Serie B TIM

Season	2007–08
Champions	Chievo (1st title)
Promoted	Chievo Bologna Lecce (by Play-off)
Relegated	Cesena Spezia (bankruptcy) Ravenna Messina (bankruptcy)
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,189 (2.57 per match)
Top goalscorer	Denis Godeas (28 goals)
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The 2007–08 Serie B regular season is the seventy-sixth since its establishment. It started on August 25, 2007, and ended with the promotion playoff final on June 15, 2008.

At the end of the year, three teams were promoted to Serie A, the first two via direct promotion (league champions, Chievo Verona, and Bologna), and the third team after two rounds of playoffs (Lecce).

Four teams were relegated to Serie C1. The bottom three were relegated directly (Cesena, Spezia and Ravenna), as was the fourth-to-last team (Avellino), since they finished 9 points back of the fifth-to-last, Treviso, denying them a chance at a survival "relegation-playoff".

The 2007–08 Serie B season marked the first appearance in the division for newly promoted Grosseto. Ravenna and Chievo returned to the second-highest Italian division after six years, their last time in Serie B having been in 2001 (both, in fact, returned to the leagues from which they'd come after this season). Pisa returned to Serie B after 13 years, surprisingly qualifying for the promotion playoffs.^[1]

Teams

Stadiums and locations

The following 22 clubs comprise the Serie B in 2007-08:

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AlbinoLeffe	Gianfranco Andreoletti	Armando Madonna	Acerbis	UBI Banca Popolare di Bergamo
Ascoli	Roberto Benigni	Ivo Iaconi	Legea	Cult Shoes, Fainplast
Avellino	Massimo Pugliese	Alessandro Calori	Legea	Sidigas
Bari	Vincenzo Matarrese	Antonio Conte	Erreà	Gaudianello, Radionorba
Bologna	Alfredo Cazzola	Daniele Arrigoni	Macron	Joe Marmellata/Carisbo, COGEI
Brescia	Gino Corioni	Serse Cosmi	Asics	UBI Banco di Brescia, Bregoli SpA
Cesena	Giorgio Lugaresi	Fabrizio Castori	Mass	Gomme & Service, Solo Affitti
Chievo Verona	Luca Campedelli	Giuseppe Iachini	Lotto	Banca Popolare di Verona/Soglia Hotels & Resorts, Cattolica Assicurazioni
Frosinone	Maurizio Stirpe	Alberto Cavasin	Legea	Banca Popolare del Frusinate, Provincia di Frosinone
Grosseto	Piero Camilli	Stefano Pioli	Erreà	Industria Lavorazione Carni Ovine, Banca della Maremma
Lecce	Giovanni Semeraro	Giuseppe Papadopulo	Asics	Notte della Taranta, Lachifarma
Mantova	Fabrizio Lori	Giuseppe Brucato	Diadora	Nuova Pansac
Messina	Pietro Franza	Nello Di Costanzo	Legea	Framon Hotel Group, Chevrolet
Modena	Alfredo Amadei	Daniele Zoratto	Erreà	Immergas, Kerakoll
Piacenza	Fabrizio Garilli	Mario Somma	Macron	UNICEF
Pisa	Leonardo Covarelli	Gian Piero Ventura	Joma	Limonta Sport, Abitalia
Ravenna	Gianni Fabbri	Franco Varrella	Diadora	CVC Ravenna, Porto Marinara
Rimini	Luca Benedettini	Leonardo Acori	Macron	Banca di Rimini (H)/COCIF (A)
Spezia	Giuseppe Ruggieri	Antonio Soda	Erreà	Hyundai, Carispe
Treviso	Ettore Setten	Giuseppe Pillon	Lotto	Grigolin, Provincia di Treviso
Triestina	Stefano Fantinel	Rolando Maran	Asics	Bossini, Fantinel/Testa&Molinaro
Vicenza	Gian Luigi Polato	Angelo Gregucci	Diadora	Fieri di Vicenza/Vicenzaoro First/Vicenzaoro Charm/Banca Popolare di Vicenza

Events

In November, it was announced that Serie B matches, as well as Serie C matches, would be postponed for one week after increasing violence surrounding Italian football matches, in which football fans attacked police, stemming from the shooting of a Lazio fan by a policeman. Serie A matches were unaffected as none were scheduled for that weekend due to an international match between Italy and Scotland.^[2]

On January 19, at the conclusion of the andata (first half of the league season), Chievo Verona and Bologna were named winter co-champions.

Promotions

With a 1–1 draw away to Grosseto on Matchday 41, Chievo Verona mathematically assured themselves of promotion to Serie A.

On the final matchday, Bologna's 1–0 victory over Pisa rendered Lecce's victory by the same score immaterial; Bologna secured the second direct promotion. Chievo Verona's 2–2 draw with Bari outdistanced the rossoblu, however, giving the mussi volanti their first league title in 14 years.

Lecce were instead left to contest the two-round promotion playoff with AlbinoLeffe, Brescia and Pisa, which will determine the identity of the 20th and final team in Italy's top flight.

Relegations

On Day 40, Cesena became the first team mathematically relegated to Serie C1 with its 2–1 loss at Treviso. Although Cesena could still have finished 19th at the time, at best it would have been 5 points behind 18th-placed Treviso, a condition that would have made playouts unnecessary.

Then on Day 41, another Treviso win—coupled with concurrent losses by Ravenna, Avellino, and Spezia—ensured that none of those three teams would finish within 4 points of the veneti, consigning all three of them to Serie C1.

Final classification