Italian Serie A Winners List: All-Time Italian Football Champions (1898 – 2026)

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Serie A is the highest level of Italian professional football, and it stands among the most prestigious domestic leagues on the planet.

From the very first Serie A season in 1929-30 to Inter Milan’s triumphant 21st Scudetto in 2025-26, the competition has delivered drama, dynasty, and some of the greatest footballers who ever lived.

This complete Serie A winners list covers every champion from the pre-modern era of 1898 right through to the present day, giving you the definitive record of Italian football history.

Known domestically as the Scudetto (meaning ‘little shield’ in Italian), the Serie A title is the most coveted prize in Italian club football.

Juventus hold the record with 36 championships, followed by Inter Milan with 21 and AC Milan with 19.

But the story of Italian football is not just one of Turin’s black-and-white giants, it’s also the tale of Napoli’s Maradona-era revolution, Helenio Herrera’s Grande Inter, Arrigo Sacchi’s all-conquering Milan, and Hellas Verona’s impossible fairytale in 1985.

Whether you’re looking for the complete Serie A champions list, a breakdown of Scudetto winners by season, or a deep dive into the clubs and managers who shaped Italian football, this article covers it all.

Complete Serie A Winners List by Year (1898-2026)

The table below covers every season of Italian top-flight football, from the inaugural 1898 Championship right through to the 2025-26 Serie A campaign. Note that the competition was known under different names before becoming Serie A in 1929-30.

SeasonWinnerRunner-Up
1897-98GenoaInternazionale Torino
1898-99GenoaInternazionale Torino
1899-00GenoaTorinese
1900-01MilanGenoa
1901-02GenoaMilan
1902-03GenoaJuventus
1903-04GenoaJuventus
1904-05JuventusGenoa
1905-06MilanJuventus
1906-07MilanGenoa
1907-08Pro VercelliGenoa
1908-09Pro VercelliUS Milanese
1909-10InterPro Vercelli
1910-11Pro VercelliGenoa
1911-12Pro VercelliInter
1912-13Pro VercelliGenoa
1913-14CasalePro Vercelli
1914-15GenoaLazio
1919-20InterPro Vercelli
1920-21Pro VercelliPisa
1921-22Pro VercelliFortitudo
1921-22NoveseSampierdarenese
1922-23GenoaLazio
1923-24GenoaSavoia
1924-25BolognaAlba Roma
1925-26JuventusBologna
1926-27No winnerTorino stripped
1927-28TorinoGenoa
1928-29BolognaTorino
1929-30Inter (Ambrosiana)Genoa
1930-31JuventusBologna
1931-32JuventusBologna
1932-33JuventusAmbrosiana-Inter
1933-34JuventusNapoli
1934-35JuventusAmbrosiana
1935-36BolognaRoma
1936-37BolognaLazio
1937-38InterJuventus
1938-39BolognaTorino
1939-40InterBologna
1940-41BolognaInter
1941-42RomaTorino
1942-43TorinoLivorno
1943-44No official title
1944-45No official title
1945-46TorinoJuventus
1946-47TorinoJuventus
1947-48TorinoMilan
1948-49TorinoInter
1949-50JuventusMilan
1950-51InterMilan
1951-52JuventusMilan
1952-53InterJuventus
1953-54InterJuventus
1954-55MilanUdinese
1955-56FiorentinaMilan
1956-57MilanFiorentina
1957-58JuventusFiorentina
1958-59MilanFiorentina
1959-60JuventusFiorentina
1960-61JuventusMilan
1961-62MilanInter
1962-63InterJuventus
1963-64BolognaInter
1964-65InterMilan
1965-66InterBologna
1966-67JuventusInter
1967-68MilanNapoli
1968-69FiorentinaCagliari
1969-70CagliariInter
1970-71InterMilan
1971-72JuventusAC Milan
1972-73JuventusMilan
1973-74LazioJuventus
1974-75JuventusNapoli
1975-76TorinoJuventus
1976-77JuventusTorino
1977-78JuventusVicenza
1978-79MilanInter
1979-80InterJuventus
1980-81JuventusRoma
1981-82JuventusFiorentina
1982-83RomaJuventus
1983-84JuventusRoma
1984-85VeronaTorino
1985-86JuventusRoma
1986-87NapoliJuventus
1987-88MilanNapoli
1988-89InterMilan
1989-90NapoliMilan
1990-91SampdoriaMilan
1991-92MilanJuventus
1992-93MilanInter
1993-94MilanJuventus
1994-95JuventusLazio
1995-96MilanJuventus
1996-97JuventusParma
1997-98JuventusInter
1998-99MilanLazio
1999-00LazioJuventus
2000-01RomaJuventus
2001-02JuventusRoma
2002-03JuventusInter
2003-04MilanRoma
2004-05No winner
2005-06InterRoma
2006-07InterRoma
2007-08InterRoma
2008-09InterJuventus
2009-10InterRoma
2010-11MilanInter
2011-12JuventusMilan
2012-13JuventusNapoli
2013-14JuventusRoma
2014-15JuventusRoma
2015-16JuventusNapoli
2016-17JuventusRoma
2017-18JuventusNapoli
2018-19JuventusNapoli
2019-20JuventusInter
2020-21InterMilan
2021-22MilanInter
2022-23NapoliLazio
2023-24InterMilan
2024-25NapoliInter
2025-26InterNapoli

