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Associazione Calcio Milan S.p.A. |
- Associazione Calcio Milan (Italian pronunciation: [assotʃatˈtsjoːne ˈkaltʃo ˈmiːlan]), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899.
- The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 and 1982–83 seasons, in the top flight of Italian football, known as Serie A since 1929–30.
- AC Milan's 18 FIFA and UEFA trophies is the fourth highest out of any club (joint with Boca Juniors), and the most out of any Italian club.Milan has won a joint record three Intercontinental Cups and one FIFA Club World Cup,seven European Cup/Champions League titles (Italian record),the UEFA Super Cup a joint record five times and the Cup Winners' Cup twice.With 19 league titles, Milan is tied as the second most successful club in Serie A with local rivals Inter Milan (also with 19 league titles), behind Juventus (36 league titles).
- They have also won the Coppa Italia five times, and the Supercoppa Italiana seven.
- Milan's home games are played at San Siro, also known as the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza.
- The stadium, which is shared with city rivals Internazionale, is the largest in Italian football, with a total capacity of 75,923.
- They have a long-standing rivalry with Inter, with whom they contest the Derby della Madonnina; it is one of the most followed derbies in football.
- The club is one of the wealthiest in Italian and world football.
- It was a founding member of the now-defunct G-14 group of Europe's leading football clubs as well as its replacement, the European Club Association.
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