1997–98 Serie B

Serie B
Season	1997–98
Promoted	Salernitana (1st title); Venezia; Cagliari; Perugia
Relegated	Foggia; Ancona; Padova; Castel di Sangro
Matches played	380
Goals scored	897 (2.36 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marco Di Vaio (21 goals)
	← 1996–97 1998–99 →

Ancona

Cagliari

C. Sangro

Chievo
Verona

F. Andria

Foggia

Genoa

Lucchese

Monza

Padova

Perugia

Pescara

Ravenna

Reggiana

Reggina

Salernitana

Torino

Treviso

Venezia

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Serie B 1997-98 team distribution

The Serie B 1997–98 was the sixty-sixth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.

Teams[]

Treviso, Monza, Fidelis Andria and Ancona had been promoted from Serie C, while Cagliari, Perugia, Hellas Verona and Reggiana had been relegated from Serie A.

Final classification[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Salernitana (P, C)	38	19	15	4	65	32	+33	72	Promotion to Serie A
2	Venezia (P)	38	17	13	8	51	31	+20	64
3	Cagliari (P)	38	15	18	5	53	36	+17	63
4	Perugia (P)	38	15	17	6	52	35	+17	62	Serie A after tie-breaker
5	Torino	38	17	11	10	50	40	+10	62	Promotion tie-breaker
6	Hellas Verona	38	15	8	15	51	38	+13	53
7	Reggina	38	13	14	11	37	41	−4	53
8	Treviso	38	12	16	10	43	42	+1	52
9	Genoa	38	14	9	15	50	53	−3	51
10	Reggiana	38	13	11	14	36	35	+1	50
11	Chievo	38	12	14	12	43	46	−3	50
12	Fidelis Andria	38	11	15	12	42	43	−1	48
13	Pescara	38	12	11	15	41	48	−7	47
14	Ravenna	38	11	12	15	41	43	−2	45
15	Monza	38	9	17	12	48	56	−8	44
16	Lucchese	38	11	11	16	35	47	−12	44
17	Foggia (R)	38	9	14	15	48	55	−7	41	Relegation to
18	Ancona (R)	38	8	16	14	49	61	−12	40
19	Padova (R)	38	8	12	18	30	49	−19	36
20	Castel di Sangro (R)	38	5	15	18	38	64	−26	30

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results[]

Home \ Away	ANC	CAG	CDS	CHV	FAN	FOG	GEN	LUC	MON	PAD	PER	PES	RAV	REA	REG	SAL	TOR	TRV	VEN	HEL
Ancona	—	4–1	1–1	3–2	2–0	3–2	4–3	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–2	0–0	0–2	1–1	2–3	3–3	1–0	4–4	0–1	0–0
Cagliari	3–0	—	1–1	2–2	3–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–1	2–1
Castel di Sangro	1–1	0–3	—	0–4	3–3	0–1	3–3	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	3–5	2–1	0–0	1–3	0–2
Chievo	0–1	2–1	1–1	—	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–0
Fidelis Andria	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	—	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–3	2–0	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	2–2	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–0
Foggia	2–2	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	—	3–1	2–2	5–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–2	3–2	2–0	0–3	0–0	1–2	0–0
Genoa	2–1	1–3	2–1	0–1	2–1	3–2	—	1–1	5–1	1–0	2–0	4–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	3–1	1–0
Lucchese	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	2–3	—	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–3	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	2–0	1–0
Monza	3–3	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	—	2–0	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	5–1
Padova	0–1	1–2	0–1	3–2	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	—	3–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Perugia	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	4–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–2	1–3	—	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–1
Pescara	3–2	0–1	1–2	3–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	4–0	1–2	—	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	1–1
Ravenna	2–0	0–0	1–3	2–0	0–1	3–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	—	2–3	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1
Reggiana	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	0–2	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	—	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–1
Reggina	2–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	2–3	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	—	1–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	0–3
Salernitana	3–2	1–0	1–0	2–3	1–1	3–2	2–1	1–1	4–1	2–0	2–0	5–1	1–0	4–0	2–0	—	2–1	4–0	0–0	2–0
Torino	1–1	3–0	4–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	—	4–0	0–4	2–1
Treviso	5–0	0–1	3–2	0–0	1–1	3–3	2–1	3–0	3–0	3–2	2–1	2–1	3–0	0–5	2–0	1–1	0–0	—	1–1	1–0
Venezia	1–1	2–2	3–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	4–2	3–0	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–1	4–0	0–3	0–0	0–0	—	1–0
Hellas Verona	2–0	2–1	0–0	4–0	2–1	3–2	4–0	2–0	3–2	5–1	0–1	2–0	4–2	0–1	1–1	0–2	4–0	1–1	0–1	—

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

Promotion tie-breaker[]

21 June 1998

17:00 CEST

Perugia	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Torino
Tovalieri 76'		Ferrante 79'
Penalties
Bernardini Rapaić Materazzi Tovalieri	5–4	Ferrante Lentini Cravero Dorigo Carparelli

Stadio Giglio, Reggio Emilia

Referee: Graziano Cesari

A.C. Perugia promoted to 1998–99 Serie A.

Top goalscorers[]

Scorer	Goals	Team
Marco Di Vaio	21	Salernitana
	18	Monza (14) Ravenna (4)
Marco Ferrante	18	Torino
Roberto Muzzi	17	Cagliari
Stefan Schwoch	14	Venezia

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