San Siro is a
football
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stadium in the
San Siro district of
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
, Italy. It has a seating capacity of 75,817, making it the
largest stadium in Italy and one of the
largest stadiums in Europe. It is the home stadium of the city's principal professional football clubs,
AC Milan
(), commonly referred to as Milan or AC Milan () mainly outside of Italy, is an Italian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Founded in 1899, the club competes in the Serie A, the top tie ...
and
Inter Milan
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football ...
, who contest the
Derby della Madonnina
The Derby della Madonnina (; named after the ''Madonnina'' statue on top of the Milan Cathedral), also known as the Derby di Milano (), is a derby football match between the two prominent Milanese clubs, Inter Milan and AC Milan.
In the past, ...
.
On 3 March 1980, the stadium was named in honour of
Giuseppe Meazza
Giuseppe Meazza (; 23 August 1910 – 21 August 1979) was an Italian football manager and player. Throughout his career, he played mainly for Inter Milan in the 1930s, scoring 284 goals in 408 games for the club, and winning three Serie A title ...
, the two-time
World Cup
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winner (
1934
Events
January–February
* January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.
* January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
,
1938
Events
January
* January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS).
* January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
) who played for Inter (and briefly for other teams like Milan) in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and served two stints as Inter's manager.
The San Siro is a
UEFA category four stadium. It hosted three games at the
1934 FIFA World Cup
The 1934 FIFA World Cup was the 2nd edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football championship for List of men's national association football teams, senior men's national teams. It took place in Kin ...
, the opening ceremony and six games at the
1990 FIFA World Cup
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was held from 8 June to 8 July 1990 in Italy, the second country to host the event for a second ...
, three games at the
UEFA Euro 1980
The 1980 UEFA European Football Championship finals tournament was held in Italy. This was the sixth UEFA European Championship, which is held every four years and endorsed by UEFA. It was the first European Championship to feature eight teams ...
and four
European Cup finals
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, in
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
,
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...
,
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
and
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
.
The stadium will also host the opening ceremony of the
2026 Winter Olympics
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in Milan and
Cortina.
History
Construction of the stadium commenced in 1925 in the district of Milan named San Siro, with the new stadium originally named Nuovo Stadio Calcistico San Siro (San Siro New Football Stadium). The idea to build a stadium in the same district as the horse racing track belonged to the president of
AC Milan
(), commonly referred to as Milan or AC Milan () mainly outside of Italy, is an Italian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Founded in 1899, the club competes in the Serie A, the top tie ...
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. The inauguration was on 19 September 1926, when 35,000 spectators saw
Inter defeat
Milan
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6–3. Originally, the ground was home and property of Milan. Finally, in 1947, Inter, who used to play in the
Arena Civica
Arena Civica (), officially Arena Gianni Brera, is a multi-purpose stadium in Milan, Italy, which was opened on 18 August 1807. One of the city's main examples of neoclassical architecture, today it mainly hosts association football, football an ...
downtown, became tenants and the two have shared the ground ever 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 additional, vertically arranged, rings of spectator rows. Nineteen spiralling ramps – each 200 metres long – gave access to the upper tiers. During construction, the realisation of the highest of the three rings was abandoned and the number of visitors limited to 100,000. Then for security reasons, the capacity was reduced to 60,000 seats and 25,000 standing.
On 2 March 1980 the stadium was named for
Giuseppe Meazza
Giuseppe Meazza (; 23 August 1910 – 21 August 1979) was an Italian football manager and player. Throughout his career, he played mainly for Inter Milan in the 1930s, scoring 284 goals in 408 games for the club, and winning three Serie A title ...
(1910–1979), one of the most famous 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 manager). However, in recent years both Inter and Milan fans have called the stadium simply ''San Siro''.
The last major renovation for the San Siro, which cost $60 million, was in of 1987–1990, for the
1990 FIFA World Cup
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. It was decided to modernize the stadium by increasing its capacity to 85,000 spectators and building a cover. The Municipality of
Milan
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entrusted the work to the architects Giancarlo Ragazzi and Enrico Hoffer, and to the engineer Leo Finzi. To increase capacity, a third ring was built (only on three of the four sides, in the two curves and in the west grandstand) which rests on eleven support towers surrounded by helical ramps that allow access to the public. Four of these eleven concrete towers were located at the corners to additionally support a new roof, which has distinctive protruding red girders.
