# 2011–12 SS Lazio season

The 2011–12 season was the 112th season in Società Sportiva Lazio's history and their club's 24th consecutive season in the top-flight of Italian football. The club competed in Serie A, the Coppa Italia, and the UEFA Europa League.

## Pre-season

During the pre-season, Lazio purchased Djibril Cissé from Panathinaikos, Miroslav Klose from Bayern Munich, Abdoulay Konko from Genoa, Lorik Cana from Galatasaray and Senad Lulić from Young Boys. They also sold Stephan Lichtsteiner to Juventus for €10 million and purchased goalkeeper Federico Marchetti from Cagliari. They then sold goalkeeper Fernando Muslera to Galatasaray.

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 31 January 2012.
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 | ARG | Albano Bizzarri |
| 3 | DF | BRA | André Dias |
| 5 | DF | ARG | Lionel Scaloni |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Stefano Mauri (vice-captain) |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Hernanes |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Tommaso Rocchi (captain) |
| 11 | MF | BRA | Matuzalém |
| 14 | DF | ESP | Javier Garrido |
| 15 | MF | URU | Álvaro González |
| 16 | GK | ITA | Alessandro Berardi |
| 18 | FW | CZE | Libor Kozák |
| 19 | MF | BIH | Senad Lulić |
| 20 | DF | ITA | Giuseppe Biava |
| 21 | DF | FRA | Modibo Diakité |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Federico Marchetti |
| 24 | MF | ITA | Cristian Ledesma |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 25 | FW | GER | Miroslav Klose |
| 26 | DF | ROU | Ștefan Radu |
| 27 | MF | ALB | Lorik Cana |
| 28 | FW | NGA | Stephen Makinwa |
| 29 | DF | FRA | Abdoulay Konko |
| 30 | FW | URU | Emiliano Alfaro |
| 32 | MF | ITA | Cristian Brocchi |
| 33 | DF | LTU | Marius Stankevičius |
| 40 | DF | ITA | Luca Crescenzi |
| 41 | MF | ITA | Enrico Zampa |
| 53 | FW | ITA | Antonio Rozzi |
| 78 | DF | ITA | Luciano Zauri |
| 87 | MF | ITA | Antonio Candreva |
| — | DF | ITA | Federico Chirico |
| — | DF | ITA | Ivan Artipoli |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Pos. | Player | Moving from | Fee |
| 8 June 2011 | FW | Miroslav Klose | Bayern Munich | Free |
| 16 June 2011 | MF | Senad Lulić | Young Boys | €3,000,000 |
| 23 June 2011 | DF | Marius Stankevičius | Sampdoria | Undisclosed |
| 1 July 2011 | GK | Federico Marchetti | Cagliari | €5,000,000 |
| 4 July 2011 | DF | Abdoulay Konko | Genoa | €6,000,000 |
| 12 July 2011 | FW | Djibril Cissé | Panathinaikos | €5,800,000 |
| 15 July 2011 | MF | Lorik Cana | Galatasaray | Undisclosed |
| 12 January 2012 | FW | Emiliano Alfaro | Liverpool | €3,200,000 |
| 31 January 2012 | MF | Antonio Candreva | Udinese | Loan |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Moving to | Fee |
| 1 July 2011 | DF | Stephan Lichtsteiner | Juventus | €10,000,000 |
| 19 July 2011 | GK | Fernando Muslera | Galatasaray | Undisclosed |
| 9 August 2011 | MF | Mark Bresciano | Al-Nasr | €3,900,000 |
| 31 August 2011 | FW | Mauro Zárate | Internazionale | Loan |
| 31 August 2011 | FW | Pasquale Foggia | Sampdoria | Loan |
| 31 August 2011 | FW | Sergio Floccari | Parma | Loan |
| 18 January 2012 | DF | Guglielmo Stendardo | Atalanta | Loan |
| 18 January 2012 | FW | Giuseppe Sculli | Genoa | Loan |
| 31 January 2012 | GK | Juan Pablo Carrizo | Catania | Loan |
| 31 January 2012 | DF | Luis Pedro Cavanda | Bari | Loan |
| 31 January 2012 | MF | Simone Del Nero | Cesena | Loan |
| 31 January 2012 | FW | Djibril Cissé | Queens Park Rangers | £4,000,000 |

