2011–12 Coppa Italia

Football tournament season

The 2011–12 Coppa Italia, also known as TIM Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 65th edition of the domestic competition. As in the previous year, 78 clubs took part in the tournament. Internazionale were the cup holders. Napoli were the winners, thus qualifying for the group stage of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.^[1]

Participating teams

Serie A (20 teams)

• Atalanta (third round)
• Bologna (round of 16)
• Cagliari (fourth round)
• Catania (fourth round)
• Cesena (round of 16)
• Chievo (quarter-finals)
• Fiorentina (round of 16)
• Genoa (round of 16)
• Internazionale (quarter-finals)
• Juventus (final)
• Lazio (quarter-finals)
• Lecce (third round)
• Milan (semi-finals)
• Napoli (champion)
• Novara (round of 16)
• Palermo (round of 16)
• Parma (fourth round)
• Roma (quarter-finals)
• Siena (semi-finals)
• Udinese (round of 16)

Serie B (22 teams)

• AlbinoLeffe (third round)
• Ascoli (third round)
• Bari (fourth round)
• Brescia (third round)
• Cittadella (third round)
• Crotone (fourth round)
• Empoli (fourth round)
• Grosseto (third round)
• Gubbio (fourth round)
• Juve Stabia (second round)
• Livorno (third round)
• Modena (fourth round)
• Nocerina (third round)
• Padova (third round)
• Pescara (second round)
• Reggina (third round)
• Sampdoria (third round)
• Sassuolo (third round)
• Torino (third round)
• Varese (second round)
• Hellas Verona (round of 16)
• Vicenza (second round)

Lega Pro (27 teams)

• Alessandria (second round)
• Avellino (third round)
• Barletta (first round)
• Benevento (second round)
• Carpi (second round)
• Carrarese (second round)
• Como (first round)
• FeralpiSalò (first round)
• Foggia (second round)
• Frosinone (second round)
• L'Aquila (second round)
• Latina (first round)
• Lumezzane (second round)
• Piacenza (second round)
• Pisa (second round)
• Portogruaro (first round)
• Prato (second round)
• Pro Patria (first round)
• Reggiana (first round)
• Siracusa (second round)
• Sorrento (second round)
• Spezia (second round)
• Taranto (second round)
• Trapani (first round)
• Triestina (third round)
• Tritium (first round)
• Virtus Lanciano (first round)

LND - Serie D (9 teams)

• Bacoli Sibilla (first round)
• Casertana (first round)
• Castel Rigone (second round)
• Pomigliano (first round)
• Pontedera (first round)
• Saint-Christophe (first round)
• Tamai (first round)
• Teramo (first round)
• Voghera (first round)

Format and seeding

Teams enter the competition at various stages, as follows:

• First phase (one-legged fixtures)
  • First round: 36 teams from Lega Pro and Serie D start the tournament
  • Second round: the 18 winners from the previous round are joined by the 22 Serie B teams
  • Third round: the 20 winners from the second round meet the 12 Serie A sides seeded 9-20
  • Fourth round: the 16 survivors face each other
• Second phase
  • Round of 16 (one-legged): the 8 fourth round winners are inserted into a bracket with the Serie A clubs seeded 1-8
  • Quarterfinals (one-legged)
  • Semifinals (two-legged)
• Final at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome

Matches

Elimination rounds

Section 1

Match details

First round

7 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Giglio, Reggio Emilia

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Andrea Tardino

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7 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Italia, Sorrento

Attendance: 500

Referee: Pietro Dei Giudici

Second round

14 August 2011

20:30 CEST

Stadio Euganeo, Padua

Referee: Piero Giacomelli

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14 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Ezio Scida, Crotone

Referee: Marco Di Bello

Third round

21 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna

Referee: Gianluca Rocchi

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21 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Via del Mare, Lecce

