1945–46 Italian Football Championship

Serie A -B Sud
Champions	Napoli (promoted)
	← 1942–43 A; ← 1942–43 B 1946–47 A →; 1946–47 B →

Divisione Nazionale
	1945–46 Torino team
Season	1945–46
Champions	Torino; 3rd title
Matches played	350
Goals scored	889 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer	Guglielmo Gabetto; (22 goals)
	← 1942–43 1946–47 →

The 1945–46 Italian Football Championship officially known as 1945–46 Divisione Nazionale, was the forty-fourth edition of the Italian Football Championship. It was the twenty-first season from which the Italian Football Champions adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a Scudetto. 1945-46 was the first Italian Football Championship held after the ravages of World War II. Hence the authorities resurrected a one season return to the Divisione Nazionale two region set up, instead of the nationwide Serie A brand introduced in 1929.

Torino F.C. were champions for the third time in their history. This was their third scudetto since the scudetto started being awarded in 1924 and their second 'non-Serie A' style win. This was their second of five consecutive Italian Football Championship wins, punctuated by a two-year break due to World War II.

Northern Italy Serie A Championship

Campionato Alta Italia Serie A

A.Doria
Sampierdarenese
Genoa

Campionato Alta Italia Serie A 1945-46 team distribution

Just after the Allied disbandment of the fascist Higher Directory, the major clubs from US-occupied Northern Italy replaced it by a provisional football league, the High Italy League (Lega Alta Italia), which organized the local section of the Serie A.

Teams

Modena and Brescia had been promoted from Serie B.

Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria reborn from Liguria and both joined this championship as FIGC special guests to repair their forced fusion by the fascist government in 1927.

Classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Torino (A)	26	19	4	3	65	18	+47	42	National final round
2	Internazionale (A)	26	17	5	4	52	21	+31	39
3	Juventus (A)	26	13	9	4	52	23	+29	35
4	Milan (A)	26	12	6	8	38	36	+2	30	Qualified after tie-breaker
5	Brescia	26	12	6	8	38	33	+5	30	Tie-breaker
6	Modena	26	8	10	8	24	22	+2	26
6	Bologna	26	11	4	11	30	33	−3	26
8	Triestina	26	8	7	11	23	32	−9	23
9	Atalanta	26	7	7	12	21	28	−7	21
9	Andrea Doria (G)	26	7	7	12	25	35	−10	21	Disbanded^[a]
11	Vicenza	26	8	4	14	28	38	−10	20
12	Genoa	26	6	7	13	21	46	−25	19
13	Venezia	26	4	9	13	19	37	−18	17
14	Sampierdarenese^[b]	26	5	5	16	19	53	−34	15

Source: Panini
(A) Advance to a further round; (G) Guest
Notes:

^ Sampierdarenese merged again with Andrea Doria at the end of the season, creating new UC Sampdoria.
^ AC Sampierdarenese was called AC Liguria before the war.

Tie-breaker

Played in Bologna on April 21.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Brescia	1–1	Milan

Repetition

Played in Modena on April 24.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Brescia	1–2	Milan

Results

Home \ Away	ADO	ATA	BOL	BRE	GEN	INT	JUV	MIL	MOD	SAM	TOR	TRI	VEN	VIC
Andrea Doria		1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–3	0–0	2–0	3–2
Atalanta	0–3		0–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–2
Bologna	1–0	2–0		0–0	4–0	1–3	2–1	1–2	2–2	3–2	0–2	1–0	3–0	2–1
Brescia	2–0	1–1	2–1		3–1	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–3	1–1	3–1	4–1
Genoa	0–3	1–0	3–0	2–3		1–2	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–0
Internazionale	2–0	1–0	1–0	4–1	9–1		2–2	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	4–2
Juventus	6–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	4–1	0–0		2–2	1–0	6–0	2–1	1–1	5–0	2–1
Milan	1–2	2–1	2–2	3–1	1–0	1–3	1–1		1–0	3–0	2–3	2–0	2–1	2–4
Modena	1–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1		2–0	0–3	5–1	0–0	2–0
Sampierdarenese	1–0	1–3	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–3	2–2	1–2	0–0		0–5	0–6	1–1	1–0
Torino	5–0	2–0	4–0	2–2	6–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	1–1	2–1		4–0	3–1	4–0
Triestina	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–3	0–3	1–2	1–0	0–1	1–1		0–0	0–2
Venezia	2–2	0–0	1–2	1–2	0–0	0–1	0–2	0–0	2–3	3–1	2–1	1–1		1–0
Vicenza	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–1

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. 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.

