Italian Football Hall of Fame

The Italian Football Hall of Fame (Italian: Hall of Fame del calcio italiano) is the hall of fame for association football players that have had a significant impact on Italian football.^[1]

Italian Football Hall of Fame

Sport	Association football
Competition	Italian football
Awarded for	Football personalities that had an unforgettable impact on the history of Italian football[1]
Local name	Hall of Fame del calcio italiano (Italian)
Country	Italy
Presented by	Italian Football Federation Football Museum Foundation
History
First award	2011
Editions	11
Website	Official website

It is housed at the Museo del Calcio in Coverciano, Italy.^[2]

History and regulations

The Hall of Fame was established by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and Football Museum Foundation (Italian: Fondazione Museo del Calcio) in 2011 to celebrate football personalities that "had an unforgettable impact on the history of Italian football".^[1] It aims to promote the heritage, history, culture and values of Italian football.^[2]

Since 2011, new members are added every year and are divided into categories: Italian player (retired for at least two seasons), Italian coach (with at least 15 years of activity), Italian veteran (retired for at least 25 years), Foreign player (retired for at least two seasons and that has played in Italy for at least five seasons), Italian referee (retired for at least two seasons), Italian director (with at least 15 years of activity), and Posthumous honours.^[1][2] In the 2022 selection, a non-Italian coach, José Mourinho, was inducted.^[3]

The jury listed in the Italian Football Federation website is composed of the directors of the main Italian sporting press bodies, including: Luigi Ferrajolo (President of Italian Sports Press Association), Andrea Monti (La Gazzetta dello Sport), Alessandro Vocalelli (Corriere dello Sport – Stadio and Guerin Sportivo), Paolo De Paola (Tuttosport), Gabriele Romagnoli (Rai Sport), Federico Ferri (Sky Sport), Matteo Marani (Sky Sport 24), Alberto Brandi (Sport Mediaset), and Piercarlo Presutti (Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata).^[4] However, a different jury composition has been used in different editions.^[5][6][3]

In 2014, the category Female Italian player was added.^[7][8] In 2018, the Fair Play Award category was added in honour of the late Italian footballer Davide Astori.^[5] The same year, a Special Award was awarded to Gianni Brera.^[5]

List of inductees

Four inductees (from the first in the heights to the left in a clockwise direction): Roberto Baggio, the first Italian player to be inducted; Paolo Maldini, inducted in 2012; Giovanni Trapattoni, inducted in 2012; Diego Maradona, inducted in 2014.

Italian player

Name	Year	Ref.
Roberto Baggio	2011	[7]
Paolo Maldini	2012	[7]
Franco Baresi	2013	[7]
Fabio Cannavaro	2014	[7]
Gianluca Vialli	2015	[7]
Giuseppe Bergomi	2016	[7]
Alessandro Del Piero	2017	[9]
Francesco Totti	2018	[5]
Andrea Pirlo	2019	[10]
Alessandro Nesta	2021	[11]
Gianfranco Zola	2022	[3]

Coach

Name	Year	Ref.
Marcello Lippi	2011	[7]
Arrigo Sacchi
Giovanni Trapattoni	2012	[7]
Fabio Capello	2013	[7]
Carlo Ancelotti	2014	[7]
Roberto Mancini	2015	[7]
Claudio Ranieri	2016	[7]
Osvaldo Bagnoli	2017	[9]
Massimiliano Allegri	2018	[5]
Carlo Mazzone	2019	[10]
Antonio Conte	2021	[11]
José Mourinho	2022	[3]

Italian veteran

Name	Year	Ref.
Gigi Riva	2011	[7]
Dino Zoff	2012	[7]
Gianni Rivera	2013	[7]
Sandro Mazzola	2014	[7]
Marco Tardelli	2015	[7]
Paolo Rossi	2016	[7]
Bruno Conti	2017	[9]
Giancarlo Antognoni	2018	[5]
Gabriele Oriali	2019	[10]
Antonio Cabrini	2021	[11]
Alessandro Altobelli	2022	[3]

Italian referee

Name	Year	Ref.
Pierluigi Collina	2011	[7]
Luigi Agnolin	2012	[7]
Paolo Casarin
Sergio Gonella	2013	[7]
Cesare Gussoni
Stefano Braschi	2014	[7]
Roberto Rosetti	2015	[7]
Graziano Cesari (revoked)	2016	[12]
Nicola Rizzoli	2018	[5]
Alberto Michelotti	2019	[10]
Gianluca Rocchi	2021	[11]

Italian director

Name	Year	Ref.
Adriano Galliani	2011	[7]
Giampiero Boniperti	2012	[7]
Massimo Moratti	2013	[7]
Giuseppe Marotta	2014	[7]
Corrado Ferlaino	2015	[7]
Silvio Berlusconi	2016	[7]
Sergio Campana	2017	[9]
Antonio Matarrese	2018	[5]
Antonio Percassi	2019	[10]
Giovanni Sartori	2021	[11]
Ernesto Pellegrini	2022	[11]

