2011–12 Serie D

Serie D, the fifth level of Italian Football, is usually composed of 162 teams divided into nine 18-team divisions. Special relegation of four teams from the professional leagues above Serie D after the team list had been set increased the total number of teams for this season to 166. Later, Montecchio Maggiore readmitted in Serie D to the judgment of the High Court of Justice, that has transformed the score of Montebelluna-Este from 2-1 to 0-3, for infringement of the rule on under. And the last team admitted was Verbano, increasing the total number of teams to 168.

Each team will play two matches against every other team in its own division; a total of 34 matches for the five groups of 18 teams and 38 matches for the groups A-B-D of 20 teams.

Promotions

The nine division winners are automatically promoted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione 2012-13.

Playoffs

Teams placed second through fifth in each division enter a playoff tournament, after the regular season, where the nine winners will compete among themselves to determine three of the four semi-finalists. The fourth is the winner or the finalist if it already promoted of Coppa Italia Serie D. A final match, between the winners of the semifinals, determines which team finishes first and which teams comes in second in this 37-team playoff. Eventually these teams may be included up to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione if one or more current teams runs into financial difficulties and so are not admitted in this league.

Relegations Playout

• In the groups C-E-F-G-H-I of 18 teams the two last-placed teams (17th and 18th) with the 16th, if the 13th place is more of 8 points ahead of it and the 15th, if the 14th place is more of 8 points ahead of this, are relegated directly. Otherwise the teams ranked 13th to 16th play a two-legged playout (13th vs 16th, and 14th vs 15th).

• In the groups A-B-D of 20 teams the two last-placed teams (19th and 20th) with the 18th, if the 15th place is more of 8 points ahead of it and the 17th, if the 16th place is more of 8 points ahead of this, are relegated directly. Otherwise the teams ranked 15th to 18th play a two-legged playout (15th vs 18th, and 16th vs 17th).

Tie-Breakers

If the two teams finish in an aggregate tie for to decide who is promoted and relegated or must play in the playoffs or playout, in neutral ground will be played onetie breaker, with possible penalties.

Scudetto Dilettanti

The nine division winners enter a tournament to determine the over-all Serie D champion and is awarded the Scudetto Dilettanti.

Events

Start of season

Given a normal season where there are no team failures and special promotions, Serie D would feature 4 teams that had been relegated from Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, 36 teams that had been promoted from Eccellenza, and 122 teams that had played in Serie D the year before. Due to ten bankruptcies and one extra promotion in Serie D, the 2011-12 season was to feature 3 teams that played in the 2010-11 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season, including the admitted Brindisi (Girone H) that went bankrupt after in that league, 42 teams that played in Eccellenza 2010-11 and 120 teams that played in Serie D 2010-11, including the readmitted Montecchio Maggiore after the judgment of the High Court of Justice. The league also admitted three of the teams that were excluded from the professional leagues. Ravenna (Girone D), Salerno, formerly Salernitana (Girone G) and Cosenza (Girone I) which all played in the 2010-11 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season. The league further admitted eleven teams from Eccellenza to fill the vacancies created. These teams are:

• Villafranca which finished 14th in Serie D 2010-11 Girone B
• Carpenedolo which finished 15th in Serie D 2010-11 Girone D
• Sestese which finished 13th in Serie D 2010-11 Girone E
• Miglianico which finished 18th in Serie D 2010-11 Girone F
• Sant'Antonio Abate which finished 13th in Serie D 2010-11 Girone H
• Lascaris which finished 2nd in Eccellenza Piedmont Girone B and was eliminated in the national play-off
• Verbano which finished 3rd in Eccellenza Lombardy Girone A and was eliminated in the national play-off
• Fidenza which finished 2nd in Eccellenza Emilia–Romagna Girone A and was eliminated in the national play-off
• Cerea which finished 2nd in Eccellenza Veneto Girone A and was eliminated in the national play-off
• Adrano which finished 3rd in Eccellenza Sicily Girone B and was eliminated in the national play-off
• Civitavecchia which finished 2nd in Eccellenza Lazio Girone A and was eliminated in the national play-off.

