Buy Udinese tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into the longest-running project in Italian football. The Pozzo family have owned this club since July 1986, forty years in which every other Serie A club has changed hands at least once, and Kosta Runjaić enters a third season after taking tenth place on 50 points, the club's strongest finish in more than a decade.
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The ground is the other reason to come. Udinese rebuilt the Stadio Friuli themselves between 2013 and 2016, took out the running track and brought the stands to the touchline, and they own it. Everything below covers which stand suits which kind of supporter, what resale prices look like at the lower end of the Serie A range and where every home and away league fixture can be found.
Giampaolo Pozzo bought Udinese in July 1986 and the family has run it ever since. Along the way they bought Granada in 2009 and sold it in 2016, and took over Watford in June 2012, which makes this the original multi-club ownership in European football, operating a decade before the model had a name. The scouting network that comes with it is why a club from a city of 100,000 keeps finding players nobody else has spotted.
The stadium tells the same story of long-term thinking. Udinese rebuilt the Friuli themselves in the years to 2016, removed the athletics track that had pushed every seat back since 1976 and brought the stands close to the pitch under a new roof and the original steel arch. Capacity is 25,144 and the club owns the ground, which almost no Italian club does.
For a buyer that combination produces something specific: a genuinely modern football stadium with no track, at prices near the bottom of Serie A, in a club that has finished tenth and twelfth in the past two seasons. It is one of the better value matchdays in Italy and it is considerably better as a building than the municipal bowls at Turin, Rome and Naples.
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 an Udinese fixture the value is being able to fix a stand and a price before you commit to the travel, because Udine sits in the far north-east and getting there takes planning. You can see the sector, 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.
Udine is a city of around 100,000 in Friuli, closer to Ljubljana than to Milan, and the crowd it produces is regional rather than metropolitan. A capacity of 25,144 fills for the fixtures that matter and leaves genuine room for the rest, which is the single most useful thing to know before choosing when to buy.
Demand still separates sharply by fixture, and the drivers below are the ones that actually move availability in Friuli. Two of them are new this season and both work in a buyer's favour.
The practical conclusion is that Udinese is an easy ticket for most of the season and a tight one for five or six dates. Work out which category your fixture falls into before deciding how early to move.
Resale pricing at the Bluenergy Stadium sits near the bottom of the Serie A range and stays there for most of the calendar. Club face values for a single match have run from around £14 up to £30 depending on the sector and the opponent, which is among the lowest entry points in the division for a ground of this quality. The 2026/27 Serie A calendar runs from late August 2026 to the end of May 2027.
Timing favours the patient buyer here more than at most clubs. For ordinary league fixtures listings often soften as the date approaches rather than firming, because the ground is not going to sell out. For the visits of the big five the market moves the other way and moves quickly, and the gap between the two behaviours is wide.
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 map neatly onto euro face values once demand is accounted for.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Serie A (lower-demand fixtures) | £20 – £75 |
| Serie A (standard fixtures) | £32 – £120 |
| Serie A (Inter, Juventus, Milan, Napoli and Roma) | £75 – £290+ |
| Coppa Italia (early rounds) | £14 – £50 |
| Coppa Italia (later rounds) | £28 – £110 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £170 – £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 Udinese enter against lower-division opposition in front of a fraction of a league crowd.
Yes. Udinese do not gate general sale behind a paid membership and there is no card requirement for an ordinary home fixture, which puts them among the more straightforward clubs in Serie A for an international visitor. The club runs 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 is the same place it matters across Italy. Away allocations bought through club channels require it, and for fixtures the prefecture classes as higher risk it can become a requirement or sales can be limited by province of residence, sometimes announced only days ahead. Processing takes time for anyone applying from outside Italy.
The genuine constraint here is small and applies to only a handful of dates. Single-match sales open close to the fixture, which is unusable if you are booking travel to Friuli two months ahead. 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.
Udinese's season ticket is among the least expensive in Serie A and among the easiest to obtain, which is a straightforward function of a 25,144-capacity ground in a city of 100,000. The Curva Nord is where the organised support gathers and renews most completely, but unlike at the larger clubs the other sectors do not fill.
