# 2020–21 SS Lazio season

The 2020–21 season was the 120th season in the existence of SS Lazio and the club's 33rd consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football. In addition to the domestic league, Lazio participated in this season's editions of the Coppa Italia and also participated in the UEFA Champions League. The season covered the period from 2 August 2020 to 30 June 2021.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 2 February 2021.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | ALB | Thomas Strakosha |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Luiz Felipe |
| 4 | MF | ESP | Patric |
| 6 | MF | BRA | Lucas Leiva |
| 7 | MF | BRA | Andreas Pereira (on loan from Manchester United) |
| 8 | MF | NED | Djavan Anderson |
| 10 | FW | ESP | Luis Alberto |
| 11 | FW | ARG | Joaquín Correa |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Nicolò Armini |
| 14 | DF | NED | Wesley Hoedt (on loan from Southampton) |
| 16 | MF | ITA | Marco Parolo (vice-captain) |
| 17 | FW | ITA | Ciro Immobile |
| 18 | MF | ARG | Gonzalo Escalante |
| 19 | MF | BIH | Senad Lulić (captain) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | FW | ECU | Felipe Caicedo |
| 21 | MF | SRB | Sergej Milinković-Savić |
| 25 | GK | ESP | Pepe Reina |
| 26 | DF | ROU | Ștefan Radu |
| 29 | MF | ITA | Manuel Lazzari |
| 32 | MF | ITA | Danilo Cataldi |
| 33 | DF | ITA | Francesco Acerbi |
| 37 | DF | ARG | Mateo Musacchio |
| 53 | MF | POL | Szymon Czyż |
| 71 | GK | ALB | Marco Alia |
| 77 | MF | MNE | Adam Marušić |
| 92 | MF | CIV | Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro |
| 94 | FW | KOS | Vedat Muriqi |
| 96 | MF | ALG | Mohamed Farès |

### Other players under contract

    As of 11 February 2021.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 66 | MF | FIN | Abukar Mohamed |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | CMR | Joseph Minala |

### Out on loan

    As of 2 February 2021.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | LTU | Marius Adamonis (at Salernitana until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | GRE | Nikos Baxevanos (at Politehnica Iași until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | ARG | Tiago Casasola (at Salernitana until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | DEN | Riza Durmisi (at Salernitana until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | ALB | Sergio Kalaj (at Grosseto until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | ITA | Luca Falbo (at Viterbese until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | BEL | Jordan Lukaku (at Antwerp until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | POR | Jorge Silva (at Boavista until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | SVK | Denis Vavro (at Huesca until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | ITA | André Anderson (at Salernitana until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | ITA | Emanuele Cicerelli (at Salernitana until 30 June 2021) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | POL | Patryk Dziczek (at Salernitana until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | ESP | Jony (at Osasuna until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | MAR | Sofian Kiyine (at Salernitana until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | ITA | Cristiano Lombardi (at Salernitana until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | ITA | Fabio Maistro (at Pescara until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | ITA | Biagio Morrone (at Foggia until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | NED | Bobby Adekanye (at ADO Den Haag until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | CIV | Cedric Gondo (at Salernitana until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | ITA | Simone Palombi (at Pisa until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | ITA | Alessandro Rossi (at Viterbese until 30 June 2021) |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee | Notes |
| 27 August 2020 | GK | Pepe Reina | 37 | Milan | Free | |
| 1 September 2020 | MF | Gonzalo Escalante | 27 | Free agent | Free | Contract with Eibar expired |
| 15 September 2020 | FW | Vedat Muriqi | 26 | Fenerbahçe | €17,500,000 | |
| 18 September 2020 | MF | Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro | 27 | Salernitana | Undisclosed | |
| 1 October 2020 | MF | Mohamed Farès | 24 | SPAL | €10,000,000 | |
| 27 January 2021 | DF | Mateo Musacchio | 30 | Milan | €1,000,000 | |

