A.C. Milan

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Milan

Full name	Associazione Calcio Milan S.p.A.[1]
Nickname(s)	i Rossoneri (The Red and Blacks) il Diavolo (The Devil) Casciavit (Lombard for: Screwdrivers)
Founded	16 December 1899[2]
Ground	San Siro, Milan (Capacity: 80,074)
Owner	Silvio Berlusconi[3]
President	Vacant [1]
Head coach	Massimiliano Allegri[4]
League	Serie A
2009–10	Serie A, 3rd
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmiːlan]), is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. It was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and businessman Alfred Edwards among others.^[5][6] The club has spent most of its history in Serie A, the top-flight of Italian football, having played only two seasons in Serie B in the early 1980s.^[5]
Milan has won 18 officially recognized UEFA and FIFA international titles,^[7] and remains tied with Boca Juniors as having won the most in the world. Milan has won four world titles,^[7] more than any other club in the world, having won the Intercontinental Cup three times and the FIFA Club World Cup once.^[7] Milan has won the European Cup/Champions League on seven occasions;^[7] only Real Madrid has exceeded this total.^[8] The club has also won the UEFA Super Cup a record five times and the Cup Winners' Cup twice.^[7]
Domestically, Milan has won 17 league titles, making the club the third most successful in Serie A behind local rivals Internazionale (18 titles) and record-holder Juventus (27 titles).^[9] The club has also won the Coppa Italia five times, in addition to five Supercoppa Italiana triumphs.^[7] The Europa League remains the only major competition for which the team are eligible to compete that they have never won. Milan was a founding member of the G-14 group and the European Club Association that was formed following the first organization's dissolution.^[10]
Milan's home games are played at San Siro, also known as the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. The stadium, which is shared with Inter, is the largest in Italian football, with a total capacity of 80,074.^[11] The owner of the club is Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi while the vice-president is Adriano Galliani. Milan is one of the wealthiest clubs in Italian and world football.^[12]