Derby della Madonnina

Derby Milano

City or region	Milan (Italy)
First contested	Chiasso, 18 October 1908
Teams involved	Milan & Internazionale
Most wins	Milan (108)
Most player appearances	Paolo Maldini (56)

Derby della Madonnina, or the Milan Derby as it is sometimes known, is a football match between the Italian clubs Associazione Calcio Milan and Football Club Internazionale Milano. It is a hotly contested local derby and is one of the most followed derbies in football.^[1] Along with the Rome and Turin derbies, it is widely considered one of the major crosstown derbies in the Serie A, so much so that only selected referees may officiate whenever these teams meet. It is a biannual fixture in the Italian football league Serie A; the derby, however, has also taken place in the Coppa Italia and the UEFA Champions League.

It is called "Derby della Madonnina" in honour of one of the main sights in the city of Milan, the statue of the Virgin Mary on the top of the Duomo, which is usually called "Madonnina".

Rivalry culture

A.C. Milan footballer Massimo Ambrosini wielding a controversial banner which reads "Lo scudetto mettilo nel culo" (translation: "Shove your championship title up your arse"). The photo was taken at the end of the 2006–07 season, when Internazionale had achieved the Italian football league. Some days later Milan won the Champions League, and this led to the reply.

On December 16, 1899, Alfred Edwards and others founded the Milan Cricket and Football Club. Edwards, a former British vice-consul in Milan and a well-known personality of the Milanese high society, was the club's first elected president. Initially, the team included a cricket section, managed by Edward Berra, and a football section managed by David Allison. The Milan team soon gained relevant notability under Herbert Kilpin's guide. The first trophy to be won was the Medaglia del Re (King's Medal) on January 1900, and the team later won three national leagues, in 1901, 1906 and 1907. The triumph of 1901 was particularly relevant because it ended the consecutive series of wins of Genoa, which had been the only team to have won the title prior to 1901.

In 1908, issues over the signing of foreign players led to a split and the foundation of F.C. Internazionale Milano. In the past, Inter was seen as the club of the Milan bourgeoisie (nicknamed bauscia, a milanese term meaning "braggart"), whereas Milan (nicknamed casciavit, meaning in the milanese dialect "screwdriver", with both reference to the blue-collar worker, and to "awkward") was supported mainly by the city's working-class and trade unionists, a section of whom were migrants from Southern Italy.^[2] However in the recent years this difference has mitigated, since Milan is now owned by current conservative Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi and Inter is owned by a centre-left businessman, Massimo Moratti.

During the 1960s, Inter was the more successful club, winning the European Cup twice in a row and the Intercontinental Cup twice in a row. However during the late 1980s and the 1990s Silvio Berlusconi's Milan was the more dominant team, with many victories both in Italy and in the European competitions.

The Mazzola and Rivera years

In the 1960s the Milan derby saw two big stars of Italian football come face to face. One of the most representative players of Inter was Sandro Mazzola, the son of the Torino player Valentino Mazzola (who along with most of his Torino teammates, died in a plane crash in 1949 after dominating Serie A for four seasons). His Milan counter-part was Gianni Rivera, nicknamed Golden Boy for his talent. This era saw brilliant derby matches and an increasing rivalry: while Milan won the European Cup in 1962–63, Inter followed it up with back to back success in the following years. Milan again won the title in 1968–69. During this successful period for both teams, Milan were coached by Nereo Rocco and Inter were led by Helenio Herrera, both coaching many notable players.

The rivalry continued in the Italian national team, where the two players would often not play together, with one usually being substituted by the other at halftime. Rivera ended up losing the starting line-up to Mazzola in the 1970 final against Brazil, in which Italy was defeated 1–4 by the South Americans. He would later enter in the 84th minute, after Italy was already crushed. Many coaches and fans saw this as a mistake by the then coach Ferruccio Valcareggi, as the more dynamic Rivera could have changed the shift of the match.^{[citation needed]}

The 1990s and present years

Another notable rivalry era was in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the Dutch trio of Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard and Ruud Gullit played for Milan and the German trio of Andreas Brehme, Jürgen Klinsmann and Lothar Matthäus defended the Inter colors. Even though in that period Milan were dominating Italian and European football, this rivalry is mainly remembered for a famous 1990 World Cup match: the Dutch team had entered the competition as one of the favourites based on the fact that they had won the previous European Championship in 1988, and the trio had enjoyed great success at Milan at the European level with back-to-back European Cup titles in 1989 and 1990. Milan had won the 1988 Scudetto and Inter captured that title the following year.

