Buy Bologna tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into a club in transition. Domenico Tedesco takes charge at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara after Vincenzo Italiano left by mutual consent in May, and for the first time in three years the Rossoblù have no European football to plan around. Nineteen home league fixtures and a Coppa Italia run are the whole calendar, which changes how a season here is bought.
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This page is written for supporters who want a seat at one of Italian football's genuinely distinctive grounds. Below you will find how the Dall'Ara is laid out around its Marathon Tower, which sector suits which kind of matchday, what the club's card system gates, what resale prices actually look like across the season and where every home and away league fixture can be found.
Bologna's own sales process runs in the standard Italian sequence. Season ticket holders are seated first. The club's fidelity cardholders get a window next, and only what remains reaches general sale, typically announced a week or so before each fixture. For a mid-table Sunday afternoon that leaves plenty available. For Inter, Juventus, Milan and the Emilian derby against Parma it does not.
A resale marketplace exists because that one-week window is unusable for anyone travelling. Bologna is a genuine short-break destination and a meaningful share of any Dall'Ara crowd has flown into Marconi or arrived by high-speed rail from Milan, Florence or Rome. Those supporters need to commit to flights and accommodation months before the club confirms whether a fixture will even reach open sale, let alone at what time it kicks off.
The flexibility runs the other way too. Serie A confirms broadcast slots in blocks and a fixture published for a Saturday evening can move to a Monday night, which is more disruptive here than at a club whose support is overwhelmingly local. Buying through a marketplace lets you pick a specific sector, a specific quantity and a specific price in one sitting, weighing two seats in the Tribuna against four in the Distinti with the numbers in front of you.
1BoxOffice has traded as a ticket marketplace since 2006, which covers most of the modern history of online football resale. That length of trading matters for a purchase where the product frequently does not reach your hands until the week of the match. Sellers are verified before their inventory goes live, and every confirmed order carries a guarantee that pays out well above what you spent if something goes wrong.
The practical gain for a Bologna supporter is certainty months ahead of a general sale that may never be announced in time. You can see the sector, the quantity available and the price before committing, and you can compare several listings for the same fixture side by side. Delivery progress is trackable from the moment the order confirms.
Bologna have spent the past four seasons doing something the club had not managed in six decades, which is competing at the top of Serie A rather than surviving in it. A fifth-place finish and Champions League qualification in 2024, a Coppa Italia in 2025 and a European campaign that reached the round of 16 in 2026 have changed both the size of the crowd and who is in it. Attendances that used to fluctuate now hold steady near capacity.
Demand still moves in waves through the season, and knowing which fixtures compress a month of interest into one date is most of the work. The drivers below are the ones that actually move availability at the Dall'Ara.
The practical conclusion is that Bologna splits neatly into two kinds of fixture. For the majority of the calendar a well-timed purchase gets you a good seat at a sensible price, and for the handful of high-demand dates early action beats any amount of price comparison.
Resale pricing at the Dall'Ara turns on the opponent, the sector and how close to kick-off you buy, and it remains among the more approachable in Serie A. Club face values start around £26 for a standard league fixture and run into three figures for central covered seating, which is materially below what the same seat costs in Milan or Rome. The 2026/27 calendar runs from late August 2026 to the end of May 2027.
Timing behaves conventionally here. Listings are thinnest and dearest in the fortnight after the calendar is published and again in the final week before kick-off, with a softer window in between. For lower-demand league fixtures prices often ease as the date approaches because sellers would rather move a seat than hold it, while for the visits of Inter and Juventus the opposite applies and waiting rarely rewards you.
The bands below reflect typical resale ranges across a season rather than any individual listing. They are quoted in pounds because that is how the marketplace prices, and they will not always map neatly onto euro face values once demand is accounted for.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Serie A (standard fixtures) | £30 – £120 |
| Serie A (high-demand fixtures) | £70 – £300+ |
| Coppa Italia (early rounds) | £20 – £70 |
| Coppa Italia (later rounds) | £40 – £180 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £200 – £900+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Yes. Bologna do not lock general sale behind a paid membership, and anyone can buy through the club's own channels or through resale without one. What the We Are One Card buys is priority, and for the handful of fixtures that matter most that priority decides who gets in.
