2020–21 Serie A

Serie A
Season	2020–21
Dates	19 September 2020 – 23 May 2021
Champions	Internazionale; 19th title
Relegated	Benevento; Crotone; Parma
Champions League	Internazionale; Milan; Atalanta; Juventus
Europa League	Napoli; Lazio
Europa Conference League	Roma
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,163 (3.06 per match)
Top goalscorer	Cristiano Ronaldo; (29 goals)
Biggest home win	Napoli 6–0 Genoa; (27 September 2020); Napoli 6–0 Fiorentina; (17 January 2021)
Biggest away win	Torino 0–7 Milan; (12 May 2021)
Highest scoring	Internazionale 6–2 Crotone; (3 January 2021); Lazio 5–3 Benevento; (18 April 2021)
Longest winning run	Internazionale; (11 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Internazionale; (20 matches)
Longest winless run	Parma; (17 matches)
Longest losing run	Parma; (9 matches)
	← 2019–20 2021–22 →

Following Atalanta's draw with Sassuolo on 2 May 2021, Internazionale were confirmed as champions for the first time since the 2009–10 Serie A, ending Juventus' run of nine consecutive titles.

Teams

Twenty teams competed in the league—the top seventeen teams from the previous season and three teams promoted from Serie B. Benevento (on 29 June 2020) and Crotone (on 24 July 2020) were the two teams directly promoted from Serie B, both after a two-year absence. On 20 August 2020, Spezia won the play-offs to earn its first promotion to Serie A; they became the 66th team to participate in the Italian top-level league.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

A day following the Napoli–Genoa match on 27 September 2020, Genoa announced that fourteen of their players tested positive for COVID-19. The Genoa–Torino match scheduled for 3 October was thereby postponed.

On 3 October, two Napoli players, Piotr Zieliński and Eljif Elmas, tested positive for COVID-19, and after the denial of the authorization to leave Naples by the Local Health Authority (ASL), Napoli blocked their players' departure for the match in Turin against Juventus. The Lega Serie A decided not to postpone the match scheduled for 4 October 2020. On the day of the game, Juventus took the field, in the absence their opponents who were in a state of quarantine in Naples. On 14 October, Juventus were awarded a 3–0 victory by default, and Napoli docked one point as the Disciplinary Commission ruled Napoli did not follow the COVID-19 pandemic protocol. Following a successful appeal by Napoli to the CONI Sports Guarantee Board, these penalties were overturned on 22 December. The match was eventually recovered on 7 April 2021, more than six months after its originally scheduled date.

Team changes

Promoted from 2019–20 Serie B	Relegated from 2019–20 Serie A
Benevento	Lecce
Crotone	Brescia
Spezia	SPAL

Stadiums and locations

Locations of the 2020–21 Serie A teams

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Atalanta	Bergamo	Gewiss Stadium	25,000
Benevento	Benevento	Stadio Ciro Vigorito	16,867
Bologna	Bologna	Stadio Renato Dall'Ara	36,462
Cagliari	Cagliari	Sardegna Arena	16,416
Crotone	Crotone	Stadio Ezio Scida	16,640
Fiorentina	Florence	Stadio Artemio Franchi	45,000
Genoa	Genoa	Stadio Luigi Ferraris	36,600
Hellas Verona	Verona	Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi	39,371
Internazionale	Milan	San Siro	75,923
Juventus	Turin	Allianz Stadium	41,507
Lazio	Rome	Stadio Olimpico	70,634
Milan	Milan	San Siro	75,923
Napoli	Naples	Stadio San Paolo	54,726
Parma	Parma	Stadio Ennio Tardini	27,906
Roma	Rome	Stadio Olimpico	70,634
Sampdoria	Genoa	Stadio Luigi Ferraris	36,599
Sassuolo	Sassuolo	Mapei Stadium	23,717
Spezia	La Spezia	Stadio Alberto Picco	10,336
Torino	Turin	Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino	27,958
Udinese	Udine	Stadio Friuli	25,144

