Italian Serie A Winners

The inaugural winner of the league championship in 1898 was Genoa CFC, ironically called the Genoa Cricket and Athletic Club. They beat Internazionale FC Torino, the first Italian club wholly dedicated to football that was later dissolved in 1900 in a merger with FC Torninese.

Up until the formation of Serie A and Serie B in 1929, the championship was restricted to a single league in the north of Italy and was dominated by Genoa, a club that triumphed a total of nine times. Only Pro Vercelli, that claimed the title seven times, came close to eclipsing Genoa’s era of supremacy.

As of 1929, when the League was won by Ambrosiana, in effect the present day Internazionale Milan, it has been Juventus that has reigned supreme, winning the title more years than any other. The Turin based club also boasts the most consecutive wins, five years on the trot in the early 1930’s.

During the Fascist era, Internazionale was forced to merge with the Milanese Unione Sportiva and was renamed Ambrosiana SS Milano and later AS Ambrosiana, until the end of World War II when the club re-emerged as Internazionale FC Milano.

As Internazionale, the club pulled off its first Serie A win in the 1952-53 season, when Swede, Gunnar Nordahl, was at his goal scoring best. Although they won the following season, the Milan club had to wait for almost decade before they made their mark on the list of Champions yet again.

Below we have listed the Italian Serie A winners, runners-up and third placed clubs of the past decade.

# The Italian Serie A winner remains unassigned for the 2004-05 season. Although Juventus finished at the top of the League standings, with Milan as losing finalist and Internazionale placed third, they were stripped of, what would have been, their 28th League title. A police investigation revealed collusion between team managers and the referee organisation with Juventus, Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio and Reggina managers accused of rigging games by selecting favourable referees!