2021–22 Serie A

2021–22 Serie A

The 2021–22 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 120th season of top-tier Italian football, the 90th in a round-robin tournament, and the 12th since its organization under an own league committee, the Lega Serie A. AC Milan won the title after defeating Sassuolo 3–0 at the Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore on 22 May 2022, the final matchday of the season.

AC Milan's title marked their 19th league title in their history and their first since (/wiki/2010–11SerieA). Inter Milan, the defending champions, finished in second place, two points behind AC Milan.

Teams

2021–22 Serie A

Two teams, Venezia and Salernitana, both returned to the Serie A after historically long absences. Venezia defeated Cittadella in the final of the promotion playoffs to secure readmission into the top league for the first time in 19 years—since the 2001-2002 season. Salernitana, meanwhile, were able to play their first Serie A match in 23 years, for the first time since 1999. Empoli returned after a two-year absence.

Crotone and Benevento were relegated to the Serie B after spending just one year each in the Serie A. Parma was relegated after a three-year stint.

Team changes

Promoted from 2020–21 Serie B	Relegated from 2020–21 Serie A
Empoli	Benevento
Salernitana	Crotone
Venezia	Parma

Stadiums and locations

<table><thead><tr><th>Team</th><th>Home city</th><th>Stadium</th><th>Capacity</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Atalanta</td><td>Bergamo</td><td>Gewiss Stadium</td><td>19,768</td></tr><tr><td>Bologna</td><td>Bologna</td><td>Stadio Renato Dall'Ara</td><td>36,462</td></tr><tr><td>Cagliari</td><td>Cagliari</td><td>Sardegna Arena</td><td>16,416</td></tr><tr><td>Empoli</td><td>Empoli</td><td>Stadio Carlo Castellani</td><td>16,284</td></tr><tr><td>Fiorentina</td><td>Florence</td><td>Stadio Artemio Franchi</td><td>43,147</td></tr><tr><td>Genoa</td><td>Genoa</td><td>Stadio Luigi Ferraris</td><td>36,599</td></tr><tr><td>Hellas Verona</td><td>Verona</td><td>Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi</td><td>39,371</td></tr><tr><td>Inter Milan</td><td>Milan</td><td>San Siro</td><td>75,923</td></tr><tr><td>Juventus</td><td>Turin</td><td>Allianz Stadium</td><td>41,507</td></tr><tr><td>Lazio</td><td>Rome</td><td>Stadio Olimpico</td><td>70,634</td></tr><tr><td>Milan</td><td>Milan</td><td>San Siro</td><td>75,923</td></tr><tr><td>Napoli</td><td>Naples</td><td>Stadio Diego Armando Maradona</td><td>54,726</td></tr><tr><td>Roma</td><td>Rome</td><td>Stadio Olimpico</td><td>70,634</td></tr><tr><td>Salernitana</td><td>Salerno</td><td>Stadio Arechi</td><td>26,000</td></tr><tr><td>Sampdoria</td><td>Genoa</td><td>Stadio Luigi Ferraris</td><td>36,599</td></tr><tr><td>Sassuolo</td><td>Sassuolo</td><td>Mapei Stadium (Reggio Emilia)</td><td>21,525</td></tr><tr><td>Spezia</td><td>La Spezia</td><td>Stadio Alberto Picco</td><td>11,512</td></tr><tr><td>Torino</td><td>Turin</td><td>Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino</td><td>28,958</td></tr><tr><td>Udinese</td><td>Udine</td><td>Stadio Friuli</td><td>25,144</td></tr><tr><td>Venezia</td><td>Venice</td><td>Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo</td><td>11,150</td></tr></tbody></table>