Number of teams by region

No. of teams	Region	Team(s)
3	Emilia-Romagna	Bologna, Parma and Sassuolo
	Liguria	Genoa, Sampdoria and Spezia
	Lombardy	Atalanta, Inter and AC Milan
2	Campania	Benevento and Napoli
	Lazio	Lazio and Roma
	Piedmont	Juventus and Torino
1	Calabria	Crotone
	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Udinese
	Sardinia	Cagliari
	Tuscany	Fiorentina
	Veneto	Verona

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor (front)	Shirt sponsor (back)	Shirt sponsor (sleeve)
Atalanta	Gian Piero Gasperini	Rafael Toloi	Joma	Plus500, Radici Group	Gewiss	Automha
Benevento	Filippo Inzaghi	Nicolas Viola	Kappa	IVPC, Rillo Costruzioni	Pastificio Rummo	Don Peppe
Bologna	Siniša Mihajlović	Andrea Poli	Macron	Facile Ristrutturare, Selenella	Illumia	Scala
Cagliari	Leonardo Semplici	João Pedro	Adidas	ISOLA Artigianato di Sardegna, Ichnusa	Tiscali	Arborea
Crotone	Serse Cosmi	Alex Cordaz	Zeus	San Vincenzo Salumi, Envì Group	Biemme Finestre	Ford Vumbaca Group
Fiorentina	Giuseppe Iachini	Germán Pezzella	Kappa	Mediacom	Prima.it	Estra
Genoa	Davide Ballardini	Domenico Criscito	Kappa	Banca Sistema	Leaseplan	Synlab Group
Hellas Verona	Ivan Jurić	Miguel Veloso	Macron	Gruppo Sinergy, Winelivery	Scaligera Arredamenti/SEC/Manila Grace/VetroCar	Mercedes-Benz Trivellato Industriali
Internazionale	Antonio Conte	Samir Handanović	Nike	Pirelli	Driver	None
Juventus	Andrea Pirlo	Giorgio Chiellini	Adidas	Jeep	Cygames	None
Lazio	Simone Inzaghi	Senad Lulić	Macron	World Food Programme/Contrader/Clinica Paideia	Contrader	Frecciarossa
Milan	Stefano Pioli	Alessio Romagnoli	Puma	Emirates	None	None
Napoli	Gennaro Gattuso	Lorenzo Insigne	Kappa	Lete, MSC Cruises	Kimbo Caffè	None
Parma	Roberto D'Aversa	Bruno Alves	Erreà	Cetilar, Old Wild West	Viva la Mamma Beretta	Canovi Coperture
Roma	Paulo Fonseca	Lorenzo Pellegrini	Nike	Qatar Airways	Hyundai	Iqoniq
Sampdoria	Claudio Ranieri	Fabio Quagliarella	Macron	Very Mobile	IBSA Group	None
Sassuolo	Roberto De Zerbi	Francesco Magnanelli	Puma	Mapei	None	None
Spezia	Vincenzo Italiano	Claudio Terzi	Acerbis	TEN Food & Beverage	Pediatrica	Iozzelli Piscine
Torino	Davide Nicola	Andrea Belotti	Joma	Suzuki, Frattelli Beretta	EdiliziAcrobatica	N° 38 Wüber
Udinese	Luca Gotti	Rodrigo De Paul	Macron	Dacia, Vortice	Bluenergy	Prosciutto di San Daniele

