2020–21 SPAL season

SPAL
2020–21 season
Chairman	Walter Mattioli
Head coach	Pasquale Marino
Stadium	Stadio Paolo Mazza
Serie B	9th
Coppa Italia	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: ; Mattia Valoti (11); All: ; Mattia Valoti (11)
	← 2019–20 2021–22 →
	All statistics correct as of 10 May 2021.

The 2020–21 Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor season was the club's 114th season in existence and the club's first season back in the second division of Italian football. In addition to the domestic league, SPAL participated in this season's edition of the Coppa Italia. The season covers the period from 3 August 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Players

First-team squad

As of 5 October 2020^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ALB	Etrit Berisha
3	DF	ITA	Luca Ranieri (on loan from Fiorentina)
4	DF	SRB	Nenad Tomović
5	DF	POL	Bartosz Salamon
6	MF	ITA	Salvatore Esposito
7	MF	ITA	Simone Missiroli
8	MF	ITA	Mattia Valoti
9	FW	ITA	Alberto Paloschi (vice-captain)
10	FW	ITA	Sergio Floccari (captain)
11	MF	ITA	Alessandro Murgia
12	GK	ITA	Cesare Galeotti
13	MF	EST	Georgi Tunjov
14	FW	ITA	Federico Di Francesco (on loan from Sassuolo)
15	MF	ITA	Federico Zanchetta
17	MF	ITA	Leonardo Sernicola (on loan from Sassuolo)
19	MF	ARG	Lucas Castro
20	DF	ITA	Caleb Okoli (on loan from Atalanta)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	FW	ITA	Sebastiano Esposito (on loan from Internazionale)
22	GK	SEN	Demba Thiam
23	DF	ITA	Francesco Vicari (third captain)
24	MF	ITA	Federico Viviani
25	DF	ITA	Riccardo Spaltro
27	MF	BRA	Gabriel Strefezza
32	DF	ITA	Marco Sala (on loan from Sassuolo)
41	DF	ITA	Lorenzo Dickmann
77	MF	ITA	Marco D'Alessandro
80	FW	SEN	Demba Seck
89	DF	POL	Jakub Iskra
90	FW	ITA	Luca Moro
94	FW	BOL	Jaume Cuéllar
95	FW	MNE	Marko Janković
97	GK	SEN	Maurice Gomis
98	DF	ITA	Riccardo Mastrilli
99	FW	ITA	Enrico Brignola (on loan from Sassuolo)

Out on loan

As of 5 October 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	GK	ITA	Marco Meneghetti (at Südtirol until 30 June 2021)
—	DF	ITA	Kevin Bonifazi (at Udinese until 30 June 2021)
—	DF	BRA	Igor Julio (at Fiorentina until 30 June 2021, obligation to buy)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	ITA	Paolo Cannistrà (at Cavese until 30 June 2021)
—	MF	ITA	Davide Mazzocco (at Virtus Entella until 30 June 2021)

Transfers

Pre-season and friendlies

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

19 September 2020 Friendly	Udinese	0–1	SPAL	Premariacco, Italy
14:30 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Centro Sportivo Premariacco Attendance: 0

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Serie B	25 September 2020	10 May 2021	Matchday 1	9th	38	14	14	10	44	42	+2	036.84
Coppa Italia	30 September 2020	27 January 2021	Second round	Quarter-finals	5	2	2	1	5	4	+1	040.00
Total					43	16	16	11	49	46	+3	037.21

Source: Soccerway

Serie B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
7	Brescia	38	15	11	12	61	53	+8	56^[a]	Qualification for promotion play-offs preliminary round
8	Chievo (R, D, R, R)	38	14	14	10	50	37	+13	56^[a]	Bankruptcy
9	SPAL	38	14	14	10	44	42	+2	56^[a]
10	Frosinone	38	12	14	12	38	42	−4	50^[b]
11	Reggina	38	12	14	12	42	45	−3	50^[b]

Source: Lega Serie B (in Italian), Soccerway (in English)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw.^[2]
(D) Disqualified; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c Head-to-head points: Brescia 9, Chievo 5, SPAL 2.
^ ^a ^b Frosinone finished ahead of Reggina on head-to-head points: Frosinone 1–1 Reggina, Reggina 0–4 Frosinone.

