Coppa Italia
Current season or competition: Coppa Italia 2007-08
Sport	Football
Founded	1922
No. The 2007-08 Coppa Italia was the 60th edition of the tournament Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Baseball (Major League World Series - New York Giants defeat New York Yankees, 4 games to 0 with one tie of teams	42
Country(ies)	Italy
Most recent champion(s)	A.S. Roma
Official website	Official

The Coppa Italia trophy - Coppa in Italian meaning Cup - representing the tournament's title. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Associazione Sportiva Roma, ( commonly referred to as simply Roma, is an Italian professional football club from Rome, and are currently amongst

For the Italian rugby competition, see Coppa Italia (rugby)

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The tournament is known for its low attendances, mainly due to the fact that most teams consider the tournament of low importance and do not field their best line-up. While some top clubs may average over 50,000 for league games, often these same clubs will attract crowds of only around 30,000 for Coppa Italia matches. Interestingly, most domestic cups elsewhere in Europe attract large crowds. It is often only the final where the UEFA Cup spot is up for grabs, that larger crowds will attend the games.

The 2007/2008 Coppa Italia final was played, like the three previous editions, between Inter Milan and AS Roma. The 2007-08 Coppa Italia was the 60th edition of the tournament Football Club Internazionale Milano, most commonly referred to as simply Internazionale, or Inter, is an Italian professional football club Associazione Sportiva Roma, ( commonly referred to as simply Roma, is an Italian professional football club from Rome, and are currently amongst The match was held in Rome on May 24, 2008 and ended with a 2-1 win for AS Roma. Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Associazione Sportiva Roma, ( commonly referred to as simply Roma, is an Italian professional football club from Rome, and are currently amongst

Formula and pairing teams

On June 28, 2007, the format of the 2007-08 tournament was released. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The new format reduces the number of competitors to the 42 teams which will play in Serie A and Serie B for the 2007-08 season; no Serie C teams will participate in the tournament. Serie A (officially known as the Lega Calcio Serie A TIM for Sponsorship reasons is a professional league competition for football clubs located Promotion and Relegation At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to Serie A and four teams are relegated to Serie C1. Also, the rather unusual two-leg final has been eliminated. A single-match final will be played at the Stadio Olimpico in Roma^[1]. Stadio Olimpico, located on the Foro Italico, is the major stadium of Rome, Italy. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2

The format for pairings will be as follows:

• First phase: one-leg fixtures
  • First round: The bottom 24 seeds (19-42) are paired
  • Second round: The 12 first round winners are paired
• Second phase: one-leg fixtures
  • 6 first phase winners and seeds 9-18 are paired
• Third phase: two-leg fixtures
  • Round of 16: 8 second phase winners are inserted into a bracket with seeds 1-8
  • Quarterfinals and Semifinals: Two-leg fixtures with pairings based upon bracket
• Final: one-leg fixture at neutral venue

Seeding teams

Seeding is allocated as follows:

a) seed 1 to last year's Italian Cup Winner.

b) seeds 2-8 to the participants playing in the Champions League/UEFA Cup competitions other than seed 1. If less than 8 teams are participating then the next highest placed Serie A team(s) complete(s) the list.

c) seeds 9-17 to the 9 remaining Serie A teams to 17th place.

d) seeds 18-20 to the 3 Serie B teams promoted to Serie A this season.

e) seeds 21-23 to the 3 Serie A teams demoted to Serie B this season.

f) seeds 24-37 to the 14 Serie B teams finishing to 17th place but not promoted to Serie A.

g) seed 38 to the play-out winner in Serie B.

h) seeds 39-42 to the 4 Serie C1 teams promoted to Serie B this season.

Winners by year

Performance by club

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2. ^ includes all 3 final round-robin losing participants for the years 1967-68 through to 1970-71

External links

• Italy - List of Cup Finals (with links to full results) from RSSSF
• Coppa Italia Final Preview