The 1946-47 Serie A was the forty-fifth edition of the

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. It was the first

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for three years due to the regional

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format resurrected in the first season of the Italian championship immediately post war in 1945-46. It was the fifteenth Italian Football Championship

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ed Serie A since Serie A was launched in

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. This was the twenty-second season from which the Italian Football Champions adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a

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were champions for the fourth time in their

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. This was their fourth scudetto since the scudetto started being awarded in

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and their second win contested as Serie A. This was their third of five consecutive Italian Football Championship wins, punctuated by a two-year break due to

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Teams

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had been promoted from the 1945–46 Serie B-C Alta Italia and

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had been promoted from the 1945–46 Campionato Centro-Sud Serie A-B.

Events

Following the expansion of the league to 20 clubs, the

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originally decided that three teams would be relegated instead of two, as was the case before the league hiatus caused by World War II. However, 20th-placed

Triestina Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918, commonly referred to US Triestina or just Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, in the northern Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Originally established in 1918, Triestina was one of the fo ...

would be readmitted for the following season for political reasons.

Final classification

Results

Top goalscorers

References and sources

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

External links

- All results on Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, RSSSF Website. {{DEFAULTSORT:1946-47 Serie A Serie A seasons

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1946–47 in Italian football leagues