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Cagliari	Walter Zenga	End of contract	2 August 2020	Pre-season	Eusebio Di Francesco	3 August 2020
Torino	Moreno Longo	End of contract	2 August 2020		Marco Giampaolo	7 August 2020
Juventus	Maurizio Sarri	Sacked	8 August 2020		Andrea Pirlo	8 August 2020
Parma	Roberto D'Aversa		23 August 2020		Fabio Liverani	28 August 2020
Genoa	Davide Nicola		26 August 2020		Rolando Maran	26 August 2020
Fiorentina	Giuseppe Iachini		9 November 2020	12th	Cesare Prandelli	9 November 2020
Genoa	Rolando Maran		21 December 2020	19th	Davide Ballardini	21 December 2020
Parma	Fabio Liverani		7 January 2021	18th	Roberto D'Aversa	7 January 2021
Torino	Marco Giampaolo		18 January 2021	18th	Davide Nicola	19 January 2021
Cagliari	Eusebio Di Francesco		22 February 2021	18th	Leonardo Semplici	22 February 2021
Crotone	Giovanni Stroppa		1 March 2021	20th	Serse Cosmi	1 March 2021
Fiorentina	Cesare Prandelli	Resigned	23 March 2021	14th	Giuseppe Iachini	24 March 2021

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Internazionale (C)	38	28	7	3	89	35	+54	91	Qualification for Champions League group stage
2	Milan	38	24	7	7	74	41	+33	79
3	Atalanta	38	23	9	6	90	47	+43	78
4	Juventus	38	23	9	6	77	38	+39	78
5	Napoli	38	24	5	9	86	41	+45	77	0Qualification for Europa League group stage
6	Lazio	38	21	5	12	61	55	+6	68	0Qualification for Europa League group stage
7	Roma	38	18	8	12	68	58	+10	62	0Qualification for Conference League play-off round
8	Sassuolo	38	17	11	10	64	56	+8	62
9	Sampdoria	38	15	7	16	52	54	−2	52
10	Hellas Verona	38	11	12	15	46	48	−2	45
11	Genoa	38	10	12	16	47	58	−11	42
12	Bologna	38	10	11	17	51	65	−14	41
13	Fiorentina	38	9	13	16	47	59	−12	40
14	Udinese	38	10	10	18	42	58	−16	40
15	Spezia	38	9	12	17	52	72	−20	39
16	Cagliari	38	9	10	19	43	59	−16	37
17	Torino	38	7	16	15	50	69	−19	37
18	Benevento (R)	38	7	12	19	40	75	−35	33	Relegation to Serie B
19	Crotone (R)	38	6	5	27	45	92	−47	23
20	Parma (R)	38	3	11	24	39	83	−44	20

