List of Inter Milan records and statistics

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Javier Zanetti, pictured here in 2011, holds the records for most appearances with the club, with 858.

Football Club Internazionale Milano is an Italian professional association football club based in Milan that currently plays in the Italian Serie A. They were one of the founding members of Serie A in 1929, and are the only club never to have been relegated from the league. They have also been involved in European football, winning the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup three times each. Inter become the first Italian club to win back-to-back European Cups, achieving the feat in 1964 and 1965.

This list encompasses the major honours won by Inter Milan and records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records notable achievements by Inter Milan players on the international stage, and the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club.

Inter has set various records since its founding. In 2010, Inter became the first Italian club to win the treble consisting of Serie A, the Coppa Italia and the UEFA Champions League.[1] Between 2005 and 2010, Inter won five consecutive national championships, a record which was broken by Juventus in the 2016–17 season. Inter has also signed several high-profile players, setting the world record in transfer fees on two occasions with the purchase of Ronaldo in 1997 and Christian Vieri in 1999.

The statistics listed below are updated to 23 May 2021.

Honours[]

Main article: List of Inter Milan honours

Inter Milan have won 31 domestic trophies, including the league nineteen times, the Coppa Italia seven and the Supercoppa Italiana five. From 2006 to 2010, the club won five successive league titles, equalling the all-time record in that period. Inter has won the Champions League three times; two back-to-back titles in 1964 and 1965, and then another in 2010. The 2010 title completed an unprecedented Italian treble along with the Coppa Italia and the Scudetto. The club has also won three UEFA Cups, two Intercontinental Cups and one FIFA Club World Cup.

National titles[]

Serie A:

Coppa Italia:

Supercoppa Italiana:

International titles[]

The following titles include only those which are recognised by UEFA and FIFA.

World-wide titles[]

Intercontinental Cup:[2]

Intercontinental Supercup:

  • Runners-up (1): 1968

FIFA Club World Cup:

European titles[]

European Cup/UEFA Champions League:

UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League:

UEFA Super Cup:

  • Runners-up (1): 2010

Youth Team honours[]

Trofeo Giacinto Facchetti:

  • Champions (9): 1964, 1966, 1969, 1989, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2018

Primavera Italian Cup:

  • Champions (6): 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 2006, 2016

Supercoppa Primavera:

  • Champions (1): 2017

Campionato Under 23:

  • Champions (1): 1975

Viareggio World Club Tournament, Carnevale Cup:

  • Champions (8): 1962, 1971, 1986, 2002, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2018

Under 14 Championship:

  • Champions (4): 1988, 1997, 2003, 2006

Under 16 Championship:

  • Champions (4): 1985, 1987, 1998, 2008

Under 18 Championship:

  • Champions (3): 1980, 1984, 1991

Under 20 Championship:

  • Champions (5): 1975, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1991

Filippo De Cecco Tournament:

  • Champions (2): 2006, 2008

Club statistics[]

Divisional movements[]

Series Years Last Promotions Relegations
A 90 2021–22 – never
90 years of professional football in Italy since 1929

Serie A[]

  • Most seasons played in Serie A: 89 (from 1929–30 season to 2020–21 season) (sole club that has played Serie A football in every season from 1908 to 1909)
  • Most consecutive wins: 17 (in 2006–07 season)

Matches[]

Firsts[]

  • First league match: Milan 3–2 Inter, Prima Categoria, 10 January 1909[3]
  • First Coppa Italia match: Inter 14–0 Acciaierie e Ferriere Novi, 11 November 1926[3]
  • First European match: Inter 0–0 Birmingham City, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, 16 May 1956.[3]

Wins[]

Defeats[]

  • Record Serie A defeat: 1–9 against Juventus, 10 June 1961.[3]
  • Record Coppa Italia defeat:[3]
    • 0–5 against Milan, 8 January 1998
  • Record defeat in European competitions:[3]
  • Most defeats in a Serie A season: 19 (out of 40 games), during the 1947–48 season[3]
  • Fewest defeats in a Serie A season: 1 (out of 38 games), during the 2006–07 season[3]

Points[]

