The Serie B 1957–58 was the twenty-sixth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.

Serie B
Season1957–58
ChampionsTriestina
1st title

Teams

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Prato and Lecco had been promoted from Serie C, while Triestina and Palermo had been relegated from Serie A.

Events

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Relegations were cancelled in March by new Football League’s chairman Giuseppe Pasquale in order to expand the number of participants from 18 to 20. Moreover, Bari, the second ranked team, had to play a qualification match with Verona, that ranked 17th in 1957–58 Serie A.

Final classification

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts Promotion
1 Triestina (P) 34 20 7 7 64 29 2.207 47 Promotion to Serie A
2 Bari (P) 34 17 11 6 47 28 1.679 45 Promotion play-offs
3 Venezia 34 16 9 9 42 30 1.400 41
4 Marzotto 34 16 7 11 50 40 1.250 39
4 Simmenthal-Monza 34 15 9 10 47 39 1.205 39
6 Palermo 34 12 13 9 36 35 1.029 37
7 Zenit Modena 34 11 14 9 50 46 1.087 36
8 Brescia 34 14 7 13 45 36 1.250 35
8 Como 34 11 13 10 30 23 1.304 35
10 Prato 34 12 10 12 34 40 0.850 34
11 Novara 34 9 12 13 42 39 1.077 30
11 Taranto 34 10 10 14 25 31 0.806 30
11 Catania 34 8 14 12 29 36 0.806 30
14 Lecco 34 8 13 13 28 44 0.636 29
15 Sambenedettese 34 8 12 14 25 44 0.568 28
16 Messina 34 8 11 15 23 40 0.575 27
17 Cagliari 34 8 10 16 31 44 0.705 26
18 Parma 34 5 14 15 25 49 0.510 24
Source: Panini
(P) Promoted

Results

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Home \ Away BAR BRE CAG CTN COM LCO MAR MES NOV PAL PAR PRA SBN SMN TAR TRI VEN ZMO
Bari 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 0–0 3–0 2–1 1–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–2 0–2 0–0
Brescia 1–3 5–0 1–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 3–0 3–1 0–1 4–0 2–3 0–1 2–0 1–1 4–1
Cagliari 1–2 4–0 2–2 1–0 2–1 2–0 5–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 2–2 0–2 0–0 1–3 0–1 0–0
Catania 2–0 0–2 2–0 0–0 3–1 2–1 1–0 0–0 0–0 2–2 1–0 0–0 0–1 2–0 0–0 1–1 2–2
Como 2–1 1–0 0–1 3–1 1–1 3–0 2–0 3–0 0–0 2–0 3–1 1–1 0–1 1–0 2–0 0–2 0–0
Lecco 0–3 0–4 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 2–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 1–1 0–0 5–2
Marzotto 1–1 4–1 3–0 2–1 1–0 3–1 4–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 6–0 3–2 2–1 2–0 3–4 1–0
Messina 0–3 0–1 3–0 0–2 2–1 2–1 0–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–2 2–0 0–2
Novara 1–1 1–1 1–0 3–0 0–0 4–2 3–0 1–1 5–2 5–0 2–0 1–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 2–2
Palermo 3–0 2–0 3–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 2–2 1–1 3–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 3–2 0–0 1–0
Parma 1–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 3–0 0–0 0–2 0–2 0–3 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–2
Prato 0–3 2–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 3–0 2–1 0–0 3–3 1–0 1–0 1–0 3–2 0–0 3–0 0–0 2–2
Sambenedettese 2–3 0–0 1–0 2–0 0–2 2–1 2–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 3–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–5 0–1 2–1
Simm.-Monza 2–2 1–1 1–0 2–0 2–1 3–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 3–1 2–1 1–0 4–0 1–1 0–1 2–0 3–7
Taranto 1–1 2–0 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–2 2–0 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 3–1 0–1 0–0 3–2
Triestina 0–0 0–0 3–1 4–1 3–0 2–0 1–0 0–0 0–0 5–0 4–1 6–1 2–0 4–1 3–0 3–1 2–0
Venezia 0–1 1–2 3–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 1–1 3–2 3–1 1–2 1–0 4–0 3–2 1–0 2–0 2–2 0–1
Zenit Modena 3–2 1–0 0–0 2–2 2–0 0–0 1–1 2–1 1–3 1–2 2–2 2–2 2–0 1–1 1–0 3–1 2–0
Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Serie A qualification play-off

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Bari had to play a qualification match against the team that ranked 17th in Serie A.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Bari   3-0   Verona 1-0 2-0

Bari promoted to Serie A.

References and sources

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  • Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005