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Serie A

January 18, 2023

This article is about the Italian football league. For other uses, see Serie A (disambiguation).

The Serie A (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsɛːrje ˈa][1]), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM,[2] is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa Campioni d'Italia. It has been operating as a round-robin tournament for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been organized by the Direttorio Divisioni Superiori until 1943 and the Lega Calcio until 2010, when the Lega Serie A was created for the 2010–11 season. Serie A is regarded as one of the best football leagues in the world and it is often depicted as the most tactical and defensively sound national league.[3] Serie A was the world's strongest national league in 2020 according to IFFHS,[4] and is ranked fourth among European leagues according to UEFA's league coefficient – behind the Bundesliga, La Liga and the Premier League, and ahead of Ligue 1 – which is based on the performance of Italian clubs in the Champions League and the Europa League during the previous five years. Serie A led the UEFA ranking from 1986 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1999.[5]

Serie A
Organising bodyLega Serie A
Founded1898; 125 years ago (1898)
1929 (as round-robin)
CountryItaly
ConfederationUEFA
Number of teams20
Level on pyramid1
Relegation toSerie B
Domestic cup(s)
International cup(s)
Current championsAC Milan (19th title)
(2021–22)
Most championshipsJuventus (36 titles)
Most appearances
Top goalscorerSilvio Piola (274)
TV partnersList of broadcasters
Websitelegaseriea.it
Current: 2022–23 Serie A

In its current format, the Italian Football Championship was revised from having regional and interregional rounds, to a single-tier league from the 1929–30 season onwards. The championship titles won before 1929 are officially recognised by FIGC with the same weighting as titles that were subsequently awarded. Similarly, the 1945–46 season, when the round-robin was suspended and the league was played over two geographical groups due to the ravages of World War II, is not statistically considered, even if its title is fully official.[6]

The league hosts three of the world's most famous clubs as Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan, all founding members of the G-14, a group which represented the largest and most prestigious European football clubs from 2000 to 2008,[7] with the first two also being founding members of its successive organisation, European Club Association (ECA). More players have won the Ballon d'Or award while playing at a Serie A club than any league in the world other than Spain's La Liga,[8] although La Liga has the highest total number of Ballon d'Or winners. Juventus, Italy's most successful club of the 20th century[9] and the most winning Italian team,[10] is tied for sixth in Europe and twelfth in the world with the most official international titles with eleven.[11] Prior the first Europa Conference League final in 2022, it was also the only one in the world to have won all the historical five official confederation competitions, an achievement reached after its triumph in the 1985 Intercontinental Cup and revalidated after winning a sixth tournament, the UEFA Intertoto Cup, fourteen years later.[12] Milan is joint third club overall for official international titles won with eighteen.[13] Inter, following their achievements in the 2009–10 season, became the first Italian team to have achieved a seasonal treble. It is also the team to have competed uninterruptedly for the most time in the top flight of Italian football, having seen its debut in 1909.[14][15] All these clubs, along with Lazio, Fiorentina, Roma and Napoli, are known as the "seven sisters" (sette sorelle) of Italian football.[16][17][18][19][20][note 1]

Serie A is one of the most storied football leagues in the world. Of the 100 greatest footballers in history chosen by FourFourTwo magazine in 2017, 42 players have played in Serie A, more than any other league in the world.[21] Juventus is the team that has produced the most World Cup champions (27), with Inter (20), Roma (16) and Milan (10), being respectively third, fourth and ninth in that ranking.[22]

History

Serie A, as it is structured today, began during the 1929–30 season. From 1898 to 1922, the competition was organised into regional groups. Because of ever growing teams attending regional championships, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) split the CCI (Italian Football Confederation) in 1921, which founded in Milan the Lega Nord (Northern Football League), ancestor of present-day Lega Serie A. When CCI teams rejoined the FIGC created two interregional divisions renaming Categories into Divisions and splitting FIGC sections into two north–south leagues. In 1926, due to internal crises and fascist pressures, the FIGC changed internal settings, adding southern teams to the national division, ultimately leading to the 1929–30 final settlement. 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.[citation needed]

The Serie A Championship title is often referred to as the scudetto ("small shield") because since the 1923–24 season, the winning team will bear a small coat of arms with the Italian tricolour on their strip in the following season. The most successful club is Juventus with 36 championships, followed by Inter Milan and AC Milan with 19 championships. From the 2004–05 season onwards, an actual trophy was awarded to club on the pitch after the last turn of the championship. The trophy, called the Coppa Campioni d'Italia, has officially been used since the 1960–61 season, but between 1961 and 2004 was consigned to the winning clubs at the head office of the Lega Nazionale Professionisti.[citation needed]

In April 2009, Serie A announced a split from Serie B. Nineteen of the twenty clubs voted in favour of the move in an argument over television rights; the relegation-threatened Lecce had voted against the decision. Maurizio Beretta, the former head of Italy's employers' association, became president of the new league.[23][24][25][26]

In April 2016, it was announced that Serie A was selected by the International Football Association Board to test video replays, which were initially private for the 2016–17 season, allowing them to become a live pilot phase, with replay assistance implemented in the 2017–18 season.[27] On the decision, FIGC President Carlo Tavecchio said, "We were among the first supporters of using technology on the pitch and we believe we have everything required to offer our contribution to this important experiment."[28]

Format

For most of Serie A's history, there were 16 or 18 clubs competing at the top level. Since 2004–05, however, there have been 20 clubs in total. One season (1947–48) was played with 21 teams for political reasons, following post-war tensions with Yugoslavia. Below is a complete record of how many teams played in each season throughout the league's history;

  • 18 clubs: 1929–1934
  • 16 clubs: 1934–1943
  • 20 clubs: 1946–1947
  • 21 clubs: 1947–1948
  • 20 clubs: 1948–1952
  • 18 clubs: 1952–1967
  • 16 clubs: 1967–1988
  • 18 clubs: 1988–2004
  • 20 clubs: 2004–present
 
Scudetto patch

During the season, which runs from August to May, each club plays each of the other teams twice; once at home and once away, totalling 38 games for each team by the end of the season. Thus, in Italian football a true round-robin format is used. In the first half of the season, called the andata, each team plays once against each league opponent, for a total of 19 games. In the second half of the season, called the ritorno, the teams play another 19 games, once more against each opponent, in which home and away matches are reversed. The two halves of the season had exactly the same order of fixtures until the 2021–22 season, when an asymmetrical calendar was introduced, following the format of the English, Spanish, and French leagues.[29] Since the 1994–95 season, teams are awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw, and no points for a loss. Prior to this, teams were awarded two points for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss. The three lowest-placed teams at the end of the season are relegated to Serie B, and three Serie B teams are promoted to replace them for the next season.

