San Siro

For other uses, see San Siro (disambiguation).

Stadio Giuseppe Meazza

San Siro
UEFA
Location	Via Piccolomini 5, 20151 Milan, Italy
Coordinates	45.478080°N 9.12400°E / 45.478080; 9.12400
Public transit	San Siro Stadio San Siro Ippodromo
Owner	Municipality of Milan
Capacity	80,018
Field size	105m × 68m
Surface	GrassMaster hybrid grass
Scoreboard	Tecnovision
Construction
Broke ground	December 1925
Opened	September 19, 1926 (1926-09-19)
Renovated	1935, 1955, 1990, 2015–16
Architect	Alberto Cugini Ulisse Stacchini
Tenants
Milan (1926–present) Inter (1947–present)

The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe meˈattsa]), commonly known as San Siro, is a football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan, Italy, which is the home of A.C. Milan and Inter. It has a seating 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 honour 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.

The San Siro is a UEFA category four stadium. It hosted six games at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and four European Cup finals, in 1965, 1970, 2001 and 2016.

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 belonging to the man who at that time was the president of A.C. Milan, Piero Pirelli. The architects designed a private stadium only for football, without the 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 6–3. Originally, the ground was home and property of A.C. Milan. Finally, in 1947, Inter, who used to play in the Arena Civica 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 capacity was meant to increase from 50,000 to 150,000 visitors. Calzolari and Ronca proposed three additional, vertically arranged, rings of spectator rows. Nineteen spiralling ramps – each 200-meter-long – allow to access the upper ranks. In the course of the execution, the realisation of the highest of the three rings was abandoned and the number of visitors limited to 100,000.

On 2 March 1980 the stadium was named for Giuseppe Meazza (1910–1979), one of the most famous Milanese footballers.

Two Milan derby Champions League knockout ties, with all matches taking place at San Siro, occurred in 2003 and 2005; A.C. Milan won both, and the reaction of Inter's fans to impending defeat in the latter (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 Italian national team also plays occasional games there. It has also been used for the European Cup finals of 1965 (won by Inter) and 1970 (won by Feyenoord), and the UEFA Champions League finals of 2001 (won by FC Bayern Munich) and 2016 (won by Real Madrid).

The stadium was also 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, and was also used by Juventus for their 'home' leg in 1995 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 San Siro and the winners lifted the trophy there. However, the stadium has never been selected as the host stadium since the competition changed to a single-match final format in 1997–98.

San Siro did not host any final of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, but was the host stadium for the 1951 Latin Cup, a four-team event won by A.C. Milan. 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.

The stadium underwent further renovations for the 1990 World Cup with $60 million being spent, bringing the stadium up to UEFA category four standard. As part of the renovations, the stadium became all seated, with an extra tier being added to three sides of the stadium. This entailed the building of 11 concrete towers around the outside of the stadium. Four of these concrete towers were located at the corners to support a new roof, which has distinctive protruding red girders.

In 1996 inside the stadium was opened a museum about A.C. Milan and Inter's story with historical shirts, cups and trophies, shoes, art objects and souvenirs of all kinds.

International football matches

1934 FIFA World Cup

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	First Round
31 May 1934	Germany	2–1	Sweden	Quarter-finals
3 June 1934	Italy	1–0	Austria	Semi-finals

UEFA Euro 1980

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

Date	Team #1	Result	Team #2	Round
12 June 1980	Spain	0–0	Italy	Group B
15 June 1980	Belgium	2–1	Spain	Group B
17 June 1980	Netherlands	1–1	Czechoslovakia	Group A

1990 FIFA World Cup

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

Date	Team #1	Result	Team #2	Round
8 June 1990	Argentina	0–1	Cameroon	Group B
10 June 1990	West Germany	4–1	Yugoslavia	Group D
15 June 1990	West Germany	5–1	United Arab Emirates	Group D
19 June 1990	West Germany	1–1	Colombia	Group D
24 June 1990	West Germany	2–1	Netherlands	Round of 16
1 July 1990	Czechoslovakia	0–1	West Germany	Quarter final

Other sports

Boxing

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

Rugby union

The first and only top level rugby union match 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

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

Concert of Vasco Rossi in 2007.

