From Italian football 7 billion direct revenues and 12.4 billion contribution to GDP

An industrial sector with almost 7 billion euros in direct revenues and an impact on Italian GDP of 12.4 billion. These are two pivotal figures of the Figc Integrated Balance Sheet, now in its tenth edition, which highlight even more the evolution of a management model that around the current 1.5 million FIGC members has built in recent years a real 'social enterprise', which aims at protecting the territory and enhancing the welfare of the national community, with almost one million students involved in the macro-project "Values in the Network" promoted by the Youth and School Sector and the Ministry of Education and Merit, and more than 50 thousand training/education courses have been provided by the Figc on the subject of Safeguarding.

Limiting the discussion to professionalism, moreover, football allows the country system to obtain a return in tax and social security terms of 20.5 euros for every euro invested, generating an exceptional socio-economic impact.

'Because of its unique ability to unite people, territories and generations, football has a responsibility that goes beyond competition and performance,' emphasised president Gabriele Gravina. 'This is why the FIGC has decided to embark on a convinced and structured path in the field of social and environmental sustainability. We want football to become a real engine of change, capable of producing lasting value, both material and immaterial, for the community. This document reports on the results achieved in a year of extraordinary evolution, where we have embraced challenges that seemed distant from our world and which, instead, have generated a very positive impact. Inclusion, youth empowerment, education, health and environmental protection are just some of the issues that make football today an unparalleled social platform, which deserves even more attention for its commitment and results for the benefit of civil society.

The Azzurri jersey continues to represent the beating heart of the federal action: in 2023-2024 the 20 national teams played 226 matches, with 707 male and female players being called up. The Men's National Team qualified for the third consecutive season to the second phase of the Nations League and was eliminated in the round of 16 of EURO 2024, while the Women's National Team finished second in the Women's Nations League group and in 2025, for the first time, managed to qualify for the Women's European Championships in three categories in the same year, reaching the semi-finals in the three competitions; thanks to these results, the U19 and U17 qualified for their respective editions of the World Cup, while at Uefa Women's Euro 2025 the Azzurre came close to qualifying for the final, losing only to England in extra time in the semi-final. A match that produced TV ratings in Italy of almost 4.1 million, the second highest figure in the history of Italian women's football.

The growth of the men's youth national teams continued, with the victory in 2024 of the Under 17 European title, the first in the history of Italian football, after winning the Under 19 European title and the second place at the Under 20 World Cup (2023), while in 2025 the Under 18 national team won its first historic bronze medal at the World Cup. The performance of the Beach Soccer national team was extraordinary: the Azzurri took second place at the World and European Championships in 2024 (after winning the continental title the year before) and then became European champions again in 2025.