* Note: The 1904-05 season (Calciopoli scandal) is listed as ‘No winner’ as the title was stripped from Juventus with no reassignment.

The 1926-27 title was also vacated after Torino were stripped following a bribery investigation. WWII caused the suspension of official championships in 1943-44 and 1944-45.

Related: Explore our complete guides to the UEFA Champions League Winners List, the UEFA Conference League Winners List, the Ballon d’Or Winners List, and the La Liga Winners List, and league champions from England, Spain, Italy, Germany, and beyond.

Serie A Titles by Club: All-Time Standings

ClubTotal TitlesRunner-Up FinishesFirst TitleLatest Title
Juventus36211905-062019-20
Inter Milan21131909-102025-26
AC Milan19141900-012021-22
Genoa951897-981923-24
Torino781927-281975-76
Bologna751924-251963-64
Pro Vercelli731907-081921-22
Roma371941-422000-01
Lazio241973-741999-00
Fiorentina231955-561968-69
Napoli431986-872024-25
Cagliari101969-701969-70
Sampdoria111990-911990-91
Verona101984-851984-85
Casale101913-141913-14
Novese101921-221921-22

Top 10 Clubs With Most Serie A Titles

1. Juventus — 36 Titles

Juventus are Italian football. No single club in any major European league has so thoroughly dominated their domestic competition over such a sustained period.

The Bianconeri from Turin have won the Scudetto 36 times more than the combined total of every other club in the top five.

Their story spans three distinct golden eras. The first came in the 1930s when Carlo Carcano built the foundational dynasty.

The second arrived in the late 1970s and 1980s under Giovanni Trapattoni, who won six Scudetti with a team featuring Michel Platini, Paolo Rossi, and the great libero Gaetano Scirea.

They added European glory, a European Cup in 1985, two UEFA Cups, and a Cup Winners’ Cup.

Marcello Lippi then delivered five titles between 1994 and 2003, including the 1996 Champions League. But their most extraordinary sequence came in the modern era.

Antonio Conte’s 2011-12 unbeaten side started a run of nine consecutive Scudetti, eventually broken by his own Inter Milan side in 2020-21.

The Calciopoli scandal of 2006 forced them into Serie B and stripped two titles — wounds that still sting in Turin, but the club’s institutional dominance has remained largely intact.

2. Inter Milan — 21 Titles

Inter Milan are Italian football’s other great constant, though their history has been less linear than Juventus’s.

The club known as the Nerazzurri (Black and Blues) won the first-ever Serie A title in 1929-30 when they were still called Ambrosiana-Inter, setting a precedent for future excellence.