Referee: Domenico Celi

Fourth round

23 November 2011

15:00 CET

Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna

Section 2

Match details

First round

6 August 2011

16:00 CEST

Stadio Comunale, Fiorenzuola d'Arda

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Gianluca Aureliano

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7 August 2011

15:00 CEST

Stadio Giuseppe Moccagatta, Alessandria

Attendance: 575

Referee: Gianluca Manganiello

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7 August 2011

20:30 CEST

Arena Garibaldi, Pisa

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Claudio Lanza

Second round

13 August 2011

17:00 CEST

Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato, Cittadella

Attendance: 1,076

Referee: Renzo Candussio

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14 August 2011

20:30 CEST

Stadio Carlo Castellani, Empoli

Referee: Maurizio Mariani

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14 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa

Attendance: 12,066

Referee: Massimiliano Irrati

Third round

20 August 2011

19:00 CEST

Stadio Carlo Castellani, Empoli

Referee: Antonio Damato

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21 August 2011

18:00 CEST

Stadio Artemio Franchi (Florence), Florence

Referee: Carmine Russo

Fourth round

24 November 2011

18:00 CET

Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence

Section 3

Match details

First round

7 August 2011

17:00 CEST

Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, Como

Attendance: 500

Referee: Daniele Minelli

Second round

14 August 2011

17:00 CEST

Stadio Alberto Braglia, Modena

Attendance: 812

Referee: Leonardo Baracani

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14 August 2011

17:00 CEST

Stadio Romeo Menti, Vicenza

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Emiliano Gallione

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14 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini, Grosseto

Referee: Claudio Gavillucci

Third round

20 August 2011

19:00 CEST

Stadio Alberto Braglia, Modena

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Maurizio Ciampi

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21 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma

Referee: Andrea Gervasoni

Fourth round

29 November 2011

20:45 CET

Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma

Referee: Sebastiano Perruzzo

Section 4

Match details

First round

7 August 2011

18:00 CEST

Stadio Domenico Francioni, Latina

Attendance: 800

Referee: Cangiano (Italy)

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7 August 2011

18:00 CEST

Stadio Nereo Rocco, Trieste

Attendance: 400

Referee: Ros

Second round

13 August 2011

18:00 CEST

Stadio Mario Rigamonti, Brescia

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Emilio Ostinelli

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14 August 2011

17:30 CEST

Stadio Adriatico, Pescara

Attendance: 6,150

Referee: Luigi Nasca

Third round

21 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Angelo Massimino, Catania

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Sebastiano Peruzzo

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21 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Silvio Piola (Novara), Novara

Attendance: 3,457

Referee: Riccardo Tozzi

Fourth round

29 November 2011

21:15 CET

Stadio Angelo Massimino, Catania

Referee: Leonardo Barcani

Section 5

Match details

First round

7 August 2011

18:00 CEST

Stadio Guido Biondi, Lanciano

Referee: Francesco Fiore

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7 August 2011

17:00 CEST

Nuovo Stadio Comunale, Lumezzane

Referee: Marco Bellotti

Second round

14 August 2011

18:00 CEST

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 277

Referee: Marco Viti

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13 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Olimpico, Turin

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Filippo Merchiori

Third round

21 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Sant'Elia, Cagliari

Referee: Daniele Doveri

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21 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Artemio Franchi, Siena

Referee: Paolo Valeri

Fourth round

24 November 2011

21:15 CET

Stadio Sant'Elia, Cagliari

Referee: Gianpaolo Calvarese

Section 6

Match details

First round

7 August 2011

14:30 CEST

Stadio Nicola de Simone, Siracusa

Attendance: 2370

Referee: Michele Gallo

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7 August 2011

14:30 CEST

Stadio Matusa, Frosinone

Attendance: 1607

Referee: Alessio Petroni

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7 August 2011

17:00 CEST

Stadio Cosimo Puttilli, Barletta

Attendance: 2392

Referee: Diego Roca

Second round

13 August 2011

17:30 CEST

Stadio Alberto Braglia, Modena

Attendance: 2247

Referee: Dino Tommasi

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13 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Armando Picchi, Livorno

Attendance: 2251

Referee: Angelo Martino Giancola

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13 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Oreste Granillo, Reggio Calabria

Attendance: 2087

Referee: Massimiliano Velotto

Third round

21 August 2011

16:30 CEST

Stadio Alberto Braglia, Modena

Attendance: 2583

Referee: Antonio Giannoccaro

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21 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi, Verona

