# 2018–19 Atalanta BC season

The 2018–19 season was Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio's eighth consecutive season in Serie A. The club competed in Serie A and the Coppa Italia, and had qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League following their seventh-place finish the previous season.
The season was coach Gian Piero Gasperini's third at the club.

## Players
### Squad information

    Last updated on 26 May 2019
    Appearances include league matches only
| No. | Player | Position(s) | Date of birth (Age at end of season) | Signed from | Signed in | Contract ends | Apps. | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 1 | Etrit Berisha | GK | (1989-03-10)10 March 1989 (aged 30) | Lazio | 2017 | 2021 | 75 | 0 |
| 31 | Francesco Rossi | GK | (1991-04-27)27 April 1991 (aged 28) | Youth Sector | 2009 | 2018 | 2 | 0 |
| 95 | Pierluigi Gollini | GK | (1995-03-18)18 March 1995 (aged 24) | Aston Villa | 2017 | 2018 | 31 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 2 | Rafael Toloi | CB | (1990-10-10)10 October 1990 (aged 28) | São Paulo | 2015 | 2020 | 108 | 3 |
| 5 | Andrea Masiello | CB / RB | (1986-02-05)5 February 1986 (aged 33) | Bari | 2011 | 2018 | 150 | 8 |
| 6 | José Luis Palomino | CB | (1990-01-05)5 January 1990 (aged 29) | Ludogorets Razgrad | 2017 | 2020 | 56 | 2 |
| 7 | Arkadiusz Reca | LB | (1995-06-17)17 June 1995 (aged 24) | Wisła Płock | 2018 | 2022 | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | Robin Gosens | LB / LWB / LM | (1994-07-05)5 July 1994 (aged 24) | Heracles Almelo | 2017 | 2020 | 49 | 4 |
| 19 | Berat Djimsiti | CB / RB / LB | (1993-02-19)19 February 1993 (aged 26) | Zürich | 2016 | 2019 | 27 | 1 |
| 21 | Timothy Castagne | RB | (1995-12-05)5 December 1995 (aged 23) | Genk | 2017 | 2020 | 48 | 4 |
| 23 | Gianluca Mancini | CB | (1996-04-17)17 April 1996 (aged 23) | Perugia | 2017 | 2020 | 41 | 6 |
| 30 | Marco Varnier | CB | (1998-06-08)8 June 1998 (aged 21) | Cittadella | 2018 | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Hans Hateboer | RB | (1994-01-09)9 January 1994 (aged 25) | Groningen | 2017 | 2020 | 74 | 5 |
| 41 | Roger Ibañez | CB | (1998-11-23)23 November 1998 (aged 20) | Fluminense | 2019 | | 1 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 11 | Remo Freuler | CM | (1992-04-15)15 April 1992 (aged 27) | Luzern | 2016 | 2023 | 109 | 13 |
| 15 | Marten de Roon | CM | (1991-03-29)29 March 1991 (aged 28) | Middlesbrough | 2017 | 2022 | 69 | 5 |
| 22 | Matteo Pessina | CM / AM / DM | (1997-04-21)21 April 1997 (aged 22) | Milan | 2017 | 2022 | 12 | 0 |
| 44 | Dejan Kulusevski | CM / RM / LM | (2000-04-25)25 April 2000 (aged 19) | Youth Sector | 2017 | 2022 | 3 | 0 |
| 72 | Josip Iličić | AM / RW / SS | (1988-01-29)29 January 1988 (aged 31) | Fiorentina | 2017 | 2020 | 62 | 23 |
| 88 | Mario Pašalić | CM / DM / AM | (1995-02-09)9 February 1995 (aged 24) | Chelsea | 2018 | 2019 | 33 | 5 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 10 | Alejandro Gómez | LW / SS | (1988-02-15)15 February 1988 (aged 31) | Metalist Kharkiv | 2014 | 2022 | 163 | 39 |
| 17 | Roberto Piccoli | CF | (2001-01-27)27 January 2001 (aged 18) | Youth Sector | | | 2 | 0 |
| 91 | Duván Zapata | CF | (1991-04-01)1 April 1991 (aged 28) | Sampdoria | 2018 | 2020 | 37 | 23 |
| 99 | Musa Barrow | CF / LW | (1998-11-14)14 November 1998 (aged 20) | Youth Sector | 2017 | 2020 | 34 | 4 |
| Players transferred during the season ||||||||||
| 4 | Luca Valzania | CM / DM / AM | (1996-03-05)5 March 1996 (aged 23) | Frosinone | 2015 | 2023 | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | Andreas Cornelius | ST / CF | (1993-03-16)16 March 1993 (aged 26) | Copenhagen | 2017 | 2020 | 23 | 3 |
| 13 | Davide Bettella | CB | (2000-04-07)7 April 2000 (aged 19) | Internazionale | 2018 | | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Marco D'Alessandro | RW / LW / RM | (1991-02-17)17 February 1991 (aged 28) | Roma | 2014 | 2019 | 71 | 4 |
| 20 | Marco Tumminello | CF / SS | (1998-11-06)6 November 1998 (aged 20) | Roma | 2018 | 2019 | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | Emiliano Rigoni | RW / LW | (1993-02-04)4 February 1993 (aged 26) | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 2018 | 2019 | 12 | 3 |
| 53 | Ali Adnan Kadhim | LB | (1993-12-19)19 December 1993 (aged 25) | Udinese | 2018 | 2019 | 3 | 0 |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee | Notes |
| 9 June 2018 | GK | Pierluigi Gollini | 23 | Aston Villa | €4.3M | Option to buy activated |
| 9 June 2018 | DF | Arkadiusz Reca | 22 | Wisła Płock | Undisclosed | |
| 29 June 2018 | DF | Davide Bettella | 18 | Internazionale | €7M | Buy-back option included |
| 30 June 2018 | MF | Marco Carraro | 20 | Internazionale | Undisclosed | Buy-back option included |
| 1 July 2018 | MF | Federico Mattiello | 22 | SPAL | Loan return | |

