2017–18 Serie B
Season | 2017–18 |
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Champions | Empoli (2nd title) |
Promoted | Empoli Parma Frosinone (by play-off) |
Relegated | Virtus Entella Novara Pro Vercelli Ternana Bari (bankruptcy) Cesena (bankruptcy) Avellino (bankruptcy) |
Matches played | 462 |
Goals scored | 1182 (2.56 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Francesco Caputo (26 goals) |
Biggest home win | Perugia 5–0 Carpi (18 November 2017) |
Biggest away win | Virtus Entella 1–5 Perugia (27 August 2017) Perugia 1–5 Pro Vercelli (8 October 2017) Bari 0-4 Empoli (27 January 2018) Cremonese 0-4 Foggia (7 April 2018) |
Highest scoring | Empoli 5–3 Cesena (18 November 2017) |
Longest winning run | 6 games Empoli |
Longest unbeaten run | 28 games Empoli |
Longest winless run | 18 games Cremonese |
Longest losing run | 5 games Perugia Ternana |
Highest attendance | 33,567 Bari 1–0 Foggia (26 November 2017) |
Lowest attendance | 912 Frosinone 2–1 Cittadella (4 September 2017) (Match played in Avellino) |
Total attendance | 3,194,526 |
Average attendance | 6,930[1] |
← 2016–17
2018–19 →
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The 2017–18 Serie B (known as the Serie B ConTe.it for sponsorship reasons) was the 86th season since its establishment in 1929.
A total of 22 teams contested the league: 15 returning from the 2016–17 Serie B season, 4 promoted from 2016–17 Lega Pro (Cremonese, Venezia, Foggia, Parma), and 3 relegated from 2016–17 Serie A (Empoli, Palermo, Pescara).
Contents
Teams
Stadia and locations
Number of teams by regions
Number of teams | Region | Team(s) |
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3 | Emilia-Romagna | Carpi, Cesena and Parma |
2 | Apulia | Bari and Foggia |
Campania | Avellino and Salernitana | |
Liguria | Spezia and Virtus Entella | |
Lombardy | Brescia and Cremonese | |
Piedmont | Novara and Pro Vercelli | |
Umbria | Perugia and Ternana | |
Veneto | Cittadella and Venezia | |
1 | Abruzzo | Pescara |
Lazio | Frosinone | |
Marche | Ascoli | |
Sicily | Palermo | |
Tuscany | Empoli |
Personnel and kits
Team | President | Manager | Kit manufacturer | Sponsors |
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Ascoli | Francesco Bellini | Serse Cosmi | Nike | |
Avellino | Walter Taccone | Claudio Foscarini | Givova | Sidigas |
Bari | Cosmo Antonio Giancaspro | Fabio Grosso | Zeus | Birra Peroni |
Brescia | Alessandro Triboldi | Ivo Pulga | Acerbis | UBI Banca[3] |
Carpi | Claudio Caliumi | Antonio Calabro | Givova | Gaudì Jeans |
Cesena | Giorgio Lugaresi | Fabrizio Castori | Lotto | PLT puregreen |
Cittadella | Andrea Gabrielli | Roberto Venturato | Boxeur Des Rues | Ocsa |
Cremonese | Luigi Simoni | Andrea Mandorlini | Garman | Ilta Inox S.p.A. |
Empoli | Fabrizio Corsi | Aurelio Andreazzoli | Joma | Gensan |
Foggia | Lucio Fares | Giovanni Stroppa | Nike | Tamma |
Frosinone | Maurizio Stirpe | Moreno Longo | Legea | Banca Popolare del Frusinate |
Novara | Carlo Accornero | Domenico Di Carlo | Joma | Banca Popolare di Novara |
Palermo | Maurizio Zamparini | Roberto Stellone | Legea | Sicily by Car, Bisaten |
Parma | Jiang Lizhang | Roberto D'Aversa | Erreà | Aon,Cetiliar |
Perugia | Massimiliano Santopadre | Roberto Breda | FG Sport | Piccini |
Pescara | Daniele Sebastiani | Giuseppe Pillon | Erreà | O.M.A. |
Pro Vercelli | Massimo Secondo | Gianluca Grassadonia | Errea | PGO Group S.p.A. |
Salernitana | Marco Mezzaroma & Claudio Lotito | Stefano Colantuono | Givova | Seleco |
Spezia | Andrea Corradino | Fabio Gallo | Acerbis | Arquati, Credit Agricole - Carispezia |
Ternana | Stefano Bandecchi | Luigi De Canio | Zeus | Unicusano |
Venezia | Joe Tacopina | Filippo Inzaghi | Nike | |
