player · international archive · 1938

Silvio Piola

1913 – 1996forward

Photo: Istituto Storia della Resistenza e Società contemporanea Biella, Vercelli e Valsesia (copyright holder) · Public domain

Archive goals

for Italy

Matches scored in

every one opens its match page below

Tournaments

all in the FIFA World Cup

Career span

1938

first 1938-06-05 · last 1938-06-19

Counted from the international goal archive — every scorer-credited goal in the matches it covers, 1916 to today. A record of covered matches, not a complete career count; own goals never join a scorer's tally.

Silvio Piola was an Italian footballer who played as a striker. He is known as a highly prominent figure in the history of Italian football due to several records he set, and he is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of his generation, as well as one of the greatest Italian players of all time. Piola was part of the squad that won the 1933–35 Central European International Cup & the squad that won the 1938 FIFA World Cup with Italy, scoring two goals in the final, ending the tournament as the second-best player and the second-highest scorer. — Wikipedia

identity matched to Wikidata · last verified 2026-08-23

In the line-ups

4 appearances in recorded line-ups · 1938

The archive holds 4 team sheets naming Silvio Piola in Italy's starting line-up, from 1938-06-05 to 1938-06-19.

4 appearances in the starting line-ups the archive holds — not a career total. Our line-up coverage is partial, so a match he played that we hold no sheet for is simply not counted here.

International goals in our archive

5 goals across 3 scoring matches · 1 tournament · 1938

Date	Opponent	Result	Minutes	Venue
1938-06-19	Hungary	W4–2(n)	16' 82'	Colombes
1938-06-12	France	W3–1(a)	51' 72'	Colombes
1938-06-05	Norway	W2–1(n)	94'	Marseille

Honours

8 team trophies · Wikipedia + Wikidata, community-updated

Marquee honours

FIFA World Cup

1938

Central European Cup

1937

Serie A×3

1936–37, 1945–46, 1946–47

Team honours8
	FIFA World Cup	×1	1938	Italy
	Central European Cup	×1	1937	Lazio
	Serie A	×3	1936–37, 1945–46, 1946–47	Lazio ·1, Juventus ·2
	Central European International Cup	×1	1933–35	Italy
	Lombardy Championship	×1	1945	Novara
	Serie B	×1	1947–48	Novara
Individual honours6
Scoring titles · 3
	Serie A top goalscorer	×2	1936–37, 1942–43
	Lombardy Championship topscorer		1944-1945
More honours · 3
	Inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame		2011
	Inducted into the Walk of Fame of Italian sport		2015
	Vercellese of the Year		1986

Silvio Piola

In the line-ups

International goals in our archive

Honours

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