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1951–52 Serie A

49th season of top-tier Italian football

Field	Value
competition	Serie A
season	1951–52
image	1951–52 Juventus Football Club.jpg
caption	1951–52 Serie A winning Juventus squad
winners	Juventus
9th title
relegated	Lucchese
Padova
Legnano
league topscorer	John Hansen
(30 goals)
matches	380
total goals	1101
prevseason	[1950–51](1950-51-serie-a)
nextseason	[1952–53](1952-53-serie-a)

9th title Padova Legnano (30 goals) The 1951-52 Serie A was the fiftieth edition of the Italian Football Championship. It was the nineteenth Italian Football Championship branded Serie A, since Serie A was launched in 1929. This was the twenty-sixth season from which the Italian Football Champions adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a Scudetto. Juventus were champions for the ninth time in their history. This was their eighth scudetto since the scudetto started being awarded in 1924 and their seventh win contested as Serie A.

Teams

SPAL and Legnano had been promoted from Serie B.

Six out of the twenty clubs came from Lombardy, a record for a single region of Italy.

Events

FIGC decided to restore the original 18-clubs format, so a special relegation would have been necessary.

Final classification

Results

Relegation tie-breaker

The 3 last-placed teams in Serie A were guaranteed relegation. However, due to a tie for 17th place between Lucchese and Triestina, the teams had to play a tie-breaker to determine which team would be relegated and which team qualified for the playoff.

:Game played in Bergamo

The match was null.

:Game played in Milan

Lucchese was relegated and Triestina qualified for the playoff game against Brescia, Serie B's 2nd-placed team.

Serie A qualification play-off

Since it was decided to reduce the number of Serie A teams from 20 to 18 for the 1952-1953 season, only the top 16 teams in Serie A were guaranteed to remain there the following season, and only the first-placed team in Serie B was guaranteed a direct promotion to Serie A. The 18th team would be decided in a one-game playoff between the 17th-placed team in Serie A and the 2nd-placed team in Serie B.

:Game played in Valdagno

Triestina maintained its place in Serie A. Lucchese, Padova and Legnano were relegated while only Roma, the Serie B champion, was promoted.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	DEN John Hansen	Juventus	30
2	SWE Gunnar Nordahl	Milan	27
3	Hungarian People's Republic István Nyers	Internazionale	23
4	ITA Renzo Burini	Milan	22
SWE Hasse Jeppson	Atalanta
6	ITA Giampiero Boniperti	Juventus	19
7	ITA Silvio Piola	Novara	18
8	ITA Ermes Muccinelli	Juventus	17
9	TUR Şükrü Gülesin	Lazio	16
10	ITA Benito Lorenzi	Internazionale	15
11	ITA Cesarino Cervellati	Bologna	14
12	TUR Aziz Esel Bulent	SPAL	13
ITA Mario Astorri	Napoli
ITA Giuseppe Baldini	Como
ITA Giuseppe Rinaldi	Udinese
16	DEN Karl Aage Hansen	Juventus	12
ITA Pasquale Vivolo	Juventus
ITA Gino Armano	Internazionale
ITA Pietro Broccini	Internazionale
ITA Amedeo Amadei	Napoli
ARG Enrique Andres Martegani	Padova
ITA Adriano Bassetto	Sampdoria

References and sources

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

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