Competitive Mobility Project

Italy

Atalanta

2025/26: 7th in Serie A · 2026/27: Serie A

How high can Atalanta realistically go?

Based on finishing 7th in Serie A in 2025/26

About 6 in 10

Of the 36 times a club finished 5th to 7th in Serie A between 2004/05 and 2015/16, 20 reached the top four within ten seasons.

20 of 36 (56%); likely range 31%–77%, 17 different clubs.

Won the league within ten seasonsabout 1 in 5
7 of 36; range 3%–39%

Atalanta itself: 10 of the last 10 seasons in Serie A; 6 top-four finishes.

How do we know?

We took every season since 2004/05 in which a club finished in the same part of the same league, and followed each club forward. The figure is the share that reached each goal. Ten-year goals use finishes from 2004/05 to 2015/16, five-year goals from 2004/05 to 2020/21, so every case has had the full time to play out; results run to the end of 2025/26.

It describes what happened to clubs in this position, not a forecast for one club. A club with much more money or history than is usual for its position has better chances than the figure suggests, which is why the club's own record is shown underneath.

The likely range is a 95% interval worked out by resampling clubs rather than seasons, because the same club often appears several times. It is wide where only a few clubs have been in a position, and two leagues whose ranges overlap may not really differ. Reserve teams such as Barcelona B or Real Madrid Castilla are left out of these counts, because they cannot be promoted into their first team's division.

Counts: reached the top four within ten seasons: 20 of 36; won the league within ten seasons: 7 of 36.

The story so far

Atalanta has played 32 seasons in the divisions covered here since 1994/95: 26 in Serie A and 6 in Serie B. It has been in Serie A since 2011/12 (15 seasons), after 1 season in Serie B. Its best finish was 3rd in Serie A, in 2018/19. It has been promoted 5 times and relegated 4 times.

Final position each seasonRinged dots are titles
2025/262021/222017/182013/142009/102005/062001/021997/981stSerie ASerie B
How to read this chart

Every club in the divisions covered is placed on one ladder each season: the champions are 1st, and the top club of the second division comes straight after the bottom club of the first. Shaded bands are the divisions. Hover over or tap a dot for the season.

32seasons since 1994/95
26seasons in Serie A
0league titles
6top-four finishes
5promotions
4relegations

Against the money

Not available for Italy: wage bills are not published club by club in one place there, so this is shown for England and France only.

Clubs with a similar path

Clubs whose finishing positions over the last 15 seasons were closest to Atalanta's, with recent seasons counting more.

In Italy

AC MilanItaly · 5th in Serie A, 2025/26LazioItaly · 9th in Serie A, 2025/26Inter MilanItaly · 1st in Serie A, 2025/26RomaItaly · 3rd in Serie A, 2025/26

Elsewhere in Europe

LiverpoolEngland · 5th in the Premier League, 2025/26MarseilleFrance · 5th in Ligue 1, 2025/26Atlético MadridSpain · 4th in LaLiga, 2025/26

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