A.C. Milan

 The club was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin, Alfred Edwards, and four other Englishmen and has since spent most of its history in the top flight  of Italian football, having spent only two years in Serie B in the eighties. 

The club have won 18 officially recognized UEFA and FIFA international titles,[6] tied with Boca Juniors as having won the most in the world. Milan have won four world titles,  more than any other club in the world: they have won the Intercontinental Cup three times and the FIFA Club World Cup once. Milan have also won the European Cup on seven occasions;[6] only nine-times champions Real Madrid have exceeded this total.  As for Italian Serie A titles, Milan are tied with Internazionale for being the second most successful club with 17 league titles; Juventus holds the record with 27 titles. 

Other important titles won by Milan include the European Super Cup, a record five times, and the Cup Winners' Cup twice.  Domestically, they have won the Coppa Italia five times, as well as five Italian Super Cups.  Milan have never reached the UEFA Cup now Europa League, final, though reaching the semi-finals in 1972 and 2002, and this remains the only major trophy for which they are eligible that they have never won. Milan were founding members of the G-14 group and the European Club Association that was formed following the first organisation's dissolution.

Milan's home games are played at San Siro, also known as the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. The ground, which is shared with rivals Internazionale, is the largest in Italian football, with total capacity of 80,074. 

HISTORY

The club was founded as a cricket club in 1899 by British expatriates Alfred Edwards and Herbert Kilpin,  who came from the British city of Nottingham. In honor of its origins, the club has retained the English spelling of its city's name, instead of changing it to the Italian Milano, although it was forced to do so during the fascist regime, like Genoa and Internazionale had done. It should be noted that the Italian pronunciation  is actually MEE-lan, in the Italian style of not stressing the last syllable. Milan won their first Italian championship title in 1901, and then again in 1906 and 1907. 

In 1908, the club experienced a split caused by internal disagreements over the signing of foreign players, which led to the forming of another Milan-based team, Internazionale.  Following these events, Milan did not manage to win a single domestic title until 1950–51. In 1963, they ensured their first continental title, winning European Cup beating Benfica in the final.[11] This success was repeated in 1969, and followed by an Intercontinental Cup title the same year.  Following retirement of Gianni Rivera, Milan started a declining period, during which they were involved in the 1980 Totonero scandal and were relegated to Serie B as punishment,  for the first time in their history. The scandal was centred on a betting syndicate paying players and officials to fix the outcome of matches.  Milan quickly returned back to Serie A, but returned to Serie B only one year later as they ended their 1981–82 Serie A campaign in the relegation zone.

In 1986 entrepreneur Silvio Berlusconi acquired the club, and immediately invested a lot of money in the team, appointing rising coach Arrigo Sacchi  at the helm of the rossoneri and signing a Dutch trio of Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard.  This was the beginning of the most successful time in the club's history, as Milan won seven domestic titles, five Champions League trophies, two Intercontinental Cups and one Fifa Club World Cup.

More recently, Milan were involved in the 2006 Serie A scandal where five teams were accused of fixing matches by selecting favourable referees Even if police inquiry excluded any involvement of Milan managers, FIGC, led by former Inter Vice President Guido Rossi, unilaterally decided it had sufficient evidences to charge Milan Vice President Adriano Galliani: as result, Milan were initially punished with a 15 point deduction and consequently did not qualify for the Champions League. An appeal saw their penalty reduced to 8 points  and allowed to retain their 2006–07 Champions League participation, where they won the competition.