List of Italian football champions

List of Italian football champions

Scudetto
Founded	1898
Country	Italy
Confederation	UEFA
Number of teams	20
Current champions	Inter Milan (20th title) (2023–24)
Most championships	Juventus (36 titles)
Current: 2023–24 Serie A

The Italian football champions (Italian: Campione d'Italia di calcio, plural: Campioni) are the annual winners of Serie A, Italy's premier football league competition. The title has been contested since 1898 in varying forms of competition. Inter Milan are the current champions, while Juventus have won a record 36 titles. The first time the Scudetto (Italian: scudetto, "little shield", plural: scudetti) was used was in 1924 when Genoa won its ninth championship title and decided to add a little shield to their shirt as to reward and celebrate themselves as champions.

The finals of the first Italian Football Championship was decided in a single day with four teams competing, three from Turin and one from Genoa. The title was decided using a knock-out format between the finalists with Genoa, the inaugural winners. The knock-out format was used until the 1909–10 season, when a league consisting of nine teams was formed. The championship, which had been confined to a single league in the north of Italy, became a national competition in 1929 with the foundation of Serie A and Serie B.

The first official national football tournament was organised in 1898 by the Italian Football Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio, FIGC).^[1] This tournament, the final matches of the first Italian Football Championship, were held in a single day on 8 May 1898 in Turin. Genoa were crowned as champions, defeating Internazionale F.C. Torino by 3–1, following extra time.^[1] In the following years, the tournament was structured into regional groups with the winners of each group participating in a playoff with the eventual winners being declared champions. From 1904, the championship was called Prima Categoria.

In November 1907, the FIF organised two championships in the same season:^[2]

1. Italian Championship, the main tournament where only Italian players were allowed to play; the winners would be proclaimed Campioni d'Italia (Italian Champions) and would be awarded the Coppa Buni
2. Federal Championship, a secondary tournament where foreign players (if they lived in Italy) were also allowed to play; the winners would be proclaimed Campioni Federali (Federal Champions) and would be awarded the Coppa Spensley^[3]

The FIF wanted to organize two championships in order to allow weaker clubs composed only of Italian players ("squadre pure italiane", "pure Italian teams") to win the national title, and to relegate simultaneously the big clubs composed mostly of stronger foreign players ("squadre spurie internazionali", "spurious international teams") in a minor competition for a "consolation prize".^[4][5][6] The majority of big clubs (Genoa, Torino and Milan) withdrew from both the championships in order to protest against the autarchical policy of the FIF. The Federal Championship was won by Juventus against Doria,^[7] while The Italian Championship 1908 and Coppa Buni were won by Pro Vercelli, beating Juventus, Doria and US Milanese. However, the Federal Championship won by Juventus was later forgotten by FIGC, due to the boycott made by the dissident clubs.

In the 1909 season, the two championships were organised again, with Coppa Oberti in lieu of Coppa Spensley for the Federal Championship. This time, the majority of big clubs decided to only withdraw from the Italian Championship in order to make the Federal competition the most relevant tournament, and to diminish the Italian one. The Federal Championship was won by Pro Vercelli, beating US Milanese in the Final, while the Italian Championship was won by Juventus, again beating US Milanese in the Final.^[8] However, the dissenters' strategy worked out: the failure of the Italian Championship won by Juventus forced the FIGC to later recognize the Federal Champions of Pro Vercelli as "Campioni d'Italia 1909", disavowing the other tournament.

The format was modified for the 1909–10 season which was played in a league format. Nine clubs participated, playing each other both home and away. The split between Federal and Italian championship was not completely abolished, because, while unifying these tournaments, it was decided for the last time to assign two titles at the end of the season, In fact, the FIGC established that the first placed club in the general classification would be proclaimed Federal Champions (now turned into the main title), while the best placed club among the four "pure Italian teams" would be recognized as Italian Champions (now the secondary title), depending on the head-to-head matches.^[9] At the end of the season, Pro Vercelli and Inter finished equal first, so a playoff was needed to assign the Federal title (the Italian one was won by Pro Vercelli). This season was the first victory for Internazionale, who defeated Pro Vercelli 10–3 in the final. Even the Italian title won by Pro Vercelli was later forgotten.^[10]

In the 1910–11 season, teams from Veneto and Emilia were admitted for the first time. The championship was divided into two groups: Liguria-Piemonte-Lombardia group, the most important, and the Veneto-Emilia group. The winners of each group qualified to the Final for the title. The 1912–13 season saw the competition nationalised with North and South divisions.^[11] The 1914–1915 Championship was suspended because of World War I while Genoa was first in the Northern Italy Finals and only when the war ended, in 1919, did the FIGC decide to award the 1915 title to Genoa. In 1916, Milan won the Coppa Federale, which for that season was a substitute for the championship, which had been suspended because of World War I.^[12] The tournament that year was limited to clubs from the north, with the exception of Pro Vercelli, but was not treated as an official trophy or recognised by the FIGC as an Italian title.