Source: Serie A, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw. (Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played)
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Home \ Away	ATA	BEN	BOL	CAG	CRO	FIO	GEN	HEL	INT	JUV	LAZ	MIL	NAP	PAR	ROM	SAM	SAS	SPE	TOR	UDI
Atalanta	—	2–0	5–0	5–2	5–1	3–0	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–3	0–2	4–2	3–0	4–1	1–3	5–1	3–1	3–3	3–2
Benevento	1–4	—	1–0	1–3	1–1	1–4	2–0	0–3	2–5	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–2	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–3	2–2	2–4
Bologna	2–2	1–1	—	3–2	1–0	3–3	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–4	2–0	1–2	0–1	4–1	1–5	3–1	3–4	4–1	1–1	2–2
Cagliari	0–1	1–2	1–0	—	4–2	0–0	0–1	0–2	1–3	1–3	0–2	0–2	1–4	4–3	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	1–1
Crotone	1–2	4–1	2–3	0–2	—	0–0	0–3	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–4	2–1	1–3	0–1	1–2	4–1	4–2	1–2
Fiorentina	2–3	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	—	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	2–3	0–2	3–3	1–2	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	3–2
Genoa	3–4	2–2	2–0	1–0	4–1	1–1	—	2–2	0–2	1–3	1–1	2–2	2–1	1–2	1–3	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–2	1–1
Hellas Verona	0–2	3–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–0	—	1–2	1–1	0–1	0–2	3–1	2–1	3–0	1–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0
Internazionale	1–0	4–0	3–1	1–0	6–2	4–3	3–0	1–0	—	2–0	3–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	3–1	5–1	2–1	2–1	4–2	5–1
Juventus	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	0–3	3–1	1–1	3–2	—	3–1	0–3	2–1	3–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	3–0	2–1	4–1
Lazio	1–4	5–3	2–1	1–0	3–2	2–1	4–3	1–2	1–1	1–1	—	3–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–3
Milan	0–3	2–0	2–0	0–0	4–0	2–0	2–1	2–2	0–3	1–3	3–2	—	0–1	2–2	3–3	1–1	1–2	3–0	2–0	1–1
Napoli	4–1	2–0	3–1	1–1	4–3	6–0	6–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	5–2	1–3	—	2–0	4–0	2–1	0–2	1–2	1–1	5–1
Parma	2–5	0–0	0–3	0–0	3–4	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–2	0–4	0–2	1–3	0–2	—	2–0	0–2	1–3	2–2	0–3	2–2
Roma	1–1	5–2	1–0	3–2	5–0	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–2	2–2	2–0	1–2	0–2	3–0	—	1–0	0–0	4–3	3–1	3–0
Sampdoria	0–2	2–3	1–2	2–2	3–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	0–2	3–0	1–2	0–2	3–0	2–0	—	2–3	2–2	1–0	2–1
Sassuolo	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	4–1	3–1	2–1	3–2	0–3	1–3	2–0	1–2	3–3	1–1	2–2	1–0	—	1–2	3–3	0–0
Spezia	0–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	3–2	2–2	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–4	1–2	2–0	1–4	2–2	2–2	2–1	1–4	—	4–1	0–1
Torino	2–4	1–1	1–1	2–3	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–2	2–2	3–4	0–7	0–2	1–0	3–1	2–2	3–2	0–0	—	2–3
Udinese	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–2	3–2	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–2	0–1	—

Award	Winner	Club
Most Valuable Player	Romelu Lukaku	Internazionale
Best Young Player	Dušan Vlahović	Fiorentina
Best Goalkeeper	Gianluigi Donnarumma	Milan
Best Defender	Cristian Romero	Atalanta
Best Midfielder	Nicolò Barella	Internazionale
Best Striker	Cristiano Ronaldo	Juventus

Team of the Year
Goalkeeper	Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan)
Defence	Achraf Hakimi (Internazionale)	Stefan de Vrij (Internazionale)		Alessandro Bastoni (Internazionale)		Théo Hernandez (Milan)
Midfield	Nicolò Barella (Internazionale)		Franck Kessié (Milan)		Federico Chiesa (Juventus)
Attack	Luis Muriel (Atalanta)		Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus)		Romelu Lukaku (Internazionale)

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Henrikh Mkhitaryan	Roma	Genoa	3–1 (A) Archived 27 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine	8 November 2020
Lautaro Martínez	Internazionale	Crotone	6–2 (H) Archived 10 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine	3 January 2021
Dušan Vlahović	Fiorentina	Benevento	4–1 (A) Archived 16 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine	13 March 2021
Cristiano Ronaldo	Juventus	Cagliari	3–1 (A) Archived 16 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine	14 March 2021
Rodrigo Palacio	Bologna	Fiorentina	3–3 (H) Archived 27 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine	2 May 2021
Ante Rebić	Milan	Torino	7–0 (A)	12 May 2021

2020–21 Serie A

Teams

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Team changes

Stadiums and locations

Number of teams by region

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Players' awards

Most valuable player of the Month

Seasonal awards

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

Discipline

Player

Team

Notes

Footnotes

References

External links

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Month	Player	Club
September	Alejandro Gómez	Atalanta
October	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Milan
November	Cristiano Ronaldo	Juventus
December	Hakan Çalhanoğlu	Milan
January	Sergej Milinković-Savić	Lazio
February	Romelu Lukaku	Internazionale
March	Lorenzo Insigne	Napoli
April	Luis Muriel	Atalanta
May	Ruslan Malinovskyi	Atalanta