Only 28.2 per cent of Serie A playing time this season was for Italian talent
MILAN, ITALY - MAY 17: Federico Dimarco and Nicolo Barella of FC Internazionale Milano look on during the trophy presentation after the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and Hellas Verona FC at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on May 17, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)
In the first five rounds of the Serie A season, only 28.2 per cent of the playing time went to Italians, with clubs including Milan, Juventus and Como dominated by foreign talent.
During this on-going crisis for the Italy squad, reflected in the Nations League opening day 2-0 defeat to Belgium, Il Fatto Quotidiano took a look at the statistics after 50 Serie A matches this season.
It found that 454 different players were used, and 71.9 per cent of them were not Italian.
That is an even higher figure than the average for last season, which reached 69.1 per cent foreign talent.
The worst offenders are Venezia, who currently sit rock bottom of the table after five defeats in five rounds, as 99.6 per cent of the players used were foreign.
Among the bigger clubs, Como are third worse with only 4.5 per cent of the players used being Italian, and this is after buying Moise Kean, Samuele Ricci and Mattia Liberali over the summer to hit UEFA parameters on homegrown talent.
Milan aren’t much better with 7.7 per cent, and Juventus are a step up on 15.2 per cent of their squad from the Peninsula.
The top two sides, Inter and Roma, have at least a core of Italian players, respectively 29.3 per cent and 29 per cent of their players on the field available for selection by Roberto Mancini.
Frosinone have been the most pro-actively Italian team in the league this term, as 69.9 per cent of the playing time was given to locals.
Monza are next best with 56.8 per cent, then Atalanta 46.2 per cent, Cagliari 43.6 per cent and Lazio 36.2 per cent.
Serie A sides by percentage of Italian playing time
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