San Siro
45°28′41″N 9°7′26″E / 45.47806°N 9.12389°E
Stadio Giuseppe Meazza La Scala del calcio | |
UEFA | |
| Former names | Stadio Comunale di San Siro |
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| Address | Piazzale Angelo Moratti, 20151 |
| Location | Milan, Italy |
| Public transit | |
| Owner | AC Milan (1926–1935) Municipality of Milan (1935–present) |
| Operator | M-I Stadio s.r.l. |
| Type | Stadium |
| Executive suites | 30 |
| Capacity | 75,817[1] (limited capacity) 80,018[2] (maximum) |
| Field size | 105 m × 68 m |
| Surface | GrassMaster hybrid grass |
| Scoreboard | Tecnovision |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | December 1925 |
| Opened | 19 September 1926 |
| Renovated | 1935, 1955, 1987–1990, 2015–2016 |
| Architect |
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| Tenants | |
| AC Milan (1926–1941, 1945–present) Inter Milan (1947–present) Italy national football team (selected matches) | |
San Siro is a football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan, Italy. Nicknamed La Scala del calcio (English: La Scala of Football),[3][4] it has a seating capacity of 75,817, making it the largest stadium in Italy and one of the largest stadiums in Europe.[5] It is the home stadium of the city's principal professional football clubs, AC Milan and Inter Milan, who contest the Derby della Madonnina.
On 3 March 1980, the stadium was named in honour of Giuseppe Meazza, the two-time World Cup winner (1934, 1938) who played for Inter (and briefly for other teams like Milan) in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s,[6] 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 opening ceremony and 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.[7] The stadium will also host the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina.
- ^ "Structure". sansirostadium.com. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ "San Siro, per le vibrazioni al terzo anello chiusi sei settori: "Nessun problema di sicurezza, ma così si evita il panico"". La Repubblica (in Italian). 1 August 2019. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ D'Angelo, Maria Carmela (7 July 2022). "Lo stadio: gioia, nostalgia e lutto Poesia e calcio" (in Italian). Treccani. Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
- ^ "San Siro Stadium "La Scala del Calico"". www.sansirostadium.com. . Archived from the original on 10 September 2025. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
San Siro has earned the nickname "La Scala del Calcio," because of its prestige and the importance of the events it hosts.
- ^ "Structure - San Siro Stadium". www.sansirostadium.com. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
- ^ "The history of the San Siro stadium". AC Milan.com. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
- ^ "Milan to host 2016 UEFA Champions League final". UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 18 September 2014. Archived from the original on 20 September 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2015.