Serie A’s pause will scatter more than 200 players across the international calendar, leaving coaches to manage reduced groups while the season briefly steps away from its Sunday rhythm. Across September and October fixtures, 205 players from Italian top-flight clubs, including several youth prospects training alongside senior squads, have received national-team call-ups.
Como and Milan have the largest contingents, with 15 players each due to travel, while Atalanta will release 13 and Inter and Frosinone 12 apiece. The break also brings a familiar concern for clubs: Roma will keep Wesley, Bryan Cristante and Donyell Malen at Trigoria because of physical issues, while Frosinone’s Aleksa Terzic remains uncertain due to injury.
The clubs most affected by the international window
- Atalanta – 13: Marco Carnesecchi, Giorgio Scalvini, Giacomo Raspadori and Gianluca Scamacca (Italy); Franck Kessie (Ivory Coast); Sead Kolasinac (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Mario Pasalic (Croatia); Lazar Samardzic (Serbia); Eljif Elmas (North Macedonia); Charles De Ketelaere (Belgium); Nicola Zalewski (Poland); Nikola Krstovic (Montenegro); Obric (Slovenia Under-21).
- Bologna – 11: Alhassane (Niger); Nicolò Cambiaghi and Matteo Pessina (Italy); Lewis Ferguson (Scotland); Happonen (Finland Under-21); Heggem (Norway); Helland (Norway Under-21); Emil Holm (Sweden); Libra (Venezuela); Mbangula (Belgium Under-21); Arthur Theate (Belgium).
- Cagliari – 7: Romano and Maldini (Italy); Fadera (Gambia); Liteta (Zambia); Rodríguez (Uruguay); Sherri (Albania); Adam Obert (Slovakia).
- Como – 15: Trevoh Chalobah (England); Kambwala (Congo); Rodriguez, Ramon and Valle (Spain Under-21); Anastasios Douvikas (Greece); Ricci and Moise Kean (Italy); Jean Butez and Lucas Da Cunha (France); Nico Paz (Argentina); Diao (Senegal); Smolcic and Martin Baturina (Croatia); Mattia Liberali (Italy Under-21).
- Fiorentina – 8: Radu Dragusin (Romania); Marin Pongracic (Croatia); Franco Mastantuono (Argentina); Oulai (Ivory Coast); Nicolò Fagioli (Italy); Beto (Guinea); Cher Ndour (Italy Under-21); Njie (Sweden Under-21).
- Frosinone – 12: Palmisani, Calvani, Cichella, Fini and Raimondo (Italy Under-21); Schmid (Austria); Kvernadze (Georgia); Bobcek (Slovakia); Terzic (Serbia, subject to an injury doubt); Oyono (Gabon); Birligea (Romania); Hasa (Albania).
- Genoa – 8: Sow (Switzerland); Meichtry (Switzerland Under-21); Puczka (Austria Under-21); Johan Vasquez (Mexico); Osmajic (Montenegro); Ellertsson (Iceland); Leo Ostigard (Norway); Mitaj (Albania).
- Inter – 12: Nicolò Barella, Alessandro Bastoni and Pio Esposito (Italy); Lautaro Martinez (Argentina); Manuel Akanji (Switzerland); Petar Sucic (Croatia); Bonny (Ivory Coast); Andy Diouf (France); Josep Martinez (Spain); Yann Bisseck (Germany); Piotr Zielinski (Poland); Stankovic (Serbia).
- Juventus – 11: Alajbegovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Celik (Turkey); Francisco Conceicao (Portugal); Douglas Luiz (Brazil); Pierre Kalulu (France); Teun Koopmeiners (Netherlands); Lucumi (Colombia); Nico Gonzalez (Argentina); Sarr (Senegal); Vicario (Italy); Woltemade (Germany).
- Lazio – 8: Davide Frattesi (Italy); Albert Gudmundsson (Iceland); Sutalo (Croatia); Christos Mandas (Greece); Gustav Isaksen and Provstgaard (Denmark); Taylor (Netherlands); Nuno Tavares (Portugal).
International commitments across the division
- Lecce – 7: Tiago Gabriel (Portugal Under-21); Lassana Koulibaly (Mali); Gaspar (Angola); Ngom (Mauritania); Fofana (Togo); Gandelman (Israel); N’Dri (Niger).
- Milan – 15: Mike Maignan and Adrien Rabiot (France); Koni De Winter and Diego Moreira (Belgium); Strahinja Pavlovic (Serbia); Pervis Estupinan (Ecuador); Luka Modric (Croatia); Ardon Jashari (Switzerland); Yunus Musah (United States); Samuel Chukwueze (Nigeria); Gonçalo Ramos (Portugal); Davide Bartesaghi, Cisse and Francesco Camarda (Italy Under-21); Vladimirov (Bulgaria Under-21).
- Monza – 6: Kouadio (Italy); Thiam (Senegal); Tornqvist (Sweden); Goglichidze (Georgia); Bakoune (Morocco Under-23); Varela (Portugal Under-21).
- Napoli – 10: Giovanni Di Lorenzo and Vergara (Italy); Favasuli (Italy Under-21); Stanislav Lobotka (Slovakia); Billy Gilmour (Scotland); Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium); Rasmus Hojlund (Denmark); Vanja Milinkovic-Savic (Serbia); Noa Lang (Netherlands); Mathias Olivera (Uruguay).
- Parma – 5, plus one Italy Under-19 player: Daffara (Italy Under-21); Keita (Belgium); Britschgi and Sierro (Switzerland); Drobnic (Slovenia Under-21). Lontani has also been selected by Italy Under-19.
- Roma – 11: Ghilardi and Gianluca Mancini (Italy); Niccolò Pisilli and Lulli (Italy Under-21); Evan Ndicka (Ivory Coast); Matias Soulé, Balerdi and Castro (Argentina); Koulierakis (Greece); Manu Koné (France); Mora (Portugal Under-21). Wesley, Cristante and Malen remain in Rome while they deal with fitness problems.
- Sassuolo – 10: Esposito (Italy); Lipani (Italy Under-21); Adzic (Montenegro); Bowie and Josh Doig (Scotland); Muric (Kosovo); Sulemana (Ghana); Kristian Thorstvedt (Norway); Bakola (France Under-21); Obrador (Spain Under-21).
- Torino – 11: Rolando Mandragora (Italy); Comuzzo, Fortini and Mascardi (Italy Under-21); Coco (Equatorial Guinea); Comert and Rodriguez (Switzerland); Patterson (Scotland); Ismajli (Albania); Gineitis (Lithuania); Ilkhan (Turkey Under-21); Vlasic (Croatia).
- Udinese – 9: Maduka Okoye (Nigeria); Abankwah (Republic of Ireland); Giorgi Chakvetadze (Georgia); Jovanovic (Serbia Under-21); Nicolò Zaniolo (Italy); Jesper Karlström (Sweden); Sandi Lovric (Slovenia); Miller (Scotland); Mergim Vojvoda (Kosovo).
- Venezia – 7: Ridgeciano Haps (Suriname); Stanković (Serbia); John Yeboah (Ecuador); Rrahmani (Kosovo); Adams (Nigeria); Halhal (Morocco); Sagrado (Belgium Under-21).
For the clubs left behind, the coming weeks will be shaped by recovery work, youth involvement and the careful management of those who do not travel. For those departing, the break offers another stage before Serie A resumes and the domestic campaign returns to full pace.
