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World Cup Appearances: 16 (1st appearance in 1934)
Best World Cup result: Winners 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006
World Cup Record:
| World Cup |
World Cup |
GP |
W |
L |
D |
GS |
GA |
| Germany 2006 |
Champions |
7 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
12 |
2 |
| Korea/Japan 2002 |
Round 2 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
5 |
| France 1998 |
Quarter-finals |
5 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
3 |
| USA 1994 |
Runners-up |
7 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
8 |
5 |
| Italy 1990 |
Third place |
7 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
10 |
2 |
| Mexico 1986 |
Round 2 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
| Spain 1982 |
Champions |
7 |
4 |
0 |
3 |
12 |
6 |
| Argentina 1978 |
Fourth place |
7 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
9 |
6 |
| Germany 1974 |
Round 1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
4 |
| Mexico 1970 |
Runners-up |
6 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
10 |
8 |
| England 1966 |
Round 1 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| Chile 1962 |
Round 1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
| Switzerland 1954 |
Round 1 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
6 |
7 |
| Brazil 1950 |
Round 1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
3 |
| France 1938 |
Champions |
4 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
4 |
| 1934 |
Champions |
5 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
12 |
3 |
| 1930 |
did not enter |
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Competition
Totals |
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Competition
Average |
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European Championship Appearances: 6 (1st appearance in 1968)
Best European Championship result: Winners 1968
European Championship Record:
2004
- Round 1
2000 - Runners-up
1996 - Round 1
1992 - Did not qualify
1988 - Semifinals
1984 - Did not qualify
1980 - Fourth place
1976 - Did not qualify
1972 - Did not qualify
1968 - Champions
1964 - Did not qualify
1960 - Did not enter
Olympic medal record:
| Year |
Venue |
Medal |
| 2004 |
Athens, Greece |
Bronze |
| 1936 |
Berlin, Germany |
Gold |
| 1928 |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Bronze |
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First International:
Italy 6-2 France (May
15, 1910 in Milan, Italy)
World Cup Squad Lists / Detailed Records
2006 FIFA World Cup Germany
(held from June 09 to July 09, 2006)
In Group stage Italy was in Group E with Ghana, USA and
the Czech Republic.
Head coach: Marcello Lippi
Squad list:
| No. |
Name |
Date
of birth: |
Club: |
Goalkeepers:
| 1 |
Gianluigi Buffon |
January 28, 1978 |
Juventus |
| 12 |
Angelo
Peruzzi |
February
16, 1970 |
Lazio |
| 14 |
Marco Amelia |
April 02, 1982 |
Livorno |
Defenders:
| 2 |
Cristian Zaccardo |
December 21, 1981 |
Palermo |
| 3 |
Fabio
Grosso |
November
28, 1977 |
Palermo |
| 5 |
Fabio Cannavaro
[c] |
September 13,
1973 |
Juventus |
|
6 |
Andrea
Barzagli |
May
08, 1981 |
Palermo |
| 13 |
Alessandro
Nesta |
March
19, 1976 |
AC
Milan |
| 22 |
Massimo
Oddo |
June
14, 1976 |
Lazio |
| 23 |
Marco
Materazzi |
August
19, 1973 |
Inter
Milan |
Midfielders:
| 4 |
Daniele De Rossi |
July 24, 1983 |
AS Roma |
| 8 |
Gennaro
Gattuso |
January
09, 1978 |
AC
Milan |
| 16 |
Mauro Camoranesi |
October 04, 1976 |
Juventus |
| 17 |
Simone
Barone |
April
30, 1978 |
Palermo |
| 19 |
Gianluca Zambrotta |
February 19, 1977 |
Juventus |
| 20 |
Simone
Perrotta |
September
17, 1977 |
AS
Roma |
| 21 |
Andrea Pirlo |
