Guide · Italy

How to play pro basketball in Italy

LBA Serie A, Serie A2 and Serie B Nazionale are the three men's national divisions under the Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro (FIP), Lega Basket Serie A and Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro (LNP). This page is that ladder, the 2026-27 training, citizenship and visa rules those bodies have published, the dates they have printed, and where an American passport fits. It is for players outside Italy, including college players. It is not a tryout, and it is not a placement service.

The ladder, from LBA Serie A down

The DOA calls Serie A the professional championship and calls Serie A2 and Serie B Nazionale dilettantistici. Dilettantistico is the federation's legal class for those two championships. It is not a sentence about what a contract pays. None of the three articles prints a wage, and none of them is an open tryout. FIP DOA 2026/27, version 5.1 (PDF) · FIP regulations index

• LBA Serie A (men, professional). The LBA assembly ratified 16 clubs for 2026-27. The regular season runs from the weekend of 27 September 2026 to Sunday 9 May 2027. The top eight at the end of the first half play the Coppa Italia Final Eight. Playoff dates were not in the calendar release. Our entry-friendliness estimate is 2/5. This is a job for players who already have a pro body of work. LBA assembly, 16 clubs · LBA 2026-27 calendar
• Serie A2 (men). LNP counts 20 clubs in one group, home and away, 38 games. The first-placed club is promoted to Serie A. Places 2 to 7 go to the playoffs, places 8 to 13 to a play-in, and places 16 to 19 to the playout. The 20th goes straight down to Serie B Nazionale. The playoff winner is the second club promoted. Entry-friendliness on our index: 3/5. LNP Serie A2 formula 2026/27
• Serie B Nazionale (men). LNP counts 36 clubs in two groups of 18, 34 rounds. Places 1 to 6 in each group go to the playoffs. Places 7 to 12 play in. The 18th in each group goes straight down to Serie B Interregionale. Places 14 to 17 play out. The two playoff winners are promoted to Serie A2. Entry-friendliness on our index: 2/5. The one non-Italian-trained place on the game sheet is not, by itself, a visa the club can request. That limit is in the next sections. LNP Serie B Nazionale formula 2026/27
• Under that ladder. Serie B Interregionale is the championship Serie B Nazionale relegates into. This page does not copy an import number from an Interregionale regulation it has not quoted.
• Women's championships. Serie A1 femminile, Serie A2 femminile and Serie B femminile have their own DOA articles. This page does not restate them. The men's visa procedure in section 5.13 names Serie A1 women alongside Serie A2 men, and it says Serie A2 women are outside that procedure. A women's roster rule is not on this page.

Each of those has its own page in the league explorer. The rules index puts the same DOA text on LBA rules, Serie A2 rules and Serie B Nazionale rules. The wider first-contract map, if Italy is one option among many, is where to get your first pro contract.

Training, citizenship, the game sheet, and the visa are four different counts

Italy does not use one word for all of them. A passport that changes the citizenship code can still leave a player non-Italian-trained. A visa quota can be larger than the number of non-Italian-trained players a club may field. The game sheet is a third sentence, with its own fine.

Training status

DOA section 5.3 gives every athlete one of three training statuses. F.I. is formazione italiana, Italian-trained. I.C. is in corso di formazione, and only a youth player who can still finish that formation may hold it. N.F. is non formato: a senior who has not achieved formation, or a youth player who can no longer finish it. The club is responsible for who it puts on the game sheet. FIP's check comes after, not before. DOA §5.3 (PDF)

The definition is in the Regolamento Esecutivo Tesseramento approved by the Federal Council on 2 October 2026, delibera n. 144. Article 21 says an athlete is Italian-trained, even with foreign citizenship, after at least four sporting seasons in FIP youth championships. A season counts when the player is on the electronic list for at least 14 youth games, at least 10 of them in the same youth championship, and those games are homologated. The year is recognised from the following season. Minibasket registration does not count toward the four years. Article 21 (PDF)

Four seasons is the ordinary test. It is not the only sentence in the article.

