Inter Milan Youth Sector

Full name	Football Club Internazionale Milano Youth Sector
Nickname(s)	I Nerazzurri (The Black and Blues) La Beneamata (The Cherished One) Il Biscione (The Big Grass Snake)
Founded	9 March 1908; 115 years ago (1908-03-09)
Ground	Konami Youth Development Centre in Memory of Giacinto Facchetti (Milan) Stadio Breda (Sesto San Giovanni)
President	Steven Zhang
Head coach	Cristian Chivu (Primavera)
League	Campionato Primavera 1
2021–2022	Campionato Primavera 1, champions (2nd in regular season)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Inter Milan Youth Sector (Italian: F.C. Internazionale Milano Settore Giovanile) is the youth set-up of Italian professional football club Inter Milan. The under-19 team plays in the Campionato Primavera 1. They have been Italian champions ten times, Coppa Italia Primavera winners five times^[1] and have also won the Supercoppa Primavera on one occasion.^[2][3] They also participate in the annual Torneo di Viareggio, an international tournament which they have won six times.

On 25 March 2012, the under-19 team were champions in the inaugural edition of the NextGen Series, an association football tournament which involved the under-19 teams from 16 different clubs from across Europe.^[4]

Primavera

Current squad

As of 2 February 2024^[5][6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ITA Alessandro Calligaris 3 DF  ITA Matteo Cocchi 4 MF  SRB Aleksandar Stanković (captain) 5 MF  ITA Leonardo Bovo 6 DF  ITA Giacomo Stabile 7 FW  ITA Enoch Owusu 8 MF  ITA Luca Di Maggio 9 FW  ITA Amadou Makhtarlayi Sarr (vice-captain) 10 MF  FRA Issiaka Kamate 11 MF  ITA Daniele Quieto 12 GK  ITA Francesco Tommasi 13 DF  ITA Matteo Motta 14 MF  ITA Thomas Berenbruch 15 DF  ITA Francesco Stante

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  SVN Samo Matjaž 21 GK  ITA Paolo Raimondi 22 FW  ITA Matteo Spinaccè 23 DF  FRA Yvan Maye 26 DF  ITA Riccardo Miconi 27 DF  ITA Mike Aidoo 28 MF  ITA Giuseppe Mazzola 29 FW  CAN Oumar Diallo 30 MF  ITA Giacomo De Pieri 33 DF  GRE Christos Alexiou 44 MF  NGA Ebenezer Akinsanmiro — MF  ITA Pietro Itraloni

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  ITA Francesco Bonardi (at Ponte San Pietro until 30 June 2024) — DF  SWE Alem Nezirević (at Bologna U19 until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ITA Michael Ndianefo (at Sant'Angelo until 30 June 2024)

Managerial history

• unknown (1962–2001)
• Corrado Verdelli (2001–2003)
• Daniele Bernazzani (2003–2006)
• Vincenzo Esposito (2006–2009)
• Fulvio Pea (2009–2011)
• Andrea Stramaccioni (2011–2012)
• Daniele Bernazzani (2012–2013)
• Salvatore Cerrone (2013–2014)^[7]
• Stefano Vecchi (2014–2018)^[8]
• Armando Madonna (2018–2021)
• Cristian Chivu (2021– )

Honours

• Campionato Nazionale Primavera / Campionato Primavera 1
  • Champions (10): 1963–64, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1988–89, 2001–02, 2006–07, 2011–12, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2021–22
  • Runners-up (5): 1979–80, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08, 2018–19
• Coppa Italia Primavera
  • Champions (6): 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 2005–06, 2015–16
  • Runners-up (3): 1978–79, 2003–04, 2006–07
• Supercoppa Primavera
  • Champions (1): 2017
  • Runners-up (6): 2006, 2007, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2022
• Torneo di Viareggio
  • Champions (8): 1962, 1971, 1986, 2002, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2018
  • Runners-up (2): 1972, 1983
• Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup
  • Champions (1): 1983
• NextGen Series
  • Champions (1): 2011–12

Youth system

The home of Inter's Youth Sector is at Centro Sportivo Giacinto Facchetti, 30,000 square metres of professional training and education facilities between the Niguarda and Bresso districts in the north of Milan.^[9]

Inter Youth Sector has 20 scouts in the Lombardy region and 10 in the rest of Italy. They all report directly to the general coordinator in Milan.^[9]

Below the Primavera team (U19), there are nine other teams:

• Berretti (U18)
• Allievi Nazionali (U17)
• Allievi Nazionali Lega Pro (U16)
• Giovanissimi Nazionali (U15)
• Giovanissimi Regionali (U14)
• Giovanissimi Regionali Fascia B (U13)
• Esordienti (U12)
• Pulcini Regionali (U11)
• Pulcini B (U10)
• Pulcini C (U9)

Honours

• Campionato Berretti: 6
  • 1979–80, 1983–84, 1990–91, 2011–12, 2015–16, 2016–17
• Campionato Allievi Nazionali: 8
  • 1984–85, 1986–87, 1990–91, 1997–98, 2007–08, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2018–19
• Campionato Giovanissimi Nazionali: 9
  • 1987–88, 1996–97, 2002–03, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2017–18