
Most Defeats in a Season: 15 (1930/31)
Least Defeats in a Season: 0 (1991/92)
Most Goals in a Season: 118 (1949/50)
Least Goals in a Season: 21 (1981/82)
Most Goals Conceded in a Season: 62 (1932/33)
Least Goals Conceded in a Season: 12 (1968/69)
Goalkeeper Record: 929 minutes, Sebastanio Rossi (1993/94)
Most Games: Paolo Maldini (506>>)
Most Goals: Gunnar Nordahl (212)
Team Colors: Red and Black stripped shirt. White shorts and socks
The Story
As
most of you know, AC Milan is one of the best clubs in football history
and its history is one of the most interesting of all. This history
contains two ups and downs, one between the two World Wars and one in
the late 70's and early 80's.
The first two decades in AC
Milan's history were very good. They won the first title in 1901
against Genoa, one of the leading teams of the championship at that
time (the championship was composed of regional leagues and the winner
of each league were invited to take place in a playoff, the winners
being declared Italian Champions). Two consecutive titles came in 1906
and 1907, the victims being Juve in 1906 and Torino along with Andrea
Doria (this team merged later with another team from Genoa to form
Sampdoria Genoa) in 1907. An important negative event took place in
1908, when a part of malcontents from the club formed a club named
Internazionale Milano. The first match against Inter has been played on
the 18th of October 1908, Milan winning 2-1. Then, the championship was
interrupted during the first World War, when a Federal Cup was played,
Milan winning it.
In the period between the two World Wars no
important events took place, except the forming of Girone Unico (the
today's Serie A) in 1929. The best performances in those years were two
3rd places. It is considered one of the two black periods of AC Milan.
The
next period in the club history involves three Swedish players (Gunnar
Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Lledholm), forming the GreNoLi trio. The
Italian clubs were allowed in that period to sign maximum five foreign
players. Nordahl became the best scorer who played for AC Milan ever,
scoring and outstanding 210 goals in 257 matches, an average of 0.81
goals per match. The others two were playing as midfielders. With this
trio, AC Milan won their next four Scudetto's.
At the end of
the 50's three great players joined AC Milan. One of them is Gianni
Rivera brought with a high sum of money, 200.000 $, a record at that
time, from Alessandria. The other two are the Brazilian striker Jose
Altafini and the Uruguayan midfielder Schiaffino.
One of the
greatest periods in Milan's history begun in early 60's with the
purchase of Gianni Rivera. Rivera would bright in the 1963 edition of
the Champions Cup played against Benfica Lisabona, when he made a great
match that Milan won 2-1 with two goals of the Brazilian Jose Altafini.
In 1968 AC Milan won the Scudetto and the Cup Winners Cup. Next year AC
Milan won their second Champions Cup in history, simply smashing the
Dutch side of Ajax Amsterdam, with a great 4-1 win. This is also the
year when Gianni Rivera won the European Footballer of the Year award.
Until the mid 70's AC Milan became the most succesful Italian team,
winning a Cup Winners Cup, being finalists in another Cup Winners Cup
and winning three Italian Cups. The bad things were that Milan did not
won the title and that Rivera's career came to the end. This was the
beginning of the darkest period in the club's history.
We are
talking now about the darkest period in AC Milan history, although
there were some bright moments, a Italian Cup win in 1977 and a
Scudetto in 1979. This is the best part of the worst part. In the
latest part of the 1980 season a scandal about betting rised to the
surface. There were involved in this two players from Milan and the
president Felice Colombo. Due to their involvement, the club has been
relegated for the only time in history in Serie B. Also one of the best
parts of this period was the discovery of the sweeper Franco Baresi.
The adventure took only one year and AC Milan were back in Serie A.
They relegated once again, for the last time, and in the second year in
Serie B, more succesful than the first one, Milan finished first and
promoted in Serie A. This dark period was over when the media
billionaire, Silvio Berlusconi, bought the team.
The new
president brought some new people in the club. Through them were
Roberto Donadoni, the young Paolo Maldini and the three Dutchmen (Marco
van Basten, Frank Rijkaard and Ruud Gullit). The new coach was the
great midfielder of the 50's, Nils Liedholm. Liedholm's coaching career
was not going so good and it was replaced by Ariggo Sacchi. With him at
the helm Milan had won the title in 1987. A new era started. Although
that was Sacchi's only Scudetto, he won on European and International
stage two Champions Cup, two Europeans Super Cups and two
Intercontinental Cups. The coach had a conflict with the Dutch
superstar Marco van Basten and the 1992 year brought a new coach in AC
Milan, Fabio Capello. He won four Serie A titles in five years with a
fantastic 1992 season when Milan hadn't lost any of the matches played
in the league. In the Champions League they played the final in 1993,
losing against Olimpique Marseille with 1-0. The next year they won the
Champions League final with a great 4-0 win against FC Barcelona. The
man of the match was one of the most gifted players ever, the
Yugoslavian Dejan Savicevic. After those great times Capello went to
coach Real Madrid and a series of coaches came: Oscar Washington
Tabarez, Sacchi (2nd time), Capello (2nd time) , Zaccheroni (Zac) and
Fatih Terim. Zac won the 1999 title with AC Milan with a great run in
the last 10 matches, reaching Lazio from behind and taking the lead.
