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Italy national football team results (1970–1989)

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This is a list of the Italy national football team results from 1970 to 1989. During this period, Italy achieved first place at the 1982 FIFA World Cup and second place at the 1970 World Cup.

Results

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1970

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21 February 1970 International friendly Spain  2–2  Italy Madrid, Spain
21:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Salvadore 23' (o.g.)
Arieta 25'
Report Anastasi 11'
Riva 18'
Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)
10 May 1970 International friendly Portugal  1–2  Italy Lisbon, Portugal
16:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Coelho 85' Report Riva 38', 67' Stadium: Estádio Nacional
Attendance: 20,711
Referee: Antonio Camacho Jiménez (Spain)
3 June 1970 1970 FIFA World Cup
Group 2
Italy  1–0  Sweden Toluca, Mexico
16:00 CST (UTC−06:00) Domenghini 10' Report Stadium: Estadio Luis Dosal
Attendance: 13,433
Referee: Jack Taylor (England)
11 June 1970 1970 FIFA World Cup
Group 2
Italy  0–0  Israel Toluca, Mexico
16:00 CST (UTC−06:00) Report Stadium: Estadio Luis Dosal
Attendance: 9,890
Referee: Ayrton Vieira de Moraes (Brazil)
14 June 1970 1970 FIFA World Cup
Quarter-final
Italy  4–1  Mexico Toluca, Mexico
12:00 CST (UTC−06:00) Guzmán 25' (o.g.)
Riva 63', 76'
Rivera 70'
Report González 13' Stadium: Estadio Luis Dosal
Attendance: 26,851
Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)
31 October 1970 UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying
Group 6
Austria  1–2  Italy Vienna, Austria
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Parits 29' Report De Sisti 27'
A. Mazzola 34'
Stadium: Praterstadion
Attendance: 54,953
Referee: Laurens van Ravens (Netherlands)
8 December 1970 UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying
Group 6
Italy  3–0  Republic of Ireland Florence, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) De Sisti 22' (pen.)
Boninsegna 42'
Prati 84'
Report Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 41,092
Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

1971

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20 February 1971 International friendly Italy  1–2  Spain Cagliari, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) De Sisti 79' Report Pirri 35'
Uriarte 40'
Stadium: Stadio Sant'Elia
Attendance: 27,492
Referee: Robert Frauciel (France)
25 September 1971 International friendly Italy  2–0  Mexico Genoa, Italy
17:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) Boninsegna 60', 64' Report Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris
Attendance: 43,350
Referee: José María Ortiz de Mendíbil (Spain)
9 October 1971 UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying
Group 6
Italy  3–0  Sweden Milan, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Riva 3', 83'
Boninsegna 41'
Report Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 65,582
Referee: Roger Machin (France)
20 November 1971 UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying
Group 6
Italy  2–2  Austria Rome, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Prati 10'
De Sisti 75'
Report Jara 36'
Sara 59'
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 58,752
Referee: Gyula Emsberger (Hungary)

1972

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4 March 1972 International friendly Greece  2–1  Italy Piraeus, Greece
15:00 EET (UTC+02:00) Antoniadis 12'
Pomonis 55'
Report Boninsegna 19' Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Liuben Radunchev (Bulgaria)
29 April 1972 UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying
Quarter finals
Italy  0–0  Belgium Milan, Italy
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 63,549
Referee: Petar Nikolov (Bulgaria)
17 June 1972 International friendly Romania  3–3  Italy Bucharest, Romania
20:00 EET (UTC+02:00) Spinosi 19' (o.g.)
Domide 59'
Hajnal 89'
Report Prati 33', 34'
Causio 74'
Stadium: Stadionul Național
Attendance: 25,516
Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)
21 June 1972 International friendly Bulgaria  1–1  Italy Sofia, Bulgaria
19:00 EET (UTC+02:00) Bonev 42' Report Chinaglia 50' Stadium: Vasil Levski National Stadium
Attendance: 16,500
Referee: Giorgos Katsoras (Greece)
20 September 1972 International friendly Italy  3–1  Yugoslavia Turin, Italy
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Riva 54'
Chinaglia 71'
Anastasi 83'
Report Vukotić 73' Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 59,000
Referee: Vital Loraux (Belgium)

