2016–17 Serie B

Serie B
Season	2016–17
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 Serie B (known as the Serie B ConTe.it for sponsorship reasons) will be the 85th season since its establishment in 1929. A total of 22 teams will contest the league: 15 returning from the 2015–16 season, 4 promoted from Lega Pro, and 3 relegated from Serie A.

Teams

Relegated from 2015–16 Serie A:

From 2015–16 Serie B:

Promoted from 2015–16 Lega Pro:

Stadia and locations

Location of teams in 2016–17 Serie B

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity	2015–16 season
Ascoli	Ascoli	Del Duca	7004205500000000000♠20,550	15th in Serie B
Avellino	Avellino	Partenio	7004260000000000000♠26,000	14th in Serie B
Bari	Bari	San Nicola	7004582700000000000♠58,270	5th in Serie B
Benevento	Benevento	Ciro Vigorito	7004128470000000000♠12,847	Lega Pro/C Champions
Brescia	Brescia	Mario Rigamonti	7004163080000000000♠16,308	11th in Serie B
Carpi	Carpi	Stadio Sandro Cabassi	7003414400000000000♠4,144	18th in Serie A
Cesena	Cesena	Dino Manuzzi	7004239000000000000♠23,900	6th in Serie B
Cittadella	Cittadella	Pier Cesare Tombolato	7003762300000000000♠7,623	Lega Pro/A Champions
Frosinone	Frosinone	Stadio Matusa	7004100000000000000♠10,000	19th in Serie A
Latina	Latina	Domenico Francioni	7003685000000000000♠6,850	16th in Serie B
Novara	Novara	Silvio Piola	7004178750000000000♠17,875	8th in Serie B
Perugia	Perugia	Renato Curi	7004280000000000000♠28,000	10th in Serie B
Pisa	Pisa	Arena Garibaldi	7004148690000000000♠14,869	Lega Pro Play-off Winners
Pro Vercelli	Vercelli	Silvio Piola	7003550000000000000♠5,500	17th in Serie B
Salernitana	Salerno	Arechi	7004372450000000000♠37,245	18th in Serie B
SPAL	Ferrara	Paolo Mazza	7004179550000000000♠17,955	Lega Pro/B Champions
Spezia	La Spezia	Alberto Picco	7004100000000000000♠10,000	7th in Serie B
Ternana	Terni	Libero Liberati	7004175000000000000♠17,500	12th in Serie B
Trapani	Trapani	Provinciale (Erice)	7003700000000000000♠7,000	3rd in Serie B
Verona	Verona	Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi	7004384020000000000♠38,402	20th in Serie A
Vicenza	Vicenza	Romeo Menti	7004171630000000000♠17,163	13th in Serie B
Virtus Entella	Chiavari	Comunale	7003415400000000000♠4,154	9th in Serie B

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Sponsors
Ascoli	Francesco Bellini	Alfredo Aglietti	Nike	Fainplast
Avellino	Walter Taccone	Walter Novellino	Givova	Metaedil.com
Bari	Gianluca Paparesta	Stefano Colantuono	Umbro	Apulia
Benevento	Oreste Vigorito	Marco Baroni	Frankie Garage Sport	IVPC- energia pulita
Brescia	Alessandro Triboldi	Cristian Brocchi	Acerbis	Banco di Brescia
Carpi	Claudio Caliumi	Fabrizio Castori	Givova	Azimut Investments
Cesena	Giorgio Lugaresi	Andrea Camplone	Lotto
Cittadella	Andrea Gabrielli	Roberto Venturato	Garman	Siderurgica Gabrielli
Frosinone	Maurizio Stirpe	Pasquale Marino	Legea	Gala
Latina	Pasquale Maietta	Vincenzo Vivarini	Givova	Sarchioto
Novara	Massimo De Salvo	Roberto Boscaglia	Joma	Banca Popolare di Novara
Perugia	Massimiliano Santopadre	Cristian Bucchi	Frankie Garage Sport	Piccini
Pisa	Fabio Petroni	Gennaro Gattuso	Kappa	TBD
Pro Vercelli	Massimo Secondo	Moreno Longo	Erreà	Amteco
Salernitana	Marco Mezzaroma	Giuseppe Sannino	Givova	caffe motta
SPAL	Walter Mattioli	Leonardo Semplici	HS Football
Spezia	Matteo Volpi	Domenico Di Carlo	Acerbis	Carispezia
Ternana	Simone Longarini	Benito Carbone	Macron
Trapani	Vittorio Morace	Serse Cosmi	Joma	Usticalines
Verona	Maurizio Setti	Fabio Pecchia	Nike	Metano Nord
Vicenza	Tiziano Cunico	Pierpaolo Bisoli	Macron	Banca Popolare di Vicenza
Virtus Entella	Antonio Gozzi	Roberto Breda	Acerbis

