1942–43 Serie A

The 1942–43 Serie A was the forty-third edition of the Italian Football Championship and its fourteenth since 1929 rebranding to create Serie A. It was the twentieth season from which the Italian Football Champions adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a Scudetto. Torino F.C. were champions for the second time in their history. This was their second scudetto since the scudetto started being awarded in 1924 and their first win contested as Serie A. This was their first of five consecutive Italian Football Championship wins, punctuated by a two-year break due to World War II. It was the last Serie A for three years due to the regional format used in the first season of the Italian championship immediately post-war in 1945–46.

Serie A 1942-43 teams distribution

Serie A

Season	1942–43
Champions	Torino 2nd title
Matches played	240
Goals scored	742 (3.09 per match)
Top goalscorer	Silvio Piola (21 goals)
← 1941–42 1945–46 →

Teams

Bari and Vicenza had been promoted from Serie B.

Events

Goal average was abolished.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Torino (C)	30	20	4	6	68	31	+37	44
2	Livorno	30	18	7	5	52	34	+18	43
3	Juventus Cisitalia	30	16	5	9	75	55	+20	37
4	Ambrosiana-Inter	30	15	4	11	53	38	+15	34
5	Genova 1893	30	14	5	11	59	53	+6	33
6	Bologna	30	12	5	13	53	39	+14	29
6	Fiorentina	30	12	5	13	55	61	−6	29
6	Milano	30	10	9	11	39	44	−5	29
9	Lazio	30	10	8	12	56	59	−3	28
9	Atalanta	30	11	6	13	34	44	−10	28
9	Roma	30	12	4	14	36	50	−14	28
12	Vicenza	30	8	9	13	36	44	−8	25
13	Triestina	30	5	14	11	32	40	−8	24	Relegation tie-breaker
14	Venezia	30	8	8	14	34	46	−12	24
15	Bari (T)	30	7	10	13	24	38	−14	24
16	Liguria (T)	30	7	7	16	36	66	−30	21	1943–44 Serie B never played

Source: Relegations to canceled 1943–44 tournaments would have been canceled themselves after the war.
(C) Champions; (T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated

Results

Home \ Away	AMB	ATA	BAR	BOL	FIO	GEN	JUV	LAZ	LIG	LIV	MIL	ROM	TOR	TRI	VEN	VIC
Ambrosiana-Inter		1–0	0–0	1–0	4–0	3–0	3–1	4–1	5–1	0–1	3–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–4	1–2
Atalanta	2–5		2–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	0–2	2–0	2–0	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–2	1–2	2–2
Bari	1–0	0–0		0–1	4–2	0–0	2–3	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–0
Bologna	3–1	2–0	4–0		3–1	3–1	2–2	4–0	3–3	1–2	3–0	4–2	1–2	2–2	0–2	1–2
Fiorentina	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–1		3–2	3–4	1–1	5–1	4–3	3–0	3–0	2–3	2–2	2–1	4–2
Genova 1893	1–0	1–0	3–2	3–1	0–2		1–2	6–5	3–0	5–2	4–2	0–2	3–3	1–1	5–1	6–1
Juventus	4–2	5–1	5–0	3–1	5–2	3–2		2–4	4–1	3–0	1–1	1–2	2–5	6–2	5–2	2–6
Lazio	3–1	3–2	0–0	2–1	3–3	1–1	5–3		5–1	0–1	4–2	3–1	2–3	3–1	1–1	2–1
Liguria	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–7	2–2	1–2	1–0	2–0		1–2	2–2	3–0	2–3	1–1	1–0	3–1
Livorno	4–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	4–1	3–1	0–3	4–2	3–1		3–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–0
Milano	0–3	0–1	3–1	3–2	1–3	0–0	2–0	4–1	0–0	1–1		4–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–1
Roma	1–3	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–3	1–2	1–0	5–1	1–0	1–1		0–4	1–2	2–1	1–0
Torino	1–3	4–2	3–0	2–1	5–0	3–1	2–0	2–2	3–0	1–2	0–1	4–0		4–1	3–1	0–0
Triestina	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–3		1–1	2–0
Venezia	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	4–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–3	0–0	0–3	1–1		0–1
Vicenza	2–2	2–3	1–0	0–1	3–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	2–0

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 Rome, Florence and Modena.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Bari	1-1	Venezia
Triestina	2-0	Venezia
Bari	2-3	Triestina

Triestina remained in Serie A. A second round was needed and played in Bologna.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Bari	0-3	Venezia

Bari relegated to Serie B.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Silvio Piola	Lazio	21
2	Guglielmo Trevisan	Genova 1893	19
3	Vittorio Sentimenti	Juventus	17
4	Riza Lushta	Juventus	16
5	Amedeo Amadei	Roma	14
	Guglielmo Gabetto	Torino
	Giovanni Gaddoni	Ambrosiana-Inter
8	Frane Matošić	Bologna	13
9	Pietro Ferraris	Torino	12
	Adriano Gè	Atalanta
	Alberto Marchetti	Vicenza
	Teresio Piana	Livorno

References and sources

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

External links

• - All results on RSSSF Website.