1954–55 Serie A

The 1954-55 Serie A was the fifty-third edition of the Italian Football Championship. It was the twenty-second Italian Football Championship branded Serie A, since Serie A was launched in 1929. This was the twenty-ninth season from which the Italian Football Champions adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a Scudetto. AC Milan were champions for the second of four wins that decade, and for the fifth time in their history. This was their second scudetto since the scudetto started being awarded in 1924, and their second win contested as Serie A.

Serie A

Season	1954–55
Champions	AC Milan 5th title
Relegated	Udinese Catania
European Cup	AC Milan
Matches played	306
Goals scored	832 (2.72 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gunnar Nordahl (27 goals)
← 1953–54 1955–56 →

Teams

Catania and Pro Patria had been promoted from Serie B.

On February 13, 1955 Inter Milan, Juventus, Roma and Milan all lost on the same match day, a feat that would not be repeated until September 18, 2022.

Atalanta

Bologna

Catania

Fiorentina

Genoa
Sampdoria

Internazionale
Milan

Juventus
Torino

Lazio
Roma

Napoli

Novara

Pro Patria

SPAL

Triestina

Udinese

Serie A 1954-55 team distribution

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Milan (C)	34	19	10	5	81	35	+46	48	Qualification for the European Cup and for the Latin Cup
2	Udinese (D, R)	34	16	12	6	58	42	+16	44	Relegation to Serie B[a]
3	Roma	34	13	15	6	53	39	+14	41
4	Bologna	34	15	10	9	56	47	+9	40
5	Fiorentina	34	14	11	9	49	48	+1	39
6	Napoli	34	13	12	9	50	40	+10	38
7	Juventus	34	12	13	9	60	53	+7	37
8	Internazionale	34	13	10	11	55	49	+6	36
9	Sampdoria	34	11	12	11	54	44	+10	34
9	Torino	34	12	10	12	42	45	−3	34
11	Genoa	34	9	13	12	34	44	−10	31
12	Catania (D, R)	34	10	10	14	38	47	−9	30	Relegation to Serie B[a]
12	Lazio	34	11	8	15	41	52	−11	30
12	Triestina	34	9	12	13	34	52	−18	30
15	Atalanta	34	8	12	14	35	38	−3	28
15	Novara	34	10	8	16	39	53	−14	28
17	SPAL	34	5	13	16	24	49	−25	23
18	Pro Patria	34	6	9	19	29	55	−26	21

Source: Panini
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Catania and Udinese were relegated to Serie B by the FIGC for a corruption case. Pro Patria and SPAL maintained their places in Serie A.

Milan also joined the 1955 Latin Cup.

Results

Home \ Away	ATA	BOL	CTN	FIO	GEN	INT	JUV	LAZ	MIL	NAP	NOV	PPA	ROM	SAM	SPA	TOR	TRI	UDI
Atalanta		0–1	4–0	5–1	0–2	1–1	2–1	3–2	1–1	1–1	4–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–2
Bologna	0–0		4–2	0–2	2–1	3–2	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–3	2–2	5–0	1–3	3–1	2–0	4–1	1–1	2–4
Catania	1–0	2–2		0–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–3	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	5–0
Fiorentina	2–1	0–2	2–1		2–2	3–3	0–0	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	4–1	3–1
Genoa	1–0	1–2	0–0	0–0		2–0	2–0	2–0	0–8	1–1	0–0	1–3	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–1
Internazionale	3–0	2–2	3–0	3–5	0–1		1–2	2–1	1–1	1–4	3–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	2–2
Juventus	0–0	5–1	1–1	4–1	2–1	3–2		4–2	3–4	1–1	2–1	4–2	1–1	2–2	3–1	3–0	1–2	1–1
Lazio	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–2	2–1		2–4	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–3	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–2
Milan	3–1	0–0	2–0	4–0	2–2	1–1	3–1	3–0		1–1	3–0	2–0	0–2	1–3	6–0	4–1	4–0	2–2
Napoli	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–1	3–2	0–2		1–2	2–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	0–2	4–0	3–1
Novara	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–4	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–1		0–1	1–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	3–3
Pro Patria	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	0–2	0–0		1–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–2	2–2
Roma	0–0	3–4	3–1	3–4	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–3	2–1	0–0	5–3	1–1		1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1
Sampdoria	2–1	2–0	1–1	3–3	2–2	1–1	5–1	0–0	0–3	5–2	6–2	3–0	1–1		1–0	1–1	2–0	2–0
SPAL	0–0	1–1	1–3	1–3	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–5	2–0		1–1	1–0	1–4
Torino	1–1	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	3–1	1–2	1–0	3–2	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–0		5–1	1–1
Triestina	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	4–2	1–3	4–3	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–1		0–0
Udinese	3–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	0–2	0–1	1–1	3–2	3–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	3–0	3–0	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	27
2	Lorenzo Bettini	Udinese	20
3	Gino Pivatelli	Bologna	16
	Poul Aage Rasmussen	Atalanta
5	Giancarlo Bacci	Torino	15
	Giuseppe Virgili	Fiorentina
	John Hansen	Lazio
	Juan Alberto Schiaffino	Milan
9	Gino Armano	Internazionale	14
	Arne Selmosson	Udinese
11	Jørgen Leschly Sørensen	Milan	13
12	Vittorio Ghiandi	Catania	12
	Carlo Galli	Roma
	Benito Lorenzi	Internazionale
15	Dionisio Arce	Novara	11
	Helge Bronée	Juventus
	István Nyers	Roma
	Sergio Brighenti	Internazionale

References and sources

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

External links

• - All results on RSSSF Website.