It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new league, the Lega Serie A, had been created for the 2010–11 season.
Serie A is Ranked 4th among European Leagues as per UEFA League Coefficient behind the English Premier League,Spanish La Liga and German Bundesliga.
Serie A hosts 3 of the world's most famous Clubs - Juventus,Milan and Internazionale,all founding members of the G-14, a group representing the largest and most prestigious European football clubs; Serie A was the only league to produce three founding members.
More players have won the Coveted Ballon d'Or Award while playing at a Serie A club than any other league in the world .
For most of Serie A's history there were 16 or 18 clubs competing at the top level; however, since 2004-05 there have been 20 clubs altogether.During the course of a season, from August to June, each club plays each of the other teams twice; once at home and once away, totaling 38 games for each team by the end of the season.
The top 4 teams in the Serie A qualify for the UEFA Champions League(from the 2012-13 season this will be cut to three, as Germany'sBundesliga has leap-frogged Serie A into the top three biggest European leagues). The top 3 teams qualify directly to the group phase, while the 4th-placed team enters the competition at the third qualifying round and must win a two-legged knockout tie in order to enter the group phase. Teams finishing 5th and 6th qualify for the UEFA Europa League Tournament.A third UEFA Europa League spot is reserved for the winner of the Coppa Italia. If the Coppa Italia champion has already qualified for the major European tournament by placing in the top four of Serie A, the third UEFA Europa League spot goes to the losing finalist. If both Coppa Italia finalists finish among the top six teams in Serie A, the 7th classified team in Serie A is awarded the UEFA Europa League spot.
The Serie A Championship title is often referred to as the scudetto (small shield) because since the 1924-25 season the winning team will bear a small coat of arms with the Italian Tricolour on their strip in the following season.
Unlike La Liga which imposed a quota on the number of non-EU players on each club, Serie A clubs could sign as many non-EU players as available on domestic transfer.Since the 2008–09 season, 3 quotas have been awarded to clubs that do not have non-EU players in their squad (previously only newly promoted clubs could had 3 quota); Clubs that have one non-EU player have 2 quotas. Those clubs that have 2 non-EU players, are awarded 1 quota and 1 conditional quota, which is awarded after: 1) Transferred 1 non-EU player abroad, or 2) Release 1 non-EU player as free agent, or 3) A non-EU player received EU nationality. Clubs with 3 or more non-EU players, have 2 conditional quotas, but releasing two non-EU players as free agent, will only have 1 quota instead of 2.
Big clubs with many foreigners, usually borrow quotas from other clubs that have few foreigners or no foreigners, in order to sign more non-EU players.
The most successful Club is Juventus with 27 championships, followed by Internazionale(18), Milan(18), and Genoa(9).
2011-12 Serie A- Sep 09,2011 To May 13,2012
The 2011–12 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) is the 80th Season since its establishment, and the second under a league committee separate from Serie B.AC Milan was the Defending Champion on winning the 2010-11 Serie A and their 18th league title overall.
Juventus defeated Atalanta 3-1 on Sunday May 13,2012 to become only the 2nd Italian side and 3rd side ever to win the title by going the whole season unbeaten and become newly crowned Serie A 2011-12 Champion
Juventus players celebrate with the Serie A trophy after their last league match against Atalanta BC at the Juventus Stadium
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