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Ascoli	Devis Mangia	Sacked	10 May 2016	Pre-season	Alfredo Aglietti	16 June 2016
Frosinone	Roberto Stellone	Sacked	15 May 2016^[1]		Pasquale Marino	6 June 2016^[2]
Hellas Verona	Luigi Delneri	Sacked	23 May 2016^[3]		Fabio Pecchia	1 June 2016
Perugia	Pierpaolo Bisoli	Sacked	24 May 2016		Cristian Bucchi	15 June 2016
Virtus Entella	Alfredo Aglietti	Resigned	26 May 2016		Roberto Breda	1 July 2016
Avellino	Attilio Tesser	Sacked	31 May 2016		Domenico Toscano	4 June 2016
Latina	Carmine Gautieri	Sacked	12 June 2016		Vincenzo Vivarini	13 June 2016
Benevento	Gaetano Auteri	Sacked	14 June 2016		Marco Baroni	1 July 2016
Novara	Marco Baroni	Signed by Benevento	30 June 2016		Roberto Boscaglia	1 July 2016
Pro Vercelli	Claudio Foscarini	Signed by Livorno	30 June 2016		Moreno Longo	1 July 2016
Ternana	Roberto Breda	Signed by Virtus Entella	30 June 2016		Christian Panucci	1 July 2016
Bari	Andrea Camplone	Contract expired	30 June 2016		Roberto Stellone	4 July 2016
Brescia	Roberto Boscaglia	Signed by Novara	30 June 2016		Cristian Brocchi	11 July 2016
Ternana	Christian Panucci	Sacked	14 August 2016^[4]		Benito Carbone	14 August 2016
Vicenza	Franco Lerda	Sacked	2 October 2016	21st	Pierpaolo Bisoli	3 October 2016^[5]
Cesena	Massimo Drago	Sacked	30 October 2016	19th	Andrea Camplone	31 October 2016^[6]
Bari	Roberto Stellone	Sacked	7 November 2016	16th	Stefano Colantuono	7 November 2016
Avellino	Domenico Toscano	Sacked	29 November 2016	19th	Walter Novellino	29 November 2016

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Verona	17	10	4	3	35	21	+14	34	Promotion to Serie A
2	Frosinone	17	9	5	3	23	16	+7	32	Promotion to Serie A
3	SPAL	17	8	5	4	26	19	+7	29	Qualification to promotion play-offs
4	Benevento^{[lower-alpha 1]}	16	8	5	3	22	9	+13	28
5	Cittadella	17	9	1	7	28	20	+8	28
6	Carpi	17	7	6	4	18	14	+4	27
7	Perugia	17	6	8	3	22	15	+7	26
8	Virtus Entella	16	6	7	3	23	17	+6	25
9	Bari	17	6	5	6	18	17	+1	23
10	Spezia	17	5	8	4	14	13	+1	23
11	Novara	17	6	3	8	20	20	0	21
12	Brescia	17	5	6	6	21	26	−5	21
13	Latina	17	3	10	4	18	21	−3	19
14	Pisa	17	4	7	6	7	10	−3	19
15	Ternana	17	4	7	6	18	22	−4	19
16	Salernitana	17	3	9	5	18	20	−2	18
17	Ascoli	16	4	6	6	15	19	−4	18
18	Pro Vercelli	17	3	9	5	14	22	−8	18	Qualification to relegation play-out
19	Cesena	16	3	7	6	15	15	0	16	Qualification to relegation play-out
20	Avellino	17	4	4	9	10	23	−13	16	Relegation to Lega Pro
21	Vicenza	17	3	6	8	11	24	−13	15
22	Trapani	17	1	8	8	9	22	−13	11

Updated to match(es) played on 4 December 2016. Source: Lega Serie B
Notes:

↑ Benevento was deducted one point

Play-offs

Promotion play-offs

Six teams will contest the promotion playoffs. A preliminary one-legged round, played at the home venue of the higher placed team, involved the teams from 5th to 8th place. The two winning teams will play against the 3rd and 4th-placed teams in two-legged semifinals. The higher placed team plays the second leg of the promotion playoff at home.

Preliminary round	Semifinals	Two-legged final

	5or8
5	4
8

	6or7
6	3
7

Relegation play-out

Two teams will contest the relegation playout in a two-legged round. The higher placed team plays the second leg at home.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
(19)		(18)

Statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played on 4 December 2016

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Giampaolo Pazzini	Verona	14
2	Gianluca Litteri	Cittadella	10
3	Felipe Avenatti	Ternana	9
3	Francesco Caputo	Virtus Entella	9
5	Daniel Ciofani	Frosinone	7
6	Mirco Antenucci	SPAL	6
	Daniele Cacia	Ascoli
	Camillo Ciano	Cesena
	Samuel Di Carmine	Perugia
	Kevin Lasagna	Carpi
11	Andrea Caracciolo	Brescia	5
	Fabio Ceravolo	Benevento
	Massimo Coda	Salernitana
	Federico Dionisi	Frosinone
	Manuel Iori	Cittadella
	Andrea La Mantia	Pro Vercelli
	Riccardo Maniero	Bari
	Francesco Nicastro	Perugia