Foreign player

Name	Year	Ref.
Michel Platini	2011	[7]
Marco van Basten	2012	[7]
Gabriel Batistuta	2013	[7]
Diego Maradona	2014	[7]
Ronaldo	2015	[7]
Paulo Roberto Falcão	2016	[7]
Ruud Gullit	2017	[9]
Javier Zanetti	2018	[5]
Zbigniew Boniek	2019	[10]
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	2021	[11]
Zinedine Zidane	2022	[3]

Female Italian player

Name	Year	Ref.
Carolina Morace	2014	[7]
Patrizia Panico	2015	[7]
Melania Gabbiadini	2016	[7]
Elisabetta Vignotto	2017	[9]
Milena Bertolini	2018	[5]
Sara Gama	2019	[10]
Barbara Bonansea	2021	[11]
Cristiana Girelli	2022	[3]

Posthumous awards

Players

Name	Year	Ref.
Giovanni Ferrari	2011	[7]
Giuseppe Meazza
Silvio Piola
Gaetano Scirea
Valentino Mazzola	2012	[7]
Angelo Schiavio
Eraldo Monzeglio	2013	[7]
Giacomo Bulgarelli	2014	[7]
Giacinto Facchetti	2015	[7]
Amedeo Amadei	2018	[5]
Pietro Anastasi	2019	[10]
Armando Picchi	2021	[11]
Romano Fogli
Siniša Mihajlović	2022	[3]

Coaches

Name	Year	Ref.
Enzo Bearzot	2011	[7]
Fulvio Bernardini
Vittorio Pozzo
Ferruccio Valcareggi
Nereo Rocco	2012	[7]
Carlo Carcano	2014	[7]
\ Helenio Herrera	2015	[7]
Cesare Maldini	2016	[7]
Nils Liedholm
Azeglio Vicini	2017	[13]
Árpád Weisz		[9]
Giuseppe Viani	2018	[5]
Luigi Radice	2019	[10]
Vujadin Boškov	2021	[11]
Luigi Simoni
Ernő Egri Erbstein	2022	[3]

Directors

Name	Year	Ref.
Ottorino Barassi	2011	[7]
Artemio Franchi
Ferruccio Novo	2014	[7]
Umberto Agnelli	2015	[7]
Italo Allodi	2017	[9]
Renato Dall'Ara
Fino Fini	2021	[11]

Referees

Name	Year	Ref.
Giovanni Mauro	2011	[7]
Concetto Lo Bello	2012	[7]
Giulio Campanati	2016	[7]
Stefano Farina	2017	[9]

Other awards

Davide Astori Fair Play Award

Name	Year	Ref.
Igor Trocchia	2018	[5]
Mattia Agnese	2019	[10]
Romelu Lukaku	2019	[10]
Simon Kjær	2021	[11]
Luca Martelli	2022	[3]

Special Award

Name	Year	Ref.
Gianni Brera	2018	[5]
Mario Sconcerti	2022	[3]

References

1. "The award". Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. 26 February 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
2. "Le stelle". Vivo Azzurro (in Italian). 21 March 2014. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014.
3. "Da Zola a Mourinho e Zidane: le nuove leggende della Hall of fame del calcio italiano". Sky Italia (in Italian). 16 March 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
4. "The Jury". Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. 22 February 2019. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
5. "Totti, Zanetti e Allegri tra i premiati dell'8ª edizione della 'Hall of Fame del calcio italiano'" (in Italian). FIGC.it. 19 February 2019. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
6. FIGC (3 February 2022). "Hall of Fame: Nesta, Rummenigge, Conte, Rocchi, Cabrini e Bonansea tra le stelle della decima edizione". Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (in Italian). Archived from the original on 9 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
7. "Hall of Fame: Allegri miglior allenatore. Nell'Olimpo del calcio italiano anche Zanetti e Totti". Sport Mediaset (in Italian). 20 May 2019. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
8. "Hall of fame, 10 new entry: con Vialli e Mancini anche Facchetti e Ronaldo" [Hall of fame, 10 new entries: with Vialli and Mancini also Facchetti and Ronaldo] (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
9. "Del Piero, Gullit, Conti e altre 7 leggende entrano nella 'Hall of Fame del calcio italiano'" (in Italian). Vivo Azzurro. 5 December 2017. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
10. "Pirlo, Mazzone, Boniek in Hall of Fame". Football Italia. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
11. "Hall of Fame: Nesta, Rummenigge, Conte, Rocchi, Cabrini and Bonansea among those inducted". Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
12. "'Hall of Fame del Calcio Italiano': revocato il riconoscimento conferito a Graziano Cesari". FIGC.it (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 11 November 2016. Archived from the original on 12 November 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
13. "Azeglio Vicini". FIGC.it (in Italian). 25 May 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2023.

External links

• Official website