• Fourth year, mid-season. Article 21.4 says youth players, of any citizenship, acquire Italian-trained status in the fourth year of federal youth championships, after the first phase of that category championship ends. The club has to request the change. If it does not, the status is recognised automatically at the start of the next season.
• A youth championship that is too short. Article 21.5 says that if the competent regional president declares a youth championship could not be organised with at least 18 games, a youth player who cannot enter another youth championship at that age can earn the year with at least 10 games in that youth championship and 4 games in a senior championship.
• The Italian national team. Article 21.6 recognises Italian-trained status, even without the four seasons, for an athlete listed on the game sheet of the Italian 5-on-5 senior national team, or a youth national team from Under 17 up, in a game that counts for the final phase or the qualifying phase of the Olympics, the World Cup or the European Championship. The effect is the moment of that listing.
• Players born in 2007. DOA section 5.11 equates a 2007-born player's listing for at least 14 games, at least 10 of them in the same senior championship or as a youth over-age player, to a youth-championship listing for the purpose of earning the year. The DOA says recognition follows article 23, paragraph 4, of the tesseramento regulation. In the regulation approved on 2 October 2026, article 23 is the international transfer, and the fourth-year timing is article 21.4. This page does not treat the old article number as the current one.

A season of AAU or US college basketball is not a season in a FIP youth championship. A US college player who has none of the exceptions above is N.F.

Citizenship, which is not the training status

DOA section 5.4 is a separate axis. I is Italian citizenship. C is citizenship of an EU country or of the Schengen list the article prints, which adds Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, and also San Marino, Monaco and Vatican City. E is every other citizenship. The article puts a British athlete in E. A US-only passport is E. An Italian passport is I. An EU passport on that list is C. None of those three letters is F.I. DOA §5.4 (PDF)

Article 19 of the tesseramento regulation is about a player who is already registered and later acquires Italian citizenship or citizenship of an EU country. That player is registered with the new citizenship from the sporting season after the documents are deposited. A youth player on a two-year registration can change during the same season only if that player has never been listed for a game. A visa already spent on the original extracomunitario registration is not given back. A passport application that has not been granted is not this article. Article 19 (PDF)

LBA Serie A: fielding, the game sheet, the contracts, and the visas

Section 13.2 lets each Serie A club choose 5+5 or 6+6. Section 13.4.7 says a club may move from 5+5 to 6+6 during the same season, and may not move back.

The fielding sentence uses schierare in campo. On 5+5 the club may field at most 5 N.F. players and at least 5 F.I. players. On 6+6 those numbers are 6 and 6. The DOA does not print a separate EU or comunitario roster line inside those two formulas. The older 3+4+5 split is not in version 5.1.

The game sheet is a different sentence. The club may list more F.I. players, up to 12. The 11th and 12th places have their own conditions: youth players who are eligible for the Italian national team, have played at least two years of Italian youth championships, and can still finish Italian training, and a separate letter for a 2007-born player who is eligible for the Italian national team and is F.I. or still able to finish it (IC3). Version 5.1 lists that 2007-born case as its own letter. It does not use the word oppure that the Serie A2 article uses. Read the letter with the club. Do not treat it as a fifth requirement this page has merged into the youth test.

Section 13.1 caps game-sheet listings for the championship, the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa at 20 athletes on a professional contract. Youth players do not count toward the 20, even if they have a professional contract.

The fine is tied to the game sheet and to the contracts, and it is a club fine. If the club does not list the minimum number of F.I. players, the fine is €50,000 for each missing F.I. player, and the game is homologated 0-20 against that club, or with any better result the opponent actually achieved. The same €50,000, per missing contract and per game, applies if the deposited contracts fall short. On 5+5 the deposit is at least 10 contracts, at least 5 of them with F.I. players. On 6+6 it is at least 12, at least 6 of them F.I. For Supercoppa games only, the deposit obligation printed in the article is the F.I. minimum, 5 or 6. LBA checks the deposits. Fielding more N.F. players than the formula allows is an irregular position under article 52 of the Regolamento Esecutivo Gare. These euros are not a wage. DOA §§13.1–13.4 (PDF)

The visas are a fourth count. Section 14.1 gives a 5+5 club at most 7 subordinate-work sport visas (visti per lavoro subordinato sport) and a 6+6 club at most 8. That is more than the N.F. fielding cap, because a non-EU F.I. player who does not already hold a residence permit also uses a visa, and so does a non-EU player who can no longer finish Italian training. A non-EU F.I. player who already holds a residence permit obtained under Italian law, and not a tourist permit, does not use a visa. A non-EU N.F. player can be registered only by using one of the club's visas. A non-EU player who can still finish formation in an affiliated club, and who already holds that kind of residence permit, is not counted against the visa quota. DOA §14 (PDF)

Section 14.2 is the five-game transfer rule. A non-EU player who has already been on the electronic list for at least five championship games with an Italian professional club, or with a club in the first amateur national championship, can move without a new entry visa, if FIP has not issued a nulla osta to another federation. A player who is released during the season is not given that free pass by the Serie A2 article. The LBA article and the Serie A2 article are not identical. Read the one that matches the division.

