Serie_B_2011-12

2011–12 Serie B

2011–12 Serie B

83rd season of second-tier football league in Italy

The 2011–12 Serie B (known as the Serie bwin for sponsorship reasons) was the eightieth season since its establishment in 1929. A total of 22 teams will contest the league: 15 of which returning from the 2010–11 season, four of which promoted from Lega Pro Prima Divisione, and three relegated from Serie A. It began on 27 August 2011 and ended on 27 May 2012.[1]

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Changes from last season

The league will feature three clubs relegated from Serie A: Brescia returned to the second division after only a single season in the top flight, whereas Bari were relegated after a two-year stint. The third relegated team, Sampdoria, made instead a rather unexpected Serie B return after nine years.

Four teams were promoted from Lega Pro Prima Divisione, three of them returning to Serie B after significant absences, and two of them will play Serie B for their second time in history, Gubbio after 63 years and Juve Stabia after 59 years, while Nocerina will take part to its third Serie B after 32 years. The fourth promoted team, Verona, make instead their return to Serie B after four years; Verona will also participate as one of only three teams in the league who won the Italian national championship at some point in history (the other two being Sampdoria and Torino).

Events

The league started with a number of teams being punished with Ascoli being docked six points (then reduced to three) as a consequence of the 2011 Italian football scandal. Ascoli were also docked one point due to failing to pay social security money in time, together with Crotone and Juve Stabia.

Later in October 2011, Juve Stabia were docked five more points (successively reduced to three) due to their involvement in a matchfixing scandal regarding a 2008–09 Lega Pro Prima Divisione game against Sorrento. Still in October, Ascoli were docked three more points (now totalling a seven-point overall deduction) due to failing to meet some financial deadlines.

On 3 December 2011, the Padova–Torino league match was suspended with the home club leading 1–0 due to an electric stadium blackout; the game was completed 11 days later, and ended with the same result as earlier. Torino, however, appealed against Padova, claiming the home club was responsible for the blackout issue, and asked for being awarded the three points instead. In March 2012, the sports magistrature ultimately ruled in favour of the recurring club, and changed the result to a 3–0 win for Torino. Padova, however, successfully appealed at the Court of Federal Justice against the ruling, and on 27 April 2012 the result was switched back to a 1–0 win for the home club.

On 14 April 2012, the Pescara–Livorno game was halted after 30 minutes (the result being 0–2 at the time of suspension) after Livorno footballer Piermario Morosini suffered a heart failure on the pitch and eventually died in transport to hospital.[2] The event caused the immediate cancellation of all Italian football games for the week, with the involving matches (including the remaining 60 minutes of Pescara–Livorno) being delayed to mid-May.[3]

The first season verdict, AlbinoLeffe's relegation after nine consecutive years in the division, came on 5 May 2012. Seven days later, Gubbio became the second relegated club of the season, thus going down on their first season back. On 20 May 2012, the first promotion verdicts arrived as Torino, having already been champion of winter, and Pescara mathematically ensured themselves a place in the top flight for the following season; on that same day, it was also made official that Sassuolo, Verona, Varese and Sampdoria will be the four participants to the post-season promotion playoff tournament. The final regular season week marked Nocerina's direct relegation after only one season following a defeat at the hands of newly crowned champions Pescara, whereas Vicenza and Empoli will play a two-legged relegation playoff to determine the fourth team destined to go down to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.

Teams

Location of teams in Serie B 2011–12

Stadia and locations

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Personnel and kits

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Managerial changes

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League table

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Source: https://int.soccerway.com/national/italy/serie-b/2011-2012/regular-season/
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; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated; (T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated
Notes:
  1. PES 2–0 TOR; TOR 4–2 PES
  2. BRE 0–0 JST; JST 0–1 BRE
  3. Juve Stabia was docked 4 points: 1 point due to financial irregularities[58] and 3 points (originally 5 points, reduced to 3 in appeal) for match fixing with Sorrento.[59]
  4. Crotone was docked 2 points due to financial irregularities.[58]
  5. CRO 2–2 MOD; MOD 1–1 CRO
  6. Bari was docked 6 points due to financial irregularities.[60]
  7. GRO 3–3 ASC; ASC 0–2 GRO
  8. Ascoli was docked 7 points: 4 points due to financial irregularities[58][61] and 3 points (originally 6 points, reduced to 3 in appeal) due to the 2011 Italian football scandal.[62][63]
  9. CIT 2–2 LIV; LIV 1–2 CIT
  10. Vicenza remained in the league for the relegation of Lecce due to a 2011–12 Italian football scandal.

Results

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Source: Serie bwin 2011 – 2012
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-off

Promotion

Semi-finals
  • In case of an aggregate tie, the higher seed advances.
First legs will be played on 30 May 2012; return legs on 2 June 2012
More information Team 1, Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score ...
30 May 2012 Leg 1 Sampdoria 2–1 Sassuolo Stadio Luigi Ferraris
17:30 Éder 45'
Pozzi 55'		 Pozzi 35' (o.g.) Attendance: 20,455
Referee: Emilio Ostinelli
30 May 2012 Leg 1 Varese 2–0 Verona Stadio Franco Ossola
20:00 Kurtić 3'
Terlizzi 78'		 Attendance: 7,708
Referee: Massimiliano Irrati
2 June 2012 Leg 2 Verona 1–1 Varese Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi
17:30 Tachtsidis 21'
Ceccarelli Red card 85'		 Terlizzi 78' Attendance: 16,615
Referee: Davide Massa
2 June 2012 Leg 2 Sassuolo 1–1 Sampdoria Stadio Alberto Braglia
20:00 Valeri 62'
Piccioni Red card 90+5'		 Pozzi 8' (pen.) Attendance: 9,200
Referee: Dino Tommasi
Finals
  • In case of an aggregate tie, the higher seed advances.
First leg played 6 June 2012; return leg played 9 June 2012
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Sampdoria promoted to Serie A.

6 June 2012 Sampdoria 3–2 Varese Stadio Luigi Ferraris
19:45 Gastaldello 21', 81'
Pozzi 47'		 Rivas 25'
De Luca 56'		 Referee: Piero Giacomelli
9 June 2012 Varese 0–1 Sampdoria Stadio Franco Ossola
19:45 Pozzi 90' Referee: Giampaolo Calvarese

Relegation

First leg played on 3 June 2012; return leg played on 8 June 2012
  • In case of an aggregate tie, the higher seed advances.
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Vicenza is relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.

3 June 2012 Leg 1 Vicenza 0–0 Empoli Stadio Romeo Menti
19:45
8 June 2012 Leg 1 Empoli 3–2 Vicenza Stadio Carlo Castellani
19:45 Mchedlidze 71'
Tavano 73' (pen.)
Maccarone 90+4'		 Paolucci 59', 65'

Top goalscorers

Updated 21 May 2012[64]

28 goals
21 goals
20 goals
19 goals
18 goals
17 goals
16 goals
15 goals
14 goals

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