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor(s)
Main	Other
AC Milan	Stefano Pioli	Alessio Romagnoli	Puma	Emirates	Back Sleeves
Atalanta	Gian Piero Gasperini	Rafael Tolói	Joma	Plus500	Front Back Sleeves
Bologna	Siniša Mihajlović	Roberto Soriano	Macron	Facile Ristrutturare	Front Back Sleeves
Cagliari	Alessandro Agostini (caretaker)	João Pedro	Adidas	ISOLA Artigianato di Sardegna	Front Back Sleeves
Empoli	Aurelio Andreazzoli	Simone Romagnoli	Kappa	Computer Gross	Front Back Sleeves
Fiorentina	Vincenzo Italiano	Cristiano Biraghi	Kappa	Mediacom	Back Sleeves
Genoa	Alexander Blessin	Domenico Criscito	Kappa	MG.K Vis	Front Back Sleeves
Hellas Verona	Igor Tudor	Miguel Veloso	Macron	Gruppo Sinergy	Front Back Sleeves
Inter Milan	Simone Inzaghi	Samir Handanović	Nike	$INTER Fan Token	Back Sleeves
Juventus	Massimiliano Allegri	Giorgio Chiellini	Adidas	Jeep 4xe	Back Sleeves
Lazio	Maurizio Sarri	Ciro Immobile	Macron	Binance	Sleeves
Napoli	Luciano Spalletti	Lorenzo Insigne	EA7	Lete	Front Back Sleeves
Roma	José Mourinho	Lorenzo Pellegrini	New Balance	DigitalBits	Back Sleeves
Salernitana	Davide Nicola	Franck Ribéry	Zeus	BCC Aquara/Caffè Motta	Front Back Sleeves
Sampdoria	Marco Giampaolo	Fabio Quagliarella	Macron	Banca Ifis	Front Back Sleeves
Sassuolo	Alessio Dionisi	Francesco Magnanelli	Puma	Mapei	None
Spezia	Thiago Motta	Giulio Maggiore	Acerbis	Distretti Ecologici	Front Back Sleeves
Torino	Ivan Jurić	Andrea Belotti	Joma	Suzuki	Front Back Sleeves
Udinese	Gabriele Cioffi (caretaker)	Bram Nuytinck	Macron	Dacia	Front Back Sleeves
Venezia	Andrea Soncin (caretaker)	Marco Modolo	Kappa	Green Project Agency	Back Sleeves

Managerial changes

<table><thead><tr><th>Team</th><th>Outgoing manager</th><th>Manner of departure</th><th>Date of vacancy</th><th>Position in table</th><th>Replaced by</th><th>Date of appointment</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Napoli</td><td>Gennaro Gattuso</td><td>Mutual consent</td><td>23 May 2021</td><td>Pre-season</td><td>Luciano Spalletti</td><td>1 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Inter Milan</td><td>Antonio Conte</td><td>26 May 2021</td><td>Simone Inzaghi</td><td>1 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Hellas Verona</td><td>Ivan Jurić</td><td>28 May 2021</td><td>Eusebio Di Francesco</td><td>1 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Empoli</td><td>Alessio Dionisi</td><td>15 June 2021</td><td>Aurelio Andreazzoli</td><td>1 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Juventus</td><td>Andrea Pirlo</td><td>Sacked</td><td>28 May 2021</td><td>Massimiliano Allegri</td><td>1 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Roma</td><td>Paulo Fonseca</td><td>End of contract</td><td>30 June 2021</td><td>José Mourinho</td><td>1 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Fiorentina</td><td>Giuseppe Iachini</td><td>30 June 2021</td><td>Vincenzo Italiano</td><td>1 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Sassuolo</td><td>Roberto De Zerbi</td><td>30 June 2021</td><td>Alessio Dionisi</td><td>1 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Sampdoria</td><td>Claudio Ranieri</td><td>30 June 2021</td><td>Roberto D'Aversa</td><td>4 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Lazio</td><td>Simone Inzaghi</td><td>30 June 2021</td><td>Maurizio Sarri</td><td>1 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Torino</td><td>Davide Nicola</td><td>30 June 2021</td><td>Ivan Jurić</td><td>1 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Spezia</td><td>Vincenzo Italiano</td><td>Signed by Fiorentina</td><td>30 June 2021</td><td>Thiago Motta</td><td>8 July 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Hellas Verona</td><td>Eusebio Di Francesco</td><td>Sacked</td><td>14 September 2021</td><td>19th</td><td>Igor Tudor</td><td>14 September 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Cagliari</td><td>Leonardo Semplici</td><td>14 September 2021</td><td>17th</td><td>Walter Mazzarri</td><td>15 September 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Salernitana</td><td>Fabrizio Castori</td><td>17 October 2021</td><td>20th</td><td>Stefano Colantuono</td><td>17 October 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Genoa</td><td>Davide Ballardini</td><td>6 November 2021</td><td>17th</td><td>Andriy Shevchenko</td><td>7 November 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Udinese</td><td>Luca Gotti</td><td>7 December 2021</td><td>14th</td><td>Gabriele Cioffi (caretaker)</td><td>7 December 2021</td></tr><tr><td>Genoa</td><td>Andriy Shevchenko</td><td>15 January 2022</td><td>19th</td><td>Abdoulay Konko (caretaker)</td><td>15 January 2022</td></tr><tr><td>Sampdoria</td><td>Roberto D'Aversa</td><td>17 January 2022</td><td>16th</td><td>Marco Giampaolo</td><td>19 January 2022</td></tr><tr><td>Genoa</td><td>Abdoulay Konko</td><td>End of caretaker spell</td><td>19 January 2022</td><td>19th</td><td>Alexander Blessin</td><td>19 January 2022</td></tr><tr><td>Salernitana</td><td>Stefano Colantuono</td><td>Sacked</td><td>15 February 2022</td><td>20th</td><td>Davide Nicola</td><td>15 February 2022</td></tr><tr><td>Venezia</td><td>Paolo Zanetti</td><td>27 April 2022</td><td>20th</td><td>Andrea Soncin (caretaker)</td><td>27 April 2022</td></tr><tr><td>Cagliari</td><td>Walter Mazzarri</td><td>2 May 2022</td><td>17th</td><td>Alessandro Agostini (caretaker)</td><td>2 May 2022</td></tr></tbody></table>

