# 2024–25 FC Lugano season

The 2024–25 season is the 117th season in the history of FC Lugano, and the club's 10th consecutive season in Swiss Super League. In addition to the domestic league, the team is scheduled to participate in the Swiss Cup and the UEFA Champions League as 2023–24 Super League runner-up.

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| DF | Antonios Papadopoulos | Borussia Dortmund | Free | 1 July 2024 |
| MF | Zachary Brault-Guillard | Free agent | | 1 July 2024 |
| DF | Mattia Zanotti | Inter Milan | Undisclosed | 13 July 2024 |
| FW | Georgios Koutsias | Chicago Fire | Loan | 1 January 2025 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| DF | Kreshnik Hajrizi | Widzew Łódź | End of contract | 1 July 2024 |
| GK | Serif Berbic | Bellinzona | Loan | 17 July 2024 |
| MF | Chinwendu Johan Nkama | Bellinzona | Loan | 17 July 2024 |
| FW | Žan Celar | Queens Park Rangers | Undisclosed | 19 July 2024 |

## Competitions
### Overall record

| 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 % |
| Swiss Super League | 20 July 2024 | | Matchday 1 | | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 100.00 |
| Swiss Cup | 18 August 2024 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| UEFA Champions League | 23–24 July 2024 | 30 July 2024 | Second qualifying round | Second qualifying round | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 000.00 |
| UEFA Europa League | 8 August 2024 | | Third qualifying round | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | +2 | 060.00 |
Last updated: 3 August 2024 Source: Soccerway

### Swiss Super League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Lugano | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 35 | 28 | +7 | 35 | Qualification for the Champions League play-off round |
| 2 | Basel | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 46 | 22 | +24 | 34 | Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Luzern | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 36 | 31 | +5 | 33 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round |
| 4 | Lausanne-Sport | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 33 | 25 | +8 | 31 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round |
| 5 | Servette | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 29 | 27 | +2 | 31 | |
* ↑ Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 25 January 2025. Source: soccerway

#### 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 |
| Ground | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | A |
| Result | W | W | W | L | W | D | D | W | D | L | W | D | W | L | W | L | W | L | D | W | | | | | |
| Position | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | | |

#### Matches

The match schedule was released on 18 June 2024.