2006–07 Serie A

Serie A

Season	2006–07
Champions	Internazionale 15th title
Relegated	Chievo Ascoli Messina
Champions League	Internazionale Roma Lazio Milan
UEFA Cup	Palermo Fiorentina Empoli
Matches played	380
Goals scored	969 (2.55 per match)
Top goalscorer	Francesco Totti (26)
Highest scoring	Roma 7–0 Catania
Average attendance	19,720
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Serie A 2006-07 teams distribution

The 2006–07 Serie A season (officially "Serie A TIM 2006–2007") began September 10, 2006. It was scheduled to begin on August 26 and 27, but was then postponed due to the 2006 Italian football scandal. It is the 104th Italian championship ever held, the first without the presence of Juventus, and the 75th Serie A league, the first being held in 1929. On April 22, 2007 Internazionale became the Serie A champions after beating Siena, as Roma's loss to Atalanta left Inter with a 16-point advantage with five games to play.

Events

2006 Italian football scandal

Main article: 2006 Italian football scandal

Following the Serie A scandal of 2006, Juventus was relegated to Serie B and deducted 9 points. Fiorentina, Milan and Lazio, were deducted 15, 8 and 3 points respectively but were not relegated, and consequently Lecce, Messina and Treviso, originally slated for relegation to Serie B, were to have been retained in Serie A, thereby keeping the top table at 20 teams.

As part of another inquiry, Reggina was handed a 15-point penalty, but was allowed to remain in Serie A. This penalty was reduced to 11 points on appeal.

League halting of February 2007

Main article: 2007 Catania football violence

On February 2, 2007, police officer Filippo Raciti was killed outside the Stadio Angelo Massimino, Catania, in football-related violence during the Sicilian derby between rivals Catania and Palermo [1]. The match, originally scheduled for February 4 at 3pm, was exceptionally advanced on Friday at 6pm under request of Catania Calcio because of the simultaneity with the St. Agatha local celebrations.

The dramatic Sicilian derby events, which followed the murder of Ermanno Licursi, an amateur club manager, beaten to death during a riot in a Terza Categoria league match, led Commissioner Luca Pancalli to call a stop to all football matches in Italy, including Serie A fixtures. Pancalli noted how the league fixtures would not start again until a solution to the violence issue in Italian football is found. The week after, a special law by the government enforced the measures to be taken against violence in football stadia and forbade the presence of supporters inside stadia which didn't agree with mandatory security dispositions, thus enabling Italian football to go on with half of the matches played without audience.

Following the events, Catania was prohibited to play its home matches at Stadio Angelo Massimino for the remaining part of the season, and the club was also forced to play its home matches in neutral grounds without spectators (a porte chiuse, behind closed doors). Several other Italian stadia were closed too because of security reasons, and reopened only once they would have passed several safety requirements. All stadiums were successfully reopened for April, with Stadio Massimino's exception. Catania's home matches were successively allowed to be attended by spectators, yet on neutral ground, as from May 13.

Dominant Inter

With their victory over Siena on April 22, 2007, Internazionale captured the 2006-07 Serie A title (the 15th Scudetto in the team's history) by moving 16 points clear of second-place Roma with 5 matches to play. Internazionale's dominant effort marked the defense of the title they were awarded in the wake of the Calciopoli scandal, and their first Scudetto claimed on the field since May 28, 1989. Clinching with five matches remaining, Internazionale tied the Serie A record for earliest title claim (along with Torino in the 1948). The team also broke the record for most consecutive wins with a 17 match winning streak.

Relegation battle

With Messina and Ascoli already relegated, there was only one relegation slot left to be decided in the last matchday, with Parma (39 points), Chievo (39), Catania (38), Siena (37) and Reggina (37) involved in the battle. The key match in the relegation battle was widely expected to be Catania vs Chievo, to be played in Bologna because of the forced closure of Stadio Angelo Massimino by the Italian Football Federation following the February 2007 infamous riots in the Sicilian derby. The match ended in a 2-0 win for the Sicilian side; due to the contemporary wins of Parma, Siena and Reggina, Chievo relegated to Serie B.

