1953–54 Serie B

The Serie B 1953–54 was the twenty-second tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.

Serie B

Season	1953–54
Champions	Catania 1st title
← 1952–53 1954–55 →

Alessandria

Cagliari

Catania

Como

Fanfulla

Marzotto
LR Vicenza

Messina

Modena

Monza

Padova

Pavia

Piombino

Pro Patria

Salernitana

Treviso

Brescia
Verona

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Serie B 1953-54 team distribution

Teams

Pavia and Alessandria had been promoted from Serie C, while Como and Pro Patria had been relegated from Serie A.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Catania (P, C)	34	16	11	7	54	31	1.742	43	Promotion to Serie A
2	Pro Patria (P)	34	15	11	8	49	36	1.361	41	Serie A after tie-breaker
3	Cagliari	34	16	9	9	42	30	1.400	41	Promotion tie-breaker
4	Como	34	14	12	8	37	22	1.682	40
5	Marzotto	34	15	9	10	39	30	1.300	39
6	Lanerossi Vicenza	34	13	11	10	41	34	1.206	37
7	Verona	34	12	12	10	44	37	1.189	36
7	Monza	34	10	16	8	30	29	1.034	36
9	Brescia	34	11	11	12	33	38	0.868	33
10	Modena	34	9	12	13	35	37	0.946	30
10	Messina	34	9	12	13	23	27	0.852	30
10	Salernitana	34	10	10	14	31	46	0.674	30
13	Padova	34	9	11	14	33	40	0.825	29
13	Alessandria	34	9	11	14	39	50	0.780	29
13	Pavia	34	9	11	14	39	51	0.765	29
13	Treviso	34	7	15	12	24	41	0.585	29
17	Fanfulla^[a] (D, R)	34	11	11	12	37	34	1.088	28	Relegation to Serie C
18	Piombino (R)	34	8	11	15	24	41	0.585	27

Source: Panini
(C) Champion; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. 5 points deducted for an attempted corruption.

Results

Home \ Away	ALE	BRE	CAG	CTN	COM	FAN	LRV	MAR	MES	MOD	MON	PAD	PAV	PIO	PPA	SAL	TRV	HEL
Alessandria		1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	0–2	0–2	2–1	4–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	5–0	0–0	2–1	3–2	2–3
Brescia	1–1		1–0	0–2	2–0	4–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–2
Cagliari	1–0	2–0		3–1	3–2	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	1–0
Catania	4–0	4–1	3–1		1–1	0–1	2–1	3–0	1–3	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	3–1	3–1
Como	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–0		2–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	4–1	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–0
Fanfulla	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–3	1–2		3–1	1–2	0–1	0–2	2–1	2–0	4–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–1
L.R. Vicenza	1–0	2–1	4–1	1–2	1–1	2–2		0–0	2–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	0–2	3–0	1–1	0–0
Marzotto	3–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	3–0		3–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	4–1	2–1	2–0	3–1	4–0	1–0
Messina	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–0		0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0
Modena	3–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–2	2–1	0–1	0–0		2–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	4–1
Monza	0–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–2		0–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	3–0	1–0	1–0
Padova	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–3		5–2	2–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	0–1
Pavia	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	3–2	3–2	1–0	2–1		1–1	2–2	3–0	5–1	1–1
Piombino	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–2	4–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0		0–1	5–3	1–1	1–1
Pro Patria	3–2	2–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	3–0	2–3	0–0		3–3	1–1	1–1
Salernitana	1–1	2–1	0–1	0–3	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–0		2–0	1–0
Treviso	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–5	1–0		0–0
Hellas Verona	4–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	4–0	2–0	5–1	1–0	0–2	3–3	1–2

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion tie-breaker

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Cagliari	0-2	Pro Patria

Pro Patria promoted to Serie A.

References and sources

• Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005