1978–79 Serie A

The 1978–79 Serie A season was won by Milan. Notably, Perugia were the first team during the round-robin era to go through the season undefeated, although due to their number of drawn matches, they finished second in the league.

Serie A

Season	1978 (1978)–79
Dates	1 October 1978 – 13 May 1979
Champions	Milan 10th title
Relegated	Vicenza Atalanta Hellas Verona
European Cup	Milan
Cup Winners' Cup	Juventus
UEFA Cup	Perugia Internazionale Napoli Torino
Matches played	240
Goals scored	455 (1.9 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bruno Giordano (19 goals)
← 1977–78 1979–80 →

Ascoli

Atalanta

Avellino

Bologna

Catanzaro

Fiorentina

Internazionale
Milan

Juventus
Torino

L.R. Vicenza

Lazio
Roma

Napoli

Perugia

Hellas Verona

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Serie A 1978-79 team distribution

Teams

Ascoli, Catanzaro and Avellino had been promoted from Serie B.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Milan (C)	30	17	10	3	46	19	+27	44	Qualification to European Cup
2	Perugia	30	11	19	0	34	16	+18	41	Qualification to UEFA Cup
3	Juventus	30	12	13	5	40	23	+17	37	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup
4	Internazionale	30	10	16	4	38	24	+14	36	Qualification to UEFA Cup
5	Torino	30	11	14	5	35	23	+12	36
6	Napoli	30	9	14	7	23	21	+2	32
7	Fiorentina	30	10	12	8	26	26	0	32
8	Lazio	30	9	11	10	35	40	−5	29
9	Catanzaro	30	6	16	8	23	30	−7	28
10	Ascoli	30	7	12	11	26	31	−5	26
11	Avellino	30	6	14	10	19	26	−7	26
12	Roma	30	8	10	12	24	32	−8	26
13	Bologna	30	4	16	10	23	30	−7	24
14	Vicenza (R)	30	5	14	11	29	42	−13	24	Relegation to Serie B
15	Atalanta (R)	30	6	12	12	20	33	−13	24
16	Hellas Verona (R)	30	2	11	17	14	39	−25	15

Source: Panini
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ASC	ATA	AVE	BOL	CAT	FIO	INT	JUV	LRV	LAZ	MIL	NAP	PER	ROM	TOR	VER
Ascoli	—	1–0	2–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–0
Atalanta	3–2	—	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–3	2–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–0
Avellino	3–1	0–0	—	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–3	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–0
Bologna	0–0	1–0	0–0	—	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	5–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	1–0
Catanzaro	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	—	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	1–3	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1
Fiorentina	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	—	1–2	0–1	0–0	3–0	2–3	2–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–0
Internazionale	1–1	2–2	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	—	2–1	0–0	4–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	4–0
Juventus	1–0	3–0	3–3	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	—	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	4–1	1–1	6–2
Vicenza	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	—	4–1	2–3	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–0
Lazio	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	4–0	1–1	2–2	4–3	—	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0
Milan	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	4–0	4–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	—	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1
Napoli	2–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	0–2	1–1	—	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0
Perugia	2–0	2–0	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	—	1–1	0–0	1–1
Roma	1–0	2–2	2–1	2–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–2	0–3	0–0	0–0	—	0–2	2–0
Torino	3–1	3–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	3–3	0–1	4–0	2–2	0–3	0–0	0–0	1–0	—	0–0
Hellas Verona	2–3	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–3	0–0	2–0	1–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	—

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Bruno Giordano	Lazio	19
2	Paolo Rossi	Vicenza	15
3	Alberto Bigon	Milan	12
4	Alessandro Altobelli	Internazionale	11
	Carlo Muraro	Internazionale
6	Massimo Palanca	Catanzaro	10
	Paolo Pulici	Torino
8	Roberto Bettega	Juventus	9
	Aldo Maldera	Milan
	Roberto Pruzzo	Roma
	Giuseppe Savoldi	Napoli
	Walter Speggiorin	Perugia
	Francesco Graziani	Torino

References and sources

• Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

External links

• it:Classifica calcio Serie A italiana 1979 - Italian version with pictures and info.
• [1] - All results on RSSSF Website.