Team details

Club	City	Stadium	2005/2006 Season	Team season
Ascoli Calcio 1898	Ascoli Piceno	Stadio Cino e Lillo Del Duca	10th in Serie A	Season
Atalanta B.C.	Bergamo	Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia	Serie B Champions	Season
Cagliari Calcio	Cagliari	Stadio Sant'Elia	14th in Serie A	Season
Calcio Catania	Catania	Stadio Angelo Massimino	Serie B Runners-up	Season
A.C. ChievoVerona	Verona	Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi	4th in Serie A	Season
Empoli F.C.	Empoli	Stadio Carlo Castellani	7th in Serie A	Season
ACF Fiorentina	Florence	Stadio Artemio Franchi (Il Comunale)	9th in Serie A	Season
F.C. Internazionale Milano	Milan	Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro)	Serie A Champions	Season
S.S. Lazio	Rome	Stadio Olimpico	16th in Serie A	Season
A.S. Livorno Calcio	Livorno	Stadio Armando Picchi	6th in Serie A	Season
F.C. Messina Peloro	Messina	Stadio San Filippo	17th in Serie A	Season
A.C. Milan	Milan	Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro)	3rd in Serie A	Season
U.S. Città di Palermo	Palermo	Stadio Renzo Barbera (La Favorita)	5th in Serie A	Season
Parma F.C.	Parma	Stadio Ennio Tardini	8th in Serie A	Season
Reggina Calcio	Reggio Calabria	Stadio Oreste Granillo	13th in Serie A	Season
A.S. Roma	Rome	Stadio Olimpico	2nd in Serie A	Season
U.C. Sampdoria	Genoa	Stadio Luigi Ferraris (Marassi)	12th in Serie A	Season
A.C. Siena	Siena	Stadio Artemio Franchi	15th in Serie A	Season
Torino F.C.	Turin	Stadio Olimpico di Torino (Stadio Comunale)	Serie B Playoff Winners	Season
Udinese Calcio	Udine	Stadio Friuli	11th in Serie A	Season

Personnels and Sponsoring

Team	Head Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Ascoli	Marco Giampaolo	Legea	Pompea
Atalanta	Stefano Colantuono	Asics	Sit in Sports
Cagliari	Franco Colomba Marco Giampaolo	Asics	Tiscali
Catania	Pasquale Marino	Legea	Sp Energia Siciliana
Chievo	Giuseppe Pillon	Lotto	Banca Popolare di Verona Ferroli
Empoli	Luigi Cagni	Asics	Frutta Computer Gross
Fiorentina	Cesare Prandelli	Lotto	Toyota
Inter	Roberto Mancini	Nike	Pirelli
Lazio	Delio Rossi	Puma	INA Assitalia
Livorno	Daniele Arrigoni Fernando Orsi	Legea	Banca Carige
Milan	Carlo Ancelotti	Adidas	bwin
Messina	Alberto Cavasin	Legea	Caffe Miscela D'Oro
Parma	Claudio Ranieri Stefano Pioli	Erreà	None
Palermo	Francesco Guidolin	Lotto	None
Reggina	Walter Mazzarri	Onze	Gicos
Roma	Luciano Spalletti	Diadora	None
Sampdoria	Walter Novellino	Kappa	Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone
Siena	Mario Beretta	Legea	Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
Torino	Alberto Zaccheroni Gianni De Biasi	Asics	Reale Mutua Assicurazioni, Beretta
Udinese	Alberto Malesani	Lotto	Gaudi

