1055 days after the triumph at Wembley, a new European adventure is set to start for the national team, who will meet up at the Federal Technical Centre in Coverciano on Friday 31 May to begin preparations for UEFA EURO 2024. Head Coach, Luciano Spalletti, who will announce his final squad for the tournament on Thursday 6 June, has called up 30 players for this initial training camp. There is a first call-up to the national team for Bologna defender Riccardo Calafiori, who in 2022 had taken part in the camps dedicated to players of national interest, and a second call-up for Juventus midfielder Nicolò Fagioli a year and a half after his first and only appearance in the Azzurri shirt in the friendly against Albania in November 2022. Raoul Bellanova (Torino) and Michael Folorunsho (Verona), already called up in March for the two friendlies in the United States against Venezuela and Ecuador., also get a second call-up. Torino midfielder Samuele Ricci and Lazio goalkeeper Ivan Provedel return to the national team setup, having been out of the squad since November 2022 and November 2023, respectively.

Before leaving for Germany, scheduled for Monday 10 June, the national team will play two friendlies: on Tuesday 4 June against Türkiye (21:00 CEST at the stadio Renato Dall'Ara in Bologna) and Sunday 9 June against Bosnia and Herzegovina (20:45 CEST at the stadio Carlo Castellani in Empoli). Following the game with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy will travel to Germany, where they will hold the last training sessions in Iserlohn before their opener against Albania, scheduled for Saturday 15 June in Dortmund.

SQUAD LIST

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint Germain), Alex Meret (Napoli), Ivan Provedel (Lazio), Guglielmo Vicario (Tottenham);
Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Inter), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Raoul Bellanova (Torino), Alessandro Buongiorno (Torino), Riccardo Calafiori (Bologna), Andrea Cambiaso (Juventus), Matteo Darmian (Inter), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta);
Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Nicolò Fagioli (Juventus), Michael Folorunsho (Hellas Verona), Davide Frattesi (Inter), Jorginho (Arsenal), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Samuele Ricci (Torino);
Forwards: Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma), Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna), Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli), Mateo Retegui (Genoa), Gianluca Scamacca (Atalanta), Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio).

TRAINING CAMP SCHEDULE. The national team will meet up on Friday 31 May at Coverciano and, following Luciano Spalletti's press conference, will start their EURO 2024 preparations in the afternoon. A busy schedule will follow, with one training session per day, a dedicated media day,as well as time for some federation initiatives. Then, on Tuesday 4 June, the first friendly will take place in Bologna against Turkey, before returning to the Federal Technical Centre afterwards. The following day, a training match is scheduled with the Under-20 national team to also give those players not involved in the game against Türkiye 90 minutes.

At that point, the players will have a short break and the head coach will focus on his final selections for his squad for the European Championship, which will be officially announced on Thursday 6 June. The group of players called up will therefore return to Coverciano on Friday 7; the official photo session for the European Championship is scheduled for Saturday 8; the second friendly is on Sunday 9 in Empoli against Bosnia and Herzegovina before the final training session at the Federal Technical Centre and departure for Germany on Monday 10. In the evening, the Azzurri will arrive in Iserlohn, the town in the Rhineland that will host the team's base camp during the European Championship, with the players and staff staying at the Hotel VierJahreszeiten.

The following day, Tuesday 11 June, the first training session at the local sports ground will be held, the Hemberg Stadion Nord, with a huge crowd expected to welcome the Azzurri (around 4,000 tickets have been distributed to the locals). This will be the only training session open to the public, while from 12 June entry will be reserved for media accredited to the European Championship. This will be followed by the opening of Casa Azzurri, a meeting point for fans, the media and sponsors, set up in a large area close to the Matthias Grothe Halle and inside the city sports hall itself. There will also be a player from the squad at the ribbon cutting. Immediately afterwards, there will be the first press conference in the Media Centre. From then on, daily training sessions and press conferences until the eve of the side's EURO 2024 opener.

UEFA EURO 2024. The 17th edition of the European Championship will start on Friday 14 June in Munich (opening match Germany vs. Scotland). After the 2020 edition was hosted across Europe, postponed to 20021 due to Covid, we see the return to playing in just one country: Germany will host the tournament for the second time, 36 years after the first time in 1988, but only in West Germany, which would be reunited with the East two years later. The tournament will last 31 days, from 14 June to 14 July, with the final in Berlin. Italy are in Group B along with Spain, Croatia and Albania. The Azzurri kick off in Dortmund against Albania on Saturday 15 June before facing Spain in Gelsenkirchen on Thursday 20 and then Croatia in Leipzign on Monday 24 June. The top two in each group and the four best third-placed teams from the six groups will go through to the round of 16.