# 2021–22 AS Roma season

The 2021–22 season was AS Roma's 95th season in existence and the club's 70th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football. In addition to the domestic league, Roma participated in this season's editions of the Coppa Italia and the inaugural edition of the UEFA Europa Conference League, winning the latter tournament for the club's first major trophy since the 2007–08 Coppa Italia.
The season began with José Mourinho at the helm after Roma announced last season that Paulo Fonseca would step down.

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 30 June 2022.
| No. | Name | Position(s) | Date of birth (Age) | Signed from | Signed in | Contract ends | Apps. | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 1 | Rui Patrício | GK | (1988-02-15)15 February 1988 (aged 34) | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 2021 | 2024 | 54 | 0 |
| 63 | Pietro Boer | GK | (2002-05-12)12 May 2002 (aged 20) | Roma Primavera | 2021 | 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 87 | Daniel Fuzato | GK | (1997-07-04)4 July 1997 (aged 24) | Palmeiras | 2018 | 2022 | 8 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 2 | Rick Karsdorp | RB / RM | (1995-02-11)11 February 1995 (aged 27) | Feyenoord | 2017 | 2025 | 111 | 1 |
| 3 | Roger Ibañez | CB / LB | (1998-11-23)23 November 1998 (aged 23) | Atalanta | 2020 | 2025 | 101 | 6 |
| 5 | Matías Viña | LB | (1997-11-09)9 November 1997 (aged 24) | Palmeiras | 2021 | 2026 | 37 | 0 |
| 6 | Chris Smalling | CB | (1989-11-22)22 November 1989 (aged 32) | Manchester United | 2019 | 2024 | 96 | 7 |
| 18 | Davide Santon | LB / RB | (1991-01-02)2 January 1991 (aged 31) | Internazionale | 2018 | 2022 | 53 | 0 |
| 19 | Bryan Reynolds | RB | (2001-06-28)28 June 2001 (aged 21) | FC Dallas | 2021 | 2025 | 8 | 0 |
| 23 | Gianluca Mancini (vc) | CB | (1996-04-17)17 April 1996 (aged 26) | Atalanta | 2019 | 2024 | 128 | 7 |
| 24 | Marash Kumbulla | CB | (2000-02-08)8 February 2000 (aged 22) | Hellas Verona | 2020 | 2025 | 56 | 3 |
| 37 | Leonardo Spinazzola | LB / LWB | (1993-03-25)25 March 1993 (aged 29) | Juventus | 2019 | 2024 | 75 | 4 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 4 | Bryan Cristante | DM / CM | (1995-03-03)3 March 1995 (aged 27) | Atalanta | 2018 | 2025 | 175 | 10 |
| 7 | Lorenzo Pellegrini (c) | AM / CM | (1996-06-19)19 June 1996 (aged 26) | Sassuolo | 2017 | 2026 | 192 | 34 |
| 15 | Ainsley Maitland-Niles | CM / RB | (1997-08-29)29 August 1997 (aged 24) | Arsenal | 2022 | 2022 | 12 | 0 |
| 21 | Jordan Veretout | CM / AM | (1993-03-01)1 March 1993 (aged 29) | Fiorentina | 2019 | 2023 | 131 | 22 |
| 22 | Nicolò Zaniolo | AM | (1999-07-02)2 July 1999 (aged 22) | Internazionale | 2018 | 2024 | 111 | 22 |
| 27 | Sérgio Oliveira | DM | (1992-06-02)2 June 1992 (aged 30) | Porto | 2022 | 2022 | 22 | 3 |
| 42 | Amadou Diawara | DM | (1997-07-17)17 July 1997 (aged 24) | Napoli | 2019 | 2024 | 66 | 2 |
| 52 | Edoardo Bove | DM / CM | (2002-05-16)16 May 2002 (aged 20) | Roma Primavera | 2021 | 2025 | 14 | 1 |
| 55 | Ebrima Darboe | CM | (2001-06-06)6 June 2001 (aged 21) | Roma Primavera | 2021 | 2025 | 11 | 0 |
| 77 | Henrikh Mkhitaryan | AM / LW | (1989-01-21)21 January 1989 (aged 33) | Arsenal | 2019 | 2022 | 117 | 29 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 9 | Tammy Abraham | CF | (1997-10-02)2 October 1997 (aged 24) | Chelsea | 2021 | 2026 | 53 | 27 |
| 11 | Carles Pérez | RW / LW | (1998-02-16)16 February 1998 (aged 24) | Barcelona | 2020 | 2024 | 75 | 8 |
| 14 | Eldor Shomurodov | CF | (1995-06-29)29 June 1995 (aged 27) | Genoa | 2021 | 2026 | 40 | 5 |
| 59 | Nicola Zalewski | LW | (2002-01-23)23 January 2002 (aged 20) | Roma Primavera | 2021 | 2025 | 26 | 0 |
| 64 | Felix Afena-Gyan | CF | (2003-01-19)19 January 2003 (aged 19) | Roma Primavera | 2021 | 2026 | 22 | 2 |
| 92 | Stephan El Shaarawy | LW | (1992-10-27)27 October 1992 (aged 29) | Shanghai Shenhua | 2021 | 2024 | 189 | 49 |

