Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as Ac Milan or simply Milan is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Lombardy. It was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and businessman Alfred Edwards among others. The club has spent most of its history in Serie A , the top-flight of Italian football, having played only two seasons in Serie B in the early 1980s.Milan has won 18 officially recognized UEFA and FIFA international titles, and remains tied with Boca Juniors as having won the most in the world.