{"id":614416,"date":"2022-06-30T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614416"},"modified":"2022-06-30T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:02:03","slug":"the-serie-a-title-is-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/30\/the-serie-a-title-is-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Serie A Title Will Be Different Next Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming off of a season that saw the Serie A title go right down to the wire, the powers that be have approved a new model. This new model will change the landscape of the league dramatically, but not at all at the same time. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticUK\/status\/1542075834449756160#\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As per reports by The Athletic<\/a>, this will only kick in when two teams finish on the same points tally.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Serie A title will be decided by a play-off from next season should the top two teams finish level on points \u2014 and not their head-to-head record or goal difference.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t774KPnrGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/t774KPnrGO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/1542075834449756160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Serie A Title Could Now be Decided Via a Playoff<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>How Will the Serie A Title Race Change?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>So, as previously mentioned, the Serie A title went down to the last day earlier this year. The two Milan teams were at the fore of interrupting <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/27\/juventus-paris-saint-germain-angel-di-maria\/\" target=\"_self\">Juventus<\/a>\u2019 dominance. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/30\/romelu-lukaku-returns-inter-milan\/\" target=\"_self\">Inter Milan<\/a> did it the season prior and this time around it was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/29\/ac-milan-takeover-concerns-rise\/\" target=\"_self\">Stefano Pioli\u2019s side AC Milan side<\/a> that prevailed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/18\/serie-a-defender-ready-to-leave\/\" target=\"_self\">Serie A Defender of the Year Ready to Depart Club<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems very unlikely that this initiative would ever come into play. Since the turn of the century, going back to the times when there were only 18 teams in the Italian top, not once has there been a tie for points at the top of the tree. The Serie A title will never have been decided this way in this period, over two decades so it could prove to be a futile change.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, if this were to come into play, it would be hugely entertaining. As opposed to goal difference finalising the recipient of the title, a play-off match would ensue between the pair. If this were to end in a draw, the match would then go straight to penalties.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Where Else is This Implemented?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The official line from the Athletic is that \u201cno other top European division currently uses a play-off, with other leagues relying on goal difference to separate teams level on points.\u201d Besides that, playoffs are of course used in a more traditional sense elsewhere. They are at the heart of American sports, whether it be in the NBA or with MLS. Also, it is the lifeblood of the English Football League, making it even more enthralling.<\/p>\n<p>Only once has the Serie A title been awarded following a play-off. Bologna beat Inter Milan 2-0 in 1964 in the Eternal City. This has all been approved by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and will spring into action from next season onwards. Could we see a Milan derby next year to decide who lifts the title?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming off of a season that saw the Serie A title go right down to the wire, the powers that be have approved a new model. This new model will change the landscape of the league dramatically, but not at all at the same time. As per reports by The Athletic, this will only kick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3891,"featured_media":614463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}