Como FC Tickets

There is one thing every buyer needs to know before booking anything. Como's home Champions League matches are not at the Sinigaglia. The stadium does not yet meet UEFA requirements while its rebuild finishes, so the early European home fixtures move to the Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia, roughly 250 kilometres away. Everything below sets out what that means in practice, alongside the seating, pricing and fixture detail for the league season.

Why This Is the Hardest Ticket in Italy

Supply and demand at Como have come apart in a way no other Serie A club is dealing with. The Sinigaglia holds a little over 12,000 for league football, which is one of the smallest regular capacities in the division, and the club has just added Champions League football and a squad valued at close to half a billion euros to that same ground. The arithmetic does not work, and it is why prices here now sit above clubs with five times the support.

The redevelopment compounds it. The Curva Como has been demolished and rebuilt in reinforced concrete over the summer and the pitch has been widened from 66 to 68 metres to meet UEFA specifications. Como asked to play their opening league fixtures away from home while the work finishes. Capacity during and after the works lands at roughly 12,400 for Serie A, and just under 11,000 for any European match the ground is eventually cleared to host.

A resale marketplace is the practical route into a ground this size. Season ticket holders take a substantial share of 12,000 seats before general sale exists at all, and what reaches open sale for the visits of Inter, Juventus, Milan or Roma disappears quickly. Buying through a marketplace lets you fix a sector, a quantity and a price months ahead, at the point you are booking a hotel on the lake rather than the week the club decides to release something.

Why Fans Buy Through 1BoxOffice

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 often 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.

For a Como fixture the value is knowing the seat exists before the rest of a trip is committed, which matters more here than at most clubs given how little general sale inventory reaches the public. 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.

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What Turned Como Into a Destination

Nine years ago this club was bankrupt and playing in the fourth tier. The Indonesian Hartono family bought it through SENT Entertainment in 2019 and promotion followed from Serie D to Serie C to Serie B to Serie A. In 2026 it finished above Milan, Juventus and Atalanta. Nothing about the demand curve here resembles a normal mid-table Italian club, because Como is not being followed as one.

Demand 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 on the lake.

• Roughly 12,000 seats. This is the central fact and it colours everything else. The Sinigaglia holds around a sixth of San Siro, so a fixture that sits comfortably available in Milan sells out here. Any price comparison with another Serie A club is misleading until you account for it.
• Champions League football, for the first time ever. Como qualified on 10 May 2026 and confirmed fourth place a fortnight later, beating a previous best Serie A finish of sixth set in 1949/50. The novelty has drawn interest from supporters with no prior connection to the club, and the away following for those nights arrives from across the continent.
• Cesc Fàbregas. A World Cup and European Championship winner managing a provincial Italian club is a story in itself, and his decision in May 2026 to stay rather than pursue the Chelsea job made it a bigger one. Neutrals travel to watch his sides play, which is not something most Serie A managers generate.
• Nico Paz and a squad worth close to half a billion. The Argentine playmaker has become one of the most valuable players in Serie A, alongside Martín Baturina, Trevoh Chalobah, Álvaro Morata and Nicolás Kühn. In a 12,000-seat ground, a squad assembled at this level creates a permanent mismatch between who wants to watch and who can.
• Lake Como itself. The ground sits directly on the waterfront in one of Europe's more photographed places, and a fixture here works as part of a weekend rather than as a standalone trip. That pulls in a category of visitor most Italian clubs never see, and that group books early and pays readily.
• Milan on the doorstep. Como is forty minutes by train from Milano Cadorna and inside an hour from Malpensa, which puts the ground within easy reach of a city of 1.4 million and one of Europe's busiest airports. Short-distance demand from Lombardy adds to everything else.
• A ground in transition. The Curva Como rebuild, the pitch widening and the eventual push for a fuller redevelopment mean the Sinigaglia as it stands now will not last. Supporters have started treating the current configuration as something to see while it exists.
• Tiny away allocations. Visiting supporters take the Curva Monumento at the far end, and the allocation varies by fixture but is small in absolute terms. Supporters shut out of it look to the home sections instead, which tightens an already short supply.