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	14	14	10	44	42	+2	56	8	6	5	25	19	+6	6	8	5	19	23	−4

Source: Serie B

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	D	D	D	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	D	W	L	L	W	W	D	D	D	L	D	D	L	D	W	D	L	W	D	D	W	L	L	L	W	W
Position	16	12	12	14	8	7	6	4	4	2	3	4	5	4	5	5	5	3	5	6	6	6	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	6	6	6	6	7	9	9	9

Source: Serie B
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 9 September 2020.^[3]

25 September 2020 1	Monza	0–0	SPAL	Monza
16:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Marić 37' Gytkjaer 82'	Report	Valoti 52' D'Alessandro 58' Salamon 67' Gabriel Espeto 69' Sernicola 75'	Stadium: Stadio Brianteo Attendance: 956 Referee: Daniele Orsato

3 October 2020 2	SPAL	1–1	Cosenza	Ferrara
16:15 CEST (UTC+2)	Sebastiano Esposito 43' Salamon 48' Valoti 85' Gabriel Espeto 88'	Report	Báez 16' Sciaudone 37' Legittimo 43' Corsi 62' Sacko 65' Bittante 74' Idda 74' Tiritiello 90+4'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Ivan Robilotta

17 October 2020 3	Pordenone	3–3	SPAL	Lignano Sabbiadoro
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Diaw 5' 90' (pen.) Barison 18' Magnino 81' Falasco 90+4'	Report	Castro 29' D'Alessandro 32' Gabriel Espeto 46' 54' Paloschi 52' 55' Salamon 68' Dickmann 88' 90+2'	Stadium: Stadio Guido Teghil Attendance: 459 Referee: Juan Luca Sacchi

20 October 2020 4	Empoli	2–1	SPAL	Empoli
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Bandinelli 36' Bajrami 63' Mancuso 82'	Report	Esposito 33'	Stadium: Stadio Carlo Castellani Attendance: 580 Referee: Fabrizio Pasqua

24 October 2020 5	SPAL	3–2	Vicenza	Ferrara
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Murgia 38' 66' Valoti 60' Sala 74' Di Francesco 76' Castro 90+3' (pen.)	Report	Dalmonte 21' Beruatto 36' Meggiorini 51' Longo 77' Cinelli 90+2'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Marco Serra

1 November 2020 6	Reggina	0–1	SPAL	Reggio Calabria
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Loiacono 12' Ménez 23' Bellomo 33' Di Chiara 66'	Report	Castro 31' 90+2' Valoti 37' Tomović 60' Salvatore Esposito 69' Sala 89'	Stadium: Stadio Oreste Granillo Attendance: 0 Referee: Giovanni Ayroldi

6 November 2020 7	SPAL	2–0	Salernitana	Ferrara
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Valoti 6' Dickmann 36' Di Francesco 41' Missiroli 60' Tomović 81' Ranieri 90+3'	Report	Di Tacchio 3' Dziczek 50' Aya 59' Giannetti 83' Tutino 90+2' Casasola 90+3'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 0 Referee: Ivano Pezzuto

21 November 2020 8	SPAL	2–0	Pescara	Ferrara
14:00 CET (UTC+1)	Salamon 28' Valoti 30' Salvatore Esposito 60' Okoli 73' Sebastiano Esposito 90+4', 90+5'	Report	Balzano 39' Busellato 71'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 0 Referee: Luca Massimi

