The 1952–53 Serie C was the fifteenth edition of

Serie C The Serie C (), officially known as Serie C NOW for sponsorship purposes, is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing ...

, the third highest league in the

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. The tournament was organized in a single table for the first time.

Events

The league was organized into a single division of 18 teams. *5 had been

relegated Promotion and relegation is used by sports leagues as a process where teams can move up and down among divisions in a league system, based on their performance over a season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are sometimes call ...

from

Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as 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 b ...

after 1951–52 season; *11 had confirmed their places in the third division for the performances in 1951–52 Serie C; *2 obtained the place after a 4 teams qualification round. No team had been promoted from lower divisions in 1951–52 season. Each team played a total of 34 matches (17 at home, 17 away). The 2–1–0 point system was used for the classification. At the end of the 34th round, teams at the first two positions of the classification were promoted in

for the 1953–54 season. On the contrary, teams which finished their league at the last four places were relegated in

IV Serie The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...

Teams

Final classification

Results

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