Buy Genoa tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into the oldest football club in Italy, playing at the oldest ground still in use. Genoa were founded in 1893 by British expatriates and have won nine Italian championships, all of them before 1925. Daniele De Rossi begins his first full season in charge after taking over with the club in trouble last November and steering it to safety.
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The Stadio Luigi Ferraris opened in 1911 and is shared with Sampdoria, which shapes the matchday in ways no other Serie A ground does. Everything below covers which stand suits which kind of supporter, what resale prices look like, how the planned redevelopment could affect the season and where every home and away league fixture can be found.
Genoa is not a large club by modern Serie A standards, and the ticketing behaves accordingly for much of the season. What changes the picture is the ground. The Ferraris holds 33,205, sits in a residential valley in the Marassi district and is one of the few genuinely English-style stadiums in Italy, with four steep separate stands rather than a bowl. It has a reputation among travelling supporters that pulls in people with no connection to either club.
The groundshare compounds it. Genoa and Sampdoria have shared the Ferraris since 1946 and now jointly own the company that runs it, which means the stadium is in use roughly twice as often as a single-tenant ground. Fixture scheduling has to accommodate both clubs, dates move to avoid clashes and supporters of either side plan around a calendar they only half control.
A resale marketplace matters here for a specific reason: Genoa's own single-match sales open close to the fixture, and the visits of Napoli, Juventus, Inter and Milan clear quickly in a ground of this size. Buying this way lets you fix a stand and a price months ahead, at the point you are booking flights into Genoa or a train down the coast, rather than waiting on a club sale that may not reach 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 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 Genoa fixture the value is being able to commit early to a ground where the largest fixtures go fast and the calendar is shared with another club. You can see the stand, the quantity available and the price before buying, and you can compare several listings for the same fixture side by side. Delivery progress is trackable from the moment the order confirms.
Genoa's support is among the more constant in Italian football, sustained through relegations, bankruptcies and a century without a league title. The Gradinata Nord fills for fixtures that would leave half a ground empty elsewhere, and attendances hold up in seasons that finish sixteenth as readily as ones that finish tenth.
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 Marassi.
The practical conclusion is that Genoa splits into two kinds of fixture. For most of the calendar a purchase a few weeks out 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 Ferraris turns on the opponent more than the stand, because the ground is compact enough that no sector is a bad watch. Club face values for a single match have run in the region of £21 to £38 depending on the fixture and the sector, which is among the more approachable in Serie A, though face value is not what a general buyer encounters for the bigger dates. The 2026/27 calendar runs from late August 2026 to the end of May 2027.
Timing behaves conventionally. 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, while for Napoli, Juventus and the Milan clubs the opposite applies.
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) | £55 – £200 |
| Serie A (high-demand fixtures) | £130 – £450+ |
| Coppa Italia (early rounds) | £25 – £70 |
| Coppa Italia (later rounds) | £45 – £160 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £250 – £1,000+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift. Coppa Italia fixtures at the Ferraris are consistently the lowest-priced route into the ground, because an early-round tie draws a fraction of a league crowd.
Yes. Genoa do not gate general sale behind a paid membership, and anyone can buy through the club's own channels or through resale without one. A free account on the club's ticketing platform covers home purchases, and the fidelity card exists to buy priority access rather than eligibility.
What the card changes is timing. Cardholders get a presale window before general release, which for the visits of Napoli, Juventus, Inter and Milan is frequently where the available seats go. The card is also the route to away allocations through club channels, functioning as Genoa's version of the Tessera del Tifoso, and it takes time to process for anyone applying from outside Italy.
The obstacle for a visiting supporter is therefore the calendar rather than the card. Single-match sales open close to the fixture, which is unusable if you are booking travel to Liguria two months ahead. Resale removes that dependency and the stand you choose is the stand 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.
Genoa's season ticket base is large relative to the club's league position, and the Gradinata Nord in particular is close to fully committed each summer. That is a function of a support that renews regardless of the previous season, which is why a club that finished sixteenth still fills its home end for a Sunday afternoon fixture in November.
