2016–17 Serie A

Serie A

Season	2016–17
Matches played	146
Goals scored	411 (2.82 per match)
Top goalscorer	Edin Džeko Mauro Icardi (12 goals)[1]
Biggest home win	Roma 4–0 Udinese (20 August 2016)[2] Torino 5–1 Bologna (28 August 2016)[2] Juventus 4–0 Cagliari (21 September 2016)[2] Roma 4–0 Crotone (21 September 2016)[2] Torino 5–1 Cagliari (5 November 2016)[2]
Biggest away win	Pescara 0–4 Empoli (6 November 2016)[2] Empoli 0–4 Fiorentina (20 November 2016)[2]
Highest scoring	Cagliari 3–5 Fiorentina (23 October 2016)[2]
Longest winning run	6 games[2] Atalanta
Longest unbeaten run	9 games[2] Atalanta Lazio
Longest winless run	13 games[2] Pescara
Longest losing run	7 games[2] Palermo
Highest attendance	77,882 Milan 2–2 Internazionale (20 November 2016)
Lowest attendance	510 Crotone 1–1 Palermo (18 September 2016)[2]
Average attendance	21,385[2]
← 2015–16 2017–18 → All statistics correct as of 4 December 2016.

The 2016–17 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) is the 115th season of top-tier Italian football, the 85th in a round-robin tournament, and the 7th since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. Juventus are the defending champions. The season will run from 20 August 2016 to 28 May 2017.^[3][4][5]

Events

On 14 April 2016, it was announced that Serie A was selected by the International Football Association Board to test video replays, which will initially be private for the 2016–17 season, before allowing them to become a live pilot phase with replay assistance by the 2017–18 season at the latest. On the decision, FIGC President Carlo Tavecchio said, "We were among the first supporters of using technology on the pitch and we believe we have everything required to offer our contribution to this important experiment."^[6]

On 29 April 2016 Crotone earned their first ever promotion to Serie A.^[7] One week later, Cagliari was also promoted from Serie B after just one year of being relegated.^[8] On 9 June 2016 Pescara won the Serie B play-off to return to Serie A after a 3-year absence.^[9]

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Atalanta

Bologna

Cagliari

Chievo

Crotone

Empoli

Fiorentina

Internazionale
Milan

Juventus
Torino

Lazio
Roma

Napoli

Palermo

Pescara

Genoa
Sampdoria

Sassuolo

Udinese

Locations of the 2016–17 Serie A teams

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity	2015–16 season
Atalanta	Bergamo	Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia	26,542	13th in Serie A
Bologna	Bologna	Stadio Renato Dall'Ara	38,279	14th in Serie A
Cagliari	Cagliari	Stadio Sant'Elia	16,000	Serie B Champions
Chievo	Verona	Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi	38,402	9th in Serie A
Crotone	Crotone	Stadio Ezio Scida	9,547	Serie B Runners-up
Empoli	Empoli	Stadio Carlo Castellani	16,800	10th in Serie A
Fiorentina	Florence	Stadio Artemio Franchi	47,282	5th in Serie A
Genoa	Genoa	Stadio Luigi Ferraris	36,685	11th in Serie A
Internazionale	Milan	San Siro	80,018	4th in Serie A
Juventus	Turin	Juventus Stadium	41,507	Serie A Champions
Lazio	Rome	Stadio Olimpico	72,698	8th in Serie A
Milan	Milan	San Siro	80,018	7th in Serie A
Napoli	Naples	Stadio San Paolo	60,240	2nd in Serie A
Palermo	Palermo	Stadio Renzo Barbera	36,349	16th in Serie A
Pescara	Pescara	Stadio Adriatico	20,476	Serie B Playoffs Winners
Roma	Rome	Stadio Olimpico	72,698	3rd in Serie A
Sampdoria	Genoa	Stadio Luigi Ferraris	36,685	15th in Serie A
Sassuolo	Sassuolo	Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore (Reggio Emilia)	23,717	6th in Serie A
Torino	Turin	Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino	27,994	12th in Serie A
Udinese	Udine	Stadio Friuli	25,144	17th in Serie A

