The Serie A, also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, 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 fourth among European leagues according to UEFA's league coefficient – behind the Bundesliga, La Liga and the Premier League, and ahead of 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.
Football is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italy national football team is considered to be one of the best national teams in the world. They have won the FIFA World Cup four times, trailing only Brazil, runners-up in two finals and reaching a third place (1990) and a fourth place (1978). They have also won two European Championships, also appearing in two finals, finished third at the Confederations Cup (2013), won one Olympic football tournament (1936) and two Central European International Cups.
Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli, is an Italian professional football club based in the city of Naples that plays in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. Napoli has won three Serie A titles, six Coppa Italia titles, two Supercoppa Italiana titles, and one UEFA Cup.
Delfino Pescara 1936, commonly referred to as Pescara, is a professional Italian football club based in Pescara, Abruzzo.
Zdeněk Zeman is a Czech-Italian football coach currently in charge with Serie C club Pescara.
A.S.G. Nocerina S.r.l., was an Italian association football club, based in Nocera Inferiore, Campania. The club withdrew from the league in 2015 and was replaced by A.S.D. Città di Nocera 1910, which known as A.S.D. Nocerina 1910 since July 2016.
Massimo Oddo is an Italian professional football manager and a former player who played as a full-back. He is currently in charge as the head coach of Serie C club SPAL.
Nicola Legrottaglie is an Italian retired footballer who played as a central defender, and most recently the manager of Delfino Pescara 1936.
Emanuele Calaiò is a former Italian footballer who played as a striker.
Birkir Bjarnason is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Eliteserien club Viking and the Iceland national football team, where he is their all-time leader in appearances.
Massimiliano Allegri, also known as Max Allegri, is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Serie A club Juventus.
Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 and 1982–83 seasons, in the top flight of Italian football, known as Serie A since 1929–30.
Ciro Immobile is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Lazio, which he captains, and the Italy national team.
Lorenzo Insigne is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Major League Soccer club Toronto FC and the Italy national team.
Maurizio Sarri is an Italian professional football manager who is the current manager of Serie A club Lazio.
Marco Verratti is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Italy national team. He is often considered as one of the best midfielders in the world.
Unione Sportiva Salernitana 1919, commonly referred to as Salernitana, is an Italian football club based in Salerno, Campania. The original club was founded in 1919 and has been reconstituted three times in the course of its history, most recently in 2011. The current club is the heir of the former Salernitana Calcio 1919, and it restarted from Serie D in the 2011–12 season. Salernitana returned to Serie A in 2021, after a break of 23 seasons, having finished second in Serie B.
Matteo Politano is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a winger or as a second striker for Serie A club Napoli and the Italy national team.
The 2015–16 season of the Serie A is the 33rd season of top-tier futsal in Italy, 27th known as Serie A, which began September 19, 2015 and will finish on April 16, 2016. At the end of the regular season the top eight teams will play in the championship playoffs. The quarter and semi-finals will be a best of three series and the final will be a best of five-game series. The champions will then be Italy's representative in the 2016-2017 UEFA Futsal Cup. With 13 teams participating this season the last place team will automatically be relegated to Serie A2 and the twelfth and eleventh placed teams will have a two-legged playoff to determine the second team to be relegated.
Pesaro Calcio a 5, also known for sponsorship reasons as Italservice Pesaro, is a futsal club based in Pesaro, Italy. Founded in 2011, they play in the Serie A and won their first championship in 2019.
