
Buy Monza tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into a club that spent forty seasons in Serie B without ever being promoted, then reached the top division in 2022 and has now done it twice in five years. Ivan Jurić takes charge after promotion through the play-offs, eight days after Paolo Bianco left, and Matteo Pessina keeps the armband.
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The U-Power Stadium holds around 17,102 and sits roughly twenty kilometres from the centre of Milan, which is the single most important thing to know about buying here. Everything below covers which stand suits which kind of supporter, what resale prices look like and where every home and away league fixture can be found.
Monza is a city of around 125,000 in Brianza, close enough to Milan that a large share of its population supports Inter or Milan rather than the local club. That geography defines the ticketing here completely. When either Milan club visits a ground holding 17,102, the away support can reach it in half an hour and the home crowd is divided, which makes those two dates behave unlike anything else on the calendar.
The rest of the season is a different market. Monza's own support is modest in absolute terms and the ground, while small, is rarely full for an ordinary fixture, so prices sit near the bottom of the Serie A range. For a visitor the calculation is simple: most matches here are among the easiest and least expensive in the division, and four or five are among the tightest.
What has changed off the pitch is the ownership. The Berlusconi family sold eighty per cent of the club to the American fund Beckett Layne Ventures on 1 July 2025 in a deal reported at around €45 million, with the remaining twenty per cent following by June 2026, and Adriano Galliani left. Seven years of Fininvest control produced the first promotion in the club's history and then a relegation, and the new owners got them straight back up.
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 Monza fixture the value is being able to fix a seat at a ground where 17,102 places do not absorb an Inter or Milan away following. 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.
Monza draw a crowd that is small by Serie A standards and always has been, which is what happens to a club founded in 1912 that did not reach the top division until 2022. A capacity of 17,102 means the ground fills for the fixtures people travel for and has room for the rest.
Demand separates very sharply here, and the drivers below are the ones that actually move availability in Brianza. The first two dominate everything else.
The practical conclusion is that Monza splits harder than most clubs in the division. For a mid-table fixture a purchase a fortnight out gets you a seat at a low price, and for the Milan clubs you should be moving the moment the date is confirmed.
Resale pricing at the U-Power Stadium sits near the bottom of the Serie A range for most of the calendar and rises steeply for a small number of dates, which is what proximity to Milan does to a market in a 17,102-capacity ground. The 2026/27 Serie A calendar runs from late August 2026 to the end of May 2027, and as a promoted club Monza's pricing had not settled into a pattern when this page was written.
Timing favours the patient buyer for ordinary fixtures, where listings often soften as the date approaches because the ground is not going to sell out. For Inter and Milan the market tightens from the moment the fixture is confirmed and does not loosen, and the gap between the two behaviours is among the widest in the division.
The bands below reflect typical resale ranges rather than any individual listing, and for a newly promoted club they should be read as indicative. They are quoted in pounds because that is how the marketplace prices, and they will not map neatly onto euro face values once demand is accounted for.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Serie A (lower-demand fixtures) | £24 – £90 |
| Serie A (standard fixtures) | £40 – £150 |
| Serie A (Juventus, Napoli and Roma) | £85 – £320+ |
| Inter and Milan at the U-Power Stadium | £130 – £500+ |
| Coppa Italia (early rounds) | £15 – £55 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £180 – £700+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift. Early-round Coppa Italia ties are the lowest-priced route into the ground, because Monza enter against lower-division opposition in front of a fraction of a league crowd.
Yes. Monza do not gate general sale behind a paid membership and there is no card requirement for an ordinary home fixture, which makes them among the more accessible clubs in Serie A for an international visitor. The club operates a fidelity card within the Tessera del Tifoso framework, and what it buys is priority in the sales phases and access to away allocations.
Where the card matters at this club is the Milan fixtures. Away allocations bought through club channels require it, and for matches the prefecture classes as higher risk, which the visits of Inter and Milan reliably are, sales can be restricted to cardholders or limited by province of residence at short notice. Applications take time to process from outside Italy.
The real constraint is capacity rather than paperwork, and only for a handful of dates. A ground of 17,102 twenty kilometres from San Siro has no slack when either Milan club visits, and single-match sales open close to the match. 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.
