2006–07 Serie B

The 2006–07 Serie B season is the 75th season since its establishment in 1929. It started on 9 September 2006 and ended on 10 June 2007. The 22 clubs in Serie B each played 42 matches during the regular season. The 2006–07 season marked the first Serie B appearance for two clubs, Frosinone and then 27-time Italian champions Juventus, whose involvement in the league was a direct result of not winning competition in the previous Serie A season and the Calciopoli rulings.

Serie B TIM

Season	2006–07
Champions	Juventus (1st title)
Promoted	Juventus Napoli Genoa
Relegated	Pescara Crotone Arezzo Hellas Verona (via play-off)
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,061 (2.3 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alessandro del Piero (20 goals)
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

Serie B 2006–07 teams distribution

A.C. Arezzo began the season with a six-point deficit and Juventus a nine-point deficit, due to their involvement in the 2006 Italian football scandal. In addition, U.S. Triestina Calcio were docked one point because of financial irregularities, and Pescara Calcio were penalized one point for late tax payments.

Events

Promotions

Despite the large deficit at the start of the league, Juventus coasted through the season with ease and became the first team promoted to the Serie A for the 2007–08 season with a 5–1 away win at Arezzo on 19 May 2007, with three games remaining in the schedule. One week later, they clinched the title of Serie B champions for 2006–07 with a 2–0 home win against Mantova. Juventus were awarded the first-ever Ali della Vittoria (Wings of Victory) Cup, designed this year for the winner of the Serie B championship.

On the last day of the season Napoli played Genoa. Napoli only needed a draw for automatic promotion, while Genoa needed a win to guarantee promotion. The match ended 0–0 and Napoli were promoted. However, Piacenza only managed a 1–1 draw with Triestina, leaving it ten points behind Genoa. A gap of ten or more points between the third and fourth-placed teams meant that no playoffs would be held, and Genoa became the third team promoted to Serie A.

Both Napoli and Genoa were promoted from Serie C1 to Serie B, and from Serie B to Serie A in successive seasons.

Relegations

On 12 May 2007 Pescara became the first team relegated to Serie C1 for the 2007–08 season with a 3–1 loss at Piacenza on Day 38 of the schedule. One week later, Crotone was also relegated with a 2–0 loss at Trieste. On the last match day, Arezzo became the third team relegated despite winning 3–1 at Treviso, as both Spezia and Hellas Verona won their games. Tied 2–2 with Juventus, Spezia was only seconds away from relegation, but a dramatic goal on the 91st minute by Nicola Padoin condemned Arezzo and qualified Spezia for the playoffs.

The fourth team to be relegated was decided in a two-legged playoff between Verona and Spezia. The first leg ended in a 2–1 win for Spezia, and a 0–0 tie in the return match condemned Verona to play Serie C1 in the 2007–08 season.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

These are the 22 teams which took part in the Serie B 2006–07:

Club Name	Home City	Stadium Name	Final Placing in 2005–06 Season
AlbinoLeffe	Bergamo	Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia	18th in Serie B
Arezzo	Arezzo	Stadio Città di Arezzo	7th in Serie B
Bari	Bari	Stadio San Nicola	13th in Serie B
Bologna	Bologna	Stadio Renato dall'Ara	8th in Serie B
Brescia	Brescia	Stadio Mario Rigamonti	10th in Serie B
Cesena	Cesena	Stadio Dino Manuzzi	6th in Serie B
Crotone	Crotone	Stadio Ezio Scida	9th in Serie B
Frosinone	Frosinone	Stadio Matusa	Serie C1/B Playoff Winners
Genoa	Genova	Stadio Luigi Ferraris	Serie C1/A Playoff Winners
Hellas Verona	Verona	Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi	15th in Serie B
Juventus	Turin	Stadio Olimpico di Torino	20th in Serie A
Lecce	Lecce	Stadio Via del Mare	18th in Serie A
Mantova	Mantova	Stadio Danilo Martelli	4th in Serie B
Modena	Modena	Stadio Alberto Braglia	5th in Serie B
Napoli	Napoli	Stadio San Paolo	Serie C1/B Champions
Pescara	Pescara	Stadio Adriatico	12th in Serie B
Piacenza	Piacenza	Stadio Leonardo Garilli	11th in Serie B
Rimini	Rimini	Stadio Romeo Neri	17th in Serie B
Spezia	La Spezia	Stadio Alberto Picco	Serie C1/A Champions
Treviso	Treviso	Stadio Omobono Tenni	19th in Serie A
Triestina	Trieste	Stadio Nereo Rocco	14th in Serie B
Vicenza	Vicenza	Stadio Romeo Menti	16th in Serie B

