Italian Premier League 2011-12: Serie A Schedule & Match Times

Italy’s professional football league has been active since 1929 and enjoys the honour of having produced the most European Cup finalists, with Italian clubs having reached 26 finals and won 12 times. Ranked 4th in the world according to UEFA’s league coefficient, the Serie A has three of the most famous clubs of the world, in Juventus, Milan and Internazionale.

In case you want to know what time it will be in the capital city of your country when the next match of the Serie A begins, take a look at this table.

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Playing with 16 or 18 clubs through most of its history, the Serie A was reorganized in the 2004-05 season to comprise 20 teams who meet between the months of August and May, each team playing two matches against every other for a toal of 38 matches per team, and 380 games in all. teams are awarded three points for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss. The top four teams qualify for the UEFA Champions League, the top three qualifying automatically for the group phase, with the fourth having to play a two-legged knockout to enter the group phase.

Fifth and sixth placed teams qualify for the UEFA Europa League. the team winning the Coppa Italia can also qualify for a third qualifier’s spot in the Europa Cup.

The current champions of the Serie A are Milan who won it for the 18th time, in 2010-11. They were runners up on 15 occasions, making them, along with Internazionale, joint-second behind Juventus for most titles won. Juventus have won 27 league titles and been runners up on 19 occasions. Internazionale finsihed runners up to Milan, last year.

The Serie A season is divided into two halves; the first half is called the Andata, while the second is referred to as the Ritomo. The teams play each other in a round robin format in exactly the same order in each half of the season.

As many as 10 Italian league players have been adjudged FIFA Player of the Year, in the last two decades, with German international Lothar Mathaus winning it in 1991. Mathaus represented Internazionale in the Serie A. Marco Van Basten (Milan) in 1992, Roberto Baggio (Juventus) in 1993, George Weah (Milan) in 1995, Ronaldo (internazionale) in 1997, Zinedine Zidane (Juventus), in 1998 and 2000, Ronaldo (internazionale) in 2002, Pavel Nedved (Juventus) in 2003, Fabio Cannavaro (Juventus) in 2006 and Kaká (Milan) in 2007 are the other league players who have won it.

The teams for the 2011-12 season are Atalanta, Bologna, Cagliari, Catania, Cesena, Chievo, Fiorentina, Genoa, Internazionale, Juventus, Lazio, Lecce, Milan, Napoli, Novara, Palermo, Parma, Roma, Siena and Udinese.

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