European qualification

As of 2022, Serie A is ranked as the fourth-best league by UEFA coefficient, therefore the top four teams in the Serie A qualify straight to the UEFA Champions League group stage. The team finishing fifth, along with the Coppa Italia winner (if the Coppa Italia winner finishes outside the top five) or the team finishing sixth (if the Coppa Italia winner finishes inside the top five), qualify for the UEFA Europa League group stage. The sixth or the seventh ranked club, depending on the Coppa Italia winner's league performance, joins the final qualification round of the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Tiebreaking

If after all 38 games there are two teams tied on points for first place, the team that wins the scudetto is decided by a single-legged play-off game of 90 minutes and penalties (no extra time), to be held at a neutral venue.[30] If more than two teams are tied for one of those spots then the two teams to play in the match is decided by a mini table between the teams involved. For a tie in any other position the deciding tie-breakers are as follows:

  1. Head-to-head points
  2. Goal difference of head-to-head games
  3. Goal difference overall
  4. Higher number of goals scored
  5. Play-off game at a neutral venue if relevant to decide European spot or relegation; otherwise by draw[31]

Prior to 2005–06 a play-off would immediately be used if teams were tied in a championship, European qualification, or relegation spot, but between 2006–07 and 2021–22 the tiebreakers currently used for all places besides first were in place to decide the scudetto winner, though this was never needed. In some past years, the playoff was a single game at a neutral site while in others it was a two-legged tie decided by aggregate score. A playoff game has never been needed since the tiebreaking format changed.

The only time a playoff was used to decide the champion occurred in the 1963–64 season when Bologna and Inter both finished on 54 points. Bologna won the playoff 2–0 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome to win the scudetto.[31] Playoff games have been used on multiple occasions to decide European competition qualifications (most recently in 1999–2000) and relegation (most recently in 2004–05).

Clubs

Further information: List of Italian Football Championship clubs

Before 1929, many clubs competed in the top level of Italian football as the earlier rounds were competed up to 1922 on a regional basis then interregional up to 1929. Below is a list of Serie A clubs who have competed in the competition since it has been a league format (68 in total).

2022–23 season

Clubs

The following 20 clubs are competing in the Serie A during the 2022–23 season.

Team Location 2021–22 season First season in Serie A (as round-robin) No. of Serie A seasons (as round r.) First season of current spell No. of seasons of current spell Serie A titles (as round r.) National titles Most recent title
Atalanta Bergamo 8th in Serie A 1937–38 62 2011–12 12 0 0 –
Bologna Bologna 13th in Serie A 1929–30 76 2015–16 8 5 7 1963–64
Cremonese Cremona 2nd in Serie B 1929–30 8 2022–23 1 0 0 –
Empoli Empoli 15th Serie A 1986–87 15 2021–22 2 0 0 –
Fiorentina Florence 7th in Serie A 1931–32 85 2004–05 19 2 2 1968–69
Hellas Verona Verona 9th in Serie A 1957–58 32 2019–20 4 1 1 1984–85
Inter Milan Milan 2nd in Serie A 1929–30 91 1929–30 91 17 19 2020–21
Juventus Turin 4th in Serie A 1929–30 90 2007–08 16 34 36 2019–20
Lazio Rome 5th in Serie A 1929–30 80 1988–89 35 2 2 1999–00
Lecce Lecce Serie B winner 1985–86 17 2022–23 1 0 0 –
AC Milan Milan Champion of Italy 1929–30 89 1983–84 40 16 19 2021–22
Monza Monza Serie B play-off winners 2022–23 1 2022–23 1 0 0 –
Napoli Naples 3rd in Serie A 1929–30 77 2007–08 16 2 2 1989–90
Roma Rome 6th in Serie A 1929–30 90 1952–53 71 3 3 2000–01
Salernitana Salerno 17th in Serie A 1947–48 4 2021–22 2 0 0 –
Sampdoria Genoa 15th in Serie A 1934–35 74 2012–13 11 1 1 1990–91
Sassuolo Sassuolo 11th in Serie A 2013–14 10 2013–14 10 0 0 –
Spezia La Spezia 16th in Serie A 2020–21 3 2020–21 3 0 0 –
Torino Turin 10th in Serie A 1929–30 79 2012–13 11 5 7 1975–76
Udinese Udine 12th in Serie A 1950–51 50 1995–96 28 0 0 –

Maps

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Locations of all 68 current and former Serie A teams

Seasons in Serie A

There are 68 teams that have taken part in 91 Serie A championships in a single round that was played from the 1929–30 season until the 2022–23 season. The teams in bold compete in Serie A currently. Inter Milan is the only team that has played Serie A football in every season.

