The November international break offers the perfect opportunity to take stock of AC Milan’s season so far. After eleven Serie A matchdays, the Rossoneri sit fourth in the table with 24 points — and that’s not just a momentary satisfaction. It is, in fact, the best points total Milan has recorded after 11 league games in the last four years.
Amorim’s points average: top-four numbers
Rúben Amorim, in his first year on the Milan bench and his very first experience in Serie A, has already set a precise tempo for the team. Those 24 points translate into an average of 2.18 points per game — far from trivial for a foreign manager still learning the nuances of Italian football.
Lining up the data from recent seasons, the comparison is telling:
- 2025-26 (Amorim): 24 points after 11 games — 4th place
- 2024-25 (Allegri): 22 points after 11 games — 3rd place
- 2024-25 (Fonseca): 17 points after 11 games
- 2023-24 (Pioli): 22 points after 11 games — 3rd place
- 2022-23 (Pioli): 26 points after 11 games — 2nd place
- 2021-22 (Pioli, Scudetto season): 31 points after 11 games — 1st place
To find a more impressive start, you have to go back to 2022-23, when Pioli’s Milan — riding the emotional wave of the freshly-won title — were second with 26 points. The actual Scudetto season, 2021-22, was simply exceptional: 31 points from the first eleven matchdays, a pace that ultimately led to the championship triumph in May 2022.
A Milan growing, but with clear objectives
To be honest: the current squad is not built to fight for the title. The immediate ambitions are to secure a top-four finish and return to the Champions League on a consistent basis — something Milan failed to achieve over the past two seasons under Allegri, Fonseca, and Conceição.
There is room for improvement on the European front, where consistency of performance has not yet matched expectations. Squad rotation management and substitution timing are areas Amorim himself knows he must refine, particularly since the depth of the squad is not yet optimal.
That said, 24 points from 11 Serie A games for a Portuguese coach on his Italian debut is an encouraging signal. The direction is the right one, the mentality Amorim is instilling — that of a true European giant — is showing in the numbers, at least domestically.
The road is long, and the table is written one game at a time. But this Milan has already shown it can compete with the best, and the November break arrives with the squad healthy and firmly in the race for its seasonal goals.
