1939–40 Serie B

The Serie B 1939–40 was the eleventh tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.

Serie B

Season	1939–40
Champions	Atalanta 2nd title
← 1938–39 1940–41 →

Alessandria

Anconitana

Atalanta

Brescia

Catania

Fanfulla

Livorno

Lucchese

Molinella

Padova

Palermo

Pisa

P. Vercelli

Sanremese

Siena

Udinese

Verona

Vigevano

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Serie B 1939-40 team distribution

Teams

Brescia, Udinese, Molinella and Catania had been promoted from Serie C, while Livorno and Lucchese had been relegated from Serie A.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Atalanta (P, C)	34	19	9	6	62	31	2.000	47	Promotion to Serie A
2	Livorno (P)	34	21	4	9	84	35	2.400	46
3	Lucchese	34	18	8	8	63	45	1.400	44
4	Anconitana	34	16	9	9	54	34	1.588	41
5	Siena	34	15	10	9	49	34	1.441	40
6	Brescia	34	16	8	10	54	39	1.385	40
7	Alessandria	34	16	6	12	59	41	1.439	38
8	Padova	34	15	7	12	69	57	1.211	37
9	Pro Vercelli	34	14	6	14	62	67	0.925	34
10	Udinese	34	14	5	15	60	57	1.053	33
11	Fanfulla	34	12	8	14	45	44	1.023	32
12	Pisa	34	11	9	14	54	62	0.871	31
13	Verona	34	12	7	15	41	56	0.732	31
14	Palermo (E, R, R)	34	11	7	16	39	69	0.565	29	Revival in First Division^[a]
15	Molinella (R)	34	10	6	18	42	62	0.677	26	Relegation to Serie C
16	Vigevano (R)	34	9	5	20	44	70	0.629	23
17	Sanremese (R)	34	6	9	19	27	60	0.450	21
18	Catania (R)	34	3	13	18	24	69	0.348	19

Source: goal average officially used in event of equal points.
(C) Champions; (E) Eliminated; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Palermo was unable to retain their professional status in summer 1940 and the FIGC disbanded the first team. The club continued in the Sicilian Championship with its reserve amatorial team, then it merged with city-mate Juventina to return in Serie C in 1941.
   The FIGC then fastly decided with its fascist powers that Molinella was too poor to be restored in B.

Results

Home \ Away	ALE	ANC	ATA	BRE	CTN	FAN	LIV	LUC	MOL	PAD	PAL	PIS	PVE	SNR	SIE	UDI	HEL	VIG
Alessandria		0–1	0–0	3–1	5–0	3–2	1–1	5–0	1–0	2–1	8–0	2–2	2–0	1–5	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–0
Anconitana	3–0		1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	8–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	3–1
Atalanta	1–0	3–0		3–0	1–0	3–1	2–2	3–1	2–2	3–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	6–0
Brescia	4–1	2–2	1–0		4–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	4–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	4–2	0–0	2–0
Catania	0–4	1–1	1–4	0–0		1–1	1–4	3–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–1
Fanfulla	2–0	1–3	1–1	1–0	2–0		0–1	1–1	5–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–1	7–2	3–1	2–0	2–1	0–0
Livorno	2–1	1–0	3–0	3–3	7–0	3–0		3–1	3–1	6–2	5–0	4–1	6–2	2–0	2–0	0–2	5–0	3–1
Lucchese	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–1	3–1	4–0	1–0		2–1	4–2	4–3	2–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	6–0	5–1	4–0
Molinella	1–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	3–3	2–0	1–0	1–3		3–0	1–1	2–2	6–1	4–0	1–0	2–0	0–2	1–3
Padova	1–1	3–2	2–1	0–6	2–0	3–0	2–1	1–2	5–0		6–0	4–2	4–0	1–0	1–1	5–0	0–2	4–0
Palermo	0–3	1–0	1–0	4–2	1–0	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–0	1–3		2–0	1–4	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–2
Pisa	2–2	1–1	4–4	2–1	4–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	4–0	2–1	1–2		0–4	3–2	0–2	3–4	3–0	3–2
Pro Vercelli	3–0	1–0	2–2	4–1	4–0	2–2	1–0	6–2	3–2	2–3	4–3	2–3		0–1	1–1	1–0	5–2	3–2
Sanremese	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–3	0–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	0–1		0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1
Siena	4–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	0–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	3–0		2–1	5–1	3–0
Udinese	2–4	2–1	3–1	0–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	3–1	2–2	5–0	0–1	8–1	2–0	4–1		6–3	1–2
Hellas Verona	1–0	2–2	1–2	3–1	3–0	0–0	1–4	1–2	3–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–0		2–0
Vigevano	0–2	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–4	0–0	1–2	4–3	1–2	2–1	5–2	3–1	1–3	6–2	1–2

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. 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.

Footnotes

References and sources

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