Date	Performer(s)	Opening act(s)	Tour/Event	Attendance	Notes
27 June 1980	Bob Marley & The Wailers	Pino Daniele	Uprising Tour
15 July 1980	Various artists		La Carovana del Mediterraneo
19 July 1980	Edoardo Bennato		Sono Solo Canzonette
29 June 1984	Bob Dylan	Santana, Pino Daniele	Bob Dylan 1984 European Tour
21 June 1985	Bruce Springsteen		Born in the U.S.A. Tour	65,000
13 July 1986	Various artists		Milano Suono Festival 1986
16 July 1986
17 July 1986
18 July 1986
19 July 1986
20 June 1986
15 May 1987	Genesis	Paul Young	Invisible Touch Tour
5 June 1987	Duran Duran		Strange Behaviour Tour
10 June 1987	David Bowie		Glass Spider Tour	70,000
10 July 1990	Vasco Rossi	Ladri di Biciclette, Casino Royale	Fronte del Palco Tour 1990
28 May 1992	Antonello Venditti
4 July 1994	Al Bano & Romina Power
7 July 1995	Vasco Rossi		Rock Sotto Assedio
8 July 1995
15 June 1996			Nessun Pericolo Per Te Tour
18 June 1997	Michael Jackson	B-Nario, Paola e Chiara	HIStory World Tour
28 June 1997	Ligabue		Il Bar Mario è Aperto
29 June 1997
22 May 1998	Eros Ramazzotti
5 July 2002	Ligabue		Fuori Come Va Tour
6 July 2002
10 June 2003	The Cranberries
28 June 2003	Bruce Springsteen		The Rising Tour
1 July 2003	Claudio Baglioni
4 July 2003	Vasco Rossi		Vasco a San Siro '03
5 July 2003		Irene Grandi
8 July 2003		Anouk
8 June 2004	Red Hot Chili Peppers	The Roots	Roll on the Red Tour
12 June 2004	Vasco Rossi	Simone Tomassini	Buoni o Cattivi Tour 2004
13 June 2004
20 July 2005	U2	Ash, Feeder	Vertigo Tour	137,427	Parts of the concerts were filmed and recorded for the group's live album and concert film U2.COMmunication and Vertigo 05: Live from Milan respectively.
21 July 2005
27 May 2006	Ligabue		Nome e Cognome Tour
11 July 2006	The Rolling Stones	Bo Diddley, Feeder	A Bigger Bang	56,175
22 July 2006	Robbie Williams		Close Encounters Tour
2 June 2007	Laura Pausini
21 June 2007	Vasco Rossi		Vasco Live 2007
22 June 2007
30 June 2007	Biagio Antonacci	Nomadi	Vicky Love Tour
31 May 2008	Negramaro		La Finestra Tour
6 June 2008	Vasco Rossi		Il Mondo Che Vorrei Live Tour 2008
7 June 2008
14 June 2008	Zucchero		All the Best
25 June 2008	Bruce Springsteen		Magic Tour	59,821
4 July 2008	Ligabue		Elle-Elle Live 2008
5 July 2008
18 June 2009	Depeche Mode	Dolcenera, M83	Tour of the Universe	57,544	The concert was recorded for the group's live album project Recording the Universe.
21 June 2009	Various artists		Amiche per l'Abruzzo
7 July 2009	U2	Snow Patrol	U2 360° Tour	153,806
8 July 2009					The performances of Breathe and Electrical Storm were recorded for the group's live album From the Ground Up: Edge's Picks from U2360°.
14 July 2009	Madonna		Sticky & Sweet Tour	55,338
8 June 2010	Muse	Calibro 35, Friendly Fires, Kasabian	The Resistance Tour	60,000
16 July 2010	Ligabue	Margot	Arrivederci Mostro
17 July 2010
16 June 2011	Vasco Rossi		Vasco Live Kom '011
17 June 2011
21 June 2011
22 June 2011
12 July 2011	Take That	Pet Shop Boys	Progress Live
7 June 2012	Bruce Springsteen		Wrecking Ball World Tour	57,149
14 June 2012	Madonna	Martin Solveig	The MDNA Tour	53,244
3 June 2013	Bruce Springsteen		Wrecking Ball World Tour	56,670
19 June 2013	Jovanotti		Backup Tour
20 June 2013
29 June 2013	Bon Jovi		Because We Can	51,531
13 July 2013	Negramaro
18 July 2013	Depeche Mode	Motel Connection, Chvrches	The Delta Machine Tour	57,919
31 July 2013	Robbie Williams	Olly Murs	Take The Crown Stadium Tour
31 May 2014	Biagio Antonacci		Palco Antonacci 2014
6 June 2014	Ligabue		Mondovisione Tour: Stadi 2014
7 June 2014
20 June 2014	Pearl Jam		Lightning Bolt Tour
28 June 2014	One Direction	5 Seconds of Summer	Where We Are Tour	115,931	The concerts were recorded for the group's concert film One Direction: Where We Are - The Concert Film.
29 June 2014
4 July 2014	Vasco Rossi		Vasco Live Kom '014
5 July 2014
9 July 2014
10 July 2014
19 July 2014	Modà
17 June 2015	Vasco Rossi		Vasco Live Kom '015
18 June 2015
25 June 2015	Jovanotti		Lorenzo Negli Stadi 2015
26 June 2015
27 June 2015
4 July 2015	Tiziano Ferro		Lo stadio Tour 2015
5 July 2015
4 June 2016	Laura Pausini		Simili Tour	100,388
5 June 2016
10 June 2016	Pooh
18 June 2016	Modà
19 June 2016
3 July 2016	Bruce Springsteen		The River Tour 2016	104,646
5 July 2016
13 July 2016	Rihanna	Big Sean, DJ Mustard	Anti World Tour
18 July 2016	Beyoncé	Chloe x Halle, Sophie Beem	The Formation World Tour	54,313
9 June 2017	Davide Van De Sfroos
16 June 2017	Tiziano Ferro		Il Mestiere della Vita Tour
17 June 2017
19 June 2017
27 June 2017	Depeche Mode	Algiers	Global Spirit Tour	54,488
3 July 2017	Coldplay	Lyves, Tove Lo	A Head Full of Dreams Tour	117,307
4 July 2017		Tove Lo
6 July 2018	Beyoncé and Jay-Z		OTR II Tour