Their greatest era came in the 1960s under Helenio Herrera’s Grande Inter, producing back-to-back European Cups in 1964 and 1965 alongside domestic dominance.

Then came the ‘Triplete’ of 2009-10 under Jose Mourinho, Serie A, Coppa Italia, and Champions League, one of the finest single-season achievements in European football history.

Inter’s modern resurgence is equally impressive. Since 2021, they have been the most consistent force in Serie A, winning four Scudetti in six seasons including their 21st under Cristian Chivu in 2025-26.

The Thuram-Martinez strike partnership and Inzaghi’s tactical flexibility before Chivu’s arrival brought Inter firmly back to elite status.

3. AC Milan — 19 Titles

Few clubs have experienced the heights and depths that AC Milan have. The Rossoneri were pioneers, winning Italy’s first modern football championship in 1900-01, and have remained relevant in virtually every era since.

Their greatest period was undeniably the late 1980s and early 1990s under Arrigo Sacchi and then Fabio Capello.

The Dutch trio of Gullit, Van Basten, and Rijkaard formed the nucleus of a team that won four Scudetti and two European Cups.

Capello’s 1991-92 side went an entire Serie A season unbeaten. Paolo Maldini, playing his entire career at the club, collected seven league titles.

After a trophy drought that stretched from 2011 until 2021-22, Milan’s Scudetto victory under Stefano Pioli — ending an 11-year wait — felt like a seismic moment.

The renaissance of Rafael Leao and Theo Hernandez, alongside intelligent recruitment, suggested the Rossoneri were returning to relevance.

4. Genoa — 9 Titles

Genoa are Italian football’s original giants, though you would struggle to recognise them as such today. The Ligurian club won nine championships between 1898 and 1924, including the very first Italian football title and six in the first decade of play.

They were the club that defined the sport’s early years in Italy, and their ninth and final title in 1923-24 prompted the Scudetto tradition, the little shield worn on the jersey, as a celebration of their achievement.

Since that final title over a century ago, Genoa have oscillated between the top flight and the Championship. They remain one of Italian football’s most storied clubs but one of its most underachieving in the modern era.

5. Torino — 7 Titles

Seven titles places Torino in the history books, but the number obscures the true magnitude of their story.

Five of those seven championships came consecutively between 1945-46 and 1948-49, when Grande Torino were arguably the best team in Europe.

They had ten regular starters capped for Italy, played fluid, attacking football, and appeared on the verge of a generational dynasty.

Then came Superga. The 1949 air disaster killed the entire first team and coaching staff, robbing football of one of its greatest ever sides.

Torino have won just one title since — the 1975-76 season — and remain the club defined more by tragedy than triumph, even as they occupy a permanent place in Serie A’s upper half.

6. Bologna — 7 Titles

Bologna’s seven titles came in two distinct clusters: four in the 1930s and early 1940s, when they were Serie A’s other great power alongside Juventus, and then a final title in 1963-64.

Their 1930s teams, built around physicality and technical precision under Hermann Felsner, were considered champions of the world after their international tour victories.

In 2024-25, Bologna qualified for the Champions League for the first time in their modern history — a remarkable achievement that suggests this ancient club still has chapters left to write.

7. Pro Vercelli — 7 Titles

Pro Vercelli’s seven titles represent one of football’s great historical curiosities. A club from a small Piedmontese town, they were Italy’s dominant force in the 1900s and 1910s, winning seven championships including four between 1908 and 1913.

They were known for their use of purely Italian players at a time when other clubs relied on foreign talent.

Pro Vercelli now play in the lower reaches of Italian football, making them the most extreme example of a club that once stood at the summit of the game and fell to near-total obscurity.

8. Napoli — 4 Titles

Napoli’s four Scudetti carry a weight and significance that transcends mere numbers.

The first two, in 1986-87 and 1989-90, came during the Maradona era when the city of Naples, long considered the poor relation of Italian football, beat the wealthy northern clubs at their own game.

Diego’s first title celebration remains one of football’s most extraordinary mass moments of joy.

