ROMA (ITALPRESS) – An ever more oriented path towards the dimension of the real “social enterprise”, but also a fundamental presidium on the territory and a strategic tool to accompany and support the protection and enhancement of the welfare of the national community. The integrated balance sheet Figc, which reached its tenth edition, has allowed in time to analyze the evolution of the management model of the Federation, which counts 1,5 million members and that, limiting the speech only to professionalism, allows the System Country to obtain a return in fiscal and social terms pairs to 20,5 euros for each invested euro, generating an exceptional socio-economic impact.
In addition to representing an industrial sector of great importance (almost 7 billion euros of direct revenues and an impact on the Italian GDP of 12,4 billion euros), the calcium ecosystem continues in its commitment in the field of human rights and environmental protection: Almost one million students were involved in the macro-project “Network Values” promoted by the Youth and School Sector and the Ministry of Education and Merit, and over 50 thousand training/education courses were provided by Figc on the theme of planning.
“For its unique ability to unite people, territories and generations, football has a responsibility that goes beyond competition and performance – says President Gabriele Gravina – For this reason Figc has decided to take 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, material and intangible value for the community.”.
“This document – Gravina added – reports the results achieved in a year of extraordinary evolution, where we embraced challenges that seemed distant from our world and which, instead, have generated a very positive impact. Inclusion, valorisation of young people, education, health and the environment, are just some of the themes that make football today an unequal social platform, which deserves even greater attention to commitment and results for the benefit of civil society”.
The blue jersey continues to represent the heart of the federal action: in 2023-2024 the 20 Nationals played 226 games, with the call of 707 players and footballers. The Men’s National A qualified for the third consecutive season at the second stage of the Nations League and was eliminated in the eighths of Euro2024, while the female one obtained the second place in the group of the Nations League and in the course of 2025, for the first time, managed to qualify for the Women’s Europe in three categories in the same year, reaching the semifinals in the three competitions; thanks to these results, the U19 and U17 qualified for the respective editions of the World Championships, while the Europeans the Blues have touched the qualification to the final, losing only against England in the extra time of the semifinal.
A match that produced TV ratings in Italy amounting to almost €4.1 million, the second highest figure in the history of Italian female football. The growth of the male youth nationals continued, with the victory in the course of 2024 of the European title Under 17, the first in the history of Italian football, after the conquest of the European Under 19 and the second place at the World Under 20 (2023), while in 2025 the National Under 18 obtained the first historical bronze medal at the World Cup. Extraordinary the performance of the National beach soccer team: the Azzurri won the second world and European place in 2024 (after the continental title won the year before) and then returned European champions in 2025. In addition to the development of the Nationals, in 2024 the Federation has also carried out all the other main strategic programs of reference, beginning with the valorization of youth, at a sports, educational and social level.
To be noted, in particular, the framework agreement between Figc and MIM, aimed at promoting sports and raising awareness of young people to respect, correct typhus and inclusion; In the context of the macro-project of educational, motor and socio-educative activities “Valori in Rete”, between 2016 and 2024 almost a million students were involved.
Another theme of ever greater centrality in federal action is sustainability: Federcalcio is in fact the first sports federation in Italy to have presented its own strategy, inspired by the UN Agenda 2030 and the Uefa sustainability strategy, with the identification of more than 60 KPI (Key Performance Indicators) and 70 clear, measurable and monitorable strategic objectives, that Italian football, understood as the only ecosystem, intends to reach by 2030 on 11 different policies included in the field of human rights and antiracism, safeguarding, equality and inclusion, football for all skills, health and well-being, support for refugees, emergency and rights, circular economy, climate emergency, sustainability of events and infrastructure.
In the course of 2024 it was also launched “Sostenabilia” (www.sostenabilia.it), a multimedia platform created to value and collect in a single container all the initiatives developed within the social and environmental sustainability strategy of Figc. Considering the path towards the future, the theme of the modernization of sports infrastructure, strongly connected to that of the great football events of international level.
The profile of excellence of our country and the football system in the organization of these events has been confirmed on several occasions, within a medium-long term strategic path, aimed at enhancing the positive legacy and legacy of the great events. From 2009 to today were nine events organized: two Champions League men’s finals, two of the Champions League women, one of Europa League, the European Under-21 of 2019, the four Euro2020 races, the Finals of Nations League 2021 and, more recently, the European Super Cup 2025, hosted (for the first time in Italy) in August 2025 in Udine, an event that has allowed to confirm once more the quality and efficiency of a successful “Italian model”. Passing to the great future events, the recent assignments of the Final Four of the Champions League of Futsal 2026 (Pesaro) and the European Women’s U19 2029 (Abruzzo and Marche), together with the affiliation to Italy and Turkey of Euro2032 that will represent a decisive flywheel to proud a new generation of sports plants applied to football in Italy, but also a great opportunity to attract visitors.
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