Renewal runs in phases through the summer with existing holders given pre-emption before new applications open. Pricing is set by stand and the spread is narrower than at a larger ground because the Ferraris has no upper ring beyond the Distinti tiers. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gradinata Nord | £195 – £290 | Home ultras end. Lowest entry point and the hardest area to enter from outside. |
| Distinti | £260 – £400 | The three-tiered side stand that gives the ground much of its character. Strong value with a clear view. |
| Tribuna laterale | £380 – £540 | Main stand away from the halfway line, with cover overhead. |
| Tribuna centrale | £520 – £780 | Covered central seating on the halfway line, the strongest sightlines in the ground. |
| Premium and hospitality | £1,100 – £2,200+ | Central seating with lounge access across the season. Limited inventory. |
The Ferraris is four separate stands rather than a continuous bowl, which is unusual in Italy and is the reason British visitors describe it as feeling like home. Each stand rises steeply, sits close to the touchline and has its own character, so the choice you make here changes the afternoon more than it would at a modern arena. The groundshare adds one wrinkle: the two ends swap roles depending on which club is at home.
| Stand / Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gradinata Nord | Atmosphere, singing, flags | Lowest | Home of the Genoa ultras and the loudest part of the ground on a rossoblù matchday. Largely season-ticket held, so single seats are scarce. Expect to stand for the full ninety. |
| Tribuna centrale | Sightlines and cover | Highest general admission | Covered central seating on the halfway line, the natural choice for a first visit and the only part of the ground where you are guaranteed to stay dry in a Ligurian downpour. |
| Tribuna laterale | Balance of cover and price | Mid to high | The same stand towards the corners. Still covered, with a flatter angle on the far corner of the pitch. |
| Distinti | Value with a full view | Mid | The three-tiered side stand opposite the Tribuna and the sector that gives the Ferraris much of its English character. Steep, close and a strong watch for the money. |
| Gradinata Sud | Away support and lower-priced seating | Low to mid | The Sampdoria ultras' end on their matchdays. On Genoa matchdays a portion of it houses visiting supporters, so confirm which part of the Sud a listing refers to before buying. |
| Corner sectors | Availability when the rest has gone | Varies | Angled views where the stands meet. Often what is left for Napoli or Juventus if you leave the purchase late. |
This section exists because the Ferraris is about to change and it affects whether you treat 2026/27 as an ordinary season. Genoa's city council declared the redevelopment project to be in the public interest in February 2026, and the plan puts roughly £85 million of private money alongside around £16 million of public funding against a 99-year concession that includes fifty years of free rental. Genoa and Sampdoria run the project jointly through Genova Stadium Srl, a company the two clubs own equally.
Work has been targeted to begin in the second half of 2026, which places the start inside this season rather than after it. Nothing in the plan involves leaving the ground: the intention is to rebuild in phases around a working stadium, which is how Italian redevelopments of protected structures usually proceed. The table below sets out what is confirmed and what a buyer should check.