Transport connections

The stadium is located in the northwestern part of Milan and can be reached by underground via the dedicated San Siro metro station (at the end of the "lilac" line 5), located just in front of the stadium, or by tram, with line 16 ending right in front. The Lotto metro station (line 1, the "red line", and line 5) is about 15 minutes walk away from San Siro.

Stations near by:

Service	Station	Line
Milan Metro	San Siro Stadio
	San Siro Ippodromo
	Lotto

Gallery

Panorama of the stadium.

Milan ultras crowd in Curva Sud. Milan ultras crowd in Curva Sud. Inter ultras crowd in Curva Nord. Inter ultras crowd in Curva Nord.

External links

• Official website (in Italian) (in English)
• San Siro on Facebook
• A.C. Milan website
• Inter Milan website
• Stadium Guide Article

Preceded by Praterstadion Vienna	European Cup Final Venue 1965	Succeeded by Heysel Stadium Brussels
Preceded by Santiago Bernabéu Madrid	European Cup Final Venue 1970	Succeeded by Wembley Stadium London
Preceded by Estadio Azteca Mexico City	FIFA World Cup Opening Venue 1990	Succeeded by Soldier Field Chicago
Preceded by Stade de France St-Denis	UEFA Champions League Final Venue 2001	Succeeded by Hampden Park Glasgow
Preceded by Olympiastadion Berlin	UEFA Champions League Final venue 2016	Succeeded by Millennium Stadium Cardiff