Relegation Roulette: Four Clubs Stuck in Danger With No Wins All Season

Relegation Roulette: Four Clubs Stuck in Danger With No Wins All Season

Early on in the campaign in the domestic leagues throughout the European continent, a lot of focus is put primarily on to the top half and the title race – highlighting any early surprise packages.

The likes of Bournemouth, Sunderland, Espanyol, and Como are all far exceeding pre-season expectations. But what about down the other end of the spectrum – teams flaunting around at the current moment?

In the Serie A for example, there are currently four teams struggling to find their footing towards the end of the 2025 calendar year. What is worse is how these four clubs have not even registered a victory yet in the 2025/26 season – nine games in at that!

Serie A standings after Matchweek 9.
Milan vs Roma is going to be a huge game, a big test to see who’s legit and who’s overperforming. pic.twitter.com/Yhn8n6GGmj

— Jollof Ballers (@JollofBallers) October 31, 2025

Surprisingly, only one of these four sides are newly promoted, demonstrating just how poor some clubs have been so far. But who are they?

It Can Only Go Up From Here… Right?

Scraping the bottom of the barrel in the Italian first tier we have Pisa, Hellas Verona, Fiorentina, and Genoa all yet to achieve a win in the division.

The good news is that none of these sides are pointless after nine games… although you would hope that would be the case. Instead, however, these teams just enjoy drawing games and do not seem to have the inspiration required to play to win.

Here is the journey of these sides so far.

Pisa

We start with Pisa – the only newly-promoted side in this current state of affairs. Cremonese and Sassuolo have enjoyed a brilliant return to the topflight, winning three and four games respectively, while placing in eighth and 10th too. Pisa, meanwhile, have had to endure in a very tricky start to life in the Serie A so far, playing many of Italy’s giants.

Their record thus far stands at zero wins (of course), five draws and four defeats. Draws against Atalanta, Fiorentina, Hellas Verona, Milan, and Lazio prove they do hold some quality in their squad, due to collecting some strong draws.

Considering their position in the table too, they are sound defensively, conceding just 12 goals so far – an average of 1.33 per game. The issue for Pisa lies in their attacking phase of play, recording just five goals.

Two of Pisa’s next three games are against their fellow promoted teams, so a victory in the near future will be very much the aim.

Hellas Verona

Next up is Verona, who have been within six points of the relegation zone in each of the last three seasons, and may well be falling further down this time around.

Currently boasting the same record as Pisa, Verona find themselves behind on goal difference, having conceded twice more. Verona have already blown three ideal opportunities for a first win, drawing with both Pisa and Cremonese so far and losing to Sassuolo – with two of these matches played on home turf.

It truly has not been a good start for them so far, but with three goals in their last two games, Verona will plead that their fortunes are beginning to turn.

However, with Inter Milan up next – a team they have never beaten – it is safe to say their wait for win may go on a little longer.

Fiorentina

Without out a doubt the most surprising team on this list, it is almost a crime that a side with David De Gea in goal have the worst defensive record in the division.

Fiorentina have conceded 15 goals so far, at an average of 1.67 per game, and have shockingly only found the target seven times so far.

In Europe, Fiorentina have found success comfortably in each of their games so far, winning 2-0 and 3-0 respectively, however, are simply yet to convert those performances into the league.

In their defence, Stéfano Pioli’s side have faced four of Italy’s current top five teams so far, therefore you would think that a win is due soon. Next up, a home fixture to a struggling Lecce – the perfect time for Fiorentina to break their duck and start heading up the standings.

🇮🇹 Fiorentina have been in Serie A since their promotion in 2004; in fact, they’ve only spent six seasons outside of the top flight since 1929.

However, they’re winless after six games and have made their worst start since 1978. Could they be in a relegation battle this season? pic.twitter.com/0RSUHSIBJM

— The European Football Express (@TheEuroFE) October 10, 2025

Genoa

It feels a long time ago that Patrick Vieira’s side were on a really strong run of form this time last year, doesn’t it?

This time, however, we are writing an article on their devastating drop in form. Like Fiorentina, Genoa have also picked up two victories so far – just not in the league. Genoa have won both of their Coppa Italia games against lower-level opposition.

Genoa attain the worst goal differential in the league, having conceded 13, while only scoring a league-low four.

With Sassuolo up next for Vieira’s side, this is a perfect opportunity to get a one in that win column, but in football anything can happen.

Underlying Issues

There is one thing in particular that I have noticed when looking into the statistics of the table. Udinese and Fiorentina both have the worst defensive record in the Serie A with 15 conceded after nine games.

The thing which stands out for me, however, is how this number is just an average of 1.67 per match, which is not actually awful for a team struggling for results. For example, we head to the Premier League and there are 20% of the clubs with 17 or more conceded.

This translates into goals scored too, of which the Serie A has only seen 204 goals fly in throughout 90 matches so far. If math serves me correctly, this equates to 2.27 per match. Therefore, a majority of topflight fixtures are relatively low scoring, with the occasional high-scoring affair.

Then I look at the draws column of the standings; out of 90 matches, 31 of them have ended in draw – that is over 33%! This suggests a reason why both the top end and the bottom end of the table are so close after almost 10 matches.

There is a gap starting to emerge between the top and bottom half of the table, so if these sides wait to register a win for much longer, their fate will no longer lie on the hope of European/top-half finish, but within the midst of a relegation dogfight where anything can happen.