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AlbinoLeffe	Gianfranco Andreoletti	Emiliano Mondonico	Acerbis	BPU Assicurazioni
Arezzo	Piero Mancini	Antonio Conte	Legea	Banca Etruria
Bari	Vincenzo Matarrese	Giuseppe Materazzi	Erreà	Gaudianello
Bologna	Alfredo Cazzola	Luca Cecconi	Macron	Bologna Motor Show/Woolrich/Volvo, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
Brescia	Gino Corioni	Serse Cosmi	Asics	Banco di Brescia
Cesena	Giorgio Lugaresi	Fabrizio Castori	Lotto	Solo Affitti
Crotone	Raffaele Vrenna	Guido Carboni	Zeus	Sovreco, Mediaservice s.r.l./Provincia di Crotone
Frosinone	Maurizio Stirpe	Ivo Iaconi	Legea	Banca Popolare del Frusinate, Provincia di Frosinone
Genoa	Enrico Preziosi	Gian Piero Gasperini	Erreà	Eurobet
Hellas Verona	Sergio Puglisi Maraja	Gian Piero Ventura	Asics	Unika Group
Juventus	Giovanni Cobolli Gigli	Didier Deschamps	Nike	Tamoil
Lecce	Quirico Semeraro	Giuseppe Papadopulo	Asics	Salento d'amare
Mantova	Fabrizio Lori	Domenico Di Carlo	Erreà	Nuova Pansac, Banca Agricola Mantovana
Modena	Luca Baraldi	Bortolo Mutti	Erreà	Kerakoll, Immergas
Napoli	Aurelio De Laurentiis	Edoardo Reja	Diadora	Lete
Pescara	Dante Paterna	Luigi De Rosa	Legea	Delverde, Rete8
Piacenza	Fabrizio Garilli	Giuseppe Iachini	Macron	UNICEF
Rimini	Luca Benedettini	Leonardo Acori	Macron	Banca di Rimini (H)/COCIF (A)
Spezia	Giuseppe Ruggieri	Antonio Soda	Mass	Hyundai, Tecnocasa
Treviso	Ettore Setten	Ezio Rossi	Lotto	Grigolin, Provincia di Treviso
Triestina	Stefano Fantinel	Franco Varrella	Asics	Bossini
Vicenza	Sergio Cassingena	Angelo Gregucci	A-Line	Gingerino (H)/Recoaro (A)

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Juventus[lower-alpha 1] (C, P)	42	28	10	4	83	30	+53	85	Promotion to Serie A
2	Napoli (P)	42	21	16	5	52	29	+23	79
3	Genoa[lower-alpha 2] (P)	42	23	9	10	68	44	+24	78
4	Piacenza	42	20	8	14	57	50	+7	68
5	Rimini	42	17	16	9	55	38	+17	67[lower-alpha 3]
6	Brescia	42	19	10	13	51	43	+8	67[lower-alpha 3]
7	Bologna	42	18	11	13	52	43	+9	65
8	Mantova	42	15	19	8	47	36	+11	64
9	Lecce	42	17	7	18	56	53	+3	58
10	AlbinoLeffe	42	11	20	11	46	48	−2	53
11	Vicenza	42	12	14	16	42	43	−1	50[lower-alpha 4]
12	Frosinone	42	12	14	16	44	54	−10	50[lower-alpha 4]
13	Treviso	42	11	17	14	44	47	−3	50[lower-alpha 4]
14	Bari	42	12	14	16	40	46	−6	50[lower-alpha 4]
15	Cesena	42	12	13	17	51	66	−15	49[lower-alpha 5]
16	Modena	42	12	13	17	38	46	−8	49[lower-alpha 5]
17	Triestina[lower-alpha 6]	42	11	16	15	37	48	−11	48[lower-alpha 7]
18	Hellas Verona (R)	42	12	12	18	34	46	−12	48[lower-alpha 7]	Qualification to relegation play-offs
19	Spezia	42	11	13	18	50	61	−11	46
20	Arezzo[lower-alpha 8] (D, R)	42	12	15	15	42	46	−4	45	Relegation to Serie C1
21	Crotone (R)	42	7	11	24	36	67	−31	32
22	Pescara[lower-alpha 9] (R)	42	5	10	27	36	77	−41	24

