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

The Butcher's Son Who Followed the Lace Trade to Turin

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

La Gazzetta dello Sport is born in Milan

Alfred Edwards, Milan's first president

Why it is 'Milan' and never 'Milano'

'Il Diavolo' — red like fire, black like fear

Milan's Baptism in Competitive Football

La Palla Dapples: Football's Travelling Trophy

1906: A Championship Won at the Table

The First Derby della Madonnina

Gipo Viani is born in Treviso

Piero Pirelli: the tyre magnate who built San Siro from his own pocket

The Palla Dapples Passes Into Legend

Il Figlio di Dio Departs: De Vecchi Sold to Genoa

Birth of Aldo Boffi, Bomber of Sesto

From Cricket Club to Milan Football Club

1915-1919: War stops the championship

Gianni Brera is born in San Zenone al Po

1919-20: Football returns, Milan falls short

Birth of Nils Liedholm, 'Il Barone'

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

Nicolò Carosio and the birth of Italian radiocronaca

The forgotten Depression-era presidents and the rescue by Pozzani

A Founder of Serie A, Adrift in the Wilderness

Milan Enters the Age of the Mitropa Cup

Cesare Maldini is born in Trieste

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

Glimmers in the Gloom — Third Place

1937-38: Third place — the interwar high-water mark

Jose Altafini is born in Piracicaba

1938-39: Boffi capocannoniere as 'AC Milano'

Boffi Top-Scores Again, 1941-42

Gianni Rivera is born in Alessandria

1946-47: Fourth in Torino's shadow

Forty-Four Years in the Wilderness

The Grande Torino Colossus Over the Italian Game

Gren and Liedholm arrive — the trio is complete

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Origins1870–1896

The Founding1899–1907

The Split & San Siro1908–1948

Gre-No-Li1949–1960

The Rocco Era1961–1972

Shadows & Serie B1973–1985

The Sacchi Revolution1986–1991

Capello's Invincibles1992–1996

Late-90s Transition1997–2001

The Ancelotti Years2002–2009

The Modern Era2010–2026