# 2009–10 Udinese Calcio season

The 2009–10 Udinese Calcio season was the club's 15th consecutive and 30th overall season in Serie A. The team competed in Serie A, finishing 15th, and in the Coppa Italia, reaching the semi-finals. The highlight of Udinese's season was captain Antonio Di Natale's excellent campaign, as he finished top scorer in Serie A, or capocannoniere, with 29 goals.

## Players
### Squad information

As of 28 January 2010
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 | VEN | Rafael Romo |
| 2 | DF | COL | Cristián Zapata (vice captain) |
| 3 | DF | CHI | Mauricio Isla |
| 4 | DF | COL | Juan Cuadrado |
| 5 | MF | NGA | Christian Obodo |
| 6 | GK | ITA | Emanuele Belardi |
| 7 | FW | ITA | Simone Pepe |
| 8 | MF | SRB | Dušan Basta |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Bernardo Corradi |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Antonio Di Natale (captain) |
| 11 | FW | CHI | Alexis Sánchez |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Andrea Coda |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Paolo Sammarco |
| 15 | DF | COL | Ricardo Chará |
| 16 | MF | RUS | Viktor Budjanskij |
| 17 | FW | BRA | Alemão |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | MF | GHA | Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu |
| 20 | MF | GHA | Kwadwo Asamoah |
| 21 | MF | ITA | Gaetano D'Agostino |
| 22 | GK | SVN | Samir Handanović |
| 23 | MF | ESP | Jaime Romero |
| 24 | DF | SRB | Aleksandar Luković |
| 26 | DF | ITA | Giovanni Pasquale |
| 27 | FW | ESP | Alexandre Geijo |
| 28 | MF | DEN | Niki Zimling |
| 32 | DF | ITA | Damiano Ferronetti |
| 35 | DF | PAR | Jonni Cabrera |
| 80 | DF | ITA | Maurizio Domizzi |
| 83 | FW | ITA | Antonio Floro Flores |
| 84 | MF | ITA | Francesco Lodi |
| 86 | MF | BRA | Guilherme Siqueira |
| 88 | MF | SUI | Gökhan Inler |

## Transfers

For all transfers and loans pertaining to Udinese for the current season, please see: 2009 summer transfers and 2009–10 winter transfers .

### Summer 2009
#### In

| Date | Name | Nationality | Moving from | Fee |
| 2009-06-22 | Dušan Basta | Serbia | Red Star Belgrade | Undisclosed |
| 2009-07-02 | Juan Cuadrado | Colombia | Independiente Medellín | Undisclosed |
| 2009-07-03 | Bernardo Corradi | Italy | Reggina | Free |
| 2009-07-14 | Rafael Romo | Venezuela | Llaneros | Undisclosed |
| 2009-08-25 | Paolo Sammarco | Italy | Sampdoria | Loan |
| 2009-08-28 | Francesco Lodi | Italy | Empoli | Loan |

#### Out

| Date | Name | Nationality | Moving from | Fee |
| 2009-06-27 | Barreto | Brazil | Bari | Loan |
| 2009-07-17 | Giampiero Pinzi | Italy | Chievo | Loan |
| 2009-05-22$^1$ | Roman Eremenko | Finland | Dynamo Kyiv | Undisclosed |
| 2009-07-10 | Antonio Candreva | Italy | Livorno | Loan |
| 2009-06-01 | Fabio Quagliarella | Italy | Napoli | Undisclosed |
| 2009-06-24 | Marco Motta | Italy | Roma | €7,000,000 |
| 2009-07-22 | Fernando Tissone | Argentina | Sampdoria | Co-ownership, Undisclosed |

### Winter 2009–10
#### In

| Date | Name | Nationality | Moving from | Fee |
| 2010-01-28 | Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu | Ghana | Berlin Berekum | Undisclosed |
| 2010-02-02 | Alexandre Geijo | Switzerland/Spain | Racing Santander | Undisclosed |

#### Out

| Date | Name | Nationality | Moving from | Fee |
| 2010-01-02 | Felipe | Brazil | Fiorentina | Loan |
| 2010-01-20 | Antonio Candreva | Italy | Juventus | Loan |

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 13 | Catania | 38 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 44 | 45 | −1 | 45 |
| 14 | Chievo | 38 | 12 | 8 | 18 | 37 | 42 | −5 | 44 |
| 15 | Udinese | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 54 | 59 | −5 | 44 |
| 16 | Cagliari | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 56 | 58 | −2 | 44 |
| 17 | Bologna | 38 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 42 | 55 | −13 | 42 |
* 1 2 3 Chievo finished ahead of Udinese and Cagliari on head-to-head points: Chievo: 8 pts, Udinese: 6 pts, Cagliari: 1 pts.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 15 May 2010. Source: Competitive matches

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A |
| Result | D | L | W | D | W | W | L | L | L | W | D | L | L | W | L | L | W | L | D | D | L | D | W | L | L | L | D | W | L | D | L | W | W | D | W | D | D | L |
| Position | 8 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 15 |

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

| No. | Pos. | Player | Serie A | Serie A | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Total | Total | Total | Total |
| No. | Pos. | Player | App. | | | | App. | | | | App. | | | |
| 1 | GK | Rafael Romo | 1 | -3 | 0 | 0 | | | | | 1 | -3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | Cristián Zapata | 31 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 3 | MF | Mauricio Isla | 30 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 4 | DF | Juan Cuadrado | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | Christian Obodo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | GK | Emanuele Belardi | | | | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | Simone Pepe | 32 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Dušan Basta | 16 | 0 | 3 | 1 | | | | | 16 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | Bernardo Corradi | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | Antonio Di Natale | 35 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 29 | 6 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | Alexis Sánchez | 32 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | Andrea Coda | 26 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | Paolo Sammarco | 26 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | Ricardo Chará | | | | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | Viktor Budyanskiy | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 17 | FW | Alemão | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 19 | MF | Emmanuel Badu | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | K. Asamoah | 25 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | D'Agostino | 20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | Handanovič | 37 | -56 | 4 | 0 | 3 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 40 | -58 | 4 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | Jaime Romero | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | Aleksandar Luković | 34 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | Giovanni Pasquale | 22 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| No. | Pos. | Player | App. | | | | App. | | | | App. | | | |
| No. | Pos. | Player | Serie A | Serie A | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Total | Total | Total | Total |

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Total |
| 1 | 10 | FW | | Antonio Di Natale | 29 | 0 | 29 |
| 2 | 83 | FW | | Antonio Floro Flores | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 3 | 7 | MF | | Simone Pepe | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | 11 | FW | | Alexis Sánchez | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | 84 | MF | | Francesco Lodi | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | 3 | MF | | Mauricio Isla | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 9 | FW | | Bernardo Corradi | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 20 | MF | | Kwadwo Asamoah | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 21 | MF | | Gaetano D'Agostino | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 88 | MF | | Gökhan Inler | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 54 | 4 | 58 |
Last updated: 15 May 2010