Central and Southern Italy Serie A-B Championship

Campionato Centro-Sud Serie A-B

•Anconitana•

Bari

Fiorentina

Lazio
Roma

•Napoli•

•Palermo•

•Pescara•

Pro Livorno

•Salernitana•

•Siena•

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Serie A-B Centro-Sud 1945-46 team distribution

Teams

Bari had been relegated to Serie B but the FIGC annulled the move for wartime reasons.

Serie B guests

Palermo had been relegated to Serie C but the FIGC annulled the move for wartime reasons.

Salernitana had been promoted from Serie C.

Pisa was granted of a special break for its huge wartime damages. MATER had been disbanded.

Classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Napoli (G, P, A)	20	11	6	3	28	10	+18	28	Promotion to Serie A
1	Bari (A)	20	13	2	5	31	21	+10	28	National final round
3	Roma (A)	20	10	7	3	28	17	+11	27
4	Pro Livorno (A)	20	10	6	4	30	15	+15	26
5	Fiorentina	20	10	3	7	32	16	+16	23
6	Pescara (G)	20	6	6	8	27	26	+1	18
7	Lazio	20	6	5	9	19	19	0	17
7	Palermo (G)	20	6	5	9	16	23	−7	17
9	Salernitana (G)	20	5	4	11	20	32	−12	14
10	Siena (G)	20	2	9	9	13	36	−23	13
11	Anconitana (G, T)	20	3	3	14	12	41	−29	9	Readmitted in B

Source: Panini
5 Serie A clubs and 7 Serie B clubs (but Pisa did not join)
(A) Advance to a further round; (G) Guest; (P) Promoted; (T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated

Results

Home \ Away	ANC	BAR	FIO	LAZ	NAP	PAL	PES	PLI	ROM	SAL	SIE
Anconitana		1–2	0–1	1–0	0–3	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–1
Bari	4–2		1–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–0
Fiorentina	5–0	2–0		4–3	0–1	2–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	4–0	5–0
Lazio	1–2	1–0	1–0		0–0	0–1	6–0	0–2	1–2	2–1	0–0
Napoli	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–0		2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	6–1
Palermo	3–0	0–2	0–0	0–1	0–0		1–0	1–0	1–3	1–0	2–2
Pescara	4–0	3–1	3–0	2–2	2–1	0–0		1–2	2–2	5–1	2–0
Pro Livorno	4–0	4–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	4–2	1–0		1–1	3–0	0–0
Roma	3–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–2		4–2	1–0
Salernitana	1–0	2–3	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–3		3–0
Siena	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–4	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–2

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. 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.

Final round

Classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Torino (C)	14	11	0	3	43	14	+29	22	Champions
2	Juventus	14	9	3	2	31	8	+23	21
3	Milan	14	7	2	5	25	16	+9	16
4	Internazionale	14	6	2	6	20	16	+4	14
5	Napoli	14	5	3	6	19	27	−8	13
6	Roma	14	4	3	7	16	22	−6	11
7	Pro Livorno	14	4	2	8	13	35	−22	10
8	Bari	14	1	3	10	6	35	−29	5

Source: Panini
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	INT	JUV	MIL	NAP	PLI	ROM	TOR
Bari		1–2	0–2	0–2	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–2
Internazionale	0–0		1–0	0–1	2–1	6–2	1–0	6–2
Juventus	6–1	1–0		3–1	6–0	5–1	2–1	1–0
Milan	8–0	3–2	1–1		2–3	1–0	2–0	2–0
Napoli	4–0	0–0	1–1	1–0		3–0	2–1	0–2
Pro Livorno	3–0	1–0	0–3	1–0	2–1		1–1	0–3
Roma	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–2	2–0	3–1		0–7
Torino	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	7–1	9–1	3–2

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. 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	Guglielmo Gabetto	Torino	22
2	Eusebio Castigliano	Torino	20
3	Romano Penzo	Internazionale	18
4	Enrico Candiani	Internazionale	17
5	Silvio Piola	Juventus	16
	Aredio Gimona	Milan
	Valentino Mazzola	Torino
	Ezio Loik	Torino
9	Dante Di Benedetti	Bari	14
10	Giuseppe Baldini	Andrea Doria	13
11	Mario Gritti	Fiorentina	12
12	Engelbert König	Lazio	11

References and sources

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

External links

[1] - All results on RSSSF Website.

[table_note_res_DISB0.0072448328171134-1] Sampierdarenese merged again with Andrea Doria at the end of the season, creating new UC Sampdoria.

[table_note_SAM0.0072448328171134-2] AC Sampierdarenese was called AC Liguria before the war.

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