| Detail | What to Expect |
|---|---|
| Current capacity | 33,205, unchanged going into the season. Any phased works could reduce the number on sale for individual fixtures. |
| Capacity after the works | Around 32,000 under current plans, with the reduction coming from wider seats, better circulation and modern accessibility rather than removed stands. |
| Funding and structure | Approximately £85m private and £16m public, under a 99-year concession with fifty years free of rental. Genova Stadium Srl is a 50/50 joint venture between Genoa and Sampdoria. |
| Timeline | Declared in the public interest in February 2026 with works targeted for the second half of the year. Italian stadium programmes routinely slip, so treat the start date as an intention rather than a fixture. |
| The Euro 2032 driver | Italy co-hosts the tournament with Turkey and needs compliant grounds. That deadline is the reason a project stalled for two decades has moved this quickly. |
| What to check before buying | Confirm the sector on your listing is open for that specific fixture once phased works begin. Configurations at a rebuilt ground can change between one home match and the next. |
Genoa sits on the main coastal line and the Milan corridor, so away travel is straightforward to the north and awkward to the south. Italian away rules apply in full. Allocations are capped, club-channel sales need 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 the risk classification given to the fixture. Genoa's travelling support is large relative to the club's size. |
| Away section location | The settore ospiti at the host stadium, normally an upper tier or corner segregated from home support. At the Ferraris visitors take a designated portion of the Gradinata Sud. |
| Access requirements | An active fidelity card is needed for away sales through club channels, which is Genoa's equivalent of the Tessera del Tifoso. Home general sale does not require one. |
| Residency restrictions | Some fixtures limit sales to supporters not resident in the province of Genoa, or close the away sector outright. Check the current decree before you book travel rather than after. |
| Transport notes | Milan, Turin and Parma are inside two hours by rail from Genova Piazza Principe or Brignole. Rome and Naples are long days by train, and Lecce or Cagliari realistically mean flying from Cristoforo Colombo. |
Working out what you actually want from the afternoon narrows the Ferraris quickly, because the ground is small enough that the trade-offs are clear. Genoa is mild but wet, the winter fixtures come with rain off the Ligurian Sea and only two of the four stands have a roof worth the name.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere | Gradinata Nord, lower blocks | The drums, the flags and the singing begin well before kick-off and run to the whistle. Availability is the constraint rather than price, because most of it is held by season-ticket holders. |
| View of the play | Tribuna centrale | Halfway line, covered, elevated and close. The easiest sector from which to read how De Rossi is setting the side up and the safest bet for a one-off visit. |
| Value | Distinti | Three tiers of steep seating on the long side, a full view of the pitch and a noticeably lower price than the Tribuna opposite. The sector most supporters recommend to a first-time visitor on a budget. |
| Family-friendly | Tribuna laterale | Seated support throughout, calmer surroundings and a roof overhead, which matters for a January kick-off in a coastal city. |
| Premium experience | Central Tribuna or a hospitality package | Central seating with catering and indoor space before and after the match. Inventory at a 33,000-capacity ground is genuinely limited, so book well ahead. |
| The building itself | Distinti upper | The angle that shows you what makes the Ferraris unusual: four square towers, four steep separate stands and the Bisagno valley rising behind. Worth more to a groundhopper than a marginally better sightline. |
The Stadio Luigi Ferraris opened on 22 January 1911 and is the oldest football ground still in use in Italy. Genoa built it themselves at a point when almost every other Italian club was playing on municipal athletics tracks, and that origin is why it has no running track and why the stands sit tight to the pitch. It was renamed in 1933 after Luigi Ferraris, a Genoa player killed in the First World War, and it has been shared with Sampdoria since 1946.
The ground you see today is essentially Vittorio Gregotti's 1987 rebuild for the World Cup, which kept the original English layout and added the four corner towers that give the stadium its silhouette. Capacity is 33,205 across four steep separate stands: the Tribuna along one side, the three-tiered Distinti opposite and the Gradinata Nord and Gradinata Sud behind the goals. Neither end wraps round, so the noise from a full curva goes up rather than around, which is part of why the place sounds bigger than it is.
It sits in Marassi, a working residential district in the Bisagno valley about three kilometres north-east of the old town, with apartment blocks pressing in on three sides and the hills rising behind. There is no car park to speak of and no retail development around it, which visitors from the Premier League find startling and then quickly prefer. The stadium is part of the neighbourhood in a way that very few modern grounds manage.
Getting there is simple enough. Genova Brignole is the nearest mainline station and the walk from there takes around thirty minutes along the river, or you can take one of the frequent buses up Via Canevari that drop you within a few minutes of the turnstiles. Genova Piazza Principe connects to the coastal and Milan lines, and Cristoforo Colombo airport sits west of the city with a bus link into the centre. Driving to the ground is a poor idea on a matchday given the narrow valley roads.
Pre-match happens in the city rather than at the stadium, because Marassi has bars for locals and little else. The caruggi of the old town, the largest medieval quarter in Europe, are where visiting supporters gather, and the focaccia and farinata are as much a part of the day out as the football. Supporters then move up the valley from around two hours before kick-off, and the walk along the Bisagno fills steadily as the crowd builds.