1973

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31 March 1973 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification
Group 2
Italy  5–0  Luxembourg Genoa, Italy
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Riva 18', 45', 70', 80'
Rivera 63'
Report Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Hédi Saoudi (Tunisia)
9 June 1973 International friendly Italy  2–0  Brazil Rome, Italy
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Riva 16'
Capello 76'
Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 75,000
Referee: Robert Héliès (France)
14 June 1973 International friendly Italy  2–0  England Turin, Italy
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Anastasi 38'
Capello 52'
Report Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Tsvetan Stanev (Bulgaria)
29 September 1973 International friendly Italy  2–0  Sweden Milan, Italy
16:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) Anastasi 60'
Riva 66'
Report Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 65,454
Referee: Jack Taylor (England)
20 October 1973 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification
Group 2
Italy  2–0   Switzerland Rome, Italy
15:00 CET (UTC+02:00) Rivera 39'
Riva 79'
Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 75,000
Referee: Antonio Camacho Jiménez (Spain)
14 November 1973 International friendly England  0–1  Italy London, England
20:00 GMT (UTC±00:00) Report Capello 86' Stadium: Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Francisco Lobo (Portugal)

1974

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26 February 1974 International friendly Italy  0–0  West Germany Rome, Italy
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 82,000
Referee: Anton Bucheli (Switzerland)
8 June 1974 International friendly Austria  0–0  Italy Wien, Austria
16:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Stadium: Ernst-Happel-Stadion
Attendance: 47,702
Referee: Alfred Delcourt (Belgium)
15 June 1974 1974 FIFA World Cup
Group 4
Italy  3–1  Haiti Munich, West Germany
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Rivera 52'
Benetti 66'
Anastasi 79'
Report Sanon 46' Stadium: Olympiastadion
Attendance: 53,000
Referee: Vicente Llobregat (Venezuela)
28 September 19741 International friendly Yugoslavia  1–0  Italy Zagreb, Yugoslavia
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Šurjak 41' Report Stadium: Stadion Maksimir
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Emsberger Gyula (Hungary)
29 December 1974 International friendly Italy  0–0  Bulgaria Genoa, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Sergio Gonella (Italy)

1975

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19 April 1975 UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying
Group 5
Italy  0–0  Poland Rome, Italy
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 66,048
Referee: Robert Héliès (France)
27 September 19751 UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying
Group 5
Italy  0–0  Finland Rome, Italy
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 29,203
Referee: Costas Xanthoulis (Cyprus)
26 October 1975 UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying
Group 5
Poland  0–0  Italy Warsaw, Poland
14:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Stadium: Stadion Dziesięciolecia
Attendance: 59,773
Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)
22 November 1975 UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying
Group 5
Italy  1–0  Netherlands Rome, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Capello 20' Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 33,307
Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)
30 December 1975 International friendly Italy  3–2  Greece Florence, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Pulici 6', 45'
Savoldi 60' (pen.)
Report Kritikopoulos 35'
Sarafis 53'
Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Miloš Kajić (Yugoslavia)

1976

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7 April 1976 International friendly Italy  3–1  Portugal Turin, Italy
19:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Antognoni 45'
Graziani 62'
Pulici 70'
Report Fraguito 82' Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)
31 May 1976 1976 U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup Tournament Brazil  4–1  Italy New Haven, United States
15:00 EDT (UTC−04:00) Gil 28', 48'
Zico 76'
Dinamite 78'
Report Capello 2' Stadium: Yale Bowl
Attendance: 36,096
Referee: Ramón Barreto (Uruguay)
5 June 1976 International friendly Italy  4–2  Romania Milan, Italy
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) Graziani 49'
Antognoni 60'
Bettega 70', 74'
Report Lucescu 65'
Georgescu 77'
Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 30,329
Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)
22 September 1976 International friendly Denmark  0–1  Italy Copenhagen, Denmark
19:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Pulici 18' Stadium: Idrætsparken
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Wolfgang Riedel (East Germany)
25 September 1976 International friendly Italy  3–0  Yugoslavia Rome, Italy
19:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) Bettega 33', 83'
Graziani 73'
Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Pablo Sánchez Ibáñez (Spain)
17 November 1976 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
Group 2
Italy  2–0  England Rome, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Antognoni 36'
Bettega 77'
Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel)
22 December 1976 International friendly Portugal  2–1  Italy Lisbon, Portugal
21:30 WET (UTC±00:00) Nené 12', 66' Report Bettega 78' Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade
Attendance: 36,121
Referee: Emilio Guruceta Muro (Spain)