Monza's season ticket base grows on promotion and contracts on relegation, which is the pattern at every club that moves between the divisions and is worth understanding before committing. A Serie A season sells considerably better here than a Serie B one, and the end where the organised support gathers fills first.
Renewal runs in phases through the summer with existing holders given pre-emption before new applications open. The economics are among the most favourable in the division: a full season at the U-Power Stadium costs a fraction of the equivalent at either Milan club twenty kilometres away. The ranges below reflect typical full-season resale and secondary-market bands rather than club list prices, which the club publishes separately each summer.
| Season Ticket Area | Typical Full-Season Range (GBP) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Home curva | £120 – £200 | Where the organised Monza support gathers and the noise comes from. Lowest entry point in the ground and the first sector to commit on promotion. |
| Opposite end | £130 – £215 | Home support with a calmer character, adjacent to the visiting allocation. Read the listing carefully before buying here. |
| Distinti | £190 – £310 | The side opposite the main stand, square-on to the play and close to the pitch. Strong value with a full view. |
| Tribuna | £310 – £520 | The main stand with the dugouts, the media positions and the clearest sightlines in the stadium. |
| Hospitality packages | £800 – £1,700+ | Central Tribuna seating with lounge access across the season. Inventory is genuinely small at a ground of this size. |
The Stadio Brianteo, known commercially as the U-Power Stadium, is a compact four-sided ground of roughly 17,102 that opened in August 1988 and was upgraded when Monza reached Serie A. It is small, modern enough for the top division and straightforward to move around, and no sector leaves you struggling to follow the play.
| Stand / Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home curva | Atmosphere, singing, flags | Lowest | Where the organised Monza support gathers. Small by Serie A standards, which makes it easier to be part of than to watch from a distance. |
| Tribuna, central | Sightlines and facilities | Highest general admission | The main stand with the dugouts and the media positions, covered and on the halfway line. The natural choice for a first visit. |
| Tribuna, wings | Cover at a lower price | Mid to high | The same stand towards the corners, with a flatter angle across the far side and a noticeably lower price than the central blocks. |
| Distinti | Value with a square-on view | Mid | Opposite the main stand, close to the touchline and straight on to the play. The sector most visiting supporters end up choosing. |
| Opposite end | Availability behind the goal | Low to mid | Home support with a calmer character, sitting alongside the visiting allocation. Confirm which portion a listing refers to before buying. |
| Away section | Visiting support | Varies | A designated section with its own entrance and segregation. Small in absolute terms and heavily oversubscribed when either Milan club visits. |
This section exists because one statistic explains more about this club than anything else on the page. Before 2022, Monza had played forty seasons in Serie B without ever being promoted to Serie A, which is more second-tier seasons without a promotion than any other club in Italian football has managed.
They were founded in 1912, and the wait ran to 110 years. Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest bought the club in 2018 with Adriano Galliani running it, and the promotion came through the Serie B play-offs in 2021/22. What followed was eleventh place with 52 points, then twelfth, then a relegation season of 18 points that was among the worst in recent Serie A memory.
