The Italy Soccer Team represents Italy in association football and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation, also known as the FIGC, which is the governing body for football in Italy. Italy Soccer Team is one of the most successful national team in the history of the World Cup having four World Cup titles under their belt. Italy has won the FIFA World Cup in the years 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006 which is just one less than Brazil’s five titles. This team has won the 1968 European championship, 1936 Olympic football tournament and two Central European International Cups as well.

The traditional colour of the national team is azure bluewhich is popularly known as azzurro in Italian. The reason for azure blue being the traditional colour is that the colour traditionally linked to the royal dynasty which unified Italy in the year 1861, and it also maintained in the official standard of the Italian President.

The Italian team’s first match was held in Milan in May 1910. Italy defeated France by a score of 6–2. The Italian team achieved their first success after winning a Bronze medal in an official tournament in the 1928 Summer Olympics, held in Amsterdam. After losing the semi-final against the strong team of Uruguay, an 11–3 victory against Egypt secured last place for them in the competition.

After declining to participate in the first World Cup in 1930 held at Uruguay  the Italian national team won two consecutive editions of the tournament in the year 1934 and 1938 consecutively, under the lead of coach Vittorio Pozzo and the genius of Giuseppe Meazza, who is known as one of the best Italian football players of all time. Other stars of that era included  Silvio Piola, Luis Monti, Giovanni Ferrari and Virginio Rosetta.

Apart from winning the FIFA world cup for four times, Italy Soccer Team also ended up as the runner-up for two times. They have been the runner-up for the EC in the year 2000. In the year 2007 Italian national team has got the Laureus World Sports Award of the Year. Fabio Cannavaro, Paolo Maldini, Dino Zoff, Gianluigi Buffon, Gianluca Zambrotta, Alessandro Del Piero are some of the world class Italian football players.