The practical conclusion is that Como no longer has a soft fixture on the calendar. Even the visits of newly promoted sides list well above what an equivalent match costs in Rome or Milan, and the marquee dates require buying as soon as the calendar is published.

What You'll Pay and Why

Resale pricing at Como is now the highest per seat in Serie A relative to the club's size, and the reason is arithmetic rather than reputation. Club face values start low, in the region of £8 to £25 for standard league seating, but face value is close to irrelevant for a general buyer because so little reaches open sale. What you encounter on the market reflects 12,000 seats meeting Champions League demand.

Timing behaves differently here than at a larger ground. Because the initial pool is so small, prices tend to harden rather than soften as the date approaches and there is rarely a late-availability window worth waiting for. The workable moment is early, when season ticket holders who know they will miss a specific date release their seats.

The bands below reflect typical resale ranges across a season rather than any individual listing. Note that Champions League home fixtures are priced against the Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia rather than the Sinigaglia while the rebuild completes, which is a materially larger ground.

Type of Ticket	Typical Price Range (GBP)
Serie A (standard fixtures)	£70 – £250
Serie A (high-demand fixtures)	£160 – £600+
Coppa Italia	£30 – £120
Champions League (league phase, home fixtures)	£60 – £280
Hospitality / VIP	£300 – £1,200+

Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.

Can You Buy Como FC Tickets Without Membership?

Yes. Como do not put a paid membership in front of general sale, and anyone can buy through the club's channels or through resale without one. What has changed is that the club introduced a stricter set of stadium regulations ahead of this season, and they are worth understanding before you buy anywhere.

Among the new rules, season ticket holders can lose renewal rights if they miss more than three home matches without a valid reason, and restrictions have been placed on transferring tickets between supporters. There is also a rule prohibiting the wearing of opposing club colours in most sections of the ground, with an exemption for children. That last point catches out neutrals and groundhoppers more than anyone, so pack accordingly if you are visiting for the occasion rather than the club.

For a visiting supporter the practical obstacle remains the calendar rather than any card. Single-match sales open close to the fixture and the pool is small enough that high-demand dates can clear before general sale opens meaningfully. Resale removes that dependency, and the sector you choose is the sector you get. Read each listing for notes on name matching or collection before committing, because Italian grounds check identity against the ticket at the gate.

The Abbonamento in a 12,000-Seat Ground

The season ticket accounts for a larger share of this stadium than at any club in the division's upper half, simply because there is so little of the stadium to go round. A healthy abbonamento base in a ground of 12,000 leaves a genuinely small pool for single-match sale, and the Curva Como is effectively closed to newcomers each season.

Renewal runs in phases through the summer with existing holders given pre-emption, and this year that process carried the added complication of a rebuilt Curva Como and reallocated seating. Pricing is set by sector, with the spread narrower than at a large ground because there is no upper tier. 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 Como	£300 – £450	Home ultras end, rebuilt in concrete over summer 2026. Lowest entry point and close to impossible to enter from outside.
Distinti	£420 – £620	The lakeside long side, uncovered, with the water and the mountains behind it. The view out of the ground is part of the appeal.
Tribuna Coperta lateral	£600 – £830	Covered main stand away from the halfway line. The usual compromise between shelter and cost.
Tribuna Coperta central	£830 – £1,100	Covered central seating on the halfway line, the strongest sightlines in the ground.
Premium and hospitality	£1,600 – £2,800+	Padded central seating with lounge access across the season. Very limited inventory.

Where to Sit at the Sinigaglia

The Sinigaglia opened in 1927 and is one of the more distinctive grounds in European football, a compact four-sided stadium built directly on the lakefront with the mountains rising behind one end. It is small, low and close to the pitch, and it looks like nowhere else in Serie A. The trade-off is that only the main stand is properly covered, which matters for the winter fixtures.