In
the 2000 season, Milan finished 3rd, after Lazio and Juventus. AC Milan
Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko finished as Serie A top scorer with
26 goals.
Season 2001 was very poor for Milan. Only the 6th
position in the league, and this was mainly because of the chain of
injuries that destroyed the team. Due to this injuries chain Zac was
sacked by Berlusconi in spring and Cesare Maldini along with Tassotti
took over until the summer. The greatest achievement of all in this
season was the 6-0 victory over city rivals Internazionale in the
league.
In summer AC Milan made an outstanding transfers
campaign, bringing Contra, Javi Moreno, Pirlo, Rui Costa, Pippo
Inzaghi, Donati, Brocchi and Laursen to the San Siro.
With a new coach and great players Milan is hoping for the glory days to return.
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AC MILAN STADIUM - STADIO SAN SIRO / GIUSEPPE MEAZZA
Stadium name: San Siro
Capacity : 85,700
Pitch size : 105x68m
Year built : 1926
Venue for European Cup Finals 1965, 1970, 2001
Club Name: Milan Associazione Calcio s.p.a.
Year of Foundation: 1899
Stadium: Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro)
Inauguration: 19 September 1926
First Match: AC Milan vs Inter 3-6
Renovations: 1939, 1955, 1957, 1969, 1990
Team Dressing Rooms: 4
Referee Dressing Rooms: 3
Team Preparation Rooms: 1 (divisible)
Infirmaries & First Aid Locales: 11
Bars: 4
Underground Car Park: 77 car spaces, 3 bus spaces
Disabled Car Parks: 172 car spaces
The San Siro Stadium History
The
San Siro Stadium has been inaugurated on the 19th of September 1926. It
is one of the most well known stadiums in the world. On this stadium AC
Milan and Inter are playing their home matches. The stadium is a gift
for AC Milan from Piero Pirelli and it took about a year to finish. It
first had four stands with a total capacity of 10.000 seats. In 1939
the San Siro Stadium was rebuilt and the capacity raised to 55.000.
Later
in its history, the ramps were rebuilt and the stadium could seat a
total of 150.000 spectators. But, for security reasons, Milano's
council decided to forbid an attendance higher than 100.000.
Due
to the World Cup in 1990 who took place in Italy, the San Siro Stadium
was again restructured in 1989. This restructuring consisted in a
fibreglass roof and eleven stairs towers. The capacity changed to
85.000 as we know it today.
The stadium is specially designed for football. The pitch size is 105x68 metres
In their rich history they have won :
Champions League : 1963_1969_1989_1990_1994_2003
Club Championship : 1969_1989_1990
Cup Winners Cup : 1968_1973
Super Cup : 1989_1990_1994
Italian Cup : 1967_1972_1973_1977_2003
Italian Super Cup : 1989_1992_1993_1994
Serie A: 1901_1906_1907_1951_1955_1957_1959_1962_1968_1979_1988_1992
1993_1994_1996_1999_2004
COPPA LATINA: 1951_1956
AC Milan Important Facts
Most Points in a Season: 82 (2003/04)
Lowest Points in a Season: 27 (1981/82)
Biggest Home Win: 9-0 vs Palermo (1950/51)
Biggest Home Defeat: 1-6 vs Juventus (1935/36)
Most Wins in a Season: 27 (1949/50)
Least Wins in a Season: 5 (1976/77)
Most Defeats in a Season: 15 (1930/31)
Least Defeats in a Season: 0 (1991/92)
Most Goals in a Season: 118 (1949/50)
Least Goals in a Season: 21 (1981/82)
Most Goals Conceded in a Season: 62 (1932/33)
Least Goals Conceded in a Season: 12 (1968/69)
Goalkeeper Record: 929 minutes, Sebastanio Rossi (1993/94)
Most Games: Paolo Maldini (506>>)
Most Goals: Gunnar Nordahl (212)
Team Colors: Red and Black stripped shirt. White shorts and socks
The Story
As
most of you know, AC Milan is one of the best clubs in football history
and its history is one of the most interesting of all. This history
contains two ups and downs, one between the two World Wars and one in
the late 70's and early 80's.
The first two decades in AC
Milan's history were very good. They won the first title in 1901
against Genoa, one of the leading teams of the championship at that
time (the championship was composed of regional leagues and the winner
of each league were invited to take place in a playoff, the winners
being declared Italian Champions). Two consecutive titles came in 1906
and 1907, the victims being Juve in 1906 and Torino along with Andrea
Doria (this team merged later with another team from Genoa to form
Sampdoria Genoa) in 1907. An important negative event took place in
1908, when a part of malcontents from the club formed a club named
Internazionale Milano. The first match against Inter has been played on
the 18th of October 1908, Milan winning 2-1. Then, the championship was
interrupted during the first World War, when a Federal Cup was played,
Milan winning it.
