Serie A 2005-06
In the 2005-06 season,
Serie A, the major
football (soccer) Italian professional league, was contested by 20 teams.
The 29th
scudetto was won by thanks to a decisive 2-0 away victory against
Reggina; however it has now been given to
Inter Milan after Juventus were found guilty of, and punished for, their involvement in
a major scandal involving its board of administration and its managing director
Luciano Moggi. A number of wiretappings of Moggi and some other leading figures of Italian football shows how Moggi managed and arranged several matches at least in the 2004/2005 season, and inquiries have been opened in
Rome and
Naples. Three other clubs–
AC Milan,
Fiorentina and
Lazio–were implicated in the scandal when it broke, with Inter later being linked to the scandal but eventually exonerated. Juventus, Fiorentina, Lazio and Milan were officially charged, while
Lecce,
Reggina,
Siena,
Empoli and
Serie B side
Arezzo have been the targets of new investigations
1.
After an initial trial, Juventus, Fiorentina and Lazio were relegated to
Serie B for 2006/07 with additional points penalties, whilst AC Milan were deducted 44 points from their 2005/06 tally, leaving them mid-table. The initial trial also trial took away the last two titles from Juventus and put Milan out of European competition.
All four penalized teams appealed the decision, and their appeals all resulted in reduced punishments. Juve's reduction was by far the smallest. They will stay in Serie B and will have 17 points deducted from the next campaign (-30 before appeal), and both of their last Scudetti remain stripped. Fiorentina and Lazio will play in Serie A after the appeal, each with 19 and 11 points deducted from the next campaign. Milan's points penalty for 2005-06 was reduced from 44 to 30, putting Milan in third place and provisionally making them eligible for the third qualifying round of the Champions League. (UEFA would later confirm Milan's place in the Champions League competition.) Milan's points penalty for 2006-07 was reduced to only 8. Fiorentina and Lazio also had 30 points deducted from their 2005-06 season campaign.
On
July 26th,
2006, the FIGC awarded Inter Milan with the 2005/2006 Scudetto.
[
1]. See the table below for tentative European access and relegation information.
The
capocannoniere (top scorer) of 2005-06 is
Luca Toni, forward of A.C. Fiorentina and of the national team. His 31 goals set a record in recent Italian football, since it is necessary to go back to
1958/59 season to find a
capocannoniere with a higher record (Angelillo, 33 goals).
Derby Statistics
These are the results[
2] of the many derbies played in the Serie A(home team listed first)
Derby della Madonnina -
Internazionale v
AC Milanteam2 = |goals1 = |goals2 = |stadium = San Siro}}
| score = 1–0|team2 = |goals1 = |goals2 = |stadium = San Siro}}
Rome Derby - AS Roma v Lazio
| score = 1–1|team2 = |goals1 = |goals2 = |stadium = Stadio Olimpico}}
| score = 0–2|team2 = |goals1 = |goals2 = |stadium = Stadio Olimpico}}
Derby dello Stretto - Messina v Reggina
| score = 1–1|team2 = |goals1 = |goals2 = |stadium = Stadio San Filippo}}
| score = 3–0|team2 = |goals1 = |goals2 = |stadium = Stadio Oreste Granillo}}
Derby delle Isole - Cagliari v Palermo
| score = 2–2|team2 = |goals1 = |goals2 = |stadium = Stadio Renzo Barbera}}
| score = 1–1|team2 = |goals1 = |goals2 = |stadium = Stadio Sant'Elia}}*Summer Transfer
*Winter Transfer
*co-ownership
*co-ownership* 2005/2006 Serie A Squads - (www.footballsquads.com)
* 2005-2006 Serie A Final Season, Team, and Player Statistics in .PDF format - (www.worldcupadvice.com)
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