Logos

Serie A had logos that featured its sponsor Telecom Italia (TIM). The logo that was introduced in 2010 had a minor change in 2016 due to the change of the logo of Telecom Italia itself.[33][34] In August 2018, a new logo was announced, and another one in August 2019.[35]

Television rights

Main article: List of Serie A broadcasters

In the past, individual clubs competing in the league had the rights to sell their broadcast rights to specific channels throughout Italy, unlike in most other European countries. Currently, the two broadcasters in Italy are the satellite broadcaster Sky Italia and streaming platform DAZN for its own pay television networks; RAI is allowed to broadcast only highlights (in exclusive from 13:30 to 22:30 CET). This is a list of television rights in Italy (since 2021–22):

  • Sky Italia (3 matches per week)
  • DAZN (all matches)
  • OneFootball (highlights)

Since the 2010–11 season, Serie A clubs have negotiated television rights collectively rather than on an individual club basis, having previously abandoned collective negotiation at the end of the 1998–99 season.[36]

In the 1990s, Serie A was at its most popular in the United Kingdom when it was shown on Football Italia on Channel 4, although it has actually appeared on more UK channels than any other league, rarely staying in one place for long since 2002. Serie A has appeared in the UK on BSB's The Sports Channel (1990–91), Sky Sports (1991–1992), Channel 4 (1992–2002), Eurosport (2002–2004), Setanta Sports and Bravo (2004–2007), Channel 5 (2007–2008), ESPN (2009–2013), Eleven Sports Network (2018), Premier, FreeSports (2019–2021) and currently BT Sport (2013–2018; 2021–present).[37]

In the United States, Serie A is currently shown on CBS Sports and its streaming network Paramount+.

Champions

Main article: List of Italian football champions
Club Winners Runners-up Championship seasons
Juventus 36 21 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, 2004–05,[note 2] 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
Inter Milan 19 16 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,[note 3] 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2020–21
AC Milan 19 16 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, 2010–11, 2021–22
Genoa 9 4 1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1914–15, 1922–23, 1923–24
Torino 7 8 1926–27,[note 4] 1927–28, 1942–43, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1975–76
Bologna 7 4 1924–25, 1928–29, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1938–39, 1940–41, 1963–64
Pro Vercelli 7 1 1908, 1909, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1912–13, 1920–21, 1921–22 (CCI)
Roma 3 14 1941–42, 1982–83, 2000–01
Napoli 2 8 1986–87, 1989–90
Lazio 2 6 1973–74, 1999–2000
Fiorentina 2 5 1955–56, 1968–69
Cagliari 1 1 1969–70
Casale 1 — 1913–14
Novese 1 — 1921–22 (FIGC)
Hellas Verona 1 — 1984–85
Sampdoria 1 — 1990–91

Bold indicates clubs which play in the 2022–23 Serie A.

  • A decoration was awarded to Spezia in 2002 by the FIGC for the 1944 wartime championship. However, the FIGC has stated that it cannot be considered as a scudetto.

By city

City Championships Clubs
Turin 43 Juventus (36), Torino (7)
Milan 38 AC Milan (19), Inter Milan (19)
Genoa 10 Genoa (9), Sampdoria (1)
Bologna 7 Bologna (7)
Vercelli 7 Pro Vercelli (7)
Rome 5 Roma (3), Lazio (2)
Florence 2 Fiorentina (2)
Naples 2 Napoli (2)
Cagliari 1 Cagliari (1)
Casale Monferrato 1 Casale (1)
Novi Ligure 1 Novese (1)
Verona 1 Verona (1)

By region

Region Championships Clubs
Piedmont 52 Juventus (36), Torino (7), Pro Vercelli (7), Casale (1), Novese (1)
Lombardy 38 AC Milan (19), Inter Milan (19)
Liguria 10 Genoa (9), Sampdoria (1)
Emilia-Romagna 7 Bologna (7)
Lazio 5 Roma (3), Lazio (2)
Campania 2 Napoli (2)
Tuscany 2 Fiorentina (2)
Sardinia 1 Cagliari (1)
Veneto 1 Verona (1)

Records

Further information: Football records and statistics in Italy

Boldface indicates a player still active in Serie A. Italics indicates a player active outside Serie A.

Most appearances

 
Gianluigi Buffon has made a record 657 appearances in Serie A
See also: List of Serie A players
As of 11 January 2023
Rank Player Club(s) Years active Apps Goals
1   Gianluigi Buffon Parma, Juventus 1995–2006
2007–2018
2019–2021		 657 0
2   Paolo Maldini AC Milan 1984–2009 647 29
3   Francesco Totti Roma 1992–2017 619 250
4   Javier Zanetti Inter Milan 1995–2014 615 12
5   Gianluca Pagliuca Sampdoria, Inter Milan, Bologna, Ascoli 1987–2005
2006–2007		 592 0
6   Dino Zoff Udinese, Mantova, Napoli, Juventus 1961–1983 570 0
7   Pietro Vierchowod Como, Fiorentina, Roma, Sampdoria, Juventus, AC Milan, Piacenza 1980–2000 562 38
8   Samir Handanović Treviso, Lazio, Udinese, Inter Milan 2004–2006
2007–present		 560 0
9   Fabio Quagliarella Torino, Ascoli, Sampdoria, Udinese, Napoli, Juventus 1999–2000
2001–2002
2005–present		 545 181
10   Roberto Mancini Bologna, Sampdoria, Lazio 1981–2000 541 156

Most goals

 
Silvio Piola is the highest goalscorer in Serie A history with 274 goals
See also: List of Serie A players with 100 or more goals
As of 4 January 2022
Rank Player Club(s) Years active Goals Apps Ratio
1   Silvio Piola Pro Vercelli, Lazio, Juventus, Novara 1929–1943
1946–1947
1948–1954		 274 537 0.51
2   Francesco Totti Roma 1992–2017 250 619 0.4
3   Gunnar Nordahl AC Milan, Roma 1949–1958 225 291 0.77
4   Giuseppe Meazza Inter Milan, AC Milan, Juventus 1929–1943
1946–1947		 216 367 0.59
    José Altafini AC Milan, Napoli, Juventus 1958–1976 216 459 0.47
6   Antonio Di Natale Empoli, Udinese 2002–2016 209 445 0.47
7   Roberto Baggio Fiorentina, Juventus, AC Milan, Bologna, Inter Milan, Brescia 1985–2004 205 452 0.45
8   Kurt Hamrin Juventus, Padova, Fiorentina, AC Milan, Napoli 1956–1971 190 400 0.48
9   Ciro Immobile Juventus, Genoa, Torino, Lazio 2008–2010
2012–2014
2015–present		 189 302 0.63
10   Giuseppe Signori Foggia, Lazio, Sampdoria, Bologna 1991–2004 188 344 0.55
  Alessandro Del Piero Juventus 1993–2006
2007–2012		 188 478 0.39
  Alberto Gilardino Piacenza, Hellas Verona, Parma, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Genoa, Bologna, Palermo 1999–2017 188 502 0.37

Players

Non-EU players

Unlike La Liga, which imposed a quota on the number of non-EU players on each club, Serie A clubs could sign as many non-EU players as available on domestic transfer.

