Directions
The stadium is situated in the San Siro district in the Ovest di Milano (Western Milan) area, app. 5.5km from the city centre.

By car:
From Torino (A4):
After the pay-station proceed towards Venezia (Venice) up to the intersection for "Milano Certosa"; from there follow the road signs to the Stadium.
From Bologna, Firenze & Roma (A1): Take the bypass 'Tangenziale Ovest' and leave the road at the intersection for Statale 11; 
from there follow the signs to the Stadium.
By metro:
Line MM1 to Molino Dorino. Leave at station Lotto-Fiera2.
By Tram:
Line 16 (from Cathedral square)

Club Information
Associazione Calcio Milan is an Italian football club based in Milan. They play in red and black stripes, giving them the nickname Rossoneri ("red-blacks"). The team is known colloquially as Milan, while its city rivals are known in English, simply as Inter. One of the most successful clubs in the world, A.C. Milan has won the prestigious UEFA Champions League six times, the World Club crown (Intercontinental Cup) 3 times, the Serie A title 17 times (only rivals Juventus F.C. have more Scudetti) and the Coppa Italia (Italian Cup) five times. In total they have won 12 European trophies, sharing the record with Real Madrid. It is also one of the most supported football clubs in the world, and along with Juventus and Inter are one of the most popular teams in Italy. The club was founded in 1899 by Alfred Edwards, a British expatriate. In honour of its origins, the club has retained the English spelling of its city's name, instead of changing it to the Italian Milano (though it was forced to do it during the fascist regime, like Genoa and Inter); it should be noted that the Italian pronunciation is actually MEE-lahn, even though the English one is the same as in the local dialect and many other dialects of Northern Italy. Historically, AC Milan was supported by the city's working class and trade unionists many of whom were migrants from the South of Italy. Inter, the other big club from the city was mainly supported by the more prosperous and typically Milanese middle-class. However, in recent years, the clubs have seen a notable reversal in their political positions, since Milan is now owned by media magnate and past conservative Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, while Inter is now owned by a centre-left oil businessperson, Massimo Moratti. However, AC Milan's fans still tend to be mainly left-wing as opposed to Inter Milan fans who always have been traditionally right-wing. Milan were involved in the 2006 Serie A scandal where five teams were accused of fixing matches by selecting favourable referees. Milan were punished with a 15 point deduction, which was later reduced to 8 points on appeal. In 1980 Milan were involved in the Totonero scandal and were relegated to Serie B as punishment. The scandal was centred around a betting syndicate paying players and officials to fix the outcome of matches. AC Milan's official colours have been red and black since its foundation. These colours were chosen to represent the fiery ardour that is part of the team members and the opponents' fear to challenge the team. The badge represents the club colours and the flag of the Comune di Milano (Municipality of Milan), with the acronym ACM at the top and the foundation year (1899) at the bottom. 

Milan's current third kit 
The home jersey is red and black vertical striped, with white shorts and black socks. The away strip has always been completely white. The latter is considered by both the fans and the club as their "lucky" strip in Champions League finals, due to the fact that Milan won six finals out of eight in an all white strip (losing only to Ajax in 1995 and Liverpool in 2005), while lost both the finals played in their home strip. The third kit changes yearly and is black with red trim for the current season, but it is rarely used. The Goalkeeper kit is either green or yellow shirt, black shorts and black socks.

Goalkeepers kit 
The Austrian on-line betting company bwin are currently Milan's main jersey sponsors after signing a 4 year deal at the start of the 2006/2007 season. Previous to this deal, the German car manufacturer, Opel had sponsored Milan for 12 seasons. For most of them, Opel was displayed on the front of the jersey, but in the 2003-04 and the 2005-06 seasons respectively, Meriva and Zafira (two cars from their range) were displayed.The current jerseys are supplied by German sportswear manufacturer Adidas, whose deal runs to the end of the 2007/2008 season. The deal makes Adidas the official manufacturer of all kits, training equipment and replica outfits. Prior to Adidas, the Italian sports company, Lotto produced Milan's sportswear.

The Milanello
Milan’s training ground, Milanello, is located just outside the city of Milan, in the village of Varese (approx. 50 kilometres). It was built over two years from 1961 to 1963, and has been serving as a top-modern training lab ever since. Silvio Berlusconi took over AC Milan in 1986, and that saw him reorganise and renew the Milanello to meet the standards of professionel football in the 80's. The Milanello, however, never stopped evolving, and to this day it is considered amongst the most hi-tech and efficient training grounds throughout the soccer world. Speculations are, that the wonders of the Milanello lab, make it possible for Milans players to go on and on for ages, with the likes of ageing players like Maldini, Costacurta and Cafu still going strong within the squad. The Milanello holds 46 rooms with space for 56 beds. President Silvio Berlusconi has his own room. 14 permanent staff members are employed at Milanello. 

