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Paolo Maldini is Milan's all-time record appearance-maker.. Associazione Calcio Milan is an Italian professional football club based in Milan.The club was founded in December 1899 as Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club, and played their first competitive match on 15 April 1900, when they entered the semi-final of the 1900 Italian Football Championship.
First match: Milan 2–0 SEF Mediolanum, friendly match (Medaglia del Re), 11 March 1900 [2] First league match: Torinese 3–0 Milan , 1900 Italian Football Championship , 15 April 1900 [ 3 ] First Coppa Italia match: Milan 7–1 Rivalorese , 1926–27 Coppa Italia , second round, 6 January 1927 [ 4 ]
This is a list of AC Milan honours. ... 2003–04, 2010–11, 2021–22 ... Fifth place in the IFFHS All-time club world ranking.
He went on to become Milan's all-time top goalscorer, scoring 221 goals for the club in 268 games. [106] He is followed in second place by Andriy Shevchenko with 175 goals in 322 games, and Gianni Rivera in third place, who has scored 164 goals in 658 games. Rivera is also Milan's youngest ever goalscorer, scoring in a league match against ...
Milan won the 2002–03 Champions League with Maldini as their captain for the first time in his career, in the first all-Italian final, against Juventus, on 28 May 2003 at Old Trafford. Maldini helped Milan keep a clean sheet, as they defeated Juventus 3–2 on penalties after a 0–0 deadlock following extra time.
Rocco has also been Milan's longest-serving manager, managing the club for 459 matches (323 as head coach and 136 as technical director) in five different spells between 1961 and 1977. Milan's longest-serving manager over a single time-span is, instead, Carlo Ancelotti , whose tenure lasted seven years and 236 days, from 6 November 2001 to 30 ...
In the 1979–80 season, Milan got relegated for the first time in their history, following a match-fixing scandal. By the end of the 1980s, the club had managed to become successful again and, in the 1991–92 season, they went on to win the championship unbeaten (a feature that was never achieved before in Serie A).
The most important player of the decade was Aldo Boffi, who was three times top scorer of the Serie A (in 1938-39, 1939–40 and 1941–42) and who scored a total of 136 goals for Milan, which made him the 5th all-time top scorer of the club. In 1939, the fascist regime imposed a new italianized name, Associazione Calcio Milano, for the team.