Italian football champions

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The Italian football champions (Italian: Scudetto - little shield) are the annual winners of Serie A, Italy's premier annual football league competition. The title has been contested since 1898, in varying forms of competition. While Internazionale are the current champions, Juventus FC has won a record 27 championship titles.

The first time scudetto was used in 1924 when Genoa C.F.C. won his 8th championship title and decided to point a little shield as to reward and celebrate themselves, the champions.

The finals of the first Italian Football Championship was decided in a single day with four teams competing, three from Turin and one from Genoa. The title was decided using a knock-out format between the finalists with Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club the inaugural winners. The knock-out format was used until the 1909–10 season, when a league consisting of nine teams was formed. The regular league season was followed by a championship game featuring the first and second place teams. The championship, which had been confined to a single league in the north of Italy, became a national competition in 1929 with the foundation of Serie A and Serie B.

Several times in history, a champion was not named. World wars suspended the official Championship from both 1915 to 1919 and 1943 to 1945 although unofficial championships were contested in both 1916 and 1944. Match fixing prevented a champion being declared in both the 1926–27 and 2004–05 seasons with Torino FC and Juventus FC being stripped of their titles.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Italian Football Championship 1.2 Serie A 2 Winners 2.1 Italian Football Championship 2.2 Serie A 3 Performances 3.1 Clubs 3.2 Regions 3.3 Cities 4 See also 5 Sources 6 References and notes 7 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Italian Football Championship

The first official national football tournament was organised in 1898 by the Italian Football Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio, FIGC).^[1] This tournament, the final matches of the first Italian Football Championship, were held in a single day, 8 May 1898, in Turin. Genoa Cricket and Athletics Club were crowned as champions, defeating Internazionale Torino by 3–1 following extra time.^[1] In the following years, the tournament was structured into regional groups with the winners of each group participating in a playoff with the eventual winners being declared champions. The format was modified for the 1909–10 season which was played in a league format. Nine clubs participated playing each other both home and away, and with the clubs finishing first and second playing for the championship in a single playoff final. This season was the first victory for Internazionale who defeated Pro Vercelli in the final by 10–3.^[2] The 1912–13 season saw the competition nationalised with North and South divisions.^[3] In 1916 AC Milan won the Coppa Federale, which for that season was a substitute for the championship, which had been suspended because of the First World War.^[4] The tournament that year was limited to clubs from the north with the execption of Pro Vercelli but was not treated as an official trophy or recognized by FIGC as an Italian title.

Controversy hit the Championship in the 1921–22 season which saw the major clubs (including Pro Vercelli, Bologna FC and Juventus FC) in dispute with the FIGC. The teams had asked for a reduction in the number of clubs in the top division in accordance with a plan drawn up by Vittorio Pozzo, the Italian national team coach. Pozzo's plan was dismissed and the CCI (Italian: Confederazione Calcistica Italiana) was founded and organised a 1921-22 CCI league to run concurrently with the 1921-22 season organised by the FIGC.^[5] Further scandal followed in the 1926–27 season when title-winners Torino were stripped of their scudetto following an FIGC investigation. A Torino official was found to have bribed opposing defender Luigi Allemandi in Torino's match against Juventus FC on 5 June 1927, and thus the season finished with no declared champions.^[6]

[edit] Serie A

Following the scandal of match-fixing and the split between the FIGC and the CCI, the Viareggio charter was drawn up to legalise professionalism, ban foreign players and rationalise the championship from its regionalised state into national leagues; the Serie A and Serie B.^[7] The 1929–30 season was the inaugural Serie A season and was won by Ambrosiana. The next eleven years were dominated by Juventus FC and Bologna FC who won all of the scudetti between them but further success was truncated as the Championship was suspended in 1943 due to the Second World War.^[5] A Championship was held in 1944, the Campionato Alta Italia, and won by Spezia Calcio 1906.^[8] The title was not officially recognised by FIGC until 2002 and even then the scudetto is considered a "decoration".^[9]

The post-war years were dominated by Grande Torino while Juventus finished second three times in a row.^[5] The 1950s saw the gradual emergence of AC Milan, with the help of Swedish striker Gunnar Nordahl who was Serie A's leading scorer (Italian: Capocannonieri) for five out of six seasons. Juventus began to dominate throughout the 1970s and early 1980s with nine scudetti in fifteen seasons while the 1990s saw AC Milan come to prominence.^[5]

Serie A was dealt another blow by the 2006 Serie A scandal which involved alleged widespread match fixing implicating league champions Juventus, and other major teams including AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio, and Reggina.^[10] The FIGC ruled Juventus be stripped of their title, relegated to Serie B and start the following season with a nine-point deduction. The other clubs involved suffered similarly with relegation and points deduction.^[11]

