SAN SIRO - STADIO GIUSEPPE MEAZZA - THE HISTORY

THE HISTORY OF THE SAN SIRO, OR THE STADIO GIUSEPPE MEAZZA SINCE IT WAS BUILT IN 1925/26 Stadio San Siro was a project of former AC Milan president Piero Pirelli. In the first two decades of the 20th century, Milan had already occupied various grounds, and by the early 1920s played at a ground at the Viale Lombardia. Though a perfectly fine ground, it soon turned out to be too small for the club’s growing number of fans, and therefore architect Stacchini, also responsible for Milan’s central station, was hired to design a complete new stadium. Stadio San Siro officially opened on 19 September 1926 with a friendly between Milan and Inter (3-6). The stadium initially consisted of four separate stands and could hold 35,000 spectators. San Siro was first owned by AC Milan, but was sold to the city of Milan in 1935, who were soon forced too enlarge the stadium due to the club’s increasing popularity. Plans were made for a massive stadium for 150,000 spectators, but these were in the end significantly scaled d