[13] It was Milan's first Scudetto since 2004 and it ended a run of five successive Serie A titles by their rival Internazionale.
Notably, they defeated defending champions Internazionale twice during the season and also did the same to third place challenger Napoli.
[15] Milan were credited for strengthening their squad with Zlatan Ibrahimović and Robinho in the summer as well as picking up Antonio Cassano and Mark van Bommel in January.
The rules for the registration of non-EU (or non-EFTA or Swiss) nationals transferred from abroad were revised in the summer of 2010 and announced on 2 July 2010.
Their outgoing transfer was Julio César de León, who moved to Chinese team Shandong Luneng Taishan.