[edit] Winners

[edit] Italian Football Championship

Year	Winner	Runners-up	Top scorer (club) (goals)
1898	Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club	Internazionale Torino
1899	Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club	Internazionale Torino
1900	Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club	Internazionale Torino
1901	Milan Cricket & FC	Genoa Cricket & Football Club
1902	Genoa Cricket & Football Club	Milan FC
1903	Genoa Cricket & Football Club	Juventus FC
1904	Genoa Cricket & Football Club	Juventus FC
1905	Juventus FC	Genoa Cricket & Football Club
1906	Milan FC	Juventus FC
1907	Milan FC	Torino FC
1908	Pro Vercelli	US Milanese
1909	Pro Vercelli	US Milanese
1909–10	Internazionale	Pro Vercelli
1910–11	Pro Vercelli	Vicenza
1911–12	Pro Vercelli	Venezia
1912–13	Pro Vercelli	SS Lazio
1913–14	Casale	SS Lazio
1914–15	Genoa Cricket & Football Club [12]	Torino
1915–16	AC Milan[13]	Juventus FC
1916–19	Postponed due to First World War
1919–20	Internazionale	AS Livorno
1920–21	Pro Vercelli	Pisa
1921–22[14]	Pro Vercelli	Fortitudo Roma
1921–22[15]	US Novese	Sampierdarenese
1922–23	Genoa Cricket & Football Club	SS Lazio
1923–24	Genoa Cricket & Football Club	Savoia	Heinrich Schönfeld (Torino FC) (22)
1924–25	Bologna FC	Alba Trastevere	Mario Magnozzi (AS Livorno) (19)
1925–26	Juventus FC	Alba Trastevere	Ferenc Hirzer (Juventus FC) (35)
1926–27	No winner[16]		Anton Powolny (Inter) (22)
1927–28	Torino FC	Genoa Cricket & Football Club	Julio Libonatti (Torino FC) (35)
1928–29	Bologna FC	Torino FC	Gino Rossetti (Torino FC) (36)