Entry follows the standard Italian pattern of personalised tickets checked against photo identification at the gate, with pre-filtering points set back from the turnstiles for the bigger fixtures. Because the approach roads are narrow and the stands are reached from street level rather than a concourse, the last twenty minutes before kick-off are the worst time to arrive. Full detail on the ground sits on the Stadio Luigi Ferraris tickets page, and the Ferraris seating plan breaks the sectors down before you commit.
Hospitality at the Ferraris is concentrated in the central covered section of the Tribuna with lounge space behind it, and the scale reflects a ground built in 1911 and remodelled in 1987 rather than one designed around corporate inventory. That scarcity is the point worth knowing: availability binds before price does, and the packages for the visits of Napoli, Juventus, Inter and Milan commit early.
For a supporter flying in for a single fixture the appeal is practical. You get central covered seating in a city that rains, catering included and somewhere indoors either side of the match at a stadium with no concourse to shelter in. The bands below reflect typical resale ranges across a season.
| 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 | £220 – £450 |
| Hospitality lounge | Central seating with dining before the match, bar service and an indoor space at half time | £420 – £800 |
| Executive box | Private space for a small group with indoor viewing, outdoor seats and waiter service throughout | £800 – £1,300+ |
| Matchday experience packages | Premium seating combined with extras such as a stadium visit or a pre-match meal at a partner venue where offered | £300 – £650 |
Buying through a marketplace takes a few minutes, and at Genoa one step carries more weight than it would elsewhere: getting the right end of a ground that two clubs share. Work through the eight steps below and you will have covered what usually goes wrong.
Step1
Start from the fixture
Price and availability differ enormously between a Monday night against a promoted side and the visit of Napoli, so begin with the specific match rather than the club. The home and away lists further down this page take you straight to each one.
Step2
Sign in or set up an account
An account keeps order history, contact details and delivery preferences together. 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.
Step3
Get the right end of a shared ground
This is the step specific to the Ferraris. The Gradinata Nord is the Genoa end and part of the Gradinata Sud houses visiting supporters on Genoa matchdays, so read the sector on the listing rather than assuming the layout from a Sampdoria fixture applies.
Step4
Decide on cover as well as position
Only the Tribuna is properly roofed. Gradinata Nord for noise, central Tribuna for the sightline and shelter, Distinti for the strongest combination of price, angle and view of the valley.
Step5
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 check whether seats are guaranteed together if you are buying for a group.
Step6
Read the listing notes
The step people skip and later regret. Notes cover name matching, collection arrangements, restricted view and whether seats are adjacent, and every one of those carries 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. Serie A tickets are personalised and the name is checked at the gate, so a mismatch here is the single most common cause of trouble on the day.
Step8
Follow the delivery
Confirmation arrives immediately and you can follow progress through track order at any point. Many Serie A seats are issued close to the fixture, so a quiet stretch after purchase is normal rather than a warning sign.
One practical note for the Ferraris specifically: the stands are entered from street level in a narrow valley with no concourse and no car park, so the approach compresses badly in the final half hour. Build that into your plan rather than your optimism.
Most of the Genoa calendar is buyable a few weeks out. A handful of dates are not, and if one of them is your reason for travelling then acting early beats any amount of price comparison. The absence of the derby this season concentrates that demand into a shorter list than usual.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Napoli at the Ferraris | The opening fixture of the season on 22 August 2026 and the visit of the club with the largest travelling support in the south. A first home match under a new coach against opposition of that profile clears faster than anything else on the calendar. |
| Juventus at home | A century of history behind it, from the 1920s title era onwards, and a national following that fills the away sector and pushes demand into every home stand. Reliably among the first dates to thin out. |
| Inter and Milan at home | Two of the largest travelling supports in Italian football arriving at a ground of 33,000. Both sell steadily from the moment the calendar is published rather than in a late rush. |
| De Rossi's early home fixtures | A coach of his standing in his first full season draws attention beyond the usual crowd. The first few home matches of the campaign carry curiosity demand that later fixtures do not. |
| The final home match of the season | A Genoa tradition regardless of what is at stake, and the last fixture before redevelopment work is due to reshape the ground. Supporters who attend once a year choose this one. |
Delivery depends on the seller and on how the seats were originally issued, and Serie A runs a mix of digital and physical systems. The method is shown on the listing before you buy, so if one format suits your travel better than another you can filter for it while 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.
