AC Milan Youth Sector

AC Milan Primavera

Full name	Associazione Calcio Milan Primavera
Nickname(s)	I Rossoneri(The Red and Blacks) Il Diavolo(The Devil)
Founded	1912, as AC Milan Reserves (it. Riserve)
Ground	Puma House of Football - Centro P. Vismara
Capacity	1,200
Head of Youth Sector	Vincenzo Vergine (men) Gianfranco Parma (women U10–U17) Elisabet Spina (women U19)
Manager	Federico Guidi
League	Campionato Primavera 1
2021–22	Campionato Primavera 1, 13th
Website	http://www.acmilan.com/
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Associazione Calcio Milan Youth Sector (Italian : Settore giovanile dell'Associazione Calcio Milan) is the youth system of Italian football club AC Milan. The Youth Sector is made up of various boys' and girls' squads divided by age groups. Starting from September 2023 Vincenzo Vergine is the Head of the Youth Sector, replacing Angelo Carbone.

The Primavera team are the men's under-19 squad and the highest level team within the set-up. They currently play in the top-tier Campionato Primavera 1 and the Coppa Italia Primavera, as well as representing the club in the UEFA Youth League, where they either qualify through their domestic league or the first team qualifies for the UEFA Champions League.

The Primavera team trains at Milanello alongside the first team and they play the majority of their home games at the Vismara Sports Centre in Milan, which also serves as the training facility for all other teams in the set-up.

Primavera (under-19)

Current squad

As of 29 January 2025 ^[1]
Shirt numbers refer to Primavera matches. ^{[2] [3]} Different numbers may be assigned to players who take part in first-team matches . ^[4] Some players remain eligible for Under-18 squad also.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK   ITA Edoardo Colzani — GK   ITA Pietro Faccioli — GK   ITA Alessandro Longoni — GK   ITA Matteo Pittarella — GK   FRA Noah Raveyre — DF   ITA Salem Albè — DF   ITA Adam Bakoune — DF   ITA Mattia Cappelletti — DF   ITA Federico Colombo — MF   ROU Matteo Duțu — DF   ITA Leonardo Frugnoli — DF   ITA Lorenzo Grilli — DF   ITA Vittorio Magni — DF   ITA Gabriele Minotti — DF   SWE Fredrik Nissen — DF   ITA Dorian Paloschi — DF   ITA Pietro Parmiggiani — DF   ITA Nirash Perera — DF   ITA Edoardo Tartaglia — MF   ITA Christian Comotto — MF   NGA Victor Eletu — MF   ITA Andrea Gualdi — MF   SWE Demirel Hodžić

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   ITA Alessandro Lamorte — MF   ITA Mattia Liberali — MF   ITA Tommaso Mancioppi — MF   ITA Lorenzo Ossola — MF   ITA Ernesto Perin — MF   ITA Gioele Perina — MF   ITA Vincenzo Perrucci — MF   ITA Emanuele Sala — MF   POL Mateusz Skoczylas — MF   POL Dariusz Stalmach — MF   ITA Matteo Tezzele — MF   ITA Alessandro Bonomi — FW   ITA Francesco Camarda — FW   ITA Andrea Di Siena — FW   SWE Maximilian Ibrahimović — FW   ITA Simone Lontani — FW   ITA Filippo Scotti — FW   ITA Diego Sia — FW   ROU Alexandru Șiman — FW   ITA Nicolò Turco (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) — FW   ITA Mattia Zaramella

Managerial history

• Francesco Zagatti (1965–1970)
• Carlo Scarpato (1970–1971)
• Carlo Annovazzi (1977–1978)
• Paolo Ferrario (1978–1980)
• Italo Galbiati (1980–1982)
• Fabio Capello (1982–1986)
• Italo Galbiati (1986–1987)
• Andrea Valdinoci (1987–1991)
• Carlo Garavaglia (1991–1992)
• Luigi Radice & Maurizio Viscidi (1992–1993)
• Maurizio Viscidi (1993–1994)
• Giorgio Morini (1994–1995)
• Walter De Vecchi (1995–1996)
• Simone Boldini (1996–1997)
• Mauro Tassotti (1997–2002)
• Franco Baresi (2002–2006)
• Filippo Galli (2006–2008)
• Alberigo Evani (2008–2009)
• Giovanni Stroppa (2009–2011)
• Aldo Dolcetti (2011–2013)
• Filippo Inzaghi (2013–2014)
• Cristian Brocchi (2014–2016)
• Stefano Nava (2016–2017)
• Gennaro Gattuso (2017)
• Alessandro Lupi (2017–2018)
• Federico Giunti (2018–2022)
• Christian Terni (2022)
• Ignazio Abate (2022–2024)
• Federico Guidi (2024–present)

Youth Sector

The Youth Sector has been responsible for producing some of the club's greatest ever players, including their top three all-time appearance makers, Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta, as well as several players, in recent years, who have managed to become regular players in Serie A. The training facilities are based at the Centro Sportivo Vismara (Vismara Sports Centre), a 57-acre (230,000 m²) site in Gratosoglio, Milan, ^[5] although the Primavera team train at Milanello alongside the first team.

