Renato Dall'Ara

The city, not the club, holds the deeds to the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara. Bologna FC 1909 have long pressed for the right to rebuild; the Comune di Bologna has kept the title.

The ground has carried three names in its lifetime. It opened as the Stadio Littoriale, built to a design by Giulio Ulisse Arata on the initiative of Leandro Arpinati, with the lictors of the regime behind the name. After the Second World War it became the Stadio Comunale, and in 1983 it took the name of Renato Dall'Ara, who ran the club from 1934 until 1964.

It was rebuilt for the 1990 World Cup at a cost of just over 75.5 billion lire: an all-seater conversion, a roof over the main stand, new floodlights, a new scoreboard and new safety exits. The running track survived that work and stayed until 2015.

Both of Italy's World Cups came through. In 1934 Sweden beat Argentina 3-2 and Austria beat Hungary 2-1; in 1990 England edged Belgium 1-0. New Zealand played a rugby test here in 1995.

The biggest football crowd remains the 55,000 who saw Italy beat Spain 2-0 on the opening day, 29 May 1927.