Renewal runs in phases through the summer with existing holders given pre-emption before new applications open. For a supporter based in the north-east or making repeat visits, a full season here costs less than a handful of single matches at San Siro and delivers a considerably better ground to sit in. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Curva Nord | £190 – £300 | The spiritual home of the Udinese support and the source of the singing and the flags. Lowest entry point in the ground. |
| Curva Sud | £200 – £320 | The opposite end, home support with a calmer character and generally more availability across the season. |
| East Stand | £280 – £430 | The side opposite the main stand, square-on to the play and close to the touchline since the rebuild removed the track. |
| Tribuna | £400 – £650 | The main west stand beneath the steel arch, with the dugouts, the media positions and the clearest sightlines. |
| Premium and hospitality | £900 – £2,000+ | Central Tribuna seating with lounge access across the season, in facilities built during the reconstruction rather than retrofitted. |
The ground is four stands around a pitch with nothing between them and it, which since 2016 has made it one of the better football-specific stadiums in Italy. Capacity is 25,144, the roof covers the seating and the steel arch over the main west stand is the feature the ground is recognised by. There is no bad view in the building.
| Stand / Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curva Nord | Atmosphere, singing, flags | Lowest | Where the organised Udinese support gathers and the noise comes from. Largely season-ticket held. Expect to stand throughout. |
| Tribuna, central | Sightlines and facilities | Highest general admission | The main west stand under the steel arch, with the dugouts, the media positions and the premium seating. 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 and a noticeably lower price than the central blocks. |
| East Stand | Value with a square-on view | Mid | Opposite the Tribuna, close to the touchline since the track came out. The sector most visiting supporters end up choosing. |
| Curva Sud | Availability behind the goal | Low to mid | The opposite end, home support with a calmer character and usually the easiest sector to get into for a high-demand fixture. |
| Away section | Visiting support | Varies | A designated section with a contained view, segregated from home support. The allocation varies by fixture and is larger for the bigger visiting clubs. |
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Open since 1976 and renovated extensively between 2013 and 2016, the iconic Stadio Friuli, known for sponsorship reasons since 2023 as the Bluenergy Stadium, is a compact covered all-seater venue designed with excellent sightlines, no barriers between fans and players and was even awarded sustainability awards, with honours as Italy’s greenest stadiums. Located in the province of Udine, with a seating capacity of 25,144 seats, this UEFa Category 4 venue is unique, intimate, and makes for a raw and electric matchday.
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This section exists because the reconstruction is the reason to choose this ground over several larger ones, and because it explains why a club of Udinese's size has facilities that Lazio and Torino do not. The Stadio Friuli opened in 1976 as a municipal athletics venue with a track between the stands and the pitch, in the pattern that defined Italian stadium building for fifty years.
Between 2013 and 2016 Udinese rebuilt it themselves rather than waiting for the city. The track came out, three new stands went up close to the touchline, a roof was added across the seating and the original 1976 steel arch over the west stand was kept. The club holds the ground on a long-term basis rather than renting it season to season, which is what made the investment possible.
