# 2021–22 Juventus FC Under-23 season

The 2021–22 season is the 4th season in the existence of Juventus U23 and the club's 4th consecutive season in the Serie C, the third level of Italian football. In addition to the domestic league, Juventus U23 also played this season's edition of the Coppa Italia Serie C.

## Pre-season and friendlies

On 7 August 2021, Juventus U23 played a friendly against Pro Vercelli, winning 4–0. On 13 August, Juventus played a friendly Como. In the 4th minute Matías Soulé scored the opening goal giving Juventus U23 the lead. 11 minutes later, Belgianmen Moutir Chajia scored the equalizing goal. On 19 August, Juventus U23 played a friendly against their first team Juventus losing 3–0.

## Serie C
### Overview

Juventus U23 began their league on 29 August 2021 against Pergolettese.

## Coppa Italia Serie C

Juventus U23 started the competition as defending champions having won the cup in the 2019–20 season winning 3–2 against Pro Sesto. Juventus U23 were able to come back from the two goals' disadvantage scored by Daniele Grandi in the first minute with a diagonal shoot and by Federico Marchesi in the 16th minute with a header from a corner kick. In the 34th minute Alessandro Sersanti scored the 1–2 goal thus reducing the disadvantage and six minutes later Nicolò Cudrig levelled the result. In the 108th minute, in the extra-time, Fabio Miretti gave the lead to Juventus U23 through a penalty kick.

## Transfers
### Summer
#### In

Arrivals :
| Date | Pos. | Name | From | Type | Fee |
| 15 July 2021 | DF | Albian Hajdari | Basel | End of loan | Free |
| 29 July 2021 | FW | Nicolò Cudrig | Monaco | Free transfer | Free |
| 30 July 2021 | MF | Alessandro Sersanti | Fiorentina | Transfer | Undisclosed |
| 9 August 2021 | DF | Fabrizio Poli | Virtus Entella | Transfer | Undisclosed |
| 9 August 2021 | MF | Emanuele Zuelli | Chievo | Free transfer | Free |
| 10 August 2021 | DF | Tarik Muharemović | Wolfsberger AC | Transfer | Undisclosed |
| 27 August 2021 | MF | Martin Palumbo | Udinese | Loan with option to buy | Undisclosed |
| Other transfers |||||||
| 1 July 2021 | DF | Nikita Vlasenko | FC Sion | End of loan | |

#### Out

Departures :
| Date | Pos. | Name | To | Type | Fee |
| 27 May 2021 | DF | Lucas Rosa | Real Valladolid | End of contract | Free |
| 22 June 2021 | FW | Marco Olivieri | Lecce | Loan with option to buy | Free |
| 1 July 2021 | MF | Michele Troiano | | Retired | Free |
| 9 July 2021 | FW | Luca Zanimacchia | Cremonese | Loan | Free |
| 9 July 2021 | FW | Giacomo Vrioni | WSG Tirol | Loan | Free |
| 14 July 2021 | FW | Nikolai Baden Frederiksen | Vitesse | Permanent | Undisclosed |
| 15 July 2021 | DF | Pietro Beruatto | Pisa | Loan | Free |
| 15 July 2021 | MF | Idrissa Touré | Pisa | Permanent | €1M |
| 20 July 2021 | DF | Riccardo Capellini | Mirandés | Loan | Free |
| 21 July 2021 | DF | Paolo Gozzi | Fuenlabrada | Loan | Free |
| 23 July 2021 | DF | Luca Coccolo | SPAL | Loan with option to buy | Free |
| 27 July 2021 | MF | Alessandro Di Pardo | Vicenza | Loan | Free |
| 6 August 2021 | GK | Mattia Del Favero | Cosenza | Loan | Free |
| 6 August 2021 | DF | Alessandro Minelli | Cosenza | Loan | Free |
| 9 August 2021 | FW | Matteo Brunori | Palermo | Loan | Free |
| 13 August 2021 | FW | Félix Correia | Parma | Loan with option to buy | Undisclosed |
| 14 August 2021 | MF | Grigoris Kastanos | Salernitana | Loan | Undisclosed |
| 18 August 2021 | DF | Nikita Vlasenko | SBV Excelsior | Loan | Free |
| 18 August 2021 | MF | Hamza Rafia | Standard Liège | Loan with option to buy | Undisclosed |
| 19 August 2021 | MF | Daouda Peeters | Standard Liège | Loan with option to buy | Free |
| 21 August 2021 | DF | Erasmo Mulè | Cesena | Loan | Free |
| 25 August 2021 | FW | Mirco Lipari | Juve Stabia | Loan | Free |
| 25 August 2021 | DF | Giuseppe Verduci | Grosseto | Loan | Free |
| 26 August 2021 | DF | Dario Del Fabro | Seraing | Loan | Free |
| 27 August 2021 | FW | Alejandro Marqués | Mirandés | Loan | Free |
| 31 August 2021 | DF | Filippo Delli Carri | Salernitana | Loan | Free |
| 31 August 2021 | MF | Filippo Ranocchia | Vicenza | Loan | Free |
| 31 August 2021 | DF | Radu Drăgușin | Sampdoria | Loan | Free |
| 31 August 2021 | MF | Nicolò Fagioli | Cremonese | Loan | Free |