Attendance data

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Bari !Bari	124,238	17,222	13,872	15,530	-0.72526035585859−27.4%^†
2	Hellas Verona !Hellas Verona	114,527	15,815	12,773	14,316	-0.78685280861823−21.3%¹
3	Cesena !Cesena	97,341	13,475	11,177	12,168	-0.99680511182109−0.3%^†
4	Salernitana !Salernitana	84,890	19,709	9,522	12,127	-0.99827132038196−0.1%^†
5	Perugia !Perugia	75,772	12,811	7,916	9,472	0.024775505788164+2.4%^†
6	Benevento !Benevento	62,536	9,325	6,807	7,817	0.86607782286942+86.6%²
7	SPAL !SPAL	44,696	8,500	6,411	7,466	0.45507698304424+45.5%²
8	Brescia !Brescia	52,001	8,844	6,710	7,339	-0.95771890904346−4.2%^†
9	Spezia !Spezia	57,331	8,215	6,780	7,166	-0.98637302133517−1.3%^†
10	Vicenza !Vicenza	56,242	7,338	6,720	7,030	-0.91536458333333−8.4%^†
11	Avellino !Avellino	47,000	7,000	5,000	5,875	-0.93032462391132−6.9%^†
12	Frosinone !Frosinone	52,643	7,229	5,340	5,849	-0.80255214050494−19.7%¹
13	Ascoli !Ascoli	33,249	5,781	5,204	5,542	-0.8428897338403−15.7%^†
14	Pisa !Pisa	38,439	7,271	2,722	5,491	-0.87283420759816−12.7%²
15	Trapani !Trapani	40,152	5,565	4,598	5,019	-0.98643867924528−1.3%^†
16	Novara !Novara	32,381	4,254	3,731	4,048	-0.8278118609407−17.2%^†
17	Ternana !Ternana	27,444	5,880	2,166	3,611	0.052462838822501+5.2%^†
18	Cittadella !Cittadella	24,834	5,967	2,120	3,104	0.585291113381+58.5%²
19	Pro Vercelli !Pro Vercelli	21,406	4,353	2,218	2,676	-0.87824089268133−12.1%^†
20	Virtus Entella !Virtus Entella	20,993	4,505	1,632	2,624	0.20810313075506+20.8%^†
21	Latina !Latina	16,340	2,683	2,091	2,334	-0.74855676715843−25.1%^†
22	Carpi !Carpi	18,194	2,770	1,643	2,274	-0.2535682426405−74.6%¹
	League total	1,164,394	19,709	1,632	6,770	-0.94539868733417−5.4%^†

Updated to games played on 27 November 2016
Source: Official club websites and Lega Serie B
Notes:
1: Team played last season in Serie A.
2: Team played last season in Lega Pro.

References

Serie B

2016–17 clubs	Ascoli Avellino Bari Benevento Brescia Carpi Cesena Cittadella Frosinone Hellas Verona Latina Novara Perugia Pisa Pro Vercelli Salernitana SPAL Spezia Ternana Trapani Vicenza Virtus Entella

Former clubs	Acireale Alba Trastevere AlbinoLeffe Alessandria Alzano Virescit Ancona Arezzo Arsenale Taranto Atalanta Barletta Biellese Bologna Bolzano Brindisi Campobasso Carpi Carrarese Casale Casertana Castel di Sangro Catania Catanzaro Cavese Centese Chievo Como Cosenza Crema Cremonese Derthona Empoli Fanfulla Fermana Fidelis Andria Fiorentina Fiumana Foggia Forlì Frosinone Gallaratese Gallipoli Genoa Grion Pola Grosseto Gubbio Juve Stabia Juventus L'Aquila Lazio Lecce Lecco Legnano Licata Liguria Livorno Lucchese Maceratese Magenta Mantova Marzotto Massese M.A.T.E.R. Matera Messina Mestre Milan Modena Molinella Monfalcone Monza Napoli Nocerina Padova Palermo Parma Pavia Piacenza Piombino Pistoiese Portogruaro Potenza Prato Pro Gorizia Pro Patria Pro Sesto Ravenna Reggiana Reggina Rieti Rimini Roma Sambenedettese Sampdoria Sampierdarenese Sanremese Sassuolo Savoia Savona Scafatese Seregno Sestrese Siena Siracusa Sorrento Suzzara Taranto Torino Trani Treviso Triestina Udinese Varese Venezia Viareggio Vigevano Virtus Lanciano Vita Nova Vogherese

Statistics	Records

Serie B seasons

Prima Divisione	1926–27 1927–28 1928–29

Serie B	1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

1945–46 postwar season^†	Serie B-C in Northern Italy Serie A-B in Southern Italy

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