| Detail | What to Expect |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 25,144 across four stands, with the roof covering the seating and the corners built in rather than left open. |
| The running track | Removed during the 2013 to 2016 reconstruction. Every seat is now close to the touchline, which is the single biggest practical difference from the Olimpico in Rome or Turin. |
| Who controls it | Udinese, which is unusual in Italy and is why the rebuild happened at all. Most Serie A clubs rent municipal grounds and cannot invest in them. |
| What survived | The steel arch over the main west stand, kept from the 1976 original and now the feature the stadium is recognised by. |
| Facilities | Hospitality, catering and accessibility were designed into the reconstruction rather than retrofitted, which shows on a matchday. |
| What it means for a buyer | A modern football-specific ground at prices near the bottom of Serie A. For value per pound spent on a matchday, few grounds in Italy compete with it. |
Udine sits in the far north-east, which makes away travel a longer undertaking than for almost any other club in the division outside Sardinia and Puglia. 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. Udinese's travelling support is modest in absolute terms given the distances. |
| Away section location | The settore ospiti at the host stadium, usually an upper tier or corner segregated from home support. At the Bluenergy Stadium visitors take a designated section with a contained view. |
| Access requirements | An active fidelity card is needed for away sales through club channels, serving as Udinese's Tessera del Tifoso equivalent. Home general sale requires no card. |
| Residency restrictions | Certain fixtures limit sales to supporters not resident in the province of Udine, or close the away sector outright. Confirm the current decree before booking travel rather than after. |
| Transport notes | Venice is around two hours and Bologna and Milan around three to four by rail. Rome, Naples, Lecce and Cagliari realistically mean flying from Venice or Trieste. |
| The regional fixture | Venezia are back in Serie A, which gives Udinese a north-eastern derby on the league calendar for the first time in several seasons. Trieste and the closer rivals are all in the divisions below. |
Choosing here is simpler than at most Italian grounds because the rebuild removed the compromises. There is no track, no obstructed view and no uncovered sector, so the decision is about atmosphere and price rather than about what you can actually see. Friuli is warm into September and genuinely cold with Alpine air from December.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere | Curva Nord, lower blocks | The drums, the flags and the singing all begin here and run for the full match. Availability rather than price is the constraint, because most of it belongs to season-ticket holders. |
| View of the play | Tribuna, central | Halfway line, under the steel arch, with the dugouts below you. The clearest angle in the ground and the safest choice for a single visit. |
| Value | East Stand | Square-on to the pitch from the opposite side at a real discount to the Tribuna. Close to the touchline since the reconstruction and the pick regulars recommend. |
| Proximity | Front blocks, either side | With the track removed, the front rows here are closer to the play than a far more expensive seat at the Olimpico in Rome or Turin. This is what the rebuild bought. |
| Family-friendly | East Stand or the Tribuna wings | Seated support throughout, calm surroundings and facilities designed in during the reconstruction rather than added later. |
| Premium experience | Central Tribuna or a hospitality package | Covered central seating with catering and indoor space before and after, in purpose-built facilities. Inventory is small, so the marquee fixtures commit early. |
The Stadio Friuli opened in 1976 and carries the Bluenergy name under a commercial agreement, though supporters and most signage still use the original. It sits in the Rizzi district about four kilometres from the centre of Udine, holds 25,144 and is controlled by the club rather than the municipality, which is the root of everything good about it.
The layout is four stands with the pitch immediately in front of them. The Curva Nord holds the organised support, the Curva Sud faces it, the Tribuna runs along the west side beneath the steel arch that survived from the original build and the East Stand sits opposite. Visiting supporters take a designated section with a contained view, sized to the fixture.
What makes it worth the journey is the absence of the things that make Italian grounds frustrating. There is no running track, the roof covers the seating, the corners are filled in and the sightlines are consistent from every sector. Supporters who have been to both routinely rate this above stadiums holding three times as many people.
Getting there is straightforward once you reach Udine. City buses run from Udine Centrale railway station to the Rizzi district in around fifteen minutes, and the A23 motorway brings you in by car with parking around the ground. Udine sits on the line between Venice and Austria, with Venice about two hours away and Trieste around an hour, and both Venice airports serve the region.
Pre-match belongs to the centre of Udine, which is a genuinely handsome Venetian-influenced city that almost no football visitor sees. Piazza Matteotti and Piazza Libertà fill in the early evening, the Friulian wine and the San Daniele ham are local rather than imported and the whole trip works better as a weekend than a day out.
Entry follows the standard Italian pattern of personalised tickets checked against photo identification at the gate. Crowds are modest, the approaches are not congested and the process is quicker than at any of the larger grounds. Full detail on the ground sits on the Stadio Friuli tickets page, and the Bluenergy Stadium seating plan breaks the sectors down before you choose.
Hospitality at the Bluenergy Stadium is better than the size of the club suggests, for the simple reason that it was designed into the reconstruction rather than squeezed into a municipal stand afterwards. The scale is still modest, so availability binds before price does, but the facilities themselves are modern.