When the Netherlands met Germany in the World Cup, the match was played at the home ground of Inter and Milan, the San Siro, and for many it seemed like a national team version of Milan derby. The high tempered game ended in defeat for the Dutch as Rijkaard got sent-off after spitting on German forward Rudi Völler. Germany won the game 2–1 with two of the Inter players Klinsman and Brehme scoring, a moral victory for Inter fans.

Milan, however, continued to have success both locally and internationally: they built a squad under Fabio Capello's lead later nicknamed as the invincibles, that won Milan's fifth European Cup in 1994, when they beat Johann Cruyff's Barcelona "dream team" 4-0 in one of the most one sided European finals ever. Capello's Milan reached the final of the European competition three times in a row.

On the other hand, Inter's long wait for a major title began after 1989, only to end in 2006, when the Calciopoli scandal stripped Juventus of the 2005–06 title and handed it to the team. Inter went on to win the 2007 Serie A title as well, with a record-breaking run of 17 consecutive victories, on the way winning both fixtures against Milan. The second Milan derby was notable, as Ronaldo had previously starred with Inter in the late 1990s.

Red-and-black superiority at European level

In the Semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League 2002-03, Milan was faced Inter with both derbies finished equal (0-0;1-1). Given that both clubs play in the same stadium, Milan were the designated away side in the second leg, and so won on "away" goals. One of the most notorious derby matches between Milan and Inter was the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinal on April 12, 2005. With Milan leading 1–0 thanks to an early Andriy Shevchenko goal and a clear 3-0 scoreline on aggregate, Inter's hardcore supporters became infuriated, after a controversial decision by referee Markus Merk. Bottles and various debris were subsequently thrown onto the pitch, but soon escalated to lit flares.

As Dida attempted to clear bottles in order to take a goal kick, a flare hurtled down from the upper deck and struck him. Merk halted the match at the 74th minute. After a 30-minute delay, in which firefighters were called in to remove the burning flares from the pitch, the match was restarted. Dida, however, was unable to continue, and was substituted by Christian Abbiati. Less than a minute later, though, Merk finally abandoned the match after more flares and debris rained down. The match was awarded as a 3–0 victory, totaling a 5–0 aggregate, to Milan. Inter were fined €200,000 (£132,000) – the largest fine ever handed down by UEFA – and were ordered to play their first four Champions League matches behind closed doors in the 2005–06 season as punishment.

The historic black-and-blue quintuple

Inter's historic 2009-10 season rekindled the flame of rivalry on several levels:

• Inter's 18th Scudetto took them one clear of Milan (17) for the first time since Milan matched Inter's 13 titles after the 1992-93 season.
• Inter's 6th Coppa Italia title also took them one clear of Milan (5) for the first time in the history of the competition.
• Inter was the first Italian club to win the Quintuple; The domestic title (Serie A 2009-10), the domestic cup (Coppa Italia 2009-10) the domestic supercup (2010 Supercoppa Italiana), the UEFA Champions League 2009-10 and the 2010 FIFA Club World Cup.

