The Italian Football Association launched the Italian League competition immediately after its founding on March 26, 1898, and the first edition was held with the participation of four teams in one day on a dirt floor in the Umberto I Velodrome in Turin
in front of an audience of no more than 150 people, so that the Italian League witnessed since then radical changes to its statute. And he records great successes for his clubs on the continental and international arena, and a great development
in public follow-up and attracting the brightest and most skilled football stars in the world until he became described as a football paradise in the eighties of the last century. Although his reputation declined after the Calciopoli scandal,
he developed rapidly in the last decade, and is currently achieving tremendous growth in financial revenues, which amounted to approximately 2.5 billion euros in the 2018-19 season.
Historically, Italian clubs are considered among the most European clubs to reach the finals and win continental titles after the Spanish clubs, with 36 European championships divided as follows: the European Champions League 12 titles,
the European Union Cup 9 titles, the European Super Cup 9 titles, the Cup Winners’ Cup 7 titles, and why? AC Milan has the lion's share of it, with 14 titles, in which it ranks second in Europe after Real Madrid. Milan is also one of the
most successful clubs in the world in terms of winning international and continental titles with 18 titles. On the other hand, Juventus is the most successful Italian team locally with 56 titles. Inter Milan is proud to be the only Italian
team that achieved the historic treble in the 2009-10 season. It should be noted that three of the founding clubs of the G-14 group, the pressure force of European clubs in negotiating with UEFA, are playing in the Italian League, namely
Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan. In terms of individual awards, Italian clubs have the lion's share of winning the Ballon d'Or award 20 times.
Currently (February 2021), the Italian league is ranked third among European leagues, depending on the results of its clubs in the European championships, and the best in the world at the end of 2020, according to the classification
of the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS).