List of Italian football champions
The Italian football champions (Italian: Scudetto, "little shield", plural: scudetti) are the annual winners of Serie A, Italy's premier annual football league competition. The title has been contested since 1898 in varying forms of competition. While Internazionale are the current champions, Juventus has won a record 27 championship titles. The first time the Scudetto was used was in 1924 when Genoa won its 9th championship title and decided to add a little shield to their shirt as to reward and celebrate themselves as champions.
The finals of the first Italian Football Championship was decided in a single day with four teams competing, three from Turin and one from Genoa. The title was decided using a knock-out format between the finalists with Genoa Cricket and Athletic Club, the inaugural winners. The knock-out format was used until the 1909–10 season, when a league consisting of nine teams was formed. The regular league season was followed by a championship game featuring the first and second place teams. The championship, which had been confined to a single league in the north of Italy, became a national competition in 1929 with the foundation of Serie A and Serie B.
Several times in history mark when a champion was not named. World Wars suspended the official Championship from both 1915 to 1919 and 1943 to 1945, although unofficial championships were contested in both 1916 and 1944. Match fixing prevented a champion being declared in both the 1926–27 and 2004–05 seasons with Torino Football Club and Juventus Football Club being stripped of their titles, respectively.
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History
Italian Football Championship
The first official national football tournament was organised in 1898 by the Italian Football Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio, FIGC).[1] This tournament, the final matches of the first Italian Football Championship, were held in a single day on 8 May 1898 in Turin. Genoa Cricket and Athletic Club were crowned as champions, defeating Internazionale Torino by 3–1, following extra time.[1] In the following years, the tournament was structured into regional groups with the winners of each group participating in a playoff with the eventual winners being declared champions. The format was modified for the 1909–10 season which was played in a league format. Nine clubs participated playing each other both home and away, and with the clubs finishing first and second playing for the championship in a single playoff final. This season was the first victory for Football Club Internazionale Milano, who defeated Unione Sportiva Pro Vercelli Calcio in the final by a score of 10–3.[2] The 1912–13 season saw the competition nationalised with North and South divisions.[3] In 1916, Associazione Calcio Milan won the Coppa Federale, which for that season was a substitute for the championship, which had been suspended because of World War I.[4] The tournament that year was limited to clubs from the north, with the exception of Pro Vercelli, but was not treated as an official trophy or recognised by FIGC as an Italian title.
Controversy hit the Championship in the 1921–22 season which saw the major clubs (including Pro Vercelli, Bologna and Juventus) in dispute with the FIGC. The teams had asked for a reduction in the number of clubs in the top division in accordance with a plan drawn up by Vittorio Pozzo, the Italian national team coach. Pozzo's plan was dismissed and the CCI (Italian: Confederazione Calcistica Italiana) was founded and organised a 1921–22 CCI league to run concurrently with the 1921–22 season organised by the FIGC.[5] Further scandal followed in the 1926–27 season when title-winners Torino Football Club were stripped of their Scudetto following an FIGC investigation. A Torino official was found to have bribed opposing defender Luigi Allemandi in Torino's match against Juventus on 5 June 1927, and thus the season finished with no declared champions.[6]
Serie A