Twice every season the Milan Derby or the Derby della Madonnina as it is known in Italian is played between Milan and Inter. These are seen as two of the most important derbies in football and are always highly anticipated events in the Italian sports calendar. Occasionally there have also been derbies in the Champions League, Coppa Italia, Super Coppa Italiana and the Birra Moretti Trophy. Currently, Milan lead Inter with 104 wins to 89 in total respectively. However Inter has a better record in Serie A with 59 wins to Milan's 56. The match usually creates a lively atmosphere within the San Siro with numerous (and often humorous) banners unfolded before the match which are specifically made each year for the match. The use of flares by the clubs ultras is also a frequent sight. However as much as this derby is usually played in a friendly atmosphere, the derby has also had its share of controversy, most notably the Champions League quarter final of 2004/2005 which was abandoned after Milan keeper Dida was struck by a flare thrown from the Inter supporters section. 

F.C. Internazionale Milano
Football Club Internazionale Milano is an Italian football club based in Milan, Lombardy, which plays in Serie A. The club was founded March 9, 1908. In Italy it is commonly known as Inter or Internazionale, but it is often named Inter Milan in English-speaking countries. Inter has been one of the most successful clubs in the history of Italian football, having won 15 Scudetti, 5 Coppa Italia, and 3 Italian Super Cups (as of April 22, 2007). Inter has also won 2 European Cups (Champions League), 3 UEFA Cups, and has been World Champions two times. In Italy, Inter also had the distinction of being the only team to never be relegated from Serie A with a league record of 85 seasons in top division. The club wears blue and black stripes, which gives the origin of their Nerazzurri nickname. Inter has one of the biggest fan bases in Italy, along with its two biggest rivals, AC Milan and Juventus. According to The Football Money League published by consultants Deloitte, in season 2005-06 Inter were the 7th highest earning football club in the world with an estimated revenue of €206.6 million. Inter is a member of the G-14 organisation of leading European clubs.

Pre-Second World War
The club was founded on March 9, 1909, following a "schism" from the Milan Cricket and Football Club, now known as A.C. Milan. A group of Italians and Swiss (Giorgio Muggiani, a painter who also designed the club's logo, Bossard, Lana, Bertoloni, De Olma, Enrico Hintermann, Arturo Hintermann, Carlo Hintermann, Pietro Dell'Oro, Ugo and Hans Rietmann, Voelkel, Maner, Wipf, and Carlo Ardussi) were unhappy about the domination of Italians in the AC Milan team, and broke away from them, leading to the creation of Internazionale. From the beginning, the club was open to foreign players and thus lived up to her founding name.The club won its very first scudetto (championship) in 1910 and its second in 1920. The captain and coach of the first scudetto was Virgilio Fossati, who was killed in World War I. Its first Coppa Italia (Italian Cup) was won in 1938-39, led by the great Giuseppe Meazza, for whom the San Siro stadium is officially named, and a fifth league championship followed in 1940, despite an injury to Meazza. During the Fascist era, the name "Internazionale" was not looked upon kindly, and the club played as Ambrosiana, wearing white shirts emblazoned with a red cross. In 1932, the club was permitted to append its old moniker, and was known as Ambrosiana-Inter. Finally in 1942, the club reverted to its original name, Internazionale.

La Grande Inter
Following the war, Inter won its sixth championship in 1953 and the seventh in 1954. Following these titles, Inter was to enter the best years of its history, affectionately known as the era of La Grande Inter (The Great Inter). During this magnificent period, with Helenio Herrera as head coach, the club won 3 league championships in 1963, 1965 and 1966. The most famous moments during this decade also include Inter's 2 back-to-back European Cup wins. In 1964, Inter won the first of those tournaments, playing against the famous Spanish club Real Madrid. The next season, playing in their home stadium, the San Siro, they defeated two-time former champion, Benfica. Following the golden era of the 1960s, Inter managed to win their eleventh league title in 1971 and their twelfth in 1980. Inter were defeated for the second time in five years in the final of the European Cup, going down 0-2 to Johan Cruijff's Ajax Amsterdam in 1972. During the 1970s and the 1980s, Inter also added two to its Coppa Italia tally, in 1977-78 and 1981-82.