The card is the club's fidelity scheme and is free when collected in person at a sales point in Bologna, with a small charge if ordered online through the site or app. Activation is immediate, so the digital version works while the physical card is posted, which avoids the long wait that catches supporters out at several other Italian clubs. It is also the route to away allocations, functioning as Bologna's version of the Tessera del Tifoso.
The obstacle for anyone outside Italy is the calendar rather than the card. Single-match sales are typically announced a week or more before a fixture and the cardholder window takes what season ticket holders have not. High-demand games can clear before general sale opens at all. Resale removes that dependency. Read each listing for notes on name matching or collection before committing, because Italian grounds check identity against the ticket at the gate.
Bologna's season ticket base grew sharply after the Champions League qualification of 2024 and the Coppa Italia win a year later, and the effect is visible in how much of the ground is committed before a season starts. The Curva Bulgarelli in particular has become difficult to enter from outside, with renewals taking the great majority of what is available each summer.
Renewal runs in phases through the summer, with existing holders given pre-emption before any new applications are opened. Pricing is set by sector and the spread is wide enough that a curva season ticket and a covered central seat are different products entirely. The ranges below reflect typical full-season resale and secondary-market bands rather than club list prices, which are published separately each summer.
| Season Ticket Area | Typical Full-Season Range (GBP) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Curva Bulgarelli | £180 – £280 | Home ultras end. Lowest entry point and the hardest sector to get into from outside. |
| Distinti | £230 – £380 | Uncovered side beneath the Marathon Tower. Good value with a full view of the pitch. |
| Tribuna Laterale | £380 – £600 | Covered side stand away from the halfway line. The usual compromise choice. |
| Tribuna Centrale | £600 – £950 | Covered central seating on the halfway line with the strongest sightlines. |
| Premium and hospitality | £1,400 – £2,500+ | Padded central seating with lounge access across the season. |
The Dall'Ara is divided into four broad sectors and the difference between them is more pronounced than at a modern ground, largely because only part of the stadium is covered. Bologna weather runs to cold, damp winters and hot, humid late summers, so whether a seat has a roof over it is a genuine consideration rather than a detail. The bowl itself is close to the pitch with no running track, which keeps sightlines strong throughout.
| Stand / Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curva Bulgarelli | Atmosphere, singing, banners | Lowest | Home of the Bologna ultras, named after Giacomo Bulgarelli. Expect to stand throughout and to see the far goal through flags. |
| Tribuna Centrale | Sightlines and shelter | Highest general admission | Covered central seating on the halfway line. The natural choice for a first visit or a winter fixture. |
| Tribuna Laterale | Balance of view, cover and price | Mid to high | Covered but away from the centre circle. A compressed angle on the far side, with the roof still overhead. |
| Distinti | Value with a clear view | Mid | The uncovered side, with the Torre di Maratona rising behind it. Bring a coat for evening fixtures between November and March. |
| Curva San Luca | Lower-priced home seating | Low to mid | The opposite end, part of which is given over to visiting supporters. Confirm which portion a listing refers to before buying. |
| Away sector | Visiting supporters only | Varies | Within the Curva San Luca in the south-western corner, holding around 2,500 with its own access from Via Menabue. Not sold to home support. |
Bologna's away support benefits from geography more than most. Sitting at the junction of the Italian high-speed rail network puts a large share of Serie A within two hours of Bologna Centrale, which makes away days here unusually practical. Italian away rules still apply, though. Allocations are small, sales through club channels require the fidelity card and prefectural decrees can restrict or close sales by province of residence at short notice.