Following the scandal of match-fixing and the split between the FIGC and the CCI, the Viareggio charter was drawn up to legalise professionalism, ban foreign players, and rationalise the championship from its regionalised state into national leagues: the Serie A and Serie B.[7] The 1929–30 season was the inaugural Serie A season and was won by Ambrosiana. The next 11 years were also dominated by Juventus Football Club and Bologna Football Club 1909, when all of the Scudetti were won between the three of them. The competition was truncated as the Championship was suspended in 1943 due to World War II.[5] A Championship was held in 1944, the Campionato Alta Italia, and won by Spezia Calcio 1906.[8] The title was not officially recognised by FIGC until 2002 and even then the Scudetto is considered a "decoration."[9]
The post-war years were dominated by Il Grande Torino (The Great Turin), a team which found a dramatic end in the Superga air disaster in 1949.[5] The 1950s saw the gradual emergence of Associazione Calcio Milan, with the help of Swedish striker Gunnar Nordahl, who was Serie A's leading scorer (Italian: Capocannonieri) for five out of six seasons. Juventus began to dominate throughout the 1970s and early 1980s with nine Scudetti in fifteen seasons while the 1990s saw Milan come to prominence.[5]
Serie A was dealt another blow by the 2006 Serie A scandal which involved alleged widespread match fixing implicating league champions Juventus, and other major teams including AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio, and Reggina.[10] The FIGC ruled Juventus be stripped of their title, relegated to Serie B and start the following season with a nine-point deduction. The other clubs involved suffered similarly with relegation and points deduction.[11]
Winners
Italian Football Championship
| Year | Winner | Runners-up | Top scorer (club) (goals) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1897–98 | Genoa Cricket & Football Club (1) | Internazionale Torino |  Robert Al Leaver (Genoa) (2) |
| 1898–99 | Genoa (2) | Internazionale Torino | |
| 1899–00 | Genoa (3) | Torinese | |
| 1900–01 | Milan Cricket & Football Club (1) | Genoa |  Ettore Negretti (Milan) (4) |
| 1901–02 | Genoa (4) | Milan | |
| 1902–03 | Genoa (5) | Juventus | |
| 1903–04 | Genoa (6) | Juventus | |
| 1904–05 | Juventus Football Club (1) | Genoa | |
| 1905–06 | Milan (2) | Juventus | Guido Pedroni (Milan) (3) |
| 1906–07 | Milan (3) | Torino |  Hans Kaempfer (Torino) (7) |
| 1907–08 | Unione Ginnica Pro Vercelli (1) | US Milanese | |
| 1908–09 | Pro Vercelli (2) | US Milanese | |
| 1909–10 | Football Club Internazionale Milano (1) | Pro Vercelli | |
| 1910–11 | Pro Vercelli (3) | Milan (League) Vicenza (National) |
.svg.png){kind=small} Louis Van Hege (Milan) (19) |
| 1911–12 | Pro Vercelli (4) | Milan (League) Venezia (National) |
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| 1912–13 | Pro Vercelli (5) | Genoa (League) Lazio (National) |
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| 1913–14 | Unione Ginnica Casale (1) | Genoa (League) Lazio (National) |
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| 1914–15 | Genoa (7) [12] | Torino | |
| 1916 | Milan [13] | Juventus | → Unofficial title |
| 1916–19 |
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| 1919–20 | Internazionale (2) | Juventus (League) Livorno (National) |
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| 1920–21 | Pro Vercelli (6) | Bologna (League) Pisa (National) |
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| 1921–22 (C.C.I.) |
Pro Vercelli (7) | Genoa (League) Fortitudo Roma (National) |
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| 1921–22 (F.I.G.C.) |
Unione Ginnica Novese (1) | Sampierdarenese | |
| 1922–23 | Genoa (8) | Pro Vercelli (League) Lazio (National) |
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| 1923–24 | Genoa (9) | Bologna (League) Savoia (National) |
Heinrich Schönfeld (Torino) (22) |
| 1924–25 | Bologna Football Club (1) | Genoa (League) Alba Trastevere (National) |
Mario Magnozzi (Livorno) (19) |
| 1925–26 | Juventus (2) | Bologna (League) Alba Trastevere (National) |
 Ferenc Hirzer (Juventus) (35) |
| 1926–27 | No winner [14] | Bologna | Anton Powolny (Inter) (22) |
| 1927–28 | Torino Football Club (1) | Genoa |  Julio Libonatti (Torino) (35) |
| 1928–29 | Bologna (2) | Torino | Gino Rossetti (Torino) (36) |
Serie A
| Year | Winner | Runners-up | Top scorer (club) (goals) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929–30 | Internazionale (3) | Genoa | Giuseppe Meazza (Internazionale) (31) |
