# 2023–24 SPAL season

The 2023–24 season is SPAL's 117th season in existence and first one back in the Serie C. They are also competing in the Coppa Italia Serie C.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 1 September 2023
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 | ITA | Enrico Alfonso |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Fiordaliso |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Matteo Bruscagin |
| 4 | DF | ARG | Nahuel Valentini |
| 5 | MF | ITA | Nicolò Contiliano |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Marco Bertini (on loan from Lazio) |
| 7 | FW | ITA | Mirco Antenucci (captain) |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Riccardo Collodel |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Alessandro Orfei |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Simone Rabbi |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Fabio Parravicini |
| 16 | DF | ITA | Filippo Saiani |
| 17 | MF | ITA | Giuseppe Iglio |
| 19 | FW | ITA | Nicola Dalmonte (on loan from Vicenza) |
| 20 | FW | LVA | Dario Šits (on loan from Parma) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | DF | ITA | Raffaele Celia |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Marco Meneghetti |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Matteo Arena |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Marco Carraro |
| 26 | FW | ITA | Luca Siligardi |
| 27 | DF | POL | Patryk Peda (on loan from Palermo) |
| 28 | GK | ITA | Mattia Del Favero |
| 33 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Tripaldelli |
| 34 | DF | AUT | Philipp Breit |
| 37 | MF | ITA | Fabio Maistro |
| 44 | DF | MDA | Daniel Dumbravanu |
| 75 | FW | ITA | Emanuele Rao |
| 77 | FW | ITA | Marco Rosafio |
| 80 | FW | ITA | Filippo Puletto |

### Out on loan

    As of 1 September 2023
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 | ITA | Lorenzo Abati (at Torino) |
| — | GK | ITA | Cesare Galeotti (at Lumezzane) |
| — | GK | ITA | Michele Pezzolato (at Forlì) |
| — | GK | SEN | Demba Thiam (at Juve Stabia) |
| — | DF | POL | Dawid Bugaj (at Lechia Gdańsk) |
| — | DF | ITA | Lorenzo Dickmann (at Brescia) |
| — | DF | SVK | Michal Svoboda (at Bologna) |
| — | DF | ITA | Filippo Tosi (at Genoa) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | MDA | Cristian Antonciuc (at Sassuolo) |
| — | MF | ITA | Alessandro Boccia (at Frosinone) |
| — | MF | ITA | Simone Cecere (at Fidelis Andria) |
| — | MF | ITA | Antonio Imputato (at Mestre) |
| — | MF | ITA | Alessandro Murgia (at Hermannstadt) |
| — | MF | TOG | Steven Nador (at Ancona) |
| — | FW | ITA | Ludovico D'Orazio (at Novara) |
| — | FW | ITA | Andrea La Mantia (at Feralpisalò) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| FW | Andrea La Mantia | Empoli | €1,000,000 | 1 July 2023 |
| FW | Mirco Antenucci | Bari | Free | 13 July 2023 |
| MF | Marco Carraro | Atalanta | Free | 1 August 2023 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| MF | Radja Nainggolan | Released | Released | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Giannis Fetfatzidis | APOEL | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Ayoub Abou | Pirin Blagoevgrad | Free | 14 July 2023 |
| GK | Demba Thiam | Juve Stabia | Loan | 20 July 2023 |
| FW | Andrea La Mantia | Feralpisalò | Loan | 8 August 2023 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overall record

| 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 C | 2 September 2023 | 28 April 2024 | Matchday 1 | | 37 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 37 | 39 | −2 | 029.73 |
| Coppa Italia Serie C | 5 October 2023 | 9 November 2023 | First round | Second round | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 39 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 39 | 41 | −2 | 030.77 |
Last updated: 21 April 2024 Source: Soccerway

### Serie C
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 9 | Pontedera | 38 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 53 | 54 | −1 | 52 | Qualification for the group play-offs first round |
| 10 | Rimini | 38 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 52 | 54 | −2 | 50 | Qualification for the group play-offs first round |
| 11 | SPAL | 38 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 41 | 40 | +1 | 49 | |
| 12 | Lucchese | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 34 | 43 | −9 | 45 | |
| 13 | Virtus Entella | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 33 | 35 | −2 | 45 | |
* 1 2 Lucchese are ahead of Virtus Entella and Pineto on head-to-head points: Lucchese 7, Virtus Entella 3, Pineto 3. Virtus Entella are ahead of Pineto on overall goal difference: Virtus Entella -2, Pineto -4.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 21 April 2024. Source: Worldfootball

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | A | 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 |
| Result | W | L | L | W | D | L | L | D | L | W | D | L | L | L | D | D | D | D | W | D | D | L | L | L | W | W | D | D | W | L | W | L | D | D | W | W | W | |
| Position | 7 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 11 | |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were unveiled on 7 August 2023.