League table

2006–07 Serie A Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Internazionale (C)	38	30	7	1	80	34	+46	97	2007–08 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Roma	38	22	9	7	74	34	+40	75
3	Lazio	38	18	11	9	59	33	+26	0621	2007–08 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4	Milan	38	19	12	7	57	36	+21	0611	2007–08 UEFA Champions League Group stage
5	Palermo	38	16	10	12	58	51	+7	58	2007–08 UEFA Cup First round
6	Fiorentina	38	21	10	7	62	31	+31	0581
7	Empoli	38	14	12	12	42	43	−1	54
8	Atalanta	38	12	14	12	56	54	+2	50
9	Sampdoria	38	13	10	15	44	48	−4	49	2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
10	Udinese	38	12	10	16	49	55	−6	46
11	Livorno	38	10	13	15	41	54	−13	43
12	Parma	38	10	12	16	41	56	−15	42
13	Catania	38	10	11	17	46	68	−22	41
14	Reggina	38	12	15	11	52	50	+2	0401
15	Siena	38	9	14	15	35	45	−10	0401
16	Torino	38	10	10	18	27	47	−20	40
17	Cagliari	38	9	13	16	35	46	−11	40
18	Chievo (R)	38	9	12	17	38	48	−10	39	Relegation to Template:Fb competition 2007–08 Serie B
19	Ascoli (R)	38	5	12	21	36	67	−31	27
20	Messina (R)	38	5	11	22	37	69	−32	26

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
¹Fiorentina were docked 15 points, Reggina 11 points, Milan 8 points, Lazio 3 points and Siena 1 point, all for involvement in the 2006 Italian football scandal.

Top goalscorers

26 goals

• Francesco Totti (Roma)

20 goals

• Cristiano Lucarelli (Livorno)

19 goals

• Christian Riganò (Messina)

18 goals

• Rolando Bianchi (Reggina)

17 goals

• Nicola Amoruso (Reggina)
• Gionatha Spinesi (Catania)

16 goals

• Adrian Mutu (Fiorentina)
• Tommaso Rocchi (Lazio)
• Luca Toni (Fiorentina)

15 goals

• Zlatan Ibrahimović (Internazionale)

