The 2012–13 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 for sponsorship reasons) was the 111th season of top-tier Italian

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, the 81st in a

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, and the 3rd since its organization under a league committee separate from

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

. It began on 25 August 2012 and ended on 19 May 2013.

Juventus Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...

were the defending champions. A total of 20 teams contested the league, comprising 17 sides from the 2011–12 season and three promoted from the 2011–12 Serie B. As in the previous years,

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provided the official ball for all matches, with a new Nike Maxim Serie A model to be used throughout the season for all matches. On 21 August 2012,

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allowed Serie A teams to have up to 12 substitution players on the bench for each game.

Events

Juventus FC 2012-2013 players (Shakthar Donetsk - Juventus)

The 2012–13 season features the return of

Pescara Pescara (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label= Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents (and approxim ...

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, and

Sampdoria Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria (), is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, ...

, who were promoted back to Serie A after nineteen, three, and one years respectively. It is also

Cagliari Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...

's first season out of Stadio Sant'Elia after more than 40 years, following its closure due to safety issues; as a replacement, the team agreed to renovate the Stadio Is Arenas located in

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, in order to use it as its home venue for this season (Cagliari has ongoing plans to build its own brand-new stadium in the next few years). The fixtures were presented on 26 July in a lavish hour-long televised ceremony.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsorship

(*) Promoted from

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Scoring

* First goal of the season: Maicosuel for Udinese against Fiorentina (''25 August 2012'') * Fastest goal of the season: 18 seconds **

Arturo Vidal Arturo Erasmo Vidal Pardo (; born 22 May 1987) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo and the Chile national team. His displays during his time at Juventus led him to be n ...

for Juventus against Internazionale (''3 November 2012'') * Latest goal of the season: 90+5 minutes **

Panagiotis Kone Panagiotis Kone ( el, Παναγιώτης Κονέ, born 26 July 1987) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is the current executive director of AEK Athens. Kone started playing football in the y ...

for Bologna against Catania (''30 September 2012'') **

Josip Iličić Josip Iličić (; born 29 January 1988) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Slovenian PrvaLiga club Maribor. Iličić began his professional career with Slovenian club Bonifika, later also playing for Interblock ...

for Palermo against Catania (''21 April 2013'') * Largest winning margin: 6 goals ** Sampdoria 6–0 Pescara (''27 January 2013'') ** Lazio 6–0 Bologna (''5 May 2013'') * Highest scoring game: 8 goals ** Torino 3–5 Napoli (''30 March 2013'') * Most goals scored by a single team: 6 goals ** Pescara 1–6 Juventus (''10 November 2012'') ** Sampdoria 6–0 Pescara (''27 January 2013'') ** Lazio 6–0 Bologna (''5 May 2013'') * Most goals scored by a losing team: 3 goals ** Cagliari 4–3 Torino (''24 February 2013'') ** Torino 3–5 Napoli (''30 March 2013'') ** Internazionale 3–4 Atalanta (''7 April 2013'') ** Fiorentina 4–3 Torino (''21 April 2013'')

Clean sheets

* Most

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: 19 ** Juventus * Fewest clean sheets: 5 ** Pescara

Discipline

* Most yellow cards (club): 111 ** Atalanta * Most yellow cards (player): 16 **

Daniele Conti Daniele Conti (born 9 January 1979) is an Italian football manager and former player, who played most of his career for Cagliari as a midfielder; he currently works as a co-ordinator for the club's youth side. He is the son of former A.S. Roma ...

(Cagliari) * Most red cards (club): 13 ** Atalanta * Most red cards (player): 2 ** Davide Astori (Cagliari) **

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(Milan) ** Carlos Carmona (Atalanta) **

Andrea Costa Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that r ...

(Sampdoria) **

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(Udinese) ** Felipe (Siena) **

Daniele Gastaldello Daniele Gastaldello (; born 25 June 1983) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Club career Gastaldello was bought by Juventus in 2002 from Serie C2 side Calcio Padova; in that season he played in the Prima ...

(Sampdoria) **

Kamil Glik Kamil Jacek Glik (Polish pronunciation: ; born 3 February 1988) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie B club Benevento and the Poland national team. The previous clubs Glik played for include Piast Gliwice fro ...

(Torino) **

Thomas Heurtaux Thomas Heurtaux (; born 3 July 1988) is a French professional footballer who currently plays for Pohronie in the Fortuna Liga. He previously played domestically for Caen and Cherbourg, for Italian clubs Udinese and Hellas Verona, and for ...

(Udinese) ** Federico Peluso (Atalanta) ** Luca Rossettini (Cagliari) ** Vladimír Weiss (Pescara) * Fewest yellow cards (club): 77 ** Juventus

References

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