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THE 10 BEST Turin City Tours

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2. Turin City Tour with a local guide

3. Best of Turin Full Day Guided Tour with Royal Palace, Duomo & Mole Antonelliana

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6. Highlights of Turin Private Walking Tour

7. Explore the Instaworthy Spots of Turin with a Local

8. Explore Turin in 1 hour with a Local

9. 2-Hour Private Turin Walking Tour

10. Surprise Walk of Turin with a Local

11. Private Shopping Tour from Turin hotels to Torino Outlet Village

12. Full-Day Private Piedmont Wine Tour Experience from Torino

13. Best of Turin full day tour with Royal Palace and Cinema Museum

14. Turin Like a Local: Customized Private Tour

15. Turin private guided tour from Milan

16. Private Shopping Tour from Turin hotels to Torino Outlet Village

17. 2-hour Turin guided small group walking tour

18. Turin by yourself 4 / 8 hrs disposal - English speaking driver -private vehicle

19. Walking 2-Hour Tour of Turin: The Elegant Living Room of Italy

20. Mysterious Turin Downtown Walking of Myths and Legends

21. Street Art Walking Tour in Turin

22. Turin - Private Historic Walking Tour

23. Turin Private City Tour with Cinema Museum and Bicerin or Gelato

24. Photo Tour with Aperitivo in Turin

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City Sightseeing Turin: Hop-On, Hop-Off Tour

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Daily 

24 hours and 48 hours (take your pick)

Buses run from 10am to 4pm, every 60 minutes (depending on the route)

Red line full loop: 50 minutes

• Meeting Point You may board the bus at any of the designated stops

You can get down at any of the designated stops

• The hop-on, hop-off tour allows you to plan your own Turin sightseeing itinerary
• Audio commentary available in multiple languages
• Customize your sightseeing itinerary according to your preferences
• Hop on and off at attractions of your choice
• Flexible, convenient and budget-friendly sightseeing!
• Both printed or smartphone vouchers accepted!

Note: Currently the hop-on, hop-off buses are operating only on Red line.

This Hop-on Hop-off tour is one of the most comprehensive introductions to the city of Turin, a city filled with rich history and magnificent architecture.

Enjoy Turin sightseeing the easy and convenient way. Board the classic open-top double-decker bus and tour Turin at your own pace. Sit on top and enjoy the open-air view as the informative pre-recorded commentary in different languages helps you get a better perspective on the landmarks that you pass by. Hop-on or hop-off as often as you like to explore, dine and shop at Turin’s major attractions. When you're ready to continue, just hop back on the bus! 

Enjoy informative audio commentary onboard in multiple languages along with kids commentary.

Your Turin hop-on, hop-off ticket is valid for 24 hours and 48 hours.

MAJOR ATTRACTIONS COVERED

• Piazza Castello
• Mole Antonelliana
• Villa della Regina
• Monte dei Cappuccini
• Parco del Valentino
• Porte palatine- Parco Archeologico
• Museo Regionale di scienze Naturali
• Stazione FS Lingotto
• Museo Civico Pietro Micca
• La Venaria Reale Turin

About the Supplier: In operation since 2003, City Sightseeing is one of the premier hop-on, hop-off operators in Italy - known for their easily-recognisable open-top red buses.  

• City Sightseeing Hop-On, Hop-Off Bus - 24h or 48h (as per option chosen)
• Audio-guide on board the bus in Italian, English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Russian, Portuguese
• Assistance at the Visitor Center City Sightseeing Turin (Piazza Castello/Via Po)
• Kids commentary onboard
• FREE WiFi onboard

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Voucher information: You can show your voucher on your smartphone (But if you’d rather print a copy – that’s fine too!)

Wheelchair accessibility: Yes

Turin is a functioning city and weather, traffic and events may occasionally cause disruption.

Stops and timings are subject to change. The updated map will be available once you board the bus.

Free walking tour offered is seasonal, for more details please contact our activity partner staff when you present your voucher.

Stop n.5 and 6 Blue Line temporarily suspended.

Customer Reviews

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Really great. It was easy to book and the ticketing system worked smoothly.

