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Serie A: Dates, teams, venues, history & more

Serie A is the top professional league within the Italian football pyramid and is considered one of Europe's leading five leagues.

Alongside the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga and Ligue 1, Serie A is known worldwide as one of the most competitive leagues and is often described as the most tactical of the continent's elite domestic competitions.

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Serie A 2024/25 dates

The 2024/25 Serie A season is scheduled to get underway on Saturday 17th August 2024 and finish on Sunday 25th May 2025.

In common with most domestic top-flight leagues across the continent, games predominantly occur at the weekend, with the majority of Serie A's matches taking place on a Sunday.

With several Italian clubs playing in the European competitions, there are also occasional midweek fixture programmes throughout the campaign.

Serie A teams

Serie A is the men's top professional football division in Italy and is contested by 20 teams.

Last season, Frosinone, Sassuolo and Salernitana were relegated from Serie A and their places in the top-flight have been taken by Parma, Como and Venezia who were promoted from Serie B.

Inter Milan won the 2023/24 Serie A title by 19 points with AC Milan, Juventus, Atalanta and Bologna making up the top five, with those teams qualifying for the Champions League.

Roma and Lazio finished sixth and seventh respectively to secure Europa League places, while Fiorentina claimed a Europa Conference League berth courtesy of their eighth-place finish.

  • AC Milan
  • Atalanta
  • Bologna
  • Cagliari
  • Como
  • Empoli
  • Fiorentina
  • Genoa
  • Hellas Verona
  • Inter Milan
  • Juventus
  • Lazio
  • Lecce
  • Monza
  • Napoli
  • Parma
  • Roma
  • Torino
  • Udinese
  • Venezia

Serie A venues/stadiums

Serie A follows the usual double round-robin format, meaning each club plays every other club twice throughout the campaign, once at home and once away, for 38 matches.

Here is the list of stadiums that will be used in Serie A for the 2024/25 season.

AC Milan

San Siro

Atalanta

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia

Bologna

Stadio Renato Dall’Ara

Cagliari

Stadio Unipol Domus

Como

Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia

Empoli

Stadio Carlo Castellani

Fiorentina

Stadio Artemio Franchi

Genoa

Stadio Luigi Ferraris

Hellas Verona

Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi

Inter Milan

Stadio Giuseppe Meazza

Juventus

Juventus Stadium

Lazio

Stadio Olimpico

Lecce

Stadio Ettore Giariniero - Via del mare

Monza

Stadio Brianteo

Napoli

Stadio Diego Armando Maradona

Parma

Stadio Ennio Tardini

Roma

Stadio Olimpico

Torino

Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino

Udinese

Stadio Friuli

Venezia

Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo

Serie A 2024/25 How to watch

Serie A can be viewed as part of bet365's European Soccer Live Streaming service, while TNT Sports also broadcast select fixtures live in the UK.

Serie A history

Serie A was launched as it is now structured for the 1929/30 campaign after organisers abandoned the regional championships.

Since 1923/24, the championship title has been referred to as Lo Scudetto, which is the Italian word for small shield. The winning team then wears a small coat of arms with the Italian tricolour on their jersey in the following campaign.

For most of Serie A's history, there were 16 or 18 clubs, but since the 2004/05 campaign, the division has been made up of 20 clubs in total.

Since the 1994/95 campaign, teams are awarded three points for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss, but before this, teams were only given two points for a victory.

At the end of the campaign, the three lowest-placed teams are relegated to Serie B, with three then replacing them from the second tier.

Following the 2023/24 season, a total of eight Italian sides have gained qualification for European competition.

The top five will play in the Champions League after Atalanta won the Europa League, with Gian Piero Gasperini's side joined by Italian champions Inter Milan, AC Milan, Juventus and Bologna.

Roma and Lazio will both compete in the Europa League after finishing sixth and seventh in Serie A respectively, whilst Fiorentina will participate in the Europa Conference League.

Serie A previous winners

Juventus are the most successful team in Serie A history, having won the Scudetto 36 times. They have finished as runners-up on 21 occasions and dominated the division for nearly a decade between 2012 and 2020.

The Turin giants won the title nine seasons in a row before Inter Milan ended their run in 2020/21. Inter's Scudetto win in 2023/24 took their tally to 20, with neighbours Milan one behind them on 19.

Surprisingly, Genoa are the fourth most successful club in Serie A history, although they have not lifted the trophy since the 1923/24 season.

Napoli claimed their third Scudetto in 2022/23, having previously won the league in 1986/87 and 1989/90, and they will be hoping to build on that success.

The following teams have won Serie A across the past 10 seasons:

Season

Serie A winners

2023/24

Inter Milan

2022/23

Napoli

2021/22

AC Milan

2020/21

Inter Milan

2019/20

Juventus

2018/19

Juventus

2017/18

Juventus

2016/17

Juventus

2015/16

Juventus

2014/15

Juventus

Serie A favourites

Inter stormed to Serie A success in the 2023/24 season, finishing 19 points clear of the rest while boasting both the best scoring and defensive records in the division, and they fancied to defend their crown.

Juventus, who finished third last season, are second favourites at 4/1 to win their first title since 2017/18, but will be under new management with Thiago Motta now at the helm, having guided Bologna to fifth place last term.

Milan have also taken a new path with Paulo Fonseca replacing Stefano Pioli in the dugout with the Rossoneri looking to go one better than last season, while 2022/23 champions Napoli are hoping to bounce back from last season's disappointing mid-table finish.

Any odds displayed were correct at the time of writing and are subject to fluctuation.

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