1927–28 Divisione Nazionale

The 1927-28 Divisione Nazionale was the twenty-eighth edition of the Italian Football Championship. This was the second of three seasons of the Italian Football Championship re-branded to Divisione Nazionale. It was also the fifth season from which the Italian Football Champions' adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a Scudetto. The 1927–28 Divisione Nazionale season was the first Italian Football Championship won by Torino.

Divisione Nazionale

Season	1927–28
Champions	Torino 1st title
Relegated	None (Napoli, Lazio, Livorno, La Dominante, Reggiana, Hellas Verona were later readmitted to Divisione Nazionale)
Matches played	276
Goals scored	953 (3.45 per match)
Top goalscorer	Julio Libonatti (35 goals)
← 1926–27 1928–29 →

Format

Divisione Nazionale was organised into two non-geographical round robin contests. In 1927-28 it was contested by 19 Northern Italian clubs plus SS Lazio, AS Roma and SSC Napoli. The top four teams from each of they two round robins then decided the championship via a round robin finals contest. Novara, Pro Patria, Reggiana and Lazio joined from the lower First Division. Some clubs in Rome and Genoa were merged. Newly formed AS Roma (from three merged clubs) and SSC Napoli joined the championship as special guests by order of the fascist authorities, to allow a wider representation of Southern Italy.

First phase

Group A

Classification

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1.	Torino	20	14	2	4	78	19	+59	30	Qualified
2.	Genoa	20	13	3	4	42	21	+21	29
3.	Alessandria	20	12	4	4	59	20	+39	28
4.	Milan	20	10	6	4	35	23	+12	26
5.	Brescia	20	9	3	8	30	37	-7	21
6.	Pro Vercelli	20	7	4	9	29	27	+2	18
7.	Cremonese	20	7	3	10	33	34	-1	17
7.	Padova	20	7	3	10	24	36	-12	17
9.	Napoli	20	5	5	10	23	54	-31	15	Later readmitted to Divisione Nazionale[1]
10.	Lazio	20	4	3	13	17	45	-28	11
11.	Reggiana	20	1	6	13	23	77	-54	8

Results table

Home \ Away	ALE	BRE	CRE	GEN	LAZ	MIL	NAP	PAD	PRO	REG	TOR
Alessandria	—	4–1	5–0	4–0	6–0	0–0	11–1	3–1	0–0	11–0	3–1
Brescia	0–1	—	3–2	0–1	4–3	1–3	2–0	1–0	2–1	5–2	3–1
Cremonese	4–1	0–1	—	1–2	2–0	0–1	5–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	2–2
Genoa	2–0	0–0	4–1	—	4–0	1–1	3–0	4–1	5–0	5–2	2–1
Lazio	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	—	3–1	0–2	0–3	1–1	1–1	0–2
Milan	2–2	4–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	—	5–1	3–0	1–0	2–2	1–3
Napoli	1–1	0–4	3–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	—	2–2	2–0	4–0	0–1
Padova	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	—	1–0	2–0	0–4
Pro Vercelli	0–1	1–0	3–0	3–0	6–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	—	4–0	0–3
Reggiana	1–3	0–0	1–2	0–3	1–3	0–2	2–2	2–2	5–3	—	3–8
Torino	4–1	11–0	2–2	2–0	3–0	2–0	11–0	3–1	0–1	14–0	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B

Classification

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1.	Bologna	20	10	7	3	44	16	+28	27	Qualified
2.	Juventus	20	9	6	5	37	24	+13	24
2.	Casale	20	8	8	4	35	27	+8	24
2.	Internazionale	20	9	6	5	40	32	+8	24
5.	Modena	20	7	8	5	39	28	+11	22
6.	Novara	20	8	5	7	28	29	-1	21
7.	Pro Patria	20	8	4	8	30	34	-4	20
8.	Roma	20	6	6	8	31	30	+1	18
9.	Livorno	20	7	3	10	32	37	-5	17	Later readmitted to Divisione Nazionale[1]
10.	La Dominante	20	4	6	10	26	40	-14	14
11.	Hellas Verona	20	2	5	13	21	66	-45	9

Results table

Home \ Away	BOL	CAS	LAD	HEL	INT	JUV	LIV	MOD	NOV	PRO	ROM
Bologna	—	4–1	10–1	1–1	2–0	7–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–0
Casale	0–0	—	8–1	2–2	2–0	4–1	2–1	2–5	0–0	3–2	3–2
La Dominante	0–0	0–0	—	7–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–3	0–0
Hellas Verona	0–1	1–1	1–2	—	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–3	2–1	2–0
Internazionale	2–4	3–2	4–1	1–0	—	6–1	3–2	2–1	3–0	5–2	3–3
Juventus	1–0	1–2	5–1	1–1	3–1	—	2–1	1–1	4–3	6–2	3–0
Livorno	0–3	1–2	5–2	2–1	0–3	4–2	—	5–3	2–1	4–1	2–1
Modena	2–1	0–0	5–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	—	5–1	2–1	2–0
Novara	4–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	2–2	0–2	1–0	2–1	—	1–0	2–1
Pro Patria	1–1	2–0	4–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	—	0–3
Roma	1–1	1–1	3–1	3–0	0–0	4–2	2–0	3–3	4–1	0–1	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final round

Classification

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1.	Torino	14	8	3	3	33	18	+15	19	Champions
2.	Genoa	14	7	3	4	30	27	+3	17
3.	Alessandria	14	6	4	4	31	25	+6	16
3.	Juventus	14	7	2	5	23	17	+6	16
5.	Bologna	14	5	5	4	28	18	+10	15
6.	Milan	14	5	4	5	21	24	-3	14
7.	Internazionale	14	5	1	8	27	37	-10	11
8.	Casale	14	1	2	11	14	41	-27	4

Results table

Home \ Away	ALE	BOL	CAS	GEN	INT	JUV	MIL	TOR
Alessandria	—	1–1	5–1	6–1	6–3	2–0	2–0	2–1
Bologna	1–1	—	7–0	3–1	3–1	0–2	5–0	1–1
Casale	5–0	3–4	—	0–4	1–3	0–2[2]	2–2	0–3
Genoa	2–0	2–0	1–1	—	6–0	3–0	2–2	2–1
Internazionale	4–3	3–1	3–0	2–2	—	1–4	2–3	1–3
Juventus	0–0	1–1	3–0	6–1	1–0	—	0–1	1–4
Milan	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–2	3–1	—	2–2
Torino	3–3	1–0	2–1	5–1	3–2	1–2	3–0	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Julio Libonatti	Torino	35
2	Adolfo Baloncieri	Torino	31
3	Angelo Schiavio	Bologna	26

References and sources

• Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005