30 November 2020 9	Virtus Entella	0–1	SPAL	Chiavari
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Mazzocco 5' Toscano 44' Settembrini 75'	Report	Tomović 25' Di Francesco 59' Paloschi 78' Floccari 86'	Stadium: Stadio Comunale Attendance: 0 Referee: Matteo Marchetti

5 December 2020 10	SPAL	4–0	Pisa	Ferrara
14:00 CET (UTC+1)	Paloschi 14' 17' Tomović 54' Di Francesco 59' 67'	Report	Marin 43' Lisi 62' Caracciolo 64'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 0 Referee: Riccardo Ros

12 December 2020 11	Cittadella	2–0	SPAL	Cittadella
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Branca 40' Proia 66' Rosafio 87' Gargiulo 88'	Report	Valoti 59'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato Attendance: 0 Referee: Giacomo Camplone

15 December 2020 12	SPAL	0–0	Chievo	Ferrara
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Gabriel Espeto 9' 42' Tomović 32'	Report	Obi 5' Canotto 61'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 0 Referee: Marco Guida

19 December 2020 13	Venezia	0–0	SPAL	Venice
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Fiordilino 17' Capello 37' Bocalon 64' Svoboda 66' Forte 90+3'	Report	Vicari 67' Fornicola 68' Salvatore Esposito 90'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Attendance: 0 Referee: Marco Serra

22 December 2020 14	SPAL	1–0	Lecce	Ferrara
19:00 CET (UTC+1)	Tomović 40' Valoti 43' Espeto 79'	Report	Coda 46' Lucioni 90'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 0 Referee: Daniele Doveri

27 December 2020 15	Ascoli	2–0	SPAL	Ascoli Piceno
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Sabiri 28', 75' Büchel 63' Pucino 84' Eramo 88'	Report	Valoti 25' Esposito 69' Thiam 76'	Stadium: Stadio Cino e Lillo Del Duca Attendance: 0 Referee: Rosario Abisso

30 December 2020 16	SPAL	2–3	Brescia	Ferrara
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Valoti 7', 57' Vicari 48' Ranieri 90+3'	Report	Jagiełło 56' Łabojko 61' Donnarumma 70' (pen.) Bjarnason 87' Ghezzi 90+2'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 0 Referee: Federico Dionisi

4 January 2021 17	Frosinone	1–2	SPAL	Frosinone
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Kastanos 25', 90'	Report	Esposito 40' Tomović 52' Paloschi 86'	Stadium: Stadio Benito Stirpe Attendance: 0 Referee: Simone Sozza

18 January 2021 18	SPAL	2–0	Reggiana	Ferrara
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Valoti 38' Flocarri 57' D'Alessandro 80'	Report	Lunetta 44' Martinelli 49' Kargbo 82'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 0 Referee: Antonio Giua

24 January 2021 19	Cremonese	1–1	SPAL	Cremona
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Castagnetti 10' Bartolomei 60' Ciofani 85' Terranova 90'	Report	Paloschi 63' Tomović 76'	Stadium: Stadio Giovanni Zini Attendance: 0 Referee: Ivan Robilotta

30 January 2021 20	SPAL	1–1	Monza	Ferrara
16:00 CET (UTC+1)	Valoti 30', 31' Mora 41' Vicari 55' Sala 77' Missiroli 87'	Report	Gytkjær 13', 34' Barillà 41' Bellusci 47' Ricci 85'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 0 Referee: Livio Marinelli

6 February 2021 21	Cosenza	1–1	SPAL	Cosenza
14:00 CET (UTC+1)	Gerbo 10' Sciaudone 25'	Report	Valoti 30' Mora 57' Okoli 79'	Stadium: Stadio San Vito-Gigi Marulla Attendance: 0 Referee: Euguenio Abbattista

9 February 2021 22	SPAL	1–3	Pordenone	Ferrara
19:00 CET (UTC+1)	Segre 31' Paloschi 41' Tomović 44' Valoti 83'	Report	Butić 32', 65' Ciurria 56' Biondi 78' Zammarini 90+1'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 0 Referee: Marco Di Bello