After three decades of waiting, Luciano Spalletti’s 2022-23 side won the third Scudetto with a record 90 points, featuring Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Victor Osimhen as the new generation’s standard-bearers.

Then, Antonio Conte, the same manager who had ended Juventus’s nine-in-a-row with Inter, delivered a fourth title in 2024-25, cementing Napoli’s position as Italian football’s most compelling club of the 2020s.

9. Roma — 3 Titles

Roma’s three Scudetti, 1941-42, 1982-83, and 2000-01 came across three distinct eras, each representing a peak moment for the Giallorossi.

The 1982-83 title under Nils Liedholm was particularly celebrated, while Fabio Capello’s 2000-01 triumph featuring Francesco Totti, Gabriel Batistuta, and Cafu stands as their finest modern achievement.

Roma have since been consistent Champions League qualifiers without adding to their Scudetto tally.

The 2024-25 season, however, saw them finish in the Champions League places for the first time in years, suggesting renewed ambition.

10. Lazio — 2 Titles

Lazio’s two Serie A titles, 1973-74 and 1999-2000, are separated by 26 years but share a common thread of unexpected triumph.

The first, under Tommaso Maestrelli with Giorgio Chinaglia as the talisman, shocked Italian football.

The second, under Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson with a squad featuring Nesta, Veron, Crespo, and Nedved, came in one of Serie A’s most dramatic title races, edged on the final day from Juventus.

Most Consecutive Serie A Titles

ClubConsecutive TitlesSeasonsManager(s)
Juventus92011-12 to 2019-20Conte (3), Allegri (5), Sarri (1)
Grande Torino51945-46 to 1948-49Multiple managers
Inter Milan52005-06 to 2009-10Mancini (3), Mourinho (2)
Juventus51930-31 to 1934-35Carlo Carcano
Inter Milan32007-08 to 2009-10Mancini (1), Mourinho (2)

Juventus’s nine consecutive titles from 2011-12 to 2019-20 is the longest winning streak in the history of any top European league.

No club in the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, or Ligue 1 has matched it. Antonio Conte started the run, handing over to Massimiliano Allegri who won five in a row before Maurizio Sarri added the ninth in 2019-20. Inter’s Antonio Conte then famously ended the streak in 2020-21.

Serie A Records

RecordClub / PlayerDetailSeason
Most Championships (Club)Juventus36 titles total1898-2020
Most Consecutive TitlesJuventus9 in a row2011-12 to 2019-20
First-Ever ChampionGenoaWon inaugural 1898 tournament1897-98
Highest Points (Modern era)Inter Milan94 points2023-24
Napoli Record PointsNapoli90 points2022-23
Unbeaten SeasonJuventus38 games unbeaten2011-12
Unbeaten League Run (Milan)AC Milan58 Serie A games1991-93
Most Titles as ManagerGiovanni Trapattoni7 Scudetti1976-1994
Biggest Shock ChampionHellas VeronaOnly title ever1984-85
Only Southern Club EraNapoliTwo titles (Maradona)1987, 1990
Longest Title Drought BrokenAC Milan11 years between titles2011-2022
Most Apps in Serie AGianluigi Buffon657 appearances1995-2023
Most Scudetti as PlayerGianluigi Buffon10 winners medals2002-2020

Most Successful Serie A Managers

The managers who have shaped Serie A history are among the most tactically influential coaches the game has ever produced.

From Helenio Herrera’s catenaccio revolution to Arrigo Sacchi’s pressing system, Italy has been a laboratory for football’s greatest tactical innovations.

ManagerSerie A TitlesClubsActive Years
Giovanni Trapattoni7Juventus (6), Inter (1)1976-1994
Massimiliano Allegri6Juventus (5), Milan (1)2010-2024
Fabio Capello5Milan (4), Roma (1)1991-2004
Marcello Lippi5Juventus1994-2003
Carlo Carcano5Juventus1930-1935
Antonio Conte4Juventus (3), Inter (1), Napoli (1)*2011-2025
Roberto Mancini3Inter2005-2008
Hermann Felsner3Bologna1935-1941
Helenio Herrera3Inter1963-1966
Carlo Ancelotti1Milan2003-04

* Antonio Conte’s title count includes his work at multiple clubs. His record of winning the Scudetto with three different clubs (Juventus, Inter, Napoli) is unmatched in the modern era.

