Club: | Milan |
Season: | 2018–19 |
Manager: | Gennaro Gattuso |
Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
Chairman: | Paolo Scaroni (from 21 July) |
Stadium: | San Siro |
League: | Serie A |
League Result: | 5th |
Cup1: | Coppa Italia |
Cup1 Result: | Semi-finals |
Cup2: | Supercoppa Italiana |
Cup2 Result: | Runners-up |
Cup3: | UEFA Europa League |
Cup3 Result: | Group stage |
League Topscorer: | Krzysztof Piątek (9) |
Season Topscorer: | Krzysztof Piątek (11) |
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Prevseason: | 2017–18 |
Nextseason: | 2019–20 |
The 2018–19 season was the 120th season in Associazione Calcio Milan's history and their 85th (108th overall) in the top-flight of Italian football. Milan competed in Serie A, the Coppa Italia, the UEFA Europa League and the Supercoppa Italiana.
Milan qualified for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage as the sixth-placed team of the previous season, but were originally banned by UEFA from European competition due to violations of Financial Fair Play regulations for failure to break-even.[1] On, Li Yonghong failed to keep up with his loan repayment plan, neglecting to deposit a €32 million installment on time in order to keep refinancing the €303 million loan debt owed to Elliott Management Corporation. As a result, ownership of the club was immediately transferred to the American hedge fund.[2] [3] [4] Milan appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and the ban was overturned on .[5] [6] Following the shareholders' meeting held on, all previous directors, including Marco Fassone and Massimiliano Mirabelli, were officially dismissed, with Paolo Scaroni becoming the new chairman of the club, replacing Li Yonghong. In the summer of 2018, Leonardo returned to Milan as a sporting director,[7] while the club's hall of fame player Paolo Maldini was hired for the first time as a sporting strategy and development director.[8] In September 2018, the club hired a new CEO, Ivan Gazidis, who had previously worked with Arsenal for over a decade and began his work with Milan on 1 December 2018.[9]
Once again, the club failed to achieve its primary objective of qualifying for the Champions League, either through winning the Europa League (Milan suffered a group stage elimination), or finishing in the top 4 of the national league competition, i.e. Serie A. On 28 May 2019, following an unsatisfactory result, both Leonardo and Gennaro Gattuso announced their resignations,[10] [11] with the latter donating his entire €5,5 million severance package back to the club.[12]
Having taken a week to contemplate his future, on 14 June 2019 Maldini assumed the role of a technical director responsible for the "planning and development of the club's sporting area".[13] On the same day, another club legend Zvonimir Boban was appointed Chief Football Officer, overseeing the club's sporting area.[14]
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Player | Position(s) | Date of birth (age) | Signed in | Contract ends | Signed from | Transfer fee | Notes | Apps | Goals | |||
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Goalkeepers | ||||||||||||
