Football Club Internazionale Milano is an Italian association football club based in Milan, Lombardy. The club was formed on 9 March 1908 to allow foreign players to play in Italy. [1] Inter played its first competitive match on 10 January 1910 against their cross-town rivals Milan, in which they lost 3–2. [2] The club won its very first title in 1910 – the 1909–10 Italian Football Championship. Since then, the club has won a further nineteen league titles, along with nine Italian Cups and eight Italian Supercups. They have also been crowned champions of Europe on three occasions by winning two European Cups back-to-back in 1964 and 1965 and then another in 2010. The club experienced the most successful period in their history from 2006 to 2011, in which it won five successive league titles, equaling the all-time record at that time, [3] by adding three Italian Cups, four Italian Supercups, one UEFA Champions League and one FIFA Club World Cup. During the 2009–10 season, Inter became the first and only Italian team to win the Treble and the second team to win five trophies in a calendar year.
Since playing their first competitive match, more than 900 players have appeared in competitive first-team matches for the club, some of whom have played at least 100 matches (including substitute appearances). Ronaldo, who was signed by Inter for a then world record fee of $27 million, fell one short of 100 appearances for the club, due to various injuries during his Inter career. [4] Maurizio Ganz and Mateo Kovačić played 98 and 97 matches in all competitions for Internazionale.
As of 2024, more than 150 players have played at least 100 matches for the club.
Statistics correct as of 28 April 2024.
Pre-1960s | Post-1960s | ||
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GK | Goalkeeper | ||
FB | Full back | DF | Defender |
HB | Half back | MF | Midfielder |
FW | Forward | ||
U | Utility player [lower-alpha 1] |
Since 1908, 27 players have held the position of club captain for Internazionale. [132] The first club captain was Hernst Marktl, who filled the role for the inaugural season. The longest-serving club captain is Javier Zanetti, who captained the club from 2001 to 2014. [133] Zanetti also has the distinction of having won the most trophies as club captain, with 15; he won five Serie A titles, four Italian Cups, four Italian Super Cups, one UEFA Champions League title and one FIFA Club World Cup. [134]
Dates [132] | Player | Nationality | Notes |
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1909 | Hernst Marktl | First club captain and one of the charter members of the club | |
1909–1915 | Virgilio Fossati | First club captain from Italy | |
1915–1922 | Ermanno Aebi | ||
1922–1931 | Leopoldo Conti | ||
1931–1940 | Giuseppe Meazza | ||
1940–1943 | Attilio Demaría | ||
1943–1950 | Aldo Campatelli | ||
1950–1954 | Attilio Giovannini | ||
1954–1956 | Gino Armano | ||
1956–1957 | Giovanni Giacomazzi | ||
1957–1958 | Giovanni Invernizzi | ||
1958–1961 | Antonio Angelillo | ||
1961–1962 | Bruno Bolchi | ||
1962–1967 | Armando Picchi | ||
1967–1970 | Mario Corso | ||
1970–1977 | Sandro Mazzola | ||
1977–1978 | Giacinto Facchetti | ||
1978–1985 | Graziano Bini | ||
1985–1988 | Alessandro Altobelli | ||
1988–1992 | Giuseppe Baresi | ||
1992–1999 | Giuseppe Bergomi | ||
1999–2001 | Ronaldo | ||
2001–2014 | Javier Zanetti | Led the team to more official trophies (15) than any other Inter captain | |
2014–2015 | Andrea Ranocchia | ||
2015–2019 | Mauro Icardi | ||
2019–2023 | Samir Handanovič | ||
2023–present [131] | Lautaro Martínez |
List of players who won at least ten trophies with Internazionale.
Rank | Player | SA | CI | SCI | UCL | EL | FCWC IC | Total |
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1 | Javier Zanetti | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
2 | Esteban Cambiasso | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 15 |
Iván Córdoba | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 15 | |
Marco Materazzi | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 15 | |
Dejan Stanković | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 15 | |
6 | Júlio César | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 14 |
Paolo Orlandoni | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 14 | |
8 | Walter Samuel | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 13 |
9 | Francesco Toldo | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 12 |
10 | Maicon | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 11 |
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The football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan, Italy is commonly known by Internazionale fans as the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza and by AC Milan fans as the San Siro. It has a seating capacity of 80,018, making it one of the largest stadiums in Europe, and the largest in Italy.
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