Players With Most Serie A Title Medals

PlayerTitle MedalsClub(s)Years Active
Paolo Maldini7AC Milan1987-2004
Costacurta7AC Milan1987-2004
Javier Zanetti5Inter Milan2006-2010
Alessandro Del Piero7Juventus1994-2012
Gianluigi Buffon10Juventus2001-2021
Giorgio Chiellini9Juventus2005-2022
Leonardo Bonucci8Juventus2011-2023
Andrea Pirlo6AC Milan (3), Juventus (3)2003-2015
Filippo Inzaghi5Juventus (2), AC Milan (3)1997-2011
Francesco Totti3Roma1994-2017

Gianluigi Buffon’s 10 Scudetti across stints at Juventus make him the single most decorated player in Serie A history. His longevity spanning from 1995 to 2023 is almost as remarkable as his medal haul.

Alessandro Del Piero’s seven titles, all with Juventus, represent an era-defining loyalty that saw him stay through the club’s Serie B exile and return.

Golden Eras in Serie A History

1930s: Juventus and Bologna

The 1930s were dominated by two clubs: Juventus (five consecutive titles, 1931-35) and Bologna (four titles, including three between 1936 and 1941).

These were the years when Italian football established its competitive identity, with Serie A becoming a fully professional, highly organised competition watched by tens of thousands.

1940s: Grande Torino

The greatest team Italy has ever produced never got to show the world what they could achieve. Grande Torino’s five-in-a-row from 1946 to 1949 was built on a style and quality that set standards not matched for decades.

Valentino Mazzola was their inspiration — a midfielder of extraordinary technical and physical gifts. His son Sandro would go on to lead Grande Inter in the 1960s.

1960s: Grande Inter and Catenaccio

Helenio Herrera’s Inter perfected the catenaccio system that Italy became synonymous with, adding attacking transition and devastating set-piece delivery to an impenetrable defensive structure.

Their back-to-back European Cups and three Scudetti between 1963 and 1966 represented Italian football at its tactical peak.

1980s: Maradona and the Napoli Awakening

For the first time, a southern club genuinely challenged — and defeated — the northern giants. Napoli’s two Scudetti with Maradona represent more than sporting achievement; they were a cultural statement from a city that had long felt excluded from Italy’s economic and sporting mainstream.

1990s: Serie A as the World’s Best League

The 1990s were Italian football’s commercial and competitive apex. Serie A attracted the world’s greatest players, Ronaldo, Zidane, Vieri, Del Piero, Maldini, Baresi, Totti and the league’s tactical sophistication was unmatched. Juventus, Milan, and Inter traded dominance in an era of genuine European supremacy.

2010s: Juventus’s Unbreakable Nine

Nine consecutive Scudetti from 2011-12 to 2019-20 gave Juventus an unassailable position in Italian football history.

Bianconeri critics could point to domestic hegemony without European payoff; five Champions League finals in nine years produced zero titles, but the Scudetto record remains extraordinary.

Pirlo, Bonucci, Chiellini, Buffon, Tevez, Dybala, and Ronaldo all contributed to the dynasty.

2020s: Competitive Era Returns

The 2020s have been Italian football’s most competitive decade in 30 years.

Six different clubs have won or seriously challenged for the title since 2020, reflecting investment from American ownership at Milan and Roma, sustained excellence at Inter, and Napoli’s transformation under both Spalletti and Conte.

The 2025-26 title win by Inter under Chivu, after Napoli’s back-to-back attempt fell short, signals that the competitive battle will continue.

20 Interesting Facts About Serie A Champions

1. Juventus’s nine consecutive Serie A titles (2011-2020) is the longest winning streak in any top European league — no club in England, Spain, Germany, or France has matched it.

