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 Cop ...

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 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 season. It had been ...

. 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 football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system. Founded in ...

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, Nike 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,

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

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's first season out of

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after more than 40 years, following its closure due to safety issues; as a replacement, the team agreed to renovate the

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located in Quartu Sant'Elena, 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 for Juventus against Internazionale (''3 November 2012'') * Latest goal of the season: 90+5 minutes ** Panagiotis Kone for Bologna against Catania (''30 September 2012'') **

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

Discipline

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

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

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(Cagliari) ** Kevin-Prince Boateng (Milan) **

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(Atalanta) ** Andrea Costa (Sampdoria) **

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(Udinese) ** Felipe (Siena) ** Daniele Gastaldello (Sampdoria) ** Kamil Glik (Torino) **

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

References

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