1948–49 Serie A

Serie A
Season	1948–49
Champions	Torino; 6th title
Relegated	Modena; Livorno
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,110 (2.92 per match)
Top goalscorer	István Nyers; (26 goals)
	← 1947–48 1949–50 →

The 1948-49 Serie A was the forty-seventh edition of the Italian Football Championship. It was the sixteenth Italian Football Championship branded Serie A, since Serie A was launched in 1929. This was the twenty-third season from which the Italian Football Champions adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a Scudetto.

At the request of rival teams Torino were declared champions on 6 May 1949, two days after the Superga air disaster killed their entire first team squad.^[1] At the time of the declaration, Torino led the runner-up Internazionale by four points with four matches remaining.^[2] Torino's remaining four matches were played by their reserve team, finishing the league five points ahead of the runner up. Torino were thus champions for the sixth time in their history. This was their sixth scudetto since the scudetto started being awarded in 1924 and their fourth win contested as Serie A. This was their last of five consecutive Italian Football Championship wins, punctuated by a two-year break due to World War II.

Teams

Novara for Northern Italy, Padova for Central Italy and Palermo for Southern Italy had been promoted from Serie B.

Serie A 1948-49 team distribution

Events

Following the restoration of ordinary Serie B championship, the FIGC decided to come back to two relegations only from Serie A.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Torino (C)	38	25	10	3	78	34	+44	60	1949 Latin Cup
2	Internazionale	38	22	11	5	85	39	+46	55
3	Milan	38	21	8	9	83	52	+31	50
4	Juventus	38	18	8	12	64	47	+17	44
5	Sampdoria	38	16	9	13	74	63	+11	41
5	Bologna	38	11	18	9	53	46	+7	40
7	Genoa	38	14	12	12	51	51	0	40
8	Lucchese	38	14	10	14	55	55	0	38
8	Triestina	38	13	12	13	59	59	0	38
8	Fiorentina	38	15	8	15	51	60	−9	38
11	Palermo	38	14	8	16	57	58	−1	36
11	Padova	38	12	12	14	45	64	−19	36
13	Lazio	38	11	12	15	60	62	−2	34
14	Roma	38	12	8	18	47	57	−10	32
15	Novara	38	12	7	19	52	74	−22	31
15	Atalanta	38	11	9	18	40	58	−18	31
17	Pro Patria	38	11	8	19	51	61	−10	30
17	Bari	38	10	10	18	30	50	−20	30
19	Modena (R)	38	9	11	18	36	49	−13	29	Relegation to Serie B
20	Livorno (R)	38	9	8	21	39	71	−32	26	Relegation to Serie B

Source: Panini
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Note: Goal Difference did not come into effect until the 1960s.

Results

Home \ Away	ATA	BAR	BOL	FIO	GEN	INT	JUV	LAZ	LIV	LUC	MIL	MOD	NOV	PAD	PAL	PPA	ROM	SAM	TOR	TRI
Atalanta		0–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	2–4	1–1	4–2	2–2	1–1	2–0	3–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	3–0	1–5	3–2	0–1
Bari	0–2		3–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	0–2	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–4	1–2	1–1	1–1
Bologna	1–1	1–0		0–0	2–2	1–3	3–0	2–0	6–2	4–1	3–1	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–2	2–2	1–1
Fiorentina	2–0	0–2	1–0		2–1	0–2	0–0	4–0	3–2	1–0	4–2	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–3	3–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	5–3
Genoa	2–0	2–1	0–0	4–2		4–1	2–1	1–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–4	7–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	3–0	5–1
Internazionale	4–0	9–1	2–2	7–1	2–1		1–1	1–0	3–1	4–0	4–4	2–0	5–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	4–2	0–0	1–1
Juventus	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–1	0–1		4–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–1	4–1	6–1	3–2	4–3	0–0	5–1	1–2	2–0
Lazio	1–1	1–1	8–2	2–1	5–1	2–2	0–4		2–0	2–1	2–3	5–1	2–1	1–1	5–1	2–5	0–0	2–0	2–2	4–0
Livorno	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–2	1–3	1–1		0–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–2	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–2	1–0
Lucchese	0–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	0–1		2–2	1–0	5–1	4–0	6–2	1–0	5–1	3–1	1–1	3–1
Milan	3–0	4–1	2–2	3–1	2–2	0–2	1–1	3–0	2–0	4–0		5–1	4–1	2–0	2–1	3–2	3–0	3–2	1–0	3–1
Modena	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–3	2–2	2–0	0–0	4–0	0–0		1–1	0–2	4–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	0–2
Novara	2–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	3–1	5–2	1–2	2–1		2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–3	0–2	3–0
Padova	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–3	3–0	2–0	2–1	0–1	1–4	0–0	3–2		3–3	1–1	2–0	1–3	4–4	0–0
Palermo	1–2	3–0	0–0	0–2	3–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	4–2	1–3	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–0		3–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	4–0
Pro Patria	0–0	0–1	0–3	2–4	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–2	3–2	2–0	5–0	3–0	1–0		1–1	1–4	0–1	3–1
Roma	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	4–0	3–0	1–2	2–1	4–1	0–2	3–2	3–1		2–4	1–2	4–2
Sampdoria	4–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	5–1	0–4	2–0	2–2	3–0	5–0	2–1	1–1	1–3	0–0	2–2	4–4	2–0		2–3	1–1
Torino	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	4–0	4–2	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	4–1	3–1	4–0	3–1	3–0	4–1	4–0	2–1		1–1
Triestina	1–1	2–0	1–1	4–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	4–1	5–4	1–0	1–3	1–2	1–1	9–1	3–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	1–1

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	István Nyers	Internazionale	26
2	Amedeo Amadei	Internazionale	22
3	István Mike Mayer	Bologna	20
4	Carlo Stradella	Livorno	19
5	Riccardo Carapellese	Milan	17
6	Valentino Mazzola	Torino	16
6	Gunnar Nordahl	Milan	16
8	Giuseppe Baldini	Sampdoria	15
	Renato Gei	Sampdoria
	Giampiero Boniperti	Juventus
	John Hansen	Juventus
	Bruno Ispiro	Triestina
	Ugo Conti	Lucchese
14	Silvio Piola	Novara	14
14	Adriano Bassetto	Sampdoria	14

References

Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

^ Patrick Jennings (8 January 2019). "The plane crash that killed Serie A's champions and their English coach". BBC Sport.
^ [1] - All results on RSSSF Website.>

External links

[2] - All results on RSSSF Website.

[BBC-1] Patrick Jennings (8 January 2019). "The plane crash that killed Serie A's champions and their English coach". BBC Sport.

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Serie A seasons
Prima Categoria	1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 FIGC
Prima Divisione	1921–22 CCI 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26
Divisione Nazionale	1926–27 1927–28 1928–29
Serie A	1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43
Divisione Nazionale	1943–44 1944–45 1945–46
Serie A	1946–47 1947–48 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26
Wartime tournaments: 1916 Coppa Federale 1944 Alta Italia

1948–49 in European football
Domestic leagues	Albania '48 '49 Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '48 '49 Finland '48 '49 France Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany West Germany (Finals) Greece Hungary Iceland '48 '49 Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland '48 '49 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '48 '49 Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey (Football Championship '49) Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania '48 '49 Austria Bulgaria '48 '49 Cyprus England France Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany '49 Greece Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '48 '49 Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '48 '49 Spain Sweden '48 '49 Switzerland Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	Scotland