Competition: | Serie A |
Season: | 2014–15 |
Dates: | 30 August 2014 – 31 May 2015 |
Winners: | Juventus 31st title |
Relegated: | Cesena Cagliari Parma (to LND) |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Juventus Roma Lazio |
Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Fiorentina Napoli Sampdoria |
Matches: | 380 |
Total Goals: | 1024 |
League Topscorer: | Mauro Icardi Luca Toni (22 goals each) |
Best Goalkeeper: | Gianluigi Buffon (18 clean sheets) |
Biggest Home Win: | 7–0 Sassuolo (14 September 2014) Juventus 7–0 Parma (9 November 2014) |
Biggest Away Win: | Palermo 0–4 Lazio (29 September 2014) Empoli 0–4 Cagliari (25 October 2014) Cagliari 0–4 Fiorentina (30 November 2014) |
Highest Scoring: | Parma 4–5 Milan (14 September 2014) |
Longest Wins: | 8 games[1] Lazio |
Longest Unbeaten: | 20 games Juventus |
Longest Winless: | 18 games Cesena |
Longest Losses: | 6 games Parma |
Highest Attendance: | 79,173 Milan 1–1 (23 November 2014) |
Lowest Attendance: | 5,000 Chievo 2–1 Cesena (9 November 2014) |
Average Attendance: | 22,149 |
Prevseason: | 2013–14 |
Nextseason: | 2015–16 |
The 2014–15 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 113th season of top-tier Italian football, the 83rd in a round-robin tournament, and the fifth since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. It began on 30 August 2014.
A total of 20 teams competed in the league: 17 sides from the 2013–14 season and three promoted from the 2013–14 Serie B campaign. Juventus were the defending champions, successfully defending their title for the fourth consecutive time. On 2 May 2015, Juventus won the Scudetto for the fourth consecutive time.[2]
The season will feature the return of Palermo after only one season in the second division and Empoli, whose last appearance was in the 2007–08 season. Cesena, the play-off winner, returned to the top level after two years in Serie B.
The pre-season saw two ownership changes: Cagliari was sold from Massimo Cellino to Milanese entrepreneur Tommaso Giulini, a former board member at Internazionale. Sampdoria was sold by Edoardo Garrone (son of the late Riccardo Garrone) to Rome-based film businessman Massimo Ferrero.
The season was also influenced by serious financial problems surrounding Parma, involving two controversial takeovers during the season, its last chairman Giampietro Manenti being arrested on 18 March 2015 under accusation of money laundering, and the club being ultimately declared insolvent by the local court on the very next day.
The Serie A this season had the most goals on average than any of the five other top leagues in Europe.[3]
Team | Home city | Stadium | Capacity | 2013–14 season | |
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Atalanta | Bergamo | Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia | |||
Cagliari | Cagliari | Stadio Sant'Elia | |||
Cesena | Cesena | Stadio Dino Manuzzi | |||
Chievo Verona | Verona | Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi | |||
Empoli | Empoli | Stadio Carlo Castellani | |||
Fiorentina | Florence | Stadio Artemio Franchi | |||
Genoa | Genoa | Stadio Luigi Ferraris | |||
Hellas Verona | Verona | Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi | |||
Internazionale | Milan | San Siro | |||
Juventus | Turin | Juventus Stadium | |||
Lazio | Rome | Stadio Olimpico | |||
Milan | Milan | San Siro | |||
Napoli | Naples | Stadio San Paolo | |||
Palermo | Palermo | Stadio Renzo Barbera | |||
Parma | Parma | Stadio Ennio Tardini | |||
Roma | Rome | Stadio Olimpico | |||
Sampdoria | Genoa | Stadio Luigi Ferraris | |||
Sassuolo | Sassuolo1 | Mapei Stadium[4] | |||
Torino | Turin | Olimpico di Torino | |||
Udinese | Udine | Stadio Friuli |
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Udinese | Change of role | [5] | Pre-season | [6] | |||
Milan | Sacked | [7] | |||||
Lazio | Resigned | [8] | [9] | ||||
Cagliari | Sacked | [10] | |||||
Juventus | Resigned | ||||||
Chievo | Sacked | [11] | 17th | [12] | |||
Internazionale | [13] | 9th | [14] | ||||
Cesena | [15] | 19th | [16] | ||||
Cagliari | [17] | 18th | [18] | ||||
Atalanta | [19] | 17th | |||||
Cagliari | [20] | 18th | |||||
Cagliari | Resigned | 19th |
Team | Previous owner | New owner | Date |
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Cagliari | Massimo Cellino[21] | Tommaso Giulini | |
Sampdoria | Edoardo Garrone[22] | Massimo Ferrero | |
Parma | Tommaso Ghirardi[23] | Dastraso Holding Ltd. | |
Dastraso Holding Ltd.[24] | Giampietro Manenti | ||
Giampietro Manenti[25] | Under provisional accounting |
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches were not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match was scheduled for matchday 29 (Fiorentina vs Sampdoria), but then postponed and played between matchdays 30 and 31, it was added to the standings for matchday 30.
Rank | Player | Club | Goals[26] |
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1 | Mauro Icardi | Internazionale | 22 |
Luca Toni | Hellas Verona | ||
3 | Carlos Tevez | Juventus | 20 |
4 | Gonzalo Higuaín | Napoli | 18 |
5 | Jérémy Ménez | Milan | 16 |
6 | Domenico Berardi | Sassuolo | 15 |
Manolo Gabbiadini | Sampdoria/Napoli | ||
8 | Antonio Di Natale | Udinese | 14 |
9 | Paulo Dybala | Palermo | 13 |
Iago Falque | Genoa | ||
Miroslav Klose | Lazio | ||
Fabio Quagliarella | Torino |
Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets[27] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Gianluigi Buffon | Juventus | 18 |
2 | Morgan De Sanctis | Roma | 16 |
3 | Albano Bizzarri | Chievo | 12 |
4 | Samir Handanović | Internazionale | 11 |
5 | Federico Marchetti | Lazio | 10 |
Emiliano Viviano | Sampdoria | ||
7 | Neto | Fiorentina | 9 |
Luigi Sepe | Empoli | ||
9 | Andrea Consigli | Sassuolo | 8 |
Antonio Mirante | Parma |
See main article: List of Serie A hat-tricks.
Player | Club | Against | Result | Date | |
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Mauro Icardi | Internazionale | Sassuolo | 7–0 | ||
Albin Ekdal | Cagliari | Internazionale | 4–1 | ||
Filip Đorđević | Lazio | Palermo | 4–0 | ||
Gonzalo Higuaín | Napoli | Hellas Verona | 6–2 | ||
Fabio Quagliarella | Torino | Sampdoria | 5–1 | ||
Domenico Berardi | Sassuolo | Milan | 3–2 |