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Italy

Curva culture and cathedral cities

Italian football is theatre performed by the crowd. The ultras choreograph, the city watches, the football is secondary until it isn't. Serie A and Serie B run through the most visitable cities on earth, Florence, Naples, Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Palermo.

Top places to travel

  • NaplesMaradona murals on every corner and the loudest stadium in Italy.
  • VeniceThe only ground in the world you reach by boat.
  • FlorenceFiorentina's purple, the Uffizi, and a bistecca the size of a shinpad.
  • GenoaTwo clubs sharing one crumbling, brilliant Marassi. Focaccia at 8am.
  • Lake ComoComo 1907 play a hundred metres from the water.

Did you know?

Trivia for the pub

Fact 01

Genoa

Italy's oldest club, founded by Englishmen in 1893, hence the English spelling.

Fact 02

Palermo

Pink and black chosen in 1907 to represent 'the sad and the sweet'.

Fact 03

Napoli

Retired the number 10 shirt for Maradona and renamed the stadium after him.

Fact 04

Juventus

Wear black and white because a Nottingham-born member had Notts County kit shipped over.

Every club we hold

44 clubs · 3 divisions