Full name | Associazione Calcio Milan Primavera |
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Nickname(s) |
i Rossoneri (The Red and Blacks) il Diavolo (The Devil) |
Founded | 1962 |
Ground | Vismara Sports Centre, Milan |
Capacity | 1,200 |
Owner | Silvio Berlusconi |
Honorary President | Silvio Berlusconi |
Head coach | Stefano Nava |
League | Campionato Nazionale Primavera |
2015–16 | 3rd (group B); lost second (final) play-off round missing access to the Final Eight. |
Associazione Calcio Milan Primavera are the under-19 team of Italian professional football club Associazione Calcio Milan. They play in the Group A of the Campionato Nazionale Primavera. They have been champions only once, back in 1965. They also participate in the Coppa Italia Primavera and in the annual Torneo di Viareggio, an international tournament they won a record 9 times.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
The youth system has been responsible for producing some of Milan's greatest ever players, including the club's top three all-time appearance makers, Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta, as well as several players, in recent years, who have managed to become regular players in the Serie A. The training facilities are based at the Vismara Sports Centre (Italian: Centro Sportivo Vismara), a 57-acre (230,000 m2) site in the Milan southern suburb of Gratosoglio (though the Primavera trains at Milanello, just like the first team).
A.C. Milan youth system comprises nine different age-group teams ranging from Under-8s up to Under-17s, and divided as follows:
As of 19 April 2016.