| Detail | What to Expect |
|---|---|
| Serie B seasons before 2022 | Forty, without a single promotion to Serie A, which is the most of any Italian club never to have reached the top division. |
| First promotion | 2021/22, through the Serie B play-offs, 110 years after the club was founded. |
| Serie A record so far | Eleventh in 2022/23 on 52 points, twelfth in 2023/24, then relegation in 2024/25 with 18 points. |
| The return | Promotion at the first attempt in 2025/26, finishing third in Serie B and going up through the play-offs. |
| Ownership | Fininvest from 2018 to 2025, then Beckett Layne Ventures, which bought eighty per cent on 1 July 2025 for a reported €45 million with the balance following by June 2026. |
| What it means for a buyer | A support that treats every Serie A season as an event rather than an entitlement, in a ground too small to hold the demand generated by the two clubs down the road. |
Monza sits on the rail network north of Milan, which makes away travel across the north straightforward and the southern trips long. Italian away rules apply in full. Allocations are capped, club-channel sales 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 couple of thousand depending on the host ground and risk classification. Monza's travelling support is small in absolute terms given the size of the club. |
| Away section location | The settore ospiti at the host stadium, usually an upper tier or corner segregated from home support. At the U-Power Stadium visitors take a designated section with its own entrance. |
| Access requirements | An active fidelity card is needed for away sales through club channels, serving as Monza's Tessera del Tifoso equivalent. Home general sale requires no card. |
| Residency restrictions | Certain fixtures limit sales to supporters not resident in the province, or close the away sector outright. The Milan fixtures attract this treatment reliably. |
| Transport notes | Milan is twenty minutes by train, and Turin, Genoa, Bologna and Verona are all comfortable day trips. Rome, Naples, Lecce and Cagliari realistically mean flying from Milan. |
| The Milan advantage | Both San Siro fixtures are effectively local away days, which is unusual for a club of this size and means the travelling section fills for them in a way it does not elsewhere. |
Choosing at the U-Power Stadium is straightforward because the ground is small and modern enough that no sector is a poor watch. Lombardy is humid into September and cold and foggy from December, so cover is the main variable alongside price.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere | Home curva | Where the drums, the flags and the singing are. A small curva in a small ground means you are part of it rather than watching from forty rows back. |
| View of the play | Tribuna, central | Halfway line, covered, with the dugouts below you. The clearest angle in the ground and the safest choice for a single visit. |
| Value | Distinti | Square-on to the pitch from the opposite side at a real discount to the Tribuna, and close enough that the saving costs you very little. |
| Availability for a big fixture | Opposite end | The pragmatic answer when the curva has gone and the Tribuna is beyond budget. Behind the goal, home support, and usually the last sector with seats remaining. |
| Family-friendly | Distinti or the Tribuna wings | Seated support throughout, calm surroundings and straightforward access at a ground with none of the crowd pressure of San Siro. |
| Premium experience | Central Tribuna or a hospitality package | Covered central seating with catering and indoor space before and after. Inventory is very small, so the Milan fixtures commit early. |
The Stadio Brianteo opened on 28 August 1988 and carries the U-Power name under a commercial agreement, though supporters and much of the signage still use the original. It holds around 17,102 after the upgrades required when Monza reached Serie A in 2022, and it sits on the eastern side of the city rather than in the centre.
The layout is conventional and compact: a main Tribuna along one side with the dugouts and the premium seating, the Distinti opposite and the two ends behind the goals with the organised support at one of them. Visiting supporters take a designated section with its own entrance. In a ground this size the whole stadium hears the curva, which is not true at most Serie A venues.
What the ground lacks in scale it makes up for in accessibility. This is one of the easiest Serie A stadiums in the north to reach from a major city, with Monza twenty minutes from Milan by train and frequent services throughout the day. A significant share of any crowd here travels in from Milan rather than living locally.
Getting there is simple. Monza's railway station connects directly to Milano Centrale and Porta Garibaldi with services every few minutes, and the stadium is a short bus or taxi ride from the station on the eastern edge of the city. Driving is manageable by Italian standards, with parking around the ground, though the train is the sensible option from Milan.
Pre-match belongs to Monza itself, which is a genuinely pleasant Lombard city that most football visitors overlook entirely. The Villa Reale and its park are among the largest walled parks in Europe, the Autodromo that hosts the Italian Grand Prix sits inside it and the centre has the bars and restaurants the stadium district lacks.
Entry follows the standard Italian pattern of personalised tickets checked against photo identification at the gate. Crowds are modest for most fixtures and the process is quicker than at any of the larger grounds, though the Milan matches are policed considerably more heavily. Full detail on the ground sits on the Stadio Brianteo tickets page, and the Stadio Brianteo seating plan covers the sectors.
Hospitality at the U-Power Stadium is concentrated in the central Tribuna and the scale is small, which is what you would expect at a 17,102-capacity ground that spent most of its life hosting Serie B and Serie C football. Availability binds well before price does, and the Milan fixtures commit a long way out.
