List of 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 has won a record 27 championship titles. The first time the Scudetto was used was in 1924 when Genoa won its 9th championship title and decided to add a little shield to their shirt as to reward and celebrate themselves as 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 and 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 mark when 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 Football Club and Juventus Football Club being stripped of their titles, respectively.

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 on 8 May 1898 in Turin. Genoa Cricket and Athletic 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 Football Club Internazionale Milano, who defeated Unione Sportiva Pro Vercelli Calcio in the final by a score of 10–3.^[2] The 1912–13 season saw the competition nationalised with North and South divisions.^[3] In 1916, Associazione Calcio Milan won the Coppa Federale, which for that season was a substitute for the championship, which had been suspended because of World War I.^[4] The tournament that year was limited to clubs from the north, with the exception of Pro Vercelli, but was not treated as an official trophy or recognised by FIGC as an Italian title.

Controversy hit the Championship in the 1921–22 season which saw the major clubs (including Pro Vercelli, Bologna and Juventus) 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 Football Club 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 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 11 years were also dominated by Juventus Football Club and Bologna Football Club 1909, when all of the Scudetti were won between the three of them. The competition was truncated as the Championship was suspended in 1943 due to World War II.^[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 Il Grande Torino while Juventus finished second three times in a row.^[5] The 1950s saw the gradual emergence of Associazione Calcio 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 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 & Football Club	Genoa Cricket & Football Club
1902	Genoa Cricket & Football Club	Milan
1903	Genoa Cricket & Football Club	Juventus Football Club
1904	Genoa Cricket & Football Club	Juventus
1905	Juventus	Genoa Cricket & Football Club
1906	Milan	Juventus
1907	Milan	Torino
1908	Unione Sportiva Pro Vercelli Calcio	US Milanese
1909	Pro Vercelli	US Milanese
1909–10	Football Club Internazionale Milano	Pro Vercelli
1910–11	Pro Vercelli	Vicenza Calcio
1911–12	Pro Vercelli	Venezia
1912–13	Pro Vercelli	Società Sportiva Lazio
1913–14	Associazione Sportiva Casalen Calcio	Lazio
1914–15	Genoa Cricket & Football Club [12]	Torino
1915–16	Milan[13]	Juventus
1916–19	Postponed due to First World War
1919–20	Internazionale	Associazione Sportiva Livorno Calcio
1920–21	Pro Vercelli	Pisa Calcio
1921–22[14]	Pro Vercelli	Fortitudo Roma
1921–22[15]	Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica Novese	Sampierdarenese
1922–23	Genoa	Lazio
1923–24	Genoa	Football Club Savoia 1908	Heinrich Schönfeld (Torino) (22)
1924–25	Bologna Football Club 1909	Alba Trastevere	Mario Magnozzi (Livorno) (19)
1925–26	Juventus	Alba Trastevere	Ferenc Hirzer (Juventus) (35)
1926–27	No winner[16]		Anton Powolny (Inter) (22)
1927–28	Torino	Genoa	Julio Libonatti (Torino) (35)
1928–29	Bologna	Torino	Gino Rossetti (Torino) (36)