A club in a European club competition may request one further entry visa, beyond the championship quota and only while FIP still has quota, for an extracomunitario who plays in that competition and not in national games. Using that player in the championship, the Coppa Italia or the Supercoppa requires an unlock, and then the visa counts against both the championship quota and the 20-contract cap. Being listed on the game sheet is enough to make the position irregular. The player does not have to have entered the court.

Serie A2: eight Italian-trained players on the sheet, two visas

Section 17 says the club must list at least 8 F.I. players. Falling short is an irregular position under article 52. It does not print the LBA fine of €50,000. The sheet must list at least 10 players. The fine for being short of 10 is €500 for each missing player. The 11th and 12th places may be used for a youth player who has played at least two years of Italian youth championships and can still finish formation, or for a 2007-born player who is F.I. or IC3. Replacing that youth or 2007-born player with an older player loses the game 0-20, on top of the economic sanction. The DOA does not print a separate on-court nationality cap, and it does not print the phrase "two foreigners on the court." An 8-out-of-10 minimum leaves at most two places on a 10-player list that are not F.I. The 11th and 12th places cannot be used to add older N.F. players. DOA §17 (PDF)

Section 21 is the visa, and it is only for extracomunitari. Each club may use at most 2 entry visas for amateur sporting activity. A third visa may be requested from 13 January 2027 to 27 April 2027, only to replace one of those two, and only until the quota CONI assigned to the federation is used up. Requests beyond that quota are not filled. A non-EU F.I. player with a self-obtained residence permit, not a tourist permit, does not use one of the two. A non-EU F.I. player without that permit does. A non-EU N.F. player uses one. An EU passport does not turn an N.F. player into an F.I. player, and it is not one of these two visas, because the article is written for extracomunitari. DOA §21 (PDF)

Every foreign citizen in Serie A2 men, whatever the training status, also needs the FIBA Licence A. Article 27 of the tesseramento regulation says the request goes in with the registration, with a passport copy. If FIBA later reports a problem with that licence, the registration is suspended. This page does not print a FIBA fee. The article does not print one. Article 27 (PDF)

Serie B Nazionale: one N.F. place, and no FIP visa procedure

Section 23 says the club must list at least 9 F.I. players. Falling short is an irregular position under article 52. The club may list at most one N.F. player. The sheet must list at least 10 players. The fine printed for being short of 10 is €500. Unlike the Serie A2 sentence, this one does not say "for each missing player." The 11th and 12th places follow the same youth or 2007-born rule as Serie A2, with the word oppure in the text. Replacing that player with an older player loses the game 0-20. The DOA does not print a separate on-court cap on top of the one N.F. listing. DOA §23 (PDF)

Section 5.13 is the part that stops a US college player from treating Serie B as a normal first visa. Requests for an entry visa and for renewal of a residence permit for amateur sporting activity go only from clubs in Serie A2 men and Serie A1 women, to visti@fip.it. Clubs in Serie B men, Serie A2 women and the regional championships cannot use that procedure. They may register an extracomunitario only if that player has already obtained a regular residence permit on their own. Version 5.1 does not describe a second, club-sponsored sport visa for Serie B. A player who needs the club to request the visa does not have a straightforward Serie B path in this text. DOA §5.13 (PDF)

A realistic ladder for an American passport

Match the passport to the count it actually affects, then match the film to the division.

• US passport only, Serie A2. You are N.F. unless one of the formation exceptions above is already true, and you are citizenship E, so you use one of the two amateur-sport visas. You also take one of the places that are not among the eight F.I. players on the sheet. You do not fill an F.I. place. Our estimate is 3/5. Two visas per club is the published national-league visa market under LBA. It is still two jobs, not a tryout.
• US passport only, Serie B Nazionale. The sheet allows one N.F. player. You would be that player. The club cannot file the FIP amateur-visa request for you. Unless you already hold a regular Italian residence permit that the DOA accepts, this is not a first contract this page recommends as a straightforward step out of college. Our estimate is 2/5. Confirm the permit with the club against section 5.13 before you spend the flight.
• US passport only, LBA. You use one N.F. place inside a fielding cap of 5 or 6, and you use one subordinate-work sport visa inside a quota of 7 or 8. You do not fill an F.I. contract. Our estimate is 2/5. Treat an LBA offer out of college as the exception.
• An Italian passport, or an EU passport on the DOA list, without the four FIP youth seasons or an exception. You are still N.F. You still use an N.F. place. You are not in the extracomunitario visa articles, because those articles are written for citizenship E. The passport does not skip registration, the FIBA nulla osta, or the game-sheet rules. A passport acquired after you are already registered waits until the next season under article 19.
• Four FIP youth seasons, or a status FIP has already recognised under article 21 or DOA section 5.11. That is the F.I. line. College years in the United States are not this line.

