1989–90 Serie A

The 1989–90 Serie A season was another successful year for Napoli, with Diego Maradona being among the leading goalscorers in Serie A (16 goals), behind Marco van Basten of Milan (19 goals) and Roberto Baggio of Fiorentina (17 goals). But while Baggio's Fiorentina narrowly avoided relegation, Maradona's Napoli won their second Serie A title in four seasons, while Van Basten helped Milan retain the European Cup as compensation for their failure to win the Serie A title, having finished two points behind Napoli. Demoted to Serie B for 1990–91 were Udinese, Hellas Verona, Cremonese and Ascoli. In Europe, Sampdoria won the Cup Winners Cup and Juventus the UEFA Cup, making this year the most successful in Italian football history.

Serie A

Season	1989 (1989)–90
Dates	27 August 1989 – 29 April 1990
Champions	Napoli 2nd title
Relegated	Udinese Hellas Verona Cremonese Ascoli
European Cup	Napoli Milan
Cup Winners' Cup	Juventus Sampdoria
UEFA Cup	Internazionale Roma Atalanta Bologna
Matches played	306
Goals scored	684 (2.24 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marco van Basten (19 goals)
Longest winning run	22 matches Milan
Longest unbeaten run	17 matches Milan
Longest winless run	4 matches Ascoli
Longest losing run	17 matches Ascoli
← 1988–89 1990–91 →

Ascoli

Atalanta

Bari

Bologna

Cesena

Cremonese

Fiorentina

Genoa
Sampdoria

Internazionale
Milan

Juventus

Lazio
Roma

Lecce

Napoli

Udinese

Hellas Verona

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Serie A 1989-90 team distribution

Teams

Genoa, Bari, Udinese and Cremonese had been promoted from Serie B.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Head coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Ascoli	Aldo Agroppi	Adidas	Cocif
Atalanta	Emiliano Mondonico	Ennerre	Tamoil
Bari	Gaetano Salvemini	Adidas	Sud Leasing
Bologna	Luigi Maifredi	Uhlsport	Mercatone Uno
Cesena	Marcello Lippi	Adidas	Orogel
Cremonese	Tarcisio Burgnich	Patrick	Majestic SpA
Fiorentina	Francesco Graziani	ABM	La Nazione
Genoa	Franco Scoglio	Erreà	Mita
Hellas Verona	Osvaldo Bagnoli	Hummel	Tortellini Rana
Internazionale	Giovanni Trapattoni	Uhlsport	Misura
Juventus	Dino Zoff	Kappa	UPIM
Lazio	Giuseppe Materazzi	Umbro	Cassa di Risparmio di Roma
Lecce	Carlo Mazzone	Adidas	Ponti Aceto
Milan	Arrigo Sacchi	Kappa	Mediolanum
Napoli	Alberto Bigon	Ennerre	Mars
Roma	Luigi Radice	Ennerre	Barilla
Sampdoria	Vujadin Boškov	Kappa	Erg
Udinese	Rino Marchesi	ABM	Rex Elettrodomestici

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Napoli (C)	34	21	9	4	57	31	+26	51	Qualification to European Cup
2	Milan	34	22	5	7	56	27	+29	49
3	Internazionale	34	17	10	7	55	32	+23	44	Qualification to UEFA Cup
4	Juventus	34	15	14	5	56	36	+20	44	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup
5	Sampdoria	34	16	11	7	46	26	+20	43
6	Roma	34	14	13	7	45	40	+5	41	Qualification to UEFA Cup
7	Atalanta	34	12	11	11	36	43	−7	35
8	Bologna	34	9	16	9	29	36	−7	34
9	Lazio	34	8	15	11	34	33	+1	31
10	Bari	34	6	19	9	34	37	−3	31
11	Genoa	34	6	17	11	27	31	−4	29
12	Fiorentina	34	7	14	13	41	42	−1	28
13	Cesena	34	6	16	12	26	36	−10	28
14	Lecce	34	10	8	16	29	46	−17	28
15	Udinese (R)	34	6	15	13	37	51	−14	27	Relegation to Serie B
16	Hellas Verona (R)	34	6	13	15	27	44	−17	25
17	Cremonese (R)	34	5	13	16	29	50	−21	23
18	Ascoli (R)	34	4	13	17	20	43	−23	21

Source: 1989–90 Serie A, RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	ASC	ATA	BAR	BOL	CES	CRE	FIO	GEN	INT	JUV	LAZ	LEC	MIL	NAP	ROM	SAM	UDI	VER
Ascoli	—	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1
Atalanta	1–0	—	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	4–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	3–0	2–2	1–0	1–0
Bari	2–2	4–0	—	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–2	3–1	2–1
Bologna	2–1	0–0	3–1	—	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–4	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0
Cesena	1–0	0–0	2–2	0–0	—	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–3	1–1	0–0	4–0	0–3	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–0
Cremonese	2–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	1–2	—	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–3	2–2	1–1
Fiorentina	5–1	4–1	2–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	—	0–0	2–2	2–2	1–0	3–0	2–3	0–1	1–2	3–1	1–2	3–1
Genoa	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–3	1–0	1–1	—	0–0	2–3	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	0–0	0–1
Internazionale	0–0	7–2	1–1	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	—	2–1	3–0	2–1	0–3	3–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	0–0
Juventus	3–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	4–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	—	1–0	3–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–1
Lazio	3–0	1–2	2–2	3–0	4–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	—	3–0	1–3	3–0	0–1	0–2	0–0	0–0
Lecce	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–3	0–0	—	1–2	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–0
Milan	2–1	3–1	4–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–3	3–2	0–1	2–0	—	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	0–0
Napoli	1–0	3–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	3–2	2–1	2–0	3–1	1–0	3–2	3–0	—	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–0
Roma	0–0	4–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	3–2	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–4	1–1	—	1–1	3–1	5–2
Sampdoria	2–0	1–0	0–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	4–2	—	3–1	1–0
Udinese	2–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–4	4–3	2–2	0–2	3–1	0–2	2–2	1–1	3–3	—	2–1
Hellas Verona	0–0	1–1	1–1	3–2	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–3	1–4	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	2–0	—

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Marco van Basten	Milan	19
2	Roberto Baggio	Fiorentina	17
3	Diego Maradona	Napoli	16
4	Salvatore Schillaci	Juventus	15
5	Rudi Völler	Roma	14
6	Massimo Agostini	Cesena	13
	Gustavo Dezotti	Cremonese
	Jürgen Klinsmann	Internazionale
9	Abel Balbo	Udinese	11
	Roberto Mancini	Sampdoria
	Lothar Matthäus	Internazionale

References and sources

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

External links

• it:Classifica calcio Serie A italiana 1990 - Italian version with pictures and info.
• [1] - All results on RSSSF Website.