During the 1980s and 1990s, most Serie A clubs signed a large number of players from foreign nations (both EU and non-EU members). Notable foreign players to play in Serie A during this era included Irish international Liam Brady, England internationals Paul Gascoigne and David Platt, France's Michel Platini and Laurent Blanc, Lothar Matthäus and Jürgen Klinsmann from Germany, Dutchmen Ruud Gullit and Dennis Bergkamp, and Argentina's Diego Maradona.

But since the 2003–04 season, a quota has been imposed on each of the clubs limiting the number of non-EU, non-EFTA and non-Swiss players who may be signed from abroad each season,[38] following provisional measures[39] introduced in the 2002–03 season, which allowed Serie A and B clubs to sign only one non-EU player in the 2002 summer transfer window.

In the middle of the 2000–01 season, the old quota system was abolished, which no longer limited each team to having more than five non-EU players and using no more than three in each match.[39][40] Concurrent with the abolishment of the quota, the FIGC had investigated footballers that used fake passports. Alberto and Warley, Alejandro Da Silva and Jorginho Paulista of Udinese;[41] Fábio Júnior and Gustavo Bartelt of Roma;[42] Dida of Milan; Álvaro Recoba of Inter; Thomas Job, Francis Zé, Jean Ondoa of Sampdoria; and Jeda and Dede of Vicenza were all banned in July 2001 for lengths ranging from six months to one year.[43] However, most of the bans were subsequently reduced.

The number of non-EU players was reduced from 265 in 2002–03 season to 166 in 2006–07 season.[44] It also included players who received EU status after their respective countries joined the EU (see 2004 and 2007 enlargement), which made players such as Adrian Mutu, Valeri Bojinov, Marek Jankulovski and Marius Stankevičius EU players.

The rule underwent minor changes in August 2004,[45] June 2005,[46] June 2006,[47][48] and June 2007.[49]

Since the 2008–09 season, three quotas have been awarded to clubs that do not have non-EU players in their squad (previously only newly promoted clubs could have three quotas); clubs that have one non-EU player have two quotas. Those clubs that have two non-EU players, are awarded one quota and one conditional quota, which is awarded after: 1) Transferred 1 non-EU player abroad, or 2) Release 1 non-EU player as free agent, or 3) A non-EU player received EU nationality. Clubs with three or more non-EU players, have two conditional quotas, but releasing two non-EU players as free agent, will only have one quota instead of two.[50] Serie B and Lega Pro clubs cannot sign non-EU player from abroad, except those followed the club promoted from Serie D.

Large clubs with many foreigners usually borrow quotas from other clubs that have few foreigners or no foreigners in order to sign more non-EU players. For example, Adrian Mutu joined Juventus via Livorno in 2005, as at the time Romania was not a member of the EU. Other examples include Júlio César, Victor Obinna and Maxwell, who joined Inter from Chievo (first two) and Empoli respectively.

On 2 July 2010, the above conditional quota reduced back to one, though if a team did not have any non-EU players, that team could still sign up to three non-EU players.[51][52][53] In 2011 the signing quota reverted to two.[54]

Homegrown players

Serie A also imposed Homegrown players rule, a modification of Homegrown Player Rule (UEFA). Unlike UEFA, Serie A at first did not cap the number of players in first team squad at 25, meaning the club could employ more foreigners by increasing the size of the squad.[55] However, a cap of 25 (under-21 players were excluded) was introduced to 2015–16 season (in 2015–16 season, squad simply require 8 homegrown players but not require 4 of them from their own youth team).[56] In the 2016–17 season, the FIGC sanctioned Sassuolo for fielding ineligible player, Antonino Ragusa.[57] Although the club did not exceed the capacity of 21 players that were not from their own youth team (only Domenico Berardi was eligible as youth product of their own) as well as under 21 of age (born 1995 or after, of which four players were eligible) in their 24-men call-up,[58] It was reported that on Lega Serie A side the squad list was not updated.[59]

In 2015–16 season, the following quota was announced.

Size of first team squad Local + club youth product
← 25 min. 8 (max. 4 not from own youth team)

FIFA World Players of the Year

Main article: FIFA World Player of the Year

[60]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ In the 1990s, when the term originated, Parma was seen as one of the Seven Sisters and Napoli was not included.
  2. ^ Title was revoked and left unassigned through the courts following the Calciopoli Scandal.
  3. ^ Title was put sub judice, then assigned to Inter Milan, through the courts following the Calciopoli Scandal.
  4. ^ Title was revoked and left unassigned due to the Allemandi match fixing scandal.
  5. ^ Ronaldo was signed by Inter Milan from Barcelona midway through 1997. He was signed by Real Madrid from Inter Milan midway through 2002.
  6. ^ Cannavaro was signed by Real Madrid from Juventus midway through 2006.