13 February 2021 23	SPAL	1–1	Empoli	Ferrara
16:00 CET (UTC+1)	Gabriel Espeto 19' Paloschi 43' Esposito 78' (pen.)	Report	Parisi 23' Mancuso 27'	Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 0 Referee: Maurizio Mariani

20 February 2021 24	Vicenza	2–2	SPAL	Vicenza
14:00 CET (UTC+1)	Vandeputte 34' Padella 40' Pontisso 64' Pasini 70' Giacomelli 71' Meggiorini 75' Beruatto 90+3'	Report	Paloschi 28' Valoti 42' (pen.) Ranieri 53' Vicari 57' Tomović 90+3'	Stadium: Stadio Romeo Menti Attendance: 0 Referee: Matteo Gariglio

27 February 2021 25	SPAL	1–4	Reggina	Ferrara
14:00 CET (UTC+1)		Report		Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Attendance: 0 Referee: Alessandro Prontera

2 March 2021 26	Salernitana	0–0	SPAL	Salerno
19:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Stadio Arechi

6 March 2021 27	Pescara	0–1	SPAL	Pescara
14:00 CET (UTC+1)			Valoti 9' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Adriatico Referee: Federico La Penna

12 March 2021 28	SPAL	0–0	Virtus Entella	Ferrara
21:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza

15 March 2021 29	Pisa	3–0	SPAL	Pisa
21:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Arena Garibaldi

20 March 2021 30	SPAL	1–0	Cittadella	Ferrara
18:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza

2 April 2021 31	Chievo	1–1	SPAL	Verona
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi

5 April 2021 32	SPAL	1–1	Venezia	Ferrara
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza

10 April 2021 33	Lecce	1–2	SPAL	Lecce
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Stadio Via del Mare

16 April 2021 34	SPAL	1–2	Ascoli	Ferrara
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza

1 May 2021 35	Brescia	3–1	SPAL	Brescia
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Stadio Mario Rigamonti

4 May 2021 36	SPAL	0–1	Frosinone	Ferrara
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza

7 May 2021 37	Reggiana	1–2	SPAL	Reggio Emilia
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore

10 May 2021 38	SPAL	1–0	Cremonese	Ferrara
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza

Coppa Italia

30 September 2020 Second round	SPAL	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p)	Bari	Ferrara
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report		Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Referee: Simone Sozza
	Penalties
	Sa. Esposito Janković Floccari Se. Esposito Tomović		Antenucci Marras Candellone Minelli

28 October 2020 Third round	Crotone	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p)	SPAL	Crotone
17:00 CET (UTC+1)	Cigarini 107' (pen.) Eduardo 118'	Report	Okoli 72' Sa. Esposito 80' Ranieri 103' Seck 113'	Stadium: Stadio Ezio Scida Referee: Matteo Marchetti
	Penalties
	Siligardi Crociata Molina Golemić Cigarini		Sa. Esposito Missiroli Sala Se. Esposito Ranieri

24 November 2020 Fourth round	SPAL	2–0	Monza	Ferrara
14:30 CET (UTC+1)	Paloschi 62' (pen.) Brignola 75'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Paolo Mazza Referee: Marco Piccinini

14 January 2021 Round of 16	Sassuolo	0–2	SPAL	Reggio Emilia
17:30 CET (UTC+1)	Đuričić 47' Müldür 66'	Report	Missiroli 49' Dickmann 58'	Stadium: Mapei Stadium Referee: Giacomo Camplone

27 January 2021 Quarter-finals	Juventus	4–0	SPAL	Turin
20:45 CET (UTC+1)	Morata 16' (pen.) Frabotta 33' Kulusevski 78' Chiesa 81', 90+4' Rabiot 85'	Report	Sernicola 50' Valoti 80'	Stadium: Juventus Stadium Referee: Ivano Pezzuto

