F.C. Internazionale Milano

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Internazionale

Football Club Internazionale Milano SpA

I Nerazzurri (the black and blues)
La Beneamata (the cherished ones)
Il Biscione (the big grass snake)
I Serpenti (the serpent)

Founded

9 March 1908

Ground

Stadio Giuseppe Meazza
(Capacity: 80,065 ^[1])

President

Head Coach

League

Serie A, 1st

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Current season

Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale or Inter, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. They are the current champions of the Italian Serie A, having retained their crown for the fourth successive season on 16 May 2009.

Inter hold the distinction of being the only side in Italian football to have never been relegated to a lower division. They have spent their entire history in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football which began its first season in 1929-30. Playing in black and blue striped shirts with black shorts, they have 17 Serie A titles to their name. Including the Coppa Italia (five wins) and the Italian Super Cup (four wins), Inter have a total of 26 national trophies. Outside of their homeland, the club have also had success in European and World tournaments; they won the European Cup in two successive finals in 1964 and 1965. They have also won the UEFA Cup three times in 1991, 1994, 1998 and the Intercontinental Cup twice also in 1964 and in 1965.

Inter play their home games at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza stadium, also known as the San Siro. The ground, which they share with city rivals A.C. Milan is the largest in Italy, with a total capacity of 80,018. Inter train at the fields of sports center "Angelo Moratti" (better known as La Pinetina) in Appiano Gentile, near Como. The term Inter Milan is sometimes used in foreign countries to differentiate Internazionale from Milan as well as other clubs bearing similar names, but is not used within Italy.