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serie, this, article, about, italian, football, league, other, uses, disambiguation, italian, pronunciation, ˈsɛːrje, also, called, national, sponsorship, with, professional, league, competition, football, clubs, located, italian, football, league, system, win. This article is about the Italian football league For other uses see Serie A disambiguation The Serie A Italian pronunciation ˈsɛːrje ˈa 1 also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM 2 is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa Campioni d Italia It has been operating as a round robin tournament for over ninety years since the 1929 30 season It had been organized by the Direttorio Divisioni Superiori until 1943 and the Lega Calcio until 2010 when the Lega Serie A was created for the 2010 11 season Serie A is regarded as one of the best football leagues in the world and it is often depicted as the most tactical and defensively sound national league 3 Serie A was the world s strongest national league in 2020 according to IFFHS 4 and is ranked fourth among European leagues according to UEFA s league coefficient behind the Bundesliga La Liga and the Premier League and ahead of Ligue 1 which is based on the performance of Italian clubs in the Champions League and the Europa League during the previous five years Serie A led the UEFA ranking from 1986 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1999 5 Serie AOrganising bodyLega Serie AFounded1898 125 years ago 1898 1929 as round robin CountryItalyConfederationUEFANumber of teams20Level on pyramid1Relegation toSerie BDomestic cup s Coppa Italia Supercoppa ItalianaInternational cup s UEFA Champions League UEFA Europa League UEFA Europa Conference LeagueCurrent championsAC Milan 19th title 2021 22 Most championshipsJuventus 36 titles Most appearancesGianluigi Buffon 657 Top goalscorerSilvio Piola 274 TV partnersList of broadcastersWebsitelegaseriea itCurrent 2022 23 Serie AIn its current format the Italian Football Championship was revised from having regional and interregional rounds to a single tier league from the 1929 30 season onwards The championship titles won before 1929 are officially recognised by FIGC with the same weighting as titles that were subsequently awarded Similarly the 1945 46 season when the round robin was suspended and the league was played over two geographical groups due to the ravages of World War II is not statistically considered even if its title is fully official 6 The league hosts three of the world s most famous clubs as Juventus AC Milan and Inter Milan all founding members of the G 14 a group which represented the largest and most prestigious European football clubs from 2000 to 2008 7 with the first two also being founding members of its successive organisation European Club Association ECA More players have won the Ballon d Or award while playing at a Serie A club than any league in the world other than Spain s La Liga 8 although La Liga has the highest total number of Ballon d Or winners Juventus Italy s most successful club of the 20th century 9 and the most winning Italian team 10 is tied for sixth in Europe and twelfth in the world with the most official international titles with eleven 11 Prior the first Europa Conference League final in 2022 it was also the only one in the world to have won all the historical five official confederation competitions an achievement reached after its triumph in the 1985 Intercontinental Cup and revalidated after winning a sixth tournament the UEFA Intertoto Cup fourteen years later 12 Milan is joint third club overall for official international titles won with eighteen 13 Inter following their achievements in the 2009 10 season became the first Italian team to have achieved a seasonal treble It is also the team to have competed uninterruptedly for the most time in the top flight of Italian football having seen its debut in 1909 14 15 All these clubs along with Lazio Fiorentina Roma and Napoli are known as the seven sisters sette sorelle of Italian football 16 17 18 19 20 note 1 Serie A is one of the most storied football leagues in the world Of the 100 greatest footballers in history chosen by FourFourTwo magazine in 2017 42 players have played in Serie A more than any other league in the world 21 Juventus is the team that has produced the most World Cup champions 27 with Inter 20 Roma 16 and Milan 10 being respectively third fourth and ninth in that ranking 22 Contents 1 History 2 Format 2 1 European qualification 2 2 Tiebreaking 3 Clubs 3 1 2022 23 season 3 1 1 Clubs 3 1 2 Maps 3 2 Seasons in Serie A 4 Logos 5 Television rights 6 Champions 6 1 By city 6 2 By region 7 Records 7 1 Most appearances 7 2 Most goals 8 Players 8 1 Non EU players 8 2 Homegrown players 8 3 FIFA World Players of the Year 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References 12 External linksHistory EditSerie A as it is structured today began during the 1929 30 season From 1898 to 1922 the competition was organised into regional groups Because of ever growing teams attending regional championships the Italian Football Federation FIGC split the CCI Italian Football Confederation in 1921 which founded in Milan the Lega Nord Northern Football League ancestor of present day Lega Serie A When CCI teams rejoined the FIGC created two interregional divisions renaming Categories into Divisions and splitting FIGC sections into two north south leagues In 1926 due to internal crises and fascist pressures the FIGC changed internal settings adding southern teams to the national division ultimately leading to the 1929 30 final settlement 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 citation needed The Serie A Championship title is often referred to as the scudetto small shield because since the 1923 24 season the winning team will bear a small coat of arms with the Italian tricolour on their strip in the following season The most successful club is Juventus with 36 championships followed by Inter Milan and AC Milan with 19 championships From the 2004 05 season onwards an actual trophy was awarded to club on the pitch after the last turn of the championship The trophy called the Coppa Campioni d Italia has officially been used since the 1960 61 season but between 1961 and 2004 was consigned to the winning clubs at the head office of the Lega Nazionale Professionisti citation needed In April 2009 Serie A announced a