Which Serie A Clubs Will Get Relegated?

With five match days left and 15 points to play for, have you looked at the table lately?

Fans hear or read the word rel­e­ga­tion and surely visu­al­ize three, yet look­ing at the cur­rent Serie A table that num­ber should be ten. More…

There is a log-jam of teams below and even Napoli in 9th on 43 points, is not yet math­e­mat­i­cally safe from relegation.

Teams like Cagliari, Seina and Reg­gina have all been claw­ing their way up the table and the bot­tom half see 12th and 20th sep­a­rated by eleven-points.

Who has the tough­est final sched­ule and what are their chances?

After review­ing all final head to head match ups this is my list of three most likely rel­e­ga­tion victims,

* Cata­nia (cur­rently in 15th on 32 points)
* Reg­gina (cur­rently in 18th on 30 points)
* Livorno (cur­rently in 20th on 29 points)

Cata­nia play their final home matches against Lazio, Reg­gina, Roma and must travel to Juven­tus and Udi­nese. They also play a mid-week game away to Roma in the Coppa Italia on May 7th days before the Juven­tus game, fit­ness will be a concern.

Reg­gina cur­rently hold­ing the final rel­e­ga­tion spot play away to AC Milan at the San Siro this week­end then face­off against Parma, Cata­nia, Empoli, and­Cagliari all bat­tling to stay up this season.

Livorno dead last at the moment, have a dif­fi­cult task as they must play the final five at home against AC Milan and Torino, and away to Roma, Ata­lanta and rel­e­ga­tion can­di­dates Empoli.

Finally, if an hon­or­able men­tion was allow­able I’d have to say Cagliari cur­rently in 16th on 32 points would be it. The islanders must play Inter Milan, Fiorentina, Udi­nese, Empoli and Reg­gina. How­ever, Cagliari have already been thrown a line, when the Ital­ian Foot­bal Fed­er­a­tion rescinded a three-point deduc­tion against them ear­lier this month, relat­ing to legal pro­ceed­ings against for­mer defender Gian­luca Grassadonia.

“To the play­ers and the squad I just say that the points have only been taken away tem­porar­ily“
Cagliari Club Pres­i­dent Mas­simo Cellino quoted in La Gazzetta dello Sport last month.