The 1939-40 Serie A was the fortieth edition of the Italian Football Championship and the eleventh since 1929 re-branding to create Serie A. It was the seventeenth season from which the Italian Football Champions adorned their team jerseys in the subsequent season with a Scudetto. Ambrosiana-Inter were champions for the fifth time in their history. This was their third scudetto since the scudetto started being awarded in 1924 and their third win contested as Serie A. This was a second punctuation by Inter in the run of four Bologna wins from six consecutive Serie A competitions until 1941.
Teams Fiorentina and Venezia had been promoted from Serie B.
Final classification
Results
Top goalscorers
Rank Player Club Goals 1 Aldo BoffiMilano 242 Umberto GuarnieriAmbrosiana-Inter153 Ettore PuricelliBologna14 Carlo ReguzzoniBologna5 Ugo Conti Genova 189313 Guglielmo GabettoJuventus7 Attilio DemaríaAmbrosiana-Inter128 Bruno ArcariGenova 1893119 Vittorio SentimentiModena10 Giovanni AlbertiVenezia Michelangelo PantòRoma Danilo MicheliniTorino
References and sources
Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
External links - All results on RSSSF Website.