Practical Info

The Relay Marathon is a non-competitive relay run connected to the Milano Marathon Charity Program. The relay is open only to the teams that donate a minimum amount to and/or fundraise for one of the non-profit organizations involved in the Charity Program. So, the Relay Marathon is a great charitable fundraising event, the major one in kind in Italy.

In Milan, on the same day of the Milano Marathon (the relay sets off at 9.00 am, an half of hour later the individual marathon).

You will be able to collect your bib (and the race pack) on the following days:

From 8:15 a.m., it will be possible to start lining up from Corso Vittorio Emanuele toward the starting area located in Piazza del Duomo.

Start and finish are the same as theWizz Air Milano Marathon and are set in Piazza del Duomo. The course is divided in four legs.

The relay fraction are between 6- and 14-km long.

CHANGE POINT 1: Pagano (refreshment at the end of the relay change km)

Length 1st fraction: 0 – 13 km 300 mt (the change point will be approximately from km 12.3 to 13.3) – length: 13km 300mt

CHANGE POINT 2: P.le dello Sport (refreshment at the end of the relay change km)

Length 2nd fraction: 13km 300mt – 22km 200mt (the change point will be approximately from 21.2 to 22.2) – length: 8km 900mt

CHANGE POINT 3: Bonola (refreshment at the beginning of the relay change km)

Length 3rd fraction: 22km 200mt – 28km 300mt (change point will be approximately from 28.3 to 29.3) – length: 6km 100mt

ARRIVAL: Cathedral

Length 4th fraction: 28 km 300 mt – 42 km 195 mt. Length: 13 km 895 mt.

The participation in the Relay Marathon is open to 4-person teams, with at least 16-year-old runners in possession of a medical certificate for non-competitive sporting activity.

The Relay Marathon is the main charity fundraising event in Italy. This is why, in order to participate, each team must choose a non-profit organization selected from those listed on the official website (almost 100 working in a variety of third-sector areas).

The Relay Marathon does not have a registration fee in the traditional sense of the word. The registration fee is “given” to each team by the chosen non-profit organization, upon reaching a minimum donation and/or fundraising to support the indicated charity project. Each non-profit organization is free to set the minimum fundraising amount to be achieved.

Yes, you can only run for a specific non-profit organisation, but you can donate to more than one NPO.

The Relay Marathon is a non-competitive relay run connected to the Milano Marathon Charity Program. The relay is open only to the teams that donate a minimum amount to and/or fundraise for one of the non-profit organizations involved in the Charity Program. So, the Relay Marathon is a great charitable fundraising event, the major one in kind in Italy.

It is a solidarity program that has been organized, for over a decade, by Milano Marathon and aims to bring to non-profit organizations a new way of fundraising and personal fundraising. The Charity program is a limited-number project and involves around 100 organizations every year.

All third sector organisations.

No, the Charity Programme welcomes organisations working in various social sectors every year.

The first step is to send an e-mail to charityprogram@milanomarathon.it and fill in the online form you will receive, indicating the type of package you are interested in. This must be done by 29 September 2024 (the event will take place on 6 April 2025).

The Charity Program includes 6 different packages or categories. For each category the charity can register a fixed maximum number of “supporting” teams in the Relay Marathon, as follows:

As you can see, the number of available packages for each category (hence, for the entire Charity Program) is limited. It is a limited-number program, on a yearly basis, to ensure the greatest possible assistance to the involved non-profit organizations.

The packages include a wide range of benefits for the participating organizations, but the main advantage for all the NPOs is to become part of an organizational structure capable of accompanying them throughout a leading-to-the-event process that lasts from September to April of the following year. Both the amount and the import of the benefits increase as the most prestigious (PLATINUM and DIAMOND packages) are acquired.

Contact us at charityprogram@milanomarathon.it for more details on the benefits of each package.

The total price of the packages increases as you acquire packages including a greater number of teams that can be registered. Vice versa, the unit cost of each team decreases progressively.
Contact us for more details about the cost of each package.

Contact us at charityprogram@milanomarathon.it for details on the cost of each package.

The Market Place is the ‘economic risk mitigation’ system for associations. It is an exchange platform, managed by Wizz Air Milano Marathon, which allows NPOs to surrender unused registrations or buy additional ones. The Market Place algorithm seeks a numerical balance between surrendered and purchased registrations. The allocation is made according to a weighted average.

ATTENTION: if the numerical balance is not reached, the organisation reserves the right not to fulfil the requests made.

For further information please send an e-mail to charityprogram@milanomarahton.it

Only apparently. Much depends on the attitude whereby the organization approaches the Charity Program, an initiative that gives great fundraising possibilities but also requires conviction, engagement and organization by the NPOs. Our experience shows that the policy of packages to be purchased on an “empty for full” basis has improved the Charity Program, enhancing the proactive attitude of the participating organizations for everyone’s benefit.

The Program also includes an “economic risk mitigation system” (Market Place) for the NPOs that allows them to dispose of the unused registrations by giving them up to other NPOs that have run out of the registrations in their package but are looking for other registrations available.

For more information send an e-mail to charityprogram@milanomarahton.it

For this association, there is the WILD CARD category, which has only 8 teams that can be registered per package and therefore exposes them to minimal financial risk. This category is only accessible to non-profit organisations that have never participated in the Charity Programme.

The visibility benefits will be reduced, but you will benefit from the advice of our partners to raise awareness of your cause and maximise fundraising through registrations.