1957–58 Serie B

The Serie B 1957–58 was the twenty-sixth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.

Serie B

Season	1957–58
Champions	Triestina 1st title
← 1956–57 1958–59 →

Bari

Brescia

Cagliari

Catania

Como

Lecco

Marzotto

Messina

Novara

Parma

Prato

Sambenedettese

Simm.

Palermo

Taranto

Triestina

Venezia

Zenit

Serie B 1957-58 team distribution

Teams

Prato and Lecco had been promoted from Serie C, while Triestina and Palermo had been relegated from Serie A.

Events

Relegations were cancelled in March by new Football League’s chairman Giuseppe Pasquale in order to expand the number of participants from 18 to 20. Moreover, Bari, the second ranked team, had to play a qualification match with Verona, that ranked 17th in 1957–58 Serie A.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Promotion
1	Triestina (P)	34	20	7	7	64	29	2.207	47	Promotion to Serie A
2	Bari (P)	34	17	11	6	47	28	1.679	45	Promotion play-offs
3	Venezia	34	16	9	9	42	30	1.400	41
4	Marzotto	34	16	7	11	50	40	1.250	39
4	Simmenthal-Monza	34	15	9	10	47	39	1.205	39
6	Palermo	34	12	13	9	36	35	1.029	37
7	Zenit Modena	34	11	14	9	50	46	1.087	36
8	Brescia	34	14	7	13	45	36	1.250	35
8	Como	34	11	13	10	30	23	1.304	35
10	Prato	34	12	10	12	34	40	0.850	34
11	Novara	34	9	12	13	42	39	1.077	30
11	Taranto	34	10	10	14	25	31	0.806	30
11	Catania	34	8	14	12	29	36	0.806	30
14	Lecco	34	8	13	13	28	44	0.636	29
15	Sambenedettese	34	8	12	14	25	44	0.568	28
16	Messina	34	8	11	15	23	40	0.575	27
17	Cagliari	34	8	10	16	31	44	0.705	26
18	Parma	34	5	14	15	25	49	0.510	24

Source: Panini
(P) Promoted

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	BRE	CAG	CTN	COM	LCO	MAR	MES	NOV	PAL	PAR	PRA	SBN	SMN	TAR	TRI	VEN	ZMO
Bari		1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	0–2	0–0
Brescia	1–3		5–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	3–1	0–1	4–0	2–3	0–1	2–0	1–1	4–1
Cagliari	1–2	4–0		2–2	1–0	2–1	2–0	5–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	0–2	0–0	1–3	0–1	0–0
Catania	2–0	0–2	2–0		0–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–2
Como	2–1	1–0	0–1	3–1		1–1	3–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–2	0–0
Lecco	0–3	0–4	1–0	1–1	0–0		1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	5–2
Marzotto	1–1	4–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	3–1		4–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	6–0	3–2	2–1	2–0	3–4	1–0
Messina	0–3	0–1	3–0	0–2	2–1	2–1	0–1		2–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	0–2
Novara	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	4–2	3–0	1–1		5–2	5–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–2
Palermo	3–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–1		1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	3–2	0–0	1–0
Parma	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	0–2	0–2		0–3	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–2
Prato	0–3	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	3–0	2–1	0–0	3–3	1–0	1–0		1–0	3–2	0–0	3–0	0–0	2–2
Sambenedettese	2–3	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–2	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	3–0	0–0		1–1	1–0	1–5	0–1	2–1
Simm.-Monza	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	4–0		1–1	0–1	2–0	3–7
Taranto	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–1		0–1	0–0	3–2
Triestina	0–0	0–0	3–1	4–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	5–0	4–1	6–1	2–0	4–1	3–0		3–1	2–0
Venezia	0–1	1–2	3–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	3–1	1–2	1–0	4–0	3–2	1–0	2–0	2–2		0–1
Zenit Modena	3–2	1–0	0–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–3	1–2	2–2	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	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.

Serie A qualification play-off

Bari had to play a qualification match against the team that ranked 17th in Serie A.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bari	3-0	Verona	1-0	2-0

Bari promoted to Serie A.

References and sources

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