### Other players under contract

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 |
| 18 | DF | ITA | Davide Santon |

### Out on loan

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 |
| — | GK | ESP | Pau López (at Marseille until 30 June 2022) |
| — | GK | SWE | Robin Olsen (at Sheffield United until 30 June 2022) |
| — | GK | ITA | Stefano Greco (at Potenza until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Aboudramane Diaby (at Hellas Verona until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Alessandro Florenzi (at Milan until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Devid Bouah (at Teramo until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Riccardo Calafiori (at Genoa until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | TUR | Mert Çetin (at Hellas Verona until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | FRA | William Bianda (at Nancy until 30 June 2022) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | CRO | Ante Ćorić (at Zürich until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Salvatore Pezzella (at Siena until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Tommaso Milanese (at Alessandria until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | TUR | Cengiz Ünder (at Marseille until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | NED | Justin Kluivert (at Nice until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Matteo Cancellieri (at Hellas Verona until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Riccardo Ciervo (at Sampdoria until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | FRA | Ruben Providence (at Club Brugge until 30 June 2022) |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| 19 | DF | Bryan Reynolds | FC Dallas | €6.75M | 1 July 2021 |
| 3 | DF | Roger Ibañez | Atalanta | €8M | 1 July 2021 |
| 1 | GK | Rui Patrício | Wolverhampton Wanderers | €11.5M | 13 July 2021 |
| 14 | FW | Eldor Shomurodov | Genoa | €17.5M | 2 August 2021 |
| 5 | DF | Matías Viña | Palmeiras | €13M | 8 August 2021 |
| 9 | FW | Tammy Abraham | Chelsea | €40M | 17 August 2021 |
* ↑ Bought on loan obligation. MLS will retain the right to 15% of the profit on any deal – after factoring in the total amount already paid for the player at the time of his departure. Fee may eventually rise to €12.4 million.
* ↑ Bought on loan obligation. Atalanta will retain the right to 10% of any future transfer fee received for the player, should he be sold at any point prior to 30 June 2024. Fee may eventually rise to €10 million.
* 1 2 3 4 Initial transfer fee. Includes undisclosed performance-related clauses.

#### Loans in

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
| 15 | MF | Ainsley Maitland-Niles | Arsenal | Loan | 8 January 2022 | |
| 27 | MF | Sérgio Oliveira | Porto | Loan | 12 January 2022 | |

### Out

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| 5 | DF | Juan Jesus | Napoli | Free | 1 July 2021 |
| 12 | GK | Simone Farelli | Unattached | Free | 1 July 2021 |
| 83 | GK | Antonio Mirante | Unattached | Free | 1 July 2021 |
| 33 | DF | Bruno Peres | Trabzonspor | Free | 1 July 2021 |
| – | FW | Mirko Antonucci | Cittadella | Undisclosed | 30 July 2021 |
| 9 | FW | Edin Džeko | Internazionale | Free | 14 August 2021 |
| 11 | FW | Pedro | Lazio | Free | 19 August 2021 |
| 27 | MF | Javier Pastore | Elche | Free | 30 August 2021 |
| 15 | MF | Steven Nzonzi | Al-Rayyan | Free | 28 September 2021 |
| 20 | DF | Federico Fazio | Salernitana | Free | 29 January 2022 |

#### Loans out

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| – | FW | Cengiz Ünder | Marseille | Loan | 4 July 2021 |
| 13 | GK | Pau López | Marseille | Loan | 8 July 2021 |
| – | FW | Justin Kluivert | Nice | Loan | 20 July 2021 |
| – | DF | Alessandro Florenzi | Milan | Loan | 21 August 2021 |
| – | MF | Ante Ćorić | Zürich | Loan | 24 August 2021 |
| 21 | FW | Borja Mayoral | Getafe | Loan | 13 January 2022 |
| 8 | MF | Gonzalo Villar | Getafe | Loan | 13 January 2022 |
| 13 | DF | Riccardo Calafiori | Genoa | Loan | 14 January 2022 |
| 19 | DF | Bryan Reynolds | Kortrijk | Loan | 23 January 2022 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## 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 | 22 August 2021 | 20 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 6th | 38 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 59 | 43 | +16 | 047.37 |
| Coppa Italia | 20 January 2022 | 8 February 2022 | Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | +0 | 050.00 |
| UEFA Europa Conference League | 19 August 2021 | 25 May 2022 | Play-off round | Winners | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 33 | 16 | +17 | 066.67 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 55 | 29 | 12 | 14 | 95 | 62 | +33 | 052.73 |
Source: Soccerway

### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 4 | Juventus | 38 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 57 | 37 | +20 | 70 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 5 | Lazio | 38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 77 | 58 | +19 | 64 | 0Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 6 | Roma | 38 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 59 | 43 | +16 | 63 | 0Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 7 | Fiorentina | 38 | 19 | 5 | 14 | 59 | 51 | +8 | 62 | 0Qualification for the Conference League play-off round |
| 8 | Atalanta | 38 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 65 | 48 | +17 | 59 | |
* 1 2 Since the winners of the 2021–22 Coppa Italia, Internazionale, 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 | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | W | L | W | L | W | L | D | W | L | L | W | W | L | L | W | W | D | L | L | W | W | D | D | D | W | W | D | W | W | W | D | L | D | L | D | W |
| Position | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 14 July 2021.

