The 2011–12 Serie A (known as the

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

TIM after its headline sponsors) was the 110th season of top-tier Italian

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, the 80th in a

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, and the second since its organization under a league committee separate from

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. It began on 3 September 2011 and ended on 13 May 2012. The league was originally scheduled to start on 27 August, but this was delayed due to a strike by the players. The fixtures were drawn up on 27 July 2011. The league title was won by

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, winning its 28th official Serie A title or ''

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'', and first since the

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. The team completed the season undefeated, becoming the first team to do so in a 38-game league season in Italy;

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were undefeated in the 30-game

1978–79 Serie A The 1978–79 Serie A season was won by Milan. Notably, Perugia were the first team during the round-robin era to go through the season undefeated, although due to their number of drawn matches, they finished second in the league. Teams Ascol ...

, in which they finished second in the table, while

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were unbeaten and won the title in the 34-game

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. Since Italy dropped from third to fourth place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2010–11 season, the league lost a group stage berth for the

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from the 2012–13 season.

Rule changes

The rules for the registration of non-EU (or non-

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or Swiss) nationals transferred from abroad were revised in the summer of 2011. Clubs could now sign two non-EU players. This was a reverse of the decision made the previous summer in the wake of

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's failure at the

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that limited clubs to the signing of just one such player.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

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and

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, who lost their job at

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and

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on 12 and 31 August 2011 were able to take respectively the

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job in January 2012 and the

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job in October 2011 because the first matches were not until 9 September 2011.

League table

Results

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

References

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