Serie A 2007–08
| Season | 2007–08 |
|---|---|
| Champions |
Internazionale 16th title |
| Relegated |
Empoli Parma Livorno |
| Champions League |
Internazionale Roma Juventus Fiorentina |
| UEFA Cup |
Milan Sampdoria Udinese |
| Matches played | 380 |
| Goals scored | 970 (2.55 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Alessandro Del Piero (21) |
| Highest scoring |
Udinese 3–5 Genoa Roma 4–4 Napoli Torino 4–4 Parma |
| Average attendance | 23,887 |
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The 2007–08 Serie A football season was the seventy-sixth since its establishment, and started on August 26, 2007 and ended on May 18, 2008.Internazionale successfully defended the championship on the final day of the season, finishing first with 85 points, three ahead of Roma.
Inquiries are being conducted by the CO.VI.SOC. (Italian football's financial watchdogs) into the finances of four Serie A clubs (Internazionale, Milan, Sampdoria, and Reggina) who stand accused of falsely inflating player values - a practice known as plusvalenze in Italian - in order to qualify financially for the 2005–06 Serie A. If the allegations prove true, penalties could range from fines to point deductions, relegation to Serie B, and even the stripping of Internazionale's 2005-06 scudetto (which was actually stripped from Juventus as a result of the Calciopoli scandal before being awarded to Internazionale).
On the morning of November 11, 2007 26-year-old Lazio fan Gabriele Sandri, a DJ from Rome, was killed by a shot in his neck while sitting inside a car, by a policeman, after Some other fans of Lazio violently assaulted with stones a group of Juventus ultras on the A1 Motorway service station of Badia al Pino in Arezzo. Early reports suggested that a stray bullet from a gun, set to distract the group of ultras, hit the Lazio fan in the neck as he sat in a car and killed him. An emergency meeting set up between Lega Calcio president Antonio Matarrese and police chief Antonio Manganelli decided that the game between Inter and Lazio would be called off, but the rest of the fixtures would go ahead that day, starting at a slightly later time (about 10 minutes later). The Atalanta–Milan game was eventually suspended following unrest caused by local ultras attempting to break off the protection glass in order to invade the pitch and stop the match. Later in the afternoon, the Italian Football Federation chose to postpone also the game between AS Roma and Cagliari, whose kick off was scheduled for 8.30 pm at Stadio Olimpico, Rome. However, this did not prevent violent riots, as hundreds of armed hooligans attacked a police barracks and the CONI (Italian Olympic National Committee) headquarters in Rome.
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