Gintare Stanyte

Busses should go more frequently and ant there are a lot of pauses and not so much information that could be told through them

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3 of the Best Turin City Tours

Turin might be a huge city but it is one of Italy’s hidden gems, often forgotten behind the more glam-sounding cities of Milan and Rome. Book at city tour to discover its secrets.

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Compared to fashion-conscious Milan or Rome, draped in history, Turin can feel sometimes a little overlooked in the world of Italian cities. Maybe its the industrious side, excelling in manufacturing and famously producing Fiat cars in their hundreds and thousands, but the idea of Turin can be a grey, slightly serious side of exuberant Italy. The reality couldn’t be further away; with pretty cafes and tree-lined streets, all with the Alps as a dramatic backdrop, this is a beautiful and dreamy city where time can be counted in espressos rather than looking at a watch. To get to grips with Turin’s many sides it makes sense to get a guided tour – here are three of the best Turin city tours.

Private custom tour with a local guide

This tour is fully customisable to suit the interests of you and your group, taking in both the main tourist sights and the lesser-known corners of Turin. The guide is happy to share wondrous stories of the city, alongside history and even tips on what else to do during your stay. There is a hotel pick-up by the guide and there’s also the option of jumping on public transport if you want to see something a bit further out – just let them know what you want to do and the rest is sorted. From € 45.

Book at Getyourguide.com

Turin Noir: The Darkest Walking Tour

For a different twist on a walking tour hit the streets of Turin after dark on this 2.5 hours excursion. There is the chance to visit monuments and sites like the ancient Church of Misericordia during exclusive opening hours to avoid the crowds, and the guide explains the darker history of the city, from the plague, crimes, and disturbing witchcraft practices that took place in the Roman Quarters. The highlight is climbing the 200 steps of the historic Bell Tower to see an illuminated panorama of the city by night. It’s spooky but all a lot of fun too. From €28.

Turin Highlights Small-group Walking Tour

This small group tour is the best budget way to see Turin. You’ll get to discover everything from UNESCO World Heritage-listed historical buildings to amazing piazzas – it’s a great way to get a feel for the modern city as well as learning about its history at the same time. The tour highlights include the Piazza San Carlo, Piazza Castello, and Mole Antonelliana. The guides are engaging and friendly and happy to tell you all you need to know about Turin. From €35.00.

Book at Viator.com

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Know before you go, turin city tour: a taste of turin.

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Waltz in the victorious city of Turin with a self-guided audio tour on your phone designed by an accredited expert. Listen to fascinating stories, based on an award-winning storytelling concept, and gain great insights into the most iconic landmarks of Turin. Start your tour from the astonishing Palazzo Madama, continue with a drop of Renaissance at the Duomo di Torino and follow the thread of the city’s most famous attractions. This is an unmissable opportunity to experience at your own pace the city of Turin with a captivating audio tour on your phone.

* * Ticket/entrance fee to any museum, archaeological site, or church is not included.

Book lovers?

The library was founded by King Charles Albert (1798-1849), a man most would find hard to describe as handsome. However, he was determined to turn his kingdom into a beacon of progress and erudition. His ancestors had been ardent collectors of books, since King Victor Amadeus II of Carignano (1666-1732) had donated many precious volumes to the University of Turin, while the French army, where king Charles’ father had served, had “collected” many more during the city’s occupation in the early 19th century. Nevertheless, the royal collection still included dozens of precious incunabula (books predating 1501) and thousands of 16th-century volumes forming the nucleus of the new library.

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• Self-guided audio tour on your smartphone (Android & iOS)
• An activation link to access your audio tour
• Offline content (text, audio narration and maps) to avoid roaming charges
• Entrance tickets to museums, archaeological sites, or churches are not included.
• Smartphone or headphones
• Food and drinks
• Transportation
• App not compatible with Windows phones
• Hotel pick-up and drop-off

Mandatory items

• Charged smartphone

The location

Directions to starting point.

There is no meeting point. The self-guided audio tour is designed to start at the entrance of Palazzo Madama(P.za Castello, 10122 Torino). The easiest way to get there is by taking off at the Garibaldi cable car/bus station and walking for approximately two minutes down Via Giuseppe Garibaldi till you reach the entrance of the Palace. The tour ends at Piazza Vittorio Veneto( P.za Vittorio Veneto, 10124 Torino ) near the Piazza Vittorio Veneto cable car/bus station.

Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist/ Caffé Al Bicerin/ Portone del Diavolo(Gates of Hell)

Important information

Recommended visiting hours.

This is a city tour, therefore, it is always available. It is recommended to take the tour before sunset.

• Please consider that admission fees for museums, archaeological sites, or churches are not included.
• This is a downloadable self-guided audio tour for your smartphone, accessible through our app. No live guide will accompany you. No VR / AR is included.
• No live guide or meeting point provided.
• The course of the visit may be modified and special restrictions may be imposed. The visitors must always adhere to the guidelines of the site.
• After booking, you will receive an email with further instructions on how to access and download your audio tour. Check your spam folder as well.
• Book per device to be used, not per participant.
• An Android (version 5.0 and later) or iOS (version 15.0 and later) smartphone is required. The audio tour is not compatible with Windows Phones, iPhone 6/6 Plus or older, iPod Touch 6th generation or older, iPad 4th generation or older, iPad Air 1st generation, iPad Mini 3rd generation or older.
• You will need storage space on your phone (100-150 MB).
• This is a city tour therefore it is wheelchair accessible. Please note that some points of interest might not be wheelchair accessible.
• Mobile signal may be weak at the site(s). Download your audio tour on your smartphone prior to your visit to fully enjoy it.
• After booking, you will receive an email with further instructions on how to access and download your audio tour. Please check your email spam folder as well
• Ensure that your smartphone is fully charged & that you bring your earphones
• Please wear sunscreen and a hat during hot summer months 
• Visitors are advised to wear comfortable shoes suitable for walking

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Image Credits:

Central: © Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar Wikimedia

1 – © Marco Coïsson Wikimedia

2 – © Eirini Kazamiaki 

3 –  © Zairon Wikimedia

4 – © moi-même  Wikimedia

5 – © Sunilbhar Wikimedia

6 – © Lasagnolo9 Wikimedia

7 – © Vassil  Wikimedia

8 –  ©  Zairon Wikimedia

9 – © Eirini Kazamiaki 

10 –  © ElisaSit Wikimedia

11 – © Mastrocom  Wikimedia

12 –  © Gianni Careddu Wikimedia

13 – © Gianni Careddu Wikimedia

14 –  © Derbrauni Wikimedia

15 – © Zairon  Wikimedia

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Insider Turin City Tour

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Our Insider Turin City Tour is available every day. Spend a few hours immersed in the captivating culture and hypnotizing history that make Turin such a popular destination. You’ll get an insider’s look at the stories and figures that helped make Turin what it is today. Take the time to view the magnificent highlights of the city.

Kick off your historic walking tour at the Piazza Castello, a city square buzzing with culture and life that gives you a preview of what Turin can offer. Then, head on over to the Palazzo Madama, which was the first house of the Italian Senate before being transformed into a secondary branch of the House of Savoy. Polish off your tour by walking through a number of charming city viales, rich with history and personality. Your tour concludes with the Mole Antonelliana, an architectural feat that is sure to captivate you. This monument can’t be missed from afar, but a close-up view is indescribable and must not be missed.

Our Insider Turin City Tour starts and ends in Turin with guaranteed departures.

• Small Group Size
• We hand-pick each tour and experience which we offer
• Led by a true local expert full of passion
• Hassle-free experience promise. We take care of everything so you just have to enjoy
• Great memories and the best stories guaranteed
• Easy booking, easy cancelation and best price guaranteed

Insider Turin City Tour Itinerary

10:00 meet your tour guide in turin.

• Meet your tour guide at a centralized location in Turin - Please be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the tour starts

2 hour Guided tour of Turin

• Explore the historic city center of Turin with your local tour guide
• Hear stories about famous people who lived in the city
• Visit the most famous landmarks of the city such as the Castle Square, the Palazzo Madama, and the Mole Antonelliana

12:00 Drop off in Turin

• You will be dropped off at the same location you were picked up from

If you have any questions about our Insider Turin City Tour, please contact us. Our team is standing by and will be happy to help

Book Insider Turin City Tour as a private tour, and customize the itinerary and locations for yourself, your family or a small group.