For a supporter travelling from abroad the appeal is practical as well as indulgent. You get central seating under the arch, catering included and somewhere warm either side of a match in a city that gets Alpine weather from December. The bands below reflect typical resale ranges across a season 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 | £170 – £340 |
| 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 Udinese one step carries more weight than the rest: planning the journey to Friuli around a kick-off time that Italian football confirms late. 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 Juventus. 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
Plan the journey before the seat
This is the step specific to Udine. The city is in the far north-east, roughly two hours from Venice and an hour from Trieste, and Italian kick-off times are confirmed late. Fix the travel around the confirmed date rather than the other way round.
Step4
Choose on character, not on view
The rebuild removed the running track, so every sector has a good sightline. Curva Nord for noise, central Tribuna for the angle and the facilities, East Stand 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 for Udine: the ground is four kilometres from the centre in the Rizzi district, served by city buses from the railway station in around fifteen minutes. It is not a walk, so build the bus or the taxi into your timing.
Most of the Udinese calendar stays available until the week before the match. A short list does not, and with a capacity of 25,144 the gap between the two is sharper than the club's profile suggests.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Juventus at the Bluenergy Stadium | The largest national following in Italy arriving at a ground of 25,144, at a club that has beaten them often enough over the years to make the fixture feel winnable. It clears faster than anything else on the calendar. |
| Inter and Milan at home | Two of the largest travelling supports in the country and two of the shorter journeys from Lombardy. Both fill the away section immediately and push demand through every home stand. |
| Napoli and Roma at home | Two clubs with followings spread across Italy whose supporters treat a trip to Friuli as a weekend. They thin out well before matchday without matching the Juventus pace. |
| Venezia and the north-eastern derby | Back on the Serie A calendar and the closest thing Udinese have to a local fixture in the top division. Short travel means the away allocation is oversubscribed in both directions. |
| The final home match of the season | A fixture that has taken on more weight since Udinese started finishing in the top half again. Supporters who attend once or twice 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 at the Bluenergy Stadium is about the journey rather than the queue, because the ground sits four kilometres out in Rizzi and the bus from the station takes around fifteen minutes before you allow for the crowd. Seventy-five to ninety minutes before kick-off is comfortable for a league fixture and rather more when one of the big five is visiting.
There is a second reason worth knowing. With the track removed and the stands at the touchline, the warm-up is genuinely watchable from any seat, and the Curva Nord begins around 45 minutes out. At a ground where the proximity is the selling point, being in early gets you more of what you came for.
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 Udinese 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 Udine Centrale if you are arriving on a travel day.
Prohibited items follow the standard Italian model and are enforced at screening. Cans, glass, plastic bottles, alcohol brought from outside, flares, fireworks, laser pointers, umbrellas with pointed ends and large flags on double poles are all refused. The roof covers the seating, so rain is manageable, but Friuli gets Alpine cold from December and a warm coat matters.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Udinese Calcio |
| Founded | 30 November 1896 as a sports club, with the football club dating from 5 July 1911 |
| Nicknames | I Friulani (the Friulians), Le Zebrette (the Little Zebras) |
| Stadium | Stadio Friuli, known commercially as the Bluenergy Stadium, opened 1976 and rebuilt between 2013 and 2016 (capacity 25,144), controlled by the club |
| Head coach | Kosta Runjaić, in his third season, extended after being named Serie A coach of the month for May 2026 |
| Captain | Jesper Karlström |
| Owner | The Pozzo family, who bought the club in July 1986 |
| League | Serie A (20 clubs, 38 matches) |
| Competitions in 2026/27 | Serie A and the Coppa Italia |
Udinese have never won the Italian championship and have spent forty consecutive years under one family, which between them explain almost everything about how this club operates. It buys young, develops, sells and stays in Serie A. The four eras below trace how the Little Zebras got here.
The parent sports society was founded on 30 November 1896 and the football club dates from 5 July 1911, which makes Udinese among the older clubs in Italy. For most of the twentieth century they were a provincial side moving between the divisions, in a region closer to Ljubljana and Vienna than to the industrial cities where Italian football's money sat.