Stand / Area	Best For	Price Bracket	Notes
Curva Como	Atmosphere, singing, banners	Lowest	Home of the Como ultras, rebuilt in reinforced concrete over summer 2026 with capacity rising to around 4,250. Expect to stand throughout.
Tribuna Coperta central	Sightlines and shelter	Highest general admission	Covered central seating with the premium and media positions. The natural choice for a first visit or a winter fixture.
Tribuna Coperta lateral	Balance of view, cover and price	Mid to high	Covered but towards the corners, with a compressed angle on the far side of the pitch.
Distinti	Value and the view out	Mid	The uncovered lakeside stand. The outlook across the water towards the mountains is the reason many supporters choose it over a better seat.
Curva Monumento	Visiting supporters	Varies	The far end beside the war memorial, designated for away support with an allocation that varies by fixture. Not sold to home support.
Wheelchair positions	Accessible seating	Varies	Ten additional positions were added during the 2026 works, alongside the existing provision.

Where the Champions League Nights Actually Happen

This is the detail that separates a Como trip from any other in Serie A, and getting it wrong means booking a hotel on the wrong lake in the wrong region. The Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia does not currently satisfy UEFA's requirements for Champions League football. The scaffold structure that housed the ultras was not a permanent load-bearing stand, and the pitch was two metres narrower than the 68-metre minimum.

Como responded by demolishing and rebuilding the Curva Como in reinforced concrete and widening the pitch, with work running through summer 2026 and the new stand around 80 per cent complete in early August. Even so, the club has confirmed that its opening Champions League home fixtures will be staged at the Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia, with the intention of returning to the Sinigaglia once the ground is cleared. Anyone buying for a European night should treat the venue as the thing to verify first.

Detail	What to Expect
Early Champions League home fixtures	Staged at the Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia, roughly 250 kilometres from Como and around three hours by road or rail via Milan.
Why the move	The Sinigaglia did not meet UEFA infrastructure standards while the Curva Como rebuild and pitch widening were incomplete.
Return to Como	The club intends to bring European football back to the Sinigaglia once the works are signed off, with the new stand targeted for completion in September 2026.
Sinigaglia European capacity	Just under 11,000 once approved, because tubular sections in the Distinti and Curva Monumento cannot be used under UEFA rules.
What to check before buying	Confirm the venue named on the listing for any European fixture. A Serie A ticket and a Champions League ticket for the same season may be for grounds in different regions.

Following Como on the Road

Como sit in one of the better-connected corners of Italy for away travel, with Milan forty minutes away and the whole northern half of the country inside three hours by rail. Italian away rules still apply. Allocations are small, sales through club channels can require the club's own registration 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. Como's travelling support has grown sharply alongside the club's rise.
Away section location	The settore ospiti at the host stadium, usually an upper tier or corner segregated from home support. At the Sinigaglia visitors take the Curva Monumento.
Access requirements	Club registration is required for away sales through the club's own channels, in line with the Tessera del Tifoso system used across Italy. No card is required for home general sale.
Residency restrictions	Certain fixtures limit sales to supporters not resident in the province of Como, or close the away sector entirely. Confirm the current decree before booking travel.
Transport notes	Milan, Monza, Bergamo, Turin, Bologna and Genoa are all straightforward by rail. Southern trips to Napoli, Lecce and Cagliari realistically mean flying from Malpensa or Linate.

Matching the Seat to the Matchday You Want

Because the Sinigaglia is small and every seat is close to the pitch, the decision here is less about how well you will see the game and more about shelter, atmosphere and what you want to look at when play stops. The lake view from one side is a genuine consideration rather than a novelty.

Priority	Best Option	Why
Atmosphere	Curva Como, lower blocks	The drums, the banners and the singing all originate here and run for the full match. In a bowl this compact the sound reaches every corner, and the rebuilt stand has increased the capacity of the home end.
View of the play	Tribuna Coperta, central blocks	Halfway line, covered, close to the touchline with nothing in between. The clearest angle in the ground and the easiest sector from which to follow how Fàbregas sets the side up.
Family-friendly	Distinti or Tribuna lateral	Seated support throughout with calmer surroundings. The lateral adds a roof, which is worth having between November and March on the lake.
Premium experience	Central Tribuna or a hospitality package	Padded central seating with catering and lounge access. Inventory is very small at a ground of this size, so this needs booking as early as the fixture allows.
The setting	Distinti	The uncovered lakeside stand looks out across the water to the mountains behind. No other ground in Serie A offers this, and for a one-off visit it is worth more than a marginally better sightline.

