1945–46 Italian Football Championship Explained

Competition:Divisione Nazionale
Season:1945–46
Size:280px
Winners:Torino
3rd title
League Topscorer:Guglielmo Gabetto
(22 goals)
Matches:350
Total Goals:889
Prevseason:1942–43
Nextseason:1946–47

The 1945–46 Italian Football Championship, officially known as 1945–46 Divisione Nazionale, was the first tournament held after World War II. Wartime disruptions and US occupation of Northern Italy forced to divide the Serie A championship in two sections, North and South. Some of the Southern sides that took part to the competition were the Serie B teams. The title was won by Torino after a final national round.

Northern Italy Serie A Championship

Campionato Alta Italia Serie AJust 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

Tie-breaker

Played in Bologna on April 21.

RepetitionPlayed in Modena on April 24.

Results

Central and Southern Italy Serie A-B Championship

Competition:Serie A-B Sud
Winners:Napoli (promoted)
Prevseason:1942–43 A
1942–43 B
Nextseason:1946–47 A
1946–47 B

Campionato Centro-Sud Serie A-B

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.

Results

Final round

Classification

Results

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Guglielmo GabettoTorino22
2 Eusebio CastiglianoTorino20
3 Romano PenzoInternazionale18
4 Enrico CandianiInternazionale17
5 Silvio PiolaJuventus16
Aredio GimonaMilan
Valentino MazzolaTorino
Ezio LoikTorino
9 Dante Di BenedettiBari14
10 Giuseppe BaldiniAndrea Doria13
11 Mario GrittiFiorentina12
12 Engelbert KönigLazio11

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