1932–33 Serie B

The 1932–33 Serie B was the fourth tournament of this football competition played in Italy since its creation.

Serie B

Season	1932–33
Champions	Livorno 1st title
← 1931–32 1933–34 →

Atalanta

Brescia

Cagliari

Comense

Cremonese

Grion Pola

Legnano

Livorno

Messina

Modena

Monfalcone

Novara
Vigevanesi

Pistoiese

Sampierd.

Serenissima

Spezia

Verona

Serie B 1932-33 team distribution

Teams

Grion Pola, Messina and Sampierdarenese had been promoted from Prima Divisione, while Brescia and Modena had been relegated from Serie A.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Livorno (P, C)	32	22	7	3	72	23	+49	51	Promotion to Serie A
2	Brescia (P)	32	23	4	5	54	19	+35	50
3	Modena	32	17	4	11	58	41	+17	38
4	Spezia	32	14	9	9	46	47	−1	37
5	Novara	32	13	9	10	59	50	+9	35
6	Verona	32	12	10	10	47	45	+2	34
6	Comense	32	15	4	13	51	53	−2	34
8	Sampierdarenese	32	13	7	12	55	47	+8	33
9	Vigevanesi	32	13	6	13	42	48	−6	32
10	Messina	32	11	8	13	49	53	−4	30
11	Serenissima Venezia	32	11	5	16	40	41	−1	27
12	Cremonese	32	9	8	15	48	59	−11	26
12	Legnano	32	9	8	15	40	53	−13	26
14	Cagliari	32	9	6	17	37	60	−23	24
14	Grion Pola	32	9	6	17	38	72	−34	24
16	Atalanta (T)	32	9	5	18	52	60	−8	23	Reinstated[lower-alpha 1]
17	Pistoiese (T)	32	7	6	19	29	46	−17	20
18	Monfalcone (D, R)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1[lower-alpha 2]	Relegation to Prima Divisione

Source: Panini
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated; (T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated
Notes:

1. Atalanta and Pistoiese were later readmitted to Serie B due to reforming of the championship.
2. Monfalcone retired after 6 days and a single point won. All their matches were voided.

Results

Home \ Away	ATA	BRE	CAG	COM	CRE	GRP	LEG	LIV	MES	MOD	MFA	NOV	PST	SAM	SEV	SPE	HEL	VIG
Atalanta		1–2	6–0	0–3	1–1	5–2	4–3	1–2	1–3	1–2		6–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	7–0	2–3	1–0
Brescia	2–1		1–0	3–1	3–0	5–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–0		2–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	3–1	5–0
Cagliari	1–1	0–0		2–0	3–2	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0		1–0	1–1	4–0	3–0	0–1	0–1	3–1
Comense	2–1	1–3	3–2		1–0	2–0	3–0	0–4	2–0	3–2		4–2	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	4–0
Cremonese	3–0	0–2	4–2	5–2		3–2	0–1	1–1	3–2	0–1		0–2	4–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	6–1
Grion Pola	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–3	3–2		1–2	0–2	0–0	2–3	2–1[lower-alpha 1]	1–2	2–1	4–2	0–0	4–1	2–2	2–1
Legnano	2–0	0–0	1–1	4–0	1–1	0–0		0–1	2–0	1–2		1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–2	2–0	2–4
Livorno	2–1	3–1	2–1	4–2	5–0	8–0	4–1		7–0	4–1		3–1	1–0	1–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	1–1
Messina	1–1	0–1	3–0	2–4	6–0	3–0	2–1	1–1		2–0		5–1	2–1	1–1	3–2	4–1	3–0	2–3
Modena	6–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–3	5–2	2–0	4–0		7–2[lower-alpha 1]	3–1	3–0	5–2	1–0	0–1	2–2	3–1
Monfalcone							1–2[lower-alpha 1]	0–3[lower-alpha 1]				0–0[lower-alpha 1]
Novara	4–1	2–0	6–2	4–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–2	6–0	3–0			0–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	2–3	1–1
Pistoiese	1–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	2–3	3–0	4–1	0–0	3–3	0–1	2–0[lower-alpha 1]	0–0		1–2	2–0	0–2	2–0	0–0
Sampierdarenese	1–2	2–3	5–1	2–0	2–0	6–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–0		2–3	3–1		1–0	2–2	2–2	3–0
Serenissima V.	4–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	2–3	3–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	0–1		2–0	3–0	0–0		2–0	4–1	2–1
Spezia	1–1	0–0	4–1	4–1	0–0	3–1	3–2	1–1	0–0	2–0		1–2	1–0	2–0	3–1		1–1	2–1
Hellas Verona	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	3–2	0–2	0–0	2–2		2–2	2–1	2–3	2–0	5–0		2–1
Vigevanesi	3–0	1–0	6–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1		0–2	2–0	4–2	1–0	1–0	2–1

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Monfalcone retired after 6 days. All their matches were voided.

Fascist foolishness

The new secretary of the Fascist Party which was appointed in 1933, Achille Starace, was an enemy of the incumbent FIGC’s chairman Leandro Arpinati. He obtained the latter to be fired and arrested by Mussolini after false accusations of infidelity. His hate was so strong that he imposed to the new chairman Giorgio Vaccaro the disbandment of the Serie B round robin, the main creation of Arpinati's sport career. However, the Fascist nationalist ideas denied a return to a north–south division, so a foolish west–east division was introduced, with obvious rising costs considering Italy's shape.