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• 1926 Built by Milan's president as a gift to the club Milan, Italy Piero Pirelli funded an English-style ground with stands close to the pitch and no running track, unusual in Italy at the time.
• 1926 San Siro opens Milan, Italy Officially the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, shared by AC Milan and Internazionale. Its 1990 rebuild added eleven concrete helix towers and a red girder roof. Capacity 75,923.
• 1935 The city of Milan buys the ground Milan, Italy Built privately by AC Milan's president, the stadium passed to the municipality, which still owns it.
• 1939 Capacity reaches 55,000 Milan, Italy A first major expansion added curved sections behind both goals, filling in the original rectangular plan.
• 1945 Football restarts after the war Milan, Italy The ground survived the bombing of Milan largely intact and returned to use as the league resumed.
• 1947 Internazionale move in Milan, Italy Inter left the Arena Civica to share San Siro with Milan, an arrangement that has lasted ever since and made it one of the busiest grounds in Europe.
• 1955 The second tier is added Milan, Italy A ring of nineteen spiral ramps and a new upper deck raised capacity to 100,000, giving the stadium its distinctive external form.
• 1957 The spiral ramps are completed Milan, Italy Nineteen external helical ramps were built to move crowds to the new upper tier, and became the stadium's defining feature for thirty years.
• 1963 Milan win the European Cup Milan, Italy The first Italian club to take the trophy, beating Benfica at Wembley.
• 1965 European Cup final Milan, Italy Internazionale beat Benfica 1–0 to retain the trophy — the last time a club won a European Cup final in its own stadium until 2012.
• 1965 Internazionale win at home in Europe Milan, Italy Inter beat Benfica 1–0 in the European Cup final played at San Siro, a rare instance of a club winning the trophy in its own stadium.
• 1970 European Cup final Milan, Italy Feyenoord beat Celtic 2–1 after extra time, the first Dutch club to win the trophy and the start of Dutch dominance of the competition.
• 1979 The record crowd Milan, Italy An officially recorded 85,000 attended a Milan derby, the highest attendance ever registered at the ground.
• 1980 Renamed for Giuseppe Meazza Milan, Italy The ground was formally renamed after the forward who had played for both Inter and Milan, two years after his death. Almost nobody uses the official name.
• 1980 The stadium is named after Giuseppe Meazza Milan, Italy The forward who won two World Cups with Italy and played for both Milan clubs was honoured two years after his death. The name has never caught on with supporters.
• 1986 Berlusconi buys Milan Milan, Italy Silvio Berlusconi took over a club in financial collapse and built the side of Gullit, Van Basten and Rijkaard that would dominate Europe.
• 1989 Milan 5–0 Real Madrid Milan, Italy A European Cup semi-final second leg regarded as one of the great performances in the competition's history.
• 1990 Rebuilt for the World Cup Milan, Italy Eleven concrete helix towers and a red steel roof were added for Italia 90, a rebuild carried out while both clubs kept playing.
• 1990 The World Cup opening match Milan, Italy Cameroon beat the holders Argentina 1–0 at San Siro in one of the great tournament upsets, with two Cameroonian players sent off.
• 1990 The third tier and the towers Milan, Italy Eleven concrete cylinders carrying spiral ramps were added for Italia 90, with a red steel roof laid across the top. The rebuild happened around a stadium still in weekly use.
• 1994 Milan win the Champions League Milan, Italy A 4–0 defeat of Barcelona in Athens, in a final Milan were expected to lose.
• 2001 The Milan derby at 6–0 Milan, Italy Milan beat Internazionale by six goals in the league, one of the heaviest results in the fixture's history.
• 2003 An all-Milan Champions League semi-final Milan, Italy Milan and Inter met over two legs both played at San Siro, with both clubs alternating as home side in the same building.
• 2005 A derby abandoned by flares Milan, Italy The Champions League quarter-final against Milan was called off after flares thrown from the Inter end struck the Milan goalkeeper. Inter were fined and ordered to play behind closed doors.
• 2007 Milan win a seventh European Cup Milan, Italy Revenge for Istanbul two years earlier, beating Liverpool 2–1 in Athens.
• 2010 Inter win the treble Milan, Italy Under Mourinho, Inter became the first Italian club to win the league, cup and Champions League in a single season.
• 2016 Champions League final Milan, Italy Real Madrid beat Atlético Madrid on penalties, the second all-Madrid final in three years.
• 2016 Champions League final Milan, Italy Real Madrid beat Atlético Madrid on penalties, the second all-Madrid final in three seasons and the fourth European Cup final staged at San Siro.
• 2019 Both clubs announce plans to leave Milan, Italy Milan and Inter proposed a new shared stadium next door and the demolition of San Siro, beginning a planning fight that would run for years.
• 2023 The city moves to protect the ground Milan, Italy Heritage rules covering buildings over seventy years old raised the prospect that the second tier could not legally be demolished, complicating the clubs' plans.
• 2025 The clubs buy the stadium Milan, Italy Milan and Inter agreed to purchase San Siro and the surrounding land from the city, taking control of its future for the first time in ninety years.
• 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony Milan, Italy The Milano-Cortina Games opened at San Siro, the first Winter Olympic ceremony held in a football stadium.