Serie A, the top football league in Italy, has been held since 1898. But Italy Serie A was not the same as in 1898 and the following years. The Serie A games were restructured in 1929, and the Coppa Campioni d’Italia trophy has been awarded to the winners since 1961.
At first, the tournament was held among eighteen clubs and has seen a continuous fluctuation, sometimes sixteen clubs and sometimes twenty-one. Twenty clubs have been added to the Serie A league since 2004-2005.
History of Serie A
Genoa Cricket and Athletic Club were the maiden champions of the Italian National Championship in 1898.
The tournament was played among regional groups for over two decades. Different interregional groups were merged into one group during 1922-1929. Serie B also existed at that time when a Fascist party declared that no foreigners would be allowed in the league. This dictation resulted in imports of Italian ancestries from South America to a great extent.
Lega Calcio replaced Italian Federal Football Association in 1964, and then the league was named Lega Serie A.
Serie A League System
Serie A league is the top Italian football league, followed by Serie B and Serie C. Three top Serie A teams qualify for the tournament of Champions League, and the teams getting fourth to sixth positions get to play in European Cups.
Three bottom teams have been relegated to Serie B since 2006-2007.
Statistics
Top Italian clubs like Juventus and Milan have won Serie A games numerous times. Juventus has won the title thirty-six times, and Milan won it eighteen times.
Serie A Top Scorers
The all-time top scorer of Serie A is Silvio Piola, and Piola scored 274 goals between 1929 and 1952, playing in Cagliari Calcio. The second leading goal scorer of the Italian tournament is Francesco Totti, who played from 1992 to 2017 and scored 250 goals.
Gunnar Nordahl, Giuseppe Meazza, Jose Altafini, Roberto Baggio, and Antonio Di Natale are among the Serie A top scorers scoring over two-hundred goals in the league.
Milan’s defender Paulo Maldini had the most appearances in the Italian football league’s history, as he appeared in 647 matches between 1984 and 2009. Gianluigi Buffon may break Maldini’s record soon as he has already appeared in 644 matches till 2019 and is still playing.
Serie A Results 2022-23
Twenty clubs are participating in the 2022-23 Italy Serie A.
Napoli is topping the league table with eight wins, two draws, and twenty-six points.
Atalanta is in second place with twenty-four points as they won seven matches and drew three. AC Milan had one loss, two draws, and seven wins, rewarding them with twenty-three points.
Lazio and Udinese are twenty-one points with six wins, three draws, and one defeat.
Most of the teams have played ten Serie A games so far in 2022-23, with AS Roma, Fiorentina, Lecce, and Sampdoria playing nine matches.
Serie A Schedule
The Serie A schedule for the 2022-2023 season includes matches to be played up to June 4, 2023. The Serie A schedule has already started, and the matches are telecast on Paramount+.
Brazil Serie A
A series of football leagues are conducted among Brazilian football clubs and are interconnected. There are both state and national pyramids, with clubs competing in several levels of the pyramids.
Brazil Serie A 2022 has five teams from Sao Paulo, three from Rio de Janeiro, two from the Rio Grande do Sul, Ceara, Golas, Minas Gerais, and Parana each, along with one from Mato Grosso and Santa Catarina each.
Conclusion
Whereas Napoli seems to be unstoppable, Udinese has emerged as one of the greatest surprises of Serie A this season. The defending champions, AC Milan, Juventus, and Inter Milan, are also very much into the game. Roma, Lazio, and Atalanta are the other teams who are the strongest contenders. Cremonese, Lecce, and Monza are the teams who fight hard to avoid relegation.