For a supporter travelling from abroad the appeal is practical. You get central covered seating, catering included and somewhere warm either side of a match in a region that gets genuinely cold and foggy in midwinter. The bands below reflect typical resale ranges and are among the lowest in Serie A.
| 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 | £180 – £350 |
| Hospitality lounge | Central seating with dining before the match, bar service and an indoor space at half time | £300 – £580 |
| Executive box | Private space for a small group with indoor viewing, outdoor seats and waiter service throughout | £550 – £1,100+ |
| Matchday experience packages | Premium seating combined with extras such as a stadium visit or a pre-match meal at a partner venue where offered | £240 – £480 |
Buying through a marketplace takes a few minutes, and at Monza one step matters more than any other: judging whether your fixture is one of the two that a ground twenty kilometres from San Siro cannot absorb. 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 fellow promoted side and the visit of Inter. Begin with the specific match rather than the club, and 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
Judge the fixture against 17,102 seats
This is the step specific to this club. Inter and Milan supporters can reach this ground in half an hour and a large share of the local population follows one of them. For those two dates, treat the fixture announcement as your deadline rather than the matchday.
Step4
Choose on character, not on view
The ground is small enough that every sector works. Home curva for noise, central Tribuna for the angle and the facilities, Distinti for a square-on view at a lower price.
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 confirm 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 turnstile, 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: if you are based in Milan, the train to Monza takes about twenty minutes and runs frequently, which makes this the easiest away-style day trip in Serie A. Italian kick-off times are confirmed late, so check the time before fixing the return.
The split at this club is among the sharpest in the division. Most of the calendar is buyable a fortnight out and two dates are effectively gone the moment they are announced.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Inter at the U-Power Stadium | Twenty kilometres from San Siro, at a club with one of the largest followings in Italy and a significant presence in Brianza. In a ground of 17,102 the away allocation goes instantly and the home sectors fill with visiting supporters. The hardest ticket of the season. |
| Milan at the U-Power Stadium | The same geography and the same divided local crowd, with an added edge from the seven years in which Berlusconi and Galliani ran this club after decades at Milan. It clears as fast as the Inter fixture and prices similarly. |
| Juventus, Napoli and Roma at home | Three clubs with followings across the country arriving at one of the smaller grounds in the division. They thin out well before matchday without matching the pace of the Milan pair. |
| The fixtures against fellow promoted sides | Frosinone and Venezia came up alongside Monza, and matches between newly promoted clubs are six-pointers from the opening months. They sell on significance rather than on profile. |
| The closing home fixtures | Monza have been relegated once in three previous Serie A seasons and the spring matches price on what is at stake rather than on the opponent. Supporters who attend rarely choose these. |
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 at the U-Power Stadium matters less than at the big grounds for ordinary fixtures, where seventy-five minutes is comfortable, and considerably more for the Milan matches, when policing and pre-filtering are heavier and the trains from Milan arrive full. Two hours is sensible for Inter or Milan.
There is a second reason. In a ground of 17,102 the atmosphere is intimate rather than overwhelming, the curva builds from around 45 minutes out and the whole stadium hears it. Arriving late costs you a larger share of the experience than it would at a stadium four times the size.
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.
Because Monza require no card for ordinary general sale, the turnstile is where identity actually gets verified. If your ticket is digital, charge the phone before you leave, save the barcode offline rather than relying on the network at the ground and turn the screen brightness up, because scanners struggle with a dimmed display.
There is no left-luggage facility at the ground, so anything you cannot carry through the turnstiles has to stay in the city. 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 at Milano Centrale if you are travelling in for the 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. Lombardy is cold and foggy from December to February, so a warm coat matters more here than the mild autumn suggests.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Associazione Calcio Monza |
| Founded | 1 September 1912, as Monza Foot-Ball Club, from a merger of Pro Italia and Pro Monza |
| Nicknames | I Biancorossi (the White and Reds), I Brianzoli, I Bagai |
| Stadium | Stadio Brianteo, known commercially as the U-Power Stadium, opened 28 August 1988 (capacity around 17,102) |
| Head coach | Ivan Jurić, appointed within days of promotion in place of Paolo Bianco |
| Captain | Matteo Pessina |
| Owner | Beckett Layne Ventures, which bought eighty per cent from the Berlusconi family's Fininvest on 1 July 2025 |
| Serie A seasons | Four in total, after 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 |
| Competitions in 2026/27 | Serie A and the Coppa Italia |
Monza were founded in 1912 and did not play a match in Serie A until 2022, which is the longest wait of any club currently in the division. The story of how they got there runs through forty seasons of the second tier, a former prime minister and an American investment fund. The four eras below trace it.
