If you are looking for Italian Serie A match schedule for season 2020/2021 in Microsoft Excel format, you can use this spreadsheet template. It is compatible with Google Sheets as well.
Serie A is a professional league competition for football clubs in Italy. League format is round robin where each team will meet twice within one season. It is regarded as one of the best football leagues in the world, one of top four leagues in Europe. In this current year, Serie A is eligible to send four teams to Champions League competition.
The league hosts three of the world’s most famous clubs as Juventus, Milan and Internazionale. Famous players are mostly coming from those clubs. These teams along with Lazio, Fiorentina, Roma and Napoli, are known as the Seven Sisters of Italian football. The Serie A Championship title is often referred to as the scudetto (“small shield”) because since the 1923–24 season, the winning team will bear a small coat of arms with the Italian tricolor on their strip in the following season.
Number of clubs in Serie A vary over time. There are 20 clubs that can compete in season 2020/2021. This format has been applied since 2004. 2019/2020 season could be remembered as a unique season because of pandemic situation. Matches from March are postponed. And it resumed without any fans cheered their teams in their home venue. Juventus defends their crown by slim margin over Internazionale. And in 2020/2021 season, Andrea Pirlo will replace Maurizio Sarri as Juventus head coach.
During the season, which runs from August to May (current season ending in August), each club plays each of the other teams twice; once at home and once away. There are 38 matches for each team. In the first half of the season each team plays once against each league opponent. In the second half of the season the teams play in exactly the same order that they did in the first half of the season. They switch their match venue.
Italian Serie A Season 2020/2021 Regulation
- Teams are awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and no points for a loss.
- If two or more teams are tied in points (for any place), tie-breakers are as follows:
- Head-to-head records (results and points)
- Goal difference between those teams
- Goal difference overall
- Higher number of goals scored
- Draw
- The top four teams in the Serie A qualify to the UEFA Champions League.
- Team in fifth position qualify for the UEFA Europa League tournament.
- Team in sixth or seventh position The sixth or the seventh ranked club joins the preliminary round of the UEFA Europa Conference League.
- Bottom three teams are relegated to Serie B.
Enough on Serie A short introduction. Here is the spreadsheet and short instructions on how to use it.
Italian Serie A 2020/2021 Match Schedule and Scoresheet Template
It is a simple spreadsheet though. You can use it with any spreadsheet processor. Microsoft Excel is the best one.
There are formulas working in the background that will calculate standings based on official tie-breaker automatically.
There are four worksheets inside this spreadsheet. First is setup worksheet to adjust all spreadsheet parameters. Second worksheet is a match schedule worksheet to see schedule and fill scores. Third worksheet is a standing table worksheet to track each team progress after each round. Fourth worksheet is a stats worksheet. In this worksheet you can see useful stats of each teams including their calendar.
