1978–79 Serie B

The Serie B 1978–79 was the forty-seventh tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.

Serie B

Season	1978–79
Champions	Udinese 3rd title
← 1977–78 1979–80 →

Bari

Brescia

Cagliari

Cesena

Foggia

Genoa
Sampdoria

Lecce

Monza

Nocerina

Palermo

Pescara

Pistoiese

Rimini

Sambenedettese

Spal

Taranto

Ternana

Udinese

Varese

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Serie B 1978-79 team distribution

Teams

Udinese, SPAL and Nocerina had been promoted from Serie C, while Genoa, Foggia and Pescara had been relegated from Serie A.

Events

Relegations rose to four following the reform of the Serie C. The winners joined the Mitropa Cup.

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Udinese (P, C)	38	21	13	4	52	22	+30	55	Promotion to Serie A
2	Cagliari (P)	38	16	17	5	46	24	+22	49
3	Pescara (P)	38	16	16	6	44	27	+17	48	Serie A after tie-breaker
4	Monza	38	16	16	6	39	20	+19	48	Promotion tie-breaker
5	Pistoiese	38	15	14	9	38	28	+10	44
6	Lecce	38	14	15	9	33	33	0	43
7	Palermo	38	11	19	8	38	34	+4	41
8	Brescia	38	11	17	10	41	41	0	39
9	Sampdoria	38	9	18	11	37	39	−2	36
10	Ternana	38	8	20	10	33	39	−6	36
11	Sambenedettese	38	9	18	11	35	42	−7	36
12	Genoa	38	11	13	14	34	35	−1	35
13	Cesena	38	9	17	12	27	29	−2	35
14	S.P.A.L.	38	9	17	12	34	37	−3	35
15	Taranto	38	7	21	10	25	30	−5	35
16	Bari	38	6	23	9	29	36	−7	35
17	Foggia (R)	38	8	17	13	39	45	−6	33	Relegation to Serie C1
18	Nocerina (R)	38	8	13	17	24	39	−15	29
19	Rimini (R)	38	3	18	17	17	39	−22	24
20	Varese (R)	38	6	12	20	29	55	−26	24

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

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	BRE	CAG	CES	FOG	GEN	LEC	MON	NOC	PAL	PES	PIS	RIM	SMB	SMP	SPA	TAR	TER	UDI	VAR
Bari	—	1–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	3–3	0–0	1–2	1–0
Brescia	1–1	—	3–1	1–1	4–3	1–0	3–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	1–0
Cagliari	2–0	2–2	—	0–1	0–0	2–1	5–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–0
Cesena	0–0	3–1	0–0	—	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–0
Foggia	3–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	—	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	2–3	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0
Genoa	0–0	0–1	1–1	4–2	1–1	—	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–3	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–0
Lecce	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	—	0–0	2–1	0–2	2–2	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–1
Monza	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	—	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–0
Nocerina	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–2	—	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–0
Palermo	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	—	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	0–1
Pescara	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	4–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	—	3–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	0–2	2–0
Pistoiese	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	—	3–1	2–0	0–0	4–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–1
Rimini	0–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	—	1–0	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–3	1–1
Samb.	1–1	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	—	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–1
Sampdoria	2–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–1	0–0	3–1	3–2	0–0	1–1	0–0	—	0–0	0–0	3–3	1–1	2–0
Spal	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	3–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	4–0	3–2	—	0–2	1–1	1–1	3–0
Taranto	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	—	1–1	0–1	3–2
Ternana	2–2	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	—	0–1	0–1
Udinese	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	3–2	2–0	3–1	4–0	—	1–0
Varese	1–1	3–3	0–2	0–3	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	—

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

Promotion tie-breaker

Played in Bologna on July 1st

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Monza	0-2	Pescara

Pescara promoted to Serie A.

References and sources

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