Monza Foot-Ball Club was formed on 1 September 1912 from a merger of Pro Italia and Pro Monza, in a Lombard city twenty kilometres from Milan that already had two enormous clubs on its doorstep. For most of the twentieth century that proximity defined the ceiling, and Monza became the most persistent second-tier club in Italy.
The trophies came from below. Four Serie C championships, four Coppa Italia Serie C wins in 1974, 1975, 1988 and 1991, and the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1976. The Stadio Brianteo opened in August 1988 to replace a smaller municipal ground. What never came was promotion: by the turn of the century Monza had played more Serie B seasons without reaching Serie A than any other Italian club.
The 2000s were worse than the decades that preceded them. Financial failure sent the club down through the divisions and into a period of refoundation and lower-league football, a long way from the second tier it had made its home. Supporters who had waited ninety years for Serie A found themselves watching regional opposition instead.
The climb back was slow and unglamorous, and by the middle of the 2010s Monza were a third-tier club in a city better known for its Grand Prix circuit and its royal park than for football. What the club needed was money on a scale Brianza had never provided, and in 2018 it arrived from an unlikely direction.
Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest bought Monza in 2018 with Adriano Galliani, his long-serving Milan chief executive, running the football side. The two of them had spent three decades at San Siro and arrived at a third-tier club in their own province with the stated intention of reaching Serie A. It took four years.
Promotion came through the Serie B play-offs in 2021/22, 110 years after the club was founded, and Berlusconi lived to see it. Monza finished eleventh in their first Serie A season with 52 points and twelfth in their second, which for a club of this size was a considerable achievement. The third ended in relegation with 18 points, one of the poorest returns in recent Serie A history.
The Berlusconi family sold eighty per cent of the club to the American fund Beckett Layne Ventures on 1 July 2025, in a deal reported at around €45 million with the remaining twenty per cent to follow by June 2026. Galliani turned down the presidency and left, ending seven years that had delivered the only promotion in the club's history.
The new owners kept Paolo Bianco in charge and rebuilt the squad around Matteo Pessina, Andrea Petagna and Andrea Carboni, adding Hernani and Patrick Cutrone in January. Monza finished third in Serie B, beat Juve Stabia in the play-off semi-final and went up after the final against Catanzaro, winning the first leg 2-0 and losing the second 2-0, advancing on their superior league placing. Ivan Jurić was appointed eight days later.
Monza's list of significant figures is short and modern, because the club's top-flight history began in 2022 and almost everything that matters happened in the past decade. The names below span the promotion, the Serie A seasons and the return.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adriano Galliani | Chief executive, 2018 to 2025 | Spent three decades building Milan into a European power and then took a third-tier club in his own province to Serie A for the first time in 110 years. He turned down the presidency when the club was sold and left. | Promotion to Serie A 2021/22, seven years running the club |
| Silvio Berlusconi | Owner, 2018 to 2023 | Bought Monza through Fininvest in 2018 with the stated intention of reaching Serie A and lived to see it happen. Whatever else is said about him, no other owner in this club's history came close to delivering what he promised. | Funded the first promotion in the club's history |
| Matteo Pessina | Midfielder and captain | Captain through the Serie A seasons, the relegation and the immediate return, and the one player the support treats as a fixture. A European champion with Italy in 2021 who chose to lead a promoted club rather than chase a bigger one. | Club captain, European champion 2021 |
| Andrea Petagna | Forward | The experienced centre forward retained through relegation and promotion, providing the physical presence Jurić's system needs from the front. One of several senior players who stayed when leaving would have been straightforward. | Retained through relegation and the return to Serie A |
| Andrea Colpani | Forward | The most creative player of the Serie A years, whose form in 2023/24 attracted attention from considerably larger clubs. He remains the player Monza's attacking play is organised around. | Leading creative player of the Serie A seasons |
| Dany Mota | Forward | At the club through the third tier, the second tier and Serie A, which almost nobody else in the squad can say. The continuity between the Monza that was promoted in 2022 and the one playing now. | Promotion 2021/22 and every Serie A season since |
| Patrick Cutrone | Forward | Signed in January and part of the promotion push, having come through Milan's academy and played for Wolves, Fiorentina, Empoli and Como. Another Milan connection in a club shaped by them. | January signing in the 2025/26 promotion season |
| Ivan Jurić | Manager, 2026 onwards | Appointed within days of promotion, bringing a high-pressing, flank-focused style built at Genoa, Verona and Torino. His task is to make a promoted squad competitive without the budget the previous ownership provided. | Appointed June 2026 |