The Sinigaglia Experience

The Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia opened in 1927 and is named after a rower from Como who died in the First World War, which tells you something about how the ground sits in its city. It was built as part of a sports complex on reclaimed lakefront land, and it remains one of very few grounds in top-flight European football where the water is a few dozen metres beyond one stand and the Alps close the view behind another.

Capacity has hovered between 12,000 and 13,600 depending on which sections are open, and the current configuration lands at roughly 12,400 for Serie A after the summer works. That makes it comfortably the smallest ground hosting Champions League qualifiers in Italy and one of the smallest in the division. The stands are low and close, there is no athletics track and the pitch now measures 68 metres across after being widened in 2026, so proximity is uniform in a way it never is at a larger stadium.

Atmosphere sits in the Curva Como, which was demolished and rebuilt in reinforced concrete over the summer of 2026 after its previous scaffold structure was ruled inadequate for European competition. The rebuild raised the home end from around 3,960 to roughly 4,255 seats and made it a permanent load-bearing stand for the first time. The Curva Monumento at the opposite end, beside the war memorial that gives it its name, houses visiting supporters.

The 2026 works went well beyond the home end. The pitch was replaced entirely from early June, undersoil heating was installed, the dugouts and players' tunnel were relocated, perimeter fencing was lowered, ten additional wheelchair positions were added and the media and security areas were reorganised. Como asked to open the league season with three consecutive away fixtures to buy time, and the new stand was around 80 per cent complete in early August with a target of finishing in September.

Not everyone is happy. A local citizens' committee has challenged the legality of the works, arguing that documentation presented them as temporary when they include permanent structural elements such as reinforced-concrete piles driven 16 metres down, and has requested suspension and inspection. The club has also introduced stricter stadium regulations covering season ticket renewal, ticket transfers and a prohibition on wearing opposing colours in most sections, which has caused its own debate among supporters.

Getting there is one of the easier journeys in Italian football. The ground is a fifteen-minute walk along the waterfront from Como Lago station, which connects to Milano Cadorna in around forty minutes, and Como San Giovanni on the Milan to Chiasso line is a similar distance away. Malpensa airport is under an hour by road and Lugano sits half an hour north across the Swiss border. Parking near the stadium is limited and the lakefront roads close on matchdays.

Pre-match happens in the old town, which is three or four minutes inland from the ground and is a functioning historic centre rather than a football district. Piazza Volta and the streets around the cathedral fill from early afternoon, and the funicular up to Brunate runs all day if you have hours to spare. Matchday entry follows the standard Italian pattern: tickets are personalised, a photo identity document is checked against the name and there is no left-luggage facility at the ground. Full detail sits on the Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia tickets page, and the Sinigaglia seating plan breaks the sectors down before you choose.

Matchday With the Extras

Hospitality at the Sinigaglia is concentrated in the central covered section of the Tribuna, and the inventory is small because the ground is small. What Como have that almost nobody else does is the setting, and several of the club's premium products lean on the lake and the old town rather than on stadium facilities alone. Availability is the constraint rather than price.

For a supporter travelling for a single fixture the appeal is practical as well as indulgent. You get central covered seating, catering included and somewhere indoors before kick-off and after full time, which matters at a ground where three of the four stands are open to the weather coming off the water. 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 area	£300 – £550
Hospitality lounge	Central seating with dining before the match, bar service and an indoor space at half time	£500 – £900
Executive box	Private space for a small group with indoor viewing, outdoor seats and waiter service throughout	£800 – £1,200+
Matchday experience packages	Premium seating combined with extras such as a lakeside pre-match meal or a stadium visit where offered	£400 – £800

From Search to Seat in Eight Steps

Buying through a marketplace is a short process, and at Como the order matters more than usual because two things can go wrong that do not exist elsewhere: a European fixture in a different region, and a stadium regulation that catches out a neutral visitor. Work through the eight steps below and you will have covered both.

