2008–09 Serie B Explained

Competition:	Serie B TIM
Season:	2008–09
Winners:	Bari (2nd title)
Promoted:	Bari Parma Livorno (by Play-off)
Relegated:	Treviso (bankruptcy) Avellino (bankruptcy) Pisa (bankruptcy) Rimini (by Play-out)
League Topscorer:	Francesco Tavano (24 goals)
Matches:	462
Total Goals:	1103
Prevseason:	2007–08
Nextseason:	2009–10

The 2008–09 Serie B season was the seventy-seventh since its establishment. A total of 22 teams will contest the league, 15 of which will be returning from the 2007–08 season, four of which will have been promoted from Serie C1 (now Lega Pro Prima Divisione), and three relegated from Serie A.

Teams

Noted teams featured in the league include Parma F.C., who last played Serie B in 1989–90 when under coach Nevio Scala they won their first promotion to the top flight.

U.S. Sassuolo Calcio, promoted to Serie B as Serie C1/A champions, are competing at the highest level in the club's history. A vacancy created by the withdrawal of Sicilian squad F.C. Messina Peloro was filled by the federation by including U.S. Avellino, who were the best team slated to be relegated in 2007–08.

Stadiums and locations

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	2007–08 season
AlbinoLeffe	Albino and Leffe (playing in Bergamo)	Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia	26,393	4th in Serie B
Ancona	Ancona	Stadio del Conero	26,000	Serie C1/B Play-off Winners
Ascoli	Ascoli Piceno	Stadio Cino e Lillo Del Duca	20,000	8th in Serie B
Avellino	Avellino	Stadio Partenio	26,308	19th in Serie B
Bari	Bari	Stadio San Nicola	58,248	11th in Serie B
Brescia	Brescia	Stadio Mario Rigamonti	27,547	5th in Serie B
Cittadella	Cittadella	Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato	7,623	Serie C1/A Play-off Winners
Empoli	Empoli	Stadio Carlo Castellani	19,795	18th in Serie A
Frosinone	Frosinone	Stadio Matusa	9,680	10th in Serie B
Grosseto	Grosseto	Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini	8,350	13th in Serie B
Livorno	Livorno	Stadio Armando Picchi	19,238	20th in Serie A
Mantova	Mantova	Stadio Danilo Martelli	14,844	9th in Serie B
Modena	Modena	Stadio Alberto Braglia	20,507	16th in Serie B
Parma	Parma	Stadio Ennio Tardini	27,906	19th in Serie A
Piacenza	Piacenza	Stadio Leonardo Garilli	21,668	15th in Serie B
Pisa	Pisa	Arena Garibaldi - Stadio Romeo Anconetani	17,000	6th in Serie B
Rimini	Rimini	Stadio Romeo Neri	9,768	7th in Serie B
Salernitana	Salerno	Stadio Arechi	37,245	Serie C1/B Champions
Sassuolo	Sassuolo (playing in Modena)	Stadio Alberto Braglia	20,507	Serie C1/A Champions
Treviso	Treviso	Stadio Omobono Tenni	9,996	18th in Serie B
Triestina	Trieste	Stadio Nereo Rocco	32,454	12th in Serie B
Vicenza	Vicenza	Stadio Romeo Menti	17,163	17th in Serie B