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio 2008 (in Italian). Panini Edizioni. November 2007.
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Juventus started the season with a penalization of 30 points, which was later reduced to 9 on appeal
2. Third-placed team Genoa were directly promoted without a play-off being played as they finished 10 points ahead of fourth-placed Piacenza
3. RIM 2–0 BRE; BRE 0–2 RIM
4. VIC: 9 pts ; FRO: 8 pts ; TRE: 7 pts ; BAR: 6 pts
5. CES 1–0 MOD; MOD 0–1 CES
6. 1-point deduction
7. TRI 1–1 VER; VER 0–1 TRI
8. 6-points deduction
9. 1-point deduction for late tax payment

Results

Home \ Away	ALB	ARE	BAR	BOL	BRE	CES	CRO	FRO	GEN	JUV	LEC	MAN	MOD	NAP	PES	PIA	RIM	SPE	TRE	TRI	VER	VIC
AlbinoLeffe	—	0–0	2–3	2–5	2–3	3–3	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	0–0
Arezzo	2–1	—	0–1	1–1	0–2	3–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–5	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	4–1	1–0	4–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	3–1	2–1
Bari	0–0	1–1	—	2–0	1–1	0–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	1–2	2–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–0
Bologna	1–0	1–0	2–0	—	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–3	2–1	0–2	1–3	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–1
Brescia	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	—	4–2	2–2	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	0–2	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	3–0
Cesena	2–2	2–0	1–0	1–4	2–1	—	3–1	2–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–3	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–2
Crotone	1–1	1–2	3–2	0–0	0–0	1–2	—	2–3	0–3	0–3	1–3	2–1	3–0	2–1	2–2	0–0	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–0	0–1	0–1
Frosinone	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	4–1	1–1	—	0–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	0–2
Genoa	1–0	3–0	0–0	3–0	3–0	4–3	1–1	3–2	—	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	1–2	2–1	3–2	3–1	2–0
Juventus	1–1	2–2	4–2	3–1	2–0	2–1	5–0	1–0	3–1	—	4–1	2–0	4–0	2–0	2–0	4–0	0–0	2–3	1–0	5–1	1–0	2–1
Lecce	3–1	1–0	1–3	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	5–0	3–2	1–3	—	2–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–2
Mantova	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–1	4–3	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	4–0	—	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	2–0
Modena	0–3	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	—	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–0	4–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1
Napoli	1–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	—	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	4–2	1–1	1–0	0–0
Pescara	2–3	1–2	0–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	2–3	0–2	2–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–6	0–1	—	0–2	0–5	0–2	2–2	2–0	0–0	0–0
Piacenza	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	4–0	2–1	3–0	3–1	0–2	3–2	3–4	5–1	2–1	3–1	—	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–3
Rimini	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	—	2–1	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–1
Spezia	3–1	3–1	1–2	2–0	1–3	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–2	3–3	3–4	—	1–2	2–2	1–0	1–0
Treviso	3–1	1–3	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	3–0	2–3	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	—	0–0	1–1	1–1
Triestina	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–3	0–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–3	0–0	1–0	1–3	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	—	1–1	0–0
Verona	0–1	0–1	4–2	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–3	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	—	2–1
Vicenza	0–1	2–0	3–0	1–1	1–3	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	2–2	1–3	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–2	3–0	0–1	—

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

Relegation play-off

First leg: 15 June, Stadio Alberto Picco, La Spezia

Second leg: 21 June, Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi, Verona

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Spezia	2–1	Verona	2–1	0–0

Verona relegated to 2007–08 Serie C1

Top goalscorers

Last updated 10 June 2007^[1]

Scorer	Goals	Team
Alessandro Del Piero	20	Juventus
Claudio Bellucci	19	Bologna
Papa Waigo N'Diayè	15	Cesena
David Trezeguet	15	Juventus
Daniele Cacia	14	Piacenza
Emanuele Calaiò	14	Napoli
Antonio Floro Flores	14	Arezzo
Jeda	13	Rimini
Davide Possanzini	13	Brescia
Massimo Marazzina	12	Bologna
Robert Acquafresca	11	Treviso
Adaílton	11	Genoa
Gaetano Caridi	11	Mantova
Massimiliano Guidetti	11	Spezia
Francesco Lodi	11	Frosinone
Massimo Margiotta	11	Frosinone
Pavel Nedvěd	11	Juventus
Stefan Schwoch	11	Vicenza
Matteo Serafini	11	Brescia
Simone Tiribocchi	11	Lecce

References

1. Italy - Serie B Top Scorers RSSSF

External links

• 2006–07 Serie B Squads Football Squads