| 1930–31 | Juventus (3) | Roma | Rodolfo Volk (Roma) (29) |
| 1931–32 | Juventus (4) | Bologna |  Pedro Petrone (Fiorentina) Angelo Schiavio (Bologna) (25) |
| 1932–33 | Juventus (5) | Internazionale | Felice Placido Borel II° (Juventus) (29) |
| 1933–34 | Juventus (6) | Internazionale | Felice Placido Borel II° (Juventus) (31) |
| 1934–35 | Juventus (7) | Internazionale | Enrico Guaita (Roma) (31) |
| 1935–36 | Bologna (3) | Roma | Giuseppe Meazza (Internazionale) (25) |
| 1936–37 | Bologna (4) | Lazio | Silvio Piola (Lazio) (21) |
| 1937–38 | Internazionale (4) | Juventus | Giuseppe Meazza (Internazionale) (20) |
| 1938–39 | Bologna (5) | Torino | Aldo Boffi (Milan) Ettore Puricelli (Bologna) (19) |
| 1939–40 | Internazionale (5) | Bologna | Aldo Boffi (Milan) (24) |
| 1940–41 | Bologna (6) | Internazionale | Ettore Puricelli (Bologna) (22) |
| 1941–42 | Associazione Sportiva Roma (1) | Torino | Aldo Boffi (Milan) (22) |
| 1942–43 | Torino (2) | Livorno | Silvio Piola (Lazio) (21) |
| 1944 | Spezia Calcio [15] | Torino | → Unofficial title |
| 1944–45 |
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| 1945–46 | Torino (3) | Juventus | Guglielmo Gabetto (Torino) (22) |
| 1946–47 | Torino (4) | Juventus | Valentino Mazzola (Torino) (29) |
| 1947–48 | Torino (5) | Milan | Giampiero Boniperti (Juventus) (27) |
| 1948–49 | Torino (6) [16] | Internazionale | István Nyers (Internazionale) (26) |
| 1949–50 | Juventus (8) | Milan |  Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (35) |
| 1950–51 | Milan (4) | Internazionale | Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (34) |
| 1951–52 | Juventus (9) | Milan |  John Hansen (Juventus) (30) |
| 1952–53 | Internazionale (6) | Juventus | Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (26) |
| 1953–54 | Internazionale (7) | Juventus | Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (23) |
| 1954–55 | Milan (5) | Udinese | Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (26) |
| 1955–56 | Associazione Calcio Fiorentina (1) | Milan | Gino Pivatelli (Bologna) (29) |
| 1956–57 | Milan (6) | Fiorentina |  Dino da Costa (Roma) (22) |
| 1957–58 | Juventus (10) | Fiorentina |  John Charles (Juventus) (28) |
| 1958–59 | Milan (7) | Fiorentina | Antonio Valentin Angelillo (Internazionale) (33) |
| 1959–60 | Juventus (11) | Fiorentina | Omar Sivori (Juventus) (28) |
| 1960–61 | Juventus (12) | Milan | Sergio Brighenti (Sampdoria) (27) |
| 1961–62 | Milan (8) | Internazionale | José Altafini (Milan) Aurelio Milani (Fiorentina) (22) |
| 1962–63 | Internazionale (8) | Juventus | Harald Nielsen (Bologna) Pedro Manfredini (Roma) (19) |
| 1963–64 | Bologna (7) | Internazionale | Harald Nielsen (Bologna) (21) |
| 1964–65 | Internazionale (9) | Milan | Sandro Mazzola (Internazionale) Alberto Orlando (Fiorentina) (17) |
| 1965–66 | Internazionale (10) | Bologna | Luis Vinicio (Vicenza) (25) |
| 1966–67 | Juventus (13) | Internazionale | Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (18) |
| 1967–68 | Milan (9) | Napoli | Pierino Prati (Milan) (15) |
| 1968–69 | Fiorentina (2) | Cagliari | Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (21) |
| 1969–70 | Cagliari Calcio (1) | Internazionale | Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (21) |
| 1970–71 | Internazionale (11) | Milan | Roberto Boninsegna (Internazionale) (24) |
| 1971–72 | Juventus (14) | Milan | Roberto Boninsegna (Internazionale) (22) |
| 1972–73 | Juventus (15) | Milan | Giuseppe Savoldi (Bologna) Paolino Pulici (Torino) Gianni Rivera (Milan) (17) |
| 1973–74 | Società Sportiva Lazio (1) | Juventus | Giorgio Chinaglia (Lazio) (24) |
| 1974–75 | Juventus (16) | Napoli | Paolino Pulici (Torino) (18) |
| 1975–76 | Torino (7) | Juventus | Paolino Pulici (Torino) (21) |
| 1976–77 | Juventus (17) | Torino | Francesco Graziani (Torino) (21) |
| 1977–78 | Juventus (18) | Vicenza | Paolo Rossi (Vicenza) (24) |
| 1978–79 | Milan (10) | Perugia | Bruno Giordano (Lazio) (19) |
| 1979–80 | Internazionale (12) | Juventus | Roberto Bettega (Juventus) (16) |
| 1980–81 | Juventus (19) | Roma | Roberto Pruzzo (Roma) (18) |
| 1981–82 | Juventus (20) | Fiorentina | Roberto Pruzzo (Roma) (15) |
| 1982–83 | Roma (2) | Juventus |  Michel Platini (Juventus) (16) |
| 1983–84 | Juventus (21) | Roma | Michel Platini (Juventus) (20) |