| Away Detail | What to Expect |
|---|---|
| Typical allocation | Several hundred to a few thousand depending on the host ground and risk classification. Bologna regularly sell their allocation for northern and central fixtures. |
| Away section location | The settore ospiti at the host stadium, usually an upper tier or corner segregated from home support. At the Dall'Ara visitors take a portion of the Curva San Luca. |
| Access requirements | An active We Are One Card is needed for away sales through club channels, serving as Bologna's Tessera del Tifoso equivalent. No card is required for home general sale. |
| Residency restrictions | Certain fixtures limit sales to supporters not resident in the province of Bologna, or close the away sector entirely. Confirm the current decree before booking travel. |
| Transport notes | Florence, Milan, Parma, Sassuolo, Verona and Venice are all comfortable by rail from Bologna Centrale. Napoli, Lecce and Cagliari are longer journeys and Cagliari realistically means flying. |
Two supporters can leave the Dall'Ara with very different verdicts on the same match, and at this ground the weather is part of the reason. Deciding in advance whether you are prioritising noise, view, shelter or price narrows the field immediately.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere | Curva Bulgarelli, lower blocks | The drums, the banners and the singing all start here and run for the full 90 minutes. You will stand throughout and the far goal comes and goes behind flags, which regulars treat as the price of admission. |
| View of the play | Tribuna Centrale | Halfway line, covered, close to the touchline with no track in between. The clearest angle in the ground and the easiest sector from which to read a tactical change. |
| Family-friendly | Tribuna Laterale or Distinti | Seated support throughout, calmer surroundings and simpler concourse access. The Laterale adds a roof, which matters for younger supporters at winter fixtures. |
| Premium experience | Central Tribuna or a hospitality package | Padded central seating with catering and lounge access before and after the match. Inventory is limited at a ground of this size, so book well ahead. |
| Lower-priced option | Curva San Luca home section or Distinti | The most affordable regular seats in the stadium. Both are uncovered in part, so check the forecast before choosing between them and the Laterale. |
The Stadio Renato Dall'Ara opened in 1927 as the Stadio Littoriale, built into the slope beneath the San Luca hill on the western edge of the city. It is one of the few grounds in Italy that reads as a piece of architecture rather than a container for football, and its defining feature is the Torre di Maratona, a brick tower rising above the curve at one end through which players once entered the pitch. The tower is a protected monument, and that status has shaped the club's plans in ways nobody anticipated.
Capacity today sits at around 36,000 and the ground remains municipally owned, which is the root of a decade of stalled redevelopment. A renovation project that would have brought the stands closer to the pitch, added a full roof and reduced capacity to roughly 30,000 was abandoned in February 2026 after costs rose from about £85 million to nearer £195 million and the city withdrew its share of the funding. Seismic requirements around the Marathon Tower were among the reasons the numbers moved.
What followed has redirected the club entirely. In August 2026 Bologna and the exhibition group BolognaFiere presented a letter of intent for a new privately funded stadium of more than 30,000 seats on land elsewhere in the city, split 50/50 between the two partners, with the next stage of institutional discussion scheduled for September 2026. Nothing is close to breaking ground, and Bologna continue at the Dall'Ara throughout, but the direction of travel has changed from restoring the old ground to replacing it.
Atmosphere is concentrated in the Curva Bulgarelli, named in 2009 after Giacomo Bulgarelli, the midfielder who spent his entire career at the club and remains its emblematic figure. The singing there runs continuously rather than in bursts and the banners are prepared for specific fixtures rather than rolled out weekly. Because a large part of the ground is uncovered the sound behaves differently from a fully roofed stadium, escaping upward rather than being trapped, which makes a full Dall'Ara feel open and rolling instead of compressed.
Getting there is straightforward and rewarding. TPER buses 14 and 21 run from the city centre in 15 to 20 minutes, and on matchdays a shuttle operates from Bologna Centrale. The alternative is the walk, roughly 2.5 kilometres along Via Saragozza almost entirely beneath the porticoes that earned the city a place on the UNESCO World Heritage list, which takes about 30 minutes and is the route most visiting supporters end up preferring. Guglielmo Marconi airport sits seven kilometres away, reached by the Marconi Express shuttle to Centrale and then bus 77.
The area immediately around the ground is residential and has few bars, so the pre-match ritual happens in the centre rather than at the stadium. Bologna is arguably the finest eating city in Italy and supporters take that seriously: the osterie around Via Andrea Costa and the Meloncello arch fill from early afternoon, and the covered market streets of the Quadrilatero handle the rest. Buy a return bus ticket in the centre before you set off, because the machines near the stadium are unreliable on matchdays.