25 | Pepe Reina | ![]() | GK | 2019 6, df=yes | 2018 | 2021 | Napoli | Free | 12 | 0 | ||
35 | Alessandro Plizzari | ![]() | GK | 2019 6, df=yes | 2016 | 2020 | Milan Primavera | Free | From Youth system | 0 | 0 | |
90 | Antonio Donnarumma | ![]() | GK | 2019 6, df=yes | 2017 | 2021 | Asteras Tripolis | €300,000 | From Youth system | 2 | 0 | |
99 | Gianluigi Donnarumma | ![]() | GK | 2019 6, df=yes | 2015 | 2021 | Milan Primavera | Free | From Youth system | 164 | 0 | |
Defenders | ||||||||||||
2 | Davide Calabria | ![]() | RB / LB | 2019 6, df=yes | 2015 | 2022 | Milan Primavera | Free | From Youth system | 85 | 2 | |
12 | Andrea Conti | ![]() | RB | 2019 6, df=yes | 2017 | 2022 | Atalanta | €24,000,000 | 20 | 0 | ||
13 | Alessio Romagnoli | ![]() | CB / LB | 2019 6, df=yes | 2015 | 2022 | Roma | €25,000,000 | 152 | 7 | ||
17 | Cristián Zapata | ![]() | CB / RB | 2019 6, df=yes | 2012 | 2019 | Villarreal | €6,000,000 | 149 | 5 | ||
20 | Ignazio Abate | ![]() | RB / CB | 2019 6, df=yes | 2009[16] | 2019 | Torino | €2,800,000 | From Youth system | 306 | 3 | |
22 | Mateo Musacchio | ![]() | CB | 2019 6, df=yes | 2017 | 2021 | Villarreal | €18,000,000 | 55 | 2 | ||
23 | Ivan Strinić | LB | 2019 6, df=yes | 2018 | 2021 | Sampdoria | Free | 0 | 0 | |||
33 | Mattia Caldara | ![]() | CB | 2019 6, df=yes | 2018 | 2022 | Juventus | €35,000,000 | 2 | 0 | ||
68 | Ricardo Rodriguez | LB / CB | 2019 6, df=yes | 2017 | 2021 | VfL Wolfsburg | €15,000,000 | 88 | 4 | |||
93 | Diego Laxalt | LB / LW | 2019 6, df=yes | 2018 | 2022 | Genoa | €14,000,000 | 29 | 0 | |||
Midfielders | ||||||||||||
4 | José Mauri | ![]() ![]() | CM / DM | 2019 6, df=yes | 2015 | 2019 | Parma | Free | 21 | 0 | ||
5 | Giacomo Bonaventura | ![]() | CM / LW | 2019 6, df=yes | 2014 | 2020 | Atalanta | €7,000,000 | 152 | 31 | ||
14 | Tiémoué Bakayoko | ![]() | CM / DM | 2019 6, df=yes | 2018 | 2019 | Chelsea | €5,000,000 | Loan | 42 | 1 | |
16 | Andrea Bertolacci | ![]() | CM | 2019 6, df=yes | 2015 | 2019 | Roma | €20,000,000 | 54 | 2 | ||
18 | Riccardo Montolivo | ![]() | DM / CM | 2019 6, df=yes | 2012 | 2019 | Fiorentina | Free | 158 | 10 | ||
21 | Lucas Biglia | ![]() | DM | 2019 6, df=yes | 2017 | 2020 | Lazio | €17,000,000 | 56 | 2 | ||
39 | Lucas Paquetá | ![]() | CM / LW | 2019 6, df=yes | 2018 | 2023 | Flamengo | €35,000,000 | 17 | 1 | ||
79 | Franck Kessié | ![]() | CM / DM | 2019 6, df=yes | 2017 | 2022 | Atalanta | Loan | 96 | 12 | ||
Forwards | ||||||||||||
7 | Samu Castillejo | ![]() | RW / LW / SS | 2019 6, df=yes | 2018 | 2023 | Villarreal | €25,000,000 | 40 | 4 | ||
8 | Suso | ![]() | RW / SS | 2019 6, df=yes | 2015 | 2022 | Liverpool | €1,300,000 | 136 | 23 | ||
10 | Hakan Çalhanoğlu | ![]() | LW / CM | 2019 6, df=yes | 2017 | 2021 | Bayer Leverkusen | €20,000,000 | 91 | 12 | ||
11 | Fabio Borini | ![]() | LW / RW / SS | 2019 6, df=yes | 2018 | 2021 | Sunderland | €5,500,000 | 73 | 8 | ||
19 | Krzysztof Piątek | ![]() | ST | 2019 6, df=yes | 2019 | 2023 | Genoa | €35,000,000 | 21 | 11 | ||
63 | Patrick Cutrone | ![]() | ST / LW | 2019 6, df=yes | 2017 | 2021 | Milan Primavera | Free | From Youth system | 90 | 27 |
Deals officialised beforehand were effective starting from .
