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| Lega Nazionale Alta Italia | |
| Abbreviation | LNAI |
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| Predecessor | DDS |
| Successor | Lega Calcio |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Dissolved | 1946 |
| Headquarters | Milan |
Region served | Italy |
| Products | Divisione Nazionale as Serie A•Serie B&Serie C |
Membership | 50 |
Parent organization | FIGC |
The Lega Alta Italia (Italian for High Italy League) was the ruling body of the major football championships during the US military occupation of Northern Italy. [1]
The Higher Directory, the football committee during the fascist age, was disbanded at the arrival of the US Army in 1945. Railways and routes disruptions, together with the Allied occupation the industrialized North, had divided Italy in two parts. Sport consequently restarted under a special transitional season.
Clubs from Northern Italy restored a free football league after 19 years of fascist rule. It organized the local section of the Serie A, whose best teams would join a final national phase, while the Serie B clubs were united with the best Serie C teams.
The league organized also a local post season cup which was won by Bologna FC.
The situation changed a year after the end of World War II. The national Lega Calcio was created in its place in 1946.
The Serie A, also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship reasons, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa Campioni d'Italia. It has been operating as a round-robin tournament for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been organized by the Direttorio Divisioni Superiori until 1943 and the Lega Calcio until 2010, when the Lega Serie A was created for the 2010–11 season. Serie A is regarded as one of the best football leagues in the world and it is often depicted as the most tactical and defensively sound national league. Serie A was the world's strongest national league in 2020 according to IFFHS, and is ranked third among European leagues according to UEFA's league coefficient, behind La Liga and the Premier League and ahead of the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, which is based on the performance of Italian clubs in the Champions League and the Europa League during the previous five years. Serie A led the UEFA ranking from 1986 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1999.
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