stadium in Italy
This article is about the football stadium in Milan. For early uses, see San Siro ( disambiguation )
Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, normally known as the San Siro, is a football stadium in the San Siro zone of Milan, Italy, which is the home of A.C. Milan and Internazionale. It has a seat capacity of 80,018, making it one of the largest stadiums in Europe, and the largest in Italy.

On 3 March 1980, the stadium was named in respect of Giuseppe Meazza, the two-time World Cup winner ( 1934, 1938 ) who played for Inter and briefly for Milan in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s [ 3 ] and served two stints as Inter ‘s director. San Siro is a UEFA class four stadium. It hosted three games at the 1934 FIFA World Cup, six games at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, three games at the UEFA Euro 1980, and four european Cup finals, in 1965, 1970, 2001 and 2016. [ 4 ] The stadium will besides host the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo .

history [edit ]

horizon of the stadium at night structure of the stadium commenced in 1925 in the district of Milan named San Siro, with the new stadium in the first place named Nuovo Stadio Calcistico San Siro ( San Siro New Football Stadium ). [ 5 ] The theme to build a stadium in the lapp district as the horse racing path belonged to the president of A.C. Milan at the time, Piero Pirelli. The architects designed a private stadium only for football, without athletics tracks which characterized italian stadiums built with public funds. [ 6 ] The inauguration was on 19 September 1926, when 35,000 spectators saw Inter frustration Milan 6–3. primitively, the ground was home and property of A.C. Milan. finally, in 1947, Inter, who used to play in the Arena Civica downtown, [ 7 ] became tenants and the two have shared the prime always since. From 1948 to 1955, engineers Armando Ronca and Ferruccio Calzolari developed the project for the second extension of the stadium, which was meant to increase the capacity from 50,000 to 150,000 visitors. Calzolari and Ronca proposed three extra, vertically arranged, rings of spectator rows. Nineteen spiralling ramps – each 200 metres long – gave access to the upper berth tiers. During construction, the realization of the highest of the three rings was abandoned and the number of visitors limited to 100,000. [ 8 ] then for security system reasons, the capacity was reduced to 60,000 seats and 25,000 standing. On 2 March 1980 the stadium was named for Giuseppe Meazza ( 1910–1979 ), one of the most celebrated milanese footballers. For a time, Inter fans called the stadium Stadio Meazza due to Meazza ‘s stronger connections with Inter ( 14 years as a player, three stints as coach ). however, in holocene years both Inter and Milan fans have called the stadium simply San Siro. The last major renovation for San Siro, which cost $ 60 million, was that of 1987–1990, for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. It was decided to modernize the stadium by increasing its capacity to 85,000 spectators and building a cover. The Municipality of Milan entrusted the oeuvre to the architects Giancarlo Ragazzi and Enrico Hoffer and to the engineer Leo Finzi. To increase capacitance, a third ring was built ( only in the two curves and in the west grandstand ) which rests on eleven support towers surrounded by coiling ramps that allow access to the populace. Four of these football team concrete towers were located at the corners to support a new ceiling, which has classifiable bulge crimson girders. In 1996 a museum was opened inside the stadium charting A. C. Milan and Inter ‘s narrative, with historical shirts, cups and trophies, shoes, art objects and souvenirs of all kinds on expose to visitors. Two Milan bowler hat Champions League hard ties have taken position at San Siro, in 2003 and 2005, with A.C. Milan winning both ties. [ 9 ] The reaction of Inter ‘s fans to impending kill in the 2005 match ( throwing flares and other objects at Milan players and forcing the equal to be abandoned ) [ 10 ] earned the baseball club a big fine and a four-game ban on spectators attending european fixtures there the succeed season. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] aside from being used by Milan and Inter, the italian national team occasionally plays games there. [ 14 ] It has besides been used for the european Cup finals of 1965 ( won by Inter ), 1970 ( won by Feyenoord ), and the UEFA Champions League finals of 2001 ( won by FC Bayern Munich ) and 2016 ( won by Real Madrid ). [ 4 ] [ 15 ] The stadium was besides used for the home leg of three UEFA Cup finals in which Inter was competing ( 1991, 1994, 1997 ) when these were played over two legs. It was besides used by Juventus for their ‘home ‘ stage in 1995 as they decided against playing their biggest matches at their own Stadio delle Alpi at the time. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] On each juncture, apart from 1991, the second stage was played at San Siro and the winners lifted the trophy there. however, the stadium has not yet been selected as the host stadium since the competition changed to a single-match concluding format in 1997–98. San Siro has never hosted a final examination of the UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup, but was the host stadium for the 1951 Latin Cup, a four-team event win by A.C. Milan. The city was besides the venue for the 1956 edition of the Latin Cup ( besides won by Milan ), but those matches were played at Arena Civica. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, on 25 March, the Associated Press dubbed the UEFA Champions League meet between Bergamo club Atalanta B.C. and spanish baseball club Valencia at San Siro on 19 February as “ Game Zero ”. The equal was the first clock time Atalanta has progressed to a Champions League round of 16 equal, and had an attendance of over 40,000 people—about one third of Bergamo ‘s population. By 24 March, about 7,000 people in the province of Bergamo had tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 1,000 people had died from the virus—making Bergamo the most hard-hit state in all of Italy during the pandemic. [ 19 ]