1977

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26 January 1977 International friendly Italy  2–1  Belgium Rome, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Graziani 24'
Meeuws 77' (o.g.)
Report Piot 85' (pen.) Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
15 October 1977 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
Group 2
Italy  6–1  Finland Turin, Italy
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Bettega 29', 38', 59', 62'
Graziani 45'
Zaccarelli 71'
Report Haaskivi 67' Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Nikola Dudin (Bulgaria)
16 November 1977 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
Group 2
England  2–0  Italy London, England
19:45 GMT (UTC±00:00) Keegan 11'
Brooking 80'
Report Stadium: Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 92,500
Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)
21 October 1977 International friendly Belgium  0–1  Italy Liège, Belgium
20:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Antognoni 73' Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Rudolf Frickel (West Germany)

1978

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25 January 1978 International friendly Spain  2–1  Italy Madrid, Spain
21:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Pirri 10' (pen.)
Dani 56'
Report Tardelli 83' Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)
8 February 1978 International friendly Italy  2–2  France Naples, Italy
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Graziani 13' (pen.), 22' Report Bathenay 51'
Platini 81'
Stadium: Stadio San Paolo
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Angel Franco Martínez (Spain)
18 May 1978 International friendly Italy  0–0  Yugoslavia Rome, Italy
19:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Jean Dubach (Switzerland)
20 September 1978 International friendly Italy  1–0  Bulgaria Turin, Italy
19:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Cabrini 62' Report Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
23 September 1978 International friendly Italy  1–0  Turkey Florence, Italy
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Graziani 26' Report Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)
21 December 1978 International friendly Italy  1–0  Spain Rome, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Rossi 31' Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Nikola Dudin (Bulgaria)

1979

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24 February 1979 International friendly Italy  3–0  Netherlands Milan, Italy
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Bettega 9'
Rossi 19'
Tardelli 44'
Report Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
26 May 1979 International friendly Italy  2–2  Argentina Rome, Italy
19:15 CEST (UTC+02:00) Causio 25'
Rossi 55'
Report Valencia 7'
Passarella 56' (pen.)
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Porém Luís Porém Luís (Portugal)
13 June 1979 International friendly Yugoslavia  4–1  Italy Zagreb, Yugoslavia
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Sušić 28', 36', 66'
Zajec 86'
Report Rossi 25' Stadium: Stadion Maksimir
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)
26 September 1979 International friendly Italy  1–0  Sweden Florence, Italy
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00) Oriali 15' Report Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)
17 November 1979 International friendly Italy  2–0   Switzerland Udine, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Graziani 25'
Tardelli 40'
Report Stadium: Stadio Friuli
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

1980

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16 February 1980 International friendly Italy  2–1  Romania Naples, Italy
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Collovati 56'
Causio 87'
Report Bölöni 52' Stadium: Stadio San Paolo
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
15 March 1980 International friendly Italy  1–0  Uruguay Milan, Italy
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Graziani 9' Report Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Ivan Yosifov (Bulgaria)
19 April 1980 International friendly Italy  2–2  Poland Turin, Italy
16:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Causio 1'
Scirea 24'
Report Sybis 9'
Szarmach 35' (pen.)
Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Clive White (England)
12 June 1980 UEFA Euro 1980
Group 2
Spain  0–0  Italy Milan, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Report Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 46,816
Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)
15 June 1980 UEFA Euro 1980
Group 2
England  0–1  Italy Turin, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Report Tardelli 79' Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 59,646
Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
18 June 1980 UEFA Euro 1980
Group 2
Italy  0–0  Belgium Rome, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 42,318
Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)
24 September 1980 International friendly Italy  3–1  Portugal Genoa, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Altobelli 63', 80'
Graziani 88'
Report Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)
1 November 1980 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification
Group 5
Italy  2–0  Denmark Rome, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Graziani 7', 51' Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 49,400
Referee: Belaïd Lacarne (Algeria)
15 November 1980 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification
Group 5
Italy  2–0  Yugoslavia Turin, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Cabrini 40' (pen.)
Conti 75'
Report Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 50,677
Referee: Abraham Klein (Israel)
6 December 1980 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification
Group 5
Greece  0–2  Italy Athens, Greece
14:30 EET (UTC+02:00) Report Antognoni 10'
Scirea 81'
Stadium: Leoforos Stadium
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

