This season's league
Serie A — back after a season away
Distance from Milan
12 km — about 9 minutes by train
About the stadium
Monza is a story of Italian football that took a hundred and ten years to finish. The club was founded in 1912, spent decades in Serie B, and never — truly never — reached the top flight, until 2022. It was relegated in 2025, and in May 2026 came back through a play-off final that set a stadium attendance record. The nickname is Biancorossi, the red-and-whites. It's worth forgetting the stadium's commercial name: the naming-rights deal ended in July 2026 and the stadium reverted to its historic name, Brianteo. Ownership changed too — the Berlusconi family, who led the historic promotion, ended their involvement in June 2026, and the club is now fully American-owned. And what makes Monza a particularly convenient destination for Israelis: it sits just twelve kilometers from Milan, about nine minutes by train — meaning you can sleep in Milan, watch a match, and go back.
FAQ
How do you get tickets to a Monza match?
Tickets to Monza matches at Brianteo are sold on the club's website, without needing a fan card for a single match. Tickets are sold through the club's official ticketing system. Here's good news for a visitor: the club's fan card isn't required to buy a single ticket for a home match — it's only needed for season tickets. That's different from many other Italian clubs and makes things much easier. The stadium holds about 17,000 seats, and that's a size that fills up for matches against the big clubs — Inter, Milan, Juventus, Napoli and Roma — but leaves reasonable availability for other matches. The residence-based purchase restrictions that exist in Italian football are almost always imposed on the away stand alone and don't affect a visitor buying for the home stand. TikTik gets tickets to Monza's home matches at Brianteo.
How do you get to Monza's stadium?
You get to Brianteo Stadium by train from Milan — about nine minutes — and then a bus from Monza station. Monza is twelve kilometers north of Milan, and getting there is simple — but there's one detail you must know. From Milano Centrale the ride is only about nine minutes by regional train, roughly once an hour on each of the two lines that pass through there. From Porta Garibaldi station there's a more frequent suburban line, about every half hour on weekdays — but note: that's line S8, not S7. The S7 stretch between Milan and Monza is under works and suspended intermittently, and in summer 2026 it was suspended entirely for almost a month. Before traveling, check the line status on the train operator's website. Another thing worth knowing: there's no metro to Monza. The planned extension of the line is only due to open at the end of the next decade, and any source that mentions a metro is talking about a future project. From Monza station to the stadium is about three kilometers — there's a city bus that takes about a quarter of an hour, or about a forty-minute walk. The ticket needed from Milan is the combined-zone ticket, and it's valid on both the train and the bus.
How do you get from Israel to a Monza match?
For a Monza match you fly directly from Tel Aviv to Malpensa, about four hours, and from there a train. Malpensa is the airport with a direct link from Tel Aviv — that's how it appears in the official destination system of the Milan airport authority, with three airlines operating the route across most of the week. The flight takes about four hours. From there the Malpensa Express train leaves every half hour for Milan, and also stops on the way at Porta Garibaldi station — which is the convenient one, because from there you continue straight to Monza. In total, about an hour and a half from the airport to the match city. Linate has no direct route from Israel — we checked this against the airport's own flight board, and it's legally restricted to flights within Europe. There's also a direct route to Bergamo airport, from which you get by bus to Bergamo train station and then a direct train to Monza. It's worth checking the flight schedule with the airline close to the date — the route map to Europe changed a lot during 2026.
Does an Israeli need a visa to fly to the match?
No. Israelis enter Schengen-area countries visa-free for stays of up to 90 days in any 180-day period, and all that's required is a valid passport. Worth knowing what's coming: the European Union is launching the ETIAS authorization system in the last quarter of 2026. Once it takes effect, an online authorization will be required in advance, at a cost of €7, valid for three years or until the passport expires — whichever comes first. As of today the system is not active and no action is required from you. Important warning: the EU warns that many sites impersonate the official site, use the EU logo and charge inflated fees or steal passport and credit card details. There is only one official site — europa.eu/etias — and any address not on the europa.eu domain is not official.
Where's the best place to sit at Brianteo Stadium?
At Brianteo the atmosphere is in Curva Sud, and the calm view is in the covered main Tribuna. Curva Sud, which carries the name of a Monza fan who died in 1998, is the warm fans' stand: singing throughout the match, standing, and noise. That's why many come — but it's not the place for a family with small children. The Tribuna Centrale is the main, covered stand, with over four thousand seats, the best viewing angle and the calm atmosphere — the default choice for a visitor who wants to watch a match comfortably. The Tribuna Est, the stand opposite, reopened in 2022 after being closed for over twenty years, and it's the family stand. It has a perk worth knowing about: under Italian law, buying an adult ticket in its lower tier entitles you to a free ticket for a child up to age fourteen in the same stand, subject to availability — you need to mark both ticket types in the booking. The away stand is in Curva Nord. It's worth bringing a raincoat: the main stand is the covered one, and for the other stands the roofing isn't consistent.
What's special about Monza as a club?
Monza waited more than a hundred years for the top flight and only reached it for the first time in 2022. The story. For more than a hundred years Monza was the Italian symbol of the club that was always close and never quite made it — decades in Serie B without even a single season in the top flight. The first promotion in its history came only in 2022, and it was celebrated accordingly. Its standout international achievement is an Anglo-Italian Cup from 1976, won in the final against Wimbledon. The main rivalry is the derby against Como, a long-standing territorial rivalry — and this season both are in Serie A, so the derby is back in the top flight, with a home match planned for December. The city itself is worth a day on its own: Monza Park spans about 720 hectares and is bigger than the park at Versailles, and inside it is the Royal Villa with hundreds of rooms and the first English garden in Italy.
Can you combine a Monza match with the Formula 1 circuit?
Not on the same weekend: during the Grand Prix, Monza play away, but on the same trip — yes. This is a question that comes up a lot, and there's genuine confusion around it — so let's separate the two. The race track and the stadium are two completely separate facilities at opposite ends of the city. The Autodromo is inside Monza Park in the north, built in 1922 and one of the oldest circuits in the world; the stadium is in the east of the city and was built in the 1980s. Anyone searching online for 'Monza' will mostly get racing results, not football. And the practical point: you can't combine the two on the same weekend — on the Grand Prix weekend Monza play away, and there's no home match. But you can absolutely combine them on the same trip: the circuit is open to visitors outside race weekends too, with guided tours and driving experiences, and it's about a quarter of an hour from the stadium.
What do you need to enter a Monza match?
To enter a Monza match you need a personalized ticket and ID — for an Israeli, a passport. The ticket is personalized — it carries a name, and you must show ID at the gate. The club's official website states this as a mandatory condition. For an Israeli that means a passport, and the name on the ticket must match the passport name exactly — this is enforced in practice. Another rule that trips people up: you must enter through the gate printed on the ticket, and there's no moving between gates. The club explicitly recommends arriving well before kick-off, and the box offices open about four hours before. Security authorities carry out personal checks and bag searches at entry. The club publishes the exact list of forbidden items in the stadium regulations on its official website, and it changes every season — the safe rule is a small bag, no rigid bottles and no sharp objects.