## Competitions
### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 2 | Milan | 38 | 24 | 8 | 6 | 74 | 33 | +41 | 80 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Udinese | 38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 52 | 35 | +17 | 64 | Qualification to Champions League play-off round |
| 4 | Lazio | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 56 | 47 | +9 | 62 | Qualification to Europa League play-off round |
| 5 | Napoli | 38 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 66 | 46 | +20 | 61 | Qualification to Europa League group stage |
| 6 | Internazionale | 38 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 58 | 55 | +3 | 58 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round |
* 1 2 Napoli qualified to the group stage of the Europa League as winner of the 2011–12 Coppa Italia. As they finished fifth, the sixth-placed team of the league also qualified for the Europa League.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 13 May 2012. Source: Soccernet

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | D | L | W | D | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | L | W | W | D | L | W | L | W | W | L | W | L | W | W | L | L | W | L | W | L | D | L | L | D | W | W |
| Position | 4 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Europa League
#### Play-off round

Having qualified for the Europa League play-off round in the previous Serie A campaign, Lazio played a double-legged match for their chance to enter the Europa League. On 5 August 2011, Lazio drew Macedonian side FK Rabotnički, a team who has survived since the first qualifying round, earning them World's Club Team of the Month for July 2011.

#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Sporting CP | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 12 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 2 | Lazio | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 9 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 3 | Vaslui | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 6 | |
| 4 | Zürich | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 5 | |

##### Notes

* Note 3: Vaslui played their home matches at Stadionul Ceahlăul, Piatra Neamţ as their own Stadionul Municipal did not meet UEFA criteria.

#### Knockout phase
##### Round of 32
## Squad statistics

| No. | Pos. | Name | League | League | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Europe | Europe | Total | Total | Discipline | Discipline |
| No. | Pos. | Name | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | | |
| 1 | GK | Albano Bizzarri | 4 | -6 | 1 | -2 | 3 | -2 | 8 | -10 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | DF | André Dias | 16 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | Lionel Scaloni | 7(6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9(6) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | Stefano Mauri | 3(2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6(2) | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | Giuseppe Sculli | 11(6) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6(2) | 3 | 18(8) | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Hernanes | 22(2) | 7 | 2 | 1 | 9(2) | 2 | 33(4) | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | Tommaso Rocchi (c) | 11(2) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7(4) | 3 | 20(6) | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | Matuzalém | 15(8) | 0 | 2(1) | 0 | 5(1) | 0 | 22(10) | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | Javier Garrido | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | Álvaro González | 19(6) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7(2) | 0 | 28(8) | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | Alessandro Berardi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | Libor Kozák | 6(6) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7(4) | 1 | 13(10) | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | Senad Lulić | 24(4) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9(1) | 0 | 35(5) | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | Giuseppe Biava | 15(1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5(1) | 0 | 20(2) | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | Modibo Diakité | 13(4) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 24(4) | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 22 | GK | Federico Marchetti | 21 | -21 | 1 | -3 | 7 | -8 | 29 | -37 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | Cristian Ledesma | 24(1) | 1 | 2(1) | 0 | 8(2) | 0 | 34(4) | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 25 | FW | Miroslav Klose | 24 | 13 | 2(2) | 0 | 6(1) | 3 | 33(3) | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | Ștefan Radu | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5(1) | 0 | 21(1) | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | Lorik Cana | 8(5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 14(5) | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 28 | FW | Stephen Makinwa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | Abdoulay Konko | 19(1) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5(2) | 0 | 25(3) | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 30 | FW | Emiliano Alfaro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | Cristian Brocchi | 11(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3(1) | 1 | 14(2) | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | Marius Stankevičius | 11(2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 13(3) | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 39 | DF | Luis Pedro Cavanda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | MF | Enrico Zampa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3(3) | 0 | 3(3) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 51 | DF | Ivan Artipoli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | FW | Antonio Rozzi | 2(2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2(2) | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 78 | DF | Luciano Zauri | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 81 | MF | Simone Del Nero | 2(2) | 0 | 2(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4(3) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 84 | GK | Juan Pablo Carrizo | 2(2) | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2(2) | -2 | 0 | 0 |
| 87 | MF | Antonio Candreva | 4(2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6(2) | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 89 | DF | Federico Chirico | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 92 | FW | Tommaso Ceccarelli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | Djibril Cissé | 18(5) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7(2) | 3 | 27(7) | 5 | 1 | 0 |
Statistics accurate as of match played 23 February 2012