Matchday routine at the Dall'Ara is calmer than at the bigger Italian grounds but the entry rules are the same. Gates open about two hours before kick-off, tickets are personalised and a valid photo identity document is checked against the name at the turnstile. There is no left-luggage facility, so anything you cannot carry in has to stay in the city. Full detail on the ground sits on the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara tickets page, and the Dall'Ara seating plan breaks the sectors down if you want to see how they fit together before choosing.
Hospitality at the Dall'Ara is concentrated in the central covered section of the Tribuna, with lounge space behind the seating. Because the stadium is municipally owned and has never been remodelled for premium seating in the way a purpose-built ground would be, the products are more modest than at Milan or Rome and the inventory is smaller. That also makes them better value than the equivalent elsewhere in Serie A.
For a supporter travelling from abroad for a single fixture the appeal is practical. You get central covered seating, catering included and somewhere indoors before kick-off and after full time, which matters more here than at most grounds given how much of the Dall'Ara is open to the weather. The bands below reflect typical resale ranges across a season and move with the fixture in the same way general admission does.
| Package | What It Includes | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Premium seating | Padded central seats in the covered Tribuna with a dedicated entrance and access to the hospitality concourse | £200 – £400 |
| Hospitality lounge | Central seating with full dining before the match, bar service and a private indoor space at half time | £350 – £700 |
| Executive box | Private space for a small group with indoor viewing, outdoor seats and waiter service throughout | £600 – £900+ |
| Matchday experience packages | Premium seating combined with extras such as a stadium tour or a pre-match meal at a partner venue where offered | £250 – £550 |
Buying through a marketplace is a short process, but two or three steps carry more weight at an Italian ground than they would elsewhere. Identity rules at the Dall'Ara mean the details you enter at checkout matter as much as the seat you choose. Work through the eight steps below and you will have covered what commonly goes wrong.
Step1
Start from the fixture
Availability and price differ sharply between a mid-table Sunday afternoon and the visit of Inter or Juventus, so begin with the specific match rather than the club. The home and away fixture lists further down this page take you straight to each one.
Step2
Sign in or set up an account
An account keeps your order history, contact details and delivery preferences in one place. If you do not have one you can create an account in a couple of minutes, and it makes tracking and support far simpler later on.
Step3
Decide on cover as well as sector
Only part of the Dall'Ara is roofed, so at this ground the choice is not purely about atmosphere and sightline. Curva Bulgarelli for noise, Tribuna Centrale for the view and shelter, Distinti for value if the forecast is kind.
Step4
Compare the listings
Several sellers may hold seats in the same sector at different prices and quantities. Compare the per-ticket total rather than the headline figure, and confirm whether seats are guaranteed together if you are buying for a group.
Step5
Check which end the seat is in
The Curva San Luca is split between home support and the visiting sector, so verify a listing refers to the home portion before buying. Confirm the date and kick-off time as well, since Serie A moves broadcast slots and a Saturday fixture can become a Monday night.
Step6
Read the listing notes
This is the step people skip and later regret. Notes cover name matching, collection arrangements, restricted view and whether seats are adjacent, all of which carry more consequence in Italy than in most of Europe.
Step7
Complete secure checkout
Enter the lead attendee's details exactly as they appear on the identity document that person will carry to the ground. Serie A tickets are personalised and the name is checked at the turnstile, so a mismatch here is the single most common cause of trouble on the day.
Step8
Follow the delivery
Confirmation lands immediately and you can follow progress through track order at any point. Many Serie A seats are issued close to the fixture date, so a quiet stretch after purchase is normal rather than a warning sign.
Once the seats arrive, save or print them rather than depending on a live connection at the ground. Mobile signal around the stadium thins in the half hour before kick-off when a full house competes for the same cells, and an offline copy removes that risk entirely.