#### Loans in

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee | Notes | Source |
| 2 October 2020 | MF | Andreas Pereira | 24 | Manchester United | Loan | Loan with an option to buy | |
| 5 October 2020 | DF | Wesley Hoedt | 26 | Southampton | Loan | Loan with an option to buy | |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes |
| 9 July 2020 | MF | Valon Berisha | 27 | Reims | €5,000,000 | |
| 1 September 2020 | GK | Guido Guerrieri | 24 | Salernitana | Undisclosed | |
| 16 September 2020 | MF | Milan Badelj | 31 | Genoa | Undisclosed | |
| 30 September 2020 | DF | Wallace | 25 | Yeni Malatyaspor | Undisclosed | |
| 22 October 2020 | DF | Bastos | 28 | Al-Ain | €800,000 | |
| 30 January 2021 | DF | Andreas Karo | 24 | Marítimo | Undisclosed | Originally intended as loan, but was then purchased |
| 31 January 2021 | MF | Davide Di Gennaro | 32 | Cesena | Undisclosed | |
| 31 January 2021 | GK | Silvio Proto | 37 | Retired | N/A | Contract terminated |

#### Loans out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes |
| 6 September 2020 | DF | Jorge Silva | 21 | Boavista | N/A | |
| 14 September 2020 | MF | Fabio Maistro | 22 | Pescara | N/A | |
| 18 September 2020 | DF | Tiago Casasola | 25 | Salernitana | N/A | |
| 18 September 2020 | DF | Andreas Karo | 24 | Salernitana | N/A | |
| 18 September 2020 | MF | Cristiano Lombardi | 25 | Salernitana | N/A | |
| 19 September 2020 | FW | Alessandro Rossi | 23 | Viterbese | N/A | |
| 20 September 2020 | MF | Jony | 29 | Osasuna | N/A | Loan with an option to buy |
| 24 September 2020 | FW | Simone Palombi | 24 | Pisa | N/A | |
| 2 October 2020 | DF | Luca Falbo | 20 | Viterbese | N/A | |
| 5 October 2020 | GK | Marius Adamonis | 23 | Salernitana | N/A | |
| 5 October 2020 | FW | André Anderson | 21 | Salernitana | N/A | |
| 5 October 2020 | MF | Patryk Dziczek | 22 | Salernitana | N/A | |
| 5 October 2020 | DF | Jordan Lukaku | 26 | Antwerp | N/A | |
| 5 October 2020 | FW | Bobby Adekanye | 21 | Cádiz | N/A | |
| 22 January 2021 | DF | Riza Durmisi | 27 | Salernitana | N/A | |
| 28 January 2021 | MF | Sofian Kiyine | 23 | Salernitana | N/A | |
| 28 January 2021 | FW | Bobby Adekanye | 21 | ADO Den Haag | N/A | Loaned after Cádiz stint was terminated six months early |
| 1 February 2021 | DF | Denis Vavro | 24 | Huesca | N/A | |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Serie A | 26 September 2020 | 23 May 2021 | Matchday 1 | 6th | 38 | 21 | 5 | 12 | 61 | 55 | +6 | 055.26 |
| Coppa Italia | 21 January 2021 | 27 January 2021 | Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | +0 | 050.00 |
| Champions League | 20 October 2020 | 17 March 2021 | Group stage | Round of 16 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 13 | +0 | 025.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 48 | 24 | 9 | 15 | 78 | 72 | +6 | 050.00 |
Source: Soccerway

### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 4 | Juventus | 38 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 77 | 38 | +39 | 78 | Qualification for Champions League group stage |
| 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 | |
* ↑ Atalanta finished ahead of Juventus on head-to-head points: Juventus 1–1 Atalanta, Atalanta 1–0 Juventus.
* 1 2 Since the winners of the 2020–21 Coppa Italia, Juventus, qualified for the Champions League, the Europa League berth awarded to the Coppa Italia winners was passed to the sixth-placed team, and the Europa Conference League berth awarded to the sixth-placed team was passed to the seventh-placed team.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Serie A

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | 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 |
| Result | L | W | D | L | W | W | D | W | L | W | L | D | W | L | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | L | W | L | D | L | W | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | L | W | L | L |
| Position | 12 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 2 September 2020.