Standings

Girone A

Teams

Teams from Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Liguria, & Lombardy

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2010–11 season
Acqui	Acqui Terme	Jona Ottolenghi	1,500	10th in Serie D Girone A
Albese	Alba	San Cassiano	2,050	17th in Serie D Girone A
Aquanera	Novi Ligure	Costante Girardengo	3,000	4th in Serie D Girone A
Asti	Asti	Censin Bosia	6,000	3rd in Serie D Girone A
Bogliasco	Bogliasco	Comunale		1st in Eccellenza Liguria
Borgosesia	Borgosesia	Comunale	2,500	9th in Serie D Girone A
Cantù San Paolo	Cantù	Comunale	1,000	10th in Serie D Girone B
Chiavari Caperana	Chiavari	Angelo Daneri	2,300	12th in Serie D Girone A
Chieri	Chieri	Piero De Paoli	2,250	13th in Serie D Girone A
Derthona	Tortona	Fausto Coppi	3,500	15th in Serie D Girone A
Folgore Caratese	Carate Brianza	XXV Aprile	3,000	15th in Serie D Girone B
Lascaris	Pianezza	Comunale		2nd in Eccellenza Piedmont Girone B
Lavagnese	Lavagna	Edoardo Riboli	800	8th in Serie D Girone A
Naviglio Trezzano	Trezzano sul Naviglio	Comunale	300	1st in Eccellenza Lombardy Girone A
Novese	Novi Ligure	Costante Girardengo	3,500	14th in Serie D Girone A
Pro Imperia	Imperia	Nino Ciccione	1,500	2nd in Eccellenza Liguria
Santhià	Santhià	Fabio Pairotto	500	6th in Serie D Girone A
V.d.A. Saint-Christophe	Saint-Christophe	Comunale	2,020	2nd in Serie D Girone A
Verbano	Besozzo	Comunale		3rd in Eccellenza Lombardy Girone A
Villalvernia	Villalvernia (playing in Tortona)	Fausto Coppi	3,500	1st in Eccellenza Piedmont Girone B

League table

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Girone B

Teams

Teams from Lombardy, Piedmont & Emilia-Romagna

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2010–11 season
AlzanoCene	Alzano Lombardo and Cene (playing in Alzano Lombardo)	Carillo Pesenti Pigna	1,900	12th in Serie D Girone B
Atletico Pro Piacenza	Bettola	Comunale		1st in Eccellenza Emilia–Romagna Girone A (as Bettolaponte)
Aurora Seriate	Seriate	Comunale		1st in Eccellenza Lombardy Girone C
Carpenedolo	Carpenedolo	Mundial '82	3,000	15th in Serie D Girone D
Castellana	Castel Goffredo	Comunale	1,000	13th in Serie D Girone B
Colognese	Cologno al Serio	Antonio Locatelli	1,000	4th in Serie D Girone B
Darfo Boario	Darfo Boario Terme	Comunale	1,200	8th in Serie D Girone B
Fidenza	Fidenza	Dario Ballotta	1,400	2nd in Eccellenza Emilia–Romagna Girone A
Fiorenzuola	Fiorenzuola d'Arda	Comunale	4,000	11th in Serie D Girone D
Gallaratese	Gallarate	Atleti Azzurri d'Italia	1,320	7th in Serie D Girone A
Gozzano	Gozzano	Comunale		1st in Eccellenza Piedmont Girone A
Insubria Caronnese	Caronno Pertusella	Comunale	1,000	7th in Serie D Girone B
MapelloBonate	Mapello and Bonate Sopra (playing in Mapello)	Comunale		1st in Eccellenza Lombardy Girone B (as Mapello)
Olginatese	Olginate	Comunale	1,000	5th in Serie D Girone B
Pizzighettone	Pizzighettone	Comunale	2,500	8th in Serie D Girone D
Pontisola	Ponte San Pietro and Terno d'Isola (playing in Ponte San Pietro)	Matteo Legler	2,000	3rd in Serie D Girone B
Rudianese	Rudiano	Comunale	1,000	10th in Serie D Girone D
Seregno	Seregno	Ferruccio	3,700	5th in Serie D Girone A
Sterilgarda Castiglione	Castiglione delle Stiviere	Ugo Lusetti	3,000	9th in Serie D Girone B
Voghera	Voghera	Giovanni Parisi	4,000	2nd in Serie D Girone B

