1996–97 Serie A

Serie A
Season	1996–97
Champions	Juventus; 24th title
Relegated	Cagliari (relegation playoff); Perugia; Verona; Reggiana
Champions League	Juventus; Parma
Cup Winners' Cup	Vicenza
UEFA Cup	Internazionale; Lazio; Udinese; Sampdoria
Matches played	306
Goals scored	810 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorer	Filippo Inzaghi ; (24 goals)
	← 1995–96 1997–98 →

Atalanta

Bologna

Cagliari

Fiorentina

Internazionale
Milan

Juventus

Lazio
Roma

Napoli

Parma

Perugia

Piacenza

Reggiana

Sampdoria

Udinese

Hellas Verona

Vicenza

Serie A 1996-97 team distribution

The 1996–97 Serie A title was won by Juventus, under head coach Marcello Lippi. Cagliari, Perugia, Hellas Verona and Reggiana were relegated.

Teams[]

Bologna, Hellas Verona, Perugia and Reggiana had been promoted from Serie B.

Events[]

Following the historical change of the UEFA Champions League entry list, Italy obtained a seventh place in Europe.

Number of teams by region[]

	Region	Number of teams	Teams
1	Emilia-Romagna	4	Bologna, Parma, Piacenza and Reggiana
2	Lombardy	3	Atalanta, Internazionale and Milan
3	Lazio	2	Lazio and Roma
3	Veneto	2	Hellas Verona and Vicenza
5	Campania	1	Napoli
	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	1	Udinese
	Liguria	1	Sampdoria
	Piedmont	1	Juventus
	Sardinia	1	Cagliari
	Tuscany	1	Fiorentina
	Umbria	1	Perugia

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Juventus (C)	34	17	14	3	51	24	+27	65	Qualified to Champions League group stage
2	Parma	34	18	9	7	41	26	+15	63	Qualified to Champions League qualifying round
3	Internazionale	34	15	14	5	51	35	+16	59	Qualification to UEFA Cup
4	Lazio	34	15	10	9	54	37	+17	55
5	Udinese	34	15	9	10	53	41	+12	54
6	Sampdoria	34	14	11	9	60	46	+14	53
7	Bologna	34	13	10	11	50	44	+6	49
8	Vicenza	34	12	11	11	43	38	+5	47	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup
9	Fiorentina	34	10	15	9	46	41	+5	45
10	Atalanta	34	11	11	12	44	46	−2	44
11	Milan	34	11	10	13	43	45	−2	43
12	Roma	34	10	11	13	46	47	−1	41^[a]
13	Napoli	34	9	14	11	38	45	−7	41
14	Piacenza	34	7	16	11	29	45	−16	37^[b]	Relegation tie-breaker
15	Cagliari (R)	34	9	10	15	45	55	−10	37^[c]	Serie B after tie-breaker
16	Perugia (R)	34	10	7	17	48	62	−14	37^[d]	Relegation to Serie B
17	Hellas Verona (R)	34	6	9	19	38	64	−26	27
18	Reggiana (R)	34	2	13	19	28	67	−39	19

Source: Serie A, RSSSF.com, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw. (Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played).^[1]
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Roma finished ahead of Napoli on Goal difference: Roma -1, Napoli -7.
^ CAG: 7 pts; PIA: 5 pts; PER: 4 pts.
^ CAG: 7 pts; PIA: 5 pts; PER: 4 pts.
^ Relegated to 1997-98 Serie B for direct matches.

Positions by round[]

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Team ╲ Round
Juventus	9	5	2	1	5	1	1	3	3	4	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Parma	2	4	1	4	3	6	11	12	10	11	14	14	14	11	9	6	4	6	6	6	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Internazionale	7	3	3	3	1	3	2	1	1	3	2	3	5	4	3	2	3	4	5	4	4	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Lazio	11	17	16	14	13	13	14	14	13	13	12	10	9	10	7	9	12	12	11	12	12	9	10	9	6	6	6	5	5	4	4	4	4	4
Udinese	13	11	9	7	8	9	13	8	11	12	11	13	11	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	7	7	8	7	5	7	6	5
Sampdoria	12	9	6	10	10	8	10	4	6	6	6	9	8	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	6	7	5	5	6
Bologna	6	2	7	5	4	7	12	6	4	2	4	4	4	5	8	11	8	5	3	3	5	5	6	5	5	4	5	6	6	5	6	6	7	7
Vicenza	3	8	4	9	7	5	3	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	4	4	3	4	7	7	8	8	8	11	10	9	8	7	8	8	8	8	8
Fiorentina	14	14	10	13	12	11	7	7	9	10	10	6	10	8	5	5	6	9	9	11	10	12	9	11	10	9	8	9	9	10	11	11	9	9
Atalanta	16	15	17	17	17	18	15	16	15	15	15	15	15	13	12	12	9	6	7	5	8	7	7	6	9	11	11	10	10	11	12	12	12	10
Milan	1	6	5	2	6	2	4	5	8	8	9	7	3	7	9	6	7	10	12	9	11	11	12	10	7	8	12	11	11	9	9	9	10	11
Roma	4	1	8	6	2	4	6	6	7	7	7	8	6	9	11	8	11	11	10	8	6	6	5	7	8	7	10	12	12	12	10	10	11	12
Napoli	18	12	11	8	9	14	9	10	5	5	5	5	7	3	6	10	10	8	8	10	9	10	11	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Piacenza	15	16	14	11	14	12	8	13	14	14	13	11	13	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	14	15	15	16	14
Cagliari	5	7	12	12	15	16	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	17	16	16	16	15	16	16	15	15	14	15	14	14	15	15
Perugia	8	10	13	15	11	10	5	9	12	9	8	12	12	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	14	16
Hellas Verona	17	18	18	18	18	15	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	17	17	18	17	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Reggiana	10	13	15	16	16	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	18	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

