Italy’s soccer federation permitted on Friday adjustments to Serie A’s league title and relegation play-offs which have been launched final season.
In an announcement, the FIGC confirmed that ought to two groups end on the identical factors on the prime of the desk the Scudetto can be determined in a one-match play-off.
Nonetheless the foundations now state that as a substitute of the deciding match being performed at a impartial venue it could be hosted by whichever group finishes in first place.
In Serie A whoever has the perfect head-to-head report between groups on the identical factors takes the upper place, after which come objective distinction and objectives scored if the groups nonetheless can’t be separated.
The showdown might be switched to whichever stadium hosts the Italian Cup ultimate — lately Rome’s Stadio Olimpico — if the Italian authorities determine it essential on the premise of public order.
The relegation play-off, disputed by the groups which end both facet of the drop zone in seventeenth and 18th, can be a two-legged affair with the group larger within the desk enjoying the second leg at house.
Final season Spezia have been relegated by Verona in a one-off match after ending the common season simply outdoors the underside three.
The FIGC additionally mentioned tiny Lecco would play in Serie B for the primary time in half a century after deciding their bureaucratic troubles mustn’t cease the membership for registering within the second tier.
Lecco, primarily based on the jap leg of Lake Como, have been promoted final month however do not have a stadium which meets Serie B’s rules so needed to discover another web site.
That they had two days to submit documentation for Serie B after beating Foggia within the play-off ultimate and missed the deadline.
However they got a reprieve by the FIGC after demonstrating that they’d approval to make use of Padova’s stadium some 200 kilometres away in Italy’s north-east.
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