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Padua, Padua-Venice · Italy · Serie A

Top-4 finishes
2

Power-ranking history

Hover a season for its rank and score
Rank (1 = best)1499Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.059/6064/6569/7074/7579/8084/8589/9094/95

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 16 seasons from 1929-30 to 1995-96 it has fallen short of them by −12.6 match points.

Calcio Padova: surplus against expectation, 1929-30 to 1995-961929-30: −4.7 league points vs expected (26 on 30.7, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.4 match points1932-33: −3.4 league points vs expected (28 on 31.4, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.7 match points1933-34: −2.1 league points vs expected (27 on 29.1, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.0 match points1948-49: −0.3 league points vs expected (36 on 36.3, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.2 match points1949-50: −1.4 league points vs expected (35 on 36.4, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.7 match points1950-51: −5.0 league points vs expected (29 on 34.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.5 match points1951-52: −2.6 league points vs expected (29 on 31.6, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.3 match points1955-56: +3.3 league points vs expected (34 on 30.7, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.6 match points1956-57: +1.1 league points vs expected (32 on 30.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.6 match points1957-58: +7.8 league points vs expected (42 on 34.2, 2 for a win) · bar height +3.9 match points1958-59: −1.1 league points vs expected (34 on 35.1, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.6 match points1959-60: +1.1 league points vs expected (36 on 35.0, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.5 match points1960-61: +3.4 league points vs expected (38 on 34.6, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.7 match points1961-62: −9.8 league points vs expected (23 on 32.9, 2 for a win) · bar height −4.9 match points1994-95: +1.9 league points vs expected (40 on 38.1, 3 for a win) · bar height −0.7 match points1995-96: −11.0 league points vs expected (24 on 35.0, 3 for a win) · bar height −5.0 match points
1929-30one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season1995-96
Best season against expectation
1957-58 +7.8 league pts
42 points on 34.2 expected as Calcio Padova
Worst season against expectation
1995-96 −11.0 league pts
24 points on 35.0 expected as Calcio Padova

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.

Padua-Venice against expectation →How this is measured →

Greatest games

Padova'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
11951-05-20Serie AHL 1-2 v Novaragame score 61.1
21967-06-14Coppa Italia · FinalNL 0-1 v AC Milangame score 60.2
31933-05-25Serie AHL 1-2 v Barigame score 59.3
41950-03-19Serie AHL 3-4 v Fiorentinagame score 57.7
51930-06-08Serie AHL 1-2 v Triestinagame score 57.5
61952-06-22Serie AHL 1-2 v Juventusgame score 56.0
71951-05-13Serie AAL 2-3 v Lucchesegame score 55.6
81950-02-05Serie AHL 1-2 v Sampdoriagame score 55.5
91950-04-30Serie AHW 3-2 v Lucchesegame score 55.5
101959-05-28Serie AHL 0-1 v AC Milangame score 55.2

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
27
First season
1915
Most recent season
1996

The Heartbreak Index5.5 · #400

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1915

5.5
Heartbreak
#400
of 1,139 clubs
#257
in Football
5.5
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 19156.3
  • Major final appearance since 19673.2
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 1996 · relegated from the top flight, 1952 · relegated from the top flight, 1930 · lost the national cup final, 1967

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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.

1996
Serie A (1) · P18↓
34 P · 7-3-24 · 41:79 · -38
24
pts
1995
Serie A (1) · P14
34 P · 12-4-18 · 36:58 · -22
40
pts
1962
Serie A (1) · P16↓
34 P · 7-9-18 · 29:49 · -20
23
pts
1961
Serie A (1) · P6
34 P · 16-6-12 · 47:40 · +7
38
pts
1960
Serie A (1) · P5
34 P · 14-8-12 · 50:46 · +4
36
pts
1959
Serie A (1) · P7
34 P · 13-8-13 · 50:52 · -2
34
pts
1958
Serie A (1) · P3
34 P · 16-10-8 · 55:42 · +13
42
pts
1957
Serie A (1) · P11
34 P · 8-16-10 · 33:39 · -6
32
pts
1956
Serie A (1) · P8
34 P · 14-6-14 · 41:43 · -2
34
pts
1952
Serie A (1) · P19↓
38 P · 10-9-19 · 45:73 · -28
29
pts
1951
Serie A (1) · P18
38 P · 12-5-21 · 49:68 · -19
29
pts
1950
Serie A (1) · P10
38 P · 13-9-16 · 61:65 · -4
35
pts
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1949
Serie A (1) · P11
38 P · 12-12-14 · 45:64 · -19
36
pts
1934
Serie A (1) · P16↓
34 P · 9-9-16 · 32:49 · -17
27
pts
1933
Serie A (1) · P14
34 P · 8-12-14 · 43:55 · -12
28
pts
1930
Serie A (1) · P17↓
34 P · 11-4-19 · 52:78 · -26
26
pts
1929
Divisione Nazionale (1) · P8
30 P · 11-8-11 · 53:58 · -5
30
pts
1928
Divisione Nazionale (1) · P7
20 P · 7-3-10 · 24:36 · -12
17
pts
1927
Divisione Nazionale (1) · P7
18 P · 7-1-10 · 29:44 · -15
15
pts
1926
Prima Divisione (1) · P4
22 P · 11-3-8 · 55:33 · +22
25
pts
1925
Prima Divisione (1) · P4
24 P · 12-5-7 · 51:34 · +17
29
pts
1924
Prima Divisione (1) · P2
22 P · 12-5-5 · 36:18 · +18
29
pts
1923
Prima Divisione (1) · P1
22 P · 14-4-4 · 47:21 · +26
32
pts
1922
Prima Divisione (1) · P5
22 P · 10-3-9 · 30:36 · -6
23
pts
1921
Italian Football Championship (1) · P3
6 P · 2-0-4 · 9:10 · -1
4
pts
1920
Italian Football Championship (1) · P6
10 P · 2-1-7 · 10:24 · -14
5
pts
1915
Italian Football Championship (1) · P4
10 P · 3-1-6 · 23:37 · -14
7
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.

1967
Coppa Italia
Runner-up