Arriving early matters more at the Ferraris than the crowd size suggests. The ground sits in a narrow valley with residential streets on three sides, no car park and no concourse, so supporters queue on the pavement rather than inside the stadium. Ninety minutes before kick-off is a sensible target for a league fixture and two hours for Napoli, Juventus or a Milan club.
There is a second reason. The Gradinata Nord starts long before the teams appear, with flags and drums from around 45 minutes out, and the choreography for the bigger fixtures is set up earlier still. Supporters who arrive ten minutes before kick-off miss the part of the afternoon that regulars value most.
Serie A tickets are personalised and a valid photo identity document is checked against the name on the ticket at the gate. The details entered at checkout therefore need to match the person carrying the seat, with a passport covering international visitors and a national identity card covering European supporters. The same document is needed if you are collecting rather than receiving digitally.
For the higher-risk fixtures there is a pre-filtering point set back from the turnstiles where tickets and documents are checked before you reach the stadium itself. If your ticket is digital, charge the phone before leaving, save the barcode offline and turn the screen brightness up, because scanners struggle with a dimmed display in daylight.
There is no left-luggage facility at the Ferraris and nowhere nearby to leave anything, so what you cannot carry through the turnstiles has to stay in the city. Only small bags are permitted, no precise dimension is published, and Genova Brignole has storage 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. Since only the Tribuna is properly covered, a hooded waterproof is the sensible answer for anything between November and March.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Genoa Cricket and Football Club |
| Founded | 7 September 1893, by British expatriates in Genoa |
| Nicknames | Il Grifone (the Griffin), I Rossoblù (the Red and Blues) |
| Stadium | Stadio Luigi Ferraris, opened 1911 (capacity 33,205), shared with Sampdoria |
| Head coach | Daniele De Rossi (appointed November 2025) |
| Captain | Johan Vásquez |
| Owner | Dan Șucu, who completed his takeover in early 2025 |
| League | Serie A (20 clubs, 38 matches) |
| Competitions in 2026/27 | Serie A and the Coppa Italia |
Genoa are the oldest club in Italy and for the first quarter-century of organised Italian football they were also the dominant force in it. Nine championships sit in the cabinet and not one of them has arrived since 1924, which makes this a club whose supporters carry a history most of them never watched. The four eras below trace how the Grifone got from founding the game here to a mid-table Serie A side with a rebuilt ground on the way.
Genoa Cricket and Athletic Club was founded on 7 September 1893 by British consular staff and expatriate businessmen, and for its first years it was exactly what the name says: a cricket and athletics club, closed to Italians. Football arrived with James Richardson Spensley, an English doctor who came to the city in 1896 to look after sailors on coal ships and pushed the club to open a football section and admit Italian members.
The change worked immediately. Genoa won the first Italian championship in 1898, a competition played in a single day in Turin between four clubs, and then took the title again in 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903 and 1904. Six of the first seven championships contested in Italy went to Genoa, which is a record no club has any prospect of matching because the competition it belongs to no longer exists in that form.
William Garbutt arrived from England in 1912 as the first professional manager Italian football had employed, and the reason coaches across Italy are still addressed as mister is that his players called him that. He brought professional training methods, a scouting approach and, in 1913, Renzo De Vecchi from Milan, a full-back so admired that Italian supporters had already nicknamed him Il Figlio di Dio.
The combination produced the last three titles: 1914/15, awarded after the war interrupted the season, then 1922/23 and 1923/24 in consecutive years. The tenth nearly followed. The 1925 northern final against Bologna went to five matches amid disorder that spilled beyond the pitch and ended with the title going to Emilia. Genoa have not won the championship since, and the sequence of near misses that started there has become part of how the club sees itself.