potential refilling [edit ]

On 24 June 2019, AC Milan and Internazionale announced their purpose to build a new stadium to replace San Siro. The new 60,000 capacity stadium, which would be constructed adjacent to San Siro, is anticipated to cost US $ 800 million and would be ready for the 2022–23 temper. The plan of the modern stadium is said to be based upon the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. [ 20 ] Giuseppe Sala, the current Mayor of Milan, and the comune of Milan asked for clock and stressed that San Siro would be kept until at least the 2026 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics to be held in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The proposed project was besides met with some agnosticism and enemy by several fans of both teams. [ 23 ] On 26 September 2019, A. C. Milan and Internazionale released two potential designs for the new stadium adjacent to the original labor, tentatively named the Nuovo Stadio Milano, designed by Populous and MANICA, respectively. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] On 22 May 2020, Italy ‘s inheritance authority raised no objections to demolishing San Siro. [ 26 ]

Italy national team [edit ]

1934 FIFA World Cup [edit ]

The stadium was one of the biggest venues of the 1934 FIFA World Cup and held three matches .

Date Team #1 Result Team #2 Round
27 May 1934   Switzerland 3–2  Netherlands Round of 16
31 May 1934  Germany 2–1  Sweden Quarter-finals
3 June 1934  Italy 1–0  Austria Semi-finals

UEFA Euro 1980 [edit ]

The stadium was one of the four selected to host the matches during the UEFA Euro 1980 .

1990 FIFA World Cup [edit ]

The stadium was one of the venues of the 1990 FIFA World Cup and held six matches .

2021 UEFA Nations League Finals [edit ]

The stadium was one of two selected to host the 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals matches .

Date Team #1 Result Team #2 Round
6 October 2021  Italy 1–2  Spain Semi-finals (opening match)
10 October 2021  Spain 1–2  France Final

early sports [edit ]

2026 Winter Olympics [edit ]

Opening ceremony 6 February

Boxing [edit ]

San Siro was the venue for the boxing match between Duilio Loi vanadium. Carlos Ortiz for the Junior Welterweight title in 1960 .

Rugby union [edit ]

The first and entirely top level rugby union match to be played at San Siro was a test match between Italy and New Zealand in November 2009. A crowd of 80,000 watched the event, a record for italian rugby .

Year Date Match Country Score Country Attendance
2009 14 November non-cap Italy 6–20 New Zealand 80,000

Concerts [edit ]

Besides football, San Siro can be configured to hold many other events, particularly major concerts.

Concert of Vasco Rossi in 2007

transport connections [edit ]

The stadium is located in the northwestern depart of Milan and can be reached by underground via the dedicate San Siro underpass station ( at the end of line M5 ), located just in front of the stadium, [ 27 ] or by tram, with line 16 ending proper in front of the build. The Lotto underpass post ( line M1 and cable M5 ) is about 15 minutes walk away from San Siro. Stations nearby :
Panorama of the stadium. Panorama of the stadium

References [edit ]

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