List of matches of the last decade

Season	Date	Home team	Score	Away team	Competition	Home goal scorers	Away goal scorers
2002-03	01-09-2002	Milan	1–0	Inter	Pro Vittime di Linate (friendly)	Tomasson ?'	-
	23-11-2002	Milan	1–0	Inter	Serie A	Serginho 12'	-
	12-04-2003	Inter	0–1	Milan	Serie A	-	Inzaghi 11' (pen.)
	07-05-2003	Milan	0–0	Inter	UEFA CL	-	-
	13-05-2003	Inter	1–1	Milan	UEFA CL	Martins 84'	Shevchenko 45'
2003-04	05-10-2003	Inter	1–3	Milan	Serie A	Martins 79'	Inzaghi 39', Kaká 46', Shevchenko 77'
	21-02-2004	Milan	3–2	Inter	Serie A	Tomasson 56', Kaká 57', Seedorf 58'	Stanković 15', Zanetti 40'
2004-05	24-10-2004	Milan	0–0	Inter	Serie A	-	-
	27-02-2005	Inter	0–1	Milan	Serie A	-	Kakà 77'
	06-04-2005	Milan	2–0	Inter	UEFA CL	Stam 46', Shevchenko 76'	-
	12-04-2005	Inter	0–3	Milan	UEFA CL		Shevchenko 30'
2005-06	11-12-2005	Inter	3–2	Milan	Serie A	Adriano 24', 93', Martins 61'	Shevchenko 39', Stam 85'
	14-04-2006	Milan	1–0	Inter	Serie A	Kaladze 71',	-
2006-07	28-10-2006	Milan	3–4	Inter	Serie A	Seedorf 53', Gilardino 79', Kaká 94'	Crespo 17', Stanković 22', Ibrahimović 50', Materazzi 72'
	11-03-2007	Inter	2–1	Milan	Serie A	Cruz 56', Ibrahimović 76'	Ronaldo 40'
2007-08	23-12-2007	Inter	2–1	Milan	Serie A	Cruz 36', Cambiasso 64'	Pirlo 18'
	04-05-2008	Milan	2–1	Inter	Serie A	Inzaghi 53', Kaká 58'	Cruz 78'
2008-09	28-09-2008	Milan	1–0	Inter	Serie A	Ronaldinho 36'	-
	15-02-2009	Inter	2–1	Milan	Serie A	Adriano 29', Stanković 43'	Pato 72'
2009-10	26-07-2009	Inter	2–0	Milan	WFC (friendly)	Milito 4', 75'	-
	29-08-2009	Milan	0–4	Inter	Serie A	-	Motta 29', Milito 36' (pen), Maicon 46', Stanković 70'
	24-01-2010	Inter	2–0	Milan	Serie A	Milito 10', Pandev 67'	-
2010-11	14-11-2010	Inter	0–1	Milan	Serie A	-	Ibrahimović 4' (pen.)
	02-04-2011	Milan	3–0	Inter	Serie A	Pato 1', 62', Cassano 90' (pen.)	-
2011-12	06-08-2011	Milan	2–1	Inter	Supercoppa Italiana	Ibrahimović 60', Boateng 69'	Sneijder 22'

* 2005 Champions League 2nd leg Match awarded 3-0 to Milan after crowd trouble by Inter fans.

Biggest wins

The winning team scored four goals or above with two or more goal difference from the defeated team (friendly matches not included).^[3]

Milan

• Milan 6-3 Inter on 30 April 1911 in Campionato
• Inter 0–4 Milan on 1 April 1917 in Coppa Regionale Lombarda
• Milan 8-1 Inter on 3 March 1918 in Coppa Mauro (all time goal difference record)
• Inter 0–4 Milan on 13 October 1918 in Coppa Giurati
• Inter 2–5 Milan on 16 February 1919 in Coppa Mauro
• Milan 5-3 Inter on 27 March 1960 in Campionato
• Milan 4-0 Inter on 27 June 1963 in Torneo Città di Milano
• Milan 4-2 Inter on 26 June 1968 in Coppa Italia
• Milan 6-4 Inter on 29 June 1969 in Torneo Città di New York
• Milan 5-0 Inter on 8 January 1998 in Coppa Italia
• Inter 0–6 Milan on 11 May 2001 in Campionato
• Inter 2–4 Milan on 21 October 2001 in Campionato

Inter

• Milan 0–5 Inter on 6 February 1910 in Campionato
• Inter 5-1 Milan on 17 February 1910 in Campionato
• Inter 5-2 Milan on 22 February 1914 in Campionato
• Milan 2-4 Inter on 26 Nobember 1944 in Coppa Monti
• Inter 5-2 Milan on 28 March 1965 in Campionato
• Inter 4-0 Milan on 2 April 1967 in Campionato
• Milan 1–5 Inter on 24 March 1974 in Campionato
• Milan 0–4 Inter on 29 August 2009 in Campionato

Head to head (only in main active competitions)

The following table lists the history of meetings between Milan and Inter, updated to the most recent derby of 6 August 2011.