1981

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3 January 1981 1980 Mundialito
Group A
Uruguay  2–0  Italy Montevideo, Uruguay
18:00 UYT (UTC−03:00) Julio Morales 67' (pen.)
Victorino 81'
Report Stadium: Estadio Centenario
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Emilio Guruceta (Spain)
25 February 1981 International friendly Italy  0–3 Europe XI Rome, Italy
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Simonsen 32'
Halilhodžić 56'
Woodcock 79'
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
19 April 1981 International friendly Italy  0–0  East Germany Udine, Italy
16:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) Report Stadium: Stadio Friuli
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: John Hunting (England)
23 September 1981 International friendly Italy  3–2  Bulgaria Bologna, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Graziani 39', 58'
Dossena 75'
Report Mladenov 84'
Dossena 89' (o.g.)
Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)
14 November 1981 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification
Group 5
Italy  1–1  Greece Turin, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Conti 61' Report Kouis 87' Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 39,670
Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)

1982

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23 February 1982 International friendly France  2–0  Italy Paris, France
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Platini 19'
Bravo 84'
Report Stadium: Parc des Princes
Attendance: 46,000
Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)
14 June 1982 1982 FIFA World Cup
Group 1
Italy  0–0  Poland Vigo, Spain
17:15 CEST (UTC+02:00) Report Stadium: Balaídos
Attendance: 33,040
Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
18 June 1982 1982 FIFA World Cup
Group 1
Italy  1–1  Peru Vigo, Spain
17:15 CEST (UTC+02:00) Conti 18' Report Díaz 83' Stadium: Balaídos
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)
23 June 1982 1982 FIFA World Cup
Group 1
Italy  1–1  Cameroon Vigo, Spain
17:15 CEST (UTC+02:00) Graziani 60' Report M'Bida 61' Stadium: Balaídos
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Bogdan Dotchev (Bulgaria)
8 July 1982 1982 FIFA World Cup
Semi-final
Poland  0–2  Italy Barcelona, Spain
17:15 CEST (UTC+02:00) Report Rossi 22', 73' Stadium: Camp Nou
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino (Uruguay)
27 October 1982 International friendly Italy  0–1   Switzerland Rome, Italy
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Elsener 53' Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (Brazil)
13 November 1982 UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying
Group 5
Italy  2–2  Czechoslovakia Milan, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Altobelli 13'
Kapko 65' (o.g.)
Report Sloup 26'
Chaloupka 70'
Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 72,386
Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
4 December 1982 UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying
Group 5
Italy  0–0  Romania Florence, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 50,478
Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

1983

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12 February 1983 UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying
Group 5
Cyprus  1–1  Italy Limassol, Cyprus
15:30 EET (UTC+02:00) Omirou 47' Report Graziani 58' Stadium: Tsirion Stadium
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Bogdan Dotchev (Bulgaria)
16 April 1983 UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying
Group 5
Romania  1–0  Italy Bucharest, Romania
20:00 EEST (UTC+03:00) Bölöni 24' Report Stadium: 23 August Stadium
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
5 October 1983 International friendly Italy  3–0  Greece Bari, Italy
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Giordano 15'
Cabrini 23'
Rossi 36'
Report Stadium: Stadio Comunale
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)
15 October 1983 UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying
Group 5
Italy  0–3  Sweden Naples, Italy
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Strömberg 20', 27'
Sunesson 71'
Stadium: Stadio San Paolo
Attendance: 60,086
Referee: José García Carrión (Spain)

