Serie B

Also known as League B, The Serie B, Italian Serie B, Italy Serie B, Serie B League

2nd tier of the Italian football league system

AI overview

Serie B is the second-highest level of professional football in Italy, sitting just below the top-tier Serie A. It matters because clubs compete for promotion to Serie A and the prestige that comes with playing at Italy's highest level of football.

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Wikidata facts

Country: Italy
Sport: association football
Official website: www.legab.it
Image: Como Cosenza Festa.jpg
Organizer: Lega Serie B

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topic's main category: Category:Serie B
inception: 1929-00-00
event interval: 1
season starts: August
league level above: Serie A
league level below: Serie C
topic has template: Template:Serie B seasons
number of participants: 20
competition class: men's association football
social media followers: 73200
season ends: May
different from: Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
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Encyclopedic overview

The Serie B ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈsɛːrje ˈbi]), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010 and the Lega B ever since. Common nicknames for the league are campionato cadetto and cadetteria, since cadetto is the Italian name for junior or cadet.

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Serie B” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.