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Serie A		Coppa Italia
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	ALB	Etrit Berisha	27	0	25	0	2	0
12	GK	ITA	Cesare Galeotti	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	GK	SEN	Demba Thiam	16	0	13	0	3	0
97	GK	SEN	Maurice Gomis	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
3	DF	ITA	Luca Ranieri	30	0	23+3	0	3+1	0
4	DF	SRB	Nenad Tomović	38	1	30+4	1	0+4	0
5	DF	POL	Bartosz Salamon	14	2	9+4	2	1	0
20	DF	ITA	Caleb Okoli	19	1	16	1	3	0
23	DF	ITA	Francesco Vicari	27	0	25	0	2	0
25	DF	ITA	Riccardo Spaltro	6	0	0+2	0	4	0
32	DF	ITA	Marco Sala	32	0	18+9	0	2+3	0
41	DF	ITA	Lorenzo Dickmann	35	1	21+10	0	2+2	1
89	DF	POL	Jakub Iskra	0	0	0	0	0	0
98	DF	ITA	Riccardo Mastrilli	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
6	MF	ITA	Salvatore Esposito	34	5	26+5	5	3	0
7	MF	ITA	Simone Missiroli	36	1	20+11	0	4+1	1
8	MF	ITA	Mattia Valoti	31	11	27+2	11	0+2	0
11	MF	ITA	Alessandro Murgia	27	1	8+15	1	4	0
13	MF	EST	Georgi Tunjov	1	0	0	0	1	0
15	MF	ITA	Federico Zanchetta	1	0	0	0	0+1	0
17	MF	ITA	Leonardo Sernicola	34	0	21+8	0	5	0
19	MF	ITA	Luca Mora	17	1	14+3	1	0	0
24	MF	ITA	Federico Viviani	5	0	3	0	2	0
27	MF	BRA	Espeto	31	4	19+10	4	1+1	0
77	MF	ITA	Marco D'Alessandro	13	1	9+3	1	1	0
Forwards
9	FW	ITA	Alberto Paloschi	28	8	20+6	7	1+1	1
10	FW	ITA	Sergio Floccari	26	1	10+13	1	2+1	0
14	FW	ITA	Federico Di Francesco	28	4	18+9	4	1	0
21	FW	ITA	Sebastiano Esposito	13	1	5+5	1	2+1	0
29	FW	ESP	Raúl Asencio	13	0	8+5	0	0	0
80	FW	SEN	Andrea Petagna	11	1	2+5	0	1+3	1
90	FW	ITA	Luca Moro	10	0	1+7	0	1+1	0
93	FW	ITA	Marco Tumminello	5	0	0+5	0	0	0
94	FW	BOL	Jaume Cuéllar	0	0	0	0	0	0
95	FW	MNE	Marko Janković	3	0	1+1	0	0+1	0
99	FW	ITA	Enrico Brignola	13	1	1+8	0	4	1
Players transferred out during the season
5	DF	ITA	Jacopo Segre	18	0	11+7	0	0	0
19	MF	ARG	Lucas Castro	13	3	9+2	3	2	0

Last updated: 10 May 2021
Source: Competitions

Goalscorers

References

^ "Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor – Squadra". spalferrara.it. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
^ "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. - Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ "E' nata la Serie BKT 2020/2021" (in Italian). Lega B. 9 September 2020.

External links

Official website

[table_hth_BRE0.58940439465894-2] Head-to-head points: Brescia 9, Chievo 5, SPAL 2.

[table_hth_FRO0.58940439465894-3] Frosinone finished ahead of Reggina on head-to-head points: Frosinone 1–1 Reggina, Reggina 0–4 Frosinone.

[1] "Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor – Squadra". spalferrara.it. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

[4] "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. - Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[5] "E' nata la Serie BKT 2020/2021" (in Italian). Lega B. 9 September 2020.

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