May 19, 1979 |
Milan |
Forwards:
| 7 |
Alessandro Del
Piero |
November 09, 1974 |
Juventus |
| 9 |
Luca
Toni |
May
26, 1977 |
Fiorentina |
| 10 |
Francesco Totti |
September 27,
1976 |
Roma |
| 11 |
Alberto
Gilardino |
July
05, 1982 |
AC
Milan |
| 15 |
Vincenzo Iaquinta |
November 29, 1979 |
Udinese |
|
18 |
Filippo
Inzaghi |
August
09, 1973 |
AC
Milan |
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Group stage:
| Team |
Pts |
GP |
GW |
GD |
GL |
GF |
GA |
GD |
| Italy |
7 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
1 |
+4 |
| Ghana |
6 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
+1 |
| Czech Republic |
3 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
-1 |
| USA |
1 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
-4 |
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Glossary
Pts: Points, GP:
Games played, W: Games won, D: Games drawn, L:
Games lost, GF: Goals for, GA: Goals against |
| date |
home |
result |
away |
| June
12, 2006 |
Italy |
2:0 |
Ghana |
| 21:00 |
Pirlo 40'
Iaquinta 83' |
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| date |
home |
result |
away |
| June
17, 2006 |
Italy |
1:1 |
USA |
| 21:00 |
Gilardino 22' |
Zaccardo 27' (OG) |
| date |
home |
result |
away |
| June
12, 2002 |
Czech Republic |
0:2 |
Italy |
| 16:00 |
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Materazzi 26'
Inzaghi 87' |
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Knockout stage:
Round of 16
| date |
home |
result |
away |
| June
26, 2006 |
Italy |
1:0 |
Australia |
| 17:00 |
Totti 95+' (pen) |
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Quarter-finals
| date |
home |
result |
away |
| June
30, 2006 |
Italy |
3:0 |
Ukraine |
| 21:00 |
Zambrotta 6'
Toni 59', 69' |
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Semi-finals
| date |
home |
result |
away |
| July
04, 2006 |
Germany |
0:2 a.e.t. |
Italy |
| 21:00 |
|
Grosso 119'
Del Piero 121+' |
Final
| date |
home |
result |
away |
| July
09, 2006 |
Italy |
1–1 a.e.t. |
France |
| 20:00 |
Materazzi 19' |
Zidane 7' (pen) |
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Pirlo scored
Materazzi scored
De Rossi scored
Del Piero scored
Grosso scored |
5-3 (PEN) |
Wiltord scored
Abidal scored
Sagnol scored |
Italy are the world
champions for the 4th time |
Preliminary matches:
| Date |
Teams |
Score |
| 12-Oct-05 |
ITA:MDA |
2:1 (0:0) |
| 08-Oct-05 |
ITA:SVN |
1:0 (0:0) |
| 07-Sep-05 |
BLR:ITA |
1:4 (1:3) |
| 03-Sep-05 |
SCO:ITA |
1:1 (1:0) |
| 04-Jun-05 |
NOR:ITA |
0:0 |
| 26-Mar-05 |
ITA:SCO |
2:0 (1:0) |
| 13-Oct-04 |
ITA:BLR |
4:3 (2:0) |
| 09-Oct-04 |
SVN:ITA |
1:0 (0:0) |
| 08-Sep-04 |
MDA:ITA |
0:1 (0:1) |
| 04-Sep-04 |
ITA:NOR |
2:1 (1:1) |
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Preliminaries statistics:
| Team |
GP |
GS |
GA |
GD |
YC |
RC |
| Italy |
10 |
17 |
8 |
+9 |
22 |
0 |
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Glossary
GP: Game Played, GS:
Goals, GA: Goals Against, GD: Goal Difference,
YC: Yellow Cards, RC: Red Cards |
2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan
(held from May 31 to June 30)
manager: Giovanni Trapattoni
squad list:
1 GK Gianluigi Buffon | 2 DF Christian Panucci | 3 DF Paolo Maldini
| 4 MF Francesco Coco | 5 DF Fabio Cannavaro | 6 MF Cristiano
Zanetti | 7 FW Alessandro Del Piero | 8 MF Gennaro Gattuso |
9 FW Filippo Inzaghi | 10 FW Francesco Totti | 11 MF Cristiano
Doni | 12 GK Christian Abbiati | 13 DF Alessandro Nesta | 14
MF Luigi Di Biagio | 15 DF Mark Iuliano | 16 MF Angelo Di Livio
| 17 MF Damiano Tommasi | 18 FW Marco Delvecchio | 19 MF Gianluca
Zambrotta | 20 FW Vincenzo Montella | 21 FW Christian Vieri |
22 GK Francesco Toldo | 23 DF Marco Materazzi
