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RUND SERIE A

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History

SERIE A · FOUNDED 1898

Italy has crowned a champion since 1898, but the single national table — everyone playing everyone — arrived in 1929. For most of the 1990s Serie A was the strongest league in the world, and it has spent the years since arguing about how it lost that.

The moments

1. 1929

   One table at last

   The regional groups and play-offs were replaced by a single round-robin division of eighteen clubs. Internazionale, then playing as Ambrosiana, won the first one.

2. 1949

   Superga

   The aircraft carrying Grande Torino home from Lisbon hit the Superga hill outside the city. The whole team died. They had won the previous four titles and were leading the fifth, which was awarded to them.

3. 1984

   Maradona comes to Naples

   Napoli, who had never won the league, paid a world record fee for Diego Maradona. They won the title in 1987 and again in 1990, and the city has never really stopped talking about him.

4. 1993

   Fifty-eight unbeaten

   Milan went fifty-eight league matches without defeat between May 1991 and March 1993, a run no Italian club has approached, and won three titles inside it.

5. 2002

   The fifth of May

   Inter went to Lazio on the last day needing only a draw and lost 4–2. Juventus won at Udinese and took the title. In Italy the date on its own is enough to tell the story.

6. 2006

   Calciopoli

   An investigation into the selection of referees stripped Juventus of two titles and sent them to Serie B, and docked points from Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio and Reggina. Inter were awarded the 2006 championship.

7. 2010

   The treble

   Inter won Serie A, the Coppa Italia and the Champions League in one season under José Mourinho, the first Italian club to do it.

8. 2014

   One hundred and two points

   Juventus finished on a hundred and two points, a Serie A record, in the third of what became nine consecutive titles.

9. 2020

   The league that stopped first

   Italy was the first European country hit hard, and Serie A was the first big league to suspend. It finished the season in July and August in empty stadiums.

10. 2023

    Thirty-three years

    Napoli won a third title, and their first since Maradona’s second, with five matches to spare. The city painted itself sky blue for a month.

Records that stand

Roll of honour

Juventus’ count reflects the 2006 rulings, which the club disputes. Both figures are quoted in Italy, and which one is used generally says who is talking.