split from Serie B Nineteen of the twenty clubs voted in favour of the move in an argument over television rights the relegation threatened Lecce had voted against the decision Maurizio Beretta the former head of Italy s employers association became president of the new league 23 24 25 26 In April 2016 it was announced that Serie A was selected by the International Football Association Board to test video replays which were initially private for the 2016 17 season allowing them to become a live pilot phase with replay assistance implemented in the 2017 18 season 27 On the decision FIGC President Carlo Tavecchio said We were among the first supporters of using technology on the pitch and we believe we have everything required to offer our contribution to this important experiment 28 Format EditFor most of Serie A s history there were 16 or 18 clubs competing at the top level Since 2004 05 however there have been 20 clubs in total One season 1947 48 was played with 21 teams for political reasons following post war tensions with Yugoslavia Below is a complete record of how many teams played in each season throughout the league s history 18 clubs 1929 1934 16 clubs 1934 1943 20 clubs 1946 1947 21 clubs 1947 1948 20 clubs 1948 1952 18 clubs 1952 1967 16 clubs 1967 1988 18 clubs 1988 2004 20 clubs 2004 present Scudetto patch During the season which runs from August to May each club plays each of the other teams twice once at home and once away totalling 38 games for each team by the end of the season Thus in Italian football a true round robin format is used In the first half of the season called the andata each team plays once against each league opponent for a total of 19 games In the second half of the season called the ritorno the teams play another 19 games once more against each opponent in which home and away matches are reversed The two halves of the season had exactly the same order of fixtures until the 2021 22 season when an asymmetrical calendar was introduced following the format of the English Spanish and French leagues 29 Since the 1994 95 season teams are awarded three points for a win one point for a draw and no points for a loss Prior to this teams were awarded two points for a win one for a draw and none for a loss The three lowest placed teams at the end of the season are relegated to Serie B and three Serie B teams are promoted to replace them for the next season European qualification Edit As of 2022 Serie A is ranked as the fourth best league by UEFA coefficient therefore the top four teams in the Serie A qualify straight to the UEFA Champions League group stage The team finishing fifth along with the Coppa Italia winner if the Coppa Italia winner finishes outside the top five or the team finishing sixth if the Coppa Italia winner finishes inside the top five qualify for the UEFA Europa League group stage The sixth or the seventh ranked club depending on the Coppa Italia winner s league performance joins the final qualification round of the UEFA Europa Conference League Tiebreaking Edit If after all 38 games there are two teams tied on points for first place the team that wins the scudetto is decided by a single legged play off game of 90 minutes and penalties no extra time to be held at a neutral venue 30 If more than two teams are tied for one of those spots then the two teams to play in the match is decided by a mini table between the teams involved For a tie in any other position the deciding tie breakers are as follows Head to head points Goal difference of head to head games Goal difference overall Higher number of goals scored Play off game at a neutral venue if relevant to decide European spot or relegation otherwise by draw 31 Prior to 2005 06 a play off would immediately be used if teams were tied in a championship European qualification or relegation spot but between 2006 07 and 2021 22 the tiebreakers currently used for all places besides first were in place to decide the scudetto winner though this was never needed In some past years the playoff was a single game at a neutral site while in others it was a two legged tie decided by aggregate score A playoff game has never been needed since the tiebreaking format changed The only time a playoff was used to decide the champion occurred in the 1963 64 season when Bologna and Inter both finished on 54 points Bologna won the playoff 2 0 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome to win the scudetto 31 Playoff games have been used on multiple occasions to decide European competition qualifications most recently in 1999 2000 and relegation most recently in 2004 05 Clubs EditFurther information List of Italian Football Championship clubs Before 1929 many clubs competed in the top level of Italian football as the earlier rounds were competed up to 1922 on a regional basis then interregional up to 1929 Below is a list of Serie A clubs who have competed in the competition since it has been a league format 68 in total 2022 23 season Edit Clubs Edit The following 20 clubs are competing in the Serie A during the 2022 23 season Team Location 2021 22 season First season in Serie A as round robin No of Serie A seasons as round r First season of current spell No of seasons of current spell Serie A titles as round r National titles Most recent titleAtalanta Bergamo 8th in Serie A 1937 38 62 2011 12 12 0 0 Bologna Bologna 13th in Serie A 1929 30 76 2015 16 8 5 7 1963 64Cremonese Cremona 2nd in Serie B 1929 30 8 2022 23 1 0 0 Empoli Empoli 15th Serie A 1986 87 15 2021 22 2 0 0 Fiorentina Florence 7th in Serie A 1931 32 85 2004 05 19 2 2 1968 69Hellas Verona Verona 9th in Serie A 1957 58 32 2019 20 4 1 1 1984 85Inter Milan Milan 2nd in Serie A 1929 30 91 1929 30 91 17 19 2020 21Juventus Turin 4th in Serie A 1929 30 90 2007 08 16 34 36 2019 20Lazio Rome 5th in Serie A 1929 30 80 1988 89 35 2 2 1999 00Lecce Lecce Serie B winner 1985 86 17 2022 23 1 0 0 AC Milan Milan Champion of Italy 1929 30 89 1983 84 40 16 19 2021 22Monza Monza Serie B play off winners 2022 23 1 2022 23 1 0 0 Napoli Naples 3rd in Serie A 1929 30 77 2007 08 16 2 2 1989 90Roma Rome 6th in Serie A 1929 30 90 1952 53 71 3 3 2000 01Salernitana Salerno 17th in Serie A 1947 48 4 2021 22 2 0 0 Sampdoria Genoa 15th in Serie A 1934 35 74 2012 13 11 1 1 1990 91Sassuolo Sassuolo 11th in Serie A 2013 14 10 2013 14 10 0 0 Spezia La Spezia 16th in Serie A 2020 21 3 2020 21 3 0 0 Torino Turin 10th in Serie A 1929 30 79 2012 13 11 5 7 