Most of the Dall'Ara calendar stays available into the week of the match, which is one of the reasons Bologna works as a trip. A handful of dates behave completely differently, and if one of them is your reason for buying then acting early matters. The table below ranks the fixture types Bologna supporters chase hardest.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Inter and Juventus at home | The two largest travelling followings in Italian football arriving at a ground of around 36,000. Both carry a national television audience and both have produced results in recent seasons that shaped where Bologna finished. |
| Milan, Napoli and Roma at the Dall'Ara | Three fixtures with large national followings and a history of direct competition for European places. Beating Milan in the 2025 Coppa Italia final has given the Milan fixture in particular an edge it did not have before. |
| Emilian derbies | Parma and Sassuolo are both in Serie A this season, which puts two short-distance regional fixtures on the calendar. Travelling support arrives by car and rail in numbers that comfortably exceed the away allocation, pushing demand into the home sections. |
| Coppa Italia knockout rounds | Bologna are recent holders and the competition now carries genuine weight here rather than being treated as a distraction. Later rounds sell faster than the early ones because a run reawakens memories of 2025. |
| Season opener and final home game | The first home fixture under a new head coach is the one supporters want to see in person, and the last game of the campaign doubles as a farewell to departing players. Both attract people who attend once a season and buy early. |
Delivery depends on the seller and on how the seats were originally issued, and Serie A uses a mix of digital and physical systems. The method appears on the listing before you buy, so if one format suits your travel plans better than another you can filter for it at the point of choosing.
Whichever method applies, read the listing notes before completing the order. They carry the seller's specific instructions, including any name-matching requirement, and following them is the difference between a smooth entry and a conversation with a steward.
Gates at the Dall'Ara open around two hours before kick-off, which is worth using rather than treating as a formality. The approach along Via Andrea Costa narrows near the ground and the bus routes from the centre fill steadily through the last hour, so a late arrival means a slow final kilometre. Ninety minutes before kick-off is a sensible target for a league game.
There is a second reason to be early here. The walk out from the centre beneath the Via Saragozza porticoes is genuinely part of the experience, and the osterie along the route fill from early afternoon rather than an hour before kick-off. Supporters who arrive at the turnstiles ten minutes before the whistle have missed most of what makes a Bologna matchday distinctive.
Serie A tickets are personalised and a valid photo identity document is checked against the name at the gate. The details entered at checkout therefore need to match the person carrying the seat, and a passport covers international visitors while a national identity card covers European supporters. The same document is required if you are collecting rather than receiving digitally.
If your ticket is digital, charge the phone before you leave and save the barcode offline rather than relying on the network at the ground. Screen brightness matters as well, because scanners struggle with a dimmed display in daylight. Keep the ticket and the document together, since you will be asked for both within a few metres of each other.
There is no left-luggage facility at the Dall'Ara, so anything you cannot carry through the turnstiles has to stay in the city. Italian ground regulations do not publish a precise dimension, so treat anything larger than a small handbag as a risk and use storage near Bologna Centrale if you are arriving on a travel day.
Prohibited items follow the standard Italian model and are enforced at screening. Cans, glass, plastic bottles, alcohol brought from outside, flares, fireworks, laser pointers, umbrellas with pointed ends and large flags on double poles are all refused. Because much of the ground is uncovered, supporters often try to bring umbrellas and are turned away, so a hooded coat is the practical answer for a winter fixture.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Bologna Football Club 1909 |
| Founded | 3 October 1909, in Bologna |
| Nicknames | I Rossoblù (the red and blues), I Felsinei, I Veltri (the Greyhounds), I Petroniani |
| Stadium | Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, opened 1927 (capacity around 36,000) |
| Head coach | Domenico Tedesco (appointed June 2026) |
| Captain | Lewis Ferguson |
| Owner | Joey Saputo |
| League | Serie A (20 clubs, 38 matches) |
| Competitions in 2026/27 | Serie A and the Coppa Italia |
Bologna are one of the most decorated clubs in Italian football and also one of the least associated with success, which is a contradiction only a long enough timeline explains. Seven league titles put them level with clubs far better known abroad, but six of those arrived before the Second World War and the last was in 1964. The eras below trace how the Rossoblù went from ruling Europe to fighting for survival and back again.
This is the period that produced the phrase Bologna supporters still use: lo squadrone che tremare il mondo fa, the squad that makes the world tremble. Angelo Schiavio led the line and remains the club's record goalscorer, and the 1932 Mitropa Cup came in extraordinary circumstances after Juventus and Slavia Prague were both disqualified following crowd trouble in Prague. Two years later Bologna removed any doubt by beating Admira Wien 7-4 on aggregate in the final. For roughly a decade this was among the finest sides in Europe.
