[4] The league was originally scheduled to start on 27 August, but this was delayed due to a strike by the players.
The team completed the season undefeated, becoming the first team to do so in a 38-game league season in Italy; Perugia were undefeated in the 30-game 1978–79 Serie A, in which they finished second in the table, while Milan were unbeaten and won the title in the 34-game 1991–92 Serie A.
[6] Since Italy dropped from third to fourth place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2010–11 season,[7][8][9] the league lost a group stage berth for the UEFA Champions League from the 2012–13 season.
The rules for the registration of non-EU (or non-EFTA or Swiss) nationals transferred from abroad were revised in the summer of 2011.
This was a reverse of the decision made the previous summer in the wake of Italy's failure at the 2010 World Cup that limited clubs to the signing of just one such player.