Date | Player | Moving from | Fee | Notes | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DF | Ivan Strinić | ![]() | Free | Transfer announced on | [17] [18] [19] | ||
GK | ![]() | ![]() | Free | Transfer announced on | |||
FW | ![]() | Sunderland | €5,500,000 | From loan to definitive purchase | [20] | ||
MF | Alen Halilović | Hamburg | Free | [21] | |||
GK | ![]() ![]() | ![]() | Undisclosed | Joined Primavera team | [22] | ||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | Undisclosed | ||||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | €35,000,000 | Paid in two installments | [23] | ||
DF | Diego Laxalt | ![]() | €14,000,000 | Plus €4.00M bonuses | [24] | ||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | €25,000,000 | [25] [26] | |||
Date | Player | Moving from | Fee | Notes | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FW | ![]() | ![]() | €18,000,000 | With option to buy (€36.00M) | |||
MF | ![]() | Chelsea | €5,000,000 | With option to buy (€35.00M) | [27] | ||
Date | Player | Moving from | Fee | Notes | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GK | ![]() | ![]() | Free | ||||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | ||||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | ||||
Total spending:
€102.50M + Undisclosed + Bonuses (€4.00M)
Date | Player | Moving to | Fee | Notes | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GK | ![]() | Unattached | Free | End of contract | ||||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | End of contract | ||||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | Free | End of contract | [28] | |||
FW | ![]() ![]() | Lamia | Free | End of contract | [29] | |||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | €12,000,000 | Obligation to buy | ||||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | €11,000,000 | Obligation to buy | ||||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | €450,000 | Obligation to buy | ||||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | €300,000 | Obligation to buy | ||||
FW | ![]() | Unattached | Free | Released, from Primavera team | ||||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | €35,000,000 | Paid in two installments | http://www.juventus.com/en/news/news/2018/welcome-back-leonardo-bonucci.php | |||
FW | Nikola Kalinić | ![]() | €14,500,000 | [30] | ||||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | Undisclosed | From Primavera team | [31] | |||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | Undisclosed | From Primavera team | [32] | |||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | [33] | ||||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | €7,000,000 | After return from loan | [34] | |||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | Undisclosed | [35] | ||||
GK | ![]() | ![]() | Free | After return from loan | [36] | |||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | Undisclosed | From Primavera team | [37] | |||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | After return from loan | [38] | |||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | Undisclosed | From Primavera team | [39] | |||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | Undisclosed | [40] |
Date | Player | Moving to | Fee | Notes | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | After anticipated return from loan | [42] | ||
DF | Gustavo Gomez | ![]() | €1,500,000 | Loan with option to buy (€4.50M) | [43] | ||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team | [44] | ||
DF | ![]() ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team | |||
FW | André Silva | ![]() | €4,000,000 | Loan with option to buy (€39.00M) | [45] | ||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | €2,000,000 | Loan with obligation to buy (€10.00M) | [46] | ||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team | [47] | ||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team | [48] | ||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team, with option to buy | [49] | ||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team | [50] | ||
GK | ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team | [51] | ||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | Free | After return from loan | [52] | ||
GK | ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team | [53] | ||
MF | ![]() | Lugano | Free | [54] | |||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team | [55] | ||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | [56] | |||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team | [57] | ||
MF | ![]() ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team | [58] | ||
FW | Tiago Dias | Braga | Free | From Primavera team, with option to buy | [59] | ||
Total income:
€87.75M + Undisclosed
Deals officialised beforehand were effective starting from .
Date | Player | Moving from | Fee | Notes | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MF | ![]() | ![]() | €35,000,000 | [60] [61] | |||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | €35,000,000 | [62] | |||
DF | Tiago Djaló | Sporting CP B | Undisclosed | Joined Primavera team | [63] | ||
DF | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Free | Joined Primavera team | [64] | ||
MF | Nikolaos Michelis | Asteras Tripoli | €400,000 | Joined Primavera team | [65] | ||
MF | ![]() | ![]() | Undisclosed | Joined Allievi Nazionali team | [66] | ||
Total spending:
€70.40M + Undisclosed
Date | Player | Moving to | Fee | Notes | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MF | ![]() | ![]() | Undisclosed | From Primavera team | [68] | ||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | Undisclosed | From Primavera team | [69] | ||
DF | ![]() | ![]() | €1,000,000 | From Primavera team | |||
MF | Sergio Sanchez Gioya | Leganés | Undisclosed | From Primavera team | [70] | ||
GK | ![]() | Chiasso | Undisclosed | After anticipated return from loan | [71] | ||
MF | ![]() ![]() | Chiasso | Undisclosed | After anticipated return from loan | [72] | ||
Date | Player | Moving to | Fee | Notes | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DF | ![]() | ![]() | Free | [73] | |||
FW | ![]() | ![]() | Free | From Primavera team | [74] | ||
MF | Alen Halilović | ![]() | €600,000 | Loan with option to buy | [75] | ||
Total income:
€ 1,60M + Undisclosed
See main article: 2018 International Champions Cup.