Girone C

Teams

Teams from Veneto & Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2010–11 season
Belluno	Belluno	Polisportivo	2,585	14th in Serie D Girone C
Concordia	Concordia Sagittaria	Comunale	2,500	16th in Serie D Girone C
Delta Porto Tolle	Porto Tolle	Comunale		1st in Eccellenza Veneto Girone B
Giorgione	Castelfranco Veneto	Comunale	2,100	2nd in Eccellenza Veneto Girone B
Legnago Salus	Legnago	Mario Sandrini	2,152	6th in Serie D Girone B
Itala San Marco	Gradisca d'Isonzo	Gino Colaussi	4,000	1st in Eccellenza Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Mezzocorona	Mezzocorona (playing in Trento)	Briamasco	4,277	17th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione Girone A
Montebelluna	Montebelluna	San Vigilio	2,000	13th in Serie D Girone C
Montecchio Maggiore	Montecchio Maggiore	Gino Corsaro	1,000	12th in Serie D Girone C
Pordenone	Pordenone	Ottavio Bottecchia	3,000	10th in Serie D Girone C
Sacilese	Sacile	XXV Aprile - Aldo Castenetto	2,600	15th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione Girone A
SandonàJesolo	San Donà di Piave	Verino Zanutto	4,000	4th in Serie D Girone C
St. Georgen	Bruneck	Comunale		1st in Eccellenza Trentino-Alto Adige
Sanvitese	San Vito al Tagliamento	Comunale	2,500	9th in Serie D Girone C
Sarego	Sarego	Comunale		1st in Eccellenza Veneto Girone A
Tamai	Brugnera	Comunale	1,000	3rd in Serie D Girone C
Union Quinto	Quinto di Treviso	Omobono Tenni	1,000	7th in Serie D Girone C
Venezia	Venezia	Pierluigi Penzo	7,450	2nd in Serie D Girone C

Girone D

Teams

Teams from Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany & Veneto

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2009–10 season
Bagnolese	Bagnolo in Piano	Fratelli Campari	1,000	3rd in Serie D Girone D
Camaiore	Camaiore	Comunale	3,000	6th in Serie D Girone D
Cerea	Cerea	Comunale	2,000	2nd in Eccellenza Veneto Girone A
Este	Este	Nuovo Comunale	1,200	6th in Serie D Girone C
Forcoli	Palaia	Guido Brunner	3,000	7th in Serie D Girone D
Forlì	Forlì	Tullo Morgagni	3,600	4th in Serie D Girone F
Lanciotto	Campi Bisenzio	Comunale (playing in Rignano sull'Arno)	1,500	1st in Eccellenza Tuscany Girone B
Mezzolara	Budrio	Pietro Zucchini	1,300	5th in Serie D Girone D
Pelli Santacroce	Santa Croce sull'Arno	Libero Masini		14th in Serie D Girone D (as Mobilieri Ponsacco)
Pistoiese	Pistoia	Marcello Melani	13,195	1st in Eccellenza Tuscany Girone A
Ravenna	Ravenna	Bruno Benelli	12,020	14th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione Girone A
Rosignano	Rosignano Marittimo	Ernesto Solvay	1,400	9th in Serie D Girone D
San Paolo Padova	Padua	Plebistico	9,600	5th in Serie D Girone C
Scandicci	Scandicci	Turri	1,800	8th in Serie D Girone E
Sestese	Sesto Fiorentino	Piero Torrini	5,000	13th in Serie D Girone E
Tuttocuoio	San Miniato	Leporaia	600	12th in Serie D Girone D
Villafranca	Villafranca di Verona	Comunale		14th in Serie D Girone B
Virtus Castelfranco	Castelfranco Emilia	Fausto Ferrarini	1,280	4th in Serie D Girone D
Virtus Pavullese	Pavullo nel Frignano	Giuseppe Minelli	2,500	13th in Serie D Girone D
Virtus Verona	Verona	Gavagnin	1,000	11th in Serie D Girone B