Controversy hit the Championship in the 1921–22 season which saw the major clubs (including Pro Vercelli, Bologna and Juventus) in dispute with the FIGC. The best 24 teams had asked for a reduction in clubs in the top division in accordance with a plan drawn up by Vittorio Pozzo, the Italy national team coach. Pozzo's plan was dismissed and the CCI (Italian: Confederazione Calcistica Italiana) was founded and organised a 1921–22 CCI league (Prima Divisione) to run concurrently with the 1921–22 season (Prima Categoria) organised by the FIGC.^[13] Therefore, that season saw two champions: Novese (FIGC) and Pro Vercelli (CCI). The schism ended when FIGC agreed to reduce the Northern Championship of 1922–23 to only 36 clubs ("Compromesso Colombo/Colombo compromise"); from 1923–24 the Northern Championship was reduced to 24 clubs divided into two groups.^[14]

The Carta di Viareggio/Viareggio charter (1926) was drawn up to legalise professionalism, ban foreign players, and rationalise the championship creating a new national top league where Northern and Southern teams would play in the same championship: Divisione Nazionale. 17 teams from Lega Nord (Northern League) were admitted to the new Championship along with 3 teams from Lega Sud (Southern League) for 20 teams, divided into two national groups of 10 teams each.

Further scandal followed in the 1926–27 season when title-winners Torino Football Club were stripped of their Scudetto following an FIGC investigation. A Torino official was found to have bribed opposing defender Luigi Allemandi in Torino's match against Juventus on 5 June 1927, and thus the season finished with no declared champions.^[15]

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). The next 11 years were also dominated by Juventus and Bologna, when all of the Scudetti were won between the three of them, Juventus winning five times in a row, a record equalled by Grande Torino in 1949, by Internazionale in 2010, and Juventus itself in 2016, until they won again the next season in 2017 to overtake the record at six league titles in a row. The competition was truncated as the Championship was suspended in 1943 due to World War II.^[13] A Championship was held in 1944, the Campionato Alta Italia, and won by Spezia.^[18] The title was officially recognised as a decoration by FIGC in 2002.

Spezia is authorized by the Italian Federation to exhibit a tricolour badge on the official jerseys which is unique, being the only permanent one in Italy.^[19]

The post-war years were dominated by a Torino side known as Il Grande Torino ("The Great Torino"), a team which found a dramatic end in the Superga air disaster in 1949.^[13] The 1950s saw the gradual emergence of Milan, with the help of Swedish striker Gunnar Nordahl, who was Serie A's leading scorer (Italian: Capocannonieri) for five out of six seasons. Juventus began to dominate throughout the 1970s and early 1980s with nine Scudetti in fifteen seasons while the 1990s saw Milan come to prominence.^[13]

Serie A was dealt another blow by the 2006 Italian football scandal which involved alleged widespread match fixing implicating league champions Juventus, and other major teams including Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio, and Reggina.^[20] The FIGC ruled Juventus be stripped of their title, relegated to Serie B, and start the following season with a nine-point deduction. The other clubs involved suffered similarly with relegation and points deduction.^[21]

Season	Winners	Second place	Top scorer(s) (club) (goals)
1898	Genoa (1)	Internazionale Torino	(Unknown)
1899	Genoa (2)	Internazionale Torino	(Unknown)
1900	Genoa (3)	Torinese	(Unknown)
1901	Milan (1)	Genoa	Umberto Malvano (Juventus) (4)
1902	Genoa (4)	Milan	(Unknown)
1903	Genoa (5)	Juventus	(Unknown)

Season	Winners	Central-southern Italy champions		Top scorer(s) (club) (goals)
1921–22 (CCI)	Pro Vercelli (7)	Fortitudo Roma	-	(Unknown)
1922–23	Genoa (8)	Lazio	-	(Unknown)
1923–24	Genoa (9)	Savoia	-	Heinrich Schönfeld (Torino) (22)
1924–25	Bologna (1)	Alba Trastevere	-	Mario Magnozzi (Livorno) (19)
1925–26	Juventus (2)	Alba Trastevere	-	Ferenc Hirzer (Juventus) (35)