In 1996, a museum was opened inside the stadium charting
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
and Internazionale's history, with historical shirts, cups and trophies, shoes, art objects and souvenirs of all kinds on display to visitors.
Three
Milan derby Champions League knockout ties have taken place at the San Siro, in
2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
,
2005
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and
2023
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with
Milan
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winning the first of two ties with the latter being won by
Inter Milan
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football ...
.
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, Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
, 30 November 2017 The reaction of Inter's fans to impending defeat in the 2005 second leg (throwing flares and other objects at Milan players and forcing the match to be abandoned) earned the club a large fine and a four-game ban on spectators attending European fixtures there the
following season.
Apart from being used by Milan and Inter, the Italy national team occasionally plays matches there. It has also been used for the European Cup finals of
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
(won by Inter),
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...
(won by
Feyenoord
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), and the
UEFA Champions League
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finals of
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
(won by
Bayern Munich
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) and
2016
2016 was designated as:
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* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
(won by
Real Madrid
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).
The stadium was also used for the home leg of three
UEFA Cup
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finals in which Inter was competing (
1991
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,
1994
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In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
,
1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
) when these were played over two legs. It was also used by
Juventus
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for their 'home' leg in
1995
1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
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as they decided against playing their biggest matches at their own
Stadio delle Alpi at the time. On each occasion, apart from 1991, the second leg was played at the 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 final format in
1997–98.
The San Siro has never hosted a final of the
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European association football, football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renam ...
, but was the host stadium for the 1951
Latin Cup
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, a four-team event won by
Milan
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. The city was also the venue for the 1956 edition of the Latin Cup (also won by Milan), but those matches were played at Arena Civica.
Amid the
COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
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The virus was first confirmed to have spread to Italy on 31 January 2 ...
on 25 March, the
Associated Press
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Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are dist ...
dubbed the
UEFA Champions League
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match between Bergamo club
Atalanta
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There are two versions of the huntress Atalanta: one from Arcadia (region), Arcadia, whose parents were Iasus and Clymene (mythology), Clymene and who is primarily known from the tales of the Caly ...
and Spanish club
Valencia
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at the San Siro on 19 February as "Game Zero". The match was the first time Atalanta has progressed to a
Champions League round of 16 match, and had an attendance of over 40,000 people – about one third of Bergamo's population. By 24 March, almost 7,000 people in the
province of Bergamo
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had tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 1,000 people had died from the virus—making Bergamo the most hard-hit province in all of Italy during the pandemic.
Potential replacement
Milan and Internazionale announced their intention in June 2019 to build a new stadium to replace the San Siro. The new 60,000 capacity stadium, which would be constructed next to the San Siro, was initially anticipated to cost US$800 million and be ready for the 2022–23 season, although this did not come to pass.
Giuseppe Sala Giuseppe Sala may refer to:
* Giuseppe Sala (music publisher) (c.1643-1727), Italian music publisher
* Giuseppe Sala (politician) (born 1958), Italian politician
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, the current
Mayor of Milan
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The current office holder is Giuseppe Sala (politician), Giuseppe Sala, a centre-left independent who has been in charge sin ...
, and the ''comune'' of Milan asked for time and stressed that the San Siro would be kept until at least the
2026 Winter Olympics
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and
Winter Paralympics
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to be held in Milan and
Cortina d'Ampezzo
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. The proposed project was also met with some skepticism and opposition by several fans of both teams.
On 26 September 2019, Milan and Internazionale released two potential designs for the new stadium next to the original ground, tentatively named the ''Nuovo Stadio Milano'', designed by
Populous and
MANICA, respectively. On 22 May 2020, Italy's heritage authority raised no objections to demolishing the San Siro. On 21 December 2021, the Populous project was chosen.
On 27 September 2023, Milan chairman
Paolo Scaroni
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Education
In 1969, S ...
announced the club had filed a proposal to build a new 70,000-seater stadium, alongside the club headquarters and museum in the comune of
San Donato Milanese
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, a suburb south of Milan.
International football matches
Italy national team
1934 FIFA World Cup
The stadium was one of the biggest venues of the
1934 FIFA World Cup
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and held three matches.