1975 76Udinese Udine 12th in Serie A 1950 51 50 1995 96 28 0 0 Maps Edit Atalanta Bologna Cagliari Empoli Fiorentina Genoa Verona Inter Juventus Lazio Milan Monza Napoli Roma Salernitana Sampdoria Sampierdarenese Sassuolo Spezia Torino Udinese Venezia Alessandria Ascoli Benevento Brescia Como Cremonese Crotone Frosinone Vicenza Lecce Parma Perugia Pisa Reggina SPAL Ternana Lecco Mantova Padova Piacenza Pro Patria Pro Vercelli Triestina Ancona Cesena Lucchese Modena Pescara Pistoiese Reggiana Siena Messina Avellino Bari Catania Catanzaro Foggia Palermo Treviso Carpi Legnano Casale Varese Novara Livorno Chievoclass notpageimage Locations of all 68 current and former Serie A teams Seasons in Serie A Edit There are 68 teams that have taken part in 91 Serie A championships in a single round that was played from the 1929 30 season until the 2022 23 season The teams in bold compete in Serie A currently Inter Milan is the only team that has played Serie A football in every season 91 seasons Inter Milan 90 seasons Juventus Roma 89 seasons AC Milan 85 seasons Fiorentina 80 seasons Lazio 79 seasons Torino 77 seasons Napoli 76 seasons Bologna 66 seasons Sampdoria 32 62 seasons Atalanta 55 seasons Genoa 50 seasons Udinese 42 seasons Cagliari 32 seasons Hellas Verona 30 seasons Bari Vicenza 29 seasons Palermo 27 seasons Parma 26 seasons Triestina 23 seasons Brescia 19 seasons SPAL 18 seasons Livorno 17 seasons Catania Chievo Lecce 16 seasons Ascoli Padova 15 seasons Empoli 13 seasons Alessandria Cesena Como Modena Novara Perugia Venezia 12 seasons Pro Patria 11 seasons Foggia 10 seasons Avellino Sassuolo 9 seasons Reggina Siena 8 seasons Cremonese Lucchese Piacenza Sampierdarenese 32 7 seasons Catanzaro Mantova Pescara Pisa Varese 6 seasons Pro Vercelli 5 seasons Messina 4 seasons Casale Salernitana 3 seasons Crotone Lecco Legnano Reggiana Spezia 2 seasons Ancona Benevento Frosinone Ternana 1 season Carpi Monza Pistoiese TrevisoLogos EditSerie A had logos that featured its sponsor Telecom Italia TIM The logo that was introduced in 2010 had a minor change in 2016 due to the change of the logo of Telecom Italia itself 33 34 In August 2018 a new logo was announced and another one in August 2019 35 Television rights EditMain article List of Serie A broadcasters In the past individual clubs competing in the league had the rights to sell their broadcast rights to specific channels throughout Italy unlike in most other European countries Currently the two broadcasters in Italy are the satellite broadcaster Sky Italia and streaming platform DAZN for its own pay television networks RAI is allowed to broadcast only highlights in exclusive from 13 30 to 22 30 CET This is a list of television rights in Italy since 2021 22 Sky Italia 3 matches per week DAZN all matches OneFootball highlights Since the 2010 11 season Serie A clubs have negotiated television rights collectively rather than on an individual club basis having previously abandoned collective negotiation at the end of the 1998 99 season 36 In the 1990s Serie A was at its most popular in the United Kingdom when it was shown on Football Italia on Channel 4 although it has actually appeared on more UK channels than any other league rarely staying in one place for long since 2002 Serie A has appeared in the UK on BSB s The Sports Channel 1990 91 Sky Sports 1991 1992 Channel 4 1992 2002 Eurosport 2002 2004 Setanta Sports and Bravo 2004 2007 Channel 5 2007 2008 ESPN 2009 2013 Eleven Sports Network 2018 Premier FreeSports 2019 2021 and currently BT Sport 2013 2018 2021 present 37 In the United States Serie A is currently shown on CBS Sports and its streaming network Paramount Champions EditMain article List of Italian football championsClub Winners Runners up Championship seasonsJuventus 36 21 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 2004 05 note 2 2011 12 2012 13 2013 14 2014 15 2015 16 2016 17 2017 18 2018 19 2019 20Inter Milan 19 16 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 note 3 2006 07 2007 08 2008 09 2009 10 2020 21AC Milan 19 16 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 2010 11 2021 22Genoa 9 4 1898 1899 1900 1902 1903 1904 1914 15 1922 23 1923 24Torino 7 8 1926 27 note 4 1927 28 1942 43 1945 46 1946 47 1947 48 1948 49 1975 76Bologna 7 4 1924 25 1928 29 1935 36 1936 37 1938 39 1940 41 1963 64Pro Vercelli 7 1 1908 1909 1910 11 1911 12 1912 13 1920 21 1921 22 CCI Roma 3 14 1941 42 1982 83 2000 01Napoli 2 8 1986 87 1989 90Lazio 2 6 1973 74 1999 2000Fiorentina 2 5 1955 56 1968 69Cagliari 1 1 1969 70Casale 1 1913 14Novese 1 1921 22 FIGC Hellas Verona 1 1984 85Sampdoria 1 1990 91Bold indicates clubs which play in the 2022 23 Serie A A decoration was awarded to Spezia in 2002 by the FIGC for the 1944 wartime championship However the FIGC has stated that it cannot be considered as a scudetto By city Edit City Championships ClubsTurin 43 Juventus 36 Torino 7 Milan 38 AC Milan 19 Inter Milan 19 Genoa 10 Genoa 9 Sampdoria 1 Bologna 7 Bologna 7 Vercelli 7 Pro Vercelli 7 Rome 5 Roma 3 Lazio 2 Florence 2 Fiorentina 2 Naples 2 Napoli 2 Cagliari 1 Cagliari 1 Casale Monferrato 1 Casale 1 Novi Ligure 1 Novese 1 Verona 1 Verona 1 By region Edit Region Championships ClubsPiedmont 52 Juventus 36 Torino 7 Pro Vercelli 7 Casale 1 Novese 1 Lombardy 38 AC Milan 19 Inter Milan 19 Liguria 10 Genoa 9 Sampdoria 1 Emilia Romagna 7 Bologna 7 Lazio 5 Roma 3 Lazio 2 Campania 2 Napoli 2 Tuscany 2 Fiorentina 2 Sardinia 1 Cagliari 1 Veneto 1 Verona 1 Records EditFurther information Football records and statistics in Italy Boldface indicates a player still active in Serie A Italics indicates a player active outside Serie A Most appearances Edit Gianluigi Buffon has made a record 657 appearances in Serie A See also List of Serie A players As of 11 January 2023Rank Player Club s Years active Apps Goals1 Gianluigi Buffon Parma Juventus 1995 20062007 20182019 2021 657 02 Paolo Maldini AC Milan 1984 2009 647 293 Francesco Totti Roma 1992 2017 619 2504 Javier Zanetti Inter Milan 1995 2014 615 125 Gianluca Pagliuca Sampdoria Inter Milan Bologna Ascoli 1987 20052006 2007 592 06 Dino Zoff Udinese Mantova Napoli Juventus 1961 1983 570 07 Pietro Vierchowod Como Fiorentina Roma Sampdoria Juventus AC Milan Piacenza 1980 2000 562 388 Samir Handanovic Treviso Lazio Udinese Inter Milan 2004 20062007 present 560 09 Fabio Quagliarella Torino Ascoli Sampdoria Udinese Napoli Juventus 1999 20002001 20022005 present 545 18110 Roberto Mancini