History of FIGC

Costitution

The Federazione Italiana Football (FIF) was founded on 15 March 1898 with a membership of four clubs, and was recognised by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) in 1905. In 1909 the Federation assumed the final appellation of Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC or Italian Football Federation) and on 15 May 1910 the National team played its first match beating France 6 – 2 at the Arena.

In 1921 the federation split up, and this led to the establishment of the Confederazione Calcistica Italiana (CCI or Italian Football Confederation) which organised its own national championship (won by Pro Vercelli). The existing contrasts were soon overcome and the following year, on 26 June 1922, it was reunited. In the summer of 1926, through the direct promotion by the CONI, the Viareggio Charter was issued which operated a first distinction between “amateur” and “pro”. In August 1948 the National Council of Leagues was established and in 1959 the organisation of the National Professional League was defined (Serie A and B, or 1st and 2nd Division). Currently there is also a Serie C and the National Amateur League. Federation listed in Law no. 426 of 16/2/1942.

Denomination

The current one since 1909.

Federal Office

1898 Turin, 1905 Milan, 1911 Turin, since 1929 Rome.

First National Championships

1898 (won by Genoa).

First time the Olympic Games

Stoccolm 1912.

Presidents

Italian Football Federation (FIF)

1898 Earl Enrico D'Ovidio

1898 - 1905 Ezio Vicari

1905 Giovanni Silvestri

1906 - 1907 Emiliano Barbiano di Belgioioso d'Este

1909 Luigi Bosisio

Italian Football Federation (FIGC)

1910 Felice Radice

1911 Marquis Alfonso Ferrero di Ventimiglia

1911 Emilio Valvassori (ad interim)

1912 Vittorio Rignon

1913 Luigi Derossi

1913 Hon. Francesco Mauro (regent)

1914 Hon. Carlo Montù

1915 - 1918 Francesco Mauro (ad interim)

1919 Hon. Carlo Montù

1920 Hon. Francesco Mauro

1920 Luigi Bozino

1921 - 1922 Giovanni Lombardi (outgoing)

1923 - 1924 Luigi Bozino

1925 Giuseppe Corbari (commissioner)

1926 Luigi Bozino

1926 Hon. Lando Ferretti (commissioner)

1926 - 1932 Hon. Leandro Arpinati

1933 - 1941 Giorgio Vaccaro

1942 Hon. Marchese Luigi Ridolfi

1943 Giovanni Mauro (commissioner)

1943 - 1944 Mauro Baldo (commissioner)

1944 Fulvio Bernardini (regent CONI)

1944 - 1945 Ottorino Barassi (regent CONI)

1945 Giovanni Mauro (regent CONI)

1946 - 1958 Ottorino Barassi

1958 - 1959 Bruno Zauli (commissioner)

1959 - 1961 Umberto Agnelli

1961 - 1966 Giuseppe Pasquale (commissioner)

1967 - 1976 Artemio Franchi

1976 Franco Carraro (regent)

1976 - 1978 Franco Carraro

1978 Artemio Franchi (regent)

1978 - 1980 Artemio Franchi

1980 - 1986 Federico Sordillo (outgoing)

1986 - 1987 Franco Carraro (regent CONI)

1987 - 1996 Hon. Antonio Matarrese

1996 - 1997 Raffaele Pagnozzi (commissioner)

1997 - 2000 Luciano Nizzola

2000 - 2001 Giovanni Petrucci (commissioner)

2001 - 2006 Franco Carraro

2006 Guido Rossi (commissioner)

2006 - 2007 Luca Pancalli (commissioner)

2007 - 2014 Giancarlo Abete (outgoing)

2014 - 2017 Carlo Tavecchio

2018 - Roberto Fabbricini (commissioner)

2018 - Gabriele  Gravina

Secretaries

1898 - 1903 Adolfo Jourdan

1905 - 1907 Luigi Bosisio

1908 - 1910 Arturo Baraldi

1911 Vittorio Pozzo

1912 - 1913 Antonio Scamoni

1914 - 1918 Edgardo Minoli

1919 Luigi Bianchetti

1920 Luigi Bianchi

1920 Roberto Gera

1921 - 1923 Enrico De Marchi

1924 Eugenio Vogliotti

1925 management commissioner

1926 - 1932 Giuseppe Zanetti

1933 - 1945 Ottorino Barassi

1946 - 1955 Alberto Valentini

1955 - 1958 Franco Bertoldi

1958 Paolo Minà

1958 Paolo Ventura

1958 - 1960 Romolo Ronzio

1961 - 1970 Franco Bertoldi

1971 - 1985 Dario Borgogno

1985 - 1987 Giuseppe Tito Bardigotta (acting)

1987 Giovanni Petrucci (acting)

1987 - 1991 Giovanni Petrucci (outgoing)

1991 - 1997 Giorgio Zappacosta

1997 - 1998 Renato Pietro Corsini

1998 - 2002 Guglielmo Petrosino

2002 - 2005 Giancarlo Gentile

2005 - 2006 Francesco Ghirelli

2006 - 2019 Antonio Di Sebastiano

2019 - Marco Brunelli