Milan Begin Serie A Title Defence With Udinese Visit In Mid-August

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AC Milan will start out their Serie A title defence with the pay a visit to of Udinese right after the 2022/23 season’s fixture checklist was declared on Friday.

Stefano Pioli’s side then facial area Atalanta, Bologna and Sassuolo just before internet hosting the initial Milan derby of the season in early September.

Milan took the Scudetto from Inter on the closing day of last season’s enthralling title race and will probably be performing battle with their community rivals — who are set to provide back again Romelu Lukaku — for the title in a marketing campaign which commences previously than usual.

The opening round of fixtures are on August 13, because of to the Earth Cup which kicks off in Qatar in November, and finishes on June 4 following 12 months.

The initially 7 days of the season will be held about when Italian families traditionally established off to the seaside, lakes or mountains on getaway to escape the powerful summer time warmth.

The league will split from November 13 to make area for the Environment Cup but not like the Leading League will not return in December, with the motion starting up up yet again on January 4.

Inter start out with a vacation to Serie B champions Lecce, just one of only a few teams from Italy’s southern regions, ahead of experiencing Spezia, Lazio and promoted Cremonese right before their to start with area derby of the time.

Should the time go down to the wire as it did in Could, there are some significant matches in the final few weeks which could have an effects on the desired destination of the title.

Juventus, hotly-tipped to signal totally free agent Paul Pogba, host Milan in the penultimate spherical of fixtures, when Inter await rivals Atalanta at the San Siro.

The week before Inter vacation south to Napoli, who ended up very well in the title race final time right up until they fell away in the final months of the campaign.

Milan enthusiasts will welcome again previous owner Silvio Berlusconi in late October when promoted Monza visit the San Siro through the 11th round of fixtures.

Along with right-hand guy Adriano Galliani, previous Italian key minister and media mogul Berlusconi took Monza into the Italian prime flight for the very first time in their heritage by way of the Serie B perform-offs, four several years after acquiring the club.

Monza will host Torino and Udinese and travel to Napoli in an intriguing commence for the formidable club, who signed former Italy defender Andrea Ranocchia this month and are near to using really-rated goalkeeper Alessio Cragno from relegated Cagliari.

Berlusconi and Galliani gained 29 trophies with Milan in between 1986 and 2016 — such as five of seven European Cups — when the club was bought to Chinese traders led by Li Yonghong.

Li was then forced to hand Milan in excess of to American financial investment fund Elliott two several years later right after failing to repay debts taken out to acquire the club.

Milan declared previously this thirty day period that they would be bought to a further US fund RedBird around the summertime.