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsors
Atalanta	Gian Piero Gasperini	Cristian Raimondi	Nike	SuisseGas
Bologna	Roberto Donadoni	Daniele Gastaldello	Macron	FAAC
Cagliari	Massimo Rastelli	Daniele Dessena	Macron	Isola Artigianato di Sardegna
Chievo	Rolando Maran	Sergio Pellissier	Givova	Paluani
Crotone	Davide Nicola	Claiton	Zeus Sport
Empoli	Giovanni Martusciello	Massimo Maccarone	Joma	Gensan
Fiorentina	Paulo Sousa	Gonzalo Rodríguez	Le Coq Sportif	Folletto
Genoa	Ivan Jurić	Nicolás Burdisso	Lotto
Internazionale	Stefano Pioli	Mauro Icardi	Nike	Pirelli
Juventus	Massimiliano Allegri	Gianluigi Buffon	Adidas	Jeep
Lazio	Simone Inzaghi	Lucas Biglia	Macron
Milan	Vincenzo Montella	Riccardo Montolivo	Adidas	Fly Emirates
Napoli	Maurizio Sarri	Marek Hamšík	Kappa	Lete
Palermo	Roberto De Zerbi	Roberto Vitiello	Joma	Bisaten
Pescara	Massimo Oddo	Ledian Memushaj	Errea	Moma
Roma	Luciano Spalletti	Francesco Totti	Nike
Sampdoria	Marco Giampaolo	Angelo Palombo	Joma
Sassuolo	Eusebio Di Francesco	Francesco Magnanelli	Kappa	Mapei
Torino	Siniša Mihajlović	Giuseppe Vives	Kappa	Suzuki
Udinese	Luigi Delneri	Danilo	HS Sport	Dacia

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Empoli	Marco Giampaolo	Mutual consent	15 May 2016	Pre-season	Giovanni Martusciello	26 May 2016[10]
Udinese	Luigi De Canio	End of interim spell	19 May 2016		Giuseppe Iachini	19 May 2016[11]
Torino	Giampiero Ventura	Signed by Italy	25 May 2016		Siniša Mihajlović	25 May 2016[12]
Genoa	Gian Piero Gasperini	Signed by Atalanta	14 June 2016[13]		Ivan Jurić	28 June 2016[14]
Atalanta	Edoardo Reja	Sacked	14 June 2016		Gian Piero Gasperini	14 June 2016[13]
Crotone	Ivan Jurić	Signed by Genoa	23 June 2016		Davide Nicola	23 June 2016[15]
Sampdoria	Vincenzo Montella	Signed by Milan	28 June 2016		Marco Giampaolo	4 July 2016[16]
Milan	Cristian Brocchi	End of Interim spell	28 June 2016		Vincenzo Montella	28 June 2016[17]
Lazio	Simone Inzaghi	End of Interim spell	6 July 2016		Marcelo Bielsa	6 July 2016[18]
Lazio	Marcelo Bielsa	Resigned	8 July 2016[19]		Simone Inzaghi	8 July 2016[20]
Internazionale	Roberto Mancini	Mutual consent	8 August 2016[21]		Frank de Boer	9 August 2016[22]
Palermo	Davide Ballardini	Mutual consent	6 September 2016[23]	15th	Roberto De Zerbi	6 September 2016[24]
Udinese	Giuseppe Iachini	Sacked	2 October 2016[25]	16th	Luigi Delneri	4 October 2016[26]
Internazionale	Frank de Boer	Sacked	1 November 2016[27]	12th	Stefano Vecchi (caretaker)	1 November 2016[28]
Internazionale	Stefano Vecchi	End of interim spell	8 November 2016	9th	Stefano Pioli	8 November 2016[29]
Palermo	Roberto De Zerbi	Sacked	30 November 2016	20th	Eugenio Corini	30 November 2016[30]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Juventus	15	12	0	3	32	13	+19	36	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Roma	15	10	2	3	35	16	+19	32
3	Milan	15	10	2	3	27	19	+8	32	Qualification to Champions League play-off round
4	Napoli	15	8	4	3	27	15	+12	28	Qualification to UEFA Europa League group stage
5	Lazio	15	8	4	3	27	16	+11	28	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
6	Atalanta	15	9	1	5	24	17	+7	28
7	Torino	15	7	4	4	31	19	+12	25
8	Sampdoria	15	6	4	5	19	20	−1	22
9	Internazionale	15	6	3	6	22	21	+1	21
10	Fiorentina	13	5	5	3	20	15	+5	20
11	Cagliari	15	6	2	7	23	32	−9	20
12	Genoa	13	5	4	4	17	15	+2	19
13	Chievo	14	5	3	6	14	16	−2	18
14	Sassuolo	15	5	2	8	20	26	−6	17
15	Bologna	14	4	4	6	14	21	−7	16
16	Udinese	14	4	3	7	18	23	−5	15
17	Empoli	15	2	4	9	7	24	−17	10
18	Pescara	15	1	5	9	12	27	−15	8	Relegation to Serie B
19	Crotone	15	1	3	11	12	29	−17	6
20	Palermo	14	1	3	10	10	27	−17	6

Updated to match(es) played on 4 December 2016. Source: Serie A, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw.^[31]