| 1984–85 | Hellas Verona (1) | Torino | Michel Platini (Juventus) (18) |
| 1985–86 | Juventus (22) | Roma | Roberto Pruzzo (Roma) (19) |
| 1986–87 | Società Sportiva Napoli (1) | Juventus | Pietro Paolo Virdis (Milan) (17) |
| 1987–88 | Milan (11) | Napoli | Diego Maradona (Napoli) (15) |
| 1988–89 | Internazionale (13) | Napoli | Aldo Serena (Internazionale) (22) |
| 1989–90 | Napoli (2) | Milan |  Marco van Basten (Milan) (19) |
| 1990–91 | Unione Calcio Sampdoria (1) | Milan | Gianluca Vialli (Sampdoria) (19) |
| 1991–92 | Milan (12) | Juventus | Marco van Basten (Milan) (25) |
| 1992–93 | Milan (13) | Internazionale | Giuseppe Signori (Lazio) (26) |
| 1993–94 | Milan (14) | Juventus | Giuseppe Signori (Lazio) (23) |
| 1994–95 | Juventus (23) | Lazio | Gabriel Batistuta (Fiorentina) (26) |
| 1995–96 | Milan (15) | Juventus | Igor Protti (Bari) Giuseppe Signori (Lazio) (24) |
| 1996–97 | Juventus (24) | Parma | Filippo Inzaghi (Atalanta) (24) |
| 1997–98 | Juventus (25) | Internazionale |  Oliver Bierhoff (Udinese) (27) |
| 1998–99 | Milan (16) | Lazio | Márcio Amoroso (Udinese) (22) |
| 1999–00 | Lazio (2) | Juventus |  Andriy Shevchenko (Milan) (24) |
| 2000–01 | Roma (3) | Juventus | Hernán Crespo (Lazio) (26) |
| 2001–02 | Juventus (26) | Roma | David Trezeguet (Juventus) Dario Hübner (Piacenza) (24) |
| 2002–03 | Juventus (27) | Internazionale | Christian Vieri (Internazionale) (24) |
| 2003–04 | Milan (17) | Roma | Andriy Shevchenko (Milan) (24) |
| 2004–05 | No winner [17] | Milan | Cristiano Lucarelli (Livorno) (24) |
| 2005–06 | Internazionale (14) [18] | Roma [18] | Luca Toni (Fiorentina) (31) |
| 2006–07 | Internazionale (15) | Roma | Francesco Totti (Roma) (26) |
| 2007–08 | Internazionale (16) | Roma | Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus) (21) |
| 2008–09 | Internazionale (17) | Juventus | Zlatan Ibrahimović (Internazionale) (25) |
| 2009–10 | Internazionale (18) | Roma | Antonio Di Natale (Udinese) (29)] |
Performances
Clubs
The following table lists the performance of each club describing winners of the Championship.
| Club | Winners | Runners-up | Winning seasons |
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| Juventus |
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1905, 1925–26, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1966–67, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1994–95, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2002–03 |
| Internazionale |
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1909–10, 1919–20, 1929–30, 1937–38, 1939–40, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1970–71, 1979–80, 1988–89, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 |
| Milan |
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1901, 1906, 1907, 1950–51, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1961–62, 1967–68, 1978–79, 1987–88, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2003–04 |
| Genoa |
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1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1914–15, 1922–23, 1923–24 |
| Torino |
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1927–28, 1942–43, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1975–76 |
| Bologna |
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1924–25, 1928–29, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1938–39, 1940–41, 1963–64 |
| Pro Vercelli |
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1908, 1909, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1912–13, 1920–21, 1921–22 (CCI) |
| Roma |
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1941–42, 1982–83, 2000–01 |
| Fiorentina |
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1955–56, 1968–69 |
| Napoli |
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1986–87, 1989–90 |
| Lazio |
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1973–74, 1999–00 |
| Cagliari |
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1969–70 |
| Casale |
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1913–14 |
| Novese |
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1921–22 (FIGC) |
| Sampdoria |
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1990–91 |
| Verona |
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1984–85 |
Cities
The following table lists the Italian football champions by city.
