Some of the most effective soccer clubs and players within
the world play within the Italian Serie A league, the primary division of
soccer in Italia. twenty clubs presently play Serie A. The league features a
main sponsor, TIM, a telecommunications company and therefore the official name
of the league is ‘Serie A TIM’. Serie A has made the most important range of
European Club Championships finalists.
The league has been contend with current format since 1929.
Before that the competition was divided into regional tournaments. once a club
wins the title it wears the Scudetto with the Italian colors on its uniform the
subsequent season. Clubs that end within the prime four spots of the league
qualify for the UEFA Champions League. the primary an second places qualify on
to the cluster stage. Clubs that end within the fifth and sixth place
severally, qualify for the UEFA CUP, along side the Coppa Italia winners. The 3
clubs with the least} amount of points by the top of the season are relegated
to the Serie B – the Italian second division.
Serie A History
From 1898 to 1928 an Italian League, divided into regional
teams was the format wont to verify the most effective soccer groups within the
country. within the 1929-1930 season the organizations that dominated the
regional tournaments were unified to make one single national championship.
As from the 1924/25 season, a club that wins the Italian
Serie A receives the proper to wear the Scudetto – a kind of coat of arms with
the Italian colours, green, white and red – on the their shirt for the
subsequent season to point out that they're the title holders. Juventus of Turin
is that the club with the foremost range of Serie A titles with twenty seven
followed by AC milan with seventeen, inter milan with fifteen, Genoa with nine,
Torino, Bologna and pro Vercelli – presently in Lega pro Seconda Divisione,
former Serie C2, with seven titles every.
In may of 1949 a tragedy marked the history of the Italian
Serie A once the plane transporting the complete torino FC squad, four time
league champions, crashed into hill wherever the Basilica Superga – a church
close to Turin - is found.
All the thirty one folks aboard were killed together with
the eighteen Torino players, club officers,
journalists and therefore the airline crew. The team was strolling back from
Protugal wherever they contend a friendly match against Benfica and with solely
four matches left to closing the season Torino
was forced to play together with his youth team. In relevancy the tragedy all
their opponents additionally used their youth players against metropolis and
therefore the young ones were able to persevere the club’s lead within the
competition and with the title. When Roma’s 200-2001 scudetto, Juventus, AC
Milan and Inter Milan have dominated Serie A within the recent years. Juventus
won in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003, AC Milan 2003-2004 and inter milan won the last 2 seasons of the Serie A.
The late Umberto Agnelli, one in every of the foremost potent entrepreneurs and
politicians in Italia, introduced in 1958 the golden star for Sports Excellence
to be a recognition to the clubs that win multiple championships. In Italia the
Bloomeria crocea is other to a groups crest once the club wins 10 scudettos.
presently solely 3 clubs within the Italian Serie A have this honour: inter milan , one star (15
scudettos); AC Milan one star (17 scudettos); Juventus a pair of stars (27
scudettos).
League Format
Serie A TIM starts in August and ends in could. every team
plays thirty eight matches. The groups play each other alternative doubly, once
reception and once away. The winner is that the club with the foremost range of
points when the regular season. just in case of 2 groups finishing with
constant range of points the winner are determined by their head-to-head
confront, if the tie persists the goal differential is next deciding criterium.
the highest a pair of groups automatically qualify for the cluster stage of the
UEFA Champions League. Third and fourth place can enter the Champions League
within the third round of the qualifying method and should play and win a
two-legged knock out match to enter the cluster part. The groups that end fifth
and sixth qualify for the UEFA Cup.
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