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Juventus	6	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Milan	1	4	3	3	3	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Roma	5	11	15	10	6	6	6	3	3	4	3	3	3	3
Lazio	4	9	10	4	9	5	4	6	6	5	4	4	4	4
Atalanta	12	18	14	18	19	16	12	13	8	6	6	5	5	5
Torino	13	7	12	14	14	10	7	4	5	7	7	7	7	6
Napoli	10	6	2	1	2	2	2	5	4	3	5	6	6	7
Fiorentina	14	10	13	8	10	12	14	14	11	11	8	8	8
Internazionale	19	17	11	6	5	3	9	11	14	10	12	11	9
Genoa	2	1	4	7	8	11	8	9	12	8	10	10	12
Sampdoria	8	3	5	9	12	17	15	15	15	16	14	14	11
Cagliari	18	16	18	15	17	13	10	8	10	15	9	11	14
Chievo	3	8	9	5	4	7	5	7	7	9	11	12	10	13
Bologna	7	14	7	13	7	8	11	12	13	13	15	15	13	14
Udinese	20	12	6	12	11	14	16	17	16	12	13	13	15	15
Sassuolo	9	13	17	11	13	9	13	10	9	14	16	16	16	16
Empoli	16	20	16	17	18	19	19	19	19	18	18	17	17	17
Pescara	11	5	8	16	15	15	17	16	17	17	17	18	18	18
Crotone	15	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	19
Palermo	17	15	19	19	16	18	18	18	18	19	19	19	19	20

Last updated: 28 November 2016
Source: Lega Serie A

	Leader
	2017–18 UEFA Champions League Group stage
	2017–18 UEFA Champions League Play-off round
	2017–18 UEFA Europa League Group stage
	2017–18 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
	Relegation to 2017–18 Serie B

Results

Home ╲ Away

ATA

BOL

CAG

CHV

CRO

EMP

FIO

GEN

INT

JUV

LAZ

MIL

NAP

PAL

PES

ROM

SAM

SAS

TOR

UDI

Atalanta

3–0

2–1

3–4

1–0

0–1

2–1

2–1

Bologna

0–2

2–1

1–0

0–1

0–1

3–1

2–0

1–1

Cagliari

3–0

2–1

3–5

2–1

2–2

2–1

2–1

Chievo

1–1

1–0

2–0

1–2

1–1

1–3

2–1

Crotone

1–3

2–0

1–3

1–2

1–1

1–1

0–2

Empoli

0–0

2–1

0–4

0–2

0–3

1–4

0–0

0–1

Fiorentina

0–0

1–0

1–1

0–0

1–0

1–1

Genoa

3–1

0–0

3–1

3–0

0–0

1–1

a

1–1

Internazionale

1–1

1–2

3–0

4–2

2–1

a

1–1

2–1

Juventus

3–1

4–0

2–1

a

a

2–1

3–0

4–1

3–1

a

2–1

Lazio

1–1

4–1

2–0

3–1

0–1

3–0

0–2

2–1

Milan

2–1

2–2

1–0

2–0

1–0

4–3

3–2

0–1

Napoli

3–1

2–0

2–0

3–0

1–1

4–2

1–3

1–1

Palermo

0–1

0–1

1–2

0–3

0–1

1–4

1–3

Pescara

0–1

1–1

0–2

0–4

1–2

2–2

1–1

0–0

Roma

3–0

4–0

2–1

a

a

4–1

3–2

3–2

4–0

Sampdoria

2–1

2–1

1–0

0–1

1–1

3–2

2–0

Sassuolo

0–3

2–1

3–0

2–0

0–3^[A]

1–3

1–0

Torino

5–1

5–1

2–1

0–0

2–1

a

2–2

3–1

Udinese

1–2

2–0

2–2

0–3

1–2

3–1

2–2

Updated to games played on 4 December 2016.
Source: Serie A
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Note

1. ^ The Lega Serie A announced on 30 August 2016 that Sassuolo were found guilty for fielding an ineligible player in their match against Pescara in Round 2, they decided to award the match to Pescara as a 3–0 forfeit win. The match originally ended 2–1 to Sassuolo.^[32]

Season statistics

Top goalscorers As of matches played on 28 November 2016.[33] Rank Player Club Goals 1 Edin Džeko Roma 12 Mauro Icardi Internazionale 3 Andrea Belotti Torino 10 4 Ciro Immobile Lazio 9 5 Mohamed Salah Roma 8 6 José Callejón Napoli 7 Gonzalo Higuaín Juventus Ilija Nestorovski Palermo 9 Carlos Bacca Milan 6 Federico Bernardeschi Fiorentina Luis Muriel Sampdoria

Top assists As of matches played on 28 November 2016.[34] Rank Player Club Assists 1 Suso Milan 6 2 Felipe Anderson Lazio 5 3 Antonio Candreva Internazionale 4 Diego Perotti Roma Francesco Zampano Pescara Josip Ilicic Fiorentina Lorenzo De Silvestri Torino Lorenzo Insigne Napoli Mauro Icardi Internazionale Mohamed Salah Roma Valter Birsa ChievoVerona

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Carlos Bacca	Milan	Torino	3–2	21 August 2016
Andrea Belotti	Torino	Bologna	5–1	28 August 2016
Nikola Kalinić	Fiorentina	Cagliari	5–3	23 October 2016
Mohamed Salah	Roma	Bologna	3–0	6 November 2016

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External links

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