[edit] Serie A

Year	Winner	Runners-up	Top scorer (club) (goals)
1929–30	Ambrosiana	Genoa	Giuseppe Meazza (Ambrosiana) (31)
1930–31	Juventus	Associazione Sportiva Roma	Rodolfo Volk (Roma) (29)
1931–32	Juventus	Bologna	Pedro Petrone (Fiorentina) Angelo Schiavio (Bologna) (25)
1932–33	Juventus	Internazionale	Felice Placido Borel II° (Juventus) (29)
1933–34	Juventus	Internazionale	Felice Placido Borel II° (Juventus) (31)
1934–35	Juventus	Internazionale	Enrico Guaita (Roma) (31)
1935–36	Bologna	Roma	Giuseppe Meazza (Ambrosina-Inter) (25)
1936–37	Bologna	Lazio	Silvio Piola (Lazio) (21)
1937–38	Ambrosiana-Inter	Juventus	Giuseppe Meazza (Ambrosiana-Inter) (20)
1938–39	Bologna	Torino	Aldo Boffi (Milan) Ettore Puricelli (Bologna) (19)
1939–40	Ambrosiana-Inter	Bologna	Aldo Boffi (Milan) (24)
1940–41	Bologna	Internazionale	Ettore Puricelli (Bologna) (22)
1941–42	Roma	Torino	Aldo Boffi (Milan) (22)
1942–43	Torino	Livorno	Silvio Piola (Lazio) (21)
1943–44	Postponed due to Second World War
1944	Spezia[17]	Torino
1944–45	Postponed due to Second World War
1945–46	Torino	Juventus	Eusebio Castigliano (Torino) (13)
1946–47	Torino	Juventus	Valentino Mazzola (Torino) (29)
1947–48	Torino	Juventus	Giampiero Boniperti (Juventus) (27)
1948–49	Torino[18]	Internazionale	Stefano Nyers (Internazionale) (26)
1949–50	Juventus	Milan	Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (35)
1950–51	Milan	Internazionale	Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (34)
1951–52	Juventus	Milan	John Hansen (Juventus) (30)
1952–53	Internazionale	Juventus	Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (26)
1953–54	Internazionale	Juventus	Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (23)
1954–55	Milan	Udinese	Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (26)
1955–56	Fiorentina	Milan	Gino Pivatelli (Bologna) (29)
1956–57	Milan	Fiorentina	Dino da Costa (Roma) (22)
1957–58	Juventus	Fiorentina	John Charles (Juventus) (28)
1958–59	Milan	Fiorentina	Antonio Valentin Angelillo (Internazionale) (33)
1959–60	Juventus	Fiorentina	Omar Sivori (Juventus) (28)
1960–61	Juventus	Milan	Sergio Brighenti (Sampdoria) (27)
1961–62	Milan	Internazionale	José Altafini (Milan) Aurelio Milani (Fiorentina) (22)
1962–63	Internazionale	Juventus	Harald Nielsen (Bologna) Pedro Manfredini (Roma) (19)
1963–64	Bologna	Internazionale	Harald Nielsen (Bologna) (21)
1964–65	Internazionale	Milan	Alberto Orlando (Fiorentina) Sandro Mazzola (Internazionale) (17)
1965–66	Internazionale	Bologna	Luis Vinicio (Vicenza) (25)
1966–67	Juventus	Internazionale	Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (18)
1967–68	Milan	Napoli	Pierino Prati (Milan) (15)
1968–69	Fiorentina	Cagliari	Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (21)
1969–70	Cagliari	Internazionale	Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (21)
1970–71	Internazionale	Milan	Roberto Boninsegna (Internazionale) (24)
1971–72	Juventus	Milan	Roberto Boninsegna (Internazionale) (22)
1972–73	Juventus	Milan	Paolino Pulici (Torino) Gianni Rivera (Milan) Giuseppe Savoldi (Bologna) (17)
1973–74	Lazio	Juventus	Giorgio Chinaglia (Lazio) (24)
1974–75	Juventus	Napoli	Paolino Pulici (Torino) (18)
1975–76	Torino	Juventus	Paolino Pulici (Torino) (21)
1976–77	Juventus	Torino	Francesco Graziani (Torino) (21)
1977–78	Juventus	Vicenza	Paolo Rossi (Vicenza) (24)
1978–79	Milan	Perugia	Bruno Giordano (Lazio) (19)
1979–80	Internazionale	Juventus	Roberto Bettega (Juventus) (16)
1980–81	Juventus	Roma	Roberto Pruzzo (Roma) (18)
1981–82	Juventus	Fiorentina	Roberto Pruzzo (Roma) (15)
1982–83	Roma	Juventus	Michel Platini (Juventus) (16)
1983–84	Juventus	Roma	Michel Platini (Juventus) (20)
1984–85	Verona	Torino	Michel Platini (Juventus) (18)
1985–86	Juventus	Roma	Roberto Pruzzo (Roma) (19)
1986–87	Napoli	Juventus	Pietro Paolo Virdis (Milan) (17)
1987–88	Milan	Napoli	Diego Maradona (Napoli) (15)
1988–89	Internazionale	Napoli	Aldo Serena (Internazionale) (22)
1989–90	Napoli	Milan	Marco van Basten (Milan) (19)
1990–91	Sampdoria	Milan	Gianluca Vialli (Sampdoria) (19)
1991–92	Milan	Juventus	Marco van Basten (Milan) (25)
1992–93	Milan	Internazionale	Giuseppe Signori (Lazio) (26)
1993–94	Milan	Juventus	Giuseppe Signori (Lazio) (23)
1994–95	Juventus	Lazio	Gabriel Batistuta (Fiorentina) (26)
1995–96	Milan	Juventus	Giuseppe Signori (Lazio) Igor Protti (Bari) (24)
1996–97	Juventus	Parma	Filippo Inzaghi (Atalanta) (24)
1997–98	Juventus	Internazionale	Oliver Bierhoff (Udinese) (27)
1998–99	Milan	Lazio	Márcio Amoroso (Udinese) (22)
1999–00	Lazio	Juventus	Andriy Shevchenko (Milan) (24)
2000–01	Roma	Juventus	Hernán Crespo (Lazio) (26)
2001–02	Juventus	Roma	David Trezeguet (Juventus) Dario Hübner (Piacenza) (24)
2002–03	Juventus	Internazionale	Christian Vieri (Internazionale) (24)
2003–04	Milan	Roma	Andriy Shevchenko (Milan) (24)
2004–05	Unassigned[12][19]		Cristiano Lucarelli (Livorno) (24)
2005–06	Internazionale[12]	Roma	Luca Toni (Fiorentina) (31)
2006–07	Internazionale	Roma	Francesco Totti (Roma) (26)
2007–08	Internazionale	Roma	Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus) (21)
2008–09	Internazionale	Juventus	Zlatan Ibrahimović (Internazionale) (25)

[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	27	20	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
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	17	14	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, 2008–09
Genoa	9	4	1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1914–15, 1922–23, 1923–24
Torino	7	7	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	12	1941–42, 1982–83, 2000–01
Lazio	2	6	1973–74, 1999–00
Fiorentina	2	5	1955–56, 1968–69
Napoli	2	4	1986–87, 1989–90
Cagliari	1	1	1969–70
Casale	1	-	1913–14
Novese	1	-	1921–22 (FIGC)
Sampdoria	1	-	1990–91
Verona	1	-	1984–85
Spezia	1	-	1944[17]

[edit] Regions

The following table lists the Italian football champions by region.

Region	Titles	Winning Clubs
Piedmont	43	Juventus (27), Pro Vercelli (7), Torino (7), Casale (1), Novese (1)
Lombardy	34	Milan (17), Internazionale (17)
Liguria	11	Genoa (9), Sampdoria (1), Spezia (1)[17]
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)

[edit] Cities

The following table lists the Italian football champions by city.

City	Titles	Winning Clubs
Milan	34	Milan (17), Internazionale (17)
Turin	34	Juventus (27), Torino (7)
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)
La Spezia	1	Spezia (1)[17]
Novi Ligure	1	Novese (1)
Verona	1	Verona (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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