1961–62 Serie A

The **1961–62 Serie A season** was the 60th season of top division football in Italy, and the 30th season of Serie A. The season began on 27 August 1961, and ended on 15 April 1962. AC Milan won their eighth league title.

## Team locations

|Team|Home city|Stadium|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Atalanta|Bergamo|Stadio Comunale|
|Bologna|Bologna|Stadio Comunale|
|Catania|Catania|Stadio Cibali|
|Fiorentina|Florence|Stadio Comunale|
|Internazionale|Milan|Stadio San Siro|
|Juventus|Turin|Stadio Comunale di Torino|
|Lecco|Lecco|Stadio Mario Rigamonti|
|Mantova|Mantua|Stadio Danilo Martelli|
|Milan|Milan|Stadio San Siro|
|Padova|Padua|Stadio Silvio Appiani|
|Palermo|Palermo|Stadio La Favorita|
|Roma|Rome|Stadio Olimpico|
|Sampdoria|Genoa|Stadio Luigi Ferraris|
|SPAL|Ferrara|Stadio Comunale|
|Torino|Turin|Stadio Filadelfia|
|Udinese|Udine|Stadio Moretti|
|Venezia|Venice|Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo|
|Vicenza|Vicenza|Stadio Romeo Menti|

## League table

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## Top goalscorers

|Rank|Player|Club|Goals|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|1|align="left"|José Altafini|align="left"|Milan|rowspan="2"|22|
|align="left"|Aurelio Milani|align="left"|Fiorentina|||||
|rowspan="2"|3|align="left"|Gerry Hitchens|align="left"|Internazionale|rowspan="2"|16|
|align="left"|Angelo Sormani|align="left"|Mantova|||||
|5|align="left"|Kurt Hamrin|align="left"|Fiorentina|15|||
|rowspan="2"|6|align="left"|Beniamino Di Giacomo|align="left"|Lecco|rowspan="2"|14|
|align="left"|Pedro Manfredini|align="left"|Roma|||||
|8|align="left"|Omar Sívori|align="left"|Juventus|13|||
|9|align="left"|Gino Raffin|align="left"|Venezia|12|||
|rowspan="4"|10|align="left"|Ezio Pascutti|align="left"|Bologna|rowspan="4"|11|
|align="left"|Marino Perani|align="left"|Bologna|||||
|align="left"|Luis Suárez|align="left"|Internazionale|||||
|align="left"|Humberto Maschio|align="left"|Atalanta|||||
|rowspan="6"|14|align="left"|Silvano Mencacci|align="left"|SPAL|rowspan="6"|10|
|align="left"|Denis Law|align="left"|Torino|||||
|align="left"|Gianni Rivera|align="left"|Milan|||||
|align="left"|Francesco Canella|align="left"|Udinese|||||
|align="left"|Torbjörn Jonsson|align="left"|Fiorentina, Roma|||||
|align="left"|Antonio Valentín Angelillo|align="left"|Roma|||||

## References and sources

- _Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004_, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

## Other websites

- https://web.archive.org/web/20150126013935/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/ital62.html - All results on RSSSF Website.

## Infobox (football league season)

- **competition**: Serie A
- **season**: 1961–62
- **image**: 1961–62 Associazione Calcio Milan.jpg
- **caption**: 1961–62 A.C. Milan team
- **winners**: A.C. Milan, Milan
8th title
- **relegated**: Calcio Padova, Padova
Calcio Lecco 1912, Lecco
Udinese Calcio, Udinese
- **continentalcup1**: 1962–63 European Cup, European Cup
- **continentalcup1 qualifiers**: A.C. Milan, Milan
- **continentalcup3**: 1962–63 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
- **continentalcup3 qualifiers**: A.S. Roma, Roma
U.C. Sampdoria, Sampdoria
- **league topscorer**: José Altafini
Aurelio Milani
<small>(22 goals each)</small>
- **matches**: 306
- **total goals**: 770
- **prevseason**: 1960–61 Serie A, 1960–61
- **nextseason**: 1962–63 Serie A, 1962–63