A.C. Milan Youth Sector

AC Milan Primavera

Full name	Associazione Calcio Milan Primavera
Nickname(s)	I Rossoneri (The Red and Blacks) Il Diavolo (The Devil)
Founded	1912, as AC Milan Reserves (it. Riserve)
Ground	Vismara Sports Centre
Head of Youth Sector	Angelo Carbone
Manager	Federico Giunti
League	Campionato Primavera 1
2020–21	Campionato Primavera 1, 10th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Associazione Calcio Milan (AC Milan) are an Italian professional football club based in Milan. Their Youth Sector (it. Settore Giovanile) encompasses several boys' and girls' age-group teams ranging from under-8s up to under-19s. Angelo Carbone is the current Head of the Youth Sector.

AC Milan Primavera are the men's under-19 squad and the highest level team within the set-up. They currently play in the top-tier Campionato Primavera 1 and the Coppa Italia Primavera, as well as representing the club in the UEFA Youth League, either when they qualify through their domestic league or the first team qualifies for the UEFA Champions League.

The Primavera team trains at Milanello alongside the first team and they play the majority of their home games at the Vismara Sports Centre in Milan, which also serves as the training facility for all other teams in the set-up.

Primavera (Under-19)[edit]

Current squad[edit]

As of 30 January 2022.^[1] Shirt numbers refer to Primavera matches.^[2][3] Different numbers may be assigned to players who take part in first-team matches.^[4]

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 Sebastiano Desplanches 2 DF  ROU Andrei Coubiṣ 4 DF  ITA Nosa Obaretin 6 DF  FRA Clinton Nsiala 7 MF  ITA Enrico Di Gesù 8 MF  ITA Giovanni Robotti 9 FW  ITA Marco Nasti 10 FW  ITA Andrea Capone (captain)[5] 11 FW  ITA Youns El Hilali 13 DF  ITA Marco Bosisio 14 MF  ITA Filippo Tolomello 15 DF  GUI Almamy Camara 16 DF  GER Lenny Borges 17 MF  ITA Christian Foglio 18 MF  ITA Bob Murphy Omoregbe

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  SWE Lukas Björklund 22 GK  DEN Andreas Jungdal 23 DF  ITA Luca Stanga 24 MF  ITA Antonio Gala 25 DF  FRA Riad Tahar 27 FW  ITA Leonardo Rossi 30 FW  ITA Gabriele Alesi 45 FW  SWE Emil Roback 69 GK  ITA Lapo Nava 71 DF  ITA Andrea Bozzolan 77 MF  ITA Niccolò Sette 88 FW  CIV Chaka Traorè 99 GK  GRE Fotios Pseftis — GK  ITA Leonardo Moleri — DF  IRL Cathal Heffernan (on loan from Cork City)

Manager history[edit]

Youth Sector[edit]

The Youth Sector has been responsible for producing some of the club's greatest ever players, including their top three all-time appearance makers, Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta, as well as several players, in recent years, who have managed to become regular players in Serie A. The training facilities are based at the Centro Sportivo Vismara (Vismara Sports Centre), a 57-acre (230,000 m²) site in Gratosoglio, Milan,^[6] although the Primavera team train at Milanello alongside the first team.

The Youth Sector encompasses several age-group teams ranging from Under-8s up to Under-18s, divided as follows:^[7]

• Boys

  • Under-18
  • Allievi Nazionali U17
  • Allievi Nazionali U16
  • Giovanissimi Nazionali U15
  • Giovanissimi Regionali A U14
  • Giovanissimi Regionali B U13
  • Esordienti A U12
  • Esordienti B U11
  • Pulcini U10
  • Pulcini U9
  • Primi Calci U8

• Girls

  • Women's Primavera (Under-19)
  • Allieve Nazionali U17
  • Giovanissime U15
  • Esordienti U13
  • Esordienti U11
  • Pulcine U10

Squads[edit]

Under-18[edit]

As of 31 January 2022.^[8] Shirt numbers refer to Primavera matches.^[9][10] For Under-18 matches numbers are issued on a match-by-match basis.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 GK  ITA Andrea Bartoccioni 31 FW  ITA Emmanuel Anane 32 DF  ITA Niccolò Anut 33 MF  CIV Landry Boni 34 GK  ITA Salvatore Di Chiara 35 DF  ITA Matteo Dipalma 36 DF  ITA Giovanni Incorvaia 37 MF  ITA Abebe Luscietti 38 MF  ITA Federico Marrone 39 FW  SWE Wilgot Marshage 40 FW  ITA Nicolò Montalbano

