List of A.C. Milan players

Paolo Maldini is Milan's all-time record appearance-maker.

Associazione Calcio Milan is an Italian professional football club based in Milan. The club was founded in December 1899 as Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club, and played their first competitive match on 15 April 1900, when they entered the semi-final of the 1900 Italian Football Championship. Since playing their first competitive match, more than 900 players have made a competitive first-team appearance for the club, of whom almost 150 players have made at least 100 appearances (including substitute appearances); those players are listed here.

Milan's record appearance-maker is Paolo Maldini, who made 902 appearances over his 25 seasons at the club from 1985 to 2009. Gunnar Nordahl is the club's top goalscorer with 221 goals in 268 appearances. Four other players have made more than 500 appearances: Franco Baresi (719), Alessandro Costacurta (663), Gianni Rivera (658) and Mauro Tassotti (583). Nordahl is the only player to have scored more than 200 goals for Milan, while nine other players have scored more than 100.

List of players

Swedish forward Gunnar Nordahl is Milan's all-time top goalscorer.

• Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches only, including domestic league (Serie A, Serie B, Divisione Nazionale, Prima Divisione, Prima Categoria), domestic cup (Coppa Italia, Supercoppa Italiana, Torneo Estivo del 1986) UEFA competition (European Cup/Champions League, UEFA Cup/Europa League, Cup Winners' Cup, Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup), pre-UEFA European competition (Latin Cup, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Mitropa Cup, Coppa dell'Amicizia, Cup of the Alps) and FIFA Club World Cup matches; wartime matches are regarded as unofficial and are excluded.
• Players are listed according to the date of their first team debut for the club.

Statistics correct as of match played 14 February 2016

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• Nationality – If a player played international football, the country or countries he played for are shown. Otherwise, the player's nationality is given as his citizenship of birth (or the corresponding one at the time they played for Milan).
• Milan career – The year of the player's first appearance for Milan to the year of his last appearance.

Gianni Rivera was the first player to make more than 500 appearances for the club, reaching 658 when he retired.

Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf is Milan's record appearance-maker among foreign players.

Christian Abbiati has made more appearances for Milan than any other goalkeeper.

Andriy Shevchenko is Milan's second-highest all-time goalscorer.