See main article: Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu.
See main article: 2018 Supercoppa Italiana.
See main article: 2018–19 Serie A.
See main article: 2018–19 Coppa Italia.
See main article: 2018–19 UEFA Europa League.
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1 | 19 | FW | ![]() | Krzysztof Piątek | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||||
2 | 63 | FW | ![]() | Patrick Cutrone | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | ||||||||||
3 | 9 | FW | ![]() | Gonzalo Higuaín | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | ||||||||||
8 | FW | ![]() | Suso | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | |||||||||||
5 | 79 | MF | ![]() | Franck Kessié | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||||||||||
6 | 7 | FW | ![]() | Samu Castillejo | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||
10 | FW | ![]() | Hakan Çalhanoğlu | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
8 | 5 | MF | ![]() | Giacomo Bonaventura | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
11 | FW | ![]() | Fabio Borini | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
10 | 13 | DF | ![]() | Alessio Romagnoli | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
11 | 2 | DF | ![]() | Davide Calabria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
17 | DF | ![]() | Cristián Zapata | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
21 | MF | ![]() | Lucas Biglia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
39 | MF | ![]() | Lucas Paquetá | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
14 | MF | ![]() | Tiémoué Bakayoko | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
14 | MF | ![]() | Mateo Musacchio | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
Own goal | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
Totals | 55 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 71 |
Players in italics left the team during the season.
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1 | 10 | FW | ![]() | Hakan Çalhanoğlu | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 | ||||||||||
8 | FW | ![]() | Suso | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||||||
3 | 68 | DF | Ricardo Rodríguez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
7 | FW | ![]() | Samu Castillejo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||
5 | 12 | DF | ![]() | Andrea Conti | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
6 | 9 | FW | ![]() | Gonzalo Higuaín | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
63 | FW | ![]() | Patrick Cutrone | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||
39 | MF | ![]() | Lucas Paquetá | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||
79 | MF | ![]() | Franck Kessié | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||
11 | FW | ![]() | Fabio Borini | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||
11 | 93 | DF | Diego Laxalt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
2 | DF | ![]() | Davide Calabria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
14 | MF | ![]() | Tiémoué Bakayoko | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
Totals | 33 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 44 |
Players in italics left the team during the season.
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1 | 99 | GK | ![]() | Gianluigi Donnarumma | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | ||||||||||
2 | 25 | GK | ![]() | Pepe Reina | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
Totals | 13 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 17 |
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13 | DF | ![]() | Alessio Romagnoli | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
79 | MF | ![]() | Franck Kessié | 8 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | FW | ![]() | Suso | 9 | 1 | 9 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | MF | ![]() | Tiémoué Bakayoko | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
68 | DF | Ricardo Rodríguez | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | DF | ![]() | Davide Calabria | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | FW | ![]() | Hakan Çalhanoğlu | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | DF | ![]() | Ignazio Abate | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | MF | ![]() | Lucas Paquetá | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | DF | ![]() | Cristián Zapata | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | FW | ![]() | Samu Castillejo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | DF | ![]() | Mateo Musacchio | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | GK | ![]() | Gianluigi Donnarumma | 4 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | FW | ![]() | Gonzalo Higuaín | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | FW | ![]() | Fabio Borini | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | MF | ![]() | Lucas Biglia | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | DF | ![]() | Andrea Conti | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | DF | Diego Laxalt | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | FW | ![]() | Patrick Cutrone | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | MF | ![]() | Andrea Bertolacci | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | GK | ![]() | Pepe Reina | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | DF | ![]() | Stefan Šimić | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Totals | 52 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 74 | 2 | 3 |
Players in italics left the team during the season.