	1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round
	Leader and UEFA Champions League Group stage
	UEFA Champions League Second Qualifying round
	1997–98 UEFA Cup First round
	Relegation to 1997–98 Serie B

Source: Serie A
Note: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup spot (in purple) being non-related with a position in Serie A, does not appear until the winner is assured to not win Serie A, thus if wins Serie A has a spot in the UEFA Champions League, then 1996–97 Coppa Italia runners-up earns a spot in the 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

Results[]

Home \ Away	ATA	BOL	CAG	FIO	INT	JUV	LAZ	MIL	NAP	PAR	PER	PIA	REA	ROM	SAM	UDI	HEL	VIC
Atalanta		1–1	4–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–2	2–2	1–2	2–2	4–0	1–0	0–4	4–0	1–0	1–0	3–1
Bologna	3–1		3–0	0–2	2–2	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–2	3–2	2–1	0–0	6–1	0–0
Cagliari	2–0	2–2		4–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–4	1–2	3–2	2–1
Fiorentina	0–0	3–2	2–0		0–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	4–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–3	2–0	2–4
Internazionale	2–0	0–2	2–2	2–2		0–0	1–1	3–1	3–2	3–1	1–0	2–0	3–1	3–1	3–4	1–1	2–1	0–1
Juventus	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0		2–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	4–1	3–1	3–0	0–0	0–3	3–2	2–0
Lazio	3–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–2	0–2		3–0	3–2	2–1	4–1	2–0	6–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	4–1	0–2
Milan	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–6	2–2		3–1	0–1	3–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–3	2–1	4–1	1–0
Napoli	0–1	3–2	1–1	2–2	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–0		2–1	4–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0
Parma	0–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–0		1–2	1–0	3–2	0–0	3–0	0–2	1–0	3–0
Perugia	3–1	5–1	3–2	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–2		1–1	1–3	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	1–1
Piacenza	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–3	3–2	1–0	0–0	2–1		3–0	0–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	1–0
Reggiana	0–3	1–3	0–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–3	1–1	0–0	1–4	0–0		1–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–0
Roma	0–2	1–1	3–1	3–3	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	4–1	3–1	2–2		1–4	0–3	4–3	2–0
Sampdoria	2–0	1–2	4–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	5–2	3–0	3–0	1–2		4–0	0–0	2–1
Udinese	2–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–4	2–3	1–1	2–2	3–1	2–1	4–0	2–1	1–0	4–5		3–0	1–1
Hellas Verona	1–1	0–2	2–2	2–1	0–1	0–2	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–2	2–0	0–0	2–4	2–1	1–1	3–2		2–2
Vicenza	4–1	2–0	2–0	3–2	1–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	2–2	1–1	4–1^[a]	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	0–0

Source: lega-calcio.it (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ The match was played at Stadio Giglio.

Relegation tie-breaker[]

15 June 1997

Cagliari	1–3	Piacenza
Tovalieri 65'	Report	Luiso 5', 90+1' Berretta 38' (o.g.)

Stadio San Paolo, Naples

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Stefano Braschi (Prato)

Cagliari relegated to 1997-98 Serie B.

Top goalscorers[]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Filippo Inzaghi	Atalanta	24
2	Vincenzo Montella	Sampdoria	22
3	Abel Balbo	Roma	17
4	Sandro Tovalieri	Reggiana, Cagliari	16
5	Roberto Mancini	Sampdoria	15
	Marco Negri	Perugia
	Giuseppe Signori	Lazio
8	Enrico Chiesa	Parma	14
	Youri Djorkaeff	Internazionale
	Pasquale Luiso	Piacenza
11	George Weah	Milan	13
	Marcelo Otero	Vicenza
	Oliver Bierhoff	Udinese
	Paolo Poggi	Udinese
15	Márcio Amoroso	Udinese	12
	Filippo Maniero	Hellas Verona
	Gabriel Batistuta	Fiorentina
	Hernán Crespo	Parma

Footnotes[]

^ Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. - Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

References and sources[]

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

External links[]

it:Classifica calcio Serie A italiana 1997 - Italian version with pictures and info.
[1] - All results on RSSSF Website.
1996/1997 Serie A Squads - (www.footballsquads.co.uk)

[table_hth_ROM0.87263243592932-1] Roma finished ahead of Napoli on Goal difference: Roma -1, Napoli -7.

[table_hth_PIA0.87263243592932-2] CAG: 7 pts; PIA: 5 pts; PER: 4 pts.

[table_hth_CAG0.87263243592932-3] CAG: 7 pts; PIA: 5 pts; PER: 4 pts.

[table_hth_PER0.87263243592932-4] Relegated to 1997-98 Serie B for direct matches.

[table_note_VIC_PER0.45093643453481-6] The match was played at Stadio Giglio.

[5] Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. - Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

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v t 1996–97 in European football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '96 '97 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina (, ) Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '96 '97 Finland '96 '97 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '96 '97 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '96 '97 Latvia '96 '97 Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '96 '97 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '96 '97 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '96 '97 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Armenia Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands Finland '96 '97 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Macedonia Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '96 '97 Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Ukraine FR Yugoslavia
League cups	England Finland Iceland '96 '97 Northern Ireland Scotland
Supercups	Germany
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, Group stage, knockout stage, Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup