Please note: there is a more recent map-and-post on Italian 1st division football, here- category: Italy.
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Italian football has been played in an organized form since 1898. But for the first three decades, it was within regional leagues. The Serie A was created in 1929, and unified the regional leagues.
[The "consecutive seasons" category, on this map, goes back to the 1929-30 season.]
Click here, for the official website of professional Italian football (lega-calcio[dot]it).
Click here, for Wikipedia’s entry on the Serie A.
This map shows all the clubs in the 2007-08 Season of the Serie A. One new addition to my zoom map format is the inclusion of away kits.
Inter (ie., “Inter Milan”) are on their way to their second straight Title (third straight, if you count the title that was stripped from Juventus for referee-tampering, and awarded to Inter, for the 2005-’06 season {see this}). Inter had a slip, though, losing their first league game last Sunday, at Napoli, 1-0. Second place Roma gained ground, after thrashing Parma 4-0, but are still 6 points behind Inter.
The battle for Champions League spots is going to go down to the wire (4 Champions League places are awarded to Italy: the first 2 places in Serie A advance to the CL Group Stage, while 3rd and 4th places go into the 3rd Round CL Qualifiers). Basically, 3 clubs will be fighting for the last 2 spots. Juventus holds 3rd place by 1 point over 4th place Fiorentina, who have just increased their lead over 5th place AC Milan to 4 points. It looks like AC Milan is faltering, with 4 draws in their last 5 games (plus being eliminated from the Champions League by Arsenal, on Tuesday): expect wholesale changes in the off-season, if the Milanese giants fail to make it to the Champions League (which they won last year). Fiorentina is a welcome surprise. The Florentine club has been playing an exciting brand of football, and last weekend stunned Juve by coming back from a 2-1 deficit, to win 2-3.
Italy’s domestic league is currently ranked #3 for European competitions, by UEFA, behind #1 Spain, and #2 England. Like Spain and England, Italy currently has 4 Champions League spots, and 3 UEFA Cup spots {see this}.
Click here, for the Serie A Table.
Thanks to (http://www.colours-of-football.com) for the kits.