In the period between the two World Wars no
important events took place, except the forming of Girone Unico (the
today's Serie A) in 1929. The best performances in those years were two
3rd places. It is considered one of the two black periods of AC Milan.
The
next period in the club history involves three Swedish players (Gunnar
Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Lledholm), forming the GreNoLi trio. The
Italian clubs were allowed in that period to sign maximum five foreign
players. Nordahl became the best scorer who played for AC Milan ever,
scoring and outstanding 210 goals in 257 matches, an average of 0.81
goals per match. The others two were playing as midfielders. With this
trio, AC Milan won their next four Scudetto's.
At the end of
the 50's three great players joined AC Milan. One of them is Gianni
Rivera brought with a high sum of money, 200.000 $, a record at that
time, from Alessandria. The other two are the Brazilian striker Jose
Altafini and the Uruguayan midfielder Schiaffino.
One of the
greatest periods in Milan's history begun in early 60's with the
purchase of Gianni Rivera. Rivera would bright in the 1963 edition of
the Champions Cup played against Benfica Lisabona, when he made a great
match that Milan won 2-1 with two goals of the Brazilian Jose Altafini.
In 1968 AC Milan won the Scudetto and the Cup Winners Cup. Next year AC
Milan won their second Champions Cup in history, simply smashing the
Dutch side of Ajax Amsterdam, with a great 4-1 win. This is also the
year when Gianni Rivera won the European Footballer of the Year award.
Until the mid 70's AC Milan became the most succesful Italian team,
winning a Cup Winners Cup, being finalists in another Cup Winners Cup
and winning three Italian Cups. The bad things were that Milan did not
won the title and that Rivera's career came to the end. This was the
beginning of the darkest period in the club's history.
We are
talking now about the darkest period in AC Milan history, although
there were some bright moments, a Italian Cup win in 1977 and a
Scudetto in 1979. This is the best part of the worst part. In the
latest part of the 1980 season a scandal about betting rised to the
surface. There were involved in this two players from Milan and the
president Felice Colombo. Due to their involvement, the club has been
relegated for the only time in history in Serie B. Also one of the best
parts of this period was the discovery of the sweeper Franco Baresi.
The adventure took only one year and AC Milan were back in Serie A.
They relegated once again, for the last time, and in the second year in
Serie B, more succesful than the first one, Milan finished first and
promoted in Serie A. This dark period was over when the media
billionaire, Silvio Berlusconi, bought the team.
The new
president brought some new people in the club. Through them were
Roberto Donadoni, the young Paolo Maldini and the three Dutchmen (Marco
van Basten, Frank Rijkaard and Ruud Gullit). The new coach was the
great midfielder of the 50's, Nils Liedholm. Liedholm's coaching career
was not going so good and it was replaced by Ariggo Sacchi. With him at
the helm Milan had won the title in 1987. A new era started. Although
that was Sacchi's only Scudetto, he won on European and International
stage two Champions Cup, two Europeans Super Cups and two
Intercontinental Cups. The coach had a conflict with the Dutch
superstar Marco van Basten and the 1992 year brought a new coach in AC
Milan, Fabio Capello. He won four Serie A titles in five years with a
fantastic 1992 season when Milan hadn't lost any of the matches played
in the league. In the Champions League they played the final in 1993,
losing against Olimpique Marseille with 1-0. The next year they won the
Champions League final with a great 4-0 win against FC Barcelona. The
man of the match was one of the most gifted players ever, the
Yugoslavian Dejan Savicevic. After those great times Capello went to
coach Real Madrid and a series of coaches came: Oscar Washington
Tabarez, Sacchi (2nd time), Capello (2nd time) , Zaccheroni (Zac) and
Fatih Terim. Zac won the 1999 title with AC Milan with a great run in
the last 10 matches, reaching Lazio from behind and taking the lead.
In
the 2000 season, Milan finished 3rd, after Lazio and Juventus. AC Milan
Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko finished as Serie A top scorer with
26 goals.
Season 2001 was very poor for Milan. Only the 6th
position in the league, and this was mainly because of the chain of
injuries that destroyed the team. Due to this injuries chain Zac was
sacked by Berlusconi in spring and Cesare Maldini along with Tassotti
took over until the summer. The greatest achievement of all in this
season was the 6-0 victory over city rivals Internazionale in the
league.
In summer AC Milan made an outstanding transfers
campaign, bringing Contra, Javi Moreno, Pirlo, Rui Costa, Pippo
Inzaghi, Donati, Brocchi and Laursen to the San Siro.
With a new coach and great players Milan is hoping for the glory days to return.
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