League table

2021–22 Serie A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Milan (C)	38	26	8	4	69	31	+38	86	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Inter Milan	38	25	9	4	84	32	+52	84
3	Napoli	38	24	7	7	74	31	+43	79
4	Juventus	38	20	10	8	57	37	+20	70
5	Lazio	38	18	10	10	77	58	+19	64	0Qualification for the Europa League group stage
6	Roma	38	18	9	11	59	43	+16	63
7	Fiorentina	38	19	5	14	59	51	+8	62	0Qualification for the Conference League play-off round
8	Atalanta	38	16	11	11	65	48	+17	59
9	Hellas Verona	38	14	11	13	65	59	+6	53
10	Torino	38	13	11	14	46	41	+5	50
11	Sassuolo	38	13	11	14	64	66	−2	50
12	Udinese	38	11	14	13	61	58	+3	47
13	Bologna	38	12	10	16	44	55	−11	46
14	Empoli	38	10	11	17	50	70	−20	41
15	Sampdoria	38	10	6	22	46	63	−17	36
16	Spezia	38	10	6	22	41	71	−30	36
17	Salernitana	38	7	10	21	33	78	−45	31
18	Cagliari (R)	38	6	12	20	34	68	−34	30	Relegation to Serie B
19	Genoa (R)	38	4	16	18	27	60	−33	28
20	Venezia (R)	38	6	9	23	34	69	−35	27

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ciro Immobile	Lazio	27
2	Dušan Vlahović	Fiorentina/Juventus1	24
3	Lautaro Martínez	Inter Milan	21
4	Tammy Abraham	Roma	17
Giovanni Simeone	Hellas Verona
6	Gianluca Scamacca	Sassuolo	16
7	Domenico Berardi	Sassuolo	15
8	Marko Arnautović	Bologna	14
Victor Osimhen	Napoli
10	Gerard Deulofeu	Udinese	13
Edin Džeko	Inter Milan
Mario Pašalić	Atalanta
João Pedro	Cagliari
Andrea Pinamonti	Empoli

