The 2012–13 Serie A (known as the
Serie A
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TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 111th season of top-tier Italian
football
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, the 81st in a
round-robin tournament
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, and the 3rd since its organization under a league committee separate from
Serie B
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. It began on 25 August 2012 and ended on 19 May 2013.
Juventus
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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,
FIGC allowed Serie A teams to have up to 12 substitution players on the bench for each game.
Events
The 2012–13 season features the return of
Pescara
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,
Torino
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, and
Sampdoria, who were promoted back to Serie A after nineteen, three, and one years respectively. It is also
Cagliari
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'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
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
Stadiums and locations
Personnel and kits
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
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for Juventus against Internazionale (
''3 November 2012'')
* Latest goal of the season: 90+5 minutes
**
Panagiotis Kone for Bologna against Catania (
''30 September 2012'')
**
Josip Iličić 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
**
Daniele Conti (Cagliari)
* Most red cards (club): 13
** Atalanta
* Most red cards (player): 2
**
Davide Astori (Cagliari)
**
Kevin-Prince Boateng (Milan)
**
Carlos Carmona (Atalanta)
**
Andrea Costa (Sampdoria)
**
Danilo (Udinese)
**
Felipe (Siena)
**
Daniele Gastaldello (Sampdoria)
**
Kamil Glik (Torino)
**
Thomas Heurtaux (Udinese)
**
Federico Peluso (Atalanta)
**
Luca Rossettini (Cagliari)
**
Vladimír Weiss (Pescara)
* Fewest yellow cards (club): 77
** Juventus
References
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