Massimiliano Allegri returns to Milan to replace Sergio Conceicao as head coach
Former Porto head coach Conceicao was sacked after just five months in charge on Thursday following a disappointing eighth place finish in Serie A that saw the club miss out on European qualification for 2025-26.
Allegri has been out of work since being sacked by Juventus in May 2024.
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In response to the club's disappointing season, Milan fans staged a remarkable protest against the club's American ownership ahead of their final Serie A match of the season against Monza earlier this month.
Around 5,000 ultras gathered outside the club's Casa Milan headquarters before marching to San Siro. They lined up in the stands to spell out 'Go Home' in the Curva Sud, with chants demanding RedBird Capital's Gerry Cardinale sell his stake in the club and leave.
Allegri's arrival follows the appointment of former Serie A striker Igli Tare as the club's new sporting director, a role the Albanian previously held at Lazio.
Allegri has spent his entire managerial career, which spans over two decades, in his native Italy. His first senior job was with Aglianese and then moved to Sassuolo, before getting his first opportunity at coaching a Serie A team with Cagliari in 2008.
The 57-year-old then spent previously three-and-a-half seasons with Milan between 2010 and January 2014. Allegri won the Serie A title in his first season at San Siro in 2010-11, the club's first Scudetto in seven years, and the Supercoppa Italiana the following season, but finished 2012-13 trophyless, and he left the club in January the following season.
He was then appointed Juventus head coach in the summer of 2014, replacing Antonio Conte, and winning the Italian top-flight in each of his five seasons in charge between 2014-15 and 2018-19, while also reaching the Champions League final in 2015 and 2017.
Juventus also won four Coppa Italia crowns and two Supercoppa Italiana trophies during this spell.
Allegri's second spell in Turin did not bring the same level of success, with his three seasons in charge yielding just the Coppa Italia in his final campaign.
Conceicao had a bright start to life in Milan, guiding his side to a 3-2 victory over rivals Inter in the Supercoppa in January however, the following month, they were eliminated from the Champions League at the play-off stage by Feyenoord.
Milan parted ways with Scudetto-winning head coach Stefano Piolo in the summer of 2024 and then sacked his successor Paulo Fonseca in December of that year, with Conceicao his replacement.
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