Fabio Pandolfi
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| Date of birth | 23 February 2008 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Treviglio, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Milan Futuro[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| AC Milan | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2026– | Milan Futuro (res.) | 3 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Italy U16 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024–2025 | Italy U17 | 6 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Italy U18 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:55, 20 September 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:45, 12 October 2025 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Fabio Pandolfi (born 23 May 2008) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie D club Milan Futuro, the reserve team of Serie A club AC Milan.[1][2] He is an Italian youth international.[3][4][5]
Club career
[edit]He was born in Treviglio, Italy, and started playing football at a young age, joining the youth academy of AC Milan aged 5.[6] On 20 July 2025, Pandolfi signed his first professional contract with AC Milan, after eleven seasons progressing through the youth ranks, being projected for their reserve team Milan Futuro.[7]
He was promoted from the Primavera to Milan Futuro during the late second half of the 2025–26 season, along with Simone Lontani and Filippo Scotti.[8]
On 8 February 2026, Pandolfi was called up with Milan Futuro during the 1–0 home loss Serie D match against Virtus CiseranoBergamo, as an unused substitute however.[9] The following month, on 15 March, he was called-up again during a 1–0 away win Serie D match against Oltrepò, but did not play.[10]
On 2 September 2026, Pandolfi made his professional debut with Milan Futuro, starting and featuring full-time during the 2–1 away win Premier League International Cup group B match against the U21 squad of English Premier League club Everton.[11] Four days later, he came off the bench for Milan Futuro, substituting Aurelien Guernier in the first half of a 4–3 home win Serie D match against Caldiero Terme on the league's opening match for the season, on September 6th.[12] Fourteen days later, on September 20, Pandolfi scored his first professional goal, starting during a 2–1 away win Serie D match against Villa Valle, breaking the draw and scoring the second goal to secure Milan Futuro's win.[13]
International career
[edit]He is an Italy youth international, having featured with the under-16, under-17 and under-18 teams.[3][4][14][5]
With the U17 side finished in third place at the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.[15]
Career statistics
[edit]- As of match played 20 September 2026
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Milan Futuro | 2025–26 | Serie D | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2026–27 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 1[a] | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Total | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Career total | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||
- Notes
- ↑ Appearance in Premier League International Cup
Style of play
[edit]Pandolfi plays as a midfielder. In late 2025, Sportitalia editor-in-chief Michele Criscitiello wrote about him as a "Modrić-like midfielder who used to be an attacking midfielder and now they’ve moved him back to regista", and described him as "very strong player, extremely intelligent, a strong player in front of the defence".[16]
Honours
[edit]Italy U17
- FIFA U-17 World Cup third place: 2025[17]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Fabio Pandolfi: Stats and Biography". AC Milan.
- ↑ Fabio Pandolfi at Soccerway. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- 1 2 "NAZIONALE U16: Tornei dei Gironi tournament, opening game win for the Representative A team". Italian Football Federation. 19 January 2024.
- 1 2 "NAZIONALE U16. Magnificent victory for the Azzurrini: Belgium defeated 4-1. Zoratto: "We deserved to win"". Italian Football Federation. 13 February 2024.
- 1 2 "NAZIONALE U18: Fabio Pandolfi, dagli inizi al Cortenuova ai sedicesimi del Mondiale contro la Cechia". Italian Football Federation. 12 November 2025.
- ↑ "Chi è Fabio Pandolfi, il "metronomo" del Milan Primavera che sogna nel segno di Pirlo e Modrić". mondoprimavera.com (in Italian). 9 March 2026.
- ↑ "OFFICIAL STATEMENT: FABIO PANDOLFI. First senior contract for the 17-year-old midfielder". AC Milan. 20 July 2025.
- ↑ "Longo: Three youngsters that will be promoted from the Primavera to Milan Futuro". sempremilan.com. 28 February 2026.
- ↑ "MILAN FUTURO LOSE 1-0 TO VIRTUS CISERANOBERGAMO: The Rossoneri suffer their third consecutive home defeat". acmilan.com. 8 February 2025.
- ↑ "SARDO'S FIRST GOAL SEES MILAN FUTURO BEAT OLTREPÒ: The Rossoneri break the deadlock late on and win 1-0, moving back into second place in the league". acmilan.com. 15 March 2025.
- ↑ "MILAN FUTURO VINCE 2‑1 A GOODISON PARK: Gran prova dei rossoneri nella prima in Premier League International Cup U21, ko l'Everton". acmilan.com (in Italian). 2 September 2026.
- ↑ "MILAN FUTURO, OPENING DAY WIN AGAINST CALDIERO: Four goals in the space of 13 minutes for Navarro's Rossoneri in first league game". acmilan.com. 6 September 2026.
- ↑ "MILAN FUTURO FIGHT BACK TO BEAT VILLA VALLE 2‑1: Ossola and Pandolfi complete a second-half comeback for the Rossoneri in Bergamo". acmilan.com. 20 September 2026.
- ↑ "Torneo internazionale dal 3 al 9 settembre in Croazia: le scelte del tecnico Massimiliano Favo" (in Italian). Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio. 28 August 2025. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ↑ "Mondiale Under 17 dal 3 al 27 novembre in Qatar: i 21 convocati di Massimiliano Favo". FIGC.it (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 21 October 2025.
- ↑ "Criscitiello likens 'extremely intelligent' Milan youth talent to Modric: A journalist has claimed that AC Milan have a Luka Modric-like player coming through their youth system at the moment". sempremilan.com. 12 November 2025.
- ↑ "Longoni saves bag Italy bronze". fifa.com. 27 November 2025.
External links
[edit]- Fabio Pandolfi at WorldFootball.net
- Fabio Pandolfi at Soccerway
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