1948–49 Serie B

The Serie B 1948–49 was the seventeenth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.

Serie B

Season	1948–49
Champions	Como 1st title
← 1947–48 1949–50 →

Alessandria

Arsenaltaranto

Brescia
Verona

Como
Seregno

Cremon.

Empoli

Lecce

Legnano
P. Sesto

Napoli

Parma

Pescara

Pisa

Reggiana

Salernitana

Siracusa

Spal

Spezia

Venezia

Vicenza

Serie B 1948-49 team distribution

Teams

Salernitana, Alessandria, Vicenza and Napoli had been relegated from Serie A.

Events

Pre-war regulations were restored.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Como (P, C)	42	25	10	7	83	39	2.128	60	Promotion to Serie A
2	Venezia (P)	42	21	10	11	69	44	1.568	52
3	Vicenza	42	21	9	12	69	48	1.438	51
4	Salernitana	42	21	5	16	75	64	1.172	47
5	Brescia	42	17	11	14	61	50	1.220	45
5	Napoli	42	17	11	14	43	40	1.075	45
7	Pro Sesto	42	18	8	16	61	51	1.196	44
8	Legnano	42	17	8	17	73	66	1.106	42
8	Pisa	42	17	8	17	63	58	1.086	42
10	S.P.A.L.	42	16	9	17	72	57	1.263	41
11	Alessandria	42	17	6	19	70	54	1.296	40
11	Verona	42	16	8	18	62	73	0.849	40
11	Siracusa	42	17	6	19	55	70	0.786	40
11	ArsenalTaranto	42	18	4	20	56	72	0.778	40
11	Cremonese	42	16	8	18	60	78	0.769	40
16	Reggiana	42	18	3	21	56	56	1.000	39
17	Empoli	42	15	8	19	53	76	0.697	38
18	Spezia	42	12	13	17	49	63	0.778	37	Relegation tie-breaker
19	Parma (R)	42	12	13	17	42	59	0.712	37	Serie C after tie-breaker
20	Lecce (R)	42	14	8	20	57	68	0.838	36	Relegation to Serie C
21	Seregno (R)	42	11	12	19	51	72	0.708	34
22	Pescara (R)	42	11	12	19	49	71	0.690	34

Source: Panini
Rules for classification: Note: goal difference was not used in Italy before 1960. Goal average was used instead.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ALE	ARS	BRE	COM	CRE	EMP	LCE	LEG	NAP	PAR	PES	PIS	PSE	REA	SAL	SER	SIR	SPA	SPE	VEN	HEL	VIC
Alessandria		9–0	1–4	0–3	5–0	5–3	4–0	3–2	3–0	2–2	3–1	0–2	0–2	4–0	2–0	4–1	0–0	4–0	1–0	5–0	1–0	0–0
ArsenalTaranto	2–1		3–1	2–3	0–2	1–0	2–1	4–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–0	3–2	6–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–0
Brescia	3–0	2–0		1–0	1–1	1–2	4–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	5–1	2–0	4–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	2–0	4–0	1–1	1–0	3–1
Como	3–0	2–0	1–0		1–1	1–2	4–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	5–1	2–0	4–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	2–0	4–0	1–1	1–0	3–1
Cremonese	3–1	1–1	0–2	1–3		3–1	3–2	1–2	0–0	3–2	3–0	1–0	6–3	0–1	3–2	3–1	4–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–0
Empoli	1–0	2–1	3–3	0–0	2–0		4–0	3–2	2–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	0–2	4–3	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	0–0
Lecce	0–2	1–0	0–2	1–0	4–0	1–0		2–1	2–3	1–2	1–0	6–0	3–1	1–0	4–0	5–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	4–1
Legnano	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–3	4–0	1–0	4–0		1–2	1–1	2–0	4–0	4–0	4–0	0–1	2–2	5–2	3–0	3–2	2–0	2–1	2–0
Napoli	0–0	3–2	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	1–0	2–0		1–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–0
Parma	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–2	1–0		0–2	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	4–2	1–0	4–3	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1
Pescara	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	7–0	2–1	1–3	1–1	1–1		0–1	1–1	4–2	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	4–1	0–0
Pisa	1–2	1–0	2–0	3–3	1–2	2–0	1–0	4–1	0–0	4–1	3–1		3–2	2–1	3–1	0–1	6–2	6–0	5–0	1–0	2–2	1–2
Pro Sesto	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–5	3–1	6–0	3–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	1–0		3–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	6–0	1–0	1–0	0–0
Reggiana	0–2	4–0	0–0	3–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–1		2–0	4–0	2–1	0–1	4–1	0–1	1–2	2–0
Salernitana	3–1	2–1	2–1	4–1	6–2	5–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	8–2	1–1	3–2	3–0		1–0	2–0	3–0	4–1	2–0	3–0	4–0
Seregno	1–0	3–1	0–1	0–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1		4–0	4–0	2–2	1–2	2–0	0–1
Siracusa	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	4–3	6–2	4–1	1–0	3–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–3		2–1	0–1	0–0	2–2	0–1
SPAL	3–1	4–0	1–0	0–2	4–1	3–0	0–0	6–2	1–0	5–0	7–0	0–1	0–0	3–1	8–1	2–1	2–0		1–1	1–3	4–0	5–0
Spezia	2–0	3–1	2–0	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	0–2	2–3	2–0	2–2	1–1		0–0	2–1	1–1
Venezia	2–1	6–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	5–0	1–1	1–1	3–2	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	3–0	3–1	7–0	2–0	1–0	3–2		3–1	2–0
Hellas Verona	4–1	3–1	2–2	2–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–3	3–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–2	0–3	5–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	2–1	3–2		4–3
Vicenza	4–1	4–1	3–0	2–1	3–0	4–1	1–2	5–1	2–0	1–1	6–2	2–2	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	4–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	4–1

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.

Relegation tie-breaker

Played in Milan on July 10:

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Parma	1–4	Spezia

Parma relegated to Serie C.

References and sources

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