# 1945–46 Italian Football Championship

The 1945–46 Italian Football Championship, officially known as 1945–46 Divisione Nazionale, was the first tournament held after World War II. Wartime disruptions and US occupation of Northern Italy forced to divide the Serie A championship in two sections, North and South. Some of the Southern sides that took part to the competition were the Serie B teams. The title was won by Torino after a final national round.

## Northern Italy Serie A Championship

Campionato Alta Italia Serie A
Just after the Allied disbandment of the fascist Higher Directory, the major clubs from US-occupied Northern Italy replaced it by a provisional football league, the High Italy League (Lega Alta Italia), which organized the local section of the Serie A.

### Teams

Modena and Brescia had been promoted from Serie B.
Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria reborn from Liguria and both joined this championship as FIGC special guests to repair their forced fusion by the fascist government in 1927.

### Classification

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Torino (A) | 26 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 65 | 18 | +47 | 42 | National final round |
| 2 | Internazionale (A) | 26 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 52 | 21 | +31 | 39 | National final round |
| 3 | Juventus (A) | 26 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 52 | 23 | +29 | 35 | National final round |
| 4 | Milan (A) | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 38 | 36 | +2 | 30 | Qualified after tie-breaker |
| 5 | Brescia | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 38 | 33 | +5 | 30 | Tie-breaker |
| 6 | Modena | 26 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 24 | 22 | +2 | 26 | |
| 6 | Bologna | 26 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 30 | 33 | −3 | 26 | |
| 8 | Triestina | 26 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 32 | −9 | 23 | |
| 9 | Atalanta | 26 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 28 | −7 | 21 | |
| 9 | Andrea Doria (G) | 26 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 35 | −10 | 21 | Disbanded |
| 11 | Vicenza | 26 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 28 | 38 | −10 | 20 | |
| 12 | Genoa | 26 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 21 | 46 | −25 | 19 | |
| 13 | Venezia | 26 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 19 | 37 | −18 | 17 | |
| 14 | Sampierdarenese | 26 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 53 | −34 | 15 | |
* ↑ Sampierdarenese merged again with Andrea Doria at the end of the season, creating new UC Sampdoria.
* ↑ AC Sampierdarenese was called AC Liguria before the war.

### Tie-breaker

Played in Bologna on April 21.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Brescia | 1–1 | Milan |

#### Repetition

Played in Modena on April 24.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Brescia | 1–2 | Milan |

### Results

| Home \ Away | ADO | ATA | BOL | BRE | GEN | INT | JUV | MIL | MOD | SAM | TOR | TRI | VEN | VIC |
| Andrea Doria | | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 |
| Atalanta | 0–3 | | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 |
| Bologna | 1–0 | 2–0 | | 0–0 | 4–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 |
| Brescia | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | | 3–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–1 |
| Genoa | 0–3 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–3 | | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| Internazionale | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 9–1 | | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 4–2 |
| Juventus | 6–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 0–0 | | 2–2 | 1–0 | 6–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 5–0 | 2–1 |
| Milan | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–4 |
| Modena | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | | 2–0 | 0–3 | 5–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| Sampierdarenese | 1–0 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | | 0–5 | 0–6 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Torino | 5–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 6–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | | 4–0 | 3–1 | 4–0 |
| Triestina | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | | 0–0 | 0–2 |
| Venezia | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 1–0 |
| Vicenza | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | |

## Central and Southern Italy Serie A-B Championship

Campionato Centro-Sud Serie A-B

### Teams

Bari had been relegated to Serie B but the FIGC annulled the move for wartime reasons.

### Serie B guests

Palermo had been relegated to Serie C but the FIGC annulled the move for wartime reasons.
Salernitana had been promoted from Serie C.
Pisa was granted of a special break for its huge wartime damages. MATER had been disbanded.

### Classification

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Napoli (G, P, A) | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 28 | 10 | +18 | 28 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 1 | Bari (A) | 20 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 31 | 21 | +10 | 28 | National final round |
| 3 | Roma (A) | 20 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 28 | 17 | +11 | 27 | National final round |
| 4 | Pro Livorno (A) | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 30 | 15 | +15 | 26 | National final round |
| 5 | Fiorentina | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 32 | 16 | +16 | 23 | |
| 6 | Pescara (G) | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 27 | 26 | +1 | 18 | |
| 7 | Lazio | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 17 | |
| 7 | Palermo (G) | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 23 | −7 | 17 | |
| 9 | Salernitana (G) | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 32 | −12 | 14 | |
| 10 | Siena (G) | 20 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 36 | −23 | 13 | |
| 11 | Anconitana (G, T) | 20 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 41 | −29 | 9 | Readmitted in B |

### Results

| Home \ Away | ANC | BAR | FIO | LAZ | NAP | PAL | PES | PLI | ROM | SAL | SIE |
| Anconitana | | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Bari | 4–2 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 |
| Fiorentina | 5–0 | 2–0 | | 4–3 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 5–0 |
| Lazio | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 0–1 | 6–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| Napoli | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 6–1 |
| Palermo | 3–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 |
| Pescara | 4–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | | 1–2 | 2–2 | 5–1 | 2–0 |
| Pro Livorno | 4–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1–0 | | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 |
| Roma | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | | 4–2 | 1–0 |
| Salernitana | 1–0 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | | 3–0 |
| Siena | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | |

## Final round
### Classification

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Torino (C) | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 43 | 14 | +29 | 22 | Champions |
| 2 | Juventus | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 8 | +23 | 21 | |
| 3 | Milan | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 16 | +9 | 16 | |
| 4 | Internazionale | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 16 | +4 | 14 | |
| 5 | Napoli | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 27 | −8 | 13 | |
| 6 | Roma | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 22 | −6 | 11 | |
| 7 | Pro Livorno | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 35 | −22 | 10 | |
| 8 | Bari | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 35 | −29 | 5 | |

### Results

| Home \ Away | BAR | INT | JUV | MIL | NAP | PLI | ROM | TOR |
| Bari | | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Internazionale | 0–0 | | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 6–2 | 1–0 | 6–2 |
| Juventus | 6–1 | 1–0 | | 3–1 | 6–0 | 5–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| Milan | 8–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | | 2–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| Napoli | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 |
| Pro Livorno | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 0–3 |
| Roma | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | | 0–7 |
| Torino | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 7–1 | 9–1 | 3–2 | |

## Top goalscorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Guglielmo Gabetto | Torino | 22 |
| 2 | Eusebio Castigliano | Torino | 20 |
| 3 | Romano Penzo | Internazionale | 18 |
| 4 | Enrico Candiani | Internazionale | 17 |
| 5 | Silvio Piola | Juventus | 16 |
| 5 | Aredio Gimona | Milan | 16 |
| 5 | Valentino Mazzola | Torino | 16 |
| 5 | Ezio Loik | Torino | 16 |
| 9 | Dante Di Benedetti | Bari | 14 |
| 10 | Giuseppe Baldini | Andrea Doria | 13 |
| 11 | Mario Gritti | Fiorentina | 12 |
| 12 | Engelbert König | Lazio | 11 |

## References and sources

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