What followed was six decades of instability. The Coppa Italia of 1936/37 remains the only major domestic trophy won since the twenties, joined by the Coppa delle Alpi in 1962 and 1964. Relegations came repeatedly, including a drop to the third tier in 1970 that a club of Genoa's history had no business experiencing, and promotions came back just as often.
The one clear high point was Roberto Pruzzo. Signed as a teenager, he scored 57 goals in 143 appearances between 1973 and 1979, won the Serie B title and its scoring award in 1975/76 and left for Roma in 1979 for what was then a record fee in Italian football. Selling the finest forward the club had produced in fifty years to fund the balance sheet became a pattern Genoa supporters would recognise repeatedly over the next forty years.
The early nineties were the closest Genoa have come to prominence in the modern era. Fourth place in 1990/91 remains the club's highest post-war finish and took them into the UEFA Cup, where the 1991/92 run reached the semi-finals and included a quarter-final win over Liverpool that made Genoa the first Italian side to win at Anfield. Tomáš Skuhravý and Carlos Aguilera scored the goals and are still named in that order in the Gradinata Nord.
Relegation in 1995 began twelve years outside Serie A, including a promotion in 2005 that was annulled and converted into demotion to the third tier over match-fixing. Genoa came back up in 2007 and under Gian Piero Gasperini finished fifth in 2008/09 with Diego Milito scoring 24 league goals. The years since have been a cycle of survival campaigns, a relegation in 2022, immediate promotion under Alberto Gilardino, the collapse of the 777 Partners ownership and the arrival of Dan Șucu in 2025. Daniele De Rossi took charge that November with the club in the bottom three and kept them up.
Genoa's list of significant figures runs further back than any other club in Italy, and the earliest names on it are as much administrators and coaches as players. The table below spans the founding era, the last title-winning sides and the modern squad.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Richardson Spensley | Goalkeeper and founder of the football section, 1896 to 1906 | The English doctor who turned a cricket and athletics club into a football club and opened its membership to Italians. He kept goal for the first championship-winning side and is the reason the game took root in Genoa before anywhere else in Italy. | Six Italian championships, founder of Italian club football |
| William Garbutt | Manager, 1912 to 1927 | The first professional football manager employed in Italy, who introduced structured training and a recruitment method the rest of the country copied. Italian coaches are still called mister because his Genoa players addressed him that way. | Three Italian championships, 1915, 1923 and 1924 |
| Renzo De Vecchi | Full-back, 1913 to 1929 | Signed from Milan as a teenager already nicknamed Il Figlio di Dio and spent sixteen years at Genoa, later managing the club as well. He was the defensive anchor of the last title-winning sides and the most celebrated Italian footballer of his generation. | Three Italian championships, player-manager from 1927 |
| Roberto Pruzzo | Forward, 1973 to 1979 | The finest forward the club produced in the post-war era, scoring 57 goals in 143 appearances and taking Genoa up from Serie B in 1975/76 as the division's leading scorer. His sale to Roma in 1979 set a record fee for Italian football at the time. | 57 goals, Serie B title and top scorer 1975/76 |
| Tomáš Skuhravý | Forward, 1990 to 1995 | Arrived from the 1990 World Cup and became the club's leading Serie A scorer with 57 goals in five seasons. He led the line through the 1991/92 UEFA Cup run to the semi-finals, including the win at Anfield. | 57 goals, UEFA Cup semi-finalist 1992 |
| Carlos Aguilera | Forward, 1990 to 1994 | The other half of the partnership that carried Genoa to fourth in 1990/91, quicker and sharper than Skuhravý and at his most productive early in a season while the Czech scored late in one. Between them they gave the side a threat all year. | Fourth place 1990/91, UEFA Cup semi-finalist 1992 |