The same ladder, as one option among many countries, is playing overseas after college. France, Spain, Germany, Japan and Australia run on other calendars. An Italian winter is not a second season you add after any of them.

What the leagues pay

There is no salary table in the articles this page cites. The DOA, the LBA calendar release and the LNP formula pages do not print a player salary, a salary cap or a minimum wage. This page does not invent a range and does not convert euros into US dollars. The paycheck stays blank here on purpose.

The euro amounts above are club fines for a short F.I. listing, a short contract deposit, or a short game sheet. They are not pay. A contribution schedule for professional clubs is a separate FIP document. This page does not quote a figure from it.

A reported range from a placement company or a dated survey stays on the league pages and in the salary table, with the label that it is not official. It is not repeated here as a league fact. First-year salaries is the page for entry-level ranges in other countries. Women's ranges, where a source exists, are on women's salaries.

Two sentences change how you read an offer.

• Housing, a car and flights are contract terms. The rules cited here do not promise them. If the item is not in the contract, it is not in the deal. Contract checklist →
• US tax is a separate return. US taxes on an overseas salary is that page. This page does not state an Italian income-tax rate.

The agent's commission is still a contract of its own. On an international transfer the club has to name the agent, the agent's nationality and the FIBA licence. The cap on agent pay, under FIBA's regulations, is explained in agent fees. It is not a fee you wire before anyone offers. Article 23, the nulla osta (PDF)

Season calendar

The season is a northern winter that runs into the spring. Plan off the dates LBA and LNP have published, and recheck the league site before you book a flight. The Supercoppa weekends below are the ones those pages print for the opening of 2026-27.

Signing windows are shorter than the calendar looks.

• LBA. With a release from the prior club, professional registrations run from 1 July 2026 until 11:00 on 31 March 2027. Transfers inside Serie A, including a new professional contract for a player who ended one with another club this season, run until 11:00 on 26 February 2027. New and first registrations, with a contract, of Italian and foreign players who are not registered for the current sporting year run until 11:00 on the second day before the first playoff game. Saturday counts as a holiday when a deadline falls on one, and the deadline moves to the previous working day. DOA §15.1 (PDF)
• Serie A2. Unlimited senior registrations until 25 September 2026. From 28 September 2026 to 23 April 2027, at most four senior registrations, whether or not those players were already listed. Players coming from Serie A only until 16 April 2027. A club that has not used those four may add one senior, of any citizenship, only from a foreign federation and only if that player has not played in Italy in 2026-27. The PDF line for that extra window still shows an earlier pair of dates underneath. The dates printed over them are 26 April 2027 to 4 May 2027. Clubs may release three seniors. A move to a foreign federation does not count as one of the three. DOA §19.1 (PDF)
• Serie B Nazionale. Unlimited senior registrations until 25 September 2026. From 29 September 2026 to 31 March 2027, at most two seniors who were already listed in any federal championship, and at most two seniors who were never listed. DOA §25.1 (PDF)

The tryouts and camps calendar does not list an official LBA, Serie A2 or Serie B Nazionale open tryout. If a camp sells "Italian league exposure," read when a tryout helps and the legit checklist before you pay.

The visa, after a real offer

Paid basketball for an extracomunitario is the visa track the DOA writes down. The club requests it, inside the quota above, at visti@fip.it. The forms are the ones CONI publishes. A tourist visa, a sporting-event visa, or any visa shorter than 90 days is not permission to play continuously for an Italian club. The DOA cites the CONI circular of 24 July 2018 for that limit. A missing quota is not something a player buys. DOA §§5.13 and 14.3 (PDF)

An Italian citizen is code I. A citizen of a country on the section 5.4 list is code C. The visa articles quoted here are written for extracomunitari. This page does not turn that into a promise that a passport deletes every immigration step, every registration document, or the N.F. place. A player who already holds a residence permit still has to show the permit the article names. A tourist permit is not that permit. The wider sequence, including why a short visit is not a season, is the visa guide. We do not copy a government fee. The Italian articles cited here do not print one either.

