Italy National Football Team

The Italy national football team represents Italy in international football competition and is controlled by the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC). They are the current World Champions, having won the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Italy is among the top teams in international football and the second most successful national team in the history of the World Cup having won four titles (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), just one fewer than Brazil. To this tally they can add one European championship (1968), one Olympic football tournament (1936) and two (defunct) Central European International Cups.

The traditional colour of the national team (as well as all Italian teams and athletes) is azure blue (azzurro, in Italian), due to the "Azzurro Savoia" (Savoy Blue), the colour traditionally linked to the royal dynasty which unified Italy in 1861, and maintained in the official standard of the President of the Italian Republic.


Competitive record

FIFA World Cup record
1930 - Did Not Enter
1934 - Champions
1938 - Champions
1950 - Round 1
1954 - Round 1
1958 - Did Not Qualify
1962 - Round 1
1966 - Round 1
1970 - Final
1974 - Round 1
1978 - Fourth place
1982 - Champions
1986 - Round 2
1990 - Third place
1994 - Final
1998 - Quarter-finals
2002 - Round 2
2006 - Champions
2010 - Qualified

FIFA Confederations Cup
1992 to 2005 - Did not qualify
2009 - Round 1

UEFA European Championship record
1960 - Did not Enter
1964 - Did not Qualify
1968 - Champions
1972 - Did not Qualify
1976 - Did not Qualify
1980 - Fourth place
1984 - Did not Qualify
1988 - Semi-finals
1992 - Did not Qualify
1996 - Round 1
2000 - Final
2004 - Round 1
2008 - Quarter-finals