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The 13 best experiences in Turin, Italy

Nov 18, 2023 • 9 min read

Here are some of the best things to do in Turin, Italy's fourth largest city © Iuliia Pilipeichenko / Getty Images

Italy’s fourth-largest city,  Turin , is the essence of la dolce vita.

Not in the full-throttle, scooter-screeching style of the hot south, but with a composed dignity befitting of an elegant northern city shaped by the noble House of Savoy and politically explosive unification movement. This was the country’s first capital in the 1860s and is the capital of Piedmont today.

Turin’s refined vibe might feel more français than italiano, but delve into this handsome metropolis stitched from porticoed streets and palazzo-laced squares, and you’ll quickly find a compelling city screaming "Made in Italy."

Explore niche, top-drawer museums (football, cars, chocolate and coffee) and avant-garde galleries bursting with powerful art. Promenade through extraordinary royal palazzi (palaces) and gardens.

Linger over Slow Food and wine in chandelier-lit cafes and centurion osterie . And at every turn, with every morsel, feel the creative pulse of a go-getting city driven by an epic artistic, cultural, historic and epicurean heritage.

Outdoor adventurers and those seeking a green escape might not find a real buzz here. But for anyone looking for a weekend of urban Italianate living – with a provocative dash of creativity and curiosity, by day or by night – Turin hits the sweet spot any time of year. Here are the best things to do when you get there.

1. Spend a day museum-hopping

Few Italian cities sport such a varied portfolio of museums – there really is one   to suit every taste and interest. Turin’s blockbuster Museo Egizio is among the world’s best when it comes to anthropomorphic coffins, animal mummies and other priceless artifacts from Ancient Egypt.

The Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano suits anyone interested in modern Italian history, while car buffs and families rave about Turin’s superlative Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile .

This being Italy, art and design lovers are well served: Palazzo Reale displays the personal art collection of the Savoy monarchy, and the sensational Pinateco Giovanni e Marella Agnelli showcases masterpieces acquired by the late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli.

Galleria Civica d’Arte e Contemporanea is the place to go for 19th- and 20th-century Italian and European art, and Fondazione Merz , Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo and Museo Ettore Fico for influential contemporary art.

Detour: Head to out-of-town Castello du Rivoli for works borne out of Italy’s city-spawned Arte Povera movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

2. Perfect the Turinese art of aperitivi

The early-evening aperitivo (aperitif) crawl is a golden opportunity to taste exceptional wine from Piedmont and sample savory delicacies such as acciughe al verde (anchovies in pea-green, garlic-parsley sauce) or carne cruda al’Albese (raw beef) while  finding yourself in neighborhoods you might not otherwise frequent.

Favorite addresses to hobnob with locals over well-mixed cocktails, Campari or Aperol spritz, and generous snack buffets – ranging from complimentary to €15 with one drink – include historical Bar Cavour , Farmacia Del Cambo in an 1830s pharmacy, and fashionable bookshop-cafe-bar Bardotto .

3. Explore cinematic Turin

A visit to the superlative Museo Nazionale del Cinema – a firm family favorite – is not just about watching silent movies, overdosing on looping virtual-reality films and learning about Turin’s fascinating movie-making heritage.

As engaging as the evocative and well-curated exhibits is the museum building: the eclectic, spire-capped tower of Mole Antonelliana was conceived and designed as a synagogue in 1863, yet only ever used as a museum. Scaling its dome to ogle at the panorama atop the 167.5m-tall (550ft-tall) tower is a rite of passage.

4. Share the city’s love affair with chocolate

Cioccolato (chocolate) is this city’s lifeblood, and family-run chocolate makers have been hard at work in Turin for centuries – there is no point resisting.

Bicerin , the city’s signature cream-topped chocolate-coffee hot drink, has been a reason to flock to elegant Caffè Al Bicerin since 1763. Turin’s favorite contemporary chocolatier, Guido Gobino , is loved for tiny, tile-like ganache chocolates flavored with vermouth or Barolo wine perhaps, and his classic gianduiotto (triangular chocolates made from gianduja – Turin's hazelnut paste).

