2011–12 Serie A (women)

The 2011–12 Serie A di calcio femminile was the 45th edition of the premier category of the Italian women's football championship. It ran from 8 October 2011 to 26 May 2012 and it was contested by fourteen teams, with FCF Como 2000, ACF Milan and ASD Riviera di Romagna joining the competition.^[1] ASD Torres Calcio won its third title in a row and a record overall sixth with a two points advantage over ASDCF Bardolino, which also qualified for the 2012-13 UEFA Champions League. Previous season's runner-up UPC Tavagnacco and Brescia followed in the table at two and four points from Champions League qualification.

Serie A

Season	2011–12
Champions	Torres (6th title)
Relegated	Venezia 1984 Milan Roma
UEFA Women's Champions League	Torres Bardolino Verona
Matches played	142
Goals scored	577 (4.06 per match)
Top goalscorer	Patrizia Panico (29)
Biggest home win	Torres 11–0 Lazio
Biggest away win	Firenze 1–6 Torres Lazio 1–6 Mozzanica Venezia 1984 1–6 Mozzanica Roma 1–6 Tavagnacco Mozzanica 0–5 Torres Roma 0–5 Bardolino Verona
Highest scoring	Torres 11–0 Lazio
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

ACF Venezia 1984, Milan and GS Roma CF were relegated. This season marked the introduction of a new relegation system involving the five bottom teams. The lowest team would be relegated while the other four ones would play a relegation play-off. However, in case there was a 9 points or higher difference between the second and fourth to last teams their play-off would be cancelled with the lower-ranked team being relegated. At the end of the season there was a 12 points between 10th-ranked Riviera di Romagna and 13th Milan, so the former were spared while Milan was relegated. 12th-placed Venezia defeated 11th SS Lazio CF in the other play-off, sending 5-times champion Lazio to Serie A2. However, in August Venezia renounced to its spot in the category, and it was relegated instead of Lazio.^[2]

Teams by region

Region	Teams
Lombardia	4: Brescia, Como 2000, Milan, Mozzanica
Friuli Venezia Giulia	2: Chiasiellis, Tavagnacco
Lazio	2: Lazio, Roma
Veneto	2: Bardolino Verona, Venezia 1984
Emilia-Romagna	1: Riviera di Romagna
Piemonte	1: Torino
Sardinia	1: Torres
Toscana	1: Firenze

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Torres (C, Q)	26	21	3	2	83	11	+72	66	Qualification to Champions League
2	Bardolino Verona (Q)	26	21	1	4	66	21	+45	64
3	Tavagnacco	26	19	5	2	78	20	+58	62
4	Brescia	26	18	4	4	69	27	+42	58
5	Mozzanica	26	12	7	7	44	38	+6	43
6	Torino	26	13	1	12	42	43	−1	40
7	Chiasiellis	26	9	8	9	40	43	−3	35
8	Como 2000	26	7	8	11	26	40	−14	29
9	Firenze	26	7	5	14	30	47	−17	26
10	Riviera di Romagna	26	6	6	14	17	45	−28	24
11	Lazio	26	7	1	18	20	60	−40	22	Relegation play-offs
12	Venezia 1984 (O, R)	26	4	8	14	27	52	−25	20
13	Milan (R)	26	2	6	18	15	60	−45	12	Relegation to Serie A2
14	Roma (R)	26	0	9	17	20	70	−50	9

Source: CalcioDonne (in Italian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

Relegation play-off

May 26, 2012

15:45 (CEST)

Lazio	0 – 1	Venezia 1984
		Tombola   19'

La Borghesiana, Rome

Referee: Di Gioia

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	BRE	CHI	COM	FIR	LAZ	MIL	MOZ	RIV	ROM	TAV	TRN	TOR	VEN
Bardolino		4–0	2–1	2–1	4–0	3–1	0–1	3–0	5–0	8–1	4–3	0–4	3–0	1–1
Brescia	2–0		2–1	6–1	2–0	8–0	1–0	3–1	6–0	2–0	0–2	1–4	4–3	1–1
Chiasiellis	1–3	0–3		1–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–3	1–0	2–2	2–0	0–3	2–1	2–2
Como 2000	0–4	1–1	0–0		0–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–3	1–2	3–1
Firenze	0–3	0–3	3–1	0–2		0–1	3–0	1–1	1–2	5–0	0–2	1–6	0–4	0–1
Lazio	1–2	1–3	2–3	1–0	0–1		2–1	1–6	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–3	0–1	2–1
Milan	0–3	0–4	1–4	0–4	1–4	2–0		1–1	0–1	1–1	1–4	0–2	0–3	1–2
Mozzanica	1–2	2–2	2–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	0–0		2–2	2–1	1–5	0–5	1–0	2–1
Riviera di Romagna	0–1	0–4	0–3	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–2		3–0	1–1	0–2	0–2	1–0
Roma	0–5	0–1	2–2	1–2	0–2	1–2	2–2	1–1	0–0		1–6	1–4	0–2	1–2
Tavagnacco	3–1	1–1	5–0	5–1	3–0	4–0	2–0	4–0	4–0	6–1		2–0	5–1	5–2
Torres	0–1	4–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	11–0	8–0	2–2	3–0	3–1	0–0		3–0	1–0
Torino	0–1	0–3	0–3	2–0	4–4	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–2	5–1	0–2	0–3		2–1
Venezia 1984	0–1	1–5	3–3	1–1	0–2	0–3	1–1	1–6	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–3	3–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Patrizia Panico	Torres	29
2	Dayane	Bardolino	24
3	Daniela Sabatino	Brescia	22
4	Melania Gabbiadini	Bardolino	17
5	Paola Brumana	Tavagnacco	16
6	Simona Sodini	Torino	15
7	Valentina Boni	Brescia	14
+	Silvia Fuselli	Torres	14
9	Penelope Riboldi	Tavagnacco	13
+	Sandy Iannella	Torres	13

References

1. Results and table April 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine in soccerway.com
2. Serie A 2012/13: Venezia renounces, Lazio is reinstated! Here's the final list. ACF Brescia Femminile's website, 10 August 2012