1984

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4 February 1984 International friendly Italy  5–0  Mexico Rome, Italy
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Bagni 1'
Rossi 12', 37', 44'
Conti 50'
Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Viriato Graça Oliva (Portugal)
3 March 1984 International friendly Turkey  1–2  Italy Istanbul, Turkey
15:00 TRT (UTC+03:00) Tüfekçi 65' Report Altobelli 2'
Cabrini 18'
Stadium: BJK İnönü Stadium
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)
26 May 1984 International friendly Canada  0–2  Italy Toronto, Canada
15:00 EDT (UTC−04:00) Report Altobelli 31'
Battistini 85'
Stadium: Varsity Stadium
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Ulrich Nyffenegger (Switzerland)
26 September 1984 International friendly Italy  1–0  Sweden Milan, Italy
20:40 CEST (UTC+02:00) Cabrini 2' Report Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)
8 December 1984 International friendly Italy  2–0  Poland Pescara, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Altobelli 77'
Di Gennaro 90'
Report Stadium: Stadio Adriatico
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)

1985

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13 March 1985 International friendly Greece  0–0  Italy Athens, Greece
16:30 EET (UTC+02:00) Report Stadium: Olympic Stadium
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Németh Lajos (Hungary)
25 September 1985 International friendly Italy  1–2  Norway Lecce, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Altobelli 26' Report Økland 39'
Davidsen 42'
Stadium: Stadio Via del Mare
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Werner Föckler (West Germany)
16 November 1985 International friendly Poland  1–0  Italy Chorzów, Poland
17:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Dziekanowski 5' Report Stadium: Silesian Stadium
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Bogdan Dochev (Bulgaria)

1986

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5 February 1986 International friendly Italy  1–2  West Germany Avellino, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Serena 21' Report Herget 37'
Matthäus 75' (pen.)
Stadium: Stadio Partenio
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)
26 March 1986 International friendly Italy  2–1  Austria Udine, Italy
20:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Altobelli 55'
Di Gennaro 76'
Report Polster 3' Stadium: Stadio Friuli
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Victoriano Sánchez Arminio (Spain)
11 May 1986 International friendly Italy  2–0  China Naples, Italy
19:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) Di Gennaro 23'
Altobelli 33'
Report Stadium: Stadio San Paolo
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: José Rosa dos Santos (Portugal)
31 May 1986 1986 FIFA World Cup
Group A
Bulgaria  1–1  Italy Mexico City, Mexico
12:00 CST (UTC−06:00) Sirakov 85' Report Altobelli 43' Stadium: Estadio Azteca
Attendance: 96,000
Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
8 October 19861 International friendly Italy  2–0  Greece Bologna, Italy
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Bergomi 8', 68' Report Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Renzo Peduzzi (Switzerland)
15 November 1986 UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying
Group 2
Italy  3–2   Switzerland Milan, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Donadoni 1'
Altobelli 52', 85'
Report Brigger 31'
Weber 88'
Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 67,422
Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)
6 December 1986 UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying
Group 2
Malta  0–2  Italy Ta' Qali, Malta
14:15 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Ferri 12'
Altobelli 19'
Stadium: Ta' Qali National Stadium
Attendance: 13,191
Referee: Ihsan Türe (Turkey)

1987

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14 February 1987 UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying
Group 2
Portugal  0–1  Italy Lisbon, Portugal
15:30 WET (UTC±00:00) Report Altobelli 40' Stadium: Estádio Nacional
Attendance: 14,195
Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)
28 May 1987 International friendly Norway  0–0  Italy Oslo, Norway
19:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) Report Stadium: Ullevaal Stadion
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Keith Hackett (England)
3 June 1987 UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying
Group 2
Sweden  1–0  Italy Solna, Sweden
19:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) Larsson 25' Report Stadium: Råsunda Stadium
Attendance: 40,070
Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)
10 June 1987 International friendly Italy  3–1  Argentina Zürich, Switzerland
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) De Napoli 27'
Garré 33' (o.g.)
Vialli 88'
Report Maradona 62' Stadium: Hardturm
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)
23 September 1987 International friendly Italy  1–0  Yugoslavia Pisa, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Altobelli 23' Report Stadium: Arena Garibaldi
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)
14 November 1987 UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying
Group 2
Italy  2–1  Sweden Naples, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Vialli 27', 47' Report Larsson 38' Stadium: Stadio San Paolo
Attendance: 59,046
Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)
5 December 1987 UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying
Group 2
Italy  3–0  Portugal Milan, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Vialli 8'
Giannini 87'
De Agostini 89'
Report Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 13,524
Referee: Johannes Keizer (Netherlands)