UEFA Euro 1980
The stadium was one of the four selected to host the matches during the
UEFA Euro 1980
The 1980 UEFA European Football Championship finals tournament was held in Italy. This was the sixth UEFA European Championship, which is held every four years and endorsed by UEFA. It was the first European Championship to feature eight teams ...
.
1990 FIFA World Cup
The stadium was one of the venues of the
1990 FIFA World Cup
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was held from 8 June to 8 July 1990 in Italy, the second country to host the event for a second ...
and held six matches.
2021 UEFA Nations League Finals
The stadium was one of two selected to host the
2021 UEFA Nations League Finals
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matches.
Other sports
2026 Winter Olympics
San Siro is scheduled to host the opening ceremony of the
2026 Winter Olympics
The 2026 Winter Olympics (), officially the XXV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Milano Cortina 2026, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 6 to 22 February 2026 at sites across Lombardy and North ...
co-hosted by Milan.
Boxing
San Siro was the venue for the
boxing
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match between
Duilio Loi vs.
Carlos Ortiz for the
Junior Welterweight title in 1960.
Rugby union
The first rugby union international game at Meazza Stadium was a
1987-89 FIRA European Championship match between
Italy
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and
Romania
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(which won the match 12-3), attended by a crowd of approx. .
21 years later, in November 2009, the venue hosted a test match between Italy and
New Zealand
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.
Without the limitation to approx. imposed for security reasons by the
Home Office
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to
association football
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events, tickets were sold,
which was one of the highest attendances for the venue and more generally the highest at all for a rugby union event in Italy.
The All Blacks won 20-6.
Concerts
Since the 1980s, the stadium has hosted concerts by several major international artists. The first ever to perform there was
Bob Marley
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on 27 June 1980, during the
Uprising Tour. Afterwards it had the opportunity to host
Bob Dylan
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and
Santana
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in 1984,
Bruce Springsteen
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in 1985,
Genesis
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,
Duran Duran
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and
David Bowie
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in 1987,
Michael Jackson
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in 1997, and in more recent times, the
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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in 2004,
U2 in 2005 and 2009,
The Rolling Stones
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in 2006 and 2022,
Madonna
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in 2009,
Depeche Mode
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in 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2023,
Muse
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in 2010, 2019, and 2023,
Bon Jovi
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in 2013,
Pearl Jam
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in 2014,
Beyoncé
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in 2016,
Coldplay
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in 2017 and 2023,
Ed Sheeran
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in 2019, and
Elton John
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in 2022 and
Taylor Swift
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in 2024.
Edoardo Bennato
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He is considered one of the greatest artists in Italian rock, a genre that he has often combined with Blues rock, ...
was the first Italian artist to perform and sell out the stadium in July 1980. In 2007,
Laura Pausini
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became the first female artist to perform at the stadium and also held two consecutive concerts on 4 and 5 June 2016.
Vasco Rossi, is the artist who holds the record for largest number of performances on the stadium, with 29 concerts between 1990 and 2019, followed by
Luciano Ligabue
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Biography
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with 13 concerts. Vasco Rossi also holds the record for consecutive concerts with six shows between 1 and 12 June 2019.
The international artist with the most performances at San Siro is Bruce Springsteen, with seven concerts as of 2024.
Transport connections
The stadium is located in the northwestern part of Milan and can be reached by underground via the dedicated
San Siro subway station (at the end of
line M5), located just in front of the stadium,
or by
tram
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, with line 16 ending right in front of the building. The
Lotto subway station (
line M1 and line M5) is about 15 minutes walk away from San Siro.

Stations nearby:
Average attendances
See also
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Lists of stadiums
The following are lists of stadiums throughout the world. Note that horse racing and motorsport venues are not included at some pages, because those are not stadiums but sports venues.
Combined lists
*List of stadiums by capacity
* List of c ...
References
External links
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AC Milan websiteFC Internazionale Milano websiteSan Siroon Facebook
San Siroon Facebook (AC Milan)
San Siroon Facebook (FC Internazionale Milano)
San Siroat
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Stadium Guide Article
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1925 establishments in Italy
AC Milan
Football venues in Italy
Inter Milan
Italian fascist architecture
Rugby union stadiums in Italy
Museums in Milan
Olympic stadiums
Serie A venues
Sports venues completed in 1926
Sports venues in Milan
Venues of the 2026 Winter Olympics