The Top of Italian Football League

Serie A is a professional league competition for soccer clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since the 1929-30 season.  It had been organised by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new league, the Lega Serie A, was created for the 2010-11 season.  Serie A is regarded as one of the best football leagues in the world.  Serie A was considered the best league in the world in the '90s and has produced the highest number of European Cup finalists: Italian clubs have reached the final of the competition on a record twenty-six different occasions, winning the title twelve times.

The league hosts three of the world's most famous clubs as Juventus, Milan and Internazionale, all founding members of the G-14, a group which represented the largest and most prestigious European football clubs; Serie A was the only league to produce three founding members.  More players have won the coveted Ballon d'Or award while playing at a Serie A club than any other league in the world - ahead of Spain's La Liga, although the actual number of Ballon d'Or won by players in these two leagues is equal at 18 each if including the FIFA Ballon d'Or.  Milan is the second club with the most official international titles in the world.  Juventus, Italy's most successful club of the 20th century and the most successful Italian team, is tied for fourth in Europe and eighth in the world in the same ranking.  The club is the only one in the world to have won all possible official continental competitions and the world title.  Internazionale, following their achievements in the 2009-10 season, became the first Italian team to have achieved a treble.

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