## Player statistics

    As of match played 21 May 2022
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie C | Serie C | Coppa Italia Serie C | Coppa Italia Serie C | Serie C play-offs | Serie C play-offs |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | URU | Franco Israel | 39 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Giovanni Garofani | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Marco Raina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | GK | ITA | Alessandro Siano | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | SUI | Daniel Leo | 28 | 0 | 18+2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Diego Stramaccioni | 21 | 0 | 14+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Pio Riccio | 27 | 1 | 21+3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | BEL | Koni De Winter | 31 | 2 | 18+4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Matteo Anzolin | 34 | 0 | 22+4 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Fabrizio Poli | 31 | 1 | 24+2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Giuseppe Verduci | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | FRA | Jean-Claude Ntenda | 4 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | AUT | Ervin Omić | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | ROU | Gabriele Boloca | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | ITA | Tommaso Barbieri | 31 | 0 | 22+5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 34 | DF | ITA | Riccardo Turicchia | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | DF | ITA | Filippo Fiumanò | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 7 | MF | ITA | Nikola Sekulov | 41 | 4 | 18+15 | 4 | 2+1 | 0 | 0+5 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Giuseppe Leone | 36 | 0 | 19+13 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ARG | Matías Soulé | 34 | 5 | 21+4 | 3 | 2+1 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Mattia Compagnon | 30 | 9 | 10+13 | 6 | 1+1 | 1 | 4+1 | 2 |
| 16 | MF | ITA | Alessandro Sersanti | 36 | 1 | 20+7 | 0 | 2+1 | 1 | 3+3 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | ITA | Emanuele Zuelli | 40 | 1 | 25+7 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | NOR | Martin Palumbo | 20 | 0 | 10+7 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Luca Clemenza | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Simone Iocolano | 22 | 2 | 13+4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | ITA | Fabio Miretti | 28 | 4 | 22+3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | ARG | Enzo Barrenechea | 13 | 2 | 4+4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4+1 | 1 |
| 41 | MF | ITA | Hans Nicolussi | 7 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 1 | 3+1 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | ITA | Marco Da Graca | 24 | 4 | 11+6 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Andrea Brighenti | 26 | 6 | 16+9 | 6 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | FRA | Marley Aké | 25 | 5 | 19+5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | FW | ENG | Samuel Iling-Junior | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | ITA | Nicolò Cudrig | 41 | 3 | 15+17 | 2 | 2+1 | 1 | 1+5 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | BRA | Kaio Jorge | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | FW | ITA | Mirco Lipari | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 31 | FW | ITA | Emanuele Pecorino | 24 | 2 | 8+14 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | FW | ITA | Leonardo Cerri | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |