If you visit Milan, you must of course get to the Giuseppe Meatzza stadium and watch a league match with FC Inter or AC Milan. Football in Milan has a long history and not least, a number of Swedes over the years have added color to the city's football. In the 1950s it was the trio Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nisse Liedholm in Milan. Even today, Inter and Milan are top teams in the country's best league, Serie A.
Just visiting the giant Giuseppe Meattza stadium is a powerful experience. The stadium was built in 1926 and is owned by the Municipality of Milan. Arch-rivals Milan and Inter share this stadium "fraternally" and play all their home games here. The stadium holds 85,703 spectators and the derbies between Inter and Milan are usually always sold out.
So getting tickets to the games is not the easiest thing to do and can be quite expensive. But it's definitely worth it. Match tickets cost between €11 and €270 for Milan and Inter matches. It depends a bit on where the seats are located.
Tickets are most expensive when it is derby day. Generally speaking, you have to go out very early to get tickets.
Tickets can be purchased on site at the stadium. You can also buy tickets on various Internet sites such as Ticket2 and LA Travel. Another good tip is to contact Inter or Milan's Swedish supporters' club and inquire about tickets. Then you have the chance to get the tickets a little cheaper.
The easiest way to get to the Giueseppe Meatzza stadium is to take tram 16 from the city center. Watching league football in Italy, and especially in Milan, is a must!
Milan football teams and tickets
The two dominant men's football teams in Milan are AC Milan and FC Internazionale Milano (Inter), which both play in Serie A, the country's top league.
Both teams have won the UEFA Champions League, making Milan the only city in Europe with two clubs that have won the title. Incidentally, AC Milan has won the UEFA Champions League title seven times.
AC Milan has won the Scudetton, the Serie A title, 18 times, the same number as Inter. It has come second on 16 occasions and in thirteen seasons it has finished third. The team has also been in Serie A for all seasons from 1929/30, the exception being the early 1980s when the team played two seasons in Serie B.
Has won 18 international titles
AC Milan has won 18 international titles, making it - along with Argentine team Boca Juniors - the most successful club team in the world.
The club won seven titles in 1988/89, which is a club record for most titles won in one season.
The club was formed on December 16, 1899 and was named the Milan Cricket and Football Club. The club was founded by the Englishman Herbert Kilpin. After winning the first title - Medaglia del Rei - in January 1900, the following year the club won the Italian league for the first time.
Incidentally, it was Kilpin who decided that the colors of the suits should be red and black.
Gre-No-Li
Swedes who have played for the club include Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm, (known by the acronym Gre-No-Li), who together moved to Milan in 1949. The Swedish players contributed to the club's heyday in the 1950s.
Nordahl is one of the club's and Serie A's all-time leading scorers. For 66 years, he held the record for a single season in Serie A - 35 goals in the 1949/50 season despite playing fewer games than nowadays. The record stood until 2015/2016.
Liedholm coached the club for three periods and won a league title with the club in 1978/1979. In recent years, Jesper Blomqvist (1996-1997) and Zlatan Ibrahimovic (2010-2012) have played for AC Milan. Ibrahimović won the Serie A scoring title with 28 goals in the 2011/12 season.
Inter - a club for everyone
Rival club Inter was formed in 1908 after a number of defectors left AC Milan when the team decided that only 'purebred' Italians would be allowed to play for the club.
Inter was founded with the idea that everyone, regardless of origin, religion or race, should be able to participate, and the name Internazionale Milano was chosen.
Inter is the only team in Italy that has always played in Serie A. The team won its first league championship back in 1910. It has also won the Champions League/European Cup title three times, as many as the Uefa Europa League/Uefa Cup.
Swedes who have played for the club are Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 2006-2009, Bengt Lindskog (1958-1961), Lennart "Nacka Skoglund" (1950-1959) and his son Evert Skoglund (1970-1974).
Il Derby della Madonnina
One of Europe's most prestigious football derbies - Il Derby della Madonnina - is when Inter plays AC Milan at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, also known as San Siro. Giuseppe Meazza is considered one of the best footballers in Italy ever, some even put him as number one. He also played for both Inter and AC Milan during his career.
The stadium holds over 80,000 spectators and is the largest football stadium in the country. Tickets for the team's matches can be purchased via the clubs' own websites: inter.it/en/biglietteria and acmilan.com/en/methods-of-sale-info.
Tickets are sold both per match and for one season at a time. The price varies depending on which seats the spectator chooses to buy in the stadium.
In addition to the AC Milan website, spectators can purchase tickets at the Casa Milan ticket office, located at Via Aldo Rossi,8, and at all Banca Popolare di Milano branches in the city, as well as at the stadium ticket office, which is only open on the day of the match.
Need a SiamoNoi card
As for Inter's ticket sales, they are basically the same as those of AC Milan. In order to buy a season ticket for Inter's home games, you must have a SiamoNoi card, which can be purchased at Inter's office in the stadium, located at entrance 14.
According to the Inter website, the card is required to register for a season ticket. It is also necessary to access Inter's segregated spectator sector when the team is playing away from home Each SiamoNoi card should be linked to a user profile obtained via the Inter website.
Inter also has several ticket outlets in central Milan, such as Gattinoni Travel Milano via Manzoni, Mariposa Duomo and Schooner Viaggi, piazza Velasca, 6.
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