AC Monza

[3] The new club established their first headquarters in the Roma coffeehouse located on the similarly named town square in Monza;[1] the team initially wore a blue and white kit.

[8] Monza first participated in the Terza Categoria [it] (third level) in the 1913–14 season [it]; they played their first match on 4 January 1914,[9] losing 3–1 at home against Fanfulla.

[18] In 1919, Monza hosted the Czechoslovakia military national team[19] for a friendly game at Grazie Vecchie field that ended in a 1–1 draw.

[20] Their first game was played on 24 October 1920, a 4–1 home defeat to Milan; Francesco Mandelli scored Monza's lone goal.

[23] Due to a restructuring of the league system, Monza were moved to the Seconda Divisione (second level) for the 1922–23 season;[24] they avoided relegation by beating Chiasso and Canottieri Lecco in the play-offs.

[41] Against most experts' pre-season expectations, Monza finished the 1952–53 Serie B in fourth position, three points behind automatic promotion in second place.

[48] Despite Monza's stable financial situation,[b] no one was interested in purchasing the club; Sada decided to remain president for the following season.

[53] After winning the 1966–67 play-off game against Como 1–0, thanks to a lone goal by Gianluigi Maggioni [it] in the 32nd minute, Monza were promoted back to the Serie B after one year.

[59] Five matches before the end of the 1975–76 season, Monza were promoted back to the Serie B;[60] they also won an Anglo-Italian Cup on 19 June 1976, beating Wimbledon 1–0 in the final through a Francesco Casagrande [it] goal.

[67] In Cappelletti's last season as president, in 1979–80, Monza failed to gain promotion to the top flight for the fourth consecutive year.

[76] In the 1986–87 Serie C1 [it], players such as Alessandro Costacurta, Francesco Antonioli and Pierluigi Casiraghi, who later became established names in Italian football, made their professional debuts with Monza.

[92] The following season, newly promoted Monza changed most of their roster, introducing young players, many of whom came from Milan's youth sector.

[94] In April 1999,[91] after 19 years of presidency, Giambelli left the club amid criticism from fans concerning Monza's close connection with Milan and their CEO Adriano Galliani.

[100] On 3 June the same year, the club was acquired by Atalanta vice-president Gian Battista Begnini,[101] who renamed it AC Monza Brianza 1912.

[106] On 13 July 2009, Begnini sold the club to the PaSport holding company, headed by former Milan player Clarence Seedorf.

[115] In May 2016, the club changed its name to SS Monza 1912 and achieved promotion back to the Serie C under coach Marco Zaffaroni in 2017.

[119] According to Forbes's 2021 ranking, Berlusconi was the richest owner of a football club in Italy, and ninth worldwide, with his fortune being valued at $7.6 billion.

[126] On 8 June, the Italian Football Federation formally declared Monza champions and the team were promoted to the Serie B after a 19-year absence from the competition.

[28] The change came as a result of professor Giuseppe Riva's report addressed to the comune of Monza in May 1923, in which he discovered that the city's historical colours were red and white.

[150] In 1971, Monza's home kit underwent a slight but significant change: a vertical white band was added on the left-hand side, running through the length of the red shirt.

[154] On 22 August 1979, during a 1979–80 Coppa Italia game against Milan, Monza displayed the players' names on top of the numbers on the back, a novelty at the time dubbed "all'Americana" (American style); the Italian Football Federation did not approve of the change and fined the club.

[158] On their 110th anniversary on 1 September 2022, Monza introduced a light blue kit as their third colours for the 2022–23 season in honour of the club's first shirt.

[161] In 1933, the badge became circular and was vertically divided into red and white halves, and included golden initials ACM with the crown at the bottom.

[162] It stayed the same until 1945, following World War II, when it changed to a rectangular shape that was divided into red and white halves.

[163] Following Monza's promotion to the Serie B in 1951, the crest again became oval shaped and the text's orientation was changed from vertical to horizontal.

[164] This design lasted five years until Monza's merger with Simmenthal, when the logo became more detailed; the badge was shaped like an ox head, including the horns.

[169] The logo remained until 2004, when a new crest was introduced: it was a more rounded red shield with white details; "AC Monza Brianza" was written on top, and a depiction of a sword "cutting through" a crown – both drawn in a minimalist style – was placed on the bottom.

A modified version of the logo was announced to mark the occasion: a gold crown with red and white gems was placed on top of the crest.

[186] Monza re-opened the east stand – which had been closed for 20 years – ahead of the 2022–23 Serie A season,[187] bringing the maximum seating capacity from 10,000 to about 17,000.

[191] Following Berlusconi's takeover of the club in 2018, attendance figures started to rise and new supporter groups began to emerge.

Eleven players of Monza in three rows wearing collared shirts facing the camera
Monza's first lineup in 1912
Eleven players of Monza and their head coach in three rows wearing a white kit with a red vertical stripe facing the camera
Starting from the 1933–34 season , Monza wore red-and-white kits.
On the bottom left, a picture of eleven football players in a stadium. On the right, a trophy with a football on top
The 1973–74 Coppa Italia Semiprofessionisti won by Monza
The Brianteo stadium during the nighttime, with the grandstand on the left
The Stadio Brianteo (2022) has hosted Monza's home games since 1988.
A picture public bus from behind, with a picture of a man wearing a red shirt and hat posing for an advertisement against racism
A bus with advertising by Anthony Armstrong Emery against racism in football (2013)
Monza players on an open top bus. A player is holding a red flare.
Monza players celebrating on an open top bus their first Serie A promotion in 2022
Eleven players of Monza in two rows wearing red shirts with a thin white stripe facing the camera
Monza's kits first featured the white vertical line in 1971; the Corona Ferrea was placed on the stripe as a logo.
A black and white illustration of an oval crown
The Corona Ferrea has been used in Monza's badges since 1920.
A red and white badge with "AC MONZA BRIANZA" written on it
The badge used by Monza between 2004 and 2013
A black and white photo of a football pitch during a match
The Grazie Vecchie field during a game between Monza and Czechoslovakia in 1919
A football pitch with a goal net in the foreground, and a grandstand on the left
The Stadio Gino Alfonso Sada (2013) hosted Monza's games between 1945 and 1988.
The front entrance gate of AC Monza's Centro sportivo Silvio e Luigi Berlusconi – Monzello, with trees in the background
Centro sportivo Silvio e Luigi Berlusconi – Monzello in 2024
Football fans holding red and white banners in a stadium to form a colourful patern
A tifo by Curva Sud fans in a match against Renate in 2019
Monza fans singing " chi non salta è un pisano " (whoever is not jumping is from Pisa), following their Serie B play-off win against Pisa in 2022
Adriano Galliani wearing a jacket and tie speaking into a microphone
Adriano Galliani (2016) has been deputy chairman and CEO of Monza since 2018.
Alessandro Nesta as Miami FC Manager
Alessandro Nesta (2016) was appointed head coach of Monza in 2025.
Football players celebrating. The team's captain lifts a cup. Red and white confetti is shot in the background.
Monza players celebrating their first Serie A promotion in 2022, after winning the Serie B promotion play-offs