Planning tip:  Don’t miss Turin’s 10-day chocolate festival in November.

5. Live the good life on Piazza Castello

Nowhere does the heady pulse of la dolce vita make itself felt as fiercely as on Piazza Castello , the city’s central square and heart of Savoy from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Framed on all sides by grandiose buildings cocooning palace museums, cafes, and the city’s opera house, the square is a hub of cultural life and the epitome of Turin elegance.

Admire its majestic porticoes (Turin boasts an extraordinary 18km/11 miles of porticoes), built under Vittorio Emanuele I in the 18th century so the royal family could promenade between palace and river in comfort and relative privacy.

6. Unearth Slow Food at the Terre Madre festival

As the capital of the region where Italy’s Slow Food movement was born, it’s natural that Turin should host one of the world’s largest food and wine fairs: Slow Food’s biennial Terre Madre , next up in September 2024, and subsequent even-numbered years.

One-day passes unlock a banquet of fascinating epicurean encounters, from artisan tastings with Turinese and Piemontese producers and chefs to culinary workshops and meetings with global food activists and sustainable farmers.

Detour:  The venue is a sight in itself: Parco Dora was an industrial wasteland (home to steelworks and a Michelin tire factory until the 1980s), regenerated in the new millennium as a vast open-air art installation, green meadow park, marketplace and festival ground.

7. Tap into Turin’s art and music scene

It's no surprise that Turin is part of UNESCO's Creative Cities Network: deep-dive into the city’s pivotal contemporary art scene at Officine Grandi Riparazioni . The experimental cultural and innovation hub resides in a regenerated train depot, constructed in red brick between 1885 and 1895 near Porta Susa and Porta Nuova train stations.

Catching the latest public art installation, seasonal exhibition, live gig or other cultural happening is as much an opportunity to ogle at the industrial architecture of the gargantuan U-shaped space as it is to tap into contemporary Turin’s explosive visual and performing arts scene.

Fascinating 3D tours transport visitors around the original 19th-century repair workshops, and several cafes and restaurants are ready to stave off your hunger and/or cocktail pangs.

Clubbers, you’re in the right place. Turin generates some of Italy’s best dance music, with clubs and live-music bars in industrial and residential neighborhoods such as Vanchiglia, San Salvario, Dora and Lingotto pounding well into the early hours.

Planning tip:  Going strong for 20-odd years, Lingotto’s C2C Festival remains one of Europe’s top avant-pop music festivals.

8. Enjoy views and a cocktail in Italy’s highest bar

Dizzying views of the city and its Alpine amphitheater laid out around your feet unfold from the 37th floor of the city’s lofty Intesa Sanpaolo skyscraper – a striking, glass-and-steel work of contemporary architecture, designed by celebrity Italian architect Renzo Piano as the headquarters of the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group.

Its crowning glory is the futuristic rooftop where skilled mixologists behind the bar at Piano35 shake a sassy spin on Italian classics. Order a signature Bicerin cocktail (mixing sweet Mancino vermouth with coffee liqueur, sherry and milk) or Spritz No More (vodka, elderflower liqueur, sake and chili pepper).

9. See how Savoy kings lived at a flurry of royal residences

Turin has six royal residences in the city center alone, all with lavish interiors, priceless artworks and tapestries, and occasional museum collections.

Find medieval-to-modern decorative arts in Palazzo Madama ; a top-drawer history museum exploring the city’s role in the Risorgimento (Italian Unification) at Palazzo Carignano; and dazzling Greek and Roman archaeological treasures in Palazzo Reale .

If time is limited at the latter, aim straight for the Savoy’s personal art collection in the Royal Palace’s Galleria Sabauda. If time is endless, linger over afternoon tea on the stone-balustrade terrace of the palace’s romantic Caffè degli Argenti – views of lush green lawns and the Alps beyond are beautiful.

10. Shop vintage and design in the Quadrilatero Romano

While the city’s elegant porticoes on the main street of Via Roma squirrel away chic boutiques of all the big fashion houses, Quadrilatero Romano is the neighborhood for upmarket vintage and fashionable pieces by young designers. Make your shopping spree memorable by booking a lunch table well in advance at Consorzio .