### UEFA Champions League
#### Group stage

The group stage draw was held on 1 October 2020.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | DOR | LAZ | BRU | ZEN |
| 1 | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 13 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Lazio | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase | 3–1 | — | 2–2 | 3–1 |
| 3 | Club Brugge | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 8 | Transfer to Europa League | 0–3 | 1–1 | — | 3–0 |
| 4 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | −9 | 1 | | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | — |

#### Knockout phase
##### Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 14 December 2020.

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Champions League | Champions League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | ALB | Thomas Strakosha | 11 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | GK | ESP | Pepe Reina | 36 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 71 | GK | ALB | Marco Alia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 3 | DF | BRA | Luiz Felipe | 18 | 1 | 10+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+2 | 1 |
| 4 | DF | ESP | Patric | 33 | 0 | 18+7 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Nicolò Armini | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | NED | Wesley Hoedt | 26 | 0 | 10+7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | ROU | Ștefan Radu | 32 | 0 | 30+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | ITA | Francesco Acerbi | 41 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 37 | DF | ARG | Mateo Musacchio | 5 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 77 | DF | MNE | Adam Marušić | 45 | 2 | 33+3 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 6 | MF | BRA | Lucas Leiva | 37 | 0 | 30+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | BRA | Andreas Pereira | 32 | 1 | 3+23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | NED | Djavan Anderson | 4 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ESP | Luis Alberto | 39 | 9 | 33+1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | ITA | Marco Parolo | 24 | 2 | 7+11 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 | 3+1 | 1 |
| 18 | MF | ARG | Gonzalo Escalante | 29 | 1 | 4+20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | BIH | Senad Lulić | 19 | 0 | 8+8 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | SRB | Sergej Milinković-Savić | 40 | 8 | 32 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 29 | MF | ITA | Manuel Lazzari | 38 | 2 | 30+2 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | ITA | Danilo Cataldi | 22 | 0 | 4+15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 |
| 50 | MF | ITA | Marco Bertini | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | MF | POL | Szymon Czyż | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 92 | MF | CIV | Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro | 41 | 1 | 6+26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2+5 | 1 |
| 96 | MF | ALG | Mohamed Farès | 28 | 0 | 12+9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 11 | FW | ARG | Joaquín Correa | 37 | 11 | 25+3 | 8 | 0+2 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| 17 | FW | ITA | Ciro Immobile | 41 | 25 | 34+1 | 20 | 0+1 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 20 | FW | ECU | Felipe Caicedo | 30 | 9 | 9+16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1+4 | 1 |
| 65 | FW | ESP | Raul Moro | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 94 | FW | KOS | Vedat Muriqi | 33 | 2 | 7+20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1+3 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
| 15 | DF | ANG | Bastos | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | GK | BEL | Silvio Proto | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 80 | MF | MAR | Sofian Kiyine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 93 | DF | SVK | Denis Vavro | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 23 May 2021 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

    As of 12 May 2021
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Champions League | Total |
| 1 | 17 | FW | | Ciro Immobile | 20 | 0 | 5 | 25 |
| 2 | 11 | FW | | Joaquín Correa | 8 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | 10 | FW | | Luis Alberto | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 3 | 20 | FW | | Felipe Caicedo | 8 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| 5 | 21 | MF | | Sergej Milinković-Savić | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 6 | 16 | MF | | Marco Parolo | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 29 | MF | | Manuel Lazzari | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | 77 | MF | | Adam Marušić | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | 94 | FW | | Vedat Muriqi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | 7 | MF | | Andreas Pereira | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 33 | DF | | Francesco Acerbi | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 92 | MF | | Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 56 | 4 | 13 | 73 |