Fabio Pandolfi

Fabio Pandolfi
Personal information
Date of birth (2008-02-23) 23 February 2008 (age 18)
Place of birth Treviglio, Italy
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Milan Futuro
Youth career
AC Milan
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2026– Milan Futuro (res.) 6 (1)
International career‡
2024 Italy U16 6 (0)
2024–2025 Italy U17 6 (1)
2025– Italy U18 5 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Italy
FIFA U-17 World Cup
Third place2025 Qatar
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:55, 1 November 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. He is an Italian youth international.

Club career

He was born in Treviglio, Italy, and started playing football at a young age, joining the youth academy of AC Milan aged 5. 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.

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.

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. 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.

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. 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. 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.

International career

He is an Italy youth international, having featured with the under-16, under-17 and under-18 teams.

With the U17 side finished in third place at the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Career statistics

As of match played 1 November 2026
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Milan Futuro 2025–26 Serie D 00———00
2026–27 6100—1071
Total 6100—1071
Career total 6100001071
Notes

Style of play

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".

Honours

Italy U17

References

  1. 1 2 "Fabio Pandolfi: Stats and Biography". AC Milan.
  2. ↑ Fabio Pandolfi at Soccerway. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
  3. 1 2 "NAZIONALE U16: Tornei dei Gironi tournament, opening game win for the Representative A team". Italian Football Federation. 19 January 2024.
  4. 1 2 "NAZIONALE U16. Magnificent victory for the Azzurrini: Belgium defeated 4-1. Zoratto: "We deserved to win"". Italian Football Federation. 13 February 2024.
  5. 1 2 "NAZIONALE U18: Fabio Pandolfi, dagli inizi al Cortenuova ai sedicesimi del Mondiale contro la Cechia". Italian Football Federation. 12 November 2025.
  6. ↑ "Chi è Fabio Pandolfi, il "metronomo" del Milan Primavera che sogna nel segno di Pirlo e Modrić". mondoprimavera.com (in Italian). 9 March 2026.
  7. ↑ "OFFICIAL STATEMENT: FABIO PANDOLFI. First senior contract for the 17-year-old midfielder". AC Milan. 20 July 2025.
  8. ↑ "Longo: Three youngsters that will be promoted from the Primavera to Milan Futuro". sempremilan.com. 28 February 2026.
  9. ↑ "MILAN FUTURO LOSE 1-0 TO VIRTUS CISERANOBERGAMO: The Rossoneri suffer their third consecutive home defeat". acmilan.com. 8 February 2025.
  10. ↑ "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.
  11. ↑ "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.
  12. ↑ "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.
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. ↑ "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.
  15. ↑ "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.
  16. ↑ "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.
  17. ↑ "Longoni saves bag Italy bronze". fifa.com. 27 November 2025.