List of A.C. Milan players with at least 100 appearances

Name	Nationality	Position	Milan career	Appearances	Goals	Ref
Alessandro Scarioni	Italy	HB	1909–1915, 1916–1921	118	2	[1]
Cesare Lovati	Italy	HB	1911–1915, 1916–1922	101	6	[2]
Francesco Soldera	Italy	HB	1914–1924	108	9	[3]
Pietro Bronzini	Italy	HB	1919–1926	139	5	[4]
Giuseppe Santagostino	Italy	FW	1921–1932	236	106	[5]
Alfredo De Franceschini	Italy	HB	1922–1929	104	0	[6]
Alessandro Schienoni	Italy	FB	1924–1933	211	0	[7]
Luigi Perversi	Italy	FB	1925–1926 1927–1940	341	0	[8]
Francesco Pomi	Italy	FB	1926–1933	224	1	[9]
Giuseppe Marchi	Italy	HB	1926–1933	134	2	[10]
Giuseppe Torriani	Italy	FW	1927–1935	206	34	[11]
Dario Compiani	Italy	GK	1927–1935	220	0	[12]
Pietro Arcari	Italy	FW	1930–1936	186	70	[13]
Giuseppe Bonizzoni	Italy	FB	1931–1940	266	2	[14]
Giovanni Moretti	Italy	FW	1931–1939	223	68	[15]
Antonio Bortoletti	Italy	HB	1933–1940	225	1	[16]
Carlo Rigotti	Italy	HB	1933–1937	124	0	[17]
Mario Zorzan	Italy	GK	1935–1941	176	0	[18]
Aldo Boffi	Italy	FW	1936–1943	187	131	[19]
Giuseppe Antonini	/  Italy	HB	1937–1944, 1945–1949	275	23	[20]
Enrico Boniforti	Italy	FB	1939–1943	109	5	[21]
Gianni Toppan	/  Italy	HB	1940–1948	150	1	[22]
Giovanni Rossetti	/  Italy	GK	1941–1951	146	0	[23]
Andrea Bonomi	/  Italy	HB	1942–1952	233	3	[24]
Omero Tognon	/  Italy	HB	1945–1956	342	2	[25]
Ettore Puricelli	/  Italy	FW	1945–1949	116	57	[26]
Carlo Annovazzi	/  Italy	HB	1945–1953	287	55	[27]
Riccardo Carapellese	Italy	FW	1946–1949	106	52	[28]
Mario Foglia	Italy	FB	1946–1951	127	0	[29]
Renzo Burini	Italy	FW	1948–1953	194	88	[30]
Gunnar Nordahl	Sweden	FW	1949–1956	268	221	[31]
Gunnar Gren	Sweden	HB	1949–1953	137	38	[32]
Nils Liedholm	Sweden	HB	1949–1961	394	89	[33]
Lorenzo Buffon	Italy	GK	1950–1959	300	0	[34]
Arturo Silvestri	Italy	FB	1950–1955	163	7	[35]
Amleto Frignani	Italy	FW	1951–1956	142	29	[36]
Francesco Zagatti	Italy	FB	1952–1962	252	2	[37]
Eros Beraldo	Italy	HB	1952–1959	133	4	[38]
Alfio Fontana	Italy	FB	1953–1955, 1956–1960	170	7	[39]
Mario Bergamaschi	Italy	HB	1953–1958	151	4	[40]
Cesare Maldini	Italy	FB	1954–1966	412	3	[41]
Juan Alberto Schiaffino	Uruguay /  Italy	HB	1954–1960	171	60	[42]
Carlo Galli	Italy	FW	1956–1961	128	57	[43]
Giovanni Trapattoni	Italy	MF	1958–1971	351	6	[44]
Mario Trebbi	Italy	FB	1958–1966	167	1	[45]
José Altafini	Brazil /  Italy	FW	1958–1965	246	161	[46]
Giorgio Ghezzi	Italy	GK	1959–1965	144	0	[47]
Ambrogio Pelagalli	Italy	HB	1960, 1961–1966	154	1	[48]
Mario David	Italy	FB	1960–1965	140	8	[49]
Gianni Rivera	Italy	MF	1960–1979	658	164	[50]
Giovanni Lodetti	Italy	MF	1962–1970	288	26	[51]
Bruno Mora	Italy	FW	1962–1969	148	33	[52]
Dario Barluzzi	Italy	GK	1962–1967	102	0	[53]
Giuliano Fortunato	Italy	FW	1962–1967	104	22	[54]
Amarildo	Brazil	FW	1963–1967	131	38	[55]
Nello Santin	Italy	DF	1963–1969	104	0	[56]
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger	West Germany	DF	1965–1974	334	3	[57]
Angelo Sormani	Italy	FW	1965–1970	180	65	[58]
Roberto Rosato	Italy	DF	1966–1973	269	8	[59]
Pierino Prati	Italy	FW	1966, 1967–1973	209	102	[60]
Angelo Anquilletti	Italy	DF	1966–1977	418	2	[61]
Fabio Cudicini	Italy	GK	1967–1972	183	0	[62]
Romeo Benetti	Italy	MF	1970–1976	251	49	[63]
Giorgio Biasiolo	Italy	MF	1970–1977	215	17	[64]
Giulio Zignoli	Italy	DF	1970–1974, 1975–1976	110	1	[65]
Alberto Bigon	Italy	MF	1971–1980	329	90	[66]
Giuseppe Sabadini	Italy	DF	1971–1978	244	17	[67]
Aldo Maldera	Italy	DF	1972, 1973–1982	310	39	[68]
Luciano Chiarugi	Italy	FW	1972–1976	155	60	[69]
Maurizio Turone	Italy	DF	1972–1978	191	2	[70]
Walter De Vecchi	Italy	MF	1974, 1978–1981	112	11	[71]
Enrico Albertosi	Italy	GK	1974–1980	233	0	[72]
