The 1989–90 Serie A season was another successful year for Napoli, with Diego Maradona being among the leading goalscorers in Serie A (16 goals), behind Marco van Basten of Milan (19 goals) and Roberto Baggio of Fiorentina (17 goals). But while Baggio's Fiorentina narrowly avoided relegation, Maradona's Napoli won their second Serie A title in four seasons, while Van Basten helped Milan retain the European Cup as compensation for their failure to win the Serie A title, having finished two points behind Napoli. Demoted to Serie B for 1990–91 were Udinese, Hellas Verona, Cremonese and Ascoli. In Europe, Sampdoria won the Cup Winners Cup and Juventus the UEFA Cup, making this year the most successful in Italian football history.
Teams Genoa, Bari, Udinese and Cremonese had been promoted from Serie B.
Personnel and sponsoring TeamHead coachKit manufacturerShirt sponsorAscoli Aldo AgroppiAdidasCocifAtalanta Emiliano MondonicoEnnerreTamoilBari Gaetano SalveminiAdidasSud LeasingBologna Luigi MaifrediUhlsportMercatone UnoCesena Marcello LippiAdidasOrogelCremonese Tarcisio BurgnichPatrickMajestic SpAFiorentina Francesco GrazianiABMLa NazioneGenoa Franco ScoglioErreàMitaHellas Verona Osvaldo BagnoliHummelTortellini RanaInternazionale Giovanni TrapattoniUhlsportMisuraJuventus Dino ZoffKappaUPIMLazio Giuseppe MaterazziUmbroCassa di Risparmio di RomaLecce Carlo MazzoneAdidasPonti AcetoMilan Arrigo SacchiKappaMediolanumNapoli Alberto BigonEnnerreMarsRoma Luigi RadiceEnnerreBarillaSampdoria Vujadin BoškovKappaErgUdinese Rino MarchesiABMRex Elettrodomestici
Final classification
Results
Top goalscorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 Marco van Basten Milan192 Roberto BaggioFiorentina173 Diego Maradona Napoli164 Salvatore Schillaci Juventus155 Rudi Völler Roma146 Massimo Agostini Cesena13 Gustavo Dezotti Cremonese Jürgen Klinsmann Internazionale9 Abel Balbo Udinese11 Roberto Mancini Sampdoria Lothar Matthäus Internazionale
Season tickets The season ticket sales as they were before the beginning of the season (Milan had the best record of sales):
Source: Statistiche Spettatori Serie A 1989-1990
RankClubTickets1Milan41,5702Napoli38,3463Inter32.9204Sampdoria 16.5355Genoa14.8006Udinese 13.9057Juventus 12.7808Bologna12.6209Bari10.85510Roma10.07111Fiorentina9.01812Verona8.96713Atalanta8.80014Lazio8.71615Cesena4.94316Lecce4.92217Ascoli4.81418Cremonese3.712
Attendances Source:
No. Club Average Attendance Change (%) 1 AC Milan 59,054 -18.3% 2 SSC Napoli 58,264 -5.7% 3 Internazionale 50,142 -13.8% 4 Juventus FC 29,627 -2.4% 5 Genoa CFC 26,789 54.9% 6 Bologna FC 26,391 16.7% 7 UC Sampdoria 26,120 45.4% 8 AS Bari 24,807 42.8% 9 Udinese Calcio 23,472 5.7% 10 AS Roma 22,067 -36.8% 11 Atalanta BC 21,966 -11.1% 12 Hellas Verona 21,429 -15.1% 13 US Lecce 20,816 -8.3% 14 SS Lazio 20,022 -37.7% 15 ACF Fiorentina 17,306 -29.5% 16 AC Cesena 16,583 -4.3% 17 US Cremonese 12,154 53.1% 18 Ascoli Picchio 11,392 -6.7%
References and sources
Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
External links :it:Classifica calcio Serie A italiana 1990 - Italian version with pictures and info. Italy Championship 1989/90 - All results on RSSSF Website.