Bargain hunters can follow urbanites on weekends to Balon , a sprawling and mesmerizingly raucous flea market north of Porta Palazzo since 1857. More specialized antique and vintage dealers move in on the second Sunday of the month at the Gran Balon market.

11. Taste Vermouth in hipster San Salvario

Savoring Turin’s homegrown Vermouth di Torino – aromatized fortified wine infused with 30-odd botanicals – has been a tradition since 1786 when it was first distilled by Antonio Benedetto Carpano for the royal court. The tourist office offers organized tastings (€18) in selected city bars.

Or opt for homegrown vermouth on the rocks or in a cocktail at funky music bar Lanificio San Salvatore in hipster San Salvario. Its Torino Milano Via Novara cocktail mixing Vermouth di Torino with Campari, Cynar (a bitter aperitif blending 13 herbs and plants, including artichoke), chocolate and rock salt is akin to drinking Turin in a glass.

12. Track down street art with a purpose

Meander off the beaten tourist track into the northern working-class suburb of Barriera di Milano to uncover old warehouses covered in graffiti, public baths rejuvenated as community centers and 13 pavement-to-sky, black-and-white wall murals by Italian street artist Millo (from Puglia in southern Italy); start your Millo tour on Piazza Bottesini.

When you're done, take a DIY walking tour of the city’s Murales Lavazza , 17 striking wall murals illustrating global goals for sustainable development in 2030 by international artists. Murals range from No Poverty (Lungo Po Antonelli 15) featuring Florentine street artist Zed1’s comic egg-headed humans to Good Health by Venezuelan-Italian Gomez (Via Berthollet 6) and Gender Equality (Corso Belgio 9) by Rome-based Camilla Falsini.

13. Walk around Fiat’s rooftop e-track

Turin is synonymous with Fiat cars. Its 1920s factory in industrial Lingotto was Europe’s largest, and walking around the rooftop track where cars were tested until 1982 (when the iconic factory closed) is exhilarating. To get a feel for the historic track, watch the 1969 classic movie The Italian Job .

New-gen electric Fiats spin around the 1km-long (0.6-mile) loop today. In 2021, the surrounding rooftop was planted with 40,000 indigenous trees, shrubs and wildflowers to create a public garden –  La Pista 500 .

Yoga, fitness and meditation areas shaded with hazelnut trees and giant sunflowers inject a contemplative zen into the green public space. Views of the city and surrounding Alps are naturally magnificent.

This article was first published Apr 27, 2022 and updated Nov 18, 2023.

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European Championship

Serbia Euro 2024 squad guide: Tactical issues, a defensive shortage and an unpopular manager

Back home, fans have little hope of Serbia doing much at this tournament. Yet there is a lot of quality in the squad, a few of whom are able to physically dominate, which might cause some trouble for the defensively frail teams they are grouped with. Might England get an unpleasant surprise?

• Latest Euro 2024 news here
• Euro 2024 fixtures and schedule
• Euro 2024 team guides: Everything you need to know

The Manager

Dragan Stojkovic is not popular.

This is the second successive tournament that he has taken Serbia to. Nevertheless, his team have been in a lull since Qatar, where they failed to win any of their games (against Brazil , Cameroon and Switzerland ). They qualified for Germany in second place, but they still lost home and away to Hungary, displaying tactical issues that continue to compromise their talent.

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That has been to the detriment of Stojkovic’s reputation, but this is a layered situation. One of the great players Serbia has ever produced, some fans feel the media is too easy on him and not nearly as critical of his coaching performance as it should be.

Stojkovic himself does not deal well with criticism, either, and carries himself with plenty of ego. During 2023, Nemanja Vidic, then running for the presidency of the Serbian FA, alleged that Stojkovic and his staff had earned a collective €16million (£13.6m) over the past two years. Stojkovic has denied that, saying in an interview that the figure is “far less” and that, actually, it incorporated all sorts of costs and expenses rather than just raw salary for his assistants.

Controversy over? No. Illustrating that point about self-regard, in the same interview he then went on to say that he considers himself underpaid for the job that he is doing. Not a remark that won many hearts or minds, obviously.