1998 Football World Cup
(held in France from June 10 to July 12)
manager: Cesare Maldini
squad list:
1 GK Francesco Toldo | 2 DF Giuseppe Bergomi | 3 DF Paolo Maldini
| 4 DF Fabio Cannavaro | 5 DF Alessandro Costacurta | 6 DF Alessandro
Nesta | 7 DF Gianluca Pessotto | 8 DF Moreno Torricelli | 9 MF
Demetrio Albertini | 10 FW Alessandro Del Piero | 11 MF Dino
Baggio | 12 GK Gianluca Pagliuca | 13 MF Sandro Cois | 14 MF
Luigi Di Biagio | 15 MF Angelo Di Livio | 16 MF Roberto Di Matteo
| 17 MF Francesco Moriero | 18 FW Roberto Baggio | 19 FW Filippo
Inzaghi | 20 FW Enrico Chiesa | 21 FW Christian Vieri | 22 GK
Gianluigi Buffon
1994 FIFA World Cup
(held in the USA from June 17 to July 17)
manager: Arrigo Sacchi
squad list:
1 GK Gianluca Pagliuca | 2 DF Luigi Apolloni | 3 DF Antonio Benarrivo
| 4 DF Alessandro Costacurta | 5 DF Paolo Maldini | 6 DF Franco
Baresi | 7 DF Lorenzo Minotti | 8 DF Roberto Mussi | 9 DF Mauro
Tassotti | 10 FW Roberto Baggio | 11 MF Demetrio Albertini |
12 GK Luca Marchegiani | 13 MF Dino Baggio | 14 MF Nicola Berti
| 15 MF Antonio Conte | 16 MF Roberto Donadoni | 17 MF Alberigo
Evani | 18 FW Pierluigi Casiraghi | 19 FW Daniele Massaro | 20
FW Giuseppe Signori | 21 FW Gianfranco | 22 GK Luca Bucci
1990 Football World Cup
(held in Italy from June 08 to July 8, 1990)
manger: Azeglio Vicini
squad list:
1 GK Walter Zenga | 2 DF Franco Baresi | 3 DF Giuseppe Bergomi
| 4 DF Luigi de Agostini | 5 DF Ciro Ferrara | 6 DF Riccardo
Ferri | 7 DF Paolo Maldini | 8 DF Pietro Vierchowod | 9 MF Carlo
Ancelotti | 10 MF Nicola Berti | 11 MF Fernando De Napoli | 12
GK Stefano Tacconi | 13 MF Giuseppe Giannini | 14 MF Giancarlo
Marocchi | 15 FW Roberto Baggio | 16 FW Andrea Carnevale | 17
MF Roberto Donadoni | 18 FW Roberto Mancini | 19 FW Salvatore
Schillaci | 20 FW Aldo Serena | 21 FW Gianluca Vialli | 22 GK
Gianluca Pagliuca
1986 Football World Cup
(held in Mexico from May 31 to June 29)
manager: Enzo Bearzot
squad list:
1 GK Giovanni Galli | 2 DF Giuseppe Bergomi | 3 DF Antonio Cabrini
| 4 DF Fulvio Collovatti | 5 DF Sebastiano Nela | 6 DF Gaetano
Scirea | 7 DF Roberto Tricella | 8 DF Pietro Vierchowod | 9 MF
Carlo Ancelotti | 10 MF Salvatore Bagni | 11 MF Giuseppe Baresi
| 12 GK Franco Tancredi | 13 MF Fernando De Napoli | 14 MF Antonio
Di Gennaro | 15 MF Marco Tardelli | 16 MF Bruno Conti | 17 FW
Gianluca Vialli | 18 FW Alessandro Altobelli | 19 FW Giuseppe
Galderisi | 20 FW Paolo Rossi | 21 FW Aldo Serena | 22 GK Walter
Zenga
1982 Football World Cup
(held in Spain from June 13 to July 11)
manager: Enzo Bearzot
squad list:
1 GK Dino Zoff | 2 DF Franco Baresi | 3 DF Giuseppe Bergomi |
4 DF Antonio Cabrini | 5 DF Fulvio Collovati | 6 DF Claudio Gentile
| 7 DF Gaetano Scirea | 8 DF Pietro Vierchowod | 9 MF Giancarlo
Antognoni | 10 MF Giuseppe Dossena | 11 MF Giampiero Marini |
12 GK Ivano Bordon | 13 MF Gabriele Oriali | 14 MF Marco Tardelli
| 15 MF Franco Causio | 16 MF Bruno Conti | 17 FW Daniele Massaro
| 18 FW Alessandro Altobelli | 19 FW Francesco Graziani | 20
FW Paolo Rossi | 21 MF Franco Selvaggi | 22 GK Giovanni Galli
NO INFORMATION BEFORE THE 1982 FOOTBALL WORLD CUP AVAILABLE
European Championship Squad
Lists / Detailed Records
2004 UEFA European Football Championship
(held in Portugal from June 12 to July 04)
manager: Giovanni Trapattoni
squad list:
1 GK Gianluigi Buffon | 2 DF Christian Panucci | 3 DF Massimo
Oddo | 4 MF Cristiano Zanetti | 5 DF Fabio Cannavaro | 6 DF Matteo
Ferrari | 7 FW Alessandro Del Piero | 8 MF Gennaro Gattuso |
9 FW Christian Vieri | 10 FW Francesco Totti | 11 FW Bernardo
Corradi | 12 GK Francesco Toldo | 13 DF Alessandro Nesta | 14
MF Stefano Fiore | 15 DF Giuseppe Favalli | 16 MF Mauro Camoranesi