Season	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Top scorer(s) (club) (goals)
1926–27	Not awarded	Bologna	Juventus	Anton Powolny (Internazionale) (22)
1927–28	Torino (1)	Genoa	Alessandria	Julio Libonatti (Torino) (35)
Season	Winners	Second place	Third place	Top scorer(s) (club) (goals)
1928–29	Bologna (2)	Torino	-	Gino Rossetti (Torino) (36)

Season	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Top scorer(s) (club) (goals)
1929–30	Ambrosiana-Inter (3)	Genoa	Juventus	Giuseppe Meazza (Ambrosiana-Inter) (31)
1930–31	Juventus (3)	Roma	Bologna	Rodolfo Volk (Roma) (29)
1931–32	Juventus (4)	Bologna	Roma	Pedro Petrone (Fiorentina) Angelo Schiavio (Bologna) (25)
1932–33	Juventus (5)	Ambrosiana-Inter	Bologna/Napoli	Felice Placido Borel (Juventus) (29)
1933–34	Juventus (6)	Ambrosiana-Inter	Napoli	Felice Placido Borel (Juventus) (31)
1934–35	Juventus (7)	Ambrosiana-Inter	Fiorentina	Enrico Guaita (Roma) (31)
1935–36	Bologna (3)	Roma	Torino	Giuseppe Meazza (Ambrosiana-Inter) (25)
1936–37	Bologna (4)	Lazio	Torino	Silvio Piola (Lazio) (21)
1937–38	Ambrosiana-Inter (4)	Juventus	Genoa	Giuseppe Meazza (Ambrosiana-Inter) (20)
1938–39	Bologna (5)	Torino	Ambrosiana-Inter	Aldo Boffi (Milan) Ettore Puricelli (Bologna) (19)
1939–40	Ambrosiana-Inter (5)	Bologna	Juventus	Aldo Boffi (Milan) (24)
1940–41	Bologna (6)	Ambrosiana-Inter	Milan	Ettore Puricelli (Bologna) (22)
1941–42	Roma (1)	Torino	Venezia	Aldo Boffi (Milan) (22)
1942–43	Torino (2)†	Livorno	Juventus Cisitalia	Silvio Piola (Lazio) (21)
1944	Campionato Alta Italia Spezia Calcio (decoration)
1945	Canceled due to Second World War
1945–46	Torino (3)	Juventus	Milan	Guglielmo Gabetto (Torino) (22)
1946–47	Torino (4)	Juventus	Modena	Valentino Mazzola (Torino) (29)
1947–48	Torino (5)	Milan/Juventus/Triestina		Giampiero Boniperti (Juventus) (27)
1948–49	Torino (6)	Internazionale	Milan	István Nyers (Internazionale) (26)
1949–50	Juventus (8)	Milan	Internazionale	Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (35)
1950–51	Milan (4)	Internazionale	Juventus	Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (34)
1951–52	Juventus (9)	Milan	Internazionale	John Hansen (Juventus) (30)
1952–53	Internazionale (6)	Juventus	Milan	Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (26)
1953–54	Internazionale (7)	Juventus	Milan/Fiorentina	Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (23)
1954–55	Milan (5)	Udinese	Roma	Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) (26)
1955–56	Fiorentina (1)	Milan	Internazionale/Lazio	Gino Pivatelli (Bologna) (29)
1956–57	Milan (6)	Fiorentina	Lazio	Dino da Costa (Roma) (22)
1957–58	Juventus (10)	Fiorentina	Padova	John Charles (Juventus) (28)
1958–59	Milan (7)	Fiorentina	Internazionale	Antonio Valentin Angelillo (Internazionale) (33)
1959–60	Juventus (11)†	Fiorentina	Milan	Omar Sivori (Juventus) (28)
1960–61	Juventus (12)	Milan	Internazionale	Sergio Brighenti (Sampdoria) (27)
1961–62	Milan (8)	Internazionale	Fiorentina	José Altafini (Milan) Aurelio Milani (Fiorentina) (22)
1962–63	Internazionale (8)	Juventus	Milan	Harald Nielsen (Bologna) Pedro Manfredini (Roma) (19)
1963–64	Bologna (7)	Internazionale	Milan	Harald Nielsen (Bologna) (21)
1964–65	Internazionale (9)†	Milan	Torino	Sandro Mazzola (Internazionale) Alberto Orlando (Fiorentina) (17)
1965–66	Internazionale (10)	Bologna	Napoli	Luis Vinicio (Vicenza) (25)
1966–67	Juventus (13)	Internazionale	Bologna	Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (18)
1967–68	Milan (9)#	Napoli	Juventus	Pierino Prati (Milan) (15)
1968–69	Fiorentina (2)	Cagliari	Milan	Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (21)
1969–70	Cagliari (1)	Internazionale	Juventus	Gigi Riva (Cagliari) (21)
1970–71	Internazionale (11)	Milan	Napoli	Roberto Boninsegna (Internazionale) (24)
1971–72	Juventus (14)	Milan/Torino		Roberto Boninsegna (Internazionale) (22)