| City | Titles | Winning Clubs |
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 Milan |
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Internazionale (18), Milan (17) |
 Turin |
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Juventus (27), Torino (7) |
 Genoa |
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Genoa (9), Sampdoria (1) |
 Bologna |
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Bologna (7) |
 Vercelli |
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Pro Vercelli (7) |
 Rome |
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Roma (3), Lazio (2) |
 Florence |
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Fiorentina (2) |
 Naples |
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Napoli (2) |
 Cagliari |
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Cagliari (1) |
 Casale Monferrato |
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Casale (1) |
 Novi Ligure |
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Novese (1) |
 Verona |
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Verona (1) |
Provinces
The following table lists the Italian football champions by province.
| Province | Titles | Winning Clubs |
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| Milan |
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Internazionale (18), Milan (17) |
| Turin |
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Juventus (27), Torino (7) |
| Genoa |
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Genoa (9), Sampdoria (1) |
| Bologna |
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Bologna (7) |
| Vercelli |
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Pro Vercelli (7) |
| Rome |
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Roma (3), Lazio (2) |
| Alessandria |
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Casale (1), Novese (1) |
| Florence |
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Fiorentina (2) |
| Naples |
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Napoli (2) |
| Cagliari |
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Cagliari (1) |
| Verona |
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Verona (1) |
Regions
The following table lists the Italian football champions by region.
| Region | Titles | Winning Clubs |
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 Piedmont |
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Juventus (27), Pro Vercelli (7), Torino (7), Casale (1), Novese (1) |
 Lombardy |
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Internazionale (18), Milan (17) |
 Liguria |
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Genoa (9), Sampdoria (1) |
 Emilia-Romagna |
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Bologna (7) |
 Lazio |
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Roma (3), Lazio (2) |
 Campania |
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Napoli (2) |
 Tuscany |
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Fiorentina (2) |
 Sardinia |
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Cagliari (1) |
 Veneto |
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Verona (1) |
See also
- Football in Italy
- Italian football league system
Sources
- Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898–2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
References and notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "FIGC History – 1898". FIGC. http://www.figc.it/english/storia/storia_completa.htm#1898. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ↑ "Italy – Championship History 1898–1923". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/italhist98-25.html#10. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ↑ "FIGC History – 1913". FIGC. http://www.figc.it/english/storia/storia_completa.htm#1913. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ↑ "Juventus vs Milan". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/juvemilan.html. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Italy – List of Champions". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/italchamp.html. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ↑ James Lawton (2006-07-08). "Italy are fabulously flawed". The Independent. http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/internationals/article1166526.ece. Retrieved 2007-04-17.
- ↑ John Foot. Calcio – a history of Italian Football. Fourth Estate. ISBN 0007175744.
- ↑ "Italy 1943/44 (War Championship)". rsssf.com. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/ital44.html. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ↑ "Lo scudetto del '44 – 4a parte" (in Italian). Spezia Calcio 1906. http://www.acspezia1906.it/LaStoria/lo_scudetto_del_44_4p.asp. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ↑ "Serie A quartet will stand trial". BBC Sport. 2006-06-23. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/4993482.stm. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ↑ "Italian trio relegated to Serie B". BBC Sport. 2006-07-14. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/5164194.stm. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ↑ Championship unfinished due to WWI, title awarded by the FIGC
- ↑ Title not recognised by FIGC.
- ↑ Torino stripped of their title.
- ↑ Not recognised by FIGC until 2002, considered a decorative title.
- ↑ Title awarded by FIGC following the Superga air disaster.
- ↑ Juventus stripped of their title.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Standings decided by FIGC after Juventus relegation.
External links
- (English) Italian Football Association
- (Italian) Official national league website
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