2011–12 Serie A
The 2011–12 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM after its headline sponsors) was the 110th season of top-tier Italian football, the 80th in a round-robin tournament, and the second since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. It began on 3 September 2011 and ended on 13 May 2012.[4] The league was originally scheduled to start on 27 August, but this was delayed due to a strike by the players.[5] The fixtures were drawn up on 27 July 2011.
Season | 2011–12 |
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Dates | 9 September 2011 – 13 May 2012 |
Champions | Juventus 28th title |
Relegated | Lecce (to C1) Novara Cesena |
Champions League | Juventus Milan Udinese |
Europa League | Lazio Napoli Internazionale |
Matches played | 380 |
Goals scored | 972 (2.56 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Zlatan Ibrahimović (28 goals) |
Biggest home win | Napoli 6–1 Genoa (21 December 2011) Internazionale 5–0 Parma (7 January 2012) |
Biggest away win | Fiorentina 0–5 Juventus (17 March 2012) |
Highest scoring | Napoli 6–3 Cagliari (9 March 2012) Internazionale 5–4 Genoa (1 April 2012) |
Longest winning run | 8 games Juventus[1] |
Longest unbeaten run | 38 games Juventus[1] |
Longest winless run | 20 games Cesena[2] |
Longest losing run | 5 games Cesena[2] |
Highest attendance | 79,522[3] Milan 0–1 Internazionale |
Lowest attendance | 5,962[3] Lecce 0–0 Bologna |
Average attendance | 23,214[3] |
← 2010–11 2012–13 → |
The league title was won by Juventus, winning its 28th official Serie A title or scudetto, and first since the 2002–03 Serie A. The team completed the season undefeated, becoming the first team to do so in a 38-game league season in Italy; Perugia were undefeated in the 30-game 1978–79 Serie A, in which they finished second in the table, while Milan were unbeaten and won the title in the 34-game 1991–92 Serie A.[6]
Since Italy dropped from third to fourth place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2010–11 season,[7][8][9] the league lost a group stage berth for the UEFA Champions League from the 2012–13 season.
Rule changes
The rules for the registration of non-EU (or non-EFTA or Swiss) nationals transferred from abroad were revised in the summer of 2011. Clubs could now sign two non-EU players. This was a reverse of the decision made the previous summer in the wake of Italy's failure at the 2010 World Cup that limited clubs to the signing of just one such player.
Teams
Stadia and locations
Personnel and sponsorship
Managerial changes
In Italy, football managers are only permitted to manage one club per season.[10] For this purpose, the "season" is defined as starting when its first match kicks off, so Roberto Donadoni and Stefano Pioli, who lost their job at Cagliari and Palermo on 12 and 31 August 2011 were able to take respectively the Parma job in January 2012 and the Bologna job in October 2011 because the first matches were not until 9 September 2011.
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
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Lecce | Luigi De Canio | End of contract | 19 May 2011[11] | Preseason | Eusebio Di Francesco | 27 June 2011[12] |
Cesena | Massimo Ficcadenti | End of contract | 20 May 2011[13] | Marco Giampaolo | 4 June 2011[14] | |
Bologna | Alberto Malesani | End of contract | 26 May 2011 | Pierpaolo Bisoli | 26 May 2011[15] | |
Chievo | Stefano Pioli | End of contract | 26 May 2011[16] | Domenico Di Carlo | 9 June 2011[17] | |
Juventus | Luigi Delneri | Sacked | 31 May 2011[18] | Antonio Conte | 31 May 2011[19] | |
Siena | Antonio Conte | Mutual consent | 31 May 2011[20] | Giuseppe Sannino | 6 June 2011[21] | |
Palermo | Delio Rossi | Mutual consent | 1 June 2011[22] | Stefano Pioli | 2 June 2011[23] | |
Catania | Diego Simeone | Mutual consent | 1 June 2011[24] | Vincenzo Montella | 9 June 2011[25] | |
Genoa | Davide Ballardini | Sacked | 4 June 2011[26] | Alberto Malesani | 19 June 2011[27] | |
Roma | Vincenzo Montella | End of caretaker spell | 9 June 2011 | Luis Enrique | 10 June 2011[28][29] | |
Internazionale | Leonardo | Resigned | 15 June 2011[30] | Gian Piero Gasperini | 24 June 2011[31] | |
Cagliari | Roberto Donadoni | Sacked | 12 August 2011[32] | Massimo Ficcadenti | 16 August 2011[33] | |
Palermo | Stefano Pioli | Sacked | 31 August 2011[34] | Devis Mangia | 31 August 2011[34] | |
Internazionale | Gian Piero Gasperini | Sacked | 21 September 2011[35] | 18th | Claudio Ranieri | 21 September 2011[36] |
Bologna | Pierpaolo Bisoli | Sacked | 4 October 2011[37] | 20th | Stefano Pioli | 4 October 2011[37] |
Cesena | Marco Giampaolo | Sacked | 30 October 2011[38] | 20th | Daniele Arrigoni | 1 November 2011[39] |