1972–73	Juventus (15)	Milan	Lazio	Giuseppe Savoldi (Bologna) Paolino Pulici (Torino) Gianni Rivera (Milan) (17)
1973–74	Lazio (1)	Juventus	Napoli	Giorgio Chinaglia (Lazio) (24)
1974–75	Juventus (16)	Napoli	Roma	Paolino Pulici (Torino) (18)
1975–76	Torino (7)	Juventus	Milan	Paolino Pulici (Torino) (21)
1976–77	Juventus (17)‡	Torino	Fiorentina	Francesco Graziani (Torino) (21)
1977–78	Juventus (18)	Vicenza/Torino		Paolo Rossi (Vicenza) (24)
1978–79	Milan (10)	Perugia	Juventus	Bruno Giordano (Lazio) (19)
1979–80	Internazionale (12)	Juventus	Torino	Roberto Bettega (Juventus) (16)
1980–81	Juventus (19)	Roma	Napoli	Roberto Pruzzo (Roma) (18)
1981–82	Juventus (20)	Fiorentina	Roma	Roberto Pruzzo (Roma) (15)
1982–83	Roma (2)	Juventus	Internazionale	Michel Platini (Juventus) (16)
1983–84	Juventus (21)#	Roma	Fiorentina	Michel Platini (Juventus) (20)
1984–85	Hellas Verona (1)	Torino	Internazionale	Michel Platini (Juventus) (18)
1985–86	Juventus (22)	Roma	Napoli	Roberto Pruzzo (Roma) (19)
1986–87	Napoli (1)†	Juventus	Internazionale	Pietro Paolo Virdis (Milan) (17)
1987–88	Milan (11)	Napoli	Roma	Diego Maradona (Napoli) (15)
1988–89	Internazionale (13)	Napoli	Milan	Aldo Serena (Internazionale) (22)
1989–90	Napoli (2)	Milan	Internazionale	Marco van Basten (Milan) (19)
1990–91	Sampdoria (1)	Milan	Internazionale	Gianluca Vialli (Sampdoria) (19)
1991–92	Milan (12)	Juventus	Torino	Marco van Basten (Milan) (25)
1992–93	Milan (13)	Internazionale	Parma	Giuseppe Signori (Lazio) (26)
1993–94	Milan (14)†	Juventus	Sampdoria	Giuseppe Signori (Lazio) (23)
1994–95	Juventus (23)†	Lazio	Parma	Gabriel Batistuta (Fiorentina) (26)
1995–96	Milan (15)	Juventus	Lazio	Igor Protti (Bari) Giuseppe Signori (Lazio) (24)
1996–97	Juventus (24)	Parma	Internazionale	Filippo Inzaghi (Atalanta) (24)
1997–98	Juventus (25)	Internazionale	Udinese	Oliver Bierhoff (Udinese) (27)
1998–99	Milan (16)	Lazio	Fiorentina	Márcio Amoroso (Udinese) (22)
1999–2000	Lazio (2)†	Juventus	Milan	Andriy Shevchenko (Milan) (24)
2000–01	Roma (3)	Juventus	Lazio	Hernán Crespo (Lazio) (26)
2001–02	Juventus (26)	Roma	Internazionale	David Trezeguet (Juventus) Dario Hübner (Piacenza) (24)
2002–03	Juventus (27)	Internazionale	Milan	Christian Vieri (Internazionale) (24)
2003–04	Milan (17)	Roma	Juventus	Andriy Shevchenko (Milan) (24)
2004–05	Not awarded	Milan	Internazionale	Cristiano Lucarelli (Livorno) (24)
2005–06	Internazionale (14)	Roma	Milan	Luca Toni (Fiorentina) (31)
2006–07	Internazionale (15)	Roma	Lazio	Francesco Totti (Roma) (26)
2007–08	Internazionale (16)	Roma	Juventus	Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus) (21)
2008–09	Internazionale (17)	Juventus	Milan	Zlatan Ibrahimović (Internazionale) (25)
2009–10	Internazionale (18)*	Roma	Milan	Antonio Di Natale (Udinese) (29)
2010–11	Milan (18)	Internazionale	Napoli	Antonio Di Natale (Udinese) (28)
2011–12	Juventus (28)	Milan	Udinese	Zlatan Ibrahimović (Milan) (28)
2012–13	Juventus (29)	Napoli	Milan	Edinson Cavani (Napoli) (29)
2013–14	Juventus (30)	Roma	Napoli	Ciro Immobile (Torino) (22)
2014–15	Juventus (31)†	Roma	Lazio	Mauro Icardi (Internazionale) Luca Toni (Hellas Verona) (22)
2015–16	Juventus (32)†	Napoli	Roma	Gonzalo Higuaín (Napoli) (36)
2016–17	Juventus (33)†	Roma	Napoli	Edin Džeko (Roma) (29)
2017–18	Juventus (34)†	Napoli	Roma	Mauro Icardi (Internazionale) Ciro Immobile (Lazio) (29)
2018–19	Juventus (35)	Napoli	Atalanta	Fabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria) (26)
2019–20	Juventus (36)	Internazionale	Atalanta	Ciro Immobile (Lazio) (36)
2020–21	Internazionale (19)	Milan	Atalanta	Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) (29)
2021–22	Milan (19)	Internazionale	Napoli	Ciro Immobile (Lazio) (27)
2022–23	Napoli (3)	Lazio	Internazionale	Victor Osimhen (Napoli) (26)
2023–24	Internazionale (20)	Milan	Juventus	Lautaro Martínez (Internazionale) (24)

