2011–12 Serie A (women)

The 2011–12 Serie A di calcio femminile was the 45th edition of the premier category of the Italian women's football championship. It ran from 8 October 2011 to 26 May 2012 and it was contested by fourteen teams, with FCF Como 2000, ACF Milan and ASD Riviera di Romagna joining the competition.[1] ASD Torres Calcio won its third title in a row and a record overall sixth with a two points advantage over ASDCF Bardolino, which also qualified for the 2012-13 UEFA Champions League. Previous season's runner-up UPC Tavagnacco and Brescia followed in the table at two and four points from Champions League qualification.

Serie A
Season2011–12
ChampionsTorres (6th title)
RelegatedVenezia 1984
Milan
Roma
UEFA Women's Champions LeagueTorres
Bardolino Verona
Matches played142
Goals scored577 (4.06 per match)
Top goalscorerPatrizia Panico (29)
Biggest home winTorres 11–0 Lazio
Biggest away winFirenze 1–6 Torres
Lazio 1–6 Mozzanica
Venezia 1984 1–6 Mozzanica
Roma 1–6 Tavagnacco
Mozzanica 0–5 Torres
Roma 0–5 Bardolino Verona
Highest scoringTorres 11–0 Lazio
2012–13 →

ACF Venezia 1984, Milan and GS Roma CF were relegated. This season marked the introduction of a new relegation system involving the five bottom teams. The lowest team would be relegated while the other four ones would play a relegation play-off. However, in case there was a 9 points or higher difference between the second and fourth to last teams their play-off would be cancelled with the lower-ranked team being relegated. At the end of the season there was a 12 points between 10th-ranked Riviera di Romagna and 13th Milan, so the former were spared while Milan was relegated. 12th-placed Venezia defeated 11th SS Lazio CF in the other play-off, sending 5-times champion Lazio to Serie A2. However, in August Venezia renounced to its spot in the category, and it was relegated instead of Lazio.[2]

Teams by region
RegionTeams
Lombardy Lombardia4: Brescia, Como 2000, Milan, Mozzanica
Friuli Venezia Giulia Friuli-Venezia Giulia2: Chiasiellis, Tavagnacco
Lazio Lazio2: Lazio, Roma
Veneto Veneto2: Bardolino Verona, Venezia 1984
Emilia-Romagna Emilia-Romagna1: Riviera di Romagna
Piedmont Piemonte1: Torino
Sardinia Sardinia1: Torres
Tuscany Toscana1: Firenze

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Torres (C, Q) 26 21 3 2 83 11 +72 66 Qualification to Champions League
2 Bardolino Verona (Q) 26 21 1 4 66 21 +45 64
3 Tavagnacco 26 19 5 2 78 20 +58 62
4 Brescia 26 18 4 4 69 27 +42 58
5 Mozzanica 26 12 7 7 44 38 +6 43
6 Torino 26 13 1 12 42 43 −1 40
7 Chiasiellis 26 9 8 9 40 43 −3 35
8 Como 2000 26 7 8 11 26 40 −14 29
9 Firenze 26 7 5 14 30 47 −17 26
10 Riviera di Romagna 26 6 6 14 17 45 −28 24
11 Lazio 26 7 1 18 20 60 −40 22 Relegation play-offs
12 Venezia 1984 (O, R) 26 4 8 14 27 52 −25 20
13 Milan (R) 26 2 6 18 15 60 −45 12 Relegation to Serie A2
14 Roma (R) 26 0 9 17 20 70 −50 9
Source: CalcioDonne (in Italian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

Relegation play-off
Lazio0 – 1Venezia 1984
Tombola 19'
La Borghesiana, Rome
Referee: Di Gioia

Results
Home \ Away BAR BRE CHI COM FIR LAZ MIL MOZ RIV ROM TAV TRN TOR VEN
Bardolino 4–0 2–1 2–1 4–0 3–1 0–1 3–0 5–0 8–1 4–3 0–4 3–0 1–1
Brescia 2–0 2–1 6–1 2–0 8–0 1–0 3–1 6–0 2–0 0–2 1–4 4–3 1–1
Chiasiellis 1–3 0–3 1–1 1–1 3–1 2–0 1–3 1–0 2–2 2–0 0–3 2–1 2–2
Como 2000 0–4 1–1 0–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 2–2 0–3 1–2 3–1
Firenze 0–3 0–3 3–1 0–2 0–1 3–0 1–1 1–2 5–0 0–2 1–6 0–4 0–1
Lazio 1–2 1–3 2–3 1–0 0–1 2–1 1–6 1–0 0–0 0–1 0–3 0–1 2–1
Milan 0–3 0–4 1–4 0–4 1–4 2–0 1–1 0–1 1–1 1–4 0–2 0–3 1–2
Mozzanica 1–2 2–2 2–0 3–0 3–1 1–0 0–0 2–2 2–1 1–5 0–5 1–0 2–1
Riviera di Romagna 0–1 0–4 0–3 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–2 0–2 3–0 1–1 0–2 0–2 1–0
Roma 0–5 0–1 2–2 1–2 0–2 1–2 2–2 1–1 0–0 1–6 1–4 0–2 1–2
Tavagnacco 3–1 1–1 5–0 5–1 3–0 4–0 2–0 4–0 4–0 6–1 2–0 5–1 5–2
Torres 0–1 4–1 1–1 3–0 2–0 11–0 8–0 2–2 3–0 3–1 0–0 3–0 1–0
Torino 0–1 0–3 0–3 2–0 4–4 2–1 2–0 1–0 3–2 5–1 0–2 0–3 2–1
Venezia 1984 0–1 1–5 3–3 1–1 0–2 0–3 1–1 1–6 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–3 3–2
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers
RankPlayerTeamGoals
1 Italy Patrizia PanicoTorres29
2 Brazil DayaneBardolino24
3 Italy Daniela SabatinoBrescia22
4 Italy Melania GabbiadiniBardolino17
5 Italy Paola BrumanaTavagnacco16
6 Italy Simona SodiniTorino15
7 Italy Valentina BoniBrescia14
+ Italy Silvia FuselliTorres14
9 Italy Penelope RiboldiTavagnacco13
+ Italy Sandy IannellaTorres13

References
  1. Results and table Archived April 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine in soccerway.com
  2. Serie A 2012/13: Venezia renounces, Lazio is reinstated! Here's the final list. ACF Brescia Femminile's website, 10 August 2012
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