Inter

Italy · one of the fourteen clubs in the Normal pool

Founded in 1908 by members who broke away from Milan, Internazionale have won three European Cups and remain the only Italian club to have won the treble. They are also the club that keeps meeting treble winners in finals: they lost to Celtic in 1967, Ajax in 1972, Manchester City in 2023 and Paris Saint-Germain in 2025.

The story in brief

The 1960s: la Grande Inter

Helenio Herrera arrived in 1960 and built one of the great defensive teams: Tarcisio Burgnich and Giacinto Facchetti — a full-back who scored like a forward — at the back, Luis Suárez, signed from Barcelona, directing play, and Sandro Mazzola and the Brazilian winger Jair in attack. Inter won the European Cup in 1964, beating Real Madrid 3–1 in Vienna, and again in 1965 against Benfica at San Siro, and won the Intercontinental Cup both years.

The 1970s and 1980s: titles at home

Inter won the league in 1971 with Roberto Boninsegna's goals and reached the 1972 European Cup final, and won again in 1980. The high point of the period was Giovanni Trapattoni's 1988–89 side, which set a points record for the old two-points-for-a-win Serie A with the Germans Lothar Matthäus and Andreas Brehme, Walter Zenga in goal and Giuseppe Bergomi in defence. Jürgen Klinsmann joined the next summer, and the UEFA Cup followed in 1991.

The 1990s: Ronaldo

Inter won the UEFA Cup again in 1994, and in 1997 signed Ronaldo from Barcelona. He won the Ballon d'Or that year and the UEFA Cup final against Lazio the next, before serious knee injuries interrupted the rest of his time at the club. Javier Zanetti, who arrived in 1995, went on to play more matches for Inter than anyone else.

2006 to now: the treble and after

After the Calciopoli scandal of 2006, Inter won five league titles in a row, first under Roberto Mancini and then José Mourinho, whose side — Júlio César, Maicon, Lúcio, Walter Samuel, Esteban Cambiasso, Wesley Sneijder, Samuel Eto'o and Diego Milito — won Serie A, the Coppa Italia and the Champions League in 2010. A long rebuild followed. Antonio Conte won the league again in 2021 and Simone Inzaghi in 2024, and Inter reached the Champions League final in 2023 and 2025.

Inter in Treble Winner

Inter are in the Normal pool but not in Easy. On Normal they come up in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s; Herrera's 1960s and the 1970s are Hard only.

Inter in the game's pool, decade by decade.
Decade	Players	Best-XI rating	Rank	First on	Highest rated in the game
1960s	118	77.6	55	Hard	Sandro Mazzola, Giacinto Facchetti, Luis Suarez Miramont
1970s	87	76.5	82	Hard	Giuseppe Bergomi, Roberto Boninsegna, Walter Zenga
1980s	91	78.7	38	Normal	Lothar Matthaus, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Walter Zenga
1990s	151	78.8	34	Normal	Ronaldo Nazario, Walter Zenga, Lothar Matthäus
2000s	257	79.0	32	Normal	Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Javier Zanetti, Christian Vieri
2010s	226	77.5	56	Normal	Diego Milito, Samuel Eto'o, Maicon Douglas
2020s	64	76.4	86	Normal	Lautaro Martinez, Alessandro Bastoni, Nicolo Barella

Inter are one of the most even clubs in the Normal pool by the game's ratings: the gap between their best decade and their weakest is small, and the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s are almost level at the top. That makes an Inter spin rarely a disaster, and rarely a jackpot — with one exception: the 1990s cell has Ronaldo, the highest-rated player Inter have in any decade.

Drafting tips

Long careers, many chances. Bergomi and Zenga each appear in three Inter decades, from the 1970s to the 1990s, and Zanetti in three more, from the 1990s to the 2010s.
Zanetti fills either full-back shirt, and in the 2000s also midfield.
The 2010s cell is the treble side's. Milito, Eto'o, Maicon and Sneijder are there, which makes it a natural place to build a club spine.