Newcastle United are back in European competition and tonight they play away at AC Milan. The Magpies' last fixture was at home v Brentford, a 1-0 win..... There are plenty of iconic football stadia in the world...........
this is the spectacular San Siro, Milan. The first game played here was in September 19th 1926, when AC Milan played rivals Inter Milan(Internazionale) and lost 3-6. On September 16th 2023, Inter-Milan hosted the Milan Derby and won by a 5-1 margin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsZ5HJY5n80
In 1947 Inter moved in to share the stadium, which was renamed Stadio Giuseppi Meazza, after a player who had played for both clubs. He played during the 1920-1940s and was later Inter manager.
Here is more recent player, Sanchez, wearing the new kit zig-zaggy Inter kit.
AC Milan, founded in 1899, stands for Associazione Calcio (calcio-is the Italian name for football in its historic form). AC Milan are known as the Rossoneri-red and blacks.
Here is Kaka in the kit.
The stadium holds 80,000. It hosted the World Cup in 1934 and 1990 and many Euro Finals including those of 1965 won by Inter, 1970 won by Feyenoord, 2001 won by Bayern M and 2016 won by Real Madrid.
The San Siro has also hosted boxing, rugby union (Italy v New Zealand in 2009) and concerts including Ed Sheeren in June 2019
Inter, founded in 1908, has never been relegated for the top Italian division.
The derby between the two Milan clubs, is known as the "Della Madonnina", named after the statue of the Virgin Mary on the Duomo, the Little Madonna.
The derby was first played on January 10th 1909, which AC Milan won 3-2. In total there have been 237 matches, with Inter winning 89 and AC 79. 69 matches have been drawn
The largest gap between the two was a 0-6 victory for Milan on May 11th 2001 in Serie A.
The latest fixture was on September 16th at Inter with a home victory of 5-1.
On this day 1926, the first match to be played in one of the iconic stadiums in Europe, was at the San Siro in Milan. Originally, solely the home of AC Milan, they played a friendly against great rivals Inter Milan in the first match at the ground. Inter won with a very un-Italian scoreline – 6-3. In 1947, Inter moved in to share the ground with AC Milan while in March 1980, the stadium was officially renamed the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in honour of a former player of both Milan clubs – although it is still generally known as the San Siro. It currently has a capacity of 80,000 and has hosted matches at the 1934 and 1990 World Cup finals as well as numerous European finals.
19th September 2015
The biggest news in world sport that day came from the Community Stadium in Brighton although the storyline wasn't generated by the football club who played there. Brighton & Hove's home ground was used for a couple of matches in the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup finals and in the first of those Japan played South Africa. In a result that was widely described as the biggest shock in the history of the game the minnows of Japan beat the mighty Springboks 34-32. Amazingly though the Japanese were to create another bit of World Cup history - they became the first side ever to win 3 of their 4 group matches but fail to progress to the knockout stages of the competition.
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