One last thing specific to this ground: leave any visiting club colours at the hotel unless your seat is in the away section. Como's current regulations prohibit opposing colours across most of the stadium, with an exemption for children, and it is enforced at the gate rather than treated as guidance.

The Fixtures That Disappear First

Como no longer has a quiet fixture, but the distribution is still uneven and a handful of dates absorb interest from the whole season. In a ground of 12,000 the difference between a busy fixture and a sold-out one is a few hundred seats. The table below ranks the fixture types Como supporters chase hardest.

Fixture Type	Why It Moves Fast
Inter, Milan and Juventus at the Sinigaglia	Three of the largest travelling supports in Italian football arriving at one of its smallest grounds, with Inter and Milan barely forty minutes down the road. The away sector fills instantly and the overflow pushes into every home section.
Champions League home fixtures	The first European campaign in the club's history, with league phase opponents drawn from across the continent. Demand is not limited to Como or even to Italy, and the early fixtures carry the additional complication of being staged in Reggio Emilia.
Napoli and Roma at home	Two fixtures with large national followings and, in Roma's case, a direct contest for a Champions League place last season. Both sell steadily rather than instantly but thin out well before matchday.
Lombardy fixtures	Monza, Atalanta and the two Milan clubs are all short journeys, which fills the visiting allocation and adds local demand on top. Short-distance away support arrives in numbers the Curva Monumento cannot hold.
Season opener and final home game	The first home fixture of a historic season and the last both draw supporters who attend once a year. With three away fixtures opening this campaign, the first match at the rebuilt Sinigaglia carries extra weight.

How Your Tickets Arrive

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.

1. Mobile or e-ticket. The most common format for Italian league football. A barcode or wallet pass arrives by email or app and is scanned at the turnstile, usually released in the days immediately before the fixture.
2. Print-at-home. A PDF you print and carry. Still used for some allocations and useful if you would rather not depend on a phone battery in a queue on the lakefront.
3. Postal delivery. Physical tickets couriered to a home or hotel address. Requires an address you will actually be at, so confirm timing against your travel dates.
4. Local collection. Pick-up from an agreed point in Como, sometimes near the ground on matchday. Bring photo identification and allow extra time before kick-off.

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.

Getting Through the Gates

Arrive Early

The Sinigaglia sits on a narrow strip of lakefront with limited approach roads, and the streets around it close to traffic on matchdays. A crowd of 12,000 arrives faster than a crowd of 70,000 disperses, so the pinch comes in the final half hour rather than building slowly. Ninety minutes before kick-off is a sensible target for a league game.

There is a second reason to be early, which is that the walk in along the waterfront from the old town is part of the occasion rather than a chore. The Curva Como starts its build-up long before the teams appear, with flags and drums from around 45 minutes out, and in a ground this compact the noise is at full volume well before kick-off.

ID and Entry Requirements

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 needed if you are collecting rather than receiving digitally.

Como's current regulations also restrict transferring tickets between supporters, so buying with the intention of passing a seat to somebody else on the day is not straightforward here. If your ticket is digital, charge the phone before you leave, save the barcode offline and set screen brightness high before reaching the turnstile.

Bag Policy and Colours

There is no left-luggage facility at the Sinigaglia, so anything you cannot carry through the turnstiles has to stay in the town. Only small bags are permitted and no precise dimension is published, so treat anything larger than a small handbag as a risk and use storage near Como Lago or your accommodation if you are arriving on a travel day.

Prohibited items follow the standard Italian model: cans, glass, plastic bottles, alcohol brought from outside, flares, fireworks, laser pointers and large flags on double poles are all refused. Unusually, Como also prohibit the wearing of opposing club colours across most sections of the stadium, with an exemption for children. Neutrals and groundhoppers should take that seriously, because it is checked at the gate.

