Boxing national side
National team · Italy
«Gli Azzurri»
Italy arrive at any tournament as one of the sides expected to go deep, even in years when the squad in front of the television cameras looks unfinished. The team plays its qualifiers and major fixtures mostly at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, a ground it does not hold exclusively but treats as home more often than any other.
The side traces itself to a match played in Milan on 15 May 1910, a 6–2 win over France, and that date rather than any founding charter is what the federation counts from. The blue shirts came a year later, chosen in tribute to the House of Savoy, and gave the team its nickname, Gli Azzurri.
Four World Cups mark the record: 1934 and 1938 under Vittorio Pozzo, the only manager to win the tournament twice, then a long wait broken by 1982 and 2006. The 1982 run turned on a single afternoon in Barcelona, when Paolo Rossi scored three times to eliminate Brazil in a semi-final still ranked among the sport's great matches. The 2006 title arrived amid the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal engulfing Serie A that same year, and Italian football treated the trophy as answering that mess rather than being untouched by it. Dino Zoff, who lifted nothing himself in 1938 but became the oldest World Cup winner at 40 in 1982, and Gianluigi Buffon, who went on to make a record 176 appearances, gave the goalkeeping shirt a weight few other countries attach to the position.
France carries the oldest grudge, the fixture known as the Derby of Europe, sharpened further by the 2006 final and Zinedine Zidane's headbutt on Marco Materazzi. Spain brings the Mediterranean Derby, contested as often for tactical bragging rights as for the result, while matches against Brazil are billed simply as a Classic, two footballing cultures each certain theirs is the correct one.
| 25 Sep | UEFA Nations League |
Belgium
H
|
0:2 | L |
| 7 Jun | Friendlies |
Greece
A
|
1:0 | W |
| 3 Jun | Friendlies |
Luxembourg
A
|
1:0 | W |
| 31 Mar | World Cup - Qualification Europe |
Bosnia & Herzegovina
A
|
1:1 | D |
| 26 Mar | World Cup - Qualification Europe |
Northern Ireland
H
|
2:0 | W |
| 16 Nov 2025 | World Cup - Qualification Europe |
Norway
H
|
1:4 | L |
Group stage · Group 1
| # | Team | M | W | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 |
 Belarus
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0:2 | 0 |
| 3 |
 Andorra
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 1:2 | 0 |
| 4 |
 Italy
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0:2 | 0 |
| 4 |
 North Macedonia
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0:3 | 0 |
| 4 |
 San Marino
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 0:7 | 0 |
| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 78 | 41 | 37 |
| Scored | 141 | 85 | 56 |
| Conceded | 78 | 39 | 39 |
| Scored per game | 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.5 |
| Conceded per game | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| Difference | +63 | +46 | +17 |
| Number | Player | Position | Age | Matches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 |  F. Esposito |
Forward | 4 | ||
| 1 |  Gianluigi Donnarumma |
Goalkeeper | 4 | ||
| 9 |  Moise Bioty Kean |
Forward | 3 | ||
| 8 |  Sandro Tonali |
Midfielder | 3 | ||
| 10 | |
 Giacomo Raspadori |
Forward | 26 | 3 |
| 23 | |
 Gianluca Mancini |
Defender | 30 | 3 |
| 18 |  N. Barella |
Midfielder | 3 | ||
| 16 |  Davide Frattesi |
Midfielder | 3 | ||
| 5 |  Riccardo Calafiori |
Defender | 3 | ||
| 12 |  Marco Carnesecchi |
Goalkeeper | 3 | ||
| 21 |  Niccolò Pisilli |
Midfielder | 3 | ||
| 19 |  Giorgio Scalvini |
Defender | 2 | ||
| 3 | |
 H. Ahanor |
Defender | 18 | 2 |
| 5 |  Manuel Locatelli |
Midfielder | 2 | ||
| 6 |  Alessandro Buongiorno |
Defender | 2 | ||
| 22 |  Alex Meret |
Goalkeeper | 2 | ||
| 7 |  Matteo Politano |
Midfielder | 2 | ||
| 2 |  M. Palestra |
Defender | 2 | ||
| 16 | |
 Bryan Cristante |
Midfielder | 31 | 2 |
| 19 |  Federico Gatti |
Defender | 2 | ||
| 9 |  Mateo Retegui |
Forward | 2 | ||
| 3 |  F. Dimarco |
Midfielder | 2 | ||
| 21 |  A. Bastoni |
Defender | 2 | ||
| 4 |  Leonardo Spinazzola |
Defender | 2 | ||
| 17 | |
 Mohamed Ali Zoma |
Forward | 22 | 1 |
| 15 | |
 Issa Doumbia |
Midfielder | 22 | 1 |
| 22 | |
 Giovanni Di Lorenzo |
Defender | 33 | 1 |
| 11 | |
 Gianluca Scamacca |
Forward | 27 | 1 |
| 13 |  Rolando Mandragora |
Midfielder | 1 | ||
| 20 |  Daniel Maldini |
Forward | 1 | ||
| 2 |  Michael Kayode |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 6 |  Diego Coppola |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 21 |  Nicolò Cambiaghi |
Forward | 1 | ||
| 14 |  Guglielmo Vicario |
Goalkeeper | 1 | ||
| 4 |  Alessandro Romano |
Midfielder | 1 | ||
| 17 |  Seydou Fini |
Forward | 1 | ||
| 11 |  Luca Warrick Daeovie Koleosho |
Forward | 1 | ||
| 4 |  Fabio Chiarodia |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 6 |  Filippo Calixte Mané |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 12 |  Giovanni Daffara |
Goalkeeper | 1 |
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