The 1964 title is the one that still defines the club's older support. Bologna and Inter finished level on points and the Scudetto was settled by a one-off play-off in Rome, which Bologna won 2-0, all of it against the backdrop of a doping investigation that was eventually dismissed. President Renato Dall'Ara died of a heart attack days before the decider and never saw it. Bulgarelli spent his entire career at the club and gave his name to the curva, which tells you how completely Bologna claim him.
The fall was as steep as the earlier rise. A club with seven titles was playing third-tier football in the mid-1980s and went bankrupt in 1993, which is the context for how Bologna supporters regard the current period. The late-1990s side under Carlo Mazzone and built around Giuseppe Signori and Roberto Baggio was the one bright interruption, reaching a European semi-final in 1999 that remains the club's deepest continental run of the modern era. The following decade brought another relegation in 2005 and further financial trouble before stability returned.
Motta's side of 2023/24 changed what supporters believed was possible, playing a fluid positional game with a squad assembled at a fraction of the cost of the clubs it finished above. He left for Juventus that summer and Vincenzo Italiano replaced him, which looked like a downgrade and was not: Italiano won the Coppa Italia in his first season and took Bologna into the Supercoppa Italiana and a European knockout round in his second. He departed by mutual consent in May 2026 after a season that finished eighth, and Domenico Tedesco arrived in June on a two-year deal with an option for a third.
Bologna's pantheon is split unevenly between a pre-war era most supporters know only through stories and a handful of modern figures who ended a 51-year wait. The club has not retired shirt numbers, choosing instead to name the home end after its most emblematic player. The figures below are the ones against whom every new arrival is measured.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giacomo Bulgarelli | Midfielder, 1956 to 1975 | Spent his entire career at Bologna across nineteen seasons, captaining the side that won the 1964 Scudetto and holding the club appearance record. The home end carries his name, which is the highest honour the club gives. | Club appearance record, one Serie A title, two Coppa Italia |
| Angelo Schiavio | Forward, 1922 to 1939 | The club's all-time leading goalscorer and the spearhead of the pre-war side, scoring at a rate no Bologna forward has approached since. He also scored the winning goal in the 1934 World Cup final for Italy. | Club record goalscorer, four Serie A titles, two Mitropa Cups |
| Giuseppe Signori | Forward, 1998 to 2004 | Arrived past 30 and gave Bologna six seasons of consistent scoring through a period when little else was going right, including the run to the 1999 UEFA Cup semi-final. He remains the most popular modern forward at the club. | Over 80 goals for the club, UEFA Cup semi-finalist 1999 |
| Harald Nielsen | Forward, 1961 to 1967 | The Danish striker whose goals delivered the 1964 title, finishing as Serie A top scorer in consecutive seasons. He was among the most expensive players in the world when Bologna signed him. | Serie A top scorer 1962/63 and 1963/64, one Serie A title |
| Marco Di Vaio | Forward, 2008 to 2012 | Returned to Italy to lead the line through four difficult seasons and scored consistently in sides that were rarely competitive. He later became a club director, which is how Bologna tend to keep the players they value. | Prolific across four seasons, later sporting director |
| Lewis Ferguson | Midfielder, 2022 onwards | Arrived from Aberdeen as a relative unknown and became captain, lifting the Coppa Italia in May 2025 to end a 51-year wait. He returned from a serious knee injury to do it, which is why the Curva Bulgarelli treats him as one of their own. | Coppa Italia winner and winning captain 2025 |
| Riccardo Orsolini | Winger, 2018 onwards | Stayed through relegation scares, mid-table seasons and the rise under Motta and Italiano, becoming the constant of the modern side. His goals from the right have decided more Bologna matches in the past decade than anyone else's. | Coppa Italia winner 2025, long-serving modern mainstay |
| Roberto Baggio | Forward, 1997 to 1998 | Spent a single season at Bologna and made it count, scoring 22 league goals to force his way back into the Italy squad for the 1998 World Cup. One season is usually not enough to become a club figure, and in his case it was. | 22 Serie A goals in one season |
Bologna's honours list is deeper than most supporters outside Italy realise, with seven league titles placing them among the country's most successful clubs on paper. The counts below are drawn from the club's own honours record cross-referenced against independent football databases.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| Serie A / Italian Championship | 7 (1924/25, 1928/29, 1935/36, 1936/37, 1938/39, 1940/41, 1963/64) |
| Coppa Italia | 3 (1969/70, 1973/74, 2024/25) |
| Mitropa Cup and Central European Cup | 3 (1932, 1934 and 1961/62) |
| Anglo-Italian Cup | 1 (1970) |
| UEFA Intertoto Cup | 1 (1998) |
| Serie B | 2 (1987/88, 1995/96) |
| Tournoi de Paris | 1 (1937) |
Bologna's rivalries are regional rather than metropolitan, which gives them a different character from the derbies of Milan, Rome or Turin. There is no city rival, so the heat comes from the Apennines to the south and from the neighbouring towns of Emilia-Romagna. The continental ones are older and rarer but they belong to the periods when this club mattered most in Europe.