  • Most points in a Serie A season:[3]
    • Two points for a win: 58 in 34 games, during the 1988–89 season
    • Three points for a win: 97 in 38 games, during the 2006–07 season
  • Fewest points in a Serie A season:[3]
    • Two points for a win: 26 in 30 games, during the 1941–42 season
    • Three points for a win: 46 in 38 games, during the 1998–99 season

Player statistics[]

Most appearances[]

Rank Nationality Player Position Years League Cup Europe Others Total
1  Argentina Javier Zanetti DF 1995–2015 615 71 159 13 858
2  Italy Giuseppe Bergomi DF 1979–1999 517 119 117 1 754
3  Italy Giacinto Facchetti DF 1960–1978 476 85 68 5 634
4  Italy Sandro Mazzola FW 1960–1977 418 80 63 4 565
5  Italy Giuseppe Baresi DF 1977–1992 392 92 74 1 559
6  Italy Mario Corso FW 1958–1973 414 41 48 5 503
7  Italy Walter Zenga GK 1982–1994 328 73 71 1 473
8  Italy Tarcisio Burgnich DF 1962–1974 359 47 57 4 467
9  Italy Alessandro Altobelli FW 1977–1988 317 80 69 0 466
10  Colombia Iván Córdoba DF 2000–2012 324 34 92 5 454
  • Most appearances made in official competitions: 858 – Javier Zanetti, 1995–2014[4]

Top goalscorers[]

Rank Nationality Player Position Years League Cup Europe Others Total
1  Italy Giuseppe Meazza FW 1927–1940
1946–1947 		243 12 0 29 284
2  Italy Alessandro Altobelli FW 1977–1988 128 46 35 0 209
3  Italy Roberto Boninsegna FW 1969–1976 113 36 22 0 171
4  Italy Sandro Mazzola FW 1960–1977 116 24 17 3 160
5  Italy Luigi Cevenini FW 1912–1915
1919–1921
1922–1927 		158 0 0 0 158
6  Italy Benito Lorenzi FW 1947–1958 138 2 3 0 143
7  Hungary István Nyers FW 1948–1954 133 0 0 0 133
8  Argentina Mauro Icardi FW 2013–2019 111 3 10 0 124
9  Italy Christian Vieri FW 1999–2005 103 8 12 0 123
10  Italy Mario Corso FW 1957–1976 78 13 10 0 101
  • Most goals scored in official competitions: 284 – Giuseppe Meazza, 1927–1940 & 1946–1947[4]

Inter Milan's top flight top goalscorers[]

"il Balilla" Giuseppe Meazza was named top goalscorer three times with Inter, respectively in 1929–30, 1935–36 and 1937–38 seasons.

This is the list of Inter's top league goalscorers in a single season.[5]

Rank Player Season Goals
1 Luigi Cevenini 1913–14 35
2 Antonio Valentín Angelillo 1958–59 33
3 Emilio Agradi 1914–15 31
Luigi Cevenini 1920–21
Giuseppe Meazza 1929–30
6 Mauro Icardi[a] 2017–18 29
7 István Nyers 1948–49 26
8 Ernest Peterly 1909–10 25
Giuseppe Meazza 1935–36
Zlatan Ibrahimović 2008–09
  1. ^ Icardi finished the season as joint top scorer along with Lazio's Ciro Immobile.

Award winners[]

Ronaldo was the last Inter Milan player to win the FIFA World Player of the Year award.

FIFA World Player of the Year

The following players won the FIFA World Player of the Year award whilst playing for Inter Milan:

Ballon d'Or/European Footballer of the Year

The following players have won the Ballon d'Or award whilst playing for Inter Milan:

World Soccer Player of the Year

The following players have won the World Player of the Year award whilst playing for Inter Milan:

UEFA Club Footballer of the Year

The following players have won the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award whilst playing for Inter Milan:

Serie A Footballer of the Year

The following players have won the Serie A Footballer of the Year award whilst playing for Inter Milan:

Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year

The following players have won the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year award whilst playing for Inter Milan:

Serie A Most Valuable Player

The following players have won the Serie A Award for most valuable player whilst playing for Inter Milan:

Serie A Best Defender

The following players have won the Serie A Award for best defender whilst playing for Inter Milan:

Serie A Best Midfielder

The following players have won the Serie A Award for best midfielder whilst playing for Inter Milan:

Serie A Coach of the Year

The following managers have won the Serie A Coach of the Year award whilst managing Inter Milan:

UEFA Europa League Player of the Season

The following players have won the UEFA Europa League Player of the Season whilst plauing for Inter Milan:

Transfers[]

Romelu Lukaku (pictured in 2017), signed in August 2019 from Manchester United for €80 million, became Inter's most expensive purchase. He was then sold for a club-record fee of €115 million to Chelsea two years later.

