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Italy · Inspect all trophies and historical titles up close in our interactive 3D virtual museum.
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The Italy national football team (Italian: Nazionale di calcio dell'Italia) has represented Italy in men's international football since its first match in 1910. The team is controlled by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), the governing body for football in Italy and a founding member of UEFA. Italy plays its home matches at various stadiums across the country, while its training center and technical headquarters, the Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano, is located in Florence. Italy is one of the most successful national teams in international football. It has won the FIFA World Cup four times (1934, 1938, 1982, and 2006), becoming the first team to successfully defend the title, and has also finished as runners-up in 1970 and 1994. Italy has won the UEFA European Championship twice (1968 and 2020), reached the final in 2000 and 2012, and won the Olympic football tournament in 1936. Italy also finished third in the FIFA Confederations Cup (2013) and the UEFA Nations League (2021 and 2023). The team is known as gli Azzurri (the Blues), after Savoy blue, the traditional colour of the House of Savoy. Italy has long-standing rivalries with Brazil, France, Germany, and to a lesser extent with Spain and England. The team has reached the top of the FIFA World Rankings in 1993 and 2007. Between 2018 and 2021, Italy set a record unbeaten run of 37 competitive men's international matches, which was surpassed by Spain in 2026. Italy has failed to qualify for the last three World Cups (2018, 2022 and 2026), marking its longest absence in the competition.
Winning years: 1934 · 1938 · 1982 · 2006
On 9 July 2006, the Azzurri won their fourth World Cup title after defeating France in the final. Since their first match at the 1938 World Cup, they have played against each other a total of five times in the World Cup, most notably in the 1970 World Cup final and the 1994 World Cup final in which Brazil won 4–1 and 3–2 on penalties after a goalless draw respectively. After declining to participate in the inaugural World Cup (1930, in Uruguay) the Italy national team won two consecutive editions of the tournament in 1934 and 1938, under the direction of coach Vittorio Pozzo and the performance of Giuseppe Meazza, who is considered one of the best Italian football players of all time by some.
Winning years: 1968 · 2020
Since the quarterfinal match between them at Euro 2008 (won by Spain in the penalty shoot-out), the rivalry has renewed, as Italy and Spain played against each other also in the UEFA Euro 2012 final (which Spain won 4–0) in the Round of 16 of UEFA Euro 2016 (which Italy won 2-0) and in the UEFA Euro 2020 semifinal (won by Italy in the penalty shoot-out). Italy has won the UEFA European Championship twice (1968 and 2020), reached the final in 2000 and 2012, and won the Olympic football tournament in 1936.
Winning years: 1927–30 · 1933–35
In the 1927–30 and 1933–35 Central European International Cup, Italy achieved first place out of five Central European teams, topping the group with 11 points in both editions of the tournament.
Winning years: 1985
Winning years: 1991