The following table lists the performance of each club describing winners of the Championship. Sixteen clubs have been champions.

Bold indicates clubs currently playing in the top division.

Club	Champions	Runners-up	Winning seasons
Juventus	36	21	1905, 1925–26, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1966–67, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1994–95, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05,[note 1] 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
Internazionale	20	16	1909–10, 1919–20, 1929–30, 1937–38, 1939–40, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1970–71, 1979–80, 1988–89, 2005–06,[note 2] 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2020–21, 2023–24
Milan	19	16	1901, 1906, 1907, 1950–51, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1961–62, 1967–68, 1978–79, 1987–88, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2003–04, 2010–11, 2021–22
Genoa	9	4	1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1914–15, 1922–23, 1923–24
Torino	7	7	1926–27,[note 3] 1927–28, 1942–43, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1975–76
Bologna	7	4	1924–25, 1928–29, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1938–39, 1940–41, 1963–64
Pro Vercelli	7	1	1908, 1909, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1912–13, 1920–21, 1921–22 (CCI)
Roma	3	14	1941–42, 1982–83, 2000–01
Napoli	3	8	1986–87, 1989–90, 2022–23
Lazio	2	7	1973–74, 1999–2000
Fiorentina	2	5	1955–56, 1968–69
Casale	1	—	1913–14
Novese	1	—	1921–22 (FIGC)
Cagliari	1	—	1969–70
Hellas Verona	1	—	1984–85
Sampdoria	1	—	1990–91
Alba Trastevere	—	2
Internazionale Torino	—	2
Livorno	—	2
US Milanese	—	2
Fortitudo Roma	—	1
Parma	—	1
Perugia	—	1
Pisa	—	1
Sampierdarenese	—	1
Savoia	—	1
Torinese	—	1
Triestina	—	1
Udinese	—	1
Venezia	—	1
Vicenza	—	1

Casale

Novese

Cagliari

Hellas Verona

Sampdoria

Fiorentina

Napoli

Lazio

Roma

Pro Vercelli

Bologna

Torino

Genoa

Internazionale

Milan

Juventus

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Location of Italian football champions

• Football in Italy
• Italian football league system
• Capocannoniere, award for the top scorer in a Serie A season

• Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898–2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
• Carlo Chiesa, La grande storia del calcio italiano (The great history of italian football), Guerin Sportivo, 2012–
  • Second installment: 1908–1910, pp. 17–32, in Guerin Sportivo #5 (maggio 2012), pp. 83–98.

• (in English) Italian Football Association Archived 16 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine
• (in Italian) Official national league website