# 2021–22 SSC Napoli season

The 2021–22 season was the 76th season in the existence of SSC Napoli and the club's 15th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football. In addition to the domestic league, Napoli participated in this season's editions of the Coppa Italia and the UEFA Europa League.

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## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 2 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 | ITA | Alex Meret |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Kévin Malcuit |
| 3 | DF | ENG | Axel Tuanzebe (on loan from Manchester United) |
| 4 | MF | GER | Diego Demme |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Juan Jesus |
| 6 | DF | POR | Mário Rui |
| 7 | MF | MKD | Eljif Elmas |
| 8 | MF | ESP | Fabián Ruiz |
| 9 | FW | NGA | Victor Osimhen |
| 11 | FW | MEX | Hirving Lozano |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Davide Marfella |
| 13 | DF | KOS | Amir Rrahmani |
| 14 | FW | BEL | Dries Mertens (3rd captain) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | MF | POL | Piotr Zieliński (4th captain) |
| 21 | FW | ITA | Matteo Politano |
| 22 | DF | ITA | Giovanni Di Lorenzo |
| 24 | FW | ITA | Lorenzo Insigne (captain) |
| 25 | GK | COL | David Ospina |
| 26 | DF | SEN | Kalidou Koulibaly (vice-captain) |
| 31 | DF | ALG | Faouzi Ghoulam |
| 33 | FW | ALG | Adam Ounas |
| 37 | FW | ITA | Andrea Petagna |
| 59 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Zanoli |
| 68 | MF | SVK | Stanislav Lobotka |
| 99 | MF | CMR | André-Frank Zambo Anguissa (on loan from Fulham) |

### Out on loan

    As of 18 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 | Nikita Contini (at Crotone until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Sebastiano Luperto (at Empoli until 30 June 2023) |
| — | DF | ITA | Francesco Mezzoni (at Pistoiese until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Gianluca Gaetano (at Cremonese until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Luca Palmiero (at Cosenza until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | FRA | Zinédine Machach (at Honvéd until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Francesco Marrazzo (at Lanusei until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Filippo Costa (at Parma until 30 June 2022) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | FRA | Karim Zedadka (at Charleroi until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Leonardo Candellone (at Südