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Serie A
Season	2008–09
Champions	Internazionale
Relegated	Torino; Reggina; Lecce
UEFA Champions League	Internazionale; Juventus; Milan; (Group stages); Fiorentina; (Play-off round)
UEFA Europa League	Genoa; Lazio; (Play-off round); Roma; (3rd qualifying round)
Goals scored	988
Average goals/game	2.6
Top goalscorer	Zlatan Ibrahimović; (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Sampdoria 5–0 Reggina
Biggest away win	Roma 0–4 Inter,; Siena 1–5 Milan,; Palermo 0–4 Catania
Highest scoring	Udinese 6–2 Cagliari
Average attendance	25,324
	← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the seventy-seventh season since its establishment. It began on 30 August 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009, with the announcement of the list of fixtures made on 25 July 2008. 20 teams competed in the league, 17 of which returned from the previous season, and three (Chievo, Bologna and Lecce) were promoted from Serie B 2007–08.

20 clubs represented 13 different regions. The most represented region was Lombardy with three teams: Atalanta, Milan and Internazionale. Piedmont, Liguria, Tuscany, Lazio and Sicily featured two teams each while Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Campania, Apulia, Calabria, and Sardinia were represented by one team each. There was a record number of southern teams in the top division with six teams: Cagliari, Catania, Lecce, Napoli, Palermo, and Reggina.

The new match ball was the Nike T90 Omni.

On 16 May 2009, Internazionale won the league by holding an unassailable lead after Milan's loss away to Udinese.

[edit] Teams

Three teams were promoted from Serie B: Chievo, Bologna, and Lecce. The first two earned direct promotion, while Lecce won the promotional playoffs, defeating AlbinoLeffe 2–1 on aggregate in a two-legged playoff final.

Locations of Serie A 2008–09 teams

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2007–08 season
Atalanta B.C.	Bergamo	Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia	26,393	9th in Serie A
Bologna F.C. 1909	Bologna	Stadio Renato Dall'Ara	39,444	2nd in Serie B
Cagliari Calcio	Cagliari	Stadio Sant'Elia	23,486	14th in Serie A
Calcio Catania	Catania	Stadio Angelo Massimino	23,420	17th in Serie A
A.C. ChievoVerona	Verona	Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi	39,211	Serie B Champions
ACF Fiorentina	Florence	Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence	47,282	4th in Serie A
Genoa C.F.C.	Genoa	Stadio Luigi Ferraris	36,685	10th in Serie A
F.C. Internazionale Milano	Milan	Stadio Giuseppe Meazza	80,074	Serie A Champions
Juventus F.C.	Turin	Stadio Olimpico di Torino	27,500	3rd in Serie A
S.S. Lazio	Rome	Stadio Olimpico	72,700	12th in Serie A
U.S. Lecce	Lecce	Stadio Via del Mare	33,876	Serie B Playoff Winners
A.C. Milan	Milan	Stadio Giuseppe Meazza	80,074	5th in Serie A
S.S.C. Napoli	Naples	Stadio San Paolo	60,240	8th in Serie A
U.S. Città di Palermo	Palermo	Stadio Renzo Barbera	37,242	11th in Serie A
Reggina Calcio	Reggio Calabria	Stadio Oreste Granillo	27,454	16th in Serie A
A.S. Roma	Rome	Stadio Olimpico	72,700	2nd in Serie A
U.C. Sampdoria	Genoa	Stadio Luigi Ferraris	36,685	6th in Serie A
A.C. Siena	Siena	Stadio Artemio Franchi, Siena	15,373	13th in Serie A
Torino F.C.	Turin	Stadio Olimpico di Torino	27,500	15th in Serie A
Udinese Calcio	Udine	Stadio Friuli	41,652	7th in Serie A

[edit] League table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Internazionale (C)	38	25	9	4	70	32	+38	84	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Juventus	38	21	11	6	69	37	+32	74		JUV 4–2 MIL MIL 1–1 JUV
3	Milan	38	22	8	8	70	35	+35	74		JUV 4–2 MIL MIL 1–1 JUV
4	Fiorentina	38	21	5	12	53	38	+15	68	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Play-off round	FIO 1–0 GEN GEN 3–3 FIO
5	Genoa	38	19	11	8	56	39	+17	68	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Play-off round	FIO 1–0 GEN GEN 3–3 FIO
6	Roma	38	18	9	11	64	61	+3	63	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
7	Udinese	38	16	10	12	61	50	+11	58
8	Palermo	38	17	6	15	57	50	+7	57
9	Cagliari	38	15	8	15	49	50	−1	53
10	Lazio	38	15	5	18	46	55	−9	50	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Play-off round ¹
11	Atalanta	38	13	8	17	45	48	−3	47
12	Napoli	38	12	10	16	43	45	−2	46		NAP 2–0 SAM SAM 2–2 NAP
13	Sampdoria	38	11	13	14	49	52	−3	46		NAP 2–0 SAM SAM 2–2 NAP
14	Siena	38	12	8	18	33	44	−11	44
15	Catania	38	12	7	19	41	51	−10	43
16	Chievo	38	8	14	16	35	49	−14	38
17	Bologna	38	9	10	19	43	62	−19	37
18	Torino (R)	38	8	10	20	37	61	−24	34	Relegation to Serie B
19	Reggina (R)	38	6	13	19	30	62	−32	31
20	Lecce (R)	38	5	15	18	37	67	−30	30

Source: lega-calcio.it (Italian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th goal difference; 6th goals scored.
¹Lazio qualified for the play-off round of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League by winning the 2008–09 Coppa Italia.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Head-to-Head: used when two or more teams need the head-to-head rules to break a tie.

[edit] Results

Home \ Away¹	ATA	BOL	CAG	CTN	CHV	FIO	GEN	INT	JUV	LAZ	LCE	MIL	NAP	PAL	REG	ROM	SAM	SIE	TOR	UDI
Atalanta		0–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	1–1	3–1	1–3	2–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	2–2	0–1	3–0	4–2	1–0	2–0	3–0
Bologna	0–1		0–1	3–1	1–1	1–3	2–0	1–2	1–2	3–1	2–1	1–4	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–4	5–2	0–3
Cagliari	0–1	5–1		1–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–4	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0
Catania	1–0	1–2	2–1		1–0	0–2	1–0	0–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–2	3–1	2–0	2–0	3–2	2–0	0–3	3–2	0–2
Chievo	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1		0–2	0–1	2–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–2
Fiorentina	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–1		1–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	0–2	2–1	0–2	3–0	4–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–2
Genoa	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	3–3		0–2	3–2	0–1	4–1	2–0	3–2	1–0	4–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	3–0	2–0
Internazionale	4–3	2–1	1–1	2–1	4–2	2–0	0–0		1–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–2	3–0	3–3	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–0
Juventus	2–2	4–1	2–3	1–1	3–3	1–0	4–1	1–1		2–0	2–2	4–2	1–0	1–2	4–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0
Lazio	0–1	2–0	1–4	1–0	0–3	3–0	1–1	0–3	1–1		1–1	0–3	0–1	1–0	1–0	4–2	2–0	3–0	1–1	1–3
Lecce	2–2	0–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	0–3	1–2	0–2		1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–3	1–3	1–1	3–3	2–2
Milan	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	4–1	2–0		1–0	3–0	1–1	2–3	3–0	2–1	5–1	5–1
Napoli	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	3–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	3–0	0–0		2–1	3–0	0–3	2–0	2–0	1–2	2–2
Palermo	3–2	4–1	5–1	0–4	3–0	1–3	2–1	0–2	0–2	2–0	5–2	3–1	2–1		1–0	3–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	3–2
Reggina	3–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–3	2–2	2–3	2–0	1–2	1–1	0–0		2–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–2
Roma	2–0	2–1	3–2	4–3	0–0	1–0	3–0	0–4	1–4	1–0	3–2	2–2	1–1	2–1	3–0		2–0	1–0	3–2	1–1
Sampdoria	1–0	2–0	3–3	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	3–2	2–1	2–2	0–2	5–0	2–2		2–2	1–0	2–2
Siena	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–3	2–0	1–2	1–5	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0		1–0	1–1
Torino	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–4	2–3	1–3	0–1	1–3	3–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–3	1–0		1–0
Udinese	3–0	1–0	6–2	1–1	0–1	3–1	2–2	0–1	2–1	3–3	2–0	2–1	0–0	3–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	2–1	2–0

Source: lega-calcio.it (Italian)
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

[edit] Top goalscorers

Source: corrieredellosport.it (Italian)

25 goals

Zlatan Ibrahimović (Internazionale)

24 goals

Marco Di Vaio (Bologna)
Diego Milito (Genoa)

19 goals

Alberto Gilardino (Fiorentina)

16 goals

Kaká (Milan)

15 goals

Alexandre Pato (Milan)

14 goals

13 goals

[edit] Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Siena	Mario Beretta^[1]	Contract expired	27 May 2008	Marco Giampaolo^[1]	27 May 2008
Cagliari	Davide Ballardini^[2]	Contract expired	27 May 2008	Massimiliano Allegri^[3]	29 May 2008
Internazionale	Roberto Mancini^[4]	Sacked	29 May 2008	José Mourinho^[5]	2 June 2008
Lecce	Giuseppe Papadopulo^[6]	Contract expired	23 June 2008	Mario Beretta^[6]	23 June 2008
Palermo	Stefano Colantuono^[7]	Sacked	4 September 2008	Davide Ballardini^[7]	4 September 2008
Bologna	Daniele Arrigoni^[8]	Sacked	3 November 2008	Siniša Mihajlović^[8]	3 November 2008
Chievo Verona	Giuseppe Iachini^[9]	Sacked	4 November 2008	Domenico Di Carlo^[9]	4 November 2008
Torino	Gianni De Biasi^[10]	Sacked	8 December 2008	Walter Novellino^[10]	8 December 2008
Reggina	Nevio Orlandi^[11]	Sacked	16 December 2008	Giuseppe Pillon^[12]	16 December 2008
Reggina	Giuseppe Pillon^[13]	Sacked	25 January 2009	Nevio Orlandi^[13]	25 January 2009
Lecce	Mario Beretta^[14]	Sacked	9 March 2009	Luigi De Canio^[15]	9 March 2009
Napoli	Edoardo Reja^[16]	Sacked	10 March 2009	Roberto Donadoni^[16]	10 March 2009
Torino	Walter Novellino^[17]	Sacked	24 March 2009	Giancarlo Camolese^[17]	24 March 2009
Bologna	Siniša Mihajlović^[18]	Sacked	14 April 2009	Giuseppe Papadopulo^[18]	14 April 2009
Juventus	Claudio Ranieri^[19]	Sacked	18 May 2009	Ciro Ferrara ¹ ^[20]	18 May 2009

Note 1: Juventus youth sector chief Ciro Ferrara was originally appointed on a temporary basis for the two final weeks of the season. The appointment was made permanent on June 5, 2009.^[21]

[edit] References

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^ "Ballardini va via" (in Italian). Cagliari Calcio. 27 May 2008. http://www.cagliaricalcio.net/news/notizia.asp?idNotizia=5592&type=0&id_menu=1. Retrieved 27 May 2008.
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^ "Comunicato ufficiale F.C. Internazionale" (in Italian). FC Internazionale Milano. 29 May 2008. http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?N=41413&L=it. Retrieved 29 May 2008.
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