1 Vlahović played for Fiorentina until matchday 23 and scored 17 goals.

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Ciro Immobile	Lazio	Spezia	6–1 (H)	28 August 2021
Giovanni Simeone4	Hellas Verona	Lazio	4–1 (H)	24 October 2021
Dušan Vlahović	Fiorentina	Spezia	3–0 (H)	31 October 2021
Mario Pašalić	Atalanta	Venezia	4–0 (H)	30 November 2021
Antonín Barák	Hellas Verona	Sassuolo	4–2 (A)	16 January 2022
Giovanni Simeone	Hellas Verona	Venezia	3–1 (H)	27 February 2022
Lautaro Martínez	Inter Milan	Salernitana	5–0 (H)	4 March 2022
Beto	Udinese	Cagliari	5–1 (H)	3 April 2022
Ciro Immobile	Lazio	Genoa	4–1 (A)	10 April 2022
Andrea Belotti	Torino	Empoli	3–1 (A)	1 May 2022

4 Player scored 4 goals (H) – Home team (A) – Away team

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Mike Maignan	AC Milan	17
2	Samir Handanović	Inter Milan	15
Rui Patrício	Roma
4	David Ospina	Napoli	13
5	Łukasz Skorupski	Bologna	12
Wojciech Szczęsny	Juventus
7	Salvatore Sirigu	Genoa	10
8	Pietro Terracciano	Fiorentina	9
9	Juan Musso	Atalanta	8
10	Ivan Provedel	Spezia	7
Marco Silvestri	Udinese
Thomas Strakosha	Lazio
Guglielmo Vicario	Empoli

Player

• Most yellow cards: 14 • Maxime Lopez (Sassuolo) • Gianluca Mancini (Roma)

• Most red cards: 2 • Kelvin Amian (Spezia) • Ethan Ampadu (Venezia) • Théo Hernandez (AC Milan) • Leo Skiri Østigård (Genoa) • Roberto Soriano (Bologna) • Adama Soumaoro (Bologna) • Nicolò Zaniolo (Roma)

Team

• Most yellow cards: 106 • Venezia • Most red cards: 9 • Venezia • Fewest yellow cards: 63 • Napoli • Fewest red cards: 1 • Inter Milan • Juventus

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month	Coach of the Month	Goal of the Month
Player	Club	Coach	Club	Player	Club
September	Kalidou Koulibaly	Napoli	Luciano Spalletti	Napoli	Lorenzo Pellegrini	Roma
October	Giovanni Simeone	Hellas Verona	Stefano Pioli	Milan	Antonio Candreva	Sampdoria
November	Hakan Çalhanoğlu	Inter Milan	Gian Piero Gasperini	Atalanta	Keita Baldé	Cagliari
December	Dušan Vlahović	Fiorentina	Simone Inzaghi	Inter Milan	Juan Cuadrado	Juventus
January	Giacomo Raspadori	Sassuolo	Thiago Motta	Spezia	Lorenzo Pellegrini	Roma
February	Ruslan Malinovskyi	Atalanta	Luciano Spalletti	Napoli	Ruslan Malinovskyi	Atalanta
March	Victor Osimhen	Napoli	Stefano Pioli	Milan	Lorenzo Pellegrini	Roma
April	Marcelo Brozović	Inter Milan	Siniša Mihajlović	Bologna	Ivan Perišić	Inter Milan
May	Sandro Tonali	AC Milan	Stefano Pioli	AC Milan	Théo Hernandez	AC Milan

Seasonal awards

Award	Winner	Club	Ref.
Most Valuable Player	Rafael Leão	AC Milan
Best Under-23	Victor Osimhen	Napoli
Best Goalkeeper	Mike Maignan	AC Milan
Best Defender	Bremer	Torino
Best Midfielder	Marcelo Brozović	Inter Milan
Best Striker	Ciro Immobile	Lazio
Coach of the Season	Stefano Pioli	AC Milan
Goal of the Season	Théo Hernandez	AC Milan

Team of the Year
Goalkeeper	Mike Maignan (AC Milan)
Defence	Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli)	Bremer (Torino)	Fikayo Tomori (AC Milan)	Théo Hernandez (AC Milan)
Midfield	Marcelo Brozović (Inter Milan)	Nicolò Barella (Inter Milan)	Sergej Milinković-Savić (Lazio)
Attack	Ciro Immobile (Lazio)	Dušan Vlahović (Fiorentina/Juventus)	Rafael Leão (AC Milan)