Como at a Glance

Detail	Information
Full name	Como 1907
Founded	May 1907, as Como Foot-Ball Club
Nicknames	I Lariani (from Lake Lario), I Biancoblù (the white and blues), I Voltiani (after Alessandro Volta)
Stadium	Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, opened 1927 (around 12,400 for Serie A after the 2026 works)
Champions League home venue	Mapei Stadium, Reggio Emilia, for early fixtures while the Sinigaglia is certified
Head coach	Cesc Fàbregas
Captaincy	Handled flexibly under Fàbregas, with Alessandro Gabrielloni the longest-serving member of the squad
Owners	SENT Entertainment, controlled by the Hartono family, since 2019
League	Serie A (20 clubs, 38 matches)
Competitions in 2026/27	Serie A, Coppa Italia, UEFA Champions League

From Serie D to the Champions League in Nine Years

Como's history divides cleanly into a century of provincial football and the nine years since 2017, and almost nobody outside the city paid attention to the first part. What makes the recent rise worth understanding is that the club was legally dissolved less than a decade ago. The eras below trace how a bankrupt fourth-tier side reached Europe's senior competition.

Foundation and the Provincial Century (1907 to 1979)

• May 1907: Como Foot-Ball Club founded in a city of 30,000 on the southern arm of Lake Como
• 1927: the Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia opens on reclaimed lakefront land, named after a local rower killed in the First World War
• 1949/50: a sixth-place Serie A finish, the club's best in the top flight for the next 76 years
• 1950s to 1970s: a repeated pattern of promotion and relegation between Serie A, Serie B and Serie C
• 1979: promotion back to Serie A, beginning the club's longest sustained spell in the top division

For most of the twentieth century Como were exactly what their size suggested: a well-supported provincial club that went up when things went well and came down when they did not. The Sinigaglia was built in 1927 as part of a civic sports complex and has barely changed in shape since, which is why it took a demolition and rebuild in 2026 to bring one stand up to European standards. The 1949/50 season stood as the high-water mark for three-quarters of a century.

The Top-Flight Years and the Long Fall (1980 to 2016)

• 1980 to 1989: seven seasons in Serie A across the decade, the club's most sustained period in the top division
• 1985/86: a Coppa Italia semi-final reached, the club's best run in the competition until 2026
• 1996/97: the Coppa Italia Serie C won, one of the few trophies in the cabinet
• 2004 and 2005: consecutive relegations from Serie B to Serie C1 and then to Serie C2
• 2016: the club is declared bankrupt and excluded from professional football, restarting in Serie D

The 1980s were the closest Como had come to establishing themselves, with seven Serie A seasons and a Coppa Italia semi-final in 1985/86 that stood as a club record for forty years. What followed was a slow collapse through the divisions, punctuated by financial failures, culminating in bankruptcy and expulsion in 2016. A club with a century of history restarted in the fourth tier with nothing, which is the context that makes everything since remarkable rather than merely impressive.

The Hartono Takeover and Four Promotions (2017 to 2024)

• 2017: Como restart in Serie D after bankruptcy, rebuilt from the bottom of the professional pyramid
• 2018/19: the Serie D title won and promotion to Serie C secured
• 2019: SENT Entertainment, controlled by the Indonesian Hartono family, buys the club
• 2020/21: promotion to Serie B as Serie C champions
• 2023/24: promotion to Serie A, ending a 21-year absence from the top flight

The Hartono brothers are among the wealthiest owners in football and their arrival in 2019 changed what was possible, but the promotions were not simply bought. Como built a recruitment operation around undervalued young players and imported credibility through people rather than transfer fees, with Thierry Henry and Cesc Fàbregas both taking stakes in the club. Fàbregas joined as a player in 2022, retired, moved into coaching and took charge of the first team in 2024, which is an unusual route to a Serie A dugout by any standard.

