Serie A 2008–09

The 2008–09 Serie A season is the seventy-seventh since its establishment. It began on 30 August 2008 and will end on 31 May 2009, with the announcement of the list of fixtures made on 25 July 2008. Twenty teams are contesting the league, of which 17 are returning from the previous season, and three (Chievo Verona, Bologna and Lecce) were promoted from Serie B 2007-08.

The 20 clubs represent 13 different regions. The most represented region is Lombardy with three teams: Atalanta, Milan and Inter. Piedmont, Liguria, Tuscany, Lazio and Sicily feature 2 teams each while Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Campania, Puglia, Calabria and Sardinia are represented by one team each.

There is aa record number of southern teams in the top division with 6 teams: Cagliari, Catania, Lecce, Napoli, Palermo and Reggina.

The new match ball will be the Nike T90 Omni.

Teams

Chievo and Bologna were promoted from Serie B, being then joined by Lecce, who defeated AlbinoLeffe 2–1 on aggregate in a two-legged playoff final.

League table

"Updated as of 2008-10-05"

Top goalscorers

"Updated as of 6 October 2008" [cite web |url=http://www.corrieredellosport.it/live/SerieA/statistiche/giocatori/gol.shtml |publisher=Corriere dello Sport |language=Italian |title=GIOCATORI - Gol segnati |accessdate=2008-10-06] ; 6 goals
* Mauro Zárate "(Lazio)"; 5 goals
* Fabrizio Miccoli "(Palermo)"
* Diego Milito "(Genoa)"; 4 goals
* Alberto Gilardino "(Fiorentina)"
* Goran Pandev "(Lazio)"; 3 goals
* Amauri "(Juventus)"
* Sergio Floccari "(Atalanta)"
* Marek Hamšík "(Napoli)"
* Zlatan Ibrahimović "(Internazionale)"
* Michele Paolucci "(Catania)"
* Fabio Quagliarella "(Udinese)"; 2 goals
* Alberto Aquilani "(Roma)"
* Nicola Amoruso "(Torino)"
* Rolando Bianchi "(Torino)"
* Fabio Caserta "(Lecce)"
* Antonio Cassano "(Sampdoria)"
* José Ignacio Castillo "(Lecce)"
* Edinson Cavani "(Palermo)"
* Bernardo Corradi "(Reggina)"
* Germán Denis "(Napoli)"
* Antonio Di Natale "(Udinese)"
* Michele Marcolini "(Chievo)"
* Christian Panucci "(Roma)"
* Alexandre Pato "(Milan)"
* Simone Pepe "(Udinese)"
* Gianvito Plasmati "(Catania)"
* Giuseppe Sculli "(Genoa)"

Results

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Managerial changes

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