{"id":703687,"date":"2026-05-30T05:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703687\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:42:14","slug":"football-soccer-monza-secure-serie-a-return-despite-playoff-second-leg-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703687\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Soccer-Monza secure Serie A return despite playoff second-leg loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 30 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060AC Monza have been promoted to \u2060Italy&#8217;s top-flight after just one \u200cseason in Serie B, despite losing 2-0 in the second leg of their playoff \u200bclash against Catanzaro on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After \u2060the playoff ended \u2060level with an aggregate score of \u20602-2, \u200cMonza were promoted due to their third-placed finish in \u2060the Serie B league stage, which \u200bwas higher \u200cthan Catanzaro&#8217;s fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Monza secured promotion \u2060exactly four \u200byears to the day since their first-ever promotion to Serie A in \u20602022, which came when \u200bthey were owned by Silvio Berlusconi.<\/p>\n<p>Berlusconi, the former Italian Prime Minister and media \u2060tycoon who previously owned AC Milan, took over Monza in 2018 when they were playing in Italy&#8217;s third \u200btier.<\/p>\n<p>After their relegation \u2060to Serie B in 2025, Monza \u200bwere sold to U.S.-based \u200cinvestment firm Beckett Layne \u200bVentures.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 30 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060AC Monza have been promoted to \u2060Italy&#8217;s top-flight after just one \u200cseason in Serie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,6675,85],"class_list":["post-703687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-na","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}