Highest transfer fees paid[]

Inter Milan's record signings are Romelu Lukaku and Christian Vieri. Lukaku was signed from Manchester United for a reported fee of €65 million in August 2019.[6] Vieri signed for the club from Lazio, for a fee which according to media reports is €49 million, in June 1999.[7]

Rank Player From Transfer fee Date Ref.
1 Belgium Romelu Lukaku England Manchester United €80m[a] August 2019 [6]
2 Italy Christian Vieri Italy Lazio €49m June 1999 [7]
3 Italy Nicolò Barella Italy Cagliari €40.5m September 2020 [8]
4 Morocco Achraf Hakimi Spain Real Madrid €40m July 2020 [9]
Portugal João Mário Portugal Sporting CP €40m August 2016 [10]
6 Belgium Radja Nainggolan Italy Roma €38m June 2018 [11]
7 Argentina Hernán Crespo Italy Lazio €31.5m[b] August 2002 [12]
8 France Geoffrey Kondogbia France Monaco €31m June 2015 [13]
9 Brazil Gabriel Barbosa Brazil Santos €29.5m August 2016 [14]
10 Italy Francesco Toldo Italy Fiorentina €28.5m July 2001 [15]
  1. ^ €10 million of Lukaku's cost was additional bonuses.
  2. ^ Hernán Crespo was actually purchased for €26 million fee + Bernardo Corradi. Lazio later re-valued Corradi to €5.5 million.

Highest transfer fees received[]

The club's record sale came on 12 August 2021, when they sold Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea for a fee of €115 million.[16]

Rank Player To Transfer fee Date Ref.
1 Belgium Romelu Lukaku England Chelsea €115m August 2021 [16]
2 Sweden Zlatan Ibrahimović Spain Barcelona €69m[a] July 2009 [17]
3 Morocco Achraf Hakimi France Paris Saint-Germain €60m[b] July 2021 [18]
4 Argentina Mauro Icardi France Paris Saint-Germain €58m[c] May 2020 [19]
5 Brazil Ronaldo Spain Real Madrid €46m August 2002 [20]
6 Croatia Mateo Kovačić Spain Real Madrid €29m August 2015 [21]
7 France Geoffrey Kondogbia Spain Valencia €25m May 2018 [22]
8 Cameroon Samuel Eto'o Russia Anzhi Makhachkala €21.8m August 2011 [23]
Italy Mario Balotelli England Manchester City €21.8m September 2010 [24]
10 Argentina Hernán Crespo England Chelsea €21.2m August 2003 [25]
  1. ^ Initial transfer fee for Ibrahimović is indeterminable. Ibrahimović signed a 5-year contract, for €46 million and the exchange of Eto'o (valued at €20 million) and loan of Alexander Hleb (with an option to buy for a €10 million fee), with a €250 million release clause, making Ibrahimović worth €69 million. However, the Hleb deal collapsed. Eventually Ibrahimović cost Barcelona €69.884 million (£59 million), which included other fees. As per the Inter book the fee was €69.5 million, but part of the Inter fee (about 4.5%) was redistributed to youth clubs as solidarity contribution (except Juventus).
  2. ^ €11 million of additional bonuses linked to the achievement of certain objectives, reaching a potential €71 million transfer fee.
  3. ^ €8 million of Icardi's fee was add-ons.

World Cup winning players[]

The following World Cup winning players played at Inter Milan at some point during their career. Highlighted players played for Inter Milan while winning the World Cup. Relatedly, there has been an Inter Milan player in the FIFA World Cup final for every edition since 1982.[26]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Title was awarded retrospectively following the Calciopoli scandal.

References[]

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  2. ^ Up until 2004, the main tournament to determine football's World Champions was the Intercontinental Champions Club' Cup (so called European / South American Cup); since then, it has been the FIFA Club World Cup.
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