1950–51 Serie A

The 1950-51 Serie A was the forty-ninth edition of the Italian Football Championship. It was the eighteenth Italian Football Championship branded Serie A, since Serie A was launched in 1929. This was the twenty-fifth season from which the Italian Football Champions adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a Scudetto. AC Milan were champions for the fourth time in their history. This was their first scudetto since the scudetto started being awarded in 1924 and their first win contested as Serie A.

Serie A

1950–51 Serie A winning Milan squad
Season	1950–51
Champions	Milan 4th title
Relegated	Roma Genoa
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,192 (3.14 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gunnar Nordahl (34 goals)
← 1949–50 1951–52 →

Teams

Napoli and Udinese had been promoted from Serie B.

Atalanta

Bologna

Como

Fiorentina

Genoa
Sampdoria

Internazionale
Milan

Juventus
Torino

Lazio
Roma

Lucchese

Napoli

Novara

Padova

Palermo

Pro Patria

Triestina

Udinese

Serie A 1950-51 team distribution

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Milan (C)	38	26	8	4	107	39	+68	60	1951 Latin Cup
2	Internazionale	38	27	5	6	107	43	+64	59
3	Juventus	38	23	8	7	103	44	+59	54
4	Lazio	38	18	10	10	64	50	+14	46
5	Fiorentina	38	18	8	12	52	42	+10	44
6	Napoli	38	15	11	12	57	52	+5	41
6	Bologna	38	16	9	13	61	59	+2	41
8	Como	38	18	4	16	56	66	−10	40
9	Udinese	38	11	13	14	46	61	−15	35
10	Palermo	38	14	6	18	59	67	−8	34
10	Pro Patria	38	14	6	18	47	74	−27	34
12	Novara	38	13	7	18	56	67	−11	33
12	Sampdoria	38	12	9	17	51	76	−25	33
14	Atalanta	38	10	12	16	48	69	−21	32
15	Lucchese	38	11	8	19	44	53	−9	30
15	Triestina	38	10	10	18	45	67	−22	30
15	Torino	38	9	12	17	46	69	−23	30
18	Padova	38	12	5	21	49	68	−19	29
19	Roma (R)	38	10	8	20	48	54	−6	28	Relegation to Serie B
20	Genoa (R)	38	9	9	20	46	72	−26	27

Source: Panini
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ATA	BOL	COM	FIO	GEN	INT	JUV	LAZ	LUC	MIL	NAP	NOV	PAD	PAL	PPA	ROM	SAM	TOR	TRI	UDI
Atalanta		2–0	2–1	0–2	2–1	3–3	1–5	1–0	0–5	4–7	2–2	3–0	3–1	3–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0
Bologna	3–2		0–2	0–1	3–3	1–1	0–5	7–2	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	5–2	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	5–2
Como	1–0	2–1		1–0	3–2	3–1	1–0	2–1	5–0	2–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	4–2	3–1	0–2
Fiorentina	1–0	2–1	3–0		1–0	1–2	1–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	4–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	3–3	3–1	1–1
Genoa	0–2	1–2	3–2	1–1		2–2	0–3	3–0	2–1	0–3	1–2	3–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	2–3	1–0	3–2	1–1
Internazionale	3–1	3–1	4–2	2–0	5–2		3–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	4–3	5–0	5–1	3–1	6–0	6–0	5–1	3–1	2–0	6–1
Juventus	6–2	1–1	0–3	5–0	4–1	0–2		1–1	1–0	1–1	3–2	4–0	5–1	4–1	2–1	7–2	7–2	5–1	2–2	1–1
Lazio	5–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	3–3	0–3		2–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	4–0	3–3	4–2	2–1	2–2	3–0	2–0	3–2
Lucchese	2–1	0–1	5–0	0–2	0–0	3–2	0–1	1–1		1–5	1–0	2–2	3–2	0–0	0–0	1–0	4–0	2–0	2–0	0–1
Milan	3–3	1–2	7–2	1–0	4–0	2–3	2–0	1–2	2–0		2–1	9–2	3–1	9–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	6–2
Napoli	0–0	4–1	7–0	3–2	1–1	0–4	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–5		3–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	4–0	1–1	2–1	2–1
Novara	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	4–2	3–3	1–3	6–0		2–1	3–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	3–2	4–1	2–0
Padova	0–0	0–2	3–1	3–0	4–0	2–3	0–1	2–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–2		1–0	3–1	3–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	1–1
Palermo	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	4–1	0–3	1–5	2–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	3–2	3–1		8–0	3–0	4–1	1–1	6–0	1–0
Pro Patria	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	5–2	2–0	0–7	1–0	2–2	0–0	1–3	2–1	1–0	2–1		3–1	1–1	4–3	2–2	2–1
Roma	3–3	2–2	2–0	3–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	5–0	1–2	2–0		5–0	1–0	5–0	4–1
Sampdoria	2–1	7–2	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–4	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–2	5–1	2–0	1–0		2–1	3–1	1–1
Torino	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–4	0–1	2–0	0–4	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	3–1		1–0	3–3
Triestina	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	1–3	0–0	3–4	1–1	3–0	0–0	4–2	3–1	4–2	2–1	2–0		0–0
Udinese	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–3	0–3	2–3	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	0–3	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–1

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.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gunnar Nordahl	Milan	34
2	István Nyers	Internazionale	31
3	Karl Aage Hansen	Juventus	24
4	Faas Wilkes	Internazionale	23
5	Giampiero Boniperti	Juventus	22
6	Benito Lorenzi	Internazionale	21
7	John Hansen	Juventus	20
8	Silvio Piola	Novara	19
	Jørgen Leschly Sørensen	Atalanta
10	Gino Cappello	Bologna	16
11	Dante Di Maso	Palermo	15
	Karl Aage Præst	Juventus
	Carlo Annovazzi	Milan
14	Cesarino Cervellati	Bologna	14
	Benjamin Santos	Torino
16	Bror Mellberg	Genoa	13
	Josè Osvaldo Curti	Padova
	Şükrü Gülesin	Palermo

References and sources

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

External links

• it:Classifica calcio Serie A italiana 1951 - Italian version with pictures and info.
• - All results on RSSSF Website.