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Coppa Italia

Organising body	Lega Serie A
Founded	1922; 102 years ago (1922)
Region	Italy
Number of teams	44
Qualifier for	UEFA Europa League
Domestic cup(s)	Supercoppa Italiana
Current champions	Juventus (15th title)
Most successful club(s)	Juventus (15 titles)
Television broadcasters	Mediaset List of international broadcasters

Coppa Italia (lit. Italy Cup) is the annual domestic cup of Italian football. The knockout competition was organized by the DDS and the Lega Calcio until the 2009–10 season and by Lega Serie A ever since.

Juventus is the competition's most successful club with fifteen wins, followed by Roma and Inter Milan with nine. Juventus has contested the most finals with 22, followed by Roma with 17 finals. The holder can wear a cockade of Italy (Italian: coccarda), akin to the roundels that appear on military aircraft. The winner automatically qualifies for both the UEFA Europa League league phase and the Supercoppa Italiana the following year.

History

The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of the participation of the teams in the tournament, since its inception in 1921, the Italian championship was divided into two groups. On the one hand the rich CCI Championship (Italian Football Confederation) and on the other the poor FIGC championship (Italian Football Federation). Losing all its most prestigious clubs, the FIGC tried to enhance its rump season with a new cup. The tournament's first edition held in 1922 was won by F.C. Vado. The following agreement between the contenders did not contemplate a cup that, outside a failed 1926–27 tournament which was cancelled during the round of 32, was not held until 1935–36. The events of World War II interrupted the tournament after the 1942–43 season, and it did not resume again until 1958. Since then, it has been played annually or seasonally.

The eight seasons during the fascist period were contested copying the FA Cup format. There was a different trophy, and the winners were awarded the tricolour scudetto while the championship winners obtained a Savoyard scudetto instead. The present-day cup and cockade were introduced in 1958.

Format

The Coccarda, the winner's patch

Gianluigi Buffon in 2016, wearing the Coccarda won with Juventus the season before. Also present is the Scudetto, worn by the holders of the Serie A title.

The competition is a knockout tournament with pairings for each round made in advance; the draw for the whole competition is made before a ball is kicked. Each tie is played as a single leg, except a two-legged semi-final stage. If a match is drawn, extra time is played. In the event of a draw after 120 minutes, a penalty shoot-out is contested. As well as being presented with the trophy, the winning team also qualifies for the UEFA Europa League (formerly the UEFA Cup). If the winners have already qualified for the UEFA Champions League via the Serie A, or are not entitled to play in UEFA competitions for any reason, the place goes to the next highest placed team in the league table.

There are a total of seven rounds in the competition. The competition begins in August with the preliminary round and is contested only by the eight lowest-ranked clubs. Clubs playing in Serie B join in during the first round with the 12 lowest-ranked teams in Serie A based on the previous league season's positions (unless they are to compete in European competition that year) begin the competition in the first round before August is over. The remaining eight Serie A teams join the competition in the third round in January, at which point 16 teams remain. The round of 16, the quarter-finals and the first leg of the semi-finals are then played in quick succession after the fourth round and the second leg of the semi-finals is played a couple of months later – in April – before the final in May. The two-legged final was eliminated for the 2007–08 edition and a single-match final is now played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

Winners by year

Performance by club

Trophies

Finals

In bold are the winners of the finals.

Performance by player

Top appearances

Rank	Player	Period	Games
1	Franco Baresi	1977–1997	97
2	Roberto Mancini	1981–2001	73
3	Paolo Maldini	1985-2009	72
3	Roberto Baggio	1982–2004	65
	Fausto Salsano	1979–2000
4	Pietro Fanna	1975–1993	59
5	Alessandro Altobelli	1973–1990	55
	Gianluca Vialli	1980–1996
7	Paolo Pulici	1966–1985	54
8	Maurizio Ganz	1985–2007	52
	Nicola Caccia	1987–2005
10	Francesco Totti	1992–2017	46
	Pietro Paolo Virdis	1973–1991
12	Andrea Carnevale	1978–1996	45
	Oscar Damiani	1968–1986
	Daniele Massaro	1979–1989
15	Pietro Anastasi	1966–1981	44
	Giuseppe Giannini	1981–1996 1997–1999
17	Giancarlo Marocchi	1982–2000	43
18	Roberto Boninsegna	1963–1980	42
	Francesco Flachi	1993–2010
	Massimo Agostini	1982–2008
	Giuseppe Incocciati	1981–1995
22	Alessandro Del Piero	1993–2012	41
	Vincenzo D'Amico	1972–1988
	Domenico Caso	1971–1989