Aldo Bet	Italy	DF	1974–1981	204	2	[73]
Egidio Calloni	Italy	FW	1974–1978	143	54	[74]
Fulvio Collovati	Italy	DF	1976–1982	198	8	[75]
Giorgio Morini	Italy	U	1976–1980	107	7	[76]
Ruben Buriani	Italy	MF	1977–1982	180	14	[77]
Roberto Antonelli	Italy	FW	1977–1982	143	32	[78]
Franco Baresi	Italy	DF	1978–1997	719	33	[79]
Walter Novellino	Italy	MF	1978–1982	151	14	[80]
Francesco Romano	Italy	MF	1979–1983	108	4	[81]
Sergio Battistini	Italy	MF	1979–1985	201	37	[82]
Ottorino Piotti	Italy	GK	1980–1984	132	0	[83]
Mauro Tassotti	Italy	DF	1980–1997	583	10	[84]
Andrea Icardi	Italy	MF	1981–1986	162	6	[85]
Alberigo Evani	Italy	MF	1981–1993	393	19	[86]
Vinicio Verza	Italy	MF	1982–1985	106	17	[87]
Filippo Galli	Italy	DF	1983–1996	325	4	[88]
Agostino Di Bartolomei	Italy	MF	1984–1987	122	14	[89]
Pietro Paolo Virdis	Italy	FW	1984–1989	186	76	[90]
Ray Wilkins	England	MF	1984–1987	105	3	[91]
Paolo Maldini	Italy	DF	1985–2009	902	33	[92]
Alessandro Costacurta	Italy	DF	1986, 1987–2007	663	3	[93]
Roberto Donadoni	Italy	MF	1986–1996, 1997–1999	390	23	[94]
Giovanni Galli	Italy	GK	1986–1990	147	0	[95]
Daniele Massaro	Italy	FW	1986–1988, 1989–1995	306	70	[96]
Carlo Ancelotti	Italy	MF	1987–1992	160	11	[97]
Angelo Colombo	Italy	MF	1987–1990	115	7	[98]
Ruud Gullit	Netherlands	MF	1987–1993, 1994	171	56	[99]
Marco van Basten	Netherlands	FW	1987–1993	201	124	[100]
Frank Rijkaard	Netherlands	MF	1988–1993	201	26	[101]
Demetrio Albertini	Italy	MF	1989–1990, 1991–2002	406	28	[102]
Marco Simone	Italy	FW	1989–1997, 2001–2002	260	75	[103]
Sebastiano Rossi	Italy	GK	1990–2002	330	0	[104]
Stefano Eranio	Italy	MF	1992–1997	140	12	[105]
Dejan Savićević	Yugoslavia	MF	1992–1998	144	34	[106]
Zvonimir Boban	Yugoslavia /  Croatia	MF	1992–2001	251	30	[107]
Christian Panucci	Italy	DF	1993–1997	134	12	[108]
Marcel Desailly	France	MF	1993–1998	186	7	[109]
George Weah	Liberia	FW	1995–1999	147	58	[110]
Massimo Ambrosini	Italy	MF	1995–1997, 1998–2013	489	36	[111]
Leonardo	Brazil	FW	1997–2001, 2002–2003	124	30	[112]
Oliver Bierhoff	Germany	FW	1998–2001	119	44	[113]
Thomas Helveg	Denmark	DF	1998–2003	147	2	[114]
Christian Abbiati	Italy	GK	1999–2005, 2008–	378	0	[115]
Andriy Shevchenko	Ukraine	FW	1999–2006, 2008–2009	322	175	[116]
Serginho	Brazil	DF	1999–2008	281	24	[117]
Gennaro Gattuso	Italy	MF	1999–2012	468	11	[118]
Dida	Brazil	GK	2000–2001, 2002–2010	302	0	[119]
Kakha Kaladze	/  Georgia	DF	2001–2009	284	13	[120]
Cristian Brocchi	Italy	MF	2001–2005, 2006–2008	161	6	[121]
Filippo Inzaghi	Italy	FW	2001–2012	300	126	[122]
Rui Costa	Portugal	MF	2001–2006	192	11	[123]
Andrea Pirlo	Italy	MF	2001–2011	401	41	[124]
Dario Šimić	Croatia	DF	2002–2008	129	1	[125]
Jon Dahl Tomasson	Denmark	FW	2002–2005	115	36	[126]
Alessandro Nesta	Italy	DF	2002–2012	326	10	[127]
Clarence Seedorf	Netherlands	MF	2002–2012	432	62	[128]
Cafu	Brazil	DF	2003–2008	166	4	[129]
Kaká	Brazil	MF	2003–2009, 2013–2014	307	104	[130]
Ignazio Abate	Italy	DF	2003–2004, 2009–	219	2	[131]
Alberto Gilardino	Italy	FW	2005–2008	132	44	[132]
Marek Jankulovski	Czech Republic	DF	2005–2011	158	5	[133]
Daniele Bonera	Italy	DF	2006–2015	201	0	[134]
Alexandre Pato	Brazil	FW	2008–2012	150	63	[135]
Mathieu Flamini	France	MF	2008–2013	122	8	[136]
Gianluca Zambrotta	Italy	DF	2008–2012	107	2	[137]
Luca Antonini	Italy	DF	2008–2013	111	1	[138]
Thiago Silva	Brazil	DF	2009–2012	119	6	[139]
Kevin-Prince Boateng	Ghana	MF	2010–2013, 2016–	107	18	[140]
Robinho	Brazil	FW	2010–2014	144	32	[141]
Urby Emanuelson	Netherlands	MF	2011–2013, 2013–2014	106	5	[142]
Philippe Mexès	France	DF	2011–	112	7	[143]
Stephan El Shaarawy	Italy	FW	2011–2015	102	27	[144]
Riccardo Montolivo	Italy	MF	2012–	113	7	[145]