No. Pos. Nation Player 69 GK  ITA Lapo Nava — DF  ITA Leonardo Basilico — DF  ITA Simone Di Maggio — DF  ITA Emanuele Elia — DF  ITA Thomas Gaggia — DF  ITA Simone Pandini — MF  ITA Alberto Chiesurin — MF  ITA Nicholas Pluvio — FW  ITA Simone Condello (on loan from Juventus)

Allievi Nazionali U17[edit]

As of 16 September 2021.^[11] Shirt numbers refer to Primavera matches.^[12][13] For Under-17 matches numbers are issued on a match-by-match basis.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 DF  ITA Francesco Fontana 41 DF  ITA Alessio Piantedosi 42 MF  ITA Kevin Zeroli 43 MF  NGA Victor Eletu — GK  ITA Antonio De Lucia — GK  ITA Francesco Lionetti — GK  ITA Lorenzo Torriani — GK  ITA Thomas Zanon — DF  ITA Davide Bartesaghi — DF  ITA Michele Casali — DF  ITA Tommaso Cecotti — DF  ITA Leonardo Ferroni — DF  ITA Mattia Malaspina — DF  ITA Dorian Paloschi

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ITA Vincenzo Perrucci — DF  ITA Gianluca Rossi — MF  ITA Luca Baricchio — MF  ITA Flavio Cappiello — MF  ITA Luca Gramignoli — MF  ITA Riccardo Nicotra — MF  ITA Mattia Sala — MF  ITA Federico Tavernaro — FW  ITA Emanuele Benedetti — FW  ITA Maikol Cifuentes Chavez — FW  ITA Jordan Longhi — FW  ITA Federico Mangiameli — FW  ITA Vladislav Nahrudnyy

Allievi Nazionali U16[edit]

As of 16 September 2021.^[14] Shirt numbers refer to Primavera matches.^[15][16] For Under-16 matches numbers are issued on a match-by-match basis.

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 Edoardo Colzani — GK  ITA Omar Rugginenti — GK  ITA Samuele Rutigliano — DF  BRA Estevan Amaral Castilho — DF  MAR Adam Bakoune — DF  ITA Andrea De Bonis — DF  ITA Leonardo Frugnoli — DF  ITA Lorenzo Grilli — DF  ITA Alessandro Guffanti — DF  ITA Pietro Parmiggiani — DF  ITA Matteo Tezzele — MF  ITA Andrea Di Siena

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Andrea Gualdi — MF  ITA Vittorio Magni — MF  ITA Tommaso Mancioppi — MF  ITA Gioele Perina — MF  ITA Riccardo Saporito — MF  ITA Michael Vitali — FW  ITA Alessandro Bonomi — FW  ITA Gaetano Manto — FW  ITA Luca Martinazzi — FW  ITA Riccardo Martinelli — FW  ITA Filippo Scotti — FW  ITA Diego Sia

Giovanissimi Nazionali U15[edit]

As of 16 September 2021.^[17] Shirt numbers refer to Primavera matches.^[18][19] For Under-15 matches numbers are issued on a match-by-match basis.

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 Carlo Bassorizzi — GK  ITA Edoardo Capizzi — GK  ITA Paolo Doneda — GK  ITA Riccardo Strohhecker — DF  ITA Gioele Benedetti — DF  ITA Gabriele Ceriani — DF  ITA Federico Colombo — DF  ITA Luca Del Forno — DF  ITA Daniele Eberini — DF  ITA Lorenzo Ossola — DF  ITA Samuele Roveda — MF  ITA Salem Albé — MF  ITA Josuè Bosisio — MF  ITA Mattia Cappelletti

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Alessandro Di Maria — MF  ITA Cristiano Dotta — MF  ITA Matteo Geroli — MF  ITA Mattia Liberali — MF  ITA Ernesto Perin — MF  ITA Emanuele Sala — MF  NED Denzel Viana Seedorf — FW  ITA Alberto Arici — FW  ITA Simone Batistini — FW  ITA Simone Farioli — FW  ITA Marco Melchionda — FW  ITA Nirash Raffaello Perera — FW  ITA Ivan Pulito — FW  ITA Simone Sassi

Honours[edit]

Primavera[edit]

• Campionato Primavera 1: 1^[20]
  • 1964–65
• Coppa Italia Primavera: 2^[20]
  • 1984–85, 2009–10
• Torneo di Viareggio: 9^[20]
  • 1949, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1999, 2001, 2014

Other teams[edit]

• Campionato Berretti: 7^[20]
  • 1971–72, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1989–90, 1993–94, 2008–09
• Campionato Allievi Nazionali: 4^[20]
  • 1995–96, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2010–11
• Campionato Giovanissimi Nazionali: 2^[20]
  • 1991–92, 2009–10

References[edit]