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Varese

Heartbreak#6652.8

Milan, Milan · Italy · Serie A

Power-ranking history

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Rank (1 = best)1465Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.064/6569/7074/75

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 1964-65 to 1974-75 it has fallen short of them by −11.0 match points.

AS Varese 1910: surplus against expectation, 1964-65 to 1974-751964-65: −0.3 league points vs expected (30 on 30.4, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.2 match points1965-66: −10.7 league points vs expected (15 on 25.7, 2 for a win) · bar height −5.4 match points1967-68: +7.7 league points vs expected (32 on 24.3, 2 for a win) · bar height +3.9 match points1968-69: −2.6 league points vs expected (22 on 24.6, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.3 match points1970-71: +1.1 league points vs expected (26 on 24.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.5 match points1971-72: −10.5 league points vs expected (13 on 23.5, 2 for a win) · bar height −5.3 match points1974-75: −6.5 league points vs expected (17 on 23.6, 2 for a win) · bar height −3.3 match points
1964-65one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season1974-75
Best season against expectation
1967-68 +7.7 league pts
32 points on 24.3 expected as AS Varese 1910
Worst season against expectation
1965-66 −10.7 league pts
15 points on 25.7 expected as AS Varese 1910

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

Varese'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
11970-05-07Coppa Italia · Final Group StageHL 0-1 v Bolognagame score 62.8
21970-05-13Coppa Italia · Final Group StageAL 0-1 v Torino FCgame score 58.5
31971-03-28Serie AAW 2-1 v AC Milangame score 51.3
41970-06-03Coppa Italia · Final Group StageHL 1-3 v Torino FCgame score 50.5
51966-04-10Serie AHL 1-2 v Sampdoriagame score 47.6
61971-05-02Serie AHW 2-1 v Laziogame score 47.2
71969-05-11Serie AHW 1-0 v Torino FCgame score 46.5
81965-05-09Serie AAW 1-0 v Genoagame score 46.4
91970-05-20Coppa Italia · Final Group StageHD 1-1 v Cagliarigame score 45.5
101969-04-20Serie AHL 1-2 v SSC Napoligame score 45.1

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
7
First season
1965
Most recent season
1975

The Heartbreak Index2.8 · #665

The Blessed · Never won it, waiting since 1965

2.8
Heartbreak
#665
of 1,139 clubs
#408
in Football
2.8
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 19656.3
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 1966 · relegated from the top flight, 1969 · relegated from the top flight, 1972 · relegated from the top flight, 1975

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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.

1975
Serie A (1) · P16↓
30 P · 3-11-16 · 19:42 · -23
17
pts
1972
Serie A (1) · P16↓
30 P · 1-11-18 · 17:42 · -25
13
pts
1971
Serie A (1) · P9
30 P · 5-16-9 · 29:33 · -4
26
pts
1969
Serie A (1) · P14↓
30 P · 5-12-13 · 20:43 · -23
22
pts
1968
Serie A (1) · P7
30 P · 12-8-10 · 28:27 · +1
32
pts
1966
Serie A (1) · P18↓
34 P · 2-11-21 · 23:62 · -39
15
pts
1965
Serie A (1) · P11
34 P · 8-14-12 · 28:37 · -9
30
pts