Club captains

Since 1899, 40 players have held the position of club captain for Milan.^[146] The first club captain was David Allison, who filled the role for the inaugural season.^[146] The longest-serving club captain is Franco Baresi, who captained the club from 1982 to 1997.^[146] Baresi also has the distinction of having won the most trophies as club captain, with 18; he won five Serie A tiles, five Italian Super Cups, three European Cup/Champions League titles, three European Super Cups and two Intercontinental Cups. The current club captain is Riccardo Montolivo, who took over after Massimo Ambrosini left Milan in 2013.

List of A.C. Milan club captains

Dates[146]	Name	Nationality	Notes
1899–1900	David Allison	England	First club captain and one of the charter members of the club[147]
1900–1908	Herbert Kilpin	England	Founding father of the club; also served as player-manager from 1899 to 1906[148]
1908–1909	Gerolamo Radice	Italy	First club captain from Italy
1909–1910	Guido Moda	Italy
1910–1911	Max Tobias	Belgium
1911–1913	Giuseppe Rizzi	Italy
1913–1915	Louis Van Hege	Belgium
1915–1916	Marco Sala	Italy
1916–1919	Aldo Cevenini	Italy
1919–1921	Alessandro Scarioni	Italy
1921–1922	Cesare Lovati	Italy
1922–1924	Francesco Soldera	Italy
1924–1926	Pietro Bronzini	Italy
1926–1927	Gianangelo Barzan	Italy
1927–1929	Abdon Sgarbi	Italy
1929–1930	Alessandro Schienoni	Italy
1930–1933	Mario Magnozzi	Italy
1933–1934	Carlo Rigotti	Italy
1934–1936	Giuseppe Bonizzoni	Italy
1936–1938	Luigi Perversi	Italy
1938–1939	Giuseppe Bonizzoni (2)	Italy
1939–1940	Antonio Bortoletti	Italy
1940–1941	Bruno Arcari	Italy
1941–1942	Giuseppe Meazza	Italy
1942–1944	Giuseppe Antonini	Italy
1944–1945	Paolo Todeschini	Italy
1945–1948	Giuseppe Antonini (2)	/  Italy
1948	Ettore Puricelli	Italy
1948–1952	Andrea Bonomi	Italy
1952–1953	Carlo Annovazzi	Italy
1953–1954	Omero Tognon	Italy
1954–1956	Gunnar Nordahl	Sweden
1956–1961	Nils Liedholm	Sweden
1961	Francesco Zagatti	Italy
1961–1966	Cesare Maldini	Italy
1966–1975	Gianni Rivera	Italy
1975–1976	Romeo Benetti	Italy
1976–1979	Gianni Rivera (2)	Italy
1979–1980	Alberto Bigon	Italy
1980–1981	Aldo Maldera	Italy
1981–1982	Fulvio Collovati	Italy
1982–1997	Franco Baresi	Italy	Won more trophies than any other Milan captain
1997–2009	Paolo Maldini	Italy
2009–2013	Massimo Ambrosini	Italy
2013–	Riccardo Montolivo	Italy

Notes

References

General

• "Totali presenze" [Appearance totals] (PDF). magliarossonera.it (in Italian). Retrieved 16 April 2014. 
• "Totali gol" [Goal totals] (PDF). magliarossonera.it (in Italian). Retrieved 16 April 2014. 

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