Italy save ideas
Football Manager save ideas in Italy. 28 save ideas, difficulty from 4 to 8 out of 10. 19 are playable in the base game. Easiest: Palermo F.C. (4/10). Hardest: Casale (8/10).
- Palermo F.C.
Serie BPalermo are a club steeped in Sicilian identity, based on an island with a unique and almost mythical atmosphere. With a rich Serie A history, legendary players and…
- ParmaSerie A
Parma went bankrupt in 2015, restarted in Serie D and became the first Italian club to earn three consecutive promotions back toward the top. They are now established in…
- CataniaSerie C
Catania spent much of the late 2000s in Serie A before debt and bankruptcy eventually killed the old company in 2022. A new Catania started again in Serie D and…
- ComoSerie A
Como's rise has already gone from Serie B to the Champions League in barely two years. In 2026/27 they entered Europe for the first time in club history - straight into…
- FC SüdtirolSerie B
Südtirol are an Italian club with a German name in a mostly German-speaking Alpine province. They've never reached Serie A. Build a side around South Tyrol and…
- GenoaSerie A
Founded in 1893, Genoa are Italy's oldest active football club and have nine league titles - but the last came in 1924. You are managing a giant historical name without…
- Torino FCSerie A
The Grande Torino side dominated Italy in the 1940s before the 1949 Superga air disaster. Torino have only won the league once since and haven't done so since 1976…
- LivornoSerie C
Livorno were playing Serie A and UEFA Cup football in the 2000s before financial collapse ended the old club in 2021. The reborn US Livorno climbed back into Serie C and…
- NovaraSerie C
Novara returned to Serie A in 2011 after 55 years away, then a decade later financial problems saw the old company excluded from professional football. The club was…
- Nuova Ternana 1925Serie D
Ternana reached the Serie C promotion play-off final in 2025, then collapsed the following year. A new club has restarted in Serie D. Bring professional football back to…
- OstiamareSerie C
Daniele De Rossi bought his boyhood club in Ostia and helped take them back into professional football. They're still a long way from Roma. Make De Rossi's childhood…
- PerugiaSerie C
Perugia went through the entire 1978/79 Serie A season unbeaten and still finished second to Milan. They're now in Serie C and have never been Italian champions. Go one…
- Pescara CalcioSerie C
Zdeněk Zeman's Pescara scored 90 league goals in 2011/12 with Immobile, Insigne and Verratti in the side. They're back in Serie C. Build another daftly attacking 4-3-3…
- Pro VercelliSerie C
Pro Vercelli won seven Italian championships before modern Serie A even existed, but have not played top-flight football since the 1930s. They now sit in Serie C. This…
- SSC BariSerie C
Bari were seconds from Serie A in the 2023 promotion play-off final before Cagliari scored late. They ended up in Serie C instead, with supporters also frustrated by the…
- SambenedetteseSerie C
Sambenedettese have spent more than 20 seasons in Serie B without ever reaching Serie A, despite support that regularly looks too big for the divisions they inhabit…
- Spezia CalcioSerie C
Spezia's 1944 wartime championship was won by a team of local firefighters, but it doesn't count as an official Scudetto. They're back in Serie C. Win the title outright…
- Trapani 1905Serie D
Trapani made the Serie B promotion play-off final in 2016, one game from reaching Serie A for the first time. Financial trouble has left them back in Serie D. Get a club…
- TriestinaSerie D - Girone C
Triestina once finished runners-up in Serie A but have spent more than 60 years outside Italy's top flight and are now in Serie D. Restore a historic border-city club…
- UC SampdoriaSerie B
Sampdoria won Serie A in 1991 and lost the 1992 European Cup final to Barcelona. They later came dangerously close to Serie C. Put a proper team back together in Genoa…
- Union BresciaSerie C
Brescia's old club, once home to Baggio, Pirlo and Guardiola, went bankrupt after more than a century. Union Brescia have taken over the city's football future. Build…
- Vado FCSerie C
Vado won the very first Coppa Italia in 1922 but have never played in Serie A. More than a century later they're back in the professional leagues. Get them into the top…
- AC ChievoVeronaSerie D
Chievo went from a neighbourhood club to Champions League qualifying before going bust. Former captain Sergio Pellissier helped bring the name and badge back into…
- PiacenzaSerie D
Piacenza spent much of the 1990s in Serie A while famously leaning heavily on Italian players rather than importing stars. They are now in Serie D. Make the identity the…
- Reggina 1914Serie D
Reggina were in Serie B in 2023 before financial trouble put them back in the fourth tier. They once spent nine seasons in Serie A. Get them there again, bring back the…
- SS TarantoEccellenza
Taranto is one of the biggest Italian cities never to have seen its team in Serie A. Another financial collapse has left the city's successor club in the fifth tier. End…
- Ars et Labor Ferrara (SPAL successor)Eccellenza
SPAL played in Serie A as recently as 2020 before collapsing financially and being replaced by a new club in Ferrara. That successor is stuck in Eccellenza. Five…
- CasaleEccellenza Piemonte-Valle d'Aosta
Casale won the Italian championship in 1914, making a small Piedmont town one of the most unlikely champions in Serie A history. More than a century later they are…