Results

Home ╲ Away

ASC

ATA

CAG

CTN

CHV

EMP

FIO

INT

LAZ

LIV

MES

MIL

PAL

PAR

REG

ROM

SAM

SIE

TOR

UDI

Ascoli

1–3

2–1

2–2

3–0

0–1

1–1

1–2

2–2

0–2

1–1

2–5

3–2

0–0

2–3

1–1

1–1

0–1

0–2

2–2

Atalanta

3–1

3–3

1–1

1–0

0–0

2–2

1–1

0–0

5–1

3–2

2–0

1–1

1–1

1–1

2–1

3–2

3–1

1–2

1–2

Cagliari

1–0

2–0

0–1

0–2

0–0

0–2

1–1

0–2

2–2

2–0

2–2

1–0

0–0

0–2

3–2

1–0

2–2

0–0

2–1

Catania

3–3

0–0

0–1

2–0

2–1

0–1

2–5

3–1

3–2

2–2

1–1

1–2

2–0

1–4

0–2

4–2

1–1

1–1

1–0

Chievo

1–0

2–2

0–0

2–1

0–0

0–1

0–2

0–1

2–1

1–1

0–1

0–1

1–0

3–2

2–2

1–1

1–2

3–0

2–0

Empoli

4–1

2–0

1–0

2–1

1–1

1–2

0–3

1–1

2–2

3–1

0–0

2–0

2–0

3–3

1–0

2–0

1–0

0–0

1–1

Fiorentina

4–0

3–1

1–0

3–0

1–0

2–0

2–3

1–0

2–1

4–0

2–2

2–3

1–0

3–0

0–0

5–1

1–0

5–1

2–0

Internazionale

2–0

2–1

1–0

2–1

4–3

3–1

3–1

4–3

4–1

2–0

2–1

2–2

2–0

1–0

1–3

1–1

2–0

3–0

1–1

Lazio

3–1

1–0

0–0

3–1

0–0

3–1

0–1

0–2

1–0

1–0

0–0

1–2

0–0

0–0

3–0

1–0

1–1

2–0

5–0

Livorno

0–0

4–2

2–1

4–1

0–2

0–0

1–0

1–2

1–1

2–1

0–0

1–2

3–0

1–1

1–1

1–0

0–0

1–1

1–0

Messina

1–2

0–0

2–2

1–1

2–1

2–2

2–2

0–1

1–4

0–1

1–3

2–0

1–1

2–0

1–1

0–2

1–0

0–3

1–0

Milan

1–0

1–0

3–1

3–0

3–1

3–1

0–0

3–4

2–1

2–1

1–0

0–2

1–0

3–1

1–2

1–0

0–0

0–0

2–3

Palermo

4–0

2–3

1–3

5–3

1–1

0–1

1–1

1–2

0–3

3–0

2–1

0–0

3–4

4–3

1–2

2–0

2–1

3–0

2–0

Parma

1–0

3–1

2–1

1–1

2–2

3–1

2–0

1–2

1–3

1–0

4–1

0–2

0–0

2–2

0–4

0–1

1–0

1–0

0–3

Reggina

2–1

1–1

2–1

0–1

1–1

4–1

1–1

0–0

2–3

2–2

3–1

2–0

0–0

3–2

1–0

0–1

0–1

1–1

1–1

Roma

2–2

2–1

2–0

7–0

1–1

1–0

3–1

0–1

0–0

2–0

4–3

1–1

4–0

3–0

3–0

4–0

1–0

0–1

3–1

Sampdoria

2–0

2–1

1–1

1–0

3–0

1–2

0–0

0–2

2–0

4–1

3–1

1–1

1–1

3–2

0–0

2–4

0–0

1–0

3–3

Siena

0–1

1–1

0–0

1–1

2–1

2–0

1–1

1–2

2–1

0–0

3–1

3–4

1–1

2–2

0–1

1–3

0–2

1–0

2–2

Torino

1–0

1–2

1–0

1–0

1–0

1–0

0–1

1–3

0–4

0–0

1–1

0–1

0–0

1–1

1–2

1–2

1–0

1–2

2–3

Udinese

0–0

2–3

3–1

0–1

2–1

0–1

1–0

0–0

2–4

4–0

1–0

0–3

1–2

3–3

1–1

0–1

1–0

3–0

2–0

Source: lega-calcio.it (Italian)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Attendances

Serie A attendances have dropped marginally. Higher attendances in the last couple of weeks increased the final season average for Serie A to 19,720. These are the average Serie A team attendances for the 2006-07 season:

Club	Average Attendance	Highest Attendance	Game
Ascoli	7,209	15,000	vs Milan
Atalanta	12,246	24,000	vs Milan
Cagliari	No official attendance
Catania	16,185	20,000	vs Palermo
Chievo	6,719	13,000	vs Ascoli
Empoli	5,351	12,000	vs. Fiorentina
Fiorentina	30,000	41,000	vs. Milan
Internazionale	48,000	64,000	vs. Torino
Lazio	25,000	61,000	vs. Roma
Livorno	8,500	13,000	vs Sampdoria
Messina	11,500	17,500	vs. Milan
Milan	47,000	79,000	vs Internazionale
Palermo	24,000	35,000	vs Catania
Parma	15,000	20,000	vs Internazionale
Reggina	12,500	21,000	vs Milan
Roma	38,689	61,292	vs Lazio
Sampdoria	19,000	27,000	vs Internazionale
Siena	8,000	14,000	vs Internazionale
Torino	20,500	24,000	vs Internazionale
Udinese	14,500	20,000	vs Internazionale

Catania hosted Ascoli, Fiorentina, Inter, Lazio, Reggina, Roma, Siena and Torino at neutral venues without fans, and Milan and Chievo in Bologna, but with fans welcome.

Milan outnumbered every other team for the highest number of season ticket holders with 37,000, with Inter not far behind with 35,000 season ticket holders.

The lowest attendance for the season was recorded in the Ascoli vs Cagliari match, in the final day of the league, that attracted a mere 2,800 people.

See also

• Serie B 2006-07
• Coppa Italia 2006-07
• List of Italian football transfers 2006-07

External links

• [2] - All results on RSSSF Website.
• 2006/2007 Serie A Squads - (www.footballsquads.com)