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
SportAssociation football
CompetitionItalian football
Awarded forFootball personalities that had an unforgettable impact on the history of Italian football[1]
Local nameHall of Fame del calcio italiano (Italian)
CountryItaly
Presented by
History
First award2011
Editions11
WebsiteOfficial website

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

History and regulations edit

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 edit

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 edit

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

Coach edit

Name Year Ref.
2011 [7]
2012 [7]
2013 [7]
2014 [7]
2015 [7]
2016 [7]
2017 [9]
2018 [5]
2019 [10]
2021 [11]
2022 [3]

Italian veteran edit

Name Year Ref.
2011 [7]
2012 [7]
2013 [7]
2014 [7]
2015 [7]
2016 [7]
2017 [9]
2018 [5]
2019 [10]
2021 [11]
2022 [3]

Italian referee edit

Name Year Ref.
2011 [7]
2012 [7]
2013 [7]
2014 [7]
2015 [7]

(revoked)
2016 [12]
2018 [5]
2019 [10]
2021 [11]

Italian director edit

Name Year Ref.
2011 [7]
2012 [7]
2013 [7]
2014 [7]
2015 [7]
2016 [7]
2017 [9]
2018 [5]
2019 [10]
2021 [11]
2022 [11]

Foreign player edit

Name Year Ref.
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2021
2022

Female Italian player edit

Name Year Ref.
2014 [7]
2015 [7]
2016 [7]
2017 [9]
2018 [5]
2019 [10]
2021 [11]
2022 [3]

Posthumous awards edit

Players edit

Name Year Ref.
2011 [7]
2012 [7]
2013 [7]
2014 [7]
2015 [7]
2018 [5]
2019 [10]
2021 [11]
2022 [3]

Coaches edit

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

Directors edit

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

Referees edit

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

Other awards edit

Davide Astori Fair Play Award edit

Name Year Ref.
Igor Trocchia
2018
Mattia Agnese
2019
Romelu Lukaku
2019
Simon Kjær
2021
Luca Martelli
2022

Special Award edit

Name Year Ref.
2018 [5]
2022 [3]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "The award". Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Le stelle". Vivo Azzurro (in Italian). 21 March 2014. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "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. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc "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. ^ a b c d e f g h i "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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Pirlo, Mazzone, Boniek in Hall of Fame". Football Italia. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "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). Retrieved 23 April 2023.

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