2007–08 Serie C1


The 2007–08 Serie C1 season was the thirtieth football league season of Italian Serie C1 since its establishment in 1978. It was divided into two phases: the regular season, played from September 2007 to May 2008, and the playoff phase from May to June 2008.
The league was composed of 36 teams divided into two divisions of 18 teams each, whose teams were divided mainly according to geographical principles.
Teams finishing first in the regular season, plus one team winning the playoff round from each division were promoted to Serie B; teams finishing last in the regular season, plus two relegation playoff losers from each division, were relegated to Serie C2. In all, four teams were promoted to Serie B, and six teams were relegated to Serie C2.

Events

The line-up was announced on July 19, 2007. No teams were excluded, and all the originally scheduled teams will therefore take part in the league.
The league featured four teams relegated from Serie B in 2006-07 and six promoted from Serie C2.
The divisions' composition was confirmed as usual according to latitude. However a number of South teams were included in a division different from their best fitting one in order to reduce the number of potentially heated local derbies. This caused all Tuscan clubs to be included in the Serie C1/B division, otherwise composed mostly by teams hailing from South of Italy, whereas two teams from Campania and two from Apulia were included in the Serie C1/A, which instead features mostly teams from the North.

Promotions

On April 27, 2008, with one week in the regular season yet to be played, both Sassuolo
and Salernitana were mathematically ensured of their respective division titles, thus winning promotion to Serie B for the 2008-09 season.

Clubs

Serie C1/A

ClubCityStadium2006/2007 Season
S.S. Cavese 1919Cava de' TirreniStadio Simonetta Lamberti3rd in Serie C1/B
A.S. CittadellaCittadellaStadio Pier Cesare Tombolato6th in Serie C1/A
U.S. CremoneseCremonaStadio Giovanni Zini13th in Serie C1/A
U.S. FoggiaFoggiaStadio Pino Zaccheria4th in Serie C1/B
Foligno CalcioFolignoStadio Enzo Blasone1st in Serie C2/B
Calcio Lecco 1912LeccoStadio Rigamonti-Ceppi2nd in Serie C2/A
A.C. LegnanoLegnanoStadio Giovanni Mari1st in Serie C2/A
S.S. Manfredonia CalcioManfredoniaStadio Miramare9th in Serie C1/B
A.C. Monza Brianza 1912MonzaStadio Brianteo5th in Serie C1/A
Novara CalcioNovaraStadio Silvio Piola10th in Serie C1/A
Calcio PadovaPaduaStadio Euganeo7th in Serie C1/A
Paganese Calcio 1926PaganiStadio Marcello Torre4th in Serie C2/B
Pro PatriaBusto ArsizioStadio Carlo Speroni12th in Serie C1/A
A.C. Pro SestoSesto San GiovanniStadio Breda14th in Serie C1/A
U.S. Sassuolo CalcioSassuoloStadio Enzo Ricci2nd in Serie C1/A
Ternana CalcioTerniStadio Libero Liberati13th in Serie C1/B
S.S.C. VeneziaVeniceStadio Pierluigi Penzo4th in Serie C1/A
Hellas Verona F.C.VeronaStadio Marcantonio Bentegodi18th in Serie B

Serie C1/B

Final standings

Serie C1/A

Serie C1/B

Promotion and relegation playoffs

Serie C1/A

Promotion

Cittadella promoted to Serie B

Relegation

Pro Patria and Lecco relegated to Serie C2

Serie C1/B

Promotion

Ancona promoted to Serie B

Relegation

Sangiovannese and Lanciano relegated to Serie C2