Girone E

Teams

Teams from Tuscany, Umbria & Lazio

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2010–11 season
Arezzo	Arezzo	Città di Arezzo	15,128	9th in Serie D Girone D
Castel Rigone	Passignano sul Trasimeno	San Bartolomeo	1,200	2nd in Serie D Girone D
Deruta	Deruta	Comunale	600	16th in Serie D Girone D
Flaminia Civita Castellana	Civita Castellana	Turrido Madani	1,300	7th in Serie D Girone D
Group Castello	Città di Castello	Corrado Bernicchi	1,000	6th in Serie D Girone D
Orvietana	Orvieto	Luigi Muzi	2,500	14th in Serie D Girone D
Pianese	Piancastagnaio	Comunale	1,000	5th in Serie D Girone D
Pierantonio	Umbertide	Comunale		1st in Eccellenza Umbria
Pontedera	Pontedera	Ettore Mannucci	5,000	2nd in Serie D Girone D
Pontevecchio	Ponte San Giovanni	degli Ornari	1,000	1th in Serie D Girone E
Sansepolcro	Sansepolcro	Giovanni Buitoni	2,000	3rd in Serie D Girone E
Sansovino	Monte San Savino	Le Fonti	2,500	2nd in Eccellenza Tuscany Girone B
Sporting Terni	Terni	Mirko Fabrizi	1,070	10th in Serie D Girone E
Sporting Trestina	Trestina	Comunale		2nd in Eccellenza Umbria
Todi	Todi	Franco Martelli	1,200	4th in Serie D Girone E
Viterbese	Viterbo	Enrico Rocchi	6,000	8th in Serie D Girone G
Voluntas Spoleto	Spoleto	Comunale	1,800	12th in Serie D Girone E
Zagarolo	Zagarolo	Elio Mastrangeli	2,000	7th in Serie D Girone G

Girone F

Teams

Teams from Emilia-Romagna, Marche, Abruzzo & Molise

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2010–11 season
Ancona 1905	Ancona	Dorico	3,000	1st in Eccellenza Marche
Atessa V.d.S.	Atessa	Monte Marcone	2,000	11th in Serie D Girone F
Atletico Trivento	Trivento	Comunale	1,000	11th in Serie D Girone F
Civitanovese	Civitanova Marche	Comunale	4,000	10th in Serie D Girone F
Isernia	Isernia	Nuovo X Settembre	5,000	1st in Eccellenza Molise
Jesina	Jesi	Pacifico Carotti	5,000	5th in Serie D Girone F
Luco Canistro	Canistro	Comunale	600	13th in Serie D Girone F
Miglianico	Miglianico	Fratelli Ciavatta	600	18th in Serie D Girone F
Olympia Agnonese	Agnone	Civitelle	4,000	14th in Serie D Girone F
Real Rimini	Rimini	Romeo Neri	9,768	9th in Serie D Girone F
Recanatese	Recanati	Nicola Tubaldi	2,000	8th in Serie D Girone F
R.C. Angolana	Città Sant'Angelo	Comunale	4,120	6th in Serie D Girone F
Riccione	Riccione	Italo Niccoletti	7,000	1st in Eccellenza Emilia-Romagna Girone B
Sambenedettese	San Benedetto del Tronto	Riviera delle Palme	7,494	12th in Serie D Girone F
San Nicolò	San Nicolò a Tordino (playing in Teramo)	Comunale	7,498	1st in Eccellenza Abruzzo
Santegidiese	Sant'Egidio alla Vibrata	Comunale	2,000	7th in Serie D Girone F
Teramo	Teramo	Comunale	7,498	2nd in Serie D Girone F
Vis Pesaro	Pesaro	Tonino Benelli	4,050	5th in Eccellenza Marche