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

The draw for the play-off round was held on 2 August.

#### Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 27 August 2021.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ROM | BOD | ZOR | CSS |
| 1 | Roma | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 11 | +7 | 13 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 2–2 | 4–0 | 5–1 |
| 2 | Bodø/Glimt | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 12 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 6–1 | — | 3–1 | 2–0 |
| 3 | Zorya Luhansk | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 7 | | 0–3 | 1–1 | — | 2–0 |
| 4 | CSKA Sofia | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 13 | −10 | 1 | | 2–3 | 0–0 | 0–1 | — |

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

The round of 16 draw was held on 25 February 2022.

##### Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 18 March 2022.

##### Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 18 March 2022, after the quarter-final draw.

##### Final
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Europa Conference League | Europa Conference League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | POR | Rui Patrício | 54 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| 63 | GK | ITA | Pietro Boer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 87 | GK | BRA | Daniel Fuzato | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | NED | Rick Karsdorp | 51 | 1 | 32+4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11+2 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Roger Ibañez | 51 | 4 | 32+2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 13+2 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | URU | Matías Viña | 37 | 0 | 18+8 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 5+4 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ENG | Chris Smalling | 38 | 4 | 23+4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8+2 | 1 |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Gianluca Mancini | 46 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11+1 | 1 |
| 24 | DF | ALB | Marash Kumbulla | 28 | 1 | 13+4 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 7+2 | 0 |
| 37 | DF | ITA | Leonardo Spinazzola | 4 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 58 | DF | ITA | Filippo Missori | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 65 | DF | ITA | Filippo Tripi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 75 | DF | GRE | Dimitrios Keramitsis | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 4 | MF | ITA | Bryan Cristante | 50 | 3 | 29+5 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 10+4 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Lorenzo Pellegrini | 41 | 14 | 27+1 | 9 | 0+1 | 0 | 10+2 | 5 |
| 15 | MF | ENG | Ainsley Maitland-Niles | 12 | 0 | 7+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | FRA | Jordan Veretout | 50 | 4 | 26+10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7+5 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | ITA | Nicolò Zaniolo | 42 | 8 | 23+5 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 10+2 | 6 |
| 27 | MF | POR | Sérgio Oliveira | 22 | 3 | 13+1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3+3 | 1 |
| 42 | MF | GUI | Amadou Diawara | 8 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 |
| 52 | MF | ITA | Edoardo Bove | 12 | 1 | 0+11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 55 | MF | GAM | Ebrima Darboe | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 59 | MF | POL | Nicola Zalewski | 24 | 0 | 9+7 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 |
| 62 | MF | ITA | Cristian Volpato | 3 | 1 | 1+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | ARM | Henrikh Mkhitaryan | 44 | 5 | 29+2 | 5 | 1+1 | 0 | 10+1 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | ENG | Tammy Abraham | 53 | 27 | 36+1 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 11+3 | 9 |
| 11 | FW | ESP | Carles Pérez | 28 | 3 | 3+16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4+4 | 2 |
| 14 | FW | UZB | Eldor Shomurodov | 40 | 5 | 5+23 | 3 | 0+1 | 1 | 3+8 | 1 |
| 64 | FW | GHA | Felix Afena-Gyan | 22 | 2 | 6+11 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 |
| 92 | FW | ITA | Stephan El Shaarawy | 36 | 7 | 8+19 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 | 5+3 | 4 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
| 8 | MF | ESP | Gonzalo Villar | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Riccardo Calafiori | 9 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | USA | Bryan Reynolds | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 21 | FW | ESP | Borja Mayoral | 10 | 1 | 1+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+4 | 1 |
Last updated: 25 May 2022 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos. | Player | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Europa Conference League | Total |
| 1 | 9 | FW | Tammy Abraham | 17 | 1 | 9 | 27 |
| 2 | 7 | MF | Lorenzo Pellegrini | 9 | 0 | 5 | 14 |
| 3 | 22 | MF | Nicolò Zaniolo | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| 4 | 92 | FW | Stephan El Sharaawy | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 77 | MF | Henrikh Mkhitaryan | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | 14 | FW | Eldor Shomurodov | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | 17 | MF | Jordan Veretout | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | 3 | DF | Roger Ibañez | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | 6 | DF | Chris Smalling | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | 4 | MF | Bryan Cristante | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | 27 | MF | Sérgio Oliveira | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | 11 | FW | Carles Pérez | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 13 | 64 | FW | Felix Afena-Gyan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | 23 | DF | Gianluca Mancini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | 24 | DF | Marash Kumbulla | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 52 | MF | Edoardo Bove | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 62 | MF | Cristian Volpato | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 21 | FW | Borja Mayoral | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 59 | 3 | 33 | 95 |