2012–13 Serie A


The 2012–13 Serie A was the 111th season of top-tier Italian football, the 81st in a round-robin tournament, and the 3rd since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. It began on 25 August 2012 and ended on 19 May 2013. Juventus 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 [Delfino Delfino Pescara 1936|Pescara 1936|Pescara], Torino, and Sampdoria, who were promoted back to Serie A after nineteen, three, and one years respectively. It is also Cagliari'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. The fixtures were presented on 26 July in a lavish hour-long televised ceremony.

League table


Season statistics

Scoring

  • First goal of the season: Maicosuel for Udinese against Fiorentina
  • Fastest goal of the season: 18 seconds
  • * Arturo Vidal for Juventus against Internazionale
  • Latest goal of the season: 90+5 minutes
  • * Panagiotis Kone for Bologna against Catania
  • * Josip Iličić for Palermo against Catania
  • Largest winning margin: 6 goals
  • * Sampdoria 6–0 Pescara
  • * Lazio 6–0 Bologna
  • Highest scoring game: 8 goals
  • * Torino 3–5 Napoli
  • Most goals scored by a single team: 6 goals
  • * Pescara 1–6 Juventus
  • * Sampdoria 6–0 Pescara
  • * Lazio 6–0 Bologna
  • Most goals scored by a losing team: 3 goals
  • * Cagliari 4–3 Torino
  • * Torino 3–5 Napoli
  • * Internazionale 3–4 Atalanta
  • * Fiorentina 4–3 Torino

Clean sheets

  • Most clean sheets: 19
  • * Juventus
  • Fewest clean sheets: 5
  • * Pescara

Discipline

Attendances

Source:
#ClubAvg. attendanceHighest
1Internazionale46,55179,341
2AC Milan43,65177,023
3AS Roma40,17954,981
4SSC Napoli39,63658,143
5Juventus FC38,60040,562
6SS Lazio31,99251,461
7ACF Fiorentina25,66539,469
8UC Sampdoria23,12330,350
9Bologna FC 190921,43635,206
10Genoa CFC19,74029,218
11US Città di Palermo18,28726,597
12Torino FC15,61525,753
13Udinese Calcio15,50627,543
14Atalanta BC15,39622,099
15Calcio Catania13,86220,381
16Parma FC12,74019,073
17Pescara Calcio12,23621,317
18ChievoVerona11,55328,000
19AC Siena9,58215,373
20Cagliari Calcio8,55117,000