Girone G

Teams

Teams from Campania, Lazio & Sardinia

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2010–11 season
Anziolavinio	Anzio	Massimo Bruschini	3,000	10th in Serie D Girone G
Arzachena	Arzachena	Biagio Pirina	2,400	11th in Serie D Girone G
Astrea	Rome	Casal del Marmo	2,500	14th in Serie D Girone G
Atletico Boville	Boville Ernica	Montorli	1,500	10th in Serie D Girone H (as Boville Ernica)
Bacoli Sibilla	Bacoli	Tony Chiovato	1,720	2nd in Serie D Girone G
Budoni	Budoni	Comunale	1,500	8th in Serie D Girone G
Civitavecchia	Civitavecchia	G. M. Fattori	3,000	2nd in Eccellenza Lazio Girone A
Cynthia	Genzano di Roma	Comunale	6,000	13th in Serie D Girone G
Fidene	Rome	Walter Cervini	2,000	4th in Serie D Girone G
Marino	Marino	comunale	3,000	8th in Eccellenza Lazio Girone B
Monterotondo Lupa	Monterotondo	Fausto Cecconi	1,000	3rd in Serie D Girone G
Palestrina	Palestrina	Comunale	1,300	1st in Eccellenza Lazio Girone A
Pomigliano	Pomigliano d'Arco	Ugo Gobbato	2,500	2nd in Serie D Girone H
Porto Torres	Porto Torres	Comunale	5,000	9th in Serie D Girone G
Progetto Sant'Elia	Sanluri	Comunale	1,700	1st in Eccellenza Sardinia
Salerno	Salerno	Arechi	37,245	4th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione Girone A (as Salernitana)
Selargius	Selargius	Generale Porcu	2,000	12th in Serie D Girone G
Sora	Sora, Lazio	Claudio Tomei	6,500	1st in Eccellenza Lazio Girone B

Girone H

Teams

Teams from Campania, Apulia, Lazio & Basilicata

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2010–11 season
Angelo Cristofaro	Oppido Lucano	Comunale	300	1st in Eccellenza Basilicata
Brindisi	Brindisi	Franco Fanuzzi	7,600	13th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione Girone C
Campania	Piscinola	Dietro La Vigna	300	1st in Eccellenza Campania Girone A
Casertana	Caserta	Alberto Pinto	12,000	3rd in Serie D Girone I
Fortis Trani	Trani	Comunale	10,700	11th in Serie D Girone H
Francavilla	Francavilla in Sinni	Nunzio Fittipaldi	1,200	6th in Serie D Girone H
Gaeta	Gaeta	Antonio Riciniello	2,000	3rd in Serie D Girone H
Grottaglie	Grottaglie	D'Amuri	12,000	12th in Serie D Girone H
Internapoli Camaldoli	Vomero	Salvatore Nuvoletta	2,000	3rd in Eccellenza Campania Girone A
Irsinese	Irsina (playing in Matera)	XXI Settembre-Franco Salerno	8,500	9th in Serie D Girone H (as Fortis Murgia Irsina)
Ischia	Ischia	Vincenzo Mazzella	5,000	7th in Serie D Girone H
Martina Franca	Martina Franca	Gian Domenico Tursi	5,000	1st in Eccellenza Apulia
Nardò	Nardò	Giovanni Paolo II	5,000	4th in Serie D Girone H
Real Nocera	Nocera Superiore	Alfaterno	1,200	11th in Serie D Girone I
Sarnese	Sarno	F. Squitieri	4,000	3rd in Eccellenza Campania Girone B
Turris	Torre del Greco	Amerigo Liguori	4,000	5th in Serie D Girone I
Viribus Unitis	Somma Vesuviana	Felice Nappi	2,500	5th in Serie D Girone G
Virtus Casarano	Casarano	Giuseppe Capozza	6,200	5th in Serie D Girone H

