# 2021–22 Bologna FC 1909 season

The 2021–22 season was the 112th season in the existence of Bologna F.C. 1909 and the club's seventh consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football. In addition to the domestic league, Bologna participated in this season's edition of the Coppa Italia.

## Players
### First-team squad

    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 |
| 2 | DF | ENG | Luis Binks |
| 3 | DF | SCO | Aaron Hickey |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Kevin Bonifazi |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Adama Soumaoro |
| 6 | DF | BEL | Arthur Theate (on loan from Oostende) |
| 7 | FW | ITA | Riccardo Orsolini |
| 8 | MF | ARG | Nicolás Domínguez |
| 9 | FW | AUT | Marko Arnautović |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Nicola Sansone |
| 11 | MF | CHI | Luis Rojas (on loan from Crotone) |
| 12 | GK | ALB | Marco Molla |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Nicolas Viola |
| 15 | DF | SEN | Ibrahima Mbaye |
| 16 | MF | NGA | Kingsley Michael |
| 17 | DF | CHI | Gary Medel |
| 19 | FW | PAR | Federico Santander |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | MF | SUI | Michel Aebischer (on loan from Young Boys) |
| 21 | MF | ITA | Roberto Soriano (captain) |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Francesco Bardi |
| 28 | GK | POL | Łukasz Skorupski |
| 29 | DF | ITA | Lorenzo De Silvestri (vice-captain) |
| 30 | MF | NED | Jerdy Schouten |
| 32 | MF | SWE | Mattias Svanberg |
| 33 | MF | FIN | Niklas Pyyhtiä |
| 35 | DF | NED | Mitchell Dijks |
| 55 | MF | ITA | Emanuel Vignato |
| 66 | DF | ITA | Wisdom Amey |
| 71 | DF | NED | Denso Kasius |
| 77 | DF | GHA | Ebenezer Annan |
| 91 | FW | ITA | Diego Falcinelli |
| 99 | FW | GAM | Musa Barrow |
| — | FW | GAM | Musa Juwara |

### Out on loan

    As of 1 February 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 | CAN | Sebastian Breza (at CF Montréal until 31 December 2022) |
| — | GK | ITA | Federico Ravaglia (at Frosinone until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Emanuele Acampora (at Sona until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Gabriele Corbo (at CF Montréal until 31 December 2022) |
| — | DF | NED | Stefano Denswil (at Trabzonspor until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | MAR | Omar Khailoti (at Carrarese until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ISL | Andri Baldursson (at Copenhagen until 30 June 2022) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | URU | César Falletti (at Ternana until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Gianmarco Cangiano (at Crotone until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Flavio Di Dio (at Picerno until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | NGA | Orji Okwonkwo (at Cittadella until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Simone Rabbi (at Piacenza until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | NED | Sydney van Hooijdonk (at SC Heerenveen until 30 June 2022) |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| 2 | DF | Luis Binks | CF Montréal | Undisclosed | 1 July 2021 |
| 4 | DF | Kevin Bonifazi | SPAL | Undisclosed | 2 July 2021 |
| 99 | FW | Musa Barrow | Atalanta | Undisclosed | 2 July 2021 |
| 20 | FW | Sydney van Hooijdonk | NAC | Undisclosed | 3 July 2021 |
| 5 | DF | Adama Soumaoro | Lille | Undisclosed | 3 July 2021 |
| 22 | GK | Francesco Bardi | Frosinone | Undisclosed | 17 July 2021 |
| 9 | FW | Marko Arnautović | Shanghai Port | Undisclosed | 1 August 2021 |
| 6 | DF | Arthur Theate | Oostende | Undisclosed | 26 August 2021 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## 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 % |
| Serie A | 22 August 2021 | 21 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 13th | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 44 | 55 | −11 | 031.58 |
| Coppa Italia | 16 August 2021 | 16 August 2021 | First round | First round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 39 | 12 | 10 | 17 | 48 | 60 | −12 | 030.77 |
Last updated: 21 May 2022 Source: Soccerway

### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 11 | Sassuolo | 38 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 64 | 66 | −2 | 50 |
| 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 |
* ↑ Torino finished ahead of Sassuolo on head-to-head points: Sassuolo 0–1 Torino, Torino 1–1 Sassuolo.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 21 May 2022. 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 | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A |
| Result | W | D | W | L | D | L | W | D | L | L | W | W | L | W | W | L | L | L | W | W | L | L | L | D | L | W | D | D | L | L | D | W | D | D | D | L | L | W |
| Position | 5 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |

#### 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 ||||||||||
| 12 | GK | ALB | Marco Molla | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Francesco Bardi | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | GK | ITA | Nicola Bagnolini | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | GK | POL | Lukasz Skorupski | 13 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 2 | DF | ENG | Luis Binks | 15 | 0 | 7+8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SCO | Aaron Hickey | 36 | 5 | 34+2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Kevin Bonifazi | 23 | 0 | 14+8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Adama Soumaoro | 29 | 0 | 26+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | BEL | Arthur Theate | 31 | 2 | 28+3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | SEN | Ibrahima Mbaye | 7 | 0 | 1+5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | CHI | Gary Medel | 34 | 0 | 32+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | ITA | Lorenzo De Silvestri | 31 | 3 | 27+4 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | ITA | Riccardo Stivanello | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | DF | NED | Mitchell Dijks | 16 | 0 | 7+9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 66 | DF | ITA | Wisdom Amey | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 | DF | NED | Denso Kasius | 7 | 0 | 1+6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | DF | ITA | Ebenezer Annan | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 8 | MF | ARG | Nicolás Domínguez | 29 | 1 | 23+5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | MF | CHI | Luis Rojas | 28 | 0 | 23+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Nicolas Viola | 6 | 0 | 1+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | NGA | Kingsley Michael | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | ITA | Roberto Soriano | 36 | 1 | 32+3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 30 | MF | NED | Jerdy Schouten | 18 | 1 | 16+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | SWE | Mattias Svanberg | 37 | 3 | 31+5 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | FIN | Niklas Pyyhtiä | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | MF | ITA | Emanuel Vignato | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 82 | MF | POL | Kacper Urbański | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 7 | FW | ITA | Riccardo Orsolini | 30 | 7 | 21+8 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | AUT | Marko Arnautović | 34 | 15 | 32+1 | 14 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Nicola Sansone | 27 | 2 | 6+21 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | PAR | Federico Santander | 7 | 1 | 0+7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | FW | ITA | Mattia Pagliuca | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | FW | ITA | Emanuel Vignato | 24 | 0 | 3+21 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 76 | FW | ITA | Antonio Raimondo | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | FW | ITA | Diego Falcinelli | 6 | 0 | 0+6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | GAM | Musa Barrow | 35 | 6 | 25+9 | 6 | 0+1 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 11 | FW | DEN | Andreas Skov Olsen | 19 | 0 | 6+12 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | JPN | Takehiro Tomiyasu | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | NED | Sydney van Hooijdonk | 5 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
Last updated: 21 May 2022 Source: Competitions