Matches	Milan wins	Draws	Inter wins	Milan goals	Inter goals
Campionato
176	60	52	64	239	255
Coppa Italia
23	9	7	7	32	22
UEFA Champions League
4	2	2	0	6	1
Supercoppa Italiana
1	1	0	0	2	1
Totals
204	72	61	71	279	279

Trophies

Team	Domestic				European					Worldwide	Total
	Serie A	Coppa Italia	Supercoppa Italiana	Total	European Cup Champions League	Cup Winners' Cup	Europa League UEFA Cup Fairs Cup	Super Cup	Total	Club World Cup Intercontinental Cup
Milan	18	5	6	29	7	2	-	5	14	4	47
Inter	18	7	5	30	3	-	3	-	6	3	39

Top Goal scorers

	Player	Club(s)	League	Cup	Europe	Total
	Andriy Shevchenko	Milan	8	3	3	14
	Giuseppe Meazza	Inter, Milan				13
	Gunnar Nordahl	Milan				11
	István Nyers	Inter				11
	Enrico Candiani	Inter, Milan				10
	José Altafini	Milan				7
	Alessandro Altobelli	Inter				7
	Roberto Boninsegna	Inter				7
	Benito Lorenzi	Inter				7
	Louis Van Hege	Milan				7
	Aldo Boffi	Milan				6
	Aldo Cevenini	Milan, Inter				6
	Attilio Demaria	Inter				6
	Sandro Mazzola	Inter				6
	Pietro Serantoni	Inter				6
	Kaká	Milan	5	-	-	5
	Ronaldo	Inter, Milan	5	-	-	5
	Filippo Inzaghi	Milan	4	-	-	4
	Dejan Stanković	Inter	4	-	-	4
	Clarence Seedorf	Inter, Milan	4	-	-	4
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Inter, Milan	3	1	-	4

Players played for both teams

Milan then Inter

• 1912: Luigi Cevenini
• 1960: Lorenzo Buffon - Through Genoa
• 1982: Fulvio Collovati
• 1998: Roberto Baggio - Through Bologna
• 1999: Christian Panucci - Through Real Madrid
• 2000: Cristian Brocchi - Through Pro Sesto, Lumezzane, and Verona, then back to Milan again in 2001
• 2001: Dražen Brnčić
• 2001: Andrés Guglielminpietro
• 2001: Francesco Toldo - Through Verona, Trento, Ravenna, and Fiorentina
• 2002: Francesco Coco
• 2002: Ümit Davala
• 2003: Thomas Helveg
• 2004: Edgar Davids - Through Juventus and FC Barcelona
• 2006: Patrick Vieira - Through Arsenal and Juventus

Inter then Milan

• 1940: Giuseppe Meazza - Then back to Internazionale again in 1946 through Juventus, Varese, and Atalanta
• 1974: Aldo Bet - Through Roma and Verona
• 1982: Aldo Serena
• 1998: Maurizio Ganz
• 1999: Taribo West
• 2001: Andrea Pirlo
• 2002: Clarence Seedorf
• 2002: Dario Šimić
• 2004: Hernán Crespo - Through Chelsea on loan, then back to Internazionale again in 2006
• 2005: Christian Vieri
• 2006: Giuseppe Favalli
• 2007: Ronaldo - Through Real Madrid
• 2010: Mancini - Played for Milan on loan from Internazionale
• 2010: Zlatan Ibrahimović - Through Barcelona

Notes

1. ^ Is this the greatest derby in world sports?, The Roar, Retrieved on 1 February 2010
2. ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/the-greatest-rivalries-in-world-football-2119190.html?action=Gallery
3. ^ http://www.magliarossonera.it/img_storia/avversari2inter.pdf

External links

• Derby Milan (All about AC Milan and Inter Milan)
• Inter archive
• MILAN-INTER: statistiche del derby (a cura di Salvatore Scarlino)