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Novara, Novara · Italy · Serie A

Power-ranking history

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Rank (1 = best)1372Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.011/12

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 13 seasons from 1936-37 to 2011-12 it has fallen short of them by −10.6 match points.

Novara Calcio: surplus against expectation, 1936-37 to 2011-121936-37: −4.2 league points vs expected (21 on 25.2, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.1 match points1938-39: +0.2 league points vs expected (26 on 25.8, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.1 match points1939-40: +0.2 league points vs expected (27 on 26.8, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.1 match points1940-41: −0.4 league points vs expected (27 on 27.4, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.2 match points1948-49: −2.7 league points vs expected (31 on 33.7, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.3 match points1949-50: −2.0 league points vs expected (31 on 33.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.0 match points1950-51: −0.5 league points vs expected (33 on 33.5, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.3 match points1951-52: +4.3 league points vs expected (40 on 35.7, 2 for a win) · bar height +2.2 match points1952-53: +0.0 league points vs expected (31 on 31.0, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.0 match points1953-54: −4.5 league points vs expected (27 on 31.5, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.2 match points1954-55: −1.1 league points vs expected (28 on 29.1, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.5 match points1955-56: −3.9 league points vs expected (26 on 29.9, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.0 match points2011-12: −10.4 league points vs expected (32 on 42.4, 3 for a win) · bar height −3.3 match points
1936-37one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season2011-12
Best season against expectation
1951-52 +4.3 league pts
40 points on 35.7 expected as Novara Calcio
Worst season against expectation
2011-12 −10.4 league pts
32 points on 42.4 expected as Novara Calcio

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.The rating only starts telling you much after about 1960. Before that, knowing the era’s home-and-away split is almost as good as knowing the teams.

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Greatest games

Novara'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
11939-05-18Coppa Italia · FinalNL 1-2 v Ambrosiana-Intergame score 74.2
21953-04-19Serie AHL 3-4 v Palermogame score 66.0
31953-05-31Serie AAW 1-0 v Internazionalegame score 65.8
41951-05-20Serie AAW 2-1 v Padovagame score 61.1
51939-04-30Serie AAW 1-0 v Lucchesegame score 60.9
61940-05-12Serie AHL 0-1 v SSC Napoligame score 60.8
71950-05-21Serie AAL 1-2 v AS Romagame score 60.1
81956-06-03Serie AHL 1-2 v Torino FCgame score 59.6
91955-05-01Serie AHL 0-1 v Atalantagame score 58.9
101953-05-03Serie AHW 3-2 v Pro Patriagame score 58.9

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
25
First season
1913
Most recent season
2012

The Heartbreak Index5.8 · #379

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1913

5.8
Heartbreak
#379
of 1,139 clubs
#245
in Football
5.8
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 19136.3
  • Major final appearance since 19393.2
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2012 · relegated from the top flight, 1929 · relegated from the top flight, 1956 · relegated from the top flight, 1937

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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.

2012
Serie A (1) · P19↓
38 P · 7-11-20 · 35:65 · -30
32
pts
1956
Serie A (1) · P17↓
34 P · 8-10-16 · 45:51 · -6
26
pts
1955
Serie A (1) · P15
34 P · 10-8-16 · 39:53 · -14
28
pts
1954
Serie A (1) · P14
34 P · 8-11-15 · 34:50 · -16
27
pts
1953
Serie A (1) · P10
34 P · 11-9-14 · 43:52 · -9
31
pts
1952
Serie A (1) · P8
38 P · 16-8-14 · 62:62 · 0
40
pts
1951
Serie A (1) · P12
38 P · 13-7-18 · 56:67 · -11
33
pts
1950
Serie A (1) · P17
38 P · 11-9-18 · 51:64 · -13
31
pts
1949
Serie A (1) · P15
38 P · 12-7-19 · 52:74 · -22
31
pts
1941
Serie A (1) · P15↓
30 P · 8-11-11 · 31:38 · -7
27
pts
1940
Serie A (1) · P9
30 P · 12-3-15 · 27:35 · -8
27
pts
1939
Serie A (1) · P12
30 P · 9-8-13 · 27:32 · -5
26
pts
Coppa
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1937
Serie A (1) · P15↓
30 P · 8-5-17 · 43:62 · -19
21
pts
1929
Divisione Nazionale (1) · P10↓
30 P · 8-7-15 · 40:77 · -37
23
pts
1928
Divisione Nazionale (1) · P6
20 P · 8-5-7 · 28:29 · -1
21
pts
1926
Prima Divisione (1) · P9
22 P · 6-6-10 · 40:42 · -2
18
pts
1925
Prima Divisione (1) · P7
24 P · 6-10-8 · 26:30 · -4
22
pts
1924
Prima Divisione (1) · P11
22 P · 4-4-14 · 22:41 · -19
12
pts
1923
Prima Divisione (1) · P5
22 P · 12-2-8 · 41:24 · +17
26
pts
1922
Prima Divisione (1) · P2
22 P · 12-6-4 · 47:19 · +28
32
pts
1921
Italian Football Championship (1) · P3
6 P · 2-2-2 · 7:7 · 0
6
pts
1920
Italian Football Championship (1) · P2
10 P · 6-1-3 · 22:15 · +7
13
pts
1915
Italian Football Championship (1) · P3
8 P · 4-0-4 · 12:8 · +4
8
pts
1914
Italian Football Championship (1) · P5
18 P · 9-1-8 · 43:32 · +11
19
pts
1913
Italian Football Championship (1) · P5
10 P · 1-2-7 · 13:28 · -15
4
pts
Domestic Cup Finals

Most recent first. Every domestic cup final the club has played, including losses. Scheduled finals (date not yet passed) are flagged.

1939
Coppa Italia
Runner-up