Girone I

Teams

Teams from Campania, Calabria, & Sicily

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2010–11 season
Acireale	Acireale	Tupparello	8,000	13th in Serie D Girone I
Acri	Acri	Comunale		1st in Eccellenza Calabria
Adrano	Adrano	dell'Etna	4,200	3rd in Eccellenza Sicily Girone B
Battipagliese	Battipaglia	Luigi Pastena	13,000	14th in Serie D Girone H
Cittanova Interpiana	Cittanova (playing in Melicucco)	Fortunato Redi	2,500	12th in Serie D Girone I
Cosenza	Cosenza	San Vito	24,000	14th in Lega Pro Prima Divisione Girone B
HinterReggio	Reggio Calabria	Ravagnese	1,200	8th in Serie D Girone I
Licata	Licata	Dino Liotta	8,000	1st in Eccellenza Sicily Girone A
Marsala	Marsala	Antonino Lombardo Angotta	13,500	15th in Serie D Girone I
Messina	Messina	San Filippo	40,200	9th in Serie D Girone I
Nissa	Caltanissetta	Marco Tomaselli	9,000	6th in Serie D Girone I
Noto	Noto	Polisportivo Palatucci	5,000	14th in Serie D Girone I
Nuvla San Felice	Nola	Sporting Club	1,000	19th in Serie D Girone I (as Atletico Nola)
Palazzolo	Palazzolo Acreide	Alessandro Scrofani Salustro	1,300	1st in Eccellenza Sicily Girone B
Sambiase	Lamezia Terme	Guido D'Ippolito	2,000	4th in Serie D Girone I
Sant'Antonio Abate	Sant'Antonio Abate	Comunale	1,900	13th in Serie D Girone H
Serre Alburni	Serre	Comunale		1st in Eccellenza Campania Girone B
Valle Grecanica	Melito di Porto Salvo	Saverio Spinella	1,100	7th in Serie D Girone I

Division promotions

All teams promoted to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione 2012-13.

Scudetto Dilettanti

First round

• division winners placed into 3 groups of 3
• group winners and best second-placed team qualify for semi-finals

Promotion playoffs

Promotion playoffs involved a total of 37 teams; four from each of the nine Serie D divisions (teams placed from 2nd through to 5th) with the Coppa Italia Serie D winner that is directly admitted to the Semi-final round.

Rules

• The first two rounds were one-legged matches played in the home field of the best-placed team.
• The games ending in ties were extended to extra time. The higher classified team was declared the winner if the game was still tied after extra time. Penalty kicks were not taken.
• Round one matched 2nd & 5th-placed teams (2nd & 6th in Girone I), and 3rd & 4th-placed teams within each division.
• The two winners from each division played each other in the second round.
• The nine winners - one each from the nine Serie D divisions - were then split into three groups of three teams each. Every team played two matches, one against each of the other two opponents within the group. The three group winners qualified for the semifinal round, join with the Coppa Italia Serie D winner .
• The semi-finals were two-legged matches, and the respective winners moved on to play in a one-legged final hosted in a neutral ground.
• The tournament results provided a list, starting with the winner, by which vacancies could be filled in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.

Relegation playoffs

In case of aggregate tie score, higher classified team wins, without extra time being played.