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AlbinoLeffe	Gianfranco Andreoletti	Armando Madonna	Acerbis	UBI Banca Popolare di Bergamo (H)/UBI Assicurazioni (A), Studio Casa Agenzie Immobiliari
Ancona	Giorgio Perrotti	Sandro Salvioni	Legea	Kerself/Elitaria/University.it/Twice/H6
Ascoli	Roberto Benigni	Franco Colomba	Legea	Carisap, Fainplast
Avellino	Massimo Pugliese	Salvatore Campilongo	Legea	Sidigas
Bari	Vincenzo Matarrese	Antonio Conte	Erreà	Gaudianello, Radionorba
Brescia	Gino Corioni	Alberto Cavasin	Asics	UBI Banco di Brescia, Bregoli SpA
Cittadella	Andrea Gabrielli	Claudio Foscarini	Garman	Siderurgica Gabrielli
Empoli	Fabrizio Corsi	Silvio Baldini	Asics	Limonta Sport, Computer Gross
Frosinone	Maurizio Stirpe	Piero Braglia	Legea	Banca Popolare del Frusinate, Provincia di Frosinone
Grosseto	Piero Camilli	Elio Gustinetti	Erreà	Industria Lavorazione Carni Ovine, Banca della Maremma
Livorno	Aldo Spinelli	Leonardo Acori	Legea	Banca Carige, Pediatrica
Mantova	Fabrizio Lori	Mario Somma	Diadora	Nuova Pansac
Modena	Alfredo Amadei	Luigi Apolloni	Erreà	Immergas, Kerakoll
Parma	Tommaso Ghirardi	Francesco Guidolin	Erreà	Banca Monte Parma, Metella Trasporti & Logistica
Piacenza	Fabrizio Garilli	Stefano Pioli	Macron	UNICEF
Pisa	Luca Pomponi	Bruno Giordano	Joma	Limonta Sport/Abitalia, Abitalia/Nettaro
Rimini	Luca Benedettini	Guido Carboni	Macron	Banca di Rimini/B&H Hotels, Sayerlack
Salernitana	Antonio Lombardi	Fabio Brini	Umbro	Interauto Citroën/VIT Cartiera Confalone, Santagata
Sassuolo	Carlo Rossi	Andrea Mandorlini	Sportika	Mapei
Treviso	Ettore Setten	Luca Gotti	Lotto	Grigolin/Banca Treviso
Triestina	Stefano Fantinel	Rolando Maran	Mass	Bossini, Fantinel
Vicenza	Sergio Cassingena	Angelo Gregucci	Diadora	Fieri di Vicenza/La Felinese/Choice/Caffè Vero/Diadora/PerFormare/Burro De Paoli/Estel/Luxin Italia/Pulitalia/Vicenzaoro First/BRPneumatici/Vicenzaoro Charm/Helyos

Events

Following the end of the 2007–08 season, rumours spread out regarding Messina's financial struggles which might lead the team to insolvency and following exclusion from the Serie B teamlist. This was implicitly confirmed by the fact that Messina has not organized a pre-season camp as of 10 July, and the team being still without a coach. On 14 July 2008 the club board announced their intention to resign from the Serie B due to financial difficulties, also stating their intention to start again from amateur league Serie D.^[1]

On 25 July 2008 the Italian Football Federation confirmed that Avellino had been readmitted to Serie B to replace Messina.^{[2] [3]}

On 31 July 2008 Treviso was penalized 3 points;^{[4] [5] [6]} however it ultimately changed to €15,000 fine by Camera di Conciliazione e Arbitrato per lo Sport of CONI.^[7]

Brescia and Parma were the first clubs to sack their managers. The rondinelle sacked Serse Cosmi, with past UEFA Champions League experience at Udinese, replacing him with well-experienced 67-year-old boss Nedo Sonetti, whereas Parma opted to dismiss Luigi Cagni from the coaching post and appoint former Palermo boss Francesco Guidolin. Brescia completed its replacement prior to the two club's meeting in Brescia in Week 6, Parma the day after. Several other coaching dismissals soon followed, regarding Avellino (former Foggia boss Salvatore Campilongo replacing Giuseppe Incocciati), Ascoli (former Juventus youth team coach Vincenzo Chiarenza taking over from Nello Di Costanzo) and Mantova (with former AC Milan assistant Alessandro Costacurta replacing Giuseppe Brucato). Chiarenza and Salernitana gaffer Fabrizio Castori went in December, but Castori was soon reinstated after Bortolo Mutti's inconsistency. The shortest reign was former Argentina striker Abel Balbo, who resigned after only 4 weeks in the job. Castori was sacked again after a 2–2 draw with Treviso, and Grosseto, Modena, Pisa and Mantova also lost their coaches.

On 8 May 2009 Livorno 0–1 home loss to Triestina ensured Bari to be mathematically promoted to Serie A in advance of four weeks. The galletti, coached by former Juventus player Antonio Conte, will therefore make their return to the top flight after eight years in the Italian second division.^[8] On 11 May, Treviso was mathematically relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione following a 0–1 home loss to Veneto rivals Vicenza after being in the Serie A as late as the 2005–06 season.