• The club is the employer on an LBA or Serie A2 visa file. There is no honest way to hold the sport visa first and shop it to clubs. Serie B cannot file that request at all.
• A short stay is not the document these rules name. The document they name is a subordinate-work sport visa, an amateur-sport entry visa, or a residence permit obtained under Italian law. Which one depends on the division and on whether the player is F.I.
• Do not wire a "visa fee" to a person. Any government charge belongs on the channel that country's official site names. An agent who invoices you for the visa, before or instead of a contract, is the problem described in agent fees.

A move from another federation also needs the FIBA nulla osta, which the tesseramento regulation calls the letter of clearance and ties to FIBA Internal Regulations, Book 3. A player coming from a college or another body that does not apply FIBA's international-transfer rules has a separate self-declaration in article 26, for the college and, if the player was previously registered with a FIBA club, for that club as well. The letter is not the visa. How the letter of clearance works → Articles 23 to 26 (PDF)

How to get seen

Clubs fill the places above with film and a contract, not with a form on this website. The order that matches the calendar:

1. Pick the tier your last season supports. An N.F. place on an LBA sheet is not a general tryout. Serie A2's two extracomunitario visas are the published national rung under LBA for a US-only passport, and they are two visas. Serie B's one N.F. place is not that visa. If you are earlier than any offer, playing overseas after college is the wider page. Best countries is the comparison if Italy is only one idea.
2. Send the film package this site already describes. A short reel plus full games, in the form the highlight-reel guide sets, and a one-page player résumé with your real passport, your height in both units, and links that open with no login. Write the league you played. Write the passport you hold today. Leave "Italian-trained," "F.I." and "EU eligible" off the sheet unless the passport or article 21 is already true.
3. Use an agent the file can name, or write to the club yourself. How to get an agent is the process. The agent directory is the public list on this site. On an international transfer the club names the agent and the FIBA licence. Check the licence on FIBA's directory before the name goes on your résumé. A short email to a coach, with the résumé linked, is the direct version. It is not a guarantee anyone writes back.
4. Time it off the dates above. The 2026-27 season is already open. A full-season conversation for the following year waits on the next registration window, which for a professional contract opens on 1 July. The free Pro Pathway Starter Kit is the short PDF of the league hierarchy and the first two Playbook chapters if you want the wider map in one file.
5. Read the offer before you book the flight. Currency, gross or net, housing, US tax, the exit, and who files the visa or the residence permit. Contract checklist → What you spend before anyone offers, including a flight you should keep refundable, is what it costs to play overseas.

What to ignore

• A guaranteed LBA contract, a guaranteed Serie A2 visa, or a camp that claims the league will attend because you paid.
• A salary quote that treats the €50,000 fine, or any other euro amount in the DOA, as your pay. Those articles do not publish a player salary.
• Anyone who says training status is the only rule, or that a passport decides the F.I. place. Training status decides F.I. and N.F. Citizenship decides I, C and E. The visa articles are a third count, and they are written for extracomunitari.
• Anyone who says an Italian or EU passport removes every visa and immigration step. It is not the extracomunitario quota. It does not erase registration, the FIBA nulla osta, a residence document the article still names, or the N.F. place. A newly acquired passport, for a player already registered, waits until the next season, and a visa already spent is not returned.
• Anyone who says four youth seasons are the whole formation rule, with no exceptions. Article 21 prints the short-championship case, the fourth-year timing, and the national-team case. DOA section 5.11 prints a 2007-born case. A US college season is none of those.
• Anyone who says LBA still uses 3+4+5, with a separate non-EU cap and a separate EU cap. Version 5.1 prints 5+5 and 6+6, in F.I. and N.F.
• Anyone who says Serie A2 means two Americans on the court. The printed rules are a minimum of 8 F.I. players on the game sheet and 2 extracomunitario visas, plus a replacement visa. They are not the same sentence.
• Anyone who sells Serie B Nazionale as a simple first stop for a US college player who needs a club-sponsored visa. Section 5.13 says that club cannot use the procedure.
• A residence permit arranged before the offer, or a plan to play the season on a tourist visa. The visa guide is the line on that.
• An agent fee paid upfront to be "submitted to Italy." Once a real playing contract exists, the cap on agent pay is in agent fees. It is not a listing fee.

