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1955–56 Serie A

53rd season of top-tier Italian football

Field	Value
competition	Serie A
season	1955–56
image	AC Fiorentina Serie A 1955-56.jpg
winners	Fiorentina
1st title
caption	1955–56 Fiorentina team
relegated	Novara
Pro Patria
continentalcup1	[European Cup](1956-57-european-cup)
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Fiorentina
league topscorer	Gino Pivatelli
(29 goals)
matches	306
total goals	838
prevseason	[1954–55](1954-55-serie-a)
nextseason	[1956–57](1956-57-serie-a)

1st title Pro Patria (29 goals) The 1955-56 Serie A was the fifty-fourth edition of the Italian Football Championship. It was the twenty-third Italian Football Championship branded Serie A, since Serie A was launched in 1929. This was the thirtieth season from which the Italian Football Champions adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a Scudetto. Fiorentina were champions for the first time in their history. This was thus their second scudetto since the scudetto started being awarded in 1924, and their first win contested as Serie A.

Teams

Vicenza and Padova had been promoted from Serie B.

Final classification

Results

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	ITA Gino Pivatelli	Bologna	29
2	SWE Gunnar Nordahl	Milan	23
3	ITA Giuseppe Virgili	Fiorentina	20
4	ITA Adriano Bassetto	Atalanta	18
5	ITA Eddie Firmani	Sampdoria	17
6	BRA Luís Vinício	Napoli	16
URU ITA Juan Alberto Schiaffino	Milan
8	ITA Attilio Frizzi	Genoa	14
9	ARG ITA Miguel Montuori	Fiorentina	13
ITA Mario Tortul	Sampdoria
11	BRA ITA Dino da Costa	Roma	12
ITA Lorenzo Bettini	Lazio
ITA Amedeo Bonistalli	Padova
14	SWE Lennart Skoglund	Internazionale	11
ITA Riccardo Carapellese	Genoa
ITA Giorgio Dal Monte	Milan
ITA Ezio Pascutti	Bologna

References and sources

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

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