How many times has AC Milan been downgraded?

After AC Milan won the league championship in the 1978-1979 season, it not only added the first star to its jersey, but also made itself the defending champion into the next year, 1979-1980. of league. However, in this year's competition, the city's rival Inter Milan finally won the league championship with a large advantage over AC Milan, and Juventus also ranked ahead of AC Milan. AC Milan, ranked third, met Lazio, whose relegation fate was hanging by a thread, in the final round. In order to prevent themselves from being left empty-handed, AC Milan took the initiative to find their opponents before the game and asked to sell the ball to them. Lazio, who was urgently ill and sought medical attention, had to avoid relegation, so they immediately agreed to buy the ball. So in a tacit match, Lazio successfully won AC Milan 2-0, ranking fourth from the bottom and successfully avoiding relegation (the last three were relegated at the time). However, after the game, due to doubts about AC Milan's negative reaction during the game, the Italian media investigated this and discovered that the two teams had had improper contact before the game. Since the match-fixing scandal in Italy had not subsided in those years, the Italian judicial department also quickly intervened. On March 23, 1980, 13 AC Milan players, including club president Colopo, were arrested by the police for match-fixing. Subsequently, the Italian Football Association made a penalty decision: AC Milan president Ferise Colopo and players Enrique Albertosi and Giorgio Morini were banned for life, and AC Milan and Lazio were ordered to be relegated. Catanzano and Udinese in the second division were promoted. In December 1980, the general judicial department unexpectedly changed the verdict under pressure: acquitting all players suspected of gambling, but upholding the original verdict for the football club.

AC Milan, as the defending Serie A champion, was relegated, which is unprecedented in the more than 100 years of Italian Serie A history. And taking one star to play in the second division league really created two firsts. The next year, the 1980-1981 season, AC Milan successfully returned to the First Division by winning the glittering Serie B Championship Gold Cup. But they only played that season before being relegated again, for free.

It is said that after AC Milan was relegated, it made great progress in the second division, successfully dominated the Italian second division, took home the golden trophy, and thus participated in the 1981 season as the defending champion of the second division. -First Division in 1982.

However, in the First Division, AC Milan suffered a disintegration of the team’s main lineup after being relegated. Third from the bottom, and met Genoa, fourth from the bottom, in the final round. As long as they win this game, they can successfully avoid relegation. After taking the lead for a long time, AC Milan was scored by Genoa with a tying goal in stoppage time, thus returning to Serie B as the defending champion of Serie B. The points this year are also very interesting. In addition to the relegated AC Milan (24 points), Bologna (23 points) and Como (17 points), Catanzaro (28 points) from seventh place to 13th The famous Genoa (25 points), the score difference is only 3 points. AC Milan's final results were 7 wins, 10 draws and 13 losses, including 4 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses at home, and 3 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses away from home. They scored 21 goals and conceded 31 goals in total. They accumulated 24 points and were relegated for free