1955–56 Serie A

The 1955–56 Serie A season was won by Fiorentina.

Serie A

1955–56 Fiorentina team
Season	1955–56
Champions	Fiorentina 1st title
Relegated	Novara Pro Patria
European Cup	Fiorentina
Matches played	306
Goals scored	838 (2.74 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gino Pivatelli (29 goals)
← 1954–55 1956–57 →

Teams

Vicenza and Padova had been promoted from Serie B.

Atalanta

Bologna

Fiorentina

Genoa
Sampdoria

Internazionale
Milan

Juventus
Torino

Vicenza

Lazio
Roma

Napoli

Novara

Padova

Pro Patria

SPAL

Triestina

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Serie A 1955-56 team distribution

Final classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Fiorentina (C)	34	20	13	1	59	20	39	53	Qualification for the European Cup preliminary round
2	Milan	34	16	9	9	70	48	22	41	Qualified for the 1956 Latin Cup
3	Internazionale	34	16	7	11	57	36	21	39
3	Lazio	34	14	11	9	54	46	8	39
5	Bologna	34	15	7	12	68	52	16	37
6	Roma	34	11	13	10	43	40	3	35
6	Sampdoria	34	12	11	11	51	54	−3	35
8	Padova	34	14	6	14	41	43	−2	34
9	SPAL	34	10	13	11	40	39	1	33
9	Genoa	34	12	9	13	50	52	−2	33
9	Torino	34	12	9	13	43	45	−2	33
9	Juventus	34	8	17	9	32	37	−5	33
9	Vicenza	34	10	13	11	31	40	−9	33
14	Napoli	34	10	12	12	46	49	−3	32
15	Atalanta	34	11	9	14	50	55	−5	31
16	Triestina	34	10	10	14	27	44	−17	30
17	Novara (R)	34	8	10	16	45	51	−6	26	Relegation to Serie B
18	Pro Patria (R)	34	3	9	22	31	87	−56	15

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

Results

Home \ Away	ATA	BOL	FIO	GEN	INT	JUV	LRV	LAZ	MIL	NAP	NOV	PAD	PPA	ROM	SAM	SPA	TOR	TRI
Atalanta		1–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	4–3	1–2	2–1	0–2	4–1	1–1	4–1	4–3	1–2	2–0
Bologna	1–0		0–2	4–1	2–3	0–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	3–1	3–2	3–1	6–1	1–0	5–2	2–2	6–1	3–1
Fiorentina	4–1	0–0		3–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	4–1	3–0	0–0	4–2	1–0	4–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–0
Genoa	2–1	2–1	3–1		4–3	0–0	2–2	3–3	3–1	3–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	3–3	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–0
Internazionale	1–2	0–3	1–3	3–0		0–2	1–0	2–3	2–1	3–0	2–0	0–1	4–0	1–1	7–1	3–1	1–0	0–0
Juventus	2–1	2–2	0–4	1–0	1–0		0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	3–0	3–1	0–0	2–2	2–2	0–2	0–1
Vicenza	1–0	2–3	1–1	2–1	0–2	3–2		0–1	1–3	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–1
Lazio	2–2	2–2	2–2	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–3		2–3	1–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	0–1	1–1
Milan	4–1	3–0	0–2	3–2	1–2	3–1	0–0	1–3		0–0	4–2	4–1	3–3	4–1	6–1	2–0	3–1	1–0
Napoli	0–3	3–3	2–4	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–0		0–2	1–0	8–1	1–1	3–1	2–2	2–2	3–2
Novara	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–2	0–0	2–0	6–2	3–4	1–0		3–0	2–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–1
Padova	5–1	3–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–5	1–1	2–1		2–1	2–0	1–3	0–0	2–0	4–0
Pro Patria	2–0	2–2	2–2	1–0	0–4	2–2	0–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–2		3–5	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–4
Roma	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0		1–2	1–1	2–1	4–1
Sampdoria	4–0	2–5	0–0	0–0	3–2	2–0	1–3	1–1	2–2	3–0	1–1	0–1	7–0	1–0		3–1	0–0	1–0
SPAL	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	5–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–1		1–2	4–0
Torino	1–3	1–0	0–1	2–2	0–2	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–4	2–1	2–0	6–0	2–1	2–1	0–0		5–0
Triestina	0–0	1–3	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–3	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–0

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gino Pivatelli	Bologna	29
2	Gunnar Nordahl	Milan	23
3	Giuseppe Virgili	Fiorentina	20
4	Adriano Bassetto	Atalanta	18
5	Eddie Firmani	Sampdoria	17
6	Luís Vinício	Napoli	16
	Juan Alberto Schiaffino	Milan
8	Attilio Frizzi	Genoa	14
9	Miguel Montuori	Fiorentina	13
	Mario Tortul	Sampdoria
11	Dino da Costa	Roma	12
	Lorenzo Bettini	Lazio
	Amedeo Bonistalli	Padova
14	Lennart Skoglund	Internazionale	11
	Riccardo Carapellese	Genoa
	Giorgio Dal Monte	Milan
	Ezio Pascutti	Bologna

References and sources

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

External links

• [1] - All results on RSSSF Website.