Serie A
Serie A 2007-08
Founded
1898
Nation
Relegation To
Serie B
Number of Teams
20
European Qualification
Champions League UEFA Cup Intertoto Cup
Cups
Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana
Current Champions
F.C. Internazionale Milano
Website
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Serie A (officially known as the Lega Calcio Serie A _TIM for sponsorship reasons) is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top echelon of the Italian football league system. It is widely regarded as one of the elite leagues of the footballing world. Historically, Serie A has produced the highest number of European Cup finalists. In total Italian clubs have reached the final of the competition on a record of twenty-five different occasions, winning the title eleven times.

In its current format, the Italian Football Championship was revised from having regional and interregional rounds, to just one solid league for the 1929–30 season onwards; the Serie A system carries on today. The championship titles won before 1929 are officially recognised by FIGC as a championship in the same way the ones since then are.

The league hosts some of the world's most famous clubs; Juventus, Milan and Inter were all founding members of the G-14 a group representing 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. AC Milan is the club with more official international titles in the world. Juventus, third in Europe and sixth in the world in the same ranking, is also, the only club in the planet to have won all official club competitions.