Serie A
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Serie A is the top division of the Italian Football League, the highest football league in Italy. Italian mobile phone company TIM is the main sponsor, so the official name is Serie A TIM. The division consists of 20 clubs from the 2004-05 season, with each team competing against each other team twice, round-robin style, for a total of 38 matches per season. The bottom three clubs in the league table are relegated to Serie B. The top two clubs from Serie B are promoted automatically, while the third- through sixth-place clubs enter a promotion playoff for the final place in Serie A. The promotion playoff, similar to that used for years in England's Football League, was first employed in 2004-05.
Serie A, as it is structured today, began in 1929. From 1898 to 1929 the competition was organised into regional groups. No title was awarded in 1927 after Torino were stripped of the championship by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Torino were declared champions in the 1948-49 season following a plane crash near the end of the season in which the entire team was killed.
The Serie A Championship title is often referred to as the Scudetto (small shield) because the winning team will bear a small coat of arms with the Italian tricolour on their uniform in the following season. The most successful league club is Juventus with 28 championships, followed by A.C. Milan (17), Internazionale (13) and Genoa C&FC (9). For every ten titles won, clubs are allowed to wear a golden star above their club badge; so Juventus has two stars, while Milan and Internazionale have one star each.
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Teams 2005-06
Twenty clubs compete in Serie A in the 2005-06 season. The first two teams qualify for the UEFA Champions League automatically, while the third and fourth enter the qualifying rounds. The fifth and sixth teams, as well as the winner of the Coppa Italia, enter the UEFA Cup. For the season 2005-06, the Italian teams playing Champions League are Juventus, Milan, Internazionale, and Udinese – the last two entered through qualification matches; Sampdoria, Palermo and Roma (as runner-up in Coppa Italia) will play in the UEFA Cup.
- Ascoli Calcio 1898 (Ascoli Piceno)
- Cagliari Calcio (Cagliari)
- A.C. ChievoVerona (Verona)
- Empoli F.C. (Empoli)
- ACF Fiorentina (Florence)
- Internazionale Milano F.C. (Milan)
- Juventus F.C. (Turin)
- S.S. Lazio (Rome)
- U.S. Lecce (Lecce)
- A.S. Livorno Calcio (Livorno)
- F.C. Messina Peloro (Messina)
- A.C. Milan (Milan)
- U.S. Città di Palermo (Palermo)
- Parma F.C. (Parma)
- Reggina Calcio (Reggio Calabria)
- A.S. Roma (Rome)
- U.C. Sampdoria (Genoa)
- A.C. Siena (Siena)
- Treviso F.B.C. 1993 (Treviso)
- Udinese Calcio (Udine)
Champions
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 2003-04. Celebrations in Milan for the 17th scudetto of A.C. Milan. |
Records
Top Scorers by seasons
All-time topscorers
| Name | Years | Games | Goals |
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| Silvio Piola | 1929-54 | 537 | 274 |
| Gunnar Nordahl | 1949-59 | 291 | 225 |
| José Altafini | 1958-76 | 459 | 216 |
| Giuseppe Meazza | 1927-47 | 367 | 216 |
| Roberto Baggio | 1985-2004 | 452 | 205 |
| Kurt Hamrin | 1956-71 | 400 | 190 |
| Giuseppe Signori | 1991-2004 | 344 | 188 |
| Gabriel Batistuta | 1991-2003 | 318 | 184 |
| Giampiero Boniperti | 1946-61 | 444 | 178 |
| Amedeo Amadei | 423 | 174 |
Trivia
- Records for most appearances:
- Template:Flagicon Paolo Maldini (continuing) 571 (September 25 2005 against Treviso)
- Template:Flagicon Dino Zoff 570 (until 1983)
- Records for oldest player appearance:
- Template:Flagicon Marco Ballotta 42 years and 6 days at S.S. Lazio (April 9 2006)
- Template:Flagicon Dino Zoff 41 years-old (1983)
- Record for more straight wins:
- The record for non-Italian players of the same nationality in one team withing one match is held by Internazionale. On January 18 2006, Cruz (one goal), Burdisso, J. Zanetti (captain), Verón, Cambiasso, Kily González and Samuel played as starters to complete 7 Argentine footballers for the team that defeated Treviso 0-1 [1].
See also
External links
- History
- Serie A — All results since 1929, statistics, compare teams ...
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