[edit] Serie A

Year	Winner	Runners-up	Top scorer (club) (goals)
1929–30	Ambrosiana	Genoa	Giuseppe Meazza (Ambrosiana) (31)
1930–31	Juventus FC	AS Roma	Rodolfo Volk (AS Roma) (29)
1931–32	Juventus FC	Bologna FC	Pedro Petrone (Fiorentina) Angelo Schiavio (Bologna) (25)
1932–33	Juventus FC	Internazionale	Felice Placido Borel II° (Juventus FC) (29)
1933–34	Juventus FC	Internazionale	Felice Placido Borel II° (Juventus FC) (31)
1934–35	Juventus FC	Internazionale	Enrico Guaita (AS Roma) (31)
1935–36	Bologna FC	AS Roma	Giuseppe Meazza (Ambrosiana Inter) (25)
1936–37	Bologna FC	SS Lazio	Silvio Piola (SS Lazio) (21)
1937–38	Ambrosiana-Inter	Juventus FC	Giuseppe Meazza (Ambrosiana Inter) (20)
1938–39	Bologna FC	Torino FC	Aldo Boffi (AC Milan) Ettore Puricelli (Bologna FC) (19)
1939–40	Ambrosiana-Inter	Bologna FC	Aldo Boffi (AC Milan) (24)
1940–41	Bologna FC	Internazionale	Ettore Puricelli (Bologna FC) (22)
1941–42	AS Roma	Torino FC	Aldo Boffi (AC Milan) (22)
1942–43	Torino FC	AS Livorno	Silvio Piola (SS Lazio) (21)
1943–44	Postponed due to Second World War
1944	VV.F. Spezia[17]	Torino FC
1944–45	Postponed due to Second World War
1945–46	Torino FC	Juventus FC	Eusebio Castigliano (Torino FC) (13)
1946–47	Torino FC	Juventus FC	Valentino Mazzola (Torino FC) (29)
1947–48	Torino FC	Juventus FC	Giampiero Boniperti (Juventus FC) (27)
1948–49	Torino[18]	Internazionale	Stefano Nyers (Internazionale) (26)
1949–50	Juventus FC	AC Milan	Gunnar Nordahl (AC Milan) (35)
1950–51	AC Milan	Internazionale	Gunnar Nordahl (AC Milan) (34)
1951–52	Juventus FC	AC Milan	John Hansen (Juventus FC) (30)
1952–53	Internazionale	Juventus FC	Gunnar Nordahl (AC Milan) (26)
1953–54	Internazionale	Juventus FC	Gunnar Nordahl (AC Milan) (23)
1954–55	AC Milan	Udinese	Gunnar Nordahl (AC Milan) (26)
1955–56	Fiorentina	AC Milan	Gino Pivatelli (Bologna FC) (29)
1956–57	AC Milan	Fiorentina	Dino Da Costa (AS Roma) (22)
1957–58	Juventus FC	Fiorentina	John Charles (Juventus FC) (28)
1958–59	AC Milan	Fiorentina	Antonio Valentin Angelillo (Internazionale) (33)
1959–60	Juventus FC	Fiorentina	Omar Sivori (Juventus FC) (28)
1960–61	Juventus FC	AC Milan	Sergio Brighenti (Sampdoria) (27)
1961–62	AC Milan	Internazionale	José Altafini (AC Milan) Aurelio Milani (Fiorentina) (22)
1962–63	Internazionale	Juventus FC	Harald Nielsen (Bologna) Pedro Manfredini (AS Roma) (19)
1963–64	Bologna FC	Internazionale	Harald Nielsen (Bologna) (21)
1964–65	Internazionale	AC Milan	Alberto Orlando (Fiorentina) Sandro Mazzola (Internazionale) (17)
1965–66	Internazionale	Bologna FC	Luis Vinicio (Vicenza) (25)
1966–67	Juventus FC	Internazionale	Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (18)
1967–68	AC Milan	SSC Napoli	Pierino Prati (AC Milan) (15)
1968–69	Fiorentina	Cagliari	Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (21)
1969–70	Cagliari	Internazionale	Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (21)
1970–71	Internazionale	AC Milan	Roberto Boninsegna (Internazionale) (24)
1971–72	Juventus FC	AC Milan	Roberto Boninsegna (Internazionale) (22)
1972–73	Juventus FC	AC Milan	Paolino Pulici (Torino FC) Gianni Rivera (AC Milan) Giuseppe Savoldi (Bologna FC) (17)
1973–74	SS Lazio	Juventus FC	Giorgio Chinaglia (SS Lazio) (24)
1974–75	Juventus FC	Napoli	Paolino Pulici (Torino FC) (18)
1975–76	Torino FC	Juventus FC	Paolino Pulici (Torino FC) (21)
1976–77	Juventus FC	Torino FC	Francesco Graziani (Torino FC) (21)
1977–78	Juventus FC	L.R. Vicenza	Paolo Rossi (Vicenza) (24)
1978–79	AC Milan	Perugia	Bruno Giordano (SS Lazio) (19)
1979–80	Internazionale	Juventus FC	Roberto Bettega (Juventus FC) (16)
1980–81	Juventus FC	AS Roma	Roberto Pruzzo (AS Roma) (18)
1981–82	Juventus FC	Fiorentina	Roberto Pruzzo (AS Roma) (15)
1982–83	AS Roma	Juventus FC	Michel Platini (Juventus FC) (16)
1983–84	Juventus FC	AS Roma	Michel Platini (Juventus FC) (20)
1984–85	Hellas Verona FC	Torino FC	Michel Platini (Juventus FC) (18)
1985–86	Juventus FC	AS Roma	Roberto Pruzzo (AS Roma) (19)
1986–87	SSC Napoli	Juventus FC	Pietro Paolo Virdis (AC Milan) (17)
1987–88	AC Milan	SSC Napoli	Diego Maradona (SSC Napoli) (15)
1988–89	Internazionale	SSC Napoli	Aldo Serena (Internazionale) (22)
1989–90	SSC Napoli	AC Milan	Marco van Basten (AC Milan) (19)
1990–91	UC Sampdoria	AC Milan	Gianluca Vialli (UC Sampdoria) (19)
1991–92	AC Milan	Juventus FC	Marco Van Basten (AC Milan) (25)
1992–93	AC Milan	Internazionale	Giuseppe Signori (SS Lazio) (26)
1993–94	AC Milan	Juventus FC	Giuseppe Signori (SS Lazio) (23)
1994–95	Juventus FC	SS Lazio	Gabriel Batistuta (Fiorentina) (26)
1995–96	AC Milan	Juventus FC	Giuseppe Signori (SS Lazio) Igor Protti (AS Bari) (24)
1996–97	Juventus FC	Parma FC	Filippo Inzaghi (Atalanta) (24)
1997–98	Juventus FC	Internazionale	Oliver Bierhoff (Udinese) (27)
1998–99	AC Milan	SS Lazio	Márcio Amoroso (Udinese) (22)
1999–00	SS Lazio	Juventus FC	Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan) (24)
2000–01	AS Roma	Juventus FC	Hernán Crespo (SS Lazio) (26)
2001–02	Juventus FC	AS Roma	David Trézéguet (Juventus FC) Dario Hübner (Piacenza) (24)
2002–03	Juventus FC	Internazionale	Christian Vieri (Internazionale) (24)
2003–04	AC Milan	AS Roma	Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan) (24)
2004–05	Unassigned[12][19]		Cristiano Lucarelli (AS Livorno) Alberto Gilardino (Parma FC) (24)
2005–06	Internazionale[12]	AS Roma	Luca Toni (Fiorentina) (31)
2006–07	Internazionale	AS Roma	Francesco Totti (AS Roma) (26)
2007–08	Internazionale	AS Roma	Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus FC) (21)

[edit] Performances

[edit] Clubs

The following table lists the performance of each club describing winners of the Championship.

