1932–33 Serie B

6th season of second-tier football league in Italy

Football league season

Atalanta

Brescia

Cagliari

Comense

Cremonese

Grion Pola

Legnano

Livorno

Messina

Modena

Monfalcone

Novara
Vigevanesi

Pistoiese

Sampierd.

Serenissima

Spezia

Verona

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Serie B 1932-33 team distribution

The 1932–33 Serie B was the fourth tournament of this football competition played in Italy since its creation.

Teams

Grion Pola, Messina and Sampierdarenese had been promoted from Prima Divisione, while Brescia and Modena had been relegated from Serie A.

Final classification

Source: Panini
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated; (T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated
Notes:

1. Atalanta and Pistoiese were later readmitted to Serie B due to reforming of the championship.
2. Monfalcone retired after 6 days and a single point won. All their matches were voided.

Results

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Monfalcone retired after 6 days. All their matches were voided.

Fascist foolishness

The new secretary of the Fascist Party which was appointed in 1933, Achille Starace, was an enemy of the incumbent FIGC’s chairman Leandro Arpinati. He obtained the latter to be fired and arrested by Mussolini after false accusations of infidelity. His hate was so strong that he imposed to the new chairman Giorgio Vaccaro the disbandment of the Serie B round robin, the main creation of Arpinati's sport career. However, the Fascist nationalist ideas denied a return to a north–south division, so a foolish west–east division was introduced, with obvious rising costs considering Italy's shape.