Beyond Calafiori: Every Italian player and coach to win the Premier League | OneFootball

For the second season in a row, an Italian footballer has won the Premier League: here’s the full list of players and coaches from Italy to have become English champions.

Italy international Calafiori made history with Arsenal, helping the Gunners win the Premier League title for the first time in 22 years.

For the second season in a row, an Italian player has won the English title as Calafiori has succeeded Federico Chiesa, who had lifted the trophy with Liverpool in the 2024-25 campaign.

Back in the 2011-12 season, Mario Balotelli won the Premier League title with Manchester City, scoring 13 goals in 23 league matches and providing the assist for Sergio Aguero’s late winning goal in a home Serie A match against QPR.

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – JANUARY 11: Federico Chiesa of Liverpool celebrates scoring his sides 4th goal during the Emirates FA Cup Third Round match between Liverpool and Accrington Stanley at Anfield on January 11, 2025 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Jan Kruger/Getty Images)

Premier League winners: The Italians with no winners’ medal

Other Italian players had previously won the Premier League, but didn’t make the minimum number of league appearances to receive a winners’ medal.

Federico Macheda’s Manchester United became English champions in 2008-09 when the Italian striker was only 16.

In 2009-10, the 18-year-old Fabio Borini made four appearances with Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea and a few years earlier, in 2004-05 and 2005-06, Carlo Cudicini had won the title as the Blues’ second-choice goalkeeper under José Mourinho, collecting just seven appearances in two seasons.

Massimo Taibi, another second-choice keeper, made four appearances in 1999-00, and when the Red Devil won the title, Taibi had already returned to Reggina.

Premier League champions: the Italian coaches

LEICESTER, ENGLAND – MAY 16: (L-R) Claudio Ranieri Manager of Leicester City and captain Wes Morgan of Leicester City show the trophy to the fans during the Leicester City Barclays Premier League winners bus parade on May 16, 2016 in Leicester, England. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

Four Italian coaches have won the Premier League: Antonio Conte in the 2016-17 campaign and Carlo Ancelotti in 2009-10 at Chelsea, Claudio Ranieri in 2015-16 with Leicester City, and Roberto Mancini in 2011-12 with Manchester City.