About Serie A (women)
Serie A (women) History, Format, Organization, Media Coverage
Serie A Femminile is Italy’s highest-division women’s football league. Established in 1956, it has been administered by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) since the 2018-19 season and attained full professional status starting with the 2022-23 campaign.
The league's number of participants has varied over the years, reducing from 12 to 10 teams in 2022-23 and then returning to 12 for the 2025-26 season. Typically, 1-2 teams get relegated each season, but for the 2023-24 season, only the last-placed club went down due to this increase.
The competition typically takes place from August/September to May and consists of two phases. First is the regular season, with the participants locking horns in a double round-robin format, meaning each team faces every other side twice (once at home and once away). Once the regular season ends, the top-half teams progress to the championship round (poule scudetto) while the bottom half enter the relegation round (poule salvezza) for another double round-robin event. Every club starts the second phase with the points won during the regular season.
Once the championship round is completed, the team with the most points is crowned the champion and secures automatic qualification to the UEFA Women’s Champions League and the Supercoppa Italiana Femminile (the Italian Women’s Super Cup). The runner-up and third-placed team earn tickets to the UEFA Women’s Champions League qualifying stage. Meanwhile, the relegation round determines which team(s) drop-down to Serie B, the second-division women’s Italian football league.
Torres, Lazio, and Juventus are some of the most successful clubs in Serie A Femminile. Torres won its second silverware by 2000 before adding another six titles to its trophy cabinet between then and 2013. Juventus, on the other hand, came into life in the late 2010s to early 2020s, winning five in a row between 2017 and 2022.
