Relay Marathon 2025

The Relay Marathon is a non-competitive relay run.

In Milan, on the same day of the Milano Marathon (the relay sets off at 9.15 am, three quarters of an hour later the individual marathon).

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 the Milano Marathon and are set in Corso Venezia. 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, because the Relay Marathon is linked to a solidarity program called the Milano Marathon Charity Program, which a limited number of associations can join each year.

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 types of organizations, from Foundations to NPOs, as long as they are not-for-profit bodies.

No, every year the Charity Program is open to organizations that operate in a variety of solidarity sectors.

he first step is to fill in a specific online form and mark the kind of package you are interested in. This usually needs to be done by the month of September (the event takes place at the beginning of April on the following year).

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 (GOLD and PLATINUM packages) are acquired. Contact us for more details about 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.

The contract – undersigned by the non-profit organizations that join the Charity program – states that the entire price of the package must be paid, regardless of the actual use of the registrations included in the package itself.

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 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.

Upon being confirmed as part of the Charity Program, the NPO pays an initial 100,00 Euros tranche. At the end of January, the first instalment – 50% of the value of the package – is to be paid. Mid-March the balance is to be paid, keeping into account the extra or fewer registrations, as explained in the paragraph above. All payments are made via bank transfer.

For this kind of organization there is the WILD CARD category that incudes just 6 teams in the package and exposes the organization to a minimum economic risk. This category is open only to NPOs that have never being part of the Charity Program.
The visibility benefits will be small, but the NPO will be benefiting from the consultancy of our partners to increase public awareness about its cause and to maximize the fundraising through its registrations.

For this kind of organization there is the WILD CARD category that incudes just 6 teams in the package and exposes the organization to a minimum economic risk. This category is open only to NPOs that have never being part of the Charity Program.
The visibility benefits will be small, but the NPO will be benefiting from the consultancy of our partners to increase public awareness about its cause and to maximize the fundraising through its registrations.

No. If there are more requests than the packages available for a given category (which was the case in the last years, especially for the bigger packages), a “weighed” draw will take place. A package of the immediately lower category than the chosen one is given to the non-profit organizations that might not be able to get the wished package in the draw.
Contact us for more details about the parameters applied to the “weighed” draw.