| Ebenezer Akinsanmiro | Midfielder, 2026 onwards | Signed from Inter in the summer and the clearest sign of the new ownership's approach: buy young from a bigger club, give them minutes and sell higher. He is the squad member most likely to be worth more in a year than he is now. | Summer signing from Inter |
Monza have never won a major national trophy and every honour in the cabinet comes from the lower divisions, which is what you would expect from a club that reached Serie A for the first time in 2022. The counts below are drawn from the club's honours record cross-referenced against independent football databases.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| Coppa Italia Serie C | 4 (1974, 1975, 1988, 1991) |
| Serie C | 4 |
| Anglo-Italian Cup | 1 (1976) |
| Serie B play-off winners | 2 (2021/22, 2025/26) |
| Serie B seasons before first promotion | 40, the most of any Italian club never to have reached Serie A |
| First Serie A season | 2022/23, 110 years after the club was founded |
| Highest Serie A finish | Eleventh, in 2022/23 with 52 points |
| Major national trophies | None |
Monza's rivalries are shaped entirely by geography, and the geography is unusual: two of the largest clubs in Europe are twenty kilometres down the road while the regional rivals are all in the divisions below. That produces fixtures that function as derbies without either club treating them as such.
Not derbies in any traditional sense and by far the two biggest fixtures of the season. Both clubs are twenty kilometres away, both have followings that fill Brianza and a substantial share of the crowd at the U-Power Stadium for these matches supports the visitors. In a ground of 17,102 that produces a market unlike anything else on the calendar.
The Milan fixture carries an extra layer, since Berlusconi and Galliani spent three decades running that club before taking over this one and delivering its first promotion. For a visiting supporter these are the dates to plan months ahead, and for a neutral they are the most charged afternoons this stadium hosts.
Como are back in Serie A and roughly forty kilometres away, which makes this the closest thing Monza have to a fixture between equals. Atalanta and Brescia carry regional weight too, though Brescia are below the top division. These are the matches where Monza supporters outnumber the visitors, which is not true of the Milan pair.
The two clubs promoted alongside Monza this summer, which turns both fixtures into direct six-pointers from the opening months. At a club whose only previous relegation came with 18 points, matches against the other newly promoted sides carry weight beyond the opponent's profile.
Monza have never played a match in European competition. Three previous Serie A seasons produced a best finish of eleventh and nothing close to qualification, and before 2022 the club had spent its entire existence outside the top division. The only international honour in the cabinet is the Anglo-Italian Cup from 1976.
It is the ownership. Beckett Layne Ventures is an American fund and Monza is now part of the wave of United States investment into Italian football that already includes Milan, Roma, Atalanta and Fiorentina. For a club with no European record, that is where the outside attention comes from, and it brings a following of its own to the Tribuna.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Promotion to Serie A through the Serie B play-offs, 110 years after the club was founded and four years after Berlusconi and Galliani took over. It was the first time Monza had ever reached the top division, following forty second-tier seasons without one. The city closed for it. Nothing in the club's history compares. |
| 2022/23 | Eleventh place on 52 points in the first Serie A season, which was a considerably better return than anyone had forecast for a promoted club with no top-flight experience whatever. Raffaele Palladino took over early in the campaign and the side beat several established clubs. It remains the highest finish in Monza's history. |
| 2023/24 | Twelfth, another comfortable season and confirmation that the first had not been an accident. Andrea Colpani's form attracted interest from larger clubs and Palladino's stock rose to the point where he left for Fiorentina that summer. The squad was ageing and the recruitment did not keep pace. The warning signs were there. |
| 2024/25 | Relegation with 18 points, one of the poorest Serie A returns in recent memory, in a season that was effectively over by the spring. Berlusconi had died in 2023 and the family put the club up for sale during the campaign. Beckett Layne Ventures agreed the purchase weeks after relegation was confirmed. It was the end of the Fininvest era. |
| 2025/26 | Promotion at the first attempt under Paolo Bianco and the new ownership. Monza finished third in Serie B, eliminated Juve Stabia in the play-off semi-final and went up after the final against Catanzaro, winning 2-0 at home and losing 2-0 away to advance on league placing. Bianco left eight days later and Ivan Jurić was appointed. |
Jurić takes a promoted squad into Serie A with the core of the side that went up retained and reinforcements added through the summer. Matteo Pessina keeps the armband, Patrick Cutrone and Andrea Petagna lead the line and Ebenezer Akinsanmiro arrived from Inter as the most significant addition. Squad numbers reflect the position published at the time of writing and market values are approximate figures drawn from published football valuation data and converted to pounds, which for a newly promoted squad move more than most.
