Italy national under-18 football team
| Nickname | Gli Azzurrini (The Little Blues) | ||||||||
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| Association | Italian Football Federation (FIGC) | ||||||||
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||||||||
| Head coach | Daniele Franceschini | ||||||||
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| Home stadium | Stadio "Livio Luzi", Camerino | ||||||||
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The Italian national under-18 football team represents Italy in international football at an under-18 age level and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation (Federazione Italiana Gioco Calcio), the governing body for football in Italy. The team was known as Italy national under-17 football team prior 2001.
The current coach is Daniele Franceschini.
The under-18 team were compose of players from Italy national under-17 football team of the previous season, as well as new call-up. The team acted as the feeder team of Italy national under-19 football team, which compete in UEFA European Under-19 Championship.
Before 2001, the name of the under-18 team was Italian national under-17 football team (as well as the current under-19 team, was named under-18). However, the age limit of the team was always under-17 (calendar age) at the start of season, or under-18 (calendar age) at the end of season. In the past, the cut-off date was on 1 August instead of 1 January.[5]
Current squad
The following players were called up for the friendly matches against South Korea, United Arab Emirates and Croatia on 3, 6 and 9 September 2025.[6]
Caps and goals correct as of 9 September 2025, after the match against Croatia.
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| 1 | GK | Alessandro Longoni | 31 January 2008 | 2 | 0 | Milan |
| 12 | GK | Francesco Cereser | 5 January 2008 | 1 | 0 | Torino |
| 2 | DF | Dauda Iddrisa | 8 January 2008 | 2 | 0 | West Bromwich Albion |
| 3 | DF | Laurence Giani | 11 March 2008 | 2 | 0 | Stoke City |
| 5 | DF | Leonardo Bovio | 4 February 2008 | 2 | 0 | Inter |
| 6 | DF | Alessandro Rinaldi | 10 January 2008 | 2 | 0 | Atalanta |
| 13 | DF | Jean Mambuku | 8 July 2008 | 2 | 0 | Stade de Reims |
| 15 | DF | Cristiano De Paoli | 27 January 2008 | 2 | 0 | Udinese |
| 16 | DF | Gabriele Colaciuri | 6 June 2008 | 1 | 0 | Fiorentina |
| 23 | DF | Davide Sorino | 2 March 2008 | 1 | 1 | Inter |
| DF | Davide Pavesi | 15 February 2008 | 0 | 0 | Cremonese | |
| 4 | MF | Vincenzo Prisco | 27 August 2008 | 2 | 0 | Napoli |
| 8 | MF | Federico Steffanoni | 4 September 2008 | 3 | 0 | Atalanta |
| 11 | MF | Andrea Luongo | 16 February 2008 | 3 | 1 | Torino |
| 14 | MF | Alessio Baralla | 5 February 2008 | 2 | 0 | Empoli |
| 17 | MF | Valerio Maccaroni | 3 June 2008 | 1 | 0 | Roma |
| 18 | MF | Fabio Pandolfi | 24 May 2008 | 3 | 0 | Milan |
| 7 | FW | Destiny Elimoghale | 23 April 2009 | 2 | 2 | Juventus |
| 9 | FW | Antonio Arena | 10 February 2009 | 2 | 0 | Roma |
| 10 | FW | Samuele Inácio | 2 April 2008 | 1 | 0 | Borussia Dortmund |
| 19 | FW | Luca Costa | 28 January 2008 | 2 | 0 | Cagliari |
| 20 | FW | Edoardo Zanaga | 13 March 2008 | 2 | 0 | Empoli |
| 21 | FW | Danilo Busiello | 22 June 2008 | 2 | 0 | Empoli |
References
- ^ "Nazionale in cifre – Classifica Marcatori – Nazionale U17". Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ "Nazionale in cifre – Classifica Marcatori – Nazionale U18". Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ "Nazionale in cifre – Elenco Gare – Nazionale U17". Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ "Nazionale in cifre – Elenco Gare – Nazionale U18". Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ "2001/2002 European Under-19 Preliminary Round Draw". UEFA. 7 November 2000. Archived from the original on 22 April 2001.
Name change: On 13 April 2000, the UEFA Executive Committee endorsed a proposal made by the Youth Committee to re-name then competition in order to reflect reality. A few years ago, FIFA changed the cut-off date for age-limit competitions from 1 August to 1 January, which means that players are up to seven months older. This means that Under-18 players can be over 19 by the time they reach the final phase of the European Under-18 Championship. Therefore, for greater coherency, UEFA renamed the Under-18 competition as the European Under-19 Championship.
- ^ "Torneo internazionale dal 3 al 9 settembre in Croazia: le scelte del tecnico Massimiliano Favo" (in Italian). Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. 28 August 2025. Retrieved 5 September 2025.