The Derby dell'Appennino is Bologna's principal rivalry, contested across the mountain range that separates Emilia-Romagna from Tuscany and sharpened by decades of meetings with something at stake. It has a specific origin in the 1960s, when both clubs were competing near the top of Serie A, and it has been renewed in recent seasons as the two have contested European places directly. The fixture carries an edge that surprises visiting supporters who expect a routine mid-table meeting, and the away sector fills for it every year.
The Emilian derby is the fixture that most divides workplaces and families across the region, contested between two cities barely 100 kilometres apart along the Via Emilia. Parma's rise in the 1990s coincided with Bologna's climb back from bankruptcy, which layered resentment onto proximity, and the two met in the 1999 UEFA Cup quarter-final with Bologna going through. Parma's return to Serie A has restored the fixture to the league calendar after several years away, and the short travelling distance means demand from both sets of supporters exceeds what either ground can allocate.
Less a traditional rivalry than a recurring collision at moments that mattered. The 1964 Scudetto was decided by a play-off between the two in Rome, which Bologna won 2-0 in the most consequential match in the club's history. Inter also stood between Bologna and European qualification in a play-off in 1999, and in recent seasons the fixture has become one of the tests by which the club measures its own progress. It is reliably the quickest home fixture to sell out.
The 1999 UEFA Cup semi-final is the deepest European run of Bologna's modern history and the way it ended has not been forgotten. Having beaten Spartak Moscow, Universitatea Craiova, Eintracht Frankfurt and Parma to get there, Bologna drew 0-0 in Marseille and 1-1 at the Dall'Ara, going out on away goals in front of their own supporters. That side, built around Giuseppe Signori and coached by Carlo Mazzone, remains the reference point against which every subsequent European campaign at the club is measured.
The Mitropa Cup pitted the champions of Italy, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia against each other in the 1930s, and for Bologna the recurring opponents were Viennese. In 1932 they beat the reigning champions First Vienna 2-0 at home in the semi-final before being awarded the trophy when Juventus and Slavia Prague were disqualified, and in 1934 they settled matters properly by beating Admira Wien 7-4 across the two-legged final. Those results made Bologna the first Italian club to win a European competition of any kind, which is a fact the club still puts front and centre.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | A thirteenth-place finish under Siniša Mihajlović, in a season defined less by results than by the manager's public battle with leukaemia while continuing to coach. Bologna were comfortably clear of trouble without ever threatening the European places. The squad that would drive the later rise was already partly assembled, with Riccardo Orsolini established on the right. It was the last full season before the club's trajectory changed. |
| 2022/23 | Mihajlović was dismissed in September and Thiago Motta took over, immediately changing how the side played. Bologna finished ninth and were competitive against the clubs above them for the first time in years, with the possession-based structure beginning to take hold. Marko Arnautović led the scoring before his summer departure. The groundwork for the following season was laid here. |
| 2023/24 | The season that changed the club. Motta's side finished fifth on 68 points and qualified for the Champions League for the first time since 1964, playing some of the most admired football in Serie A on one of the smaller budgets in the division. Joshua Zirkzee and Lewis Ferguson were central to it before Ferguson's serious knee injury in April. Motta left for Juventus at the end of the season. |
