The 2024-25 Serie A winners might be determined by a play-off, ought to Napoli and Inter Milan end the season stage on factors.
In 2022, the league reintroduced a rule which suggests groups who’re contesting the title or battling relegation will face one another in a play-off if they’ve the identical variety of factors, no matter purpose distinction or head-to-head document.
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Napoli lead Inter by a single level going into the ultimate weekend of the season.
Ought to Napoli lose their last match of the marketing campaign at dwelling to Cagliari and Inter draw away at Como, the 2 title-chasers would each have 79 factors after 38 Serie A matches.
They’d face one another in a one-off match on Monday, 26 Might at both the San Siro in Milan or, for security causes, Rome’s Stadio Olimpico.
A play-off may additionally decide which crew is relegated.
Like England’s Premier League, Serie A is a 20-team league the place three groups are relegated.
Because it stands, Seventeenth-placed Lecce, who’re away to Lazio, and 18th-placed Empoli, who’re at dwelling to Hellas Verona, are each on 31 factors. Parma (sixteenth) are two factors forward, and Hellas Verona (fifteenth) are three forward.
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Ought to a relegation play-off happen, it is going to be a two-legged match with all sides enjoying a leg at their dwelling grounds.
Each legs might be accomplished earlier than Sunday, 1 June.
There has solely ever been one Serie A play-off match beforehand. It was a relegation decider on the finish of the 2022-23 season, as Spezia misplaced 3-1 to Hellas Verona at a impartial venue.
All different league positions the place groups are stage on factors are determined by head-to-head document.
The ultimate weekend of the Serie A season defined
Romelu Lukaku, who gained the Serie A title with Inter 4 years in the past, is hoping to win his second Scudetto with Napoli on Friday [Getty Images]
In contrast to in English soccer, the place each match on the league season’s last day kicks off on the identical time, Serie A takes a extra staggered method.
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Its last spherical of video games are unfold throughout Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Within the curiosity of equity, the matches involving Napoli and Inter each kick off on the identical time on Friday (19:45 BST).
On Saturday, Bologna’s match with Genoa and AC Milan’s assembly with Monza have their very own particular person kick-off instances, with neither match having any bearing on the title, European qualification or relegation.
The remaining six matches all happen concurrently on Sunday (19:45 BST).
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