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club(s)	Goals
1	Alessandro Altobelli	Brescia, Internazionale, Juventus	56
2	Roberto Boninsegna	Hellas Verona, Varese, Juventus, Cagliari, Internazionale	48
3	Giuseppe Savoldi	Atalanta, Bologna, Napoli	47
4	Gianluca Vialli	Cremonese, Sampdoria, Juventus	43
5	Bruno Giordano	Lazio, Napoli, Ascoli, Bologna	38
	Paolo Pulici	Torino, Udinese, Fiorentina
7	Roberto Baggio	Vicenza, Fiorentina, Juventus, Milan, Bologna, Internazionale, Brescia	36
	Pietro Anastasi	Varese, Juventus, Internazionale, Ascoli
9	Roberto Mancini	Bologna, Sampdoria, Lazio	33
10	Gigi Riva	Cagliari	32
11	Roberto Pruzzo	Genoa, Roma, Fiorentina	30
12	Diego Maradona	Napoli	29
13	Andrea Carnevale	Avellino, Reggiana, Cagliari, Udinese, Napoli, Roma, Pescara	28
	Gianni Rivera	Milan
15	Francesco Graziani	Arezzo, Torino, Fiorentina, Roma, Udinese	27
16	Pierino Prati	Milan, Roma	26
	Oscar Damiani	Vicenza, Napoli, Juventus, Genoa, Milan, Parma
	Aldo Serena	Bari, Internazionale, Milan, Juventus
19	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	25
	Antonio Di Natale	Empoli, Udinese
	Sandro Tovalieri	Arezzo, Roma, Avellino, Ancona, Atalanta, Reggiana, Sampdoria
	Gabriel Batistuta	Fiorentina, Roma

Most titles

Gianluigi Buffon and Roberto Mancini (6)

Broadcasting

This is a list of television broadcasters and streaming television providers which provide coverage of the Coppa Italia, as well as the Supercoppa Italiana and maybe exclude the Serie A matches (depending on broadcasting rights in selected regions).

2021–2024

Italy

The Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italiana has been broadcast by Mediaset since the 2021–22 season. Previously, the tournament was aired by the national public broadcaster RAI up until the 2020–21 edition.

International

For countries without broadcasting rights, both Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana also available via Serie A YouTube channel.

Countries	Broadcaster	Ref
Albania	SuperSport
Andorra	DAZN
Austria
Germany
Japan
Spain
Azerbaijan	CBC Sport
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Arena Sport
Croatia
Montenegro
Macedonia
Serbia
Slovenia
Brazil	Paramount+
Bulgaria	Max Sport
Canada	fuboTV
Caribbean	ESPN
China	Migu and Zhibo
Cyprus	Cytavision Sports
Czech Republic	Sport1
Denmark	Ekstra Bladet
France	L'Equipe
Georgia	Setanta Sports
Greece	Nova Sports
Hong Kong
Hungary	Sport1
Indonesia	Telkom Indonesia
	Televisi Republik Indonesia
Ireland	Premier Sports
Israel	Sport 1
Kazakhstan	Qazsport
Kosovo	ArtSport
Latin America	ESPN
Liechtenstein	Sky Sport
Macau	Macau Cable TV
Middle East and North Africa	AD Sports
Malta	TSN
Netherlands	Ziggo Sport
Norway	VG+
Poland	Polsat Sport
Portugal	Sport TV
Romania	Prima Sport
Russia	Okko Sport
Slovakia	Sport1
Sub-Saharan Africa	StarTimes Sports
Sweden	Aftonbladet
Switzerland	Sky Sport
Thailand	True Sport
Turkey	TRT Spor
Ukraine	MEGOGO
United Kingdom	Viaplay Sports
United States	CBS
Uzbekistan	Sport
Vietnam	HTV

See also

In Spanish: Copa Italia para niños

• Supercoppa Italiana
• Coppa Italia Dilettanti
• List of Coppa Italia finals