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning seasons
Juventus FC	27	19	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
AC Milan	17	14	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
Internazionale	16	13	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, 2006–07, 2007–08
Genoa C.F.C.	9	4	1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1914–15, 1922–23, 1923–24
Torino FC	7	7	1927–28, 1942–43, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1975–76
Bologna FC	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)
AS Roma	3	12	1941–42, 1982–83, 2000–01
SS Lazio	2	6	1973–74, 1999–00
Fiorentina	2	5	1955–56, 1968–69
SSC Napoli	2	4	1986–87, 1989–90
Cagliari	1	1	1969–70
Casale	1	-	1913–14
US Novese	1	-	1921–22 (FIGC)
UC Sampdoria	1	-	1990–91
Verona FC	1	-	1984–85
VVF Spezia	1	-	1944[17]

[edit] Regions

The following table lists the Italian football champions by region.

Region	Titles	Winning Clubs
Piedmont	43	Juventus FC (27), Pro Vercelli (7), Torino FC (7), Casale (1), US Novese (1)
Lombardy	33	AC Milan (17), Internazionale (16)
Liguria	11	Genoa C.F.C. (9), UC Sampdoria (1), VVF Spezia (1)[17]
Emilia-Romagna	7	Bologna FC (7)
Lazio	5	AS Roma (3), SS Lazio (2)
Campania	2	SSC Napoli (2)
Tuscany	2	Fiorentina (2)
Sardinia	1	Cagliari (1)
Veneto	1	Verona FC (1)

[edit] Cities

The following table lists the Italian football champions by city.

City	Titles	Winning Clubs
Turin	34	Juventus (27), Torino FC (7)
Milan	33	AC Milan (17), Internazionale (16)
Genoa	10	Genoa C.F.C. (9), UC Sampdoria (1)
Bologna	7	Bologna FC (7)
Vercelli	7	Pro Vercelli (7)
Rome	5	AS Roma (3), SS Lazio (2)
Florence	2	Fiorentina (2)
Naples	2	SSC Napoli (2)
Cagliari	1	Cagliari (1)
Casale Monferrato	1	Casale (1)
La Spezia	1	VVF Spezia (1)[17]
Novi Ligure	1	US Novese (1)
Verona	1	Verona FC (1)

[edit] See also

• Football in Italy
• Italian football league system

[edit] Sources

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

[edit] References and notes

[edit] External links

• (English) Italian Football Association
• (Italian) Official national league website

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Italian Football Championship seasons v • d • e
1898 • 1899 • 1900 • 1901 • 1902 • 1903 • 1904 • 1905 • 1906 • 1907 • 1908 1909 • 1909-10 • 1910-11 • 1911-12 • 1912-13 • 1913-14 • 1914-15 • 1919-20 1920-21 • 1921-22 (C.C.I.) • 1921-22 (F.I.G.C.) • 1922-23 • 1923-24 • 1924-25 1925-26 • 1926-27 • 1927-28 • 1928-29
War championships (recognized by the Italian Football Federation) v • d • e
1944 • 1945-46
Serie A seasons v • d • e
1929-30 • 1930-31 • 1931-32 • 1932-33 • 1933-34 • 1934-35 • 1935-36 • 1936-37 1937-38 • 1938-39 • 1939-40 • 1940-41 • 1941-42 • 1942-43 • 1946-47 • 1947-48 1948-49 • 1949-50 • 1950-51 • 1951-52 • 1952-53 • 1953-54 • 1954-55 • 1955-56 1956-57 • 1957-58 • 1958-59 • 1959-60 • 1960-61 • 1961-62 • 1962-63 • 1963-64 1964-65 • 1965-66 • 1966-67 • 1967-68 • 1968-69 • 1969-70 • 1970-71 • 1971-72 1972-73 • 1973-74 • 1974-75 • 1975-76 • 1976-77 • 1977-78 • 1978-79 • 1979-80 1980-81 • 1981-82 • 1982-83 • 1983-84 • 1984-85 • 1985-86 • 1986-87 • 1987-88 1988-89 • 1989-90 • 1990-91 • 1991-92 • 1992-93 • 1993-94 • 1994-95 • 1995-96 1996-97 • 1997-98 • 1998-99 • 1999-00 • 2000-01 • 2001-02 • 2002-03 • 2003-04 2004-05 • 2005-06 • 2006-07 • 2007-08 • 2008-09
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