San Siro Stadium Capacity, Tickets, Seating Plan, Records, Location, Parking
San Siro Stadium, also known as the Giuseppe Meazza, is a football stadium in Milan, Italy. It is the home stadium of Inter Milan and AC Milan, two of the most successful football clubs in Italy.
The stadium has a seating capacity of 80,018, making it one of the largest in Europe. It was named after Giuseppe Meazza, a former player for both Inter Milan and AC Milan. The San Siro Stadium has also hosted concerts and other sporting events, such as the 1990 UEFA European Championship and the 2016 UEFA Champions League Final.
On March 3, 1980, the stadium was named in honor of Giuseppe Meazza, the two-time World Cup winner (1934, 1938) who played for Inter and briefly for Milan in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940 and served two terms as Inter’s manager.
San Siro is a UEFA category four stadium. It hosted three 1934 FIFA World Cup matches, six 1990 FIFA World Cup matches, three Euro 1980 matches, and four European Cup finals, in 1965, 1970, 2001, and 2016. The stadium will also host the opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Olympics.
| Built In: | 1925 – 1926 |
| Capacity: | 75,923 |
| Home Teams: | Internazionale FC |
| Ground Size: | 105 m × 68 m |
San Siro Stadium History
Construction of the stadium began in 1925 in the Milan district called the San Siro, with the new stadium originally named Nuovo Stadio Calcistico San Siro (San Siro New Football Stadium). The idea of building a stadium in the same district as the racetrack belonged to the then-president of A.C. Milan, Piero Pirelli. The architects designed a private football-only stadium, without running tracks that characterized Italian stadiums built with public funds. The inauguration was on September 19, 1926, when 35,000 spectators watched Inter defeat Milan 6-3. Originally, the land was the home and property of A.C. Milan. Finally, in 1947, Inter, who used to play at the Arena CÃvica in the center, became a tenant and the two have shared the ground ever since.
From 1948 to 1955, the engineers Armando Ronca and Ferruccio Calzolari developed the project for the second expansion of the stadium, which aimed to increase the capacity from 50,000 to 150,000 visitors. Calzolari and Ronca proposed three additional rings, arranged vertically, of rows of spectators. Nineteen spiral ramps, each 200 meters long, gave access to the upper levels. During construction, the tallest of the three rings was abandoned and the number of visitors was limited to 100,000. Then for security reasons, the capacity was reduced to 60,000 seats and 25,000 standing.
On March 2, 1980, the stadium was named after Giuseppe Meazza (1910-1979), one of the most famous Milanese footballers. For a time, Inter fans called the stadium Stadio Meazza due to Meazza’s strongest connections to Inter (14 years as a player, three spells as manager). However, in recent years, both Inter and Milan fans have called the stadium simply the San Siro.
The last major renovation of the San Siro, which cost 60 million dollars, was from 1987-1990, for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. It was decided to modernize the stadium by increasing its capacity to 85,000 spectators and building a roof. The Municipality of Milan commissioned the work to the architects Giancarlo Ragazzi and Enrico Hoffer and the engineer Leo Finzi. To increase capacity, a third ring was built (only in the two curves and in the west grandstand) which rests on eleven support towers surrounded by helical ramps that allow public access. Four of these eleven concrete towers were placed at the corners to support a new roof, which has distinctive projecting red beams.
A museum was opened inside the stadium in 1996 tracing the history of AC Milan and Internazionale, with historic jerseys, cups and trophies, shoes, art objects and memorabilia of all kinds on display for visitors.
Two Milan derby Champions League ties have taken place at the San Siro, in 2003 and 2005, with AC Milan winning both ties. Inter’s supporters’ reaction to their imminent defeat in the 2005 match (throwing flares and other objects at Milan players and forcing the match to be abandoned) earned the club a hefty fine and a four-match ban for players to play. spectators to attend European matches there the following season.
As well as being used by Serie A Clubs Milan and Inter, the Italian national team occasionally play there. It has also been used for the 1965 European Cup finals (won by Inter), 1970 (won by Feyenoord) and the 2001 (won by FC Bayern Munich) and 2016 (won by FC Bayern) UEFA Champions League finals. by Real Madrid).
The stadium was also used for the first leg of three UEFA Cup finals involving Inter (1991, 1994, 1997) when two games were played. Juventus also used it for their ‘home’ game in 1995, as they decided not to play their biggest games at their own Stadio delle Alpi at the time. On all occasions, except in 1991, the second leg was played at the San Siro and the winners lifted the trophy there. However, the stadium has yet to be selected as the host stadium since the competition switched to a one-game final format in 1997–98.
San Siro has never hosted a UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup final, but it was the host stadium for the 1951 Copa Latina, a four-team event won by AC Milan. The city also hosted the 1956 edition of the Copa Latina (also won by Milan), but those matches were played at the Arena CÃvica.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, on March 25, the Associated Press rated the UEFA Champions League match between Bergamo club Atalanta B.C. and the Spanish club Valencia at the San Siro on February 19 as “Juego Cero”. The match was the first time Atalanta had advanced to a Champions League round of 16 game and was attended by more than 40,000 people, about a third of the population of Bergamo. By March 24, nearly 7,000 people in the province of Bergamo had tested positive for COVID-19 and more than 1,000 people had died from the virus, making Bergamo the hardest-hit province in all of Italy during the pandemic.
Stadium Capacity
San Siro Stadium has a seating capacity of 75,923.
San Siro Stadium Seating Plan
Notable Events & Records
Not Yet.
Upcoming Events
2026 Winter Olympics
The opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics (Milano Cortina) will be held at San Siro on 6 February 2026.
Parking
The stadium has its own parking lots, of course. Otherwise, you can park your car in one of the subway connection parking lots and go to the town and the stadium by public transport.