Bologna Sampdoria Lazio 1981 2000 541 156Most goals Edit Silvio Piola is the highest goalscorer in Serie A history with 274 goals See also List of Serie A players with 100 or more goals As of 4 January 2022Rank Player Club s Years active Goals Apps Ratio1 Silvio Piola Pro Vercelli Lazio Juventus Novara 1929 1943 1946 19471948 1954 274 537 0 512 Francesco Totti Roma 1992 2017 250 619 0 43 Gunnar Nordahl AC Milan Roma 1949 1958 225 291 0 774 Giuseppe Meazza Inter Milan AC Milan Juventus 1929 19431946 1947 216 367 0 59 Jose Altafini AC Milan Napoli Juventus 1958 1976 216 459 0 476 Antonio Di Natale Empoli Udinese 2002 2016 209 445 0 477 Roberto Baggio Fiorentina Juventus AC Milan Bologna Inter Milan Brescia 1985 2004 205 452 0 458 Kurt Hamrin Juventus Padova Fiorentina AC Milan Napoli 1956 1971 190 400 0 489 Ciro Immobile Juventus Genoa Torino Lazio 2008 20102012 20142015 present 189 302 0 6310 Giuseppe Signori Foggia Lazio Sampdoria Bologna 1991 2004 188 344 0 55 Alessandro Del Piero Juventus 1993 20062007 2012 188 478 0 39 Alberto Gilardino Piacenza Hellas Verona Parma AC Milan Fiorentina Genoa Bologna Palermo 1999 2017 188 502 0 37Players EditNon EU players Edit Unlike La Liga which imposed a quota on the number of non EU players on each club Serie A clubs could sign as many non EU players as available on domestic transfer During the 1980s and 1990s most Serie A clubs signed a large number of players from foreign nations both EU and non EU members Notable foreign players to play in Serie A during this era included Irish international Liam Brady England internationals Paul Gascoigne and David Platt France s Michel Platini and Laurent Blanc Lothar Matthaus and Jurgen Klinsmann from Germany Dutchmen Ruud Gullit and Dennis Bergkamp and Argentina s Diego Maradona But since the 2003 04 season a quota has been imposed on each of the clubs limiting the number of non EU non EFTA and non Swiss players who may be signed from abroad each season 38 following provisional measures 39 introduced in the 2002 03 season which allowed Serie A and B clubs to sign only one non EU player in the 2002 summer transfer window In the middle of the 2000 01 season the old quota system was abolished which no longer limited each team to having more than five non EU players and using no more than three in each match 39 40 Concurrent with the abolishment of the quota the FIGC had investigated footballers that used fake passports Alberto and Warley Alejandro Da Silva and Jorginho Paulista of Udinese 41 Fabio Junior and Gustavo Bartelt of Roma 42 Dida of Milan Alvaro Recoba of Inter Thomas Job Francis Ze Jean Ondoa of Sampdoria and Jeda and Dede of Vicenza were all banned in July 2001 for lengths ranging from six months to one year 43 However most of the bans were subsequently reduced The number of non EU players was reduced from 265 in 2002 03 season to 166 in 2006 07 season 44 It also included players who received EU status after their respective countries joined the EU see 2004 and 2007 enlargement which made players such as Adrian Mutu Valeri Bojinov Marek Jankulovski and Marius Stankevicius EU players The rule underwent minor changes in August 2004 45 June 2005 46 June 2006 47 48 and June 2007 49 Since the 2008 09 season three quotas have been awarded to clubs that do not have non EU players in their squad previously only newly promoted clubs could have three quotas clubs that have one non EU player have two quotas Those clubs that have two non EU players are awarded one quota and one conditional quota which is awarded after 1 Transferred 1 non EU player abroad or 2 Release 1 non EU player as free agent or 3 A non EU player received EU nationality Clubs with three or more non EU players have two conditional quotas but releasing two non EU players as free agent will only have one quota instead of two 50 Serie B and Lega Pro clubs cannot sign non EU player from abroad except those followed the club promoted from Serie D Large clubs with many foreigners usually borrow quotas from other clubs that have few foreigners or no foreigners in order to sign more non EU players For example Adrian Mutu joined Juventus via Livorno in 2005 as at the time Romania was not a member of the EU Other examples include Julio Cesar Victor Obinna and Maxwell who joined Inter from Chievo first two and Empoli respectively On 2 July 2010 the above conditional quota reduced back to one though if a team did not have any non EU players that team could still sign up to three non EU players 51 52 53 In 2011 the signing quota reverted to two 54 Homegrown players Edit Serie A also imposed Homegrown players rule a modification of Homegrown Player Rule UEFA Unlike UEFA Serie A at first did not cap the number of players in first team squad at 25 meaning the club could employ more foreigners by increasing the size of the squad 55 However a cap of 25 under 21 players were excluded was introduced to 2015 16 season in 2015 16 season squad simply require 8 homegrown players but not require 4 of them from their own youth team 56 In the 2016 17 season the FIGC sanctioned Sassuolo for fielding ineligible player Antonino Ragusa 57 Although the club did not exceed the capacity of 21 players that were not from their own youth team only Domenico Berardi was eligible as youth product of their own as well as under 21 of age born 1995 or after of which four players were eligible in their 24 men call up 58 It was reported that on Lega Serie A side the squad list was not updated 59 In 2015 16 season the following quota was announced Size of first team squad Local club youth product 25 min 8 max 4 not from own youth team FIFA World Players of the Year Edit Main article FIFA World Player of the Year 60 Lothar Matthaus 1991 Inter Milan Marco van Basten 1992 AC Milan Roberto Baggio 1993 Juventus George Weah 1995 AC Milan Ronaldo 1997 2002 Inter Milan note 5 Zinedine Zidane 1998 2000 Juventus Fabio Cannavaro 2006 Juventus note 6 Kaka 2007 AC Milan See also Edit Association football portal Italy portalCampionato Nazionale Primavera Coppa Campioni d Italia Italian football clubs in international competitions List of foreign Serie A players List of Italian football club owners Serie A Awards UEFA coefficientNotes Edit In the 1990s when the term originated Parma was seen as one of the Seven Sisters and Napoli was not included Title was revoked and left unassigned through the courts following the 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