Best Serie A clubs ever

Juventus▲ Rising

The Old Lady's cabinet groans under 36 Scudetti, a haul so dominant it turned Serie A into a de facto coronation ceremony most years. But the identity was forged in the ashes of Calciopoli's Serie B relegation in 2006 — the fact that they simply came back down and steamrolled through it, then reloaded for the Conte-Allegri nine-in-a-row dynasty, is the real flex; no club in world football has weaponized institutional resilience quite like this one.

added by IJRin 3 rankings

AC Milan▲ Rising

Seven European Cups and the Sacchi-then-Capello 'invincibles' of the late 80s/early 90s built the blueprint for how a pressing, possession-based Italian side could dominate the continent, not just the peninsula. Istanbul 2005 gave them their most gutting collapse, but Athens 2007 was the revenge script — Kaka, Pirlo and Gattuso proving Milan's golden generations always found a way to answer history.

added by IJRin 3 rankings

Inter Milan▲ Rising

The Triplete of 2010 under Mourinho — Scudetto, Coppa Italia, Champions League, capped by that Camp Nou fortress defense with ten men — remains the single greatest club-season achievement by an Italian side this century. Add the Herrera-era Grande Inter of the 60s with two European Cups won on pure catenaccio ruthlessness, and you get a club whose peaks were rarer but seismic when they landed.

added by IJRin 3 rankings

Napoli▲ Rising

Maradona didn't just win Napoli two Scudetti in 1987 and 1990 — he made a forgotten southern city believe it could beat the industrial north on its own terms, a class-war triumph still sung about today. Spalletti's 2023 title, delivered with Kvaratskhelia and Osimhen playing joyous, fearless football, proved the magic wasn't a one-man miracle but a repeatable civic religion.

added by IJR

Roma

Totti spent his entire career turning down bigger paychecks elsewhere just to be the one man who never left, and that loyalty crystallized the 1983 and 2001 Scudetti into something more romantic than mere trophies. The 2018 Champions League comeback against Barcelona — 3-0 down, De Rossi and co. flipping it into pandemonium at the Stadio Olimpico — is the moment that proved this club's chaos can still produce miracles.

added by IJR

Lazio▼ Falling

The 2000 Scudetto, snatched on the final day after Perugia somehow beat Juventus in the rain, remains one of Serie A's most dramatic title deciders and the crowning glory of Cragnotti's spend-big Lazio experiment. Built around Nesta, Mihajlovic and Salas, that team briefly rivaled anyone in Europe before financial reality clawed it back — a flash of brilliance that still defines the club's ceiling.

added by IJR

Fiorentina▼ Falling

Batistuta's decade of single-handedly dragging a mid-table club to the 1996 Coppa Italia and Supercoppa, scoring absurd volleys along the way, is the soul of this entry — loyalty and star power over trophies. The Viola's real case is cultural: a club whose purple shirts and Artemio Franchi backdrop represent Italian football's romantic, trophy-starved-but-beloved underbelly.

added by IJR

Atalanta▼ Falling

Gasperini's 3-4-3 chaos-machine turned a perennial mid-table Bergamo side into a Champions League quarterfinalist in 2020, outscoring everyone in Europe with a style built on relentless overlapping runs. The pure entertainment value and the club's knack for developing and flipping talent (Kessie, Gomez, Ilicic) earns them a spot as the modern disruptor of Serie A's old hierarchy.

added by IJR