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2014-15 Serie A

Serie A
Juventus line-up vs Malmoe 2014.jpg
2014–15 Juventus team
Season 2014–15
Champions Juventus
31st title
Relegated Cesena
Parma
Cagliari
Champions League Juventus
Roma
Lazio
Europa League Fiorentina
Napoli
Sampdoria
Matches played 380
Goals scored 1024 (2.69 per match)
Top goalscorer Mauro Icardi
Luca Toni (22)
Best goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon (18 clean sheets)
Biggest home win Inter 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 winning run 8 games
Lazio
Longest unbeaten run 20 games
Juventus
Longest winless run 18 games
Cesena
Longest losing run 6 games
Parma
Highest attendance 79,173
Milan 1–1 Inter
(23 November 2014)
Lowest attendance 5,000
Chievo 2–1 Cesena
(9 November 2014)
Average attendance 22,149

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 compete 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.

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.


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