Dark Period
The 1990s spelt a dark period for the Inter supporter. Whilst their great rivals AC Milan and Juventus were achieving success both domestically and in Europe, Inter were left behind, with some mediocre positions in the standings, their worst coming in 1994 when they finished just 1 point from relegation. In the 1990s though Inter did achieve some minor European success with 3 UEFA Cup victories in 1991, 1994 and 1998. With Massimo Moratti's takeover from Ernesto Pellegrini in 1995 Inter were promised more success with many high profile signings like Christian Vieri, Ronaldo and Hernan Crespo, with Inter twice breaking the world's record transfer fee in this period. However the 1990s remained a decade of disappointment and is the only decade in Inter's history in which they did not win a single Italian Serie A Championship.

Resurrection
On June 15, 2005, Inter won the Coppa Italia, defeating AS Roma in the two-legged final 3-0 on aggregate (1-0 win in Milan and 2-0 win in Rome) and followed that up on 20th August 2005, by winning the Supercoppa Italiana after an extra-time 1-0 victory against original 04-05 Serie A champions Juventus (before being stripped of this title). This Super Cup win was Inter's first since 1989, coincidentally the same year since Inter last won the Scudetto before 2006. On 11 May 2006, Inter retained their Coppa Italia trophy by once again, defeating AS Roma with a 4-1 aggregate victory (A 1-1 scoreline in Rome and a 3-1 win at the Giuseppe Meazza, San Siro). Inter was awarded the 2005-06 Serie A championship as they were the highest placed side in the season's final league table bar Juventus and AC Milan - both sides being part of the match fixing scandal that year. On 14th July 2006, The Italian Federal Appeal Commission found Serie A clubs Juventus, Lazio, Fiorentina, Reggina and AC Milan guilty of match-fixing and charged the 5 clubs with their respective punishments, (although all charges were later reduced in some capacity). So with the confirmed relegation of Juventus to Serie B (for the first ever time in their history) and the 8-point deduction for city rivals AC Milan, Inter became massive favourites to "retain" their Serie A title for the upcoming 2006-07 Serie A season.

During the season, Inter went on a record-breaking run of 17 consecutive victories in Serie A, starting on September 25 2006 with a 4-1 home victory over Livorno, and ending on February 28, 2007, after a 1-1 draw at home to Udinese. The 5-2 away win at Catania on February 25 2007 broke the original records of 15 matches held by Bayern Munich & Real Madrid from the "Big 5" (the top flight leagues in England, Italy, Spain, France & Germany). The run lasted for almost 5 months and makes Inter the record holder for the number of consecutive wins in the "Big 5" and holds 3rd in European league football, with just Benfica (29 wins) & Celtic (25 wins) bettering the run.

On April 22, 2007 Inter was crowned as Serie A champions for the 2nd consecutive season after defeating Siena 2-1 at Stadio Artemio Franchi. Italian World Cup winning defender Marco Materazzi scored both goals in the 18th and 60th minute, with the latter being a penalty. This is the first time Inter have won the Scudetto, based on their league performance since 1989. In addition, within hours after clinching their 2nd consecutive league title, the club confirmed head coach Roberto Mancini had signed a 4-year extension to his current contract, with an option to extend it for a further 12 months, which, if extended, would expire at the end of the 2011-12 campaign. Inter president Massimo Moratti claimed that this contractual agreement was made "some time ago".

Other historical information
Inter has never been relegated to a tier lower than the top flight in their entire history, which dates back all the way to 1908; a fact Nerazzurri fans hold in high regard. Following Juve's relegation to Serie B for the 2006-07 season (see this article for more information), Inter remain the only Italian club for which that can be said. As of 2007, Inter's 99-year run in the top flight is one of the longest of any club in the world. The current honorary president and owner of Inter is Massimo Moratti. His father, Angelo 
Moratti, was the president of Inter during the club's golden era of the 1960s. Massimo, trying to emulate his father's great success, has spent an enormous amount of money in his time at the club to sign some of the world's best players in past and present generations, in an effort to win the scudetto for the first time since 1989. A 14th Scudetto did arrive, although via the courts after the Calciopoli scandal in 2006, but a 15th came in 2007, and this time under normal circumstances.