FAQ

How do you play pro basketball in Italy?

The men's ladder is LBA Serie A, then Serie A2, then Serie B Nazionale. LBA is the professional championship. The 2026-27 DOA treats Serie A2 and Serie B Nazionale as dilettantistici national championships. A US college career does not by itself make a player Italian-trained. Serie A2 is the national division whose clubs can request the FIP amateur-sport entry visa, up to two per club, with one replacement visa later in the season if the CONI quota remains. Serie B Nazionale may list at most one player who is not Italian-trained, and its clubs cannot use that FIP visa procedure. There is no open tryout on this site. Clubs sign from film and an agent, after an offer.

How many foreign players can an Italian team sign?

Foreign is not one number. For 2026-27 the DOA keeps training status, citizenship and visas apart. An LBA club chooses 5+5 or 6+6. On 5+5 it may field at most 5 non-Italian-trained players and at least 5 Italian-trained players, and it may use at most 7 subordinate-work sport visas. On 6+6 those numbers are 6, 6 and 8. Serie A2 must list at least 8 Italian-trained players on the game sheet and may request 2 extracomunitario amateur-sport visas, plus one replacement visa from 13 January 2027 to 27 April 2027 while the CONI quota lasts. Serie B Nazionale must list at least 9 Italian-trained players and at most one player who is not Italian-trained. That one place is not a visa the Serie B club can request through FIP.

What is the difference between LBA Serie A, Serie A2 and Serie B Nazionale?

LBA Serie A is the 16-club professional championship. Serie A2 is 20 clubs in one group, 38 regular-season games, run by Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro. Serie B Nazionale is 36 clubs in two groups of 18, 34 rounds, also run by LNP. The DOA calls Serie A professional and calls Serie A2 and Serie B Nazionale dilettantistici. The articles cited on this page do not print a player salary for any of the three.

Does an Italian or EU passport count as Italian-trained?

No. Italian-trained is a training status. The ordinary test, in the tesseramento regulation approved on 2 October 2026, is four FIP youth seasons, and it applies even to a player who is not an Italian citizen. The same article has exceptions, including a short championship, a fourth-year timing rule, and gamesheet listing for the Italian national team from Under 17 up at the Olympics, World Cup or European Championship. A player born in 2007 has a further year-counting rule in the DOA. Citizenship is a different code: I for Italian, C for the EU and Schengen list the DOA prints, E for everyone else, including a US-only passport and a British passport. A passport you do not hold yet is not a code. A player who is already registered and later acquires Italian or EU citizenship uses the new citizenship from the following season, and a visa the club already spent is not returned.

When is basketball season in Italy?

LBA's Supercoppa is 19 and 20 September 2026 at the Nova Arena in Tortona. The regular season opens the weekend of 27 September 2026 and the last round is Sunday 9 May 2027. The first half ends Sunday 10 January 2027. The Coppa Italia Final Eight is 17 to 21 February 2027 at the Inalpi Arena in Turin. That calendar release does not print the playoff dates. Serie A2 and Serie B Nazionale open on Sunday 27 September 2026 and end the regular season on Sunday 25 April 2027. Their Supercoppa Final Four is 18 to 20 September 2026 in Ravenna. Coppa Italia LNP is 12 to 14 March 2027.

Do I need a visa to play basketball in Italy?

The DOA visa quotas are written for extracomunitari, citizenship code E. They are not written for an Italian citizen or for a citizen of a country on the EU and Schengen list in section 5.4. In LBA the quota is 7 or 8 subordinate-work sport visas, depending on the formula. In Serie A2 it is 2 amateur-sport entry visas, plus one replacement. A non-EU Italian-trained player who already holds a residence permit obtained under Italian law, and not a tourist permit, does not use one of those visas. A tourist visa, or a sporting-event visa shorter than 90 days, is not permission for continuous play. Serie B Nazionale clubs cannot file the FIP amateur-visa request. They may register an extracomunitario only if that player already holds a regular residence permit. This is not legal advice. The EU work-permit pages we can cite are on the visa guide.

How much do players in Italy make?

The DOA, the LBA calendar posts and the LNP formula pages cited here do not print a player salary, a salary cap or a minimum wage. Euro amounts in the articles this page quotes are club fines for a short game sheet or a short contract deposit. They are not a paycheck. A reported range on the salary table is labelled as not official.