Il Museo Rossonero— 125 Years of Fire & Fear

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Il Museo Rossonero— 125 Years of Fire & Fear

Herbert Kilpin is born in Nottingham

Kilpin follows the lace trade to Turin

The Butcher's Son Who Left Nottingham for Italy

Birth of Renzo De Vecchi, 'il Figlio di Dio'

La Gazzetta dello Sport is born in Milan

Alfred Edwards, Milan's first president

Alfred Edwards: the founding president who gave Milan its name

1901-02: Runners-up as Genoa take revenge

1902-03: Early exit in another Genoa year

The Cradle Grounds — The Trotter and Porta Monforte

Il Terzo Titolo: The Last Scudetto Before the Wilderness

The Palla Dapples Passes Into Legend

1909-10: Into the first national league

Il Figlio di Dio Departs: De Vecchi Sold to Genoa

Louis Van Hege and the Silver Boot

Birth of Aldo Boffi, Bomber of Sesto

From Cricket Club to Milan Football Club

Birth of Gunnar Gren, 'Il Professore'

1920-21: Also-rans in a sprawling championship

1923-24: In Genoa's shadow

Piero Pirelli's private gift: the origins of a football-only ground

Stacchini's twin monuments: the station and the stadium

Milan Enters the Age of the Mitropa Cup

1930-31: Anonymous as Juventus's golden five begins

Il Calcio Illustrato: Milan in Halftone

1933-34: Mid-table in a World Cup year

1934-35: Surviving in a slimmed-down Serie A

1935-36: New champions, and a new club name

1939-40: Boffi's 24 goals as war closes in

Boffi Top-Scores Again, 1941-42

1941-42: Boffi's crown, Coppa final heartbreak

Rebuilding From the Rubble

Out of the Rubble, Toward the Dawn

Pierino Prati is born in Cinisello Balsamo

Cover Stars: Nordahl and the Gre-No-Li

1951-52: Runners-up behind Boniperti's Juventus

Gren departs — the trio dissolves

1954-55: Scudetto amid the Guttmann affair

1955-56: Second to Fiorentina, kings of the Latin Cup

1956-57: Viani's first Scudetto

Daniele Massaro is Born in Monza

Ruud Gullit is Born in Amsterdam

Galatasaray overwhelmed 8-1 in the quarter-final

Brera and Rocco: an axis of Lombard-Triestine calcio

Dejan Savicevic is born in Titograd

La moviola is born from a Milan derby

Demetrio Albertini is Born in Besana in Brianza

The shadow of referee Michas

1973 Cup Winners' Cup Final: Milan 1-0 Leeds United

Club Brugge halt Milan's first UEFA Cup run

Nils Liedholm Returns to the Bench

Franco Baresi, 'Piscinin' — the little Kaiser

Baresi Holds Firm and Takes the Armband

Liedholm's Return and the Zone

1983-84: A steady return, and the Blissett misadventure

1985-86: Berlusconi buys a broken club

Ruud Gullit and the World-Record Fee

Il Sorpasso: Milan Win 3-2 at the San Paolo

Eight Past Foggia: The Invincibles' Coronation

Milan sweep aside Wenger's Monaco on the road to Athens

Baresi's 25-day miracle in Pasadena

Capello Departs for Madrid; Tabarez Takes the Reins

1996-97: Collapse to eleventh

Andriy Shevchenko Arrives from Kyiv