| 17 FW Marco Di Vaio | 18 MF Antonio Cassano | 19 DF Gianluca
Zambrotta | 20 MF Simone Perrotta | 21 MF Andrea Pirlo | 22 GK
Angelo Peruzzi | 23 DF Marco Materazzi
2000 UEFA European Championship
(co-hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands from June 10 to July
02)
manager: Dino Zoff
squad list:
1 GK Christian Abbiati | 2 DF Ciro Ferrara | 3 DF Paolo Maldini
| 4 MF Demetrio Albertini | 5 DF Fabio Cannavaro | 6 DF Paolo
Negro | 7 MF Angelo Di Livio | 8 MF Antonio Conte | 9 FW Filippo
Inzaghi | 10 FW Alessandro Del Piero | 11 DF Gianluca Pessotto
| 12 GK Francesco Toldo | 13 DF Alessandro Nesta | 14 MF Luigi
Di Biagio | 15 DF Mark Iuliano | 16 MF Massimo Ambrosini | 17
MF Gianluca Zambrotta | 18 MF Stefano Fiore | 19 FW Vincenzo
Montella | 20 FW Francesco Totti | 21 FW Marco Delvecchio | 22
GK Francesco Antonioli
1996 European Football Championship
(held in England from June 08 to June 30)
manager: Arrigo Sacchi
squad list:
1 GK Angelo Peruzzi | 2 DF Luigi Apolloni | 3 DF Paolo Maldini
| 4 DF Amedeo Carboni | 5 DF Alessandro Costacurta | 6 DF Alessandro
Nesta | 7 MF Roberto Donadoni | 8 DF Roberto Mussi | 9 DF Moreno
Torricelli | 10 MF Demetrio Albertini | 11 MF Dino Baggio | 12
GK Francesco Toldo | 13 MF Fabio Rossitto | 14 FW Alessandro
Del Piero | 15 MF Angelo Di Livio | 16 MF Roberto Di Matteo |
17 MF Diego Fuser | 18 FW Pierluigi Casiraghi | 19 FW Enrico
Chiesa | 20 FW Fabrizio Ravanelli | 21 FW Gianfranco Zola | 22
GK Luca Bucci
1992 European Football Championship
(held in Sweden from June 10 to June 26)
did not participate
NO INFORMATION BEFORE THE 1992 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP AVAILABLE
Most capped Italian players:
| # |
Name |
Career |
Caps |
Goals |
Conc. |
| 1 |
Paolo
Maldini |
1988-2002 |
126 |
7 |
/ |
| 2 |
Dino
Zoff |
1968-1983 |
112 |
0 |
/ |
| 3 |
Fabio
Cannavaro |
1997- |
100 |
1 |
/ |
| 4 |
Giacinto
Facchetti |
1963-1977 |
94 |
3 |
/ |
| 5 |
Franco
Baresi |
1982-1994 |
81 |
1 |
/ |
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Giuseppe
Bergomi |
1982-1998 |
81 |
6 |
/ |
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Marco
Tardelli |
1976-1985 |
81 |
6 |
/ |
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*
indicates the player is still active |
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Top Italy goalscorers:
| # |
Name |
Career |
Caps |
Goals |
| 1 |
Luigi
Riva |
1965-1974 |
42 |
35 |
| 2 |
Giuseppe
Meazza |
1930-1939 |
53 |
33 |
| 3 |
Silvio
Piola |
1935-1952 |
34 |
30 |
| 4 |
Roberto
Baggio |
1988-2004 |
56 |
27 |
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Alessandro
Del Piero* |
1995-2006 |
79 |
27 |
| 5 |
Alessandro
Altobelli |
1980-1988 |
61 |
25 |
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Adolfo
Baloncieri |
1920-1930 |
47 |
25 |
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*
indicates the player is still active |
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UEFA U-21 Championship Appearances: 13 (1st appearance in 1978)
UEFA U-21 Best result: Winners 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000,
2004
UEFA U-21 Championship Record:
2006 - Finished 3rd of 4 in finals group.
2004 - Winners.
2002 - Losing semi-finalists.
2000 - Winners.
1998 - Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 5 in qualification group.
1996 - Winners.
1994 - Winners.
1992 - Winners.
1990 - Losing semi-finalists.
1988 - Losing quarter-finalists.
1986 - Runners-up.
1984 - Losing semi-finalists.
1982 - Losing quarter-finalists.
1980 - Losing quarter-finalists.
1978 - Losing quarter-finalists.
First U-21 International:
Portugal 1-0 Italy (December 23, 1976 in Funchal, Portugal)
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