The household name in waiting

Udinese’s Lazar Samardzic certainly has the talent, whether he gets the game time and the opportunity to perform on this stage is another issue; that’s another bone of contention among Serbian fans.

At 22, Samardzic is widely believed to be Dusan Tadic ’s long-term successor. You do not have to watch him for long to see why given the similarities in style. Samardzic is also very left-footed and carries the ball every bit as elegantly as Tadic does.

He’s not there yet, experience will teach him how to ratio his game better in time, but he’s a highly watchable passing and carrying playmaker who, in the right mood, can really capture the imagination.

There is still a lot of quality and Stojkovic has picked a side full of the familiar. Tadic, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic , Filip Kostic and Aleksandar Mitrovic have all been included in the provisional squad, as have Dusan Vlahovic and Luka Jovic , who remains a useful player at international level.

When those attacking parts work together, they are dangerous. To Stojkovic’s credit, there have been times when that part of Serbia’s game has functioned as it should. At their best, they are a tricky, free-flowing proposition, and in a group with three teams (England, Slovenia and Denmark ) who all have defensive or goalkeeping issues, that will make them competitive

They are a tall team, too. Serbia were the tallest side at each of the last two tournaments and, married with their set-piece delivery (through Tadic and Kostic), will be a dead-ball threat to be wary of.

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All sorts. Fundamentally, a lot of players are asked to play out of position. A case in point, there is only one natural full-back in Stojkovic’s squad for the Euros.

A bigger problem might be that while Serbia employ a back three, they are short of players who suit the wide centre-back profile. That makes them vulnerable and disrupts the tactical harmony in the defensive channels.

Technically, while they are gifted with the ball, their rest defence can let them down in transition and their press is easy to play through, resulting in defenders too often finding themselves exposed in one-on-one situations.

And while they do have a nice range of attacking options in Mitrovic, Vlahovic and Jovic, they lack a forward capable of running beyond a defensive line and challenging centre-backs vertically. That can limit the type of chances they create.

Expectations back home

A little low, according to journalist Kristijan Plazonja. But that might be for the best: “Serbs are generally quite optimistic when it comes to tournament football. Even when there is no real reason for it — some teams lacked certain qualities, we don’t have much of a tournament pedigree, etc — but this time around, expectations are really low.

“With the lack of faith in the coach, poor play in general since the World Cup, our inability to overcome certain tactical issues and the tough group we were handed, most fans don’t expect us to go far. But perhaps that’s a good thing because whenever we did expect more, we failed to live up to it.

“If one stereotype about us is true, it’s that we are an unpredictable side. If we get lucky for once (because we’ve been notoriously unlucky at tournaments) and we get that important win over Slovenia in the second match, perhaps we overcome a certain mental barrier and push on.

“But realistically, considering everything, a first-round exit seems more likely. However, whatever happens, neutrals often do like us as our matches are usually anything but boring and calculated. Plenty of goals — mistakes — and passion bordering on aggression, and twists and turns.”

UEFA Euro 2024 team guides: Everything you need to know about the squads

Serbia’s provisional squad

Goalkeepers: Vanja Milinkovic-Savic (Turin), Predrag Rajkovic ( Mallorca ), Djordje Petrovic ( Chelsea )

Defenders: Strahinja Pavlovic (RB Salzburg), Nikola Milenkovic (Fiorentina), Milos Veljkovic (Werder Bremen), Srdan Babic (Spartak Moscow), Uros Spajic (Red Star), Nemanja Stojic (Red Star)

Midfielders: Sasa Lukic ( Fulham ), Nemanja Gudelj (Seville), Nemanja Maksimovic ( Getafe ), Ivan Ilic (Torino), Srdjan Mijailovic (Red Star), Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Al Hilal), Dusan Tadic (Fenerbahce), Lazar Samardzic (Udinese), Veljko Birmancevic (Sparta Prague), Filip Kostic ( Juventus ), Filip Mladenovic (Panathinaikos), Andrija Zivkovic (PAOK), Mijat Gacinovic (AEK)

Forwards: Aleksandar Mitrovic (Al Hilal), Dusan Vlahovic (Juventus), Luka Jovic ( Milan ), Petar Ratkov (RB Salzburg)

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