Luigi Ferraris

Marassi is the oldest football ground still in use in Italy, and it began as something the club built for itself: Genoa Cricket and Football Club put up the first structure in 1910 under its own officials, President Edoardo Pasteur and Marchese Musso Piantelli, without an outside architect. It opened as Campo di Via del Piano. The name it carries now arrived in 1933, when the ground was dedicated to Luigi Ferraris , a Genoa player killed in the First World War.

What stands today is not that ground. Between 1987 and 1989 the stadium was demolished and rebuilt for the 1990 FIFA World Cup , to a design by Vittorio Gregotti with Augusto Cagnardi. The rebuilt arena hosted four World Cup matches, and Ireland's goalless round-of-16 tie with Romania.

The ground has staged two results the Italy side would rather forget. In October 2010 a Euro 2012 qualifier against Serbia was abandoned after six minutes because of crowd trouble, and UEFA awarded Italy a 3–0 forfeit win. In February 2012 the United States won 1–0 here, Italy's first home defeat in nearly a century. Genoa and Sampdoria still share the place; a renovation for Euro 2032, drawn up by Hembert Penaranda, is costed at €80–100 million.