Virtus Entella | Antonio Gozzi | Alfredo Aglietti | Acerbis | Duferco Energia, Pensa Benessere |
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
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Ascoli | Alfredo Aglietti | End of contract | 1 June 2017 | Pre-season | Fulvio Fiorin & Enzo Maresca | 1 June 2017[4][5] |
Bari | Stefano Colantuono | End of contract | 13 June 2017 | Fabio Grosso[6] | 13 June 2017 | |
Brescia | Luigi Cagni | End of contract | 3 June 2017 | Roberto Boscaglia | 3 June 2017[7] | |
Carpi | Fabrizio Castori[8] | Mutual consent | 12 June 2017 | Antonio Calabro[9] | 14 July 2017 | |
Frosinone | Pasquale Marino[10] | Mutual consent | 14 June 2017 | Moreno Longo[11] | 14 June 2017 | |
Novara | Roberto Boscaglia[7] | Signed by Brescia | 3 June 2017 | Eugenio Corini[12] | 14 June 2017 | |
Pro Vercelli | Moreno Longo[13] | Signed by Frosinone | 14 June 2017 | Gianluca Grassadonia[14] | 14 June 2017 | |
Spezia | Domenico Di Carlo[15] | End of contract | 14 June 2017 | Fabio Gallo[16] | 14 June 2017 | |
Perugia | Cristian Bucchi[17] | Signed by Sassuolo | 20 June 2017 | Federico Giunti[18] | 23 June 2017 | |
Empoli | Giovanni Martusciello | Mutual consent | 20 June 2017 | Vincenzo Vivarini[19] | 21 June 2017 | |
Palermo | Diego Bortoluzzi | End of contract | 21 June 2017 | Bruno Tedino[20] | 22 June 2017 | |
Ternana | Fabio Liverani | End of contract | 30 June 2017 | Sandro Pochesci[21] | 9 July 2017 | |
Cesena | Andrea Camplone[22] | Sacked | 30 September 2017 | 22nd | Fabrizio Castori[23] | 1 October 2017 |
Brescia | Roberto Boscaglia[24] | 12 October 2017 | 15th | Pasquale Marino[24] | 12 October 2017 | |
Perugia | Federico Giunti | 24 October 2017 | 15th | Roberto Breda | 26 October 2017 | |
V. Entella | Gianpaolo Castorina | 5 November 2017 | 19th | Alfredo Aglietti[25] | 6 November 2017 | |
Ascoli | Fulvio Fiorin | 7 December 2017 | 22nd | Serse Cosmi[26] | 7 December 2017 | |
Salernitana | Alberto Bollini | 11 December 2017 | 11th | Stefano Colantuono[27] | 12 December 2017 | |
Empoli | Vincenzo Vivarini | 16 December 2017 | 5th | Aurelio Andreazzoli[28] | 17 December 2017 | |
Pro Vercelli | Gianluca Grassadonia | 16 December 2017 | 20th | Gianluca Atzori | 17 December 2017 | |
Brescia | Pasquale Marino[29] | 15 January 2018 | 17th | Roberto Boscaglia[29] | 15 January 2018 | |
Pro Vercelli | Gianluca Atzori[30] | 22 January 2018 | 22nd | Gianluca Grassadonia[30] | 22 January 2018 | |
Ternana | Sandro Pochesci[31] | 29 January 2018 | 20th | Ferruccio Mariani[32] | 30 January 2018 | |
Novara | Eugenio Corini[33] | 4 February 2018 | 16th | Domenico Di Carlo[34] | 5 February 2018 | |
Ternana | Ferruccio Mariani[35] | 21 February 2018 | 22nd | Luigi De Canio[35] | 21 February 2018 | |
Pescara | Zdeněk Zeman[36] | 6 March 2018 | 13th | Massimo Epifani[36] | 6 March 2018 | |
Massimo Epifani[37] | 1 April 2018 | 16th | Giuseppe Pillon[37] | 1 April 2018 | ||
Avellino | Walter Novellino[38] | 3 April 2018 | 18th | Claudio Foscarini[39] | 3 April 2018 | |
Cremonese | Attilio Tesser[40] | 23 April 2018 | 14th | Andrea Mandorlini[40] | 23 April 2018 | |
Palermo | Bruno Tedino[41] | 28 April 2018 | 3rd | Roberto Stellone[41] | 28 April 2018 | |
Brescia | Roberto Boscaglia[42] | 29 April 2018 | 13th | Ivo Pulga[42] | 29 April 2018 | |
Virtus Entella | Alfredo Aglietti[43] | 6 May 2018 | 20th | Gennaro Volpe[43] | 6 May 2018 | |
Pro Vercelli | Gianluca Grassadonia | 7 May 2018 | 22nd | Vito Grieco[44] | 7 May 2018 |
League table
Template:2017–18 Serie B table
On August 13, 2018, the FIGC decided to reduce the chronic financial instability of the league halting re-elections of clubs. Serie B was so reduced to 19 clubs.