Fàbregas, Nico Paz and Europe (2024 to 2026)

• 2024/25: survival comfortably secured in the club's first Serie A season back, playing possession football unusual for a promoted side
• Summer 2025: Nico Paz signed permanently alongside Álvaro Morata, Nicolás Kühn and Martín Baturina
• 10 May 2026: Champions League qualification secured mathematically, a first in the club's history
• 2025/26: fourth place on 71 points, 65 goals scored and 29 conceded, beating a best Serie A finish set in 1949/50
• 2025/26: a Coppa Italia semi-final reached, equalling the club record set in 1985/86

The 2025/26 season is the one that will define the club for a generation. Como finished above Milan, Juventus and Atalanta with the third-best defensive record in the division, and did it playing a possession-heavy game that Fàbregas built rather than inherited. Anastasios Douvikas scored 17 across all competitions and Nico Paz became one of the most valuable players in Serie A. In May 2026 Fàbregas turned down the chance to pursue the Chelsea job and committed to another season, which the club regards as the most important signing of the summer.

The Names on the Curva Como

Como's pantheon is unusual because so little of it comes from the top flight. A century of second and third-tier football produced long-serving local heroes rather than international names, and the modern figures are still writing their chapters. The club has not retired shirt numbers.

Legend	Role	Contribution	Milestones
Cesc Fàbregas	Player 2022 to 2023, head coach 2024 onwards	Signed as a player at 35, retired at the club, moved into coaching and then took the first team to a fourth-place finish and the Champions League. He also holds a stake in the club, which makes his position here unlike any other manager in Serie A.	Champions League qualification 2026, best Serie A finish in club history
Alessandro Gabrielloni	Forward, 2018 onwards	Joined in Serie C and stayed through every promotion, the one player who has been present for the entire climb from the third tier to the Champions League. He is the bridge between the old Como and the new one.	More than 60 goals for the club, promotions from Serie C and Serie B, longest-serving squad member
Nico Paz	Attacking midfielder, 2024 onwards	Arrived from Real Madrid as a 19-year-old and became the creative centre of the side that reached the Champions League, developing into one of the most valuable players in Serie A within two seasons.	Champions League qualification 2026, club-record valuation
Gianluca Zambrotta	Forward and winger, 1994 to 1997	Began his professional career at 17 with his hometown club, playing in Serie B and Serie C1 before Bari and then Juventus, Barcelona and Milan. He went on to win a World Cup and remains the finest player Como have produced.	47 appearances across 1995/96 and 1996/97, World Cup winner 2006
Bruno Ballarini	Defender, 1958 to 1970	Twelve consecutive seasons and the club's all-time appearance record, spanning the years when Como moved repeatedly between the top two divisions. He is the benchmark for longevity at a club that has rarely held on to anyone.	Club record 350 appearances
Anastasios Douvikas	Forward, 2025 onwards	Signed to lead the line for a side with European ambitions and delivered 17 goals across all competitions in the season Como reached the Champions League. He gave Fàbregas the finisher the system had been missing.	17 goals in 2025/26, Champions League qualification
Patrick Cutrone	Forward, 2021 to 2025	Arrived from Milan and scored the goals that carried Como through Serie B and into their first Serie A season back, at a point when the club still needed convincing it belonged. Supporters associate him with the promotion rather than the years after it.	Promotion to Serie A 2024
Thierry Henry	Shareholder and ambassador	Took a stake in the club alongside Fàbregas and lent it credibility at a moment when a Serie C side from Lake Como had very little. His involvement helped attract players and attention that the division alone never would.	Minority shareholder since the Serie C era

What's in the Cabinet

Como's honours list is the shortest of any club in the top half of Serie A, which is the point rather than an embarrassment. There is no Scudetto, no Coppa Italia and no European trophy. What the cabinet holds is a record of climbing, and the 2026 Champions League qualification counts for more here than most silverware would elsewhere.

Competition	Record
Serie C	Champions 3 times
Serie D	Champions once (2018/19)
Coppa Italia Serie C	Winners once (1996/97)
Coppa Italia Serie D	Winners once (2007/08)
Serie A	Never won. Highest finish fourth in 2025/26, beating sixth in 1949/50
Coppa Italia	Semi-finalists in 1985/86 and 2025/26
UEFA Champions League	First qualification in club history, 2026/27