Antonio Vergara became the latest player to win his first Italy cap in Friday’s 1-1 Nations League draw away to France, taking the number of debutants handed opportunities by Roberto Mancini across his two spells as CT to 66.
Mancini has introduced seven players to the Nazionale since returning for his second spell in charge. Alessandro Romano, Issa Doumbia and Mohamed Ali Zoma debuted against Belgium last Friday, while Michael Kayode, Matteo Ruggeri and Sebastiano Esposito made their first appearances against Turkey.
Four members of the current Italy squad are still waiting for their senior debuts. Goalkeepers Marco Carnesecchi and Massimo Pessina face competition from the in-form Gianluigi Donnarumma, while Daniele Ghilardi and Eddy Kouadio could feature against Turkey in Monday’s Nations League fixture.
The complete list of players given their Italy debut by Mancini, in chronological order, is:
Matteo Politano (Saudi Arabia 1-2 Italy, May 2018)
Domenico Berardi, Mattia Caldara and Ronaldo Mandragora (France 3-1 Italy, June 2018)
Daniele Baselli (Italy 1-1 Netherlands, June 2018)
Cristiano Biraghi (Italy 1-1 Poland, September 2018)
Manuel Lazzari and Emerson Palmieri (Portugal 1-0 Italy, September 2018)
Nicolo Barella, Cristiano Piccini and Kevin Lasagna (Italy 1-1 Ukraine, October 2018)
Vincenzo Grifo, Moise Kean and Stefano Sensi (USA 0-1 Italy, November 2018)
Nicolo Zaniolo (Italy 2-0 Finland, March 2019)
Armando Izzo, Gianluca Mancini and Leonardo Pavoletti (Italy 6-0 Liechtenstein, March 2019)
Giovanni Di Lorenzo and Sandro Tonali (Liechtenstein 0-5 Italy, October 2019)
Gaetano Castrovilli and Pierluigi Gollini (Bosnia 0-3 Italy, November 2019)
Alex Meret and Riccardo Orsolini (Italy 9-1 Armenia, November 2019)
Manuel Locatelli (Netherlands 0-1 Italy, September 2020)
Francesco Caputo and Alessio Cragno (Italy 6-0 Moldova, October 2020)
Alessandro Bastoni, Matteo Pessina, Pietro Pellegri, Luca Pellegrini and Davide Calabria (Italy 4-0 Estonia, November 2020)
Rafael Toloi (Lithuania 0-2 Italy, March 2021)
Gian Marco Ferrari (Italy 7-0 San Marino, May 2021)
Giacomo Raspadori (Italy 4-0 Czechia, June 2021)
Gianluca Scamacca (Italy 5-0 Lithuania, September 2021)
Joao Pedro (Italy 0-1 North Macedonia, March 2022)
Mattia Zaccagni (Turkey 2-3 Italy, March 2022)
Davide Frattesi, Wilfried Gnonto, Tommaso Pobega, Federico Dimarco, Samuele Ricci and Matteo Cancellieri (Italy 1-1 Germany, June 2022)
Alessio Zerbin (Italy 2-1 Hungary, June 2022)
Federico Gatti and Salvatore Esposito (England 0-0 Italy, June 2022)
Luiz Felipe, Gianluca Caprari and Giorgio Scalvini (Germany 5-2 Italy, June 2022)
Pasquale Mazzocchi (Hungary 0-2 Italy, September 2022)
Andrea Pinamonti, Nicolo Fagioli and Simone Pafundi (Albania 1-3 Italy, November 2022)
Fabio Miretti (Austria 2-0 Italy, November 2022)
Mateo Retegui (Italy 1-2 England, March 2023)
Alessandro Buongiorno (Netherlands 2-3 Italy, June 2023)
Alessandro Romano, Issa Doumbia and Mohamed Ali Zoma (Italy 0-2 Belgium, September 2026)
Michael Kayode, Sebastiano Esposito and Matteo Ruggeri (Turkey 1-4 Italy, September 2026)
Antonio Vergara (France 1-1 Italy, October 2026)