Promotion play-offs
Six teams could contest the promotion play-offs depending on the point differential between the third and fourth-placed teams. It began with a preliminary one-legged round played at the home venue of the higher placed team, involving the teams placed fifth to eight. The two winning (or higher placed team from regular season if a match ended with a draw) teams advanced to play the third and fourth-placed teams in the two-legged semi-finals. Those winning teams advanced to the two-legged final, where the winner was promoted to play in Serie A the following season. In the two-legged rounds, the higher seeded team played the second game at home.
Preliminary round | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
5 | Venezia | ||||||||||||
5 | Venezia | 3 | 4 | Palermo | |||||||||
8 | Perugia | 0 | 4 | Palermo | |||||||||
3 | Frosinone | ||||||||||||
6 | Cittadella | ||||||||||||
6 | Cittadella | 2 | 3 | Frosinone | |||||||||
7 | Bari | 2 |
Relegation play-out
Two teams contested the relegation play-out in a two-legged round. The higher placed team played the second leg at home. In the case of a tie on aggregate, the higher placed team from the regular season were declared the winners. The losers were relegated to Serie C for the following season.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Virtus Entella (19) | 0–0 | Ascoli (18) | 0–0 | 0–0 |
Top goalscorers
Rank | Player | Club | Goals[45] |
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1 | Francesco Caputo | Empoli | 26 |
2 | Alfredo Donnarumma | Empoli | 23 |
3 | Samuel Di Carmine | Perugia | 22 |
4 | Adriano Montalto | Ternana | 20 |
5 | Fabio Mazzeo | Foggia | 19 |
6 | Alberto Cerri | Perugia | 15 |
7 | Camillo Ciano | Frosinone | 14 |
Cristian Galano | Bari | ||
9 | Emanuele Calaiò | Parma | 13 |
Andrea Caracciolo | Brescia | ||
Daniel Ciofani | Frosinone | ||
Ilija Nestorovski | Palermo | ||
Stefano Pettinari | Pescara |
Results
Home \ Away | ASC | AVE | BAR | BRE | CRP | CES | CIT | CRE | EMP | FOG | FRO | NOV | PAL | PAR | PER | PES | PVE | SAL | SPE | TER | VEN | VET |
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Ascoli | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 1–1 |
Avellino | 1–1 | — | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 5–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 |
Bari | 3–0 | 2–1 | — | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 |
Brescia | 0–1 | 2–3 | 2–1 | — | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 |
Carpi | 4–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | — | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
Cesena | 0–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | — | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 2–2 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 4–3 | 0–0 | 3–0 |
Cittadella | 3–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 4–0 | — | 1–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 |
Cremonese | 1–2 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | — | 1–1 | 0–4 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 5–1 | 0–1 |
Empoli | 3–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 5–3 | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 3–1 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 |
Foggia | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–3 | 0–3 | — | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 |
Frosinone | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–4 | 2–2 | — | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 4–3 |
Novara | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | — | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 0–1 |
Palermo | 4–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 |
Parma | 4–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3–2 | — | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 |
Perugia | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 2–4 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | — | 4–2 | 1–5 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
Pescara | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 5–1 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–4 | 0–2 | — | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 |
Pro Vercelli | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 5–2 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 3–1 | — | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 |
Salernitana | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 4–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | 3–3 | 3–2 | 1–0 |
Spezia | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 4–2 | 4–0 | 5–1 | 3–0 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 |
Ternana | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 5–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 4–3 | 2–2 | 4–2 | — | 2–3 | 0–1 |
Venezia | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | — | 2–0 |
Virtus Entella | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–5 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | — |
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