On 16 May, Parma joined Bari by ensuring automatic promotion to Serie A in Week 40, following a 2–2 tie with Cittadella that left a gap of seven points between Francesco Guidolin's team and closest rivals Livorno with only two games remaining.

League table

Top goalscorers

Updated to games played on 30 May 2009^{[9] [10]}

24 goals

• Francesco Tavano (Livorno)

23 goals

• Barreto (Bari)

18 goals

• Salvatore Bruno (Modena)
• Riccardo Meggiorini (Cittadella)

17 goals

• Salvatore Mastronunzio (Ancona)
• Daniele Vantaggiato (Rimini/Parma)

16 goals

• Alessandro Noselli (Sassuolo)

15 goals

• Andrea Caracciolo (Brescia)
• Éder (Frosinone)
• Marco Sansovini (Grosseto)

13 goals

• Arturo Di Napoli (Salernitana)
• Alessandro Diamanti (Livorno)
• Francesco Ruopolo (AlbinoLeffe)

12 goals

• Saša Bjelanović (Vicenza)
• Francesco Lodi (Empoli)
• Cristiano Lucarelli (Parma)
• Alberto Paloschi (Parma)
• Thomas Pichlmann (Grosseto)
• Nicola Pozzi (Empoli)

Play-off

Promotion

Semi-finals

First legs played 7 June 2009; return legs played 11 June 2009

Finals

First leg played 14 June 2009; return leg played 20 June 2009

Relegation

First leg played 6 June 2009; return leg played 13 June 2009

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Empoli	Luigi Cagni^[11]	Mutual consent		Silvio Baldini
Parma	Andrea Manzo^[12]	End of caretaker spell		Luigi Cagni
Rimini	Leonardo Acori^[13]	Mutual consent		Elvio Selighini^[14]
Livorno	Fernando Orsi	Mutual consent		Leonardo Acori^[15]
Frosinone	Alberto Cavasin^[16]	Mutual consent		Piero Braglia^[17]
Piacenza	Mario Somma^[18]	Sacked		Stefano Pioli^[19]
Salernitana	Fabio Brini^[20]	Mutual consent		Fabrizio Castori^[21]
Grosseto	Stefano Pioli^[22]	End of contract		Elio Gustinetti^[23]
Ascoli	Ivo Iaconi^[24]	End of contract		Nello Di Costanzo^[25]
Sassuolo	Massimiliano Allegri^[26]	Mutual consent		Andrea Mandorlini^[27]
Treviso	Giuseppe Pillon^[28]	Mutual consent		Luca Gotti^[29]
Avellino	Alessandro Calori	End of contract		Giuseppe Incocciati^[30]
Brescia	Serse Cosmi^[31]	Sacked		Nedo Sonetti
Parma	Luigi Cagni^[32]	Sacked		Francesco Guidolin^[33]
Avellino	Giuseppe Incocciati^[34]	Sacked		Salvatore Campilongo
Ascoli	Nello Di Costanzo^[35]	Sacked		Vincenzo Chiarenza^[36]
Mantova	Giuseppe Brucato^[37]	Sacked		Alessandro Costacurta
Ascoli	Vincenzo Chiarenza^[38]	Sacked		Franco Colomba
Salernitana	Fabrizio Castori^[39]	Sacked		Bortolo Mutti^[40]
Salernitana	Bortolo Mutti^[41]	Sacked		Fabrizio Castori
Modena	Daniele Zoratto^[42]	Mutual consent		Luigi Apolloni (caretaker)
Mantova	Alessandro Costacurta^[43]	Resigned		Mario Somma^[44]
Grosseto	Elio Gustinetti^[45]	Sacked		Ezio Rossi^[46]
Treviso	Luca Gotti^[47]	Sacked		Abel Balbo^[48]
Treviso	Abel Balbo^[49]	Resigned		Luca Gotti^[50]
Grosseto	Ezio Rossi^[51]	Sacked		Elio Gustinetti
Salernitana	Fabrizio Castori^[52]	Sacked		Fabio Brini
Pisa	Giampiero Ventura^[53]	Sacked		Bruno Giordano^[54]
Rimini	Elvio Selighini^[55]	Sacked		Guido Carboni
Ancona	Francesco Monaco^[56]	Sacked		Sandro Salvioni
Brescia	Nedo Sonetti^[57]	Sacked		Alberto Cavasin^[58]
Livorno	Leonardo Acori^[59]	Sacked		Gennaro Ruotolo (caretaker)

