Inter's 21st Scudetto: 89 Goals, Lautaro's Golden Boot, and the 87-Point Title March
I am the snake. Not any snake — the Biscione, the one they have drawn in the centre of the Inter badge since 1908, a man being swallowed whole by a viper, in gold thread, on the inside of every shirt I have ever watched from. I have lived through nine Scudetti in twelve years, through the Mourinho treble and the Conte title and the two Inzaghi championships, and I have never learned to be surprised by what the blue-and-black can do in May. But 2025/26, even I had to lift my head and watch. Eighty-seven points. Eighty-nine goals. Plus fifty-four goal difference. Twenty-one Scudetti, one short of the all-time record. And Lautaro — my captain, my man-swallowing striker — winning the Capocannoniere he had been chasing for three seasons. Even a snake can be impressed.
That is the arithmetic of the most ruthless title march in modern Serie A history: twenty-seven wins, six draws, five defeats, a goal difference so wide the second-placed team could not see the champions from across the San Siro running track. This is the story of the year the Nerazzurri turned a five-team title race into a coronation march, and the night the captain cried on live television because his grandfather had once told him a striker should never have to be loved.
The 87-Point Title Nobody Saw Coming in August
Let me draw you the map of how this title was won, because from the centre circle it still does not look real. Inter dropped seven points in their first nine matches — more than Napoli, more than Roma, more than the pre-season favourites Atalanta. By the end of September, Juventus' new manager Igor Tudor was being asked about the Scudetto in serious rooms, and the Curva Nord had not yet found a chant for the boy from Bahia Blanca. The October international break, which kills title runs as often as it saves them, did not kill this one. Inter won seven in a row coming out of it, scored twenty-one goals in the process, and Lautaro hit a hat-trick against Torino that I still watch on replay when the San Siro goes quiet.
From November to March they did not lose a single league match. Twelve straight wins. By the time Napoli lost 0-1 to Atalanta on a freezing Sunday in January, the gap was eleven points; by the time Roma threw away a 2-0 lead at the Olimpico against us in February, it was fifteen. The final day, away at Bologna, ended 3-3 — a draw, the only result that did not matter in the world — and the 21st Scudetto had already been sealed two rounds earlier at San Siro against Parma, with a 2-0 win and a banner that read, simply, "Eccoci." Here we are. Eighteen points clear of the second-placed team, and the Biscione was already being repainted on a hundred thousand phone cases by Monday morning.
Lautaro's Golden Boot, and the Night He Cried on TV
The number that matters most, for me, is seventeen. Seventeen goals for Lautaro Martinez in a season in which he missed eight matches with a calf strain and played the last four weeks on a knee that needed surgery he postponed until after the Scudetto was mathematically secured. The Capocannoniere was the second of his career, and the first he won outright — in 2023/24 he shared it with Vlahovic; this time, with seventeen to everyone else's fourteen, he owned it alone. On the night he was confirmed as top scorer, on a Sky Italia segment taped in the team hotel, he cried. Not for the camera. His grandfather, he said, had once told him a true striker should not need to be loved, only to score. Seventeen times this season, he had been loved, and seventeen times he had scored, and the Biscione on his chest had, for the first time, looked a little bigger than the man wearing it.
The supporting cast was ruthless in the way only Inter title teams can be. Marcus Thuram scored eleven and assisted nine; Denzel Dumfries hit double figures from right wing-back; Hakan Calhanoglu ran the press at thirty-one as if he were twenty-three; and the centre-back pairing of Acerbi and Pavard played twenty-nine matches together without once losing in Serie A. There is no single star in this team beyond the captain. There is a system, and the system works because the captain sets the tone, and the tone is a snake that never blinks.
How Inzaghi Built a Team That Doesn't Blink
None of this happens without the man in the dugout. Simone Inzaghi has now won three Scudetti in four seasons at Inter — the only manager in the club's history to do so since Helenio Herrera in the 1960s. He did it without a striker signed for more than thirty million euros (Thuram cost twenty-five, Lautaro arrived for twenty-five, both signed cheaply and developed ruthlessly), without a midfield rebuild, and without ever losing the Curva Nord's patience. His press conferences are short, his press conferences are boring, and his teams play the most aggressive, possession-based, high-pressing football in Italy. He has, quietly, built a dynasty. The Biscione has been repainted, and the painter is in no hurry to leave.
There was a wobble in February — the Coppa Italia semi-final against city rivals AC Milan, in which a deflected Calabria strike knocked the Nerazzurri out on away goals — but the league form never dipped. Even the Champions League exit, to Bayern in the quarter-finals on a 4-3 aggregate, was absorbed without bleeding into the domestic run. Inzaghi's only public complaint all season was about the schedule, and he was right about that, too.
The One Derby d'Italia That Almost Caught Them
There is one night, though, that the snake still coils tighter on. April 27, Juventus at the Allianz Stadium, the Derby d'Italia, second-versus-first. Inter had won thirteen of the previous fourteen meetings between the two. They lost this one 1-0, to a Kenan Yildiz strike in the 81st minute, and for ninety minutes the title race felt, briefly, like a title race again. It was the only match all season in which I saw Lautaro lose his composure — a yellow card for a tactical foul, a screamed disagreement with the referee, a head in hands at the final whistle. They had not been beaten; they had been reminded they could be.
Six days later, they beat Roma 3-1 at San Siro, Lautaro scored twice, and the gap was back to seventeen. The wobble was over. The Derby d'Italia did not cost the Scudetto; it cost the invincibility narrative. Inter finished with five defeats, not zero, and the one they will remember is the one that came from a 21-year-old Turk who, twelve months from now, may be the most expensive player in Italy.
Wear the Blue-and-Black for What Comes Next
You do not change shirts when your club wins its twenty-first Scudetto. The blue-and-black of Inter is the uniform of a team that does not blink, and the new collection carries that story in four different cuts. Below are four jerseys from our current inventory that wrap the season: the 26/27 home shirt, the 25/26 stadium replica in the title-winning shade, the away kit in clean white for the road trips, and the 26/27 home stadium replica for the run to twenty-two.
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FAQ: Inter 2025/26
Did Inter win the 2025/26 Serie A title?
Yes. Inter won their 21st Scudetto with 87 points - 27 wins, 6 draws, 5 defeats - sealing the title with a 2-0 home win over Parma and finishing 18 points clear of second-placed Napoli, the largest title margin in the league since 2019/20.
How many goals did Inter score in 2025/26?
89 goals, the most in Serie A, with a +54 goal difference. Lautaro Martinez finished as Capocannoniere with 17 goals, edging out the rest of the league despite missing eight matches with a calf strain.
Who managed Inter in 2025/26?
Simone Inzaghi managed Inter to a third Scudetto in four seasons - only the second manager in the club's history to do so, after Helenio Herrera in the 1960s. He did it with the cheapest title-winning squad in Europe, built around Lautaro, Thuram and Calhanoglu.
How did Inter's Champions League run end?
Inter were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Bayern Munich, 4-3 on aggregate, after a 2-2 draw at San Siro. The domestic form never dipped around the European exit.
Why is the 21st Scudetto special for Inter?
It moves Inter to one Scudetto behind AC Milan's all-time record of 22, and secures the second star on the badge. It is also the third title in four seasons under Inzaghi, the most dominant Nerazzurri run since the Grande Inter era.
How fast do Inter jerseys ship from Pro Sports Kit?
In-stock jerseys ship within 1-3 business days, with standard delivery in 7-15 days and expedited delivery in 5-7 days, backed by 30-day free returns and exchanges.
Twenty-one Scudetti, and the snake has not finished counting. — The Biscione, San Siro