The high point of the early era was second place in Serie A in 1954/55, which remains the club's highest finish. The trophies came at lower levels: the Coppa Italia Serie C in 1977/78 and, immediately afterwards, an Anglo-Italian Cup that showed a small club could compete outside its own borders.
Udinese won the Mitropa Cup in 1979/80, the first international trophy in the club's history, and then did something no provincial Italian side had attempted. In 1983 they signed Zico, the finest playmaker Brazil had produced since Pelé, in a transfer that required a legal fight over Italy's reopening to foreign players and that supporters in Friuli still describe as the moment the club announced itself.
Zico stayed two seasons and scored freely, and Udine sold out for a team that had no realistic prospect of winning anything. It ended in a match-fixing case that cost the club points and its momentum, and by the middle of the decade Udinese needed rescuing.
Giampaolo Pozzo bought the club in July 1986 and set about building something that did not depend on money the region did not have. The answer was a scouting network reaching into South America, Africa and eastern Europe long before anyone else was looking there, and a willingness to sell every year without apology.
It worked. Udinese won the Intertoto Cup in 2000, reached the group stage of the Champions League in 2005/06 in a section containing Barcelona and Werder Bremen, and reached the UEFA Cup quarter-finals in 2008/09. Oliver Bierhoff, Márcio Amoroso and Antonio Di Natale won the Serie A scoring award in this shirt. Alexis Sánchez, Juan Cuadrado and Samir Handanovič all passed through on the way to bigger clubs.
Between 2013 and 2016 Udinese did what almost no Italian club has managed and rebuilt their own stadium, removing the running track and putting the stands on the touchline. The Pozzos meanwhile bought Granada in 2009 and Watford in 2012, creating the first multi-club structure in European football a decade before the term existed.
The football has been steady rather than spectacular: mid-table finishes, players sold at a profit, no relegation. Kosta Runjaić arrived in 2024, finished twelfth in his first season and tenth on 50 points in his second, was named Serie A coach of the month for May 2026 and had his contract extended. Arthur Atta was sold to Fiorentina for around £25 million that summer, which is the model working exactly as it always has.
Udinese's list of significant figures is a list of players the club found before anyone else did, plus one Brazilian who chose to come. The names below span the Zico era, the European campaigns and the present squad.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio Di Natale | Forward, 2004 to 2016 | The club's record goalscorer by a distance, across twelve seasons in which he twice won the Serie A scoring award and repeatedly turned down moves to larger clubs. He captained the side through the European campaigns and stayed to the end of his career. | Club record goalscorer, Serie A top scorer 2010 and 2011 |
| Zico | Forward, 1983 to 1985 | Signed from Flamengo after a legal fight over Italy's reopening to foreign players, and the reason a provincial club sold out its ground for two seasons. The most celebrated player ever to wear this shirt and still the reference point in Friuli. | Two seasons, and the transfer that changed the club's profile |
| Oliver Bierhoff | Forward, 1995 to 1998 | Arrived from Serie B obscurity and left as the leading scorer in Serie A, having won the European Championship with Germany in between. The clearest early proof that the Udinese scouting model produced players nobody else had valued correctly. | Serie A top scorer 1997/98, European champion 1996 |
| Márcio Amoroso | Forward, 1999 to 2001 | Won the Serie A scoring award in 1998/99 and was sold to Parma for a substantial fee, in the pattern that has funded this club for four decades. Two seasons of the most direct attacking football Udine had seen since Zico. | Serie A top scorer 1998/99 |
| Samir Handanovič | Goalkeeper, 2004 to 2012 | Eight seasons in goal through the European campaigns before Inter signed him, where he spent a decade as captain. Found in the Slovenian second tier as a teenager, which is the scouting network in a single example. | Champions League 2005/06, UEFA Cup quarter-final 2009 |
| Alexis Sánchez | Forward, 2008 to 2011 | Arrived from Chile at eighteen, spent three years developing and left for Barcelona for a fee that reshaped the club's finances. The most valuable sale in Udinese's history and the template every subsequent one has followed. | Sold to Barcelona 2011, Copa América winner with Chile |