| 2024/25 | Vincenzo Italiano replaced Motta and delivered the trophy nobody expected, beating Milan 1-0 in the Coppa Italia final on 14 May 2025 for a first major honour in 51 years. Ferguson returned from injury to captain the side and lift the cup. The Champions League campaign ended in the league phase, and Bologna finished ninth in Serie A while managing an unfamiliar fixture load. The cup win secured a Europa League place. |
| 2025/26 | A third consecutive season in Europe brought a Europa League round of 16 and a first Supercoppa Italiana appearance, where Bologna lost the final 2-0 to Napoli in Riyadh in December. The league campaign settled at eighth on 56 points and the Coppa Italia defence ended in the quarter-finals. Riccardo Orsolini top-scored with 11 goals across all competitions. Italiano left by mutual consent in May 2026. |
Tedesco inherits a squad shaped by two managers with different ideas and a summer in which the absence of European football has changed the club's financial position. Artem Dovbyk arrives on loan from Roma to lead the line alongside Jonathan Rowe and Riccardo Orsolini. Market values below are approximate figures drawn from published football valuation data and converted to pounds, and they move continuously with form, age and contract length.
| No. | Player | Position | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Łukasz Skorupski | Goalkeeper | 1.2m |
| 2 | Emil Holm | Defender | 9.5m |
| 5 | Eivind Helland | Defender | 5m |
| 14 | Torbjørn Heggem | Defender | 10m |
| 16 | Nicolò Casale | Defender | 2.5m |
| 20 | Nadir Zortea | Defender | 5.5m |
| 33 | Juan Miranda | Defender | 10m |
| 41 | Martin Vitík | Defender | 9.5m |
| 4 | Tommaso Pobega | Midfielder | 7m |
| 6 | Nikola Moro | Midfielder | 3.5m |
| 10 | Federico Bernardeschi | Midfielder | 1.5m |
| 19 | Lewis Ferguson (captain) | Midfielder | 13m |
| 21 | Jens Odgaard | Forward | 10m |
| 7 | Riccardo Orsolini | Winger | 12m |
| 9 | Artem Dovbyk (on loan) | Forward | 18m |
| 11 | Jonathan Rowe | Winger | 15m |
| 28 | Nicolò Cambiaghi | Winger | 11.5m |
| 91 | Roberto Piccoli | Forward | 11.5m |
No card is required for home general sale or for buying through a resale marketplace. The card is the club's fidelity scheme, free in person and a small charge online, and it buys a priority window plus access to away allocations.
The away sector sits within the Curva San Luca in the south-western corner of the ground, holding around 2,500 with its own access from Via Menabue. Because that end is split between home and visiting support, always confirm which portion a listing refers to.
Bologna is among the more affordable Serie A destinations, with standard league fixtures typically listing well below the equivalent at San Siro or the Olimpico. The gap narrows sharply for the visits of Inter, Juventus and Milan, and all ranges may change as demand shifts.
Most Serie A seats are issued digitally in the days immediately before kick-off rather than at the point of purchase, so a quiet stretch after ordering is normal. Postal and collection listings carry their own timings, which the seller sets out on the listing itself.
No. An eighth-place finish in 2025/26 fell short of the qualifying places, so the season is Serie A and the Coppa Italia only after three consecutive European campaigns. The practical effect is a cleaner weekend-heavy calendar with fewer midweek fixtures.
Whether you are planning a single weekend under the porticoes or following the Rossoblù through a full league season, Bologna tickets are listed on 1BoxOffice across every home and away fixture of the campaign. As a verified marketplace trading since 2006, every order carries a 150% money-back guarantee, so you can book months ahead with confidence. Compare the listings for your fixture, pick the sector that suits how you want to watch and settle it before the derby crowd arrives.
Sources: Bologna FC 1909 official club website (bolognafc.it), Lega Serie A, UEFA, Transfermarkt, ESPN, Football Italia, StadiumDB, The Stadium Business, RSSSF and Wikipedia. Squad numbers and market valuations reflect published data at the time of writing and are approximate.
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