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Mantua, Mantua · Italy · Serie A

Power-ranking history

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Rank (1 = best)1377Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.064/6569/70

Against expectation

Every Italian top-flight match this club has played in the Serie A, scored against the odds an Elo rating gave it before kick-off. Over 7 seasons from 1961-62 to 1971-72 it has fallen short of them by 6.5 match points.

AC Mantova: surplus against expectation, 1961-62 to 1971-721961-62: +1.1 league points vs expected (32 on 30.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.5 match points1962-63: −0.8 league points vs expected (30 on 30.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.4 match points1963-64: −1.3 league points vs expected (29 on 30.3, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.6 match points1964-65: −6.9 league points vs expected (21 on 27.9, 2 for a win) · bar height −3.5 match points1966-67: +5.1 league points vs expected (34 on 28.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +2.6 match points1967-68: −7.3 league points vs expected (17 on 24.3, 2 for a win) · bar height −3.7 match points1971-72: −2.9 league points vs expected (21 on 23.9, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.4 match points
1961-62one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season1971-72
Best season against expectation
1966-67 +5.1 league pts
34 points on 28.9 expected as AC Mantova
Worst season against expectation
1967-68 7.3 league pts
17 points on 24.3 expected as AC Mantova

Season points use that season’s own scoring, two for a win before 1994-95 and three from it; the bars use match points so the whole series is comparable.

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Greatest games

Mantova's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play.All-time board.

#DateStageResultScore
11967-05-28Serie AHW 1-0 v Internazionalegame score 79.3
21972-05-28Serie AHW 2-1 v Cagliarigame score 51.6
31968-04-14Serie AHL 0-1 v Spalgame score 50.7
41972-05-07Serie AHL 0-1 v Vicenzagame score 49.7
51972-04-23Serie AAW 1-0 v Fiorentinagame score 48.9
61964-05-24Serie AHW 1-0 v AS Romagame score 47.9
71968-05-12Serie AAL 0-1 v Bolognagame score 46.3
81965-05-16Serie AAL 1-2 v Atalantagame score 46.2
91968-04-28Serie AHL 1-2 v Fiorentinagame score 45.7
101962-04-01Serie AAL 0-1 v AC Milangame score 45.4

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
12
First season
1921
Most recent season
1972

The Heartbreak Index3.1 · #619

The Blessed · Never won it, waiting since 1921

3.1
Heartbreak
#619
of 1,139 clubs
#382
in Football
3.1
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 19216.3
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 1965 · relegated from the top flight, 1968 · relegated from the top flight, 1972 · survived a relegation scare, 1923

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Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers Serie A only. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

1972
Serie A (1) · P14
30 P · 6-9-15 · 23:39 · -16
21
pts
1968
Serie A (1) · P16
30 P · 3-11-16 · 13:37 · -24
17
pts
1967
Serie A (1) · P9
34 P · 6-22-6 · 22:23 · -1
34
pts
1965
Serie A (1) · P18
34 P · 7-7-20 · 20:40 · -20
21
pts
1964
Serie A (1) · P12
34 P · 6-17-11 · 28:39 · -11
29
pts
1963
Serie A (1) · P11
34 P · 8-14-12 · 34:46 · -12
30
pts
1962
Serie A (1) · P9
34 P · 12-8-14 · 42:42 · 0
32
pts
1926
Prima Divisione (1) · P12
22 P · 2-4-16 · 24:81 · -57
8
pts
1925
Prima Divisione (1) · P11
24 P · 8-3-13 · 38:53 · -15
19
pts
1923
Prima Divisione (1) · P9
22 P · 6-6-10 · 18:27 · -9
18
pts
1922
Prima Divisione (1) · P4
22 P · 11-2-9 · 40:34 · +6
24
pts
1921
Italian Football Championship (1) · P3
6 P · 2-0-4 · 7:11 · -4
4
pts