Attendance: 1000

Referee: Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni

Fourth round

23 November 2011

15:00 CET

Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi, Verona

Referee: Christian Brighi

Section 7

Match details

First round

6 August 2011

17:00 CEST

Stadio Miro Luperi, Sarzana

Attendance: 2500

Referee: Michael Fabbri

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7 August 2011

17:00 CEST

Stadio Pino Zaccheria, Foggia

Attendance: 1886

Referee: Stefano D'Angelo

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7 August 2011

18:00 CEST

Stadio Pier Giovanni Mecchia, Portogruaro

Attendance: 500

Referee: Alessandro Caso

Second round

14 August 2011

20:00 CEST

Stadio Mario Rigamonti, Brescia

Attendance: 1581

Referee: Davide Massa

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14 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio San Nicola, Bari

Attendance: 2000

Referee: Silvio Baratta

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14 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio San Francesco, Nocera Inferiore

Attendance: 5298

Referee: Angelo Cervellera

Third round

20 August 2011

18:00 CEST

Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa

Attendance: 10572

Referee: Luca Banti

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21 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio San Nicola, Bari

Attendance: 5464

Referee: Marco Guida

Fourth round

24 November 2011

20:30 CET

Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa

Referee: Andrea Gervasoni

Section 8

Match details

First round

6 August 2011

20:30 CEST

Stadio Lino Turina, Salò

Attendance: 500

Referee: Cristian Brasi

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7 August 2011

18:00 CEST

Stadio Ciro Vigorito, Benevento

Attendance: 2000

Referee: Lorenzo Illuzzi

Second round

14 August 2011

20:30 CEST

Stadio Cino e Lillo Del Duca, Ascoli

Attendance: 1974

Referee: Aleandro Di Paolo

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14 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Pietro Barbetti, Gubbio

Referee: Gennaro Palazzino

Third round

21 August 2011

20:30 CEST

Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino

Referee: Andrea De Marco

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21 August 2011

20:45 CEST

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Referee: Gabriele Gava

Fourth round

30 November 2011

15:00 CET

Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena

Final stage

Bracket

Round of 16

8 December 2011

21:00 CET

Juventus Stadium, Turin

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Sebastiano Peruzzo

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13 December 2011

21:00 CET

Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo

Referee: Andrea Gervasoni

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10 January 2012

21:00 CET

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Referee: Gianluca Rocchi

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11 January 2012

17:30 CET

Stadio Friuli, Udine

Referee: Sebastiano Peruzzo

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11 January 2012

20:45 CET

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Referee: Andrea De Marco

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12 January 2012

21:00 CET

Stadio San Paolo, Naples

Referee: Daniele Doveri

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18 January 2012

21:00 CET

San Siro, Milan

Referee: Antonio Danilo Giannoccaro

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19 January 2012

21:00 CET

San Siro, Milan

Referee: Carmine Russo

Quarter-finals

24 January 2012

20:45 CET

Juventus Stadium, Turin

Attendance: 38,498

Referee: Luca Banti

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25 January 2012

17:30 CET

Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi, Verona

Referee: Daniele Doveri

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25 January 2012

20:45 CET

Stadio San Paolo, Naples

Referee: Domenico Celi

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26 January 2012

20:45 CET

San Siro, Milan

Referee: Andrea Gervasoni

Semi-finals

First leg

8 February 2012

20:45 CET

San Siro, Milan

Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni

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9 February 2012

20:45 CET

Stadio Artemio Franchi – Montepaschi Arena, Siena

Referee: Andrea De Marco

Second leg

20 March 2012

20:45 CET

Juventus Stadium, Turin

Referee: Daniele Orsato

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21 March 2012

20:45 CET

Stadio San Paolo, Naples

Referee: Paolo Valeri

Final

20 May 2012

21:00 CEST

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 61,803

Referee: Christian Brighi

Top goalscorers

References

General

• "Rules of the competition". lega-calcio.it (in Italian). Lega Nazionale Professionisti. 8 April 2010. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013.

Specific

1. "Europa League - Cup winners to get auto Europa spot". Eurosport. Retrieved 25 April 2011.