2025 Coppa Italia final

The 2025 Coppa Italia final was the final match of the 2024–25 edition of the Coppa Italia, Italy's premier national football cup. It was played on 14 May 2025 between Milan and Bologna.

Bologna won the match 1–0 for their third Coppa Italia title, and the first since 1974.^[4][5]

Milan had previously played in fourteen Coppa Italia finals, winning five times. Their most recent final appearance was in 2018, a defeat to Juventus; their last win was in 2003, an aggregate victory over Roma. Their last single match victory in Rome dates back to 1973 against Juventus. Bologna had won both their two appearances in the cup final. Their most recent appearance was a penalty shoot-out victory to Palermo in 1974. The two teams never met in the Coppa Italia final.

AC Milan's season turned out to be underwhelming after this Coppa Italia loss, having also finished 8th in the Serie A. Bologna finished 1 spot lower than Milan in the Serie A, but winning this trophy makes this season much grander from the perspective of Bologna fans.^[6]

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

The game started in front of 68,490 people.^[3] In the eighth minute, Juan Miranda sent the ball into the penalty area where Santiago Castro attempted to head the ball beyond Mike Maignan, only for the French goalkeeper to save down his bottom right-hand side and Giovanni Fabbian unable to convert the rebound.^[7][8] In the tenth minute, Álex Jiménez sent the ball across towards Luka Jović, however Bologna defender Sam Beukema's attempted block ended up having to be palmed away by Łukasz Skorupski, before Jović's follow up attempt on the rebound was also stopped by the Polish goalkeeper. In the forty-third minute, a header from Emil Holm was gathered by Maignan, moments before Milan attempted a quick counter-attack with Rafael Leão before the Portuguese was caught by a sliding tackle from captain Lewis Ferguson, who received a yellow card as a result.^[7][8]

Neither side made any changes at halftime. In the fifty-third minute, Riccardo Orsolini was played through on goal before Théo Hernandez managed to slide the ball away, but only across towards Dan Ndoye who managed to evade Fikayo Tomori before striking the ball into the right-hand corner of the net.^[7][8] In the sixty-second minute, Milan made a triple sub, putting on Kyle Walker, Santiago Giménez and João Félix for Tomori, Jiménez and Jović. Seven minutes later, Bologna brought on Nicolò Casale and Tommaso Pobega for Fabbian and Orsolini. In the seventy-first minute, Hernandez sent a low ball towards Giménez who was waiting in the middle of the penalty area, however the Mexican didn't connect properly with the ball and Skorupski was left to gather what was a tame effort.^[7][8] Bologna made further substitutions, with Holm, Castro and Ndoye all making way for Davide Calabria, Jens Odgaard and Thijs Dallinga. Meanwhile Milan, hoping to find a late equaliser, introduced Tammy Abraham and Samuel Chukwueze in place of Youssouf Fofana and Christian Pulisic.^[7][8] In the fourth minute of injury time, Odgaard managed to wriggle away from multiple Milan players before striking an effort from outside the penalty area straight into the hands of Maignan. After six minutes of injury time, the game was finished as Bologna won their third Coppa Italia, and their first major trophy since last winning the competition in 1974.^[7][8]