On Tuesday, AS Roma parted ways with Luciano Spalletti, making him the first coaching casualty of the 2009/2010 Serie A season. Spalletti was in his fifth season as Roma head coach. Anyway he is already talking with Zenit stewards.
Fabio Capello (1999-2004) is the only coach who was longer in charge at Roma than Spalletti.
Early coach departures are not uncommon in Italy. According to Infostrada Sports, in 2004 Roma parted ways with Cesare Prandelli before the first matchday.
Earliest coaching changes per season in Serie A – last 10 seasons Season Departing coach Club Date After matchday
2009/2010 Luciano Spalletti AS Roma 01 Sep 2009 2 2008/2009 Stefano Colantuono Palermo 04 Sep 2008 1 2007/2008 Fernando Orsi Livorno 09 Oct 2007 7 2006/2007 Giovanni De Biasi Torino 07 Sep 2006 0 2005/2006 Massimo Silva Ascoli 25 Aug 2005 0 2004/2005 Cesare Prandelli AS Roma 27 Aug 2004 0 2003/2004 Francesco Guidolin Bologna 27 Aug 2003 0 2002/2003 Giancarlo Camolese Torino 25 Oct 2002 5 2001/2002 Cesare Prandelli Venezia 09 Oct 2001 5 2000/2001 Marcello Lippi Internazionale 03 Oct 2000 1
On Saturday, the Italian league season gets underway with Bologna hosting Fiorentina and AC Milan travelling to Siena. A day later, defending Serie A champions Internazionale host Bari. According to Infostrada Sports, if the ‘nerazzurri’ win their fifth successive scudetto in 2009/2010, they will equal an all-time Italian top flight record.
Most consecutive Serie A championships # Club Years 5 Juventus 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935 5 Torino 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 4 Internazionale 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 3 AC Milan 1992, 1993, 1994 2 Bologna 1936, 1937 2 Internazionale 1953, 1954 2 Juventus 1960, 1961 2 Internazionale 1965, 1966 2 Juventus 1972, 1973 2 Juventus 1977, 1978 2 Juventus 1981, 1982 2 Juventus 1997, 1998 2 Juventus 2002, 2003
Paraguayan midfielder Edgar Barreto from Reggina; Midfielder Fabio Caserta from Lecce; Midfielder Nicola Madonna from Albinoleffe; Forward Robert Acquafresca on loan from Genoa; Forward Simone Tiribocchi from Lecce.
Bologna
Midfielder Luca Vigiani from Reggina; Goalkeeper Emiliano Viviano from Brescia; Midfielder Giovanni Tedesco from Catania Calcio; Midfielder Roberto Guana from Palermo.
Cagliari
Defender Lino Marzoratti from Empoli; Goalkeeper Michael Agazzi from Triestina.
Catania
Argentinean defender Nicolas Spolli from Newells Old Boys; Midfielder Gennaro Delvecchio from Sampdoria; Forward Andrea Catellani from Modena; Defender Giuseppe Bellusci from Ascoli; Goalkeeper Andrea Campagnolo from Reggina; Argentinean midfielder Pablo Barrientos from FC Moscow.
Chievo Verona
Midfielder Luca Ariatti from Lecce; Defender Angelo Antonazzo from Frosinone.
Fiorentina
Argentinean forward Jose Ignacio Castillo from Lecce for a fee of €1m; Midfielder Marco Marchionni from Juventus; Defender Cesare Natali from Torino for a fee of €2m.
Genoa
Spanish midfielder Alberto Zapater from Real Zaragoza for a fee of €4.5m; Argentinean forward Rodrigo Palacio from Boca Juniors for a fee of €8m; Midfielder Francesco Bolzoni from Inter Milan; Montenegrin defender Ivan Fatic from Chievo Verona; Defender Leonardo Bonucci from Inter Milan; Forward Riccardo Meggiorini from Inter Milan; Defender Francesco Renzetti from Albinoleffe; Danish defender Magnus Troest from Parma; Forward Robert Acquafresca from Inter Milan; French midfielder Houssine Kharja from Siena; Argentinean forward Hernan Crespo on a free transfer from Inter Milan; Forward Robert Acquafreca from Inter Milan; Forward Sergio Floccari from Atalanta Bergamo.
Inter
Cameroonian forward Samuel Eto'o from Barcelona; Brazilian defender Lucio from Bayern Munich for a fee of €10m; Forward Riccardo Meggiorini from Cittadella; Argentinean forward Diego Milito from Genoa; Brazilian midfielder Thiago Motta from Genoa.
Juventus
Brazilian midfielder Felipe Melo from Fiorentina for a fee of €20.5m; Brazilian midfielder Diego from Werder Bremen for a fee of €24.5m; Defender Fabio Cannavaro on a free transfer from Real Madrid.
Lazio
Argentinean forward Julio Cruz on a free transfer from Inter Milan; Portuguese midfielder Eliseu Pereira from Malaga.
Livorno
Midfielder Davide Marchini from Triestina; Forward Cristiano Lucarelli from Parma; Defender Mirko Pieri from Sampdoria.
Milan
American defender Oguchi Onyewu on a free transfer from Standard; Forward Davide Di Gennaro from Genoa; Midfielder Ignazio Abate from Torino for a fee of €2.2m.
Napoli
Goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis from Sevilla; Argentinean defender Hugo Armando Campagnaro from Sampdoria; Midfielder Luca Cigarini from Atalanta Bergamo; Colombian defender Juan Zuniga from Siena; Forward Fabio Quagliarella from Udinese.
Palermo
Argentinean midfielder Javier Pastore from Huracan for a fee of €10m; Argentinean midfielder Nicolas Bertolo from Banfield.
Parma
Defender Christian Panucci on a free transfer from Roma; Bulgarian forward Valeri Bojinov on loan from Manchester City; Goalkeeper Antonio Mirante on loan from Sampdoria; Forward Davide Lanzafame on loan from Palermo; Chilean midfielder Nicolas Andres Cordova from Grosseto; Midfielder Alessio Manzoni on loan from Atalanta; Argentinean defender Hernan Dellafiore on loan from Palermo; French forward Jonathan Biabiany from Inter Milan; Midfielder Daniele Galloppa from Siena; Midfielder Manuel Coppola from Siena; Midfielder Francesco Lunardini from Rimini.
Roma
Defender Marco Motta (permanent signing) from Udinese for a fee of €3.5m; Midfielder Stefano Guberti on a free transfer from Bari.
Sampdoria
South African midfielder Fernando Damian Tissone from Udinese; Defender Marco Rossi on loan from Parma; Defender Luciano Zauri on loan from Lazio; Midfielder Daniele Mannini from Napoli; Defender Gianluigi Bianco from Empoli.
Siena
Forward Michele Paolucci from Udinese; Midfielder Antonio Ghomsi from Avellino; Brazilian midfielder Filipe Gomes Ribeiro from Roma; Brazilian forward Ferreira Reginaldo from Parma; Midfielder Francesco Parravicini from Parma; Goalkeeper Gianluca Pegolo from Genoa; Midfielder Manuel Coppola from Genoa; Croatian midfielder Mato Jajalo from Slaven Koprivnica; Argentinean forward Lucas Viatri from Boca Juniors.
Udinese
Defender Jonathan Rossini from Sampdoria; French defender Allan Nyom from Arles; Colombian defender Juan Guillermo Cuadrado from Independiente Medellin; Forward Fabian Orellana from Audax Italiano; Midfielder Piermario Morosini from Vicenza Calcio; Spanish midfielder Jaime from Albacete; Brazilian forward Alemao from Santos; Forward Bernardo Corradi from Reggina.