1988

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20 February 1988 International friendly Italy  4–1  Soviet Union Bari, Italy
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Baresi 7' (pen.)
Vialli 30', 35'
Bergomi 86'
Report Lytovchenko 19' Stadium: Stadio della Vittoria
Attendance: 27,636
Referee: Yusuf Namoğlu (Turkey)
31 March 1988 International friendly Yugoslavia  1–1  Italy Split, Yugoslavia
19:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) Jakovljević 45' Report Vialli 10' Stadium: Stadion Poljud
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)
4 June 1988 International friendly Italy  0–1  Wales Brescia, Italy
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00) Report Rush 38' Stadium: Stadio Mario Rigamonti
Attendance: 18,931
Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (West Germany)
10 June 1988 UEFA Euro 1988
Group A
West Germany  1–1  Italy Düsseldorf, West Germany
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00) Brehme 55' Report Mancini 52' Stadium: Rheinstadion
Attendance: 62,552
Referee: Keith Hackett (England)
14 June 1988 UEFA Euro 1988
Group A
Italy  1–0  Spain Frankfurt, West Germany
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00) Vialli 73' Report Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 47,506
Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)
19 October 1988 International friendly Italy  2–1  Norway Pescara, Italy
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Giannini 18' (pen.)
Ferri 29'
Report Brandhaug 40' (pen.) Stadium: Stadio Adriatico
Attendance: 10,834
Referee: Makis Germanakos (Greece)
16 November 1988 International friendly Italy  1–0  Netherlands Rome, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Vialli 44' Report Stadium: Stadio Olimpico
Attendance: 27,878
Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)
22 December 1988 International friendly Italy  2–0  Scotland Perugia, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Giannini 48'
Berti 70'
Report Stadium: Stadio Renato Curi
Attendance: 25,600
Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

1989

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22 February 1989 International friendly Italy  1–0  Denmark Pisa, Italy
19:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Bergomi 61' Report Stadium: Arena Garibaldi
Attendance: 20,366
Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)
25 March 1989 International friendly Austria  0–1  Italy Vienna, Austria
16:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Berti 88' Stadium: Praterstadion
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Manfred Neuner (West Germany)
29 March 1989 International friendly Romania  1–0  Italy Sibiu, Romania
17:00 EEST (UTC+03:00) Sabău 48' Report Stadium: Stadionul Municipal
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)
26 April 1989 International friendly Italy  4–0  Hungary Taranto, Italy
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00) Vialli 8'
Ferri 53'
Berti 67'
Carnevale 77'
Report Stadium: Stadio Erasmo Iacovone
Attendance: 23,700
Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)
20 September 1989 International friendly Italy  4–0  Bulgaria Cesena, Italy
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00) R. Baggio 18' (pen.), 34'
Carnevale 46'
Iliev 53' (o.g.)
Report Stadium: Stadio Dino Manuzzi
Attendance: 22,328
Referee: Alphonse Costantin (France)
14 October 1989 International friendly Italy  0–1  Brazil Bologna, Italy
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00) Report André Cruz 77' Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara
Attendance: 33,800
Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)
11 November 1989 International friendly Italy  1–0  Algeria Vicenza, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Serena 74' Report Stadium: Stadio Romeo Menti
Attendance: 24,990
Referee: Zoran Petrović (Yugoslavia)
15 November 1989 International friendly England  0–0  Italy London, England
20:00 GMT (UTC±00:00) Report Stadium: Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 67,500
Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)
21 December 1989 International friendly Italy  0–0  Argentina Cagliari, Italy
14:30 CET (UTC+01:00) Report Stadium: Stadio Sant'Elia
Attendance: 29,635
Referee: Alexey Spirin (Soviet Union)

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