Italian Football Hall of Fame

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
Editions12
Final award2023
WebsiteOfficial website

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]

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]
Daniele De Rossi
2023
[12]

Coach

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]
2023 [12]

Italian veteran

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]
2023 [12]

Italian referee

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

(revoked)
 2016 [13]
2018 [5]
2019 [10]
2021 [11]

Italian director

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]
2023 [12]

Foreign player

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]
2023
[12]

Female Italian player

Name Year Ref.
2014 [7]
2015 [7]
2016 [7]
2017 [9]
2018 [5]
2019 [10]
2021 [11]
2022 [3]
2023 [12]

Posthumous awards

Players

Name Year Ref.
2011 [7]
2012 [7]
2013 [7]
2014 [7]
2015 [7]
2018 [5]
2019 [10]
2021 [11]
2022 [3]
2023 [12]

Coaches

Name Year Ref.
Italy Enzo Bearzot
2011
[7]
Italy Fulvio Bernardini
Italy Vittorio Pozzo
Italy Ferruccio Valcareggi
Italy Nereo Rocco
2012
[7]
Italy Carlo Carcano
2014
[7]
Argentina\France Helenio Herrera
2015
[7]
Italy Cesare Maldini
2016
[7]
Sweden Nils Liedholm
Italy Azeglio Vicini
2017
[14]
Hungary Árpád Weisz
[9]
Italy Giuseppe Viani
2018
[5]
Italy Luigi Radice
2019
[10]
Serbia Vujadin Boškov
2021
[11]
Italy Luigi Simoni
Hungary Ernő Egri Erbstein
2022
[3]
Italy Manlio Scopigno
2023
[12]

Directors

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

Referees

Name Year Ref.
Italy Giovanni Mauro
2011
[7]
Italy Concetto Lo Bello
2012
[7]
Italy Giulio Campanati
2016
[7]
Italy 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.
2018 [5]
2022 [3]

References

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  2. ^ a b c "Le stelle". Vivo Azzurro (in Italian). 21 March 2014. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014.
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  4. ^ "The Jury". Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. 22 February 2019. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
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  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.
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  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.
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  13. ^ "'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.
  14. ^ "Azeglio Vicini". FIGC.it (in Italian). 25 May 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
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