The Serie C playoffs warm up the engines. In fact, only three teams are directly promoted to Serie B 2024/2025 and have already been designated: Mantova in Group A, Cesena in Group B and Juve Stabia in Group C. The rest of the Serie C teams must go through the playoffs for the last place available, as happened last year for Lecco. The Serie C playoff schedule has been completely defined, as have the dates, which, as announced by the president of the Serie C League, have changed. This is the definitive calendar: PLAY OFF PHASE OF THE GROUP 1st Round – Single match TUESDAY 7 MAY 2024
2nd Round – Single match SATURDAY 11 MAY 2024 NATIONAL PLAY OFF PHASE 1st Round – First leg TUESDAY 14 MAY 2024 1st Round – Second leg SATURDAY 18 MAY 2024 2nd Round – First leg TUESDAY 21 MAY 2024 2nd Round – Second leg SATURDAY 25 MAY 2024 FINAL FOUR Semi-finals – First leg TUESDAY 28 MAY 2024 Semi-finals – Second leg SUNDAY 2 JUNE 2024 Final – First leg WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE 2024 Final – Second leg SUNDAY 9 JUNE 2024 TAB ELLONE OF THE PLAYOFFS Playoff group stage
First round (8.30pm):
Picerno-Crotone, 2-0, Tuesday 7 May 2024, Sky Sport 253 Second round (Saturday 11 May, 8.30 pm): SATURDAY 11 MAY Perugia-Rimini 0-0 Taranto-AZ Picerno 0-0 Atalanta U23-Legnago Salus 1- 1 Triestina-Giana Erminio 1-1 Casertana-Audace Cerignola 0-0 Pescara-Juventus Next Gen 1-3 National playoff phase 1ST MATCHES – TUESDAY 14 MAY 2024 GAME 1 PERUGIA – CARRARESE 0-2 GAME 2 TARANTO – LR VICENZA 0- 1 MATCH 3 TRIESTINA – BENEVENTO 1-1 MATCH 4 JUVENTUS NEXT GEN – CASERTANA 0-1 MATCH 5 ATALANTA U23 – CATANIA 0-1 RETURN MATCHES – SATURDAY 18 MAY 2024* MATCH 1 CARRARESE – PERUGIA 1-2
GAME 2 LR VICENZA – TARANTO 0-0 GAME 3 BENEVENTO – TRIESTINA 2-1 GAME 4 CASERTANA – JUVENTUS NEXT GEN 1-3 GAME 5 CATANIA – ATALANTA U23 0-1 Second round draw: Playoff, first leg of the second national round Tuesday 21 May, 8.30pm Juventus Next Gen-Carrarese 1-1 Catania-Avellino (live RaiSport) 1-0 Benevento-Torres 1-0 Playoff second national round first leg Wednesday 22 May, 8.30pm (initially scheduled with the others, but postponed due to bad weather ) Vicenza-Padova 2-0 Playoff, return second national round Saturday 25 May, 8.30 pm Carrarese-Juventus Next Gen 2-2 Avellino-Catania 2-1 Torres-Benevento 0-0 Padova-Vicenza 0-1 Final four Semifinals (first leg Tuesday 28 May at 9pm) Avellino-Vicenza 0-0 Carrarese-Benevento 1-0 Semi-finals (return Sunday 2 June) Vicenza-Avellino 2-1 Benevento-Carrarese 2-2 Final Carrarese-Vicenza Tuesday 5 June and Sunday 9 June (return) THE QUALIFIED TEAMS GROUP A (Padova, Vicenza, Triestina, Atalanta Under 23, Legnago Salus, Giana Erminio, Pro Vercelli, Lumezzane, Trento) GROUP B (Torres, Carrarese, Perugia, Gubbio, Pescara, Juventus Under 23 , Pontedera, Arezzo, Rimini) GROUP C (Avellino, Casertana, Taranto, Picerno, Benevento, Audace Cerignola, Giugliano, Crotone, Latina) ITALY CUP WINNER (Catania) Catania qualified for the playoffs via the Italian Cup only if the final placing is not beyond 15th place in the regular season, i.e. it will not be worth a playout placement. In fact, in case of involvement in the playouts, the red and blue team will lose the right to play in the playoffs despite winning the Italian Cup. THE REGULATION – 28 teams will participate in the playoffs, i.e. those classified from second to tenth place in the three groups plus the winner of the Serie C Italian Cup. 21 teams will participate in the first phase, classified from fourth to tenth place in each group. In the first round of the first phase, 18 teams participate, six from each group, while in the second the 9 qualified plus the three fourth-placed teams for a total of 12. In the second phase, first round, the six qualified teams plus the third-placed teams from the groups participate and the winner of the Italian Cup for a total of ten teams. The five qualifiers plus the three runners-up will participate in the second phase, for a total of eight teams. The four qualifiers participate in the final four, competing in two semi-finals and then in the grand final. SERIES C PLAYOFFS, HOME AND AWAY First round first phase: fifth against tenth, sixth against ninth, seventh against eighth (single match at home to the best ranked team, in the event of a draw the best ranked team advances. There are no extra time or penalties) First round second phase, best ranked against worst (single home match of the best ranked, in case of a draw the best ranked advances. There are no extra time or penalties) First national round, best ranked (seeded) against worst ranked (unseeded) ): home and away matches, in case of a draw in the two matches, the best ranked team advances. There are no overtime or penalties. Return match at home of the best ranked National second round, best ranked (seeded) against worst ranked (unseeded): home and away matches, in case of a draw in the two matches the best ranked will advance. There are no overtime or penalties. Return match at the home of the best placed Final four, home and away matches with pairing by draw. In the event of a tie, extra time is played and penalties are eventually taken. Final, home and away legs. In the event of a tie, extra time is played and penalties are eventually taken. This page contains affiliate links. When you sign up for a subscription through these links, we will receive a commissionFollow the Serie C playoffs live on Sky SportWATCH ON SKY