2. The 1984-85 Serie A season produced football’s greatest shock: Hellas Verona, a club from a mid-sized city in northern Italy, won the Scudetto. They have never won it since.

3. AC Milan went an extraordinary 58 Serie A matches without defeat between 1991 and 1993 under Fabio Capello, a record that still stands in Italian football.

4. The 2004-05 Serie A season has no official champion. Juventus won it on the pitch but were stripped due to the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal, and the title was not reassigned.

5. Genoa CFC won nine Italian championships between 1898 and 1924 but have not won a major title since. They are the definition of a sleeping giant.

6. Grande Torino’s entire first team and coaching staff were killed in the Superga air disaster of 1949 — 31 people in total. It remains the most devastating tragedy in Italian football history.

7. Naples erupted into three days of celebrations in 2023 when Napoli won their third Scudetto — 33 years after their second. Some Neapolitan fans had placed banners in the cemetery saying ‘Those who didn’t make it — but we did’.

8. Pro Vercelli won seven Italian championships before 1922 but now play in Italy’s fourth division. No club in world football has fallen further from the summit.

9. Inter Milan’s 2009-10 Treble under Jose Mourinho (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League) is one of only a handful of Trebles achieved in European football history.

10. Giovanni Trapattoni won seven Serie A titles — six with Juventus and one with Inter — making him the most successful manager in Italian league history.

11. The Scudetto badge tradition was started by Genoa in 1924, when they sewed a small shield to their shirt to mark their ninth title — creating one of football’s most enduring visual traditions.

12. Juventus have three gold stars on their crest representing 30 or more Scudetti. Inter and Milan each have one star for 10+ titles.

13. Cagliari, a club from the island of Sardinia, won their only Serie A title in 1969-70, inspired by Gigi Riva, Italy’s all-time leading scorer. They have never come close since.

14. Antonio Conte is the only manager in Serie A history to have won the Scudetto with three different clubs: Juventus (x3), Inter, and Napoli.

15. Roberto Mancini won three consecutive Serie A titles with Inter Milan (2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08) but those were awarded during the Calciopoli scandal re-organisation, giving Inter an unusual sequence of titles.

16. Sampdoria’s only Serie A title (1990-91) came under Yugoslav coach Vujadin Boskov with a squad featuring Roberto Mancini and Gianluca Vialli. They remain the only club from Liguria to win the modern Scudetto.

17. The city of Turin has won more combined Serie A titles than any other Italian city, with Juventus (36) and Torino (7) providing a combined 43 championships.

18. AC Milan’s Paolo Maldini is widely considered the greatest Serie A player of all time, winning seven Scudetti while playing his entire career at a single club across 25 years.

19. Fiorentina’s two Serie A titles came in 1955-56 and 1968-69 — and despite being a top-flight club for virtually every season since, they have not won a third.

20. Inter Milan’s 21st title in 2025-26 under Cristian Chivu — a former Inter player — extended the club’s record as the most successful club in the post-Juventus-dominance era, having won four Scudetti in six seasons.

Conclusion

Serie A’s history stretches across more than 125 years of Italian football, from Genoa’s first title on a single day in Turin in 1898 to Inter Milan’s 21st Scudetto in 2026.

It is a story told through the dynasties of Juventus, the tactical genius of Inter’s Grande Inter, the cultural revolution of Maradona’s Napoli, and the exquisite football of Sacchi’s Milan.

The complete Serie A winners list reveals Italian football’s most enduring truth: dominance is cyclical. Juventus owned the 2010s in a way that seemed permanent, then suddenly ended.

Inter’s current resurgence looks formidable. Napoli have shown that geography is no barrier to greatness.

And somewhere out there, a club nobody is talking about might be building the next Hellas Verona story.

With Inter defending their 21st Scudetto in the 2026-27 season, and Napoli, Milan, and a resurgent Roma all capable of challenging, the next chapter of the Serie A winners list promises to be every bit as compelling as the 125 that came before it.

Italian football, at its best, has always rewarded those paying attention.

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