Rivalry
Inter has several principal rivalries, most obviously arch-enemies AC Milan. The most notorious scoreline in the history of this fixture came in 3 March of 1918, when Milan thrashed Inter 8 goals to 1. The rivalry is especially heated since Inter broke off from AC Milan. Inter was seen as the club of the bourgeoisie (nicknamed bauscia, a Milanese term meaning "braggart"), whereas AC Milan was the working-class team (nicknamed casciavit, meaning in the Milanese dialect "screwdrivers", with both reference to the workers that using these instruments, and to "awkwards") and was, and still is, mostly supported by migrants from Southern Italy. During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Inter was the more successful club, being World Champions twice in the sixties. However in recent times Silvio Berlusconi's Milan has been the more dominant team. This rivalry has been compounded by AC Milan acquiring a few Inter players in recent years with mixed results. Milan paid Inter a relatively cheap price for players such as Clarence Seedorf and Andrea Pirlo, whom it managed to turn into world-class performers. However, in the summer of 2005 Milan snatched from Inter then world-class Italian international Christian Vieri, who had failed to find success at Inter. This season, Inter have claimed the bragging rights, winning both competitive fixtures between the two; 4-3 and 2-1. Another Inter rival, Juventus, were the only other club to have never been relegated, which changed with the match-fixing scandal of 2006 as Juve were relegated to Serie B. Matches with Juventus are generally referred to by the Italian press as Derby d'Italia (Italian derbies) because of the fact both teams were, before 2006, the only ones not to have ever been relegated.

Football Tickets San Siro Stadium
Tickets are available for the following areas and ring: 1° ring RED /ORANGE, 1° ring RED/ORANGE with S. Siro Executive * service, 2° ring RED/ORANGE, 2° ring BLUE/GREEN; Prices are on request and can be modified in relation of the match scheduled.

If you like to book your football ticket, please contact us.

The Stadium
The "Giuseppe Meazza" stadium is situated in San Siro district in the Ovest di Milano (western Milan) area. Built in 1927, the stadium was extensively restructured and modernized in 1990 for Italia '90. The stadium consists of three rings, each of which is divided into 4 different-coloured zones (according to the colour of the seats) - orange and red for the rectangular zones and green and blue for the curved zones. The only exception is the third ring (the highest of the three), where there are no orange zones. The seating capacity of the 3 rings is as follows:
RING 1 : 31,877 seats
RING 2 : 33,932 seats
RING 3 : 19,891 seats

Technical Information
Pitch size: 105 x 68 metres
Press boxes: 196
Total number of seats: 85,700
All stands are covered
A ditch separates the pitch from the stands
Electronic boards: 2
The pitch has underground heating facilities It can be completely covered by tarpaulin A closed circuit TV system operates inside and outside the stadium there is an underground car parking facility for players and referees.

Average time required to get to the stadium
From Milano Centrale station : 25 minutes
From Linate airport : 30 minutes
From Malpensa airport : 50 minutes
From motorway exit : 20 minutes

San Siro Store
Situated next to Gate 21, the San Siro Store is open every day from 10 to 17, apart from match days when it closes 30 minutes after the end of the game. Established in collaboration with adidas and Nike, the technical sponsors to the two clubs, the store is equally divided between Milan and Inter merchandising during the week while on match days it is wholly dedicated to the team playing at home. Five San Siro Store stalls are also opened on match days at various locations around the stadium, selling an assortment of merchandising that is also available in the main San Siro Store. From the official shirts of the Milan and Inter stars to the accessories and gifts, every football fanatic will be able to find what they need to make their stay at this unique stadium memorable. San Siro Store is the true reference point for all Milan and Inter fans: all official products of the two Milan clubs are available throughout the year and can also be reserved for you by telephone.

Entrance: Gate No. 20 
Opening time: all days 10am CET to 5pm CET
(with possible changes in matchdays)
Tel. +39 02.4046430
Fax +39 02.4039688

Inter and Milan Museum
In the stadium there is a museum dedicated to F.C. Internazionale and A.C. Milan. Guided visits are available every day from 10:00 to 5:00 pm

Entrance: Gate No. 21 
Opening time: all days 10am CET to 5pm CET
(with possible changes in matchdays)
For furtehr information: +39 02-4042432 / +39 02-4042251

The San Siro Museum offers the whole history of the Milan club at a few meters of distance from the legendary Meazza pitch. An extraordinary
collection of historical objects, original jerseys and trophies recall the most important victories, players and events of the Rossoneri. You can also
find natural-height statues of Franco Baresi, Cesare and Paolo Maldini, Gianni Rivera, Marco Van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Nils Liedholm, Nereo Rocco and many other champions of the Milan history. In closing, at pitch-side, you can take a picture with the dummy of your favourite team and admire the Curva celebration!