| Diego Milito | Forward, 2003 to 2005 and 2008 to 2009 | Two spells either side of the club's demotion, scoring 33 goals in 59 matches in the first and 24 in 31 league games in the second. The second spell produced fifth place in 2008/09 and a move to Inter, where he won a treble the following year. | 24 Serie A goals in 2008/09, fifth place |
| Domenico Criscito | Defender, four spells between 2003 and 2023 | Close to 300 appearances across four separate periods at the club, captaining the side through the difficult years of the late 2010s and returning after spells at Juventus, Zenit and in North America. Few players of his era chose to come back this often. | Around 290 appearances, long-serving captain |
| Johan Vásquez | Defender, 2021 onwards | The Mexican centre-back arrived on loan and became the most important defender at the club and then its captain, confirmed to continue in the role for 2026/27. He is the one player in the current squad the support treats as a fixture. | Club captain, retained under De Rossi |
Genoa's honours list is front-loaded to a degree no other Italian club can match, with every league title landing before 1925 and nothing major since 1937. The counts below are drawn from the club's own honours record cross-referenced against independent football databases.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| Italian Championship | 9 (1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1914/15, 1922/23, 1923/24) |
| Coppa Italia | 1 (1936/37) |
| Coppa delle Alpi | 2 (1962, 1964) |
| Anglo-Italian Cup | 1 (1996) |
| First Italian champions | 1898, the inaugural championship |
| Best European run | UEFA Cup semi-final, 1991/92 |
| Highest post-war league finish | Fourth, 1990/91 |
One fixture stands above everything else at this club and it is not on the calendar this season. What sits underneath it is a mixture of regional feeling and the weight that comes with hosting the largest clubs in Italy at a small ground.
Named after the lighthouse that has stood at the harbour entrance since the fourteenth century, this is one of the defining derbies in Italian football and the only one where both clubs live in the same building. Genoa and Sampdoria have shared the Ferraris since 1946, and the derby simply reverses which end is which: the Gradinata Nord and the Gradinata Sud swap allegiance depending on who is nominally at home.
It will not be contested in Serie A in 2026/27 because Sampdoria are in Serie B, and its absence is the single biggest change to the Genoa calendar this season. The groundshare continues regardless, as does the joint ownership of the redevelopment company, which produces the unusual situation of two rival clubs financing the same building while playing in different divisions.
Contested down the coast with the club from La Spezia, roughly ninety minutes away, and the fixture that carries regional weight when the derby is unavailable. It has been played mostly outside Serie A over the past two decades, which has done nothing to soften it. Travelling support crosses easily by rail, which is exactly why allocations for it are managed carefully.
These are not blood feuds in the way the derby is, but they are the fixtures that change the character of a Genoa home match. Each brings a large travelling contingent into a 33,000-capacity ground and a national television audience with it, and the away sector fills the moment sales open. For a visiting supporter buying resale, these four dates behave differently from everything else on the calendar and should be treated as a separate category.
The tie that defines Genoa's European history. In the 1991/92 UEFA Cup quarter-final the club won 2-0 at the Ferraris and then 2-1 at Anfield, becoming the first Italian side ever to win there. For a club with one European semi-final to its name, a March night on Merseyside carries more weight in Genoa than a great many trophies do elsewhere.