| Giampaolo Pozzo | Owner, 1986 onwards | Bought the club in July 1986 and has run it for forty years, funding the scouting network, the rebuild of the stadium and a period without relegation that no comparable Italian club has matched. Also took over Granada and Watford. | Forty years of continuous ownership, the stadium rebuild |
| Kosta Runjaić | Manager, 2024 onwards | Took Udinese to twelfth and then tenth on 50 points, the club's strongest finish in more than a decade, and was named Serie A coach of the month for May 2026 before signing an extension. A settled manager is not something this club always has. | Tenth place 2025/26, Serie A coach of the month May 2026 |
| Jesper Karlström | Midfielder, 2024 onwards | Captain and the organising presence in a midfield that changes personnel every summer. In a squad built around players who will be sold, the armband goes to someone expected to still be here. | Club captain under Runjaić |
Udinese have never won Serie A or the Coppa Italia, and their honours are international or from the lower divisions. What the record actually shows is longevity: a small club that has stayed in the top division while larger ones went under. The counts below are drawn from the club's honours record cross-referenced against independent football databases.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| Mitropa Cup | 1 (1979/80) |
| UEFA Intertoto Cup | 1 (2000) |
| Anglo-Italian Cup | 1 (1978) |
| Coppa Italia Serie C | 1 (1977/78) |
| Highest Serie A finish | Second, in 1954/55 |
| Champions League appearances | 1, the group stage in 2005/06 |
| Best UEFA Cup run | Quarter-final, 2008/09 |
| Serie A titles | None |
Udinese sit in a corner of Italy with few neighbours of comparable size, which means the rivalries are regional and mostly played below Serie A. What the league calendar offers is a set of fixtures against clubs the Pozzo model exists to compete with.
The closest thing Udinese have to a local fixture in Serie A, and it is back on the calendar after several seasons apart. The journey is around two hours in either direction, which means both away sections fill and the allocation is managed carefully. For supporters in the Veneto and Friuli it is the date that matters most.
Trieste is under an hour away and the derby with Triestina carries genuine regional heat, sharpened by the complicated relationship between Friuli and the city on the border. Triestina have spent decades below Serie A, which is why the fixture almost never appears on the league calendar and why the Venezia match has taken its place.
Not a rivalry so much as the fixture Udinese supporters most want to win, and one they have won more often than the difference in resources suggests. Juventus bring the largest travelling support in Italy to a ground of 25,144, which makes it the first date to clear and the loudest afternoon of the season.
Udinese have reached the Champions League group stage once, in 2005/06, and were drawn with Barcelona and Werder Bremen. They lost both matches against a Barcelona side that went on to win the competition that season, but a provincial Friulian club hosting the European champions is the sort of night this support measures decades by.
Beyond that single Champions League campaign, the club's continental history is the Mitropa Cup in 1979/80, the Intertoto Cup in 2000 and a UEFA Cup quarter-final in 2008/09. It is a modest record and it belongs to a club that has never had the resources for more, which is rather the point of everything the Pozzos have built here.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Twelfth on 47 points under Gabriele Cioffi, a comfortable mid-table season in which Udinese were never involved in either race. Gerard Deulofeu was the standout attacking player and attracted interest that the club would ordinarily have converted. The football was direct and effective without being memorable. It was the pattern the following seasons would repeat. |
| 2022/23 | Twelfth again, on 46 points, under Andrea Sottil, with an opening run of form that briefly put Udinese in the European places before the usual regression. The squad had been rebuilt over the summer as it is every summer. Comfortable survival was secured well before the closing weeks. The ceiling was becoming the obvious question. |
