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The 2024–25 Serie A (known as the Serie A Enilive and Serie A Made in Italy for sponsorship reasons domestically and abroad, respectively) is the 123rd season of top-tier Italian football, the 93rd in a round-robin tournament, and the 15th since its organization under an own league committee, the Lega Serie A.
Serie A, as it is structured today, began during the 1929–30 season.From 1898 to 1922, the competition was organised into regional groups. Because of ever growing teams attending regional championships, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) split the CCI (Italian Football Confederation) in 1921, which founded in Milan the Lega Nord (Northern Football League), ancestor of present-day Lega ...
In 1929 Divisione Nazionale (two groups of 16 teams each) split into two Championships: Divisione Nazionale Serie A (the new Top Division) and Divisione Nazionale Serie B (the new second level of Italian Football). [16] [17] The 1929–30 season was the inaugural Serie A season and was won by Internazionale (called Ambrosiana at the time).
It was founded on 1 July 2010. In the past the television rights of the Serie A clubs were sold separately, and "Serie A" had to financially support Serie B through divided part of the Serie A TV revenues to Serie B clubs. On 30 April 2009, Serie A announced a split from Serie B, when nineteen of the twenty clubs voted in favour of the move.
In March 2009, the Cartapiù pay-per-view closed its doors to make way for Dahlia TV, which continued its activities. In the final part of the 2008–2009 season, the new platform continued to broadcast the Serie A matches of 9 teams, 5 of which were full-house, while Mediaset Premium maintained the remaining 11 teams, 6 of which were full-house.
The 2020–21 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 119th season of top-tier Italian football, the 89th in a round-robin tournament, and the 11th since its organization under an own league committee, the Lega Serie A.
Gunnar Nordahl scored a record seventeen Serie A hat-tricks, all of them for Milan. Giuseppe Meazza scored fifteen Serie A hat-tricks, all of them for Internazionale.. Since the inception of the Italian football league competition, the Serie A, [a] in 1929, more than 250 players have scored three goals (a hat-trick) or more in a single match.
Since the inception of the Serie A, Italy's highest level of association football annual league tournament, 84 football stadiums have been used to host matches. The inaugural round of Serie A matches took place on 6 October 1929 with 18 clubs hosting the opening fixtures.