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Karine Grigoryan

10-05-2018 | 15:32 Football
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Serie B teams to qualify for Serie A

The season is coming to end and it is already known which teams of Seria A will be relegated and which teams will have a chance from Serie B to shine in the first division.

Serie A teams Benevento and Verona have been relegated. Benevento has won only 1 time in their last 5 games, lost and drew 2 times. Verona has lost all their last 5 games.

Now let's see how Serie B has been performing.

We will see Empoli and Frosinone in the Serie A next year. T

op 2 teams from Serie B automatically get promoted to the first team. In the final matchday of the 2016–17 Serie A season, Empoli was one point above the relegation zone ahead of Crotone. Sadly after they failing to beat Palermo, they were relegated, while Crotone beat Lazio. After a triumph of the 2017–18 Serie B, Empoli regained promotion to Serie A, after winning Serie B on 28 April 2018, four matches in advance.

On 8 May 2016, Frosinone was relegated to Serie B after one season in Serie A as they finished in 19th place. Now, again, they have a chance to show themselves in the Serie A. But that's not all. Teams from 3rd to 8th place have to compete on playoffs and the strongest will also be promoted. Palermo ended the 2016-17 season in 19th place, being relegated to Serie B. Now they are in the 3rd place and they have a big chance to be promoted to Serie A again.

After being bankrupt few times, football club Parma keeps surprising the footballing world. After being re-found in 2015, the club has secured a place in the 2015–16 Serie D. One year later Parma ended the 2016–17 Lega Pro season in second place of Group B but were promoted to Serie B after a 2–0 win over Alessandria in the promotion play-off final. And now they are competing to be promoted to Serie A.

Venezia FC has also been bankrupt, 3 times. And after that, the club was re-founded as Venezia F.C. S.r.l.d. and was admitted to Serie D for the 2015–16 season. On 19 April 2017, Venezia managed to beat Parma gained a promotion to Serie B So the relegation play-outs are on May 24 and 31.

  • Play-offs
  • May 26 (sixth v seventh)
  • May 27 (fifth v eighth)
  • Semi-Finals
  • 1st leg
  • May 29 (sixth or seventh v third)
  • May 30 (fifth or eighth v fourth)
  • 2nd leg
  • June 2 (third v sixth or seventh)
  • June 3 (fourth v fifth or eighth)
  • Final
  • 1st leg
  • June 7
  • 2nd leg
  • June 10.

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