Fiorentina | Siniša Mihajlović | Sacked | 7 November 2011 | 13th | Delio Rossi | 7 November 2011[40] |
Cagliari | Massimo Ficcadenti | Sacked | 8 November 2011[41] | 10th | Davide Ballardini | 9 November 2011[42] |
Lecce | Eusebio Di Francesco | Sacked | 4 December 2011[43] | 20th | Serse Cosmi | 4 December 2011[43] |
Palermo | Devis Mangia | Sacked | 19 December 2011[44] | 10th | Bortolo Mutti | 19 December 2011[45] |
Genoa | Alberto Malesani | Sacked | 22 December 2011[46] | 10th | Pasquale Marino | 22 December 2011[47] |
Parma | Franco Colomba | Sacked | 9 January 2012[48] | 15th | Roberto Donadoni | 9 January 2012[48] |
Novara | Attilio Tesser | Sacked | 30 January 2012[49] | 20th | Emiliano Mondonico | 30 January 2012[49] |
Cesena | Daniele Arrigoni | Mutual consent | 20 February 2012[50] | 20th | Mario Beretta | 21 February 2012[51] |
Novara | Emiliano Mondonico | Sacked | 6 March 2012[52] | 19th | Attilio Tesser | 6 March 2012[52] |
Cagliari | Davide Ballardini | Sacked for just cause | 11 March 2012[53] | 17th | Massimo Ficcadenti | 11 March 2012[53] |
Internazionale | Claudio Ranieri | Consensual termination | 26 March 2012[54] | 8th | Andrea Stramaccioni | 26 March 2012[54] |
Genoa | Pasquale Marino | Sacked | 2 April 2012[55] | 16th | Alberto Malesani | 2 April 2012[55] |
Genoa | Alberto Malesani | Sacked | 22 April 2012[56] | 17th | Luigi De Canio | 22 April 2012[56] |
Fiorentina | Delio Rossi | Sacked | 2 May 2012[57] | 16th | Vincenzo Guerini (caretaker) | 3 May 2012[58] |
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Juventus (C) | 38 | 23 | 15 | 0 | 68 | 20 | +48 | 84 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
2 | Milan | 38 | 24 | 8 | 6 | 74 | 33 | +41 | 80 | |
3 | Udinese | 38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 52 | 35 | +17 | 64 | Qualification to Champions League play-off round |
4 | Lazio | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 56 | 47 | +9 | 62 | Qualification to Europa League play-off round |
5 | Napoli | 38 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 66 | 46 | +20 | 61 | Qualification to Europa League group stage[lower-alpha 1] |
6 | Internazionale | 38 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 58 | 55 | +3 | 58 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round[lower-alpha 1] |
7 | Roma | 38 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 60 | 54 | +6 | 56[lower-alpha 2] | |
8 | Parma | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 54 | 53 | +1 | 56[lower-alpha 2] | |
9 | Bologna | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 41 | 43 | −2 | 51 | |
10 | Chievo | 38 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 35 | 45 | −10 | 49 | |
11 | Catania | 38 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 47 | 52 | −5 | 48 | |
12 | Atalanta[lower-alpha 3] | 38 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 41 | 43 | −2 | 46[lower-alpha 4] | |
13 | Fiorentina | 38 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 37 | 43 | −6 | 46[lower-alpha 4] | |
14 | Siena | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 45 | 45 | 0 | 44 | |
15 | Cagliari | 38 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 37 | 46 | −9 | 43[lower-alpha 5] | |
16 | Palermo | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 52 | 62 | −10 | 43[lower-alpha 5] | |
17 | Genoa | 38 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 50 | 69 | −19 | 42 | |
18 | Lecce (R, D, R) | 38 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 40 | 56 | −16 | 36 | Relegation to Serie C1[lower-alpha 6] |
19 | Novara (R) | 38 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 35 | 65 | −30 | 32 | Relegation to Serie B |
20 | Cesena (R) | 38 | 4 | 10 | 24 | 24 | 60 | −36 | 22 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (R) Relegated
Notes:
- Napoli qualified to the group stage of the Europa League as winner of the 2011–12 Coppa Italia. As they finished fifth, the sixth-placed team of the league also qualified for the Europa League.
- Roma finished ahead of Parma on head–to–head away goals scored: Parma 0–1 Roma, Roma 1–0 Parma.
- Atalanta were deducted 6 points due to involvement in the 2011–12 Italian football scandal.[59][60]
- Atalanta finished ahead of Fiorentina on head–to–head away goals scored: Atalanta 2–0 Fiorentina, Fiorentina 2–2 Atalanta.
- Cagliari finished ahead of Palermo on goal difference : Cagliari 2–1 Palermo, Palermo 3–2 Cagliari; Cagliari = –9, Palermo = –10.
- Lecce were originally relegated to Serie B, but further relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione due to involvement in the 2011–12 Italian football scandal.
Results
Statistics
Top goalscorers
Hat-tricks
References
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