| No. | Player | Position | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Semuel Pizzignacco | Goalkeeper | 0.5m |
| 20 | Demba Thiam | Goalkeeper | 1.3m |
| 3 | Lorenzo Lucchesi | Defender | 1.4m |
| 6 | Valentin Antov | Defender | 0.9m |
| 7 | Ricardo Mangas | Defender | 1.3m |
| 15 | Filippo Delli Carri | Defender | 1.0m |
| 19 | Samuele Birindelli | Defender | 1.6m |
| 24 | Adam Bakoune | Defender | 0.7m |
| 44 | Andrea Carboni | Defender | 2.1m |
| 60 | Eddy Kouadio | Defender | 1.8m |
| 14 | Ebenezer Akinsanmiro | Midfielder | 6.6m |
| 21 | Leonardo Colombo | Midfielder | 1.4m |
| 23 | Nicolas Galazzi | Midfielder | 0.7m |
| 28 | Andrea Colpani | Midfielder | 3.8m |
| 29 | Manga Foe Ondoa | Midfielder | 0.6m |
| 32 | Matteo Pessina (captain) | Midfielder | 1.9m |
| 9 | Gustavo Varela | Forward | 1.4m |
| 10 | Patrick Cutrone | Forward | 2.6m |
| 11 | Omari Forson | Forward | 1.2m |
| 17 | Keita Baldé | Forward | 0.4m |
| 26 | Patrick Ciurria | Forward | 0.9m |
| 37 | Andrea Petagna | Forward | 0.4m |
| 46 | Jay Robinson | Forward | 8.8m |
| 47 | Dany Mota | Forward | 1.4m |
Through the Serie B play-offs at the first attempt. Monza finished third in the regular season, eliminated Juve Stabia in the semi-final and drew the final with Catanzaro over two legs, winning 2-0 at home and losing 2-0 away, going up on their superior league placing because Serie B play-offs have no extra time.
Beckett Layne Ventures, an American investment fund that bought eighty per cent from the Berlusconi family's Fininvest on 1 July 2025 in a deal reported at around €45 million, with the remaining twenty per cent following by June 2026. Adriano Galliani turned down the presidency and left.
Inter and Milan by a distance. Both grounds are twenty kilometres away, both clubs have followings that fill Brianza and the U-Power Stadium holds around 17,102. Juventus, Napoli and Roma follow. Everything else is usually available a fortnight out.
Monza railway station connects to Milano Centrale and Porta Garibaldi with frequent services taking around twenty minutes, and the stadium is a short bus or taxi ride from the station on the eastern edge of the city. It is the easiest Serie A day trip from a major city in the north.
Yes. The club was founded in 1912 and played forty seasons in Serie B without ever being promoted, more than any other Italian club never to have reached the top division. The first promotion came through the play-offs in 2021/22, 110 years after the club was formed.
Whether you are travelling out from Milan for the afternoon or following a promoted side through a survival season, Monza 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 and treat the two Milan matches as a separate exercise, because 17,102 seats do not go far when the visitors live twenty minutes down the line.
Sources: AC Monza club website (acmonza.com), Lega Serie A, Lega B, Football Italia, ESPN, Il Post, L'Ultimo Uomo, StadiumDB and Wikipedia.
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