# 2021–22 Empoli FC season

The 2021–22 season was the 102nd season in the existence of Empoli F.C. and the club's first season back in the top flight of Italian football. In addition to the domestic league, Empoli participated in this season's edition of the Coppa Italia.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 30 January 2022
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 | KOS | Samir Ujkani |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Riccardo Marchizza (on loan from Sassuolo) |
| 5 | MF | SVN | Leo Štulac (4th captain) |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Simone Romagnoli (captain) |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Valerio Verre (on loan from Sampdoria) |
| 8 | MF | SCO | Liam Henderson |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Patrick Cutrone (on loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers) |
| 10 | MF | ALB | Nedim Bajrami |
| 11 | MF | ITA | Federico Di Francesco (on loan from SPAL) |
| 13 | GK | ITA | Guglielmo Vicario (on loan from Cagliari) |
| 15 | MF | ITA | Marco Benassi (on loan from Fiorentina) |
| 16 | MF | ITA | Jacopo Fazzini |
| 17 | FW | SWE | Emmanuel Ekong |
| 19 | FW | ITA | Andrea La Mantia |
| 20 | DF | ITA | Riccardo Fiamozzi |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | DF | NZL | Liberato Cacace (on loan from Sint-Truiden) |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Jacopo Furlan |
| 23 | MF | ALB | Kristjan Asllani |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Filippo Bandinelli (3rd captain) |
| 26 | DF | ITA | Lorenzo Tonelli |
| 27 | MF | POL | Szymon Żurkowski (on loan from Fiorentina) |
| 30 | DF | SVN | Petar Stojanović (on loan from Dinamo Zagreb) |
| 32 | MF | SUI | Nicolas Haas |
| 33 | DF | ITA | Sebastiano Luperto (on loan from Napoli) |
| 34 | DF | ALB | Ardian Ismajli |
| 42 | DF | ITA | Mattia Viti |
| 65 | DF | ITA | Fabiano Parisi |
| 99 | FW | ITA | Andrea Pinamonti (on loan from Inter Milan) |
| — | MF | POL | Iwo Kaczmarski (on loan from Raków Częstochowa) |

### Out on loan

    As of 31 January 2022
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 | Niccolò Chiorra (at Taranto until 30 June 2022) |
| — | GK | ITA | Gabriel Meli (at Sudtirol until 30 June 2022) |
| — | GK | ITA | Leandro Pratelli (at Piacenza until 30 June 2022) |
| — | GK | ITA | Alex Sposito (at Pontedera until 30 June 2022) |
| — | GK | ITA | Niccolò Vivoli (at Pianese until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Andrea Adamoli (at Pro Sesto until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Simone Canestrelli (at Crotone until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Francesco Donati (at Juve Stabia until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Matteo Martini (at Pontedera until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Emmanuele Matteucci (at Pontedera until 30 June 2022) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | ITA | Davide Zappella (at Pescara until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Giovanni Crociata (at SPAL until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Samuele Ricci (at Torino until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Samuele Damiani (at Palermo until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Tommaso Fantacci (at Gubbio until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Giuseppe Montaperto (at Teramo until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Leonardo Mancuso (at Monza until 30 June 2023) |
| — | FW | ITA | Davide Merola (at Foggia until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Stefano Moreo (at Brescia until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Kevin Piscopo (at Renate until 30 June 2022) |

## Transfers
### Out

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| 31 | DF | Roberto Pirrello | Cosenza | Loan | 31 August 2021 | |

## 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 | 21 August 2021 | 21 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 14th | 38 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 50 | 70 | −20 | 026.32 |
| Coppa Italia | 15 August 2021 | 19 January 2022 | First round | Round of 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 10 | +2 | 066.67 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 41 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 62 | 80 | −18 | 029.27 |
Source: Soccerway

### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 12 | Udinese | 38 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 61 | 58 | +3 | 47 |
| 13 | Bologna | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 44 | 55 | −11 | 46 |
| 14 | Empoli | 38 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 50 | 70 | −20 | 41 |
| 15 | Sampdoria | 38 | 10 | 6 | 22 | 46 | 63 | −17 | 36 |
| 16 | Spezia | 38 | 10 | 6 | 22 | 41 | 71 | −30 | 36 |

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | W | L | L | W | W | L | L | W | L | W | D | L | W | D | W | W | D | L | D | L | D | L | D | D | L | L | D | L | D | L | D | L | W | L | L | D | W |
| Position | 17 | 11 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 14 July 2021.

### Coppa Italia
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | KOS | Samir Ujkani | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | GK | ITA | Guglielmo Vicario | 13 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Jacopo Furlan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 3 | DF | ITA | Riccardo Marchizza | 12 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Simone Romagnoli | 7 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | ITA | Riccardo Fiamozzi | 3 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | ITA | Lorenzo Tonelli | 5 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | SVN | Petar Stojanovic | 12 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | ITA | Sebastiano Luperto | 7 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 34 | DF | ALB | Ardian Ismajli | 9 | 0 | 6+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 42 | DF | ITA | Mattia Viti | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 65 | DF | ITA | Fabiano Parisi | 4 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 5 | MF | SVN | Leo Stulac | 10 | 1 | 3+6 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | SCO | Liam Henderson | 12 | 0 | 8+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ALB | Nedim Bajrami | 11 | 3 | 6+4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | MF | ALB | Kristjan Asllani | 5 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Filippo Bandinelli | 12 | 1 | 8+3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | POL | Szymon Żurkowski | 12 | 2 | 5+6 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | ITA | Samuele Ricci | 11 | 1 | 9+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | SUI | Nicolas Haas | 12 | 1 | 9+2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 7 | FW | ITA | Leonardo Mancuso | 7 | 2 | 4+2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Patrick Cutrone | 12 | 1 | 6+5 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Federico Di Francesco | 8 | 3 | 6+2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | FW | ITA | Andrea La Mantia | 4 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | ITA | Andrea Pinamonti | 11 | 4 | 8+3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 14 | MF | ITA | Giovanni Crociata | 2 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 1 |
Last updated: 5 November 2021 Source: Competitions