| 2023/24 | The most difficult of the five. Fifteenth on 37 points and survival secured only at the end, with Sottil dismissed and Cioffi returning to steady a side that had lost its shape. It was the closest Udinese have come to relegation under the current ownership. The response was a change of manager rather than a change of model. |
| 2024/25 | Twelfth on 44 points in Kosta Runjaić's first season, a considerable improvement in organisation on the year before even if the final position looked similar. The German coach imposed a clear structure on a squad that had been drifting. Jaka Bijol and Nehøn Pérez were both sold that summer. The foundations for the following season were laid here. |
| 2025/26 | Tenth on 50 points, the club's strongest finish in more than a decade, with Keinan Davis scoring ten and Arthur Atta named Serie A rising star for April. The Coppa Italia ended at the round of 16 against Juventus. Runjaić was named coach of the month for May and had his contract extended, and Atta was sold to Fiorentina that summer. |
Runjaić begins his third year with the squad this club always has: young, international and assembled by a scouting network rather than a chequebook. Oumar Solet and Thomas Kristensen anchor the defence, Lennon Miller is the midfielder expected to make the step up and Nicolò Zaniolo arrived to add experience in attack, with Jesper Karlström keeping the armband. Several squad members are omitted from the table below because no shirt number or published valuation exists for them. 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 (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | Maduka Okoye | Goalkeeper | 9.4m |
| 93 | Daniele Padelli | Goalkeeper | 0.3m |
| 13 | Nicolò Bertola | Defender | 7.9m |
| 22 | Branimir Mlacic | Defender | 6.5m |
| 27 | Christian Kabasele | Defender | 0.7m |
| 28 | Oumar Solet | Defender | 14.3m |
| 31 | Thomas Kristensen | Defender | 12.0m |
| Not yet assigned | Matteo Palma | Defender | 5.0m |
| Not yet assigned | Saba Goglichidze | Defender | 4.8m |
| 5 | Martín Payero | Midfielder | 3.7m |
| 6 | Oier Zarraga | Midfielder | 0.9m |
| 8 | Jesper Karlström (captain) | Midfielder | 2.3m |
| 11 | Hassane Kamara | Midfielder | 1.8m |
| 24 | Jakub Piotrowski | Midfielder | 2.1m |
| 29 | Abdoulaye Camara | Midfielder | 1.4m |
| 32 | Jurgen Ekkelenkamp | Midfielder | 6.4m |
| 33 | Jordan Zemura | Midfielder | 2.9m |
| 38 | Lennon Miller | Midfielder | 11.6m |
| 59 | Alessandro Zanoli | Midfielder | 4.0m |
| Not yet assigned | Simone Pafundi | Midfielder | 6.0m |
| 7 | Idrissa Gueye | Forward | 6.5m |
| 9 | Keinan Davis | Forward | 5.4m |
| 15 | Vakoun Issouf Bayo | Forward | 2.0m |
| 18 | Adam Buksa | Forward | 3.1m |
| Not yet assigned | Nicolò Zaniolo | Forward | 10.6m |
Yes. Bluenergy is a commercial naming agreement applied to the Stadio Friuli, which opened in 1976 and was rebuilt by the club between 2013 and 2016. Supporters and most signage still use the original name, and listings may use either.
No. The track was removed during the 2013 to 2016 reconstruction and the stands were brought to the touchline under a new roof. That makes this one of very few football-specific grounds in Serie A and the main reason visiting supporters rate it above much larger stadiums.
In a designated section with a contained view, segregated from home support, with the allocation set per fixture and larger for the bigger visiting clubs. The Udinese support occupies the Curva Nord, which is where the singing and the flags are.
City buses run from Udine Centrale railway station to the Rizzi district in around fifteen minutes, and the ground sits about four kilometres from the centre. Driving is straightforward via the A23 with parking around the stadium, which is not true of most Serie A venues.
Not a domestic one. The honours are the Mitropa Cup in 1979/80, the Intertoto Cup in 2000, an Anglo-Italian Cup in 1978 and the Coppa Italia Serie C the same year. The highest Serie A finish is second, in 1954/55, and the only Champions League campaign was the 2005/06 group stage.
Whether you are combining a match with Venice and Trieste or want one of the better football grounds in Italy at close to the lowest price in the division, Udinese 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, fix the travel around the confirmed kick-off time and move early on the visits of the big five.
Sources: Udinese Calcio club website (udinese.it), Lega Serie A, UEFA, Transfermarkt, FotMob, Football Italia, Kickest, StadiumDB and Wikipedia.
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