#### Loans in

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee | Notes |
| 22 June 2018 | FW | Marco Tumminello | 19 | Roma | €6M | Buy-back options for the next two summers for €10M and €13M respectively |
| 2 July 2018 | DF | Marco Varnier | 20 | Cittadella | Loan | Loan with compulsory purchase option |
| 12 July 2018 | FW | Duván Zapata | 27 | Sampdoria | €14M | 2-year loan with €12M option to buy |
| 25 July 2018 | MF | Mario Pašalić | 23 | Chelsea | Loan | Loan with an option to buy |
| 17 August 2018 | DF | Ali Adnan Kadhim | 24 | Udinese | Loan | Loan with an option to buy |
| 17 August 2018 | MF | Emiliano Rigoni | 25 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | €1M | €1M loan with an option to buy for €15M |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes |
| 1 July 2018 | DF | Alessandro Bastoni | 19 | Internazionale | Free | Loan return |
| 1 July 2018 | DF | Mattia Caldara | 24 | Juventus | Free | Loan return |
| 1 July 2018 | MF | Luca Rizzo | 26 | Bologna | Free | Loan return |
| 1 July 2018 | DF | Leonardo Spinazzola | 25 | Juventus | Free | Loan return |
| 14 January 2019 | MF | Emiliano Rigoni | 25 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | Free | Loan return |

#### Loans out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes |
| 8 June 2018 | MF | Bryan Cristante | 23 | Roma | €5M | One-year loan with a compulsory option to buy for €15M + €10M in bonuses |
| 6 July 2018 | GK | Marco Sportiello | 26 | Frosinone | Loan | Loan with an option to buy |
| 19 July 2018 | FW | Andrea Petagna | 23 | SPAL | Loan | Loan with an obligation to buy under unspecified conditions |
| 20 July 2018 | MF | Federico Mattiello | 23 | Bologna | Loan | Loan with an obligation to buy |
| 17 August 2018 | MF | Marco D'Alessandro | 27 | Udinese | Loan | Loan with an option to buy |
| 31 August 2018 | FW | Andreas Cornelius | 25 | Bordeaux | Loan | One-year loan with an option to buy for €7M to €8M |
| 8 January 2019 | MF | Luca Valzania | 21 | Frosinone | Loan | Season-long loan deal |