Notes and References

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4. News: Deferiti alla Disciplinare il Treviso, il Lanciano e 26 giocatori. 27 June 2008. 16 June 2012. FIGC. it.
5. News: 31 July 2008 . Comunicato Ufficiale N°12/CDN (2007–08) . https://web.archive.org/web/20120617010406/http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/63.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_19340_StrilloComunicatoUfficiale_lstAllegati_Allegato_0_upfAllegato.pdf . 2012-06-17 . 16 June 2012 . Commissione disciplinare nazionale . FIGC . it.
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27. News: Andrea Mandorlini è il nuovo allenatore del Sassuolo Calcio . it . US Sassuolo Calcio . 7 July 2008 . 7 July 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110608011349/http://www.sassuolocalcio.it/news.php . 8 June 2011 . dead.
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30. News: INCOCCIATI ALLENATORE PRIMA SQUADRA . it . US Avellino . 7 October 2008 . 26 July 2008 .
31. News: Brescia: esonerato Cosmi, arriva Sonetti. it . Corriere dello Sport. 2 October 2008 . 25 September 2008 .
32. News: Parma, Cagni esonerato. it . Corriere dello Sport. 2 October 2008 . 30 September 2008 .
33. News: Guidolin è il nuovo allenatore del Parma. it . Corriere dello Sport. 2 October 2008 . 30 September 2008 .
34. News: CAMBIO ALLENATORE PRIMA SQUADRA . it . US Avellino . 7 October 2008 . 7 October 2008 .
35. News: Comunicato Stampa . it . Ascoli Calcio 1898 . 21 October 2008 . 21 October 2008 .
36. News: Chiarenza nuovo tecnico bianconero. it . Ascoli Calcio 1898 . 23 October 2008 . 22 October 2008 .
37. News: ESONERATO GIUSEPPE BRUCATO: COSTACURTA IL NUOVO TECNICO . it . AC Mantova . 27 October 2008 . 27 October 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090131164816/http://www.acmantova.it/news_estesa.asp?idnews=3047 . 31 January 2009 .
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39. News: Fabrizio Castori sollevato dall'incarico . https://web.archive.org/web/20090126052819/http://www.salernitana1919.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=707&Itemid=113 . dead . 26 January 2009 . it . Salernitana Calcio 1919 . 7 December 2008 . 6 December 2008 .
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42. News: Cambia la guida tecnica al Modena F.C.. it . Modena FC . 26 January 2009 . 26 January 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090201162413/http://modenafc.net/news.asp?n=4239. 1 February 2009 . dead.
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45. News: L'U.S. Grosseto esonera Elio Gustinetti. it . US Grosseto FC . 15 February 2009 . 15 February 2009 .
46. News: Ufficiale: Ezio Rossi è il nuovo allenatore. it . US Grosseto FC . 15 February 2009 . 15 February 2009 .
47. News: GOTTI SOLLEVATO DALL'INCARICO . it . Treviso FBC 1993 . 24 February 2009 . 24 February 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090227072114/http://www.fbctreviso.it/ultime_news.php?id=3938 . 27 February 2009 . dead.
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49. News: ABEL BALBO SI DIMETTE. it . Treviso FBC 1993 . 22 March 2009 . 18 March 2009 .
50. News: TORNA GOTTI ALLA GUIDA DEL TREVISO. it . Treviso FBC 1993. 22 March 2009 . 19 March 2009 .
51. News: L'U.S. Grosseto esonera il Sig.Ezio Rossi. it . US Grosseto FC . 26 March 2009 . 25 March 2009 .
52. News: Esonerato Castori, panchina a Brini. it . Salernitana Calcio 1919 . 5 April 2009 . 4 April 2009 .
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55. News: Rimini: via Selighini, ecco Carboni. it . Corriere dello Sport – Stadio . 9 May 2009 . 27 April 2009 .
56. News: Esonerato mister Monaco. Al suo posto arriva Salvioni . it . AC Ancona . 3 May 2009 . 3 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728074811/http://www.anconacalcio.it/notizia.asp?id=2572 . 28 July 2011 .
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