The Youth Sector encompasses several age-group teams ranging from Under-8s up to Under-18s, divided as follows: ^[6]

• Boys

  • Under-18
  • Allievi Nazionali U17
  • Allievi Nazionali U16
  • Giovanissimi Nazionali U15
  • Giovanissimi Regionali A U14
  • Giovanissimi Regionali B U13
  • Esordienti A U12
  • Esordienti B U11
  • Pulcini U10
  • Pulcini U9
  • Primi Calci U8

• Girls

  • Women's Primavera (Under-19)
  • Allieve Nazionali U17
  • Giovanissime U15
  • Esordienti U13
  • Esordienti U11
  • Pulcine U10

Squads

Under-18

As of 5 January 2025. ^[7] Shirt numbers refer to Primavera matches. ^{[8] [9]} For Under-18 matches numbers are issued on a match-by-match basis.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK   ITA Carlo Bassorizzi — GK   FRA Léo Paul Bouyer — GK   PER Paolo Doneda — DF   ITA Salem Albè — DF   ITA Mattia Cappelletti — DF   ITA Gabriele Ceriani — DF   ITA Federico Colombo — DF   ITA Luca Del Forno — DF   ITA Daniele Eberini — DF   ITA Simone Farioli — MF   FRA Maiga-Hamadoun Cissé — MF   ITA Alessandro Di Maria

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   ITA Cristiano Dotta — MF   ITA Matteo Geroli — MF   ITA Lorenzo Ossola — MF   ITA Anthony Pace — MF   ITA Fabio Pandolfi — MF   BRA Denzel Viana Seedorf — FW   ITA Simone Batistini — FW   ROU Francesco Domniței — FW   ITA Simone Lontani — FW   ITA Luca Martinazzi — FW   ITA Marco Melchionda

Allievi Nazionali U17

As of 5 August 2025. ^[10] Shirt numbers refer to Primavera matches. ^{[11] [12]} For Under-17 matches numbers are issued on a match-by-match basis.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK   ITA Alessio Catalano — GK   ITA Matteo Pittarella — DF   ITA Andrea Cullotta — DF   ITA Francesco Ferrara — DF   ITA Kevin Lo Monaco — DF   ITA Kevin Mazzeo — DF   ITA Luca Nolli — DF   ITA Edoardo Tartaglia — DF   ROU Christian Vechiu — DF   BUL Valeri Vladimirov — MF   ITA Stefano Agresta — MF   ITA Gregorio Angelè — MF   ITA Pietro Arnaboldi — MF   FRA Maiga-Hamadoun Cissé

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   ITA Riccardo Grassini — MF   SWE Vincent Ibrahimović — MF   ITA Simon La Mantia — MF   ITA Fabio Pandolfi — MF   ITA Samuele Pisati — MF   ITA Filippo Plazzotta — FW   ITA Emanuele Borsani — FW   ITA Simone Lontani — FW   ITA Simone Lupo — FW   ITA Riccardo Pinessi — FW   CRO Mihajlo Rajakovac — FW   ITA Tommaso Valenta — FW   ITA Mattia Zaramella

Allievi Nazionali U16

As of 5 January 2025. ^[13] Shirt numbers refer to Primavera matches. ^{[14] [15]} For Under-16 matches numbers are issued on a match-by-match basis.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK   ITA Alessandro Bianchi — GK   ITA Pietro Faccioli — GK   ITA Alessandro Pacileo — DF   ITA Daniel Baita — DF   ITA Francesco Bonomi — DF   ITA Luca Di Marco — DF   ITA Paolo Mazzucchelli — DF   ITA Mattia Mercogliano — DF   ITA Ludovico Rocca — DF   ITA Giacomo Zangrillo — MF   ITA Mattia Angelicchio — MF   ITA Diego Carminati — MF   ITA Tommaso Guglielmo

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   UKR Yaroslav Kharkevych — MF   ITA Thomas Martini — MF   ROU Ryan Rusu — MF   ITA Abdou Seye — FW   ITA Pietro Avogadro — FW   ITA Gabriele Borsa — FW   ITA Diego Carminati — FW   ITA Leonardo Colombo — FW   ITA Federico Grilli — FW   ITA Luca Menon — FW   ITA Matteo Morellini — FW   ITA Andrea Zaffanelli

Honours

Primavera

• Campionato Primavera 1: 1 ^[16]
  • 1964–65
• Coppa Italia Primavera: 2 ^[16]
  • 1984–85, 2009–10
• Torneo di Viareggio: 9 ^[16]
  • 1949, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1999, 2001, 2014
• Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup: 2 ^[16]
  • 1958, 1977

Other teams

• Campionato Berretti: 7 ^[16]
  • 1971–72, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1989–90, 1993–94, 2008–09
• Campionato Allievi Nazionali: 5 ^[16]
  • 1994–95, 1995–96, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2010–11
• Campionato Giovanissimi Nazionali: 3 ^[16]
  • 1991–92, 2009–10, 2021-22

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