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Juventus (C) | 38 | 28 | 6 | 4 | 70 | 30 | +40 | 90 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Napoli | 38 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 74 | 36 | +38 | 79 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Atalanta | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 77 | 46 | +31 | 69 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 4 | Inter Milan | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 57 | 33 | +24 | 69 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 5 | Milan | 38 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 55 | 36 | +19 | 68 | |
* 1 2 Atalanta finished ahead of Internazionale on head-to-head points: Atalanta 4–1 Internazionale, Internazionale 0–0 Atalanta.
* ↑ Milan were excluded from UEFA competitions over financial fair play violation.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 26 May 2019. 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | D | L | L | D | D | L | L | W | W | W | W | L | L | W | W | L | D | W | W | D | W | W | L | L | W | W | D | W | W | D | D | W | W | W | W | D | W |
| Position | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Europa League
#### Second qualifying round
#### Play-off round
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Europa League | Europa League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | ALB | Etrit Berisha | 22 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 31 | GK | ITA | Franceso Rossi | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 95 | GK | ITA | Pierluigi Gollini | 27 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | BRA | Rafael Toloi | 29 | 2 | 20+1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Andrea Masiello | 32 | 1 | 22+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 6 | DF | ARG | José Luis Palomino | 39 | 2 | 25+5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3+1 | 1 |
| 7 | DF | POL | Arkadiusz Reca | 5 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | DF | GER | Robin Gosens | 35 | 3 | 23+5 | 3 | 1+1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | ALB | Berat Djimsiti | 29 | 1 | 20+4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | BEL | Timothy Castagne | 37 | 5 | 21+7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2+2 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Gianluca Mancini | 34 | 6 | 24+5 | 5 | 1+1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 33 | DF | NED | Hans Hateboer | 43 | 6 | 33+2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 41 | DF | BRA | Roger Ibañez | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 11 | MF | SUI | Remo Freuler | 44 | 2 | 35 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | NED | Marten de Roon | 44 | 3 | 34+1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | ITA | Matteo Pessina | 19 | 0 | 1+11 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | SWE | Dejan Kulusevski | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 72 | MF | SVN | Josip Iličić | 36 | 13 | 23+8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | MF | CRO | Mario Pašalić | 41 | 8 | 17+16 | 5 | 1+3 | 2 | 3+1 | 1 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 10 | FW | ARG | Alejandro Gómez | 46 | 11 | 34+1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| 17 | FW | ITA | Roberto Piccoli | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | FW | COL | Duván Zapata | 48 | 28 | 32+5 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 3+3 | 2 |
| 99 | FW | GAM | Musa Barrow | 29 | 5 | 6+16 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 | 3+2 | 4 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
| 4 | MF | ITA | Luca Valzania | 4 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | DEN | Andreas Cornelius | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+4 | 1 |
| 17 | MF | ITA | Marco D'Alessandro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | ITA | Marco Tumminello | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | ARG | Emiliano Rigoni | 12 | 3 | 6+6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | DF | IRQ | Ali Adnan Kadhim | 4 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
Last updated: 26 May 2019 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | UEFA EL | Total |
| 1 | 91 | FW | | Duván Zapata | 23 | 3 | 2 | 28 |
| 2 | 72 | MF | | Josip Iličić | 12 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| 3 | 10 | FW | | Alejandro Gómez | 7 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| 4 | 88 | MF | | Mario Pašalić | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 5 | 23 | DF | | Gianluca Mancini | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | 33 | DF | | Hans Hateboer | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | 21 | DF | | Timothy Castagne | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 7 | 99 | FW | | Musa Barrow | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 9 | 8 | DF | | Robin Gosens | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | 15 | MF | | Marten de Roon | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | 24 | MF | | Emiliano Rigoni | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | 2 | DF | | Rafael Toloi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | 6 | DF | | José Luis Palomino | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | 11 | MF | | Remo Freuler | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | 5 | DF | | Andrea Masiello | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 9 | FW | | Andreas Cornelius | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 19 | DF | | Berat Djimsiti | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 77 | 10 | 16 | 103 |
Last updated: 26 May 2019

### Clean sheets

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | UEFA EL | Total |
| 1 | 95 | GK | | Pierluigi Gollini | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | 1 | GK | | Etrit Berisha | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 9 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
Last updated: 26 May 2019

### Disciplinary record

| No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | UEFA EL | UEFA EL | UEFA EL | Total | Total | Total |
| 1 | GK | | Etrit Berisha | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | GK | | Francesco Rossi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 95 | GK | | Pierluigi Gollini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | | Rafael Toloi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | | Andrea Masiello | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | | José Luis Palomino | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | DF | | Arkadiusz Reca | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | DF | | Robin Gosens | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | | Berat Djimsiti | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | | Timothy Castagne | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | | Gianluca Mancini | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | | Hans Hateboer | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | DF | | Ali Adnan Kadhim | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | | Luca Valzania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | | Remo Freuler | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | | Marten de Roon | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | | Marco D'Alessandro | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | | Matteo Pessina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | | Emiliano Rigoni | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 72 | MF | | Josip Iličić | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 88 | MF | | Mario Pašalić | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | | Andreas Cornelius | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | | Alejandro Gómez | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | | Marco Tumminello | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | FW | | Duván Zapata | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | | Musa Barrow | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 63 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 1 | 1 |
Last updated: 26 May 2019