Has Any Team Ever Had a Perfect Serie A Season?
Short answer: no. In over ninety years of Serie A nobody has ever won every league match of a season. Teams have gone unbeaten — three of them, each with a pile of draws — but the perfect line, 38 wins from 38, has never been written.
What a perfect season would take
Since 2004/05 Serie A has run with 20 clubs and 38 matchdays. Three points a win makes the perfect total 114. That means winning home and away against every rival, through every derby, every December pile-up, every game where the opponent parks the bus and waits for one counter-attack. One draw — not even a defeat, a draw — and perfection is gone.
The unbeaten ones (draws included)
AC Milan, 1991/92. Fabio Capello's Milan went through the whole league season without losing, the start of an unbeaten league run that stretched to 58 matches across three seasons. Still: 12 of those 34 games were draws.
Juventus, 2011/12. The first club to go unbeaten across a 38-matchday Serie A season under Antonio Conte — 23 wins, 15 draws. Unbeaten, yes. Perfect? Fifteen times no.
Perugia, 1978/79. The strangest entry: Perugia finished the season unbeaten and didn't even win the title — too many draws left them second behind Milan. Proof that not losing and winning everything are entirely different sports.
The closest anyone has come
- Juventus 2013/14 — 102 points, 33 wins from 38: the Serie A record, and still five wins short of perfect.
- Inter 2006/07 — 97 points and a record 17 straight wins mid-season. Even that streak covers less than half of what 38-0-0 demands.
- Roma 2013/14 — opened the season with 10 wins in a row, the best start in Serie A history. It lasted ten games.
Why it will probably never happen
A 38-0-0 season fails at its weakest moment, and a season has 38 of them. Squads rotate through cup runs and injuries; mid-table sides defend deep and settle for a point; derbies ignore the table entirely. Winning streaks of 15+ games are once-a-generation events — a perfect season needs a 38-game one. The maths is brutal: even a team that wins 90% of matches on paper has less than a 2% chance of winning 38 straight.
You can still try it yourself
That impossible line is the whole idea behind the 38-0 game: spin for a real Serie A club and season, draft one player from that historic squad into your XI, repeat until the eleven is complete, then watch all 38 matchdays play out. Nobody has done it in real life; the leaderboard shows who has managed it here.
Chase your own 38-0-0 — play freeFAQ
No. The points record is Juventus' 102 in 2013/14 — 33 wins out of 38.
Milan 1991/92, Juventus 2011/12, and Perugia 1978/79 — who somehow finished second anyway. All of them drew matches.
Not in a 38-game top flight. Arsenal's 2003/04 Invincibles went unbeaten in the Premier League but drew 12 times.