The other half of that story. Ajax eliminated Genoa in the semi-final of the same competition and went on to win it, which ended the closest the club has come to a European final. The two ties are treated as a single memory in the Gradinata Nord: the night the Grifone beat Liverpool at Anfield and the fortnight afterwards when it stopped.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Relegation, and a season that read like a warning about the ownership. 777 Partners bought the club in September 2021, Davide Ballardini was dismissed, Andriy Shevchenko lasted from November to January and Alexander Blessin could not recover it. Genoa finished nineteenth on 28 points with a single league win before the turn of the year. The support turned out anyway. |
| 2022/23 | Straight back up. Blessin was replaced by Alberto Gilardino in December and the club went up as runners-up in Serie B, sealing promotion with two matches to spare. Gilardino, a Genoa player himself in the previous decade, was confirmed permanently on the strength of it. The Ferraris held its attendances through a season in the second tier. |
| 2023/24 | The strongest of the recent seasons. Eleventh on 49 points with a neutral goal difference and Albert Guðmundsson scoring 14, in a campaign that was comfortable by the standards of a promoted side. Mateo Retegui's arrival gave the attack a second focal point. Gilardino's stock rose sharply and Genoa spent the season out of trouble. |
| 2024/25 | Thirteenth on 43 points, with ten wins, thirteen draws and a goal difference of minus twelve. Gilardino was dismissed in November and Patrick Vieira took over, steadying a poor start into a safe finish. Dan Șucu completed his takeover during the season and ended the financial uncertainty that had followed the 777 Partners collapse. The football was functional rather than memorable. |
| 2025/26 | Sixteenth on 41 points and a season saved rather than enjoyed. Vieira was dismissed on 1 November with the club in the relegation places, and Daniele De Rossi was appointed five days later, taking 1.21 points per match from a record of nine wins, eight draws and twelve defeats. Lorenzo Colombo's seven goals led the scoring, with Vitinha and Leo Østigård on five. Survival was secured before the final round. |
De Rossi inherits a squad built on two of the more valuable young players in the bottom half of Serie A, Brooke Norton-Cuffy and Morten Frendrup, with Johan Vásquez captaining from centre-back and Lorenzo Colombo signed permanently from Milan after leading the scoring on loan. Squad numbers for several summer arrivals had not been published when this page was written, and those players are marked accordingly. Market values 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 (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Justin Bijlow | Goalkeeper | 1.7m |
| 3 | Aarón Martín | Defender | 2.8m |
| 5 | Leo Østigård | Defender | 5.4m |
| 15 | Brooke Norton-Cuffy | Defender | 14.8m |
| 20 | Stefano Sabelli | Defender | 0.9m |
| 22 | Johan Vásquez (captain) | Defender | 10.7m |
| 27 | Alessandro Marcandalli | Defender | 2.7m |
| 34 | Sebastian Otoa | Defender | 1.9m |
| Not yet assigned | Alan Matturro | Defender | 3.7m |
| Not yet assigned | Mario Mitaj | Defender | 3.7m |
| 32 | Morten Frendrup | Midfielder | 13.6m |
| 77 | Mikael Egill Ellertsson | Midfielder | 6.8m |
| Not yet assigned | Tommaso Baldanzi | Midfielder | 6.8m |
| Not yet assigned | Djibril Sow | Midfielder | 4.4m |
| Not yet assigned | Franz-Ethan Meichtry | Midfielder | 3.0m |
| 9 | Vítinha | Forward | 6.1m |
| 10 | Junior Messias | Forward | 0.6m |
| 19 | Marco Romano | Forward | 0.5m |
| Not yet assigned | Lorenzo Colombo | Forward | 6.0m |
| Not yet assigned | Lorenzo Venturino | Forward | 2.9m |
On Genoa matchdays away supporters take a designated portion of the Gradinata Sud, the end opposite the home ultras in the Gradinata Nord. Because the ground is shared with Sampdoria the two ends change roles depending on which club is at home, so read the sector named on the listing rather than assuming from a previous visit.
Not in the league. Sampdoria are in Serie B for 2026/27, so the derby is off the Serie A calendar and could only occur through a Coppa Italia draw. The two clubs continue to share the Ferraris and jointly own the company running the redevelopment.
No. General sale for home fixtures is open to anyone and the card buys priority rather than eligibility, giving holders a presale window ahead of general release. It is required for away allocations bought through club channels, and it takes time to process for applicants outside Italy.
Possibly. The project was declared to be in the public interest in February 2026 with works targeted to begin in the second half of the year, and the plan is to rebuild in phases around a working stadium rather than relocate. Capacity is 33,205 going into the season, so confirm your sector is open for the specific fixture once any phased closures begin.
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.
Whether you are planning a weekend in Liguria or following the Grifone through De Rossi's first full season, Genoa 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, check the sector against the seating plan and settle the big dates early, because a 33,000-capacity ground hosting Napoli, Juventus, Inter and Milan leaves very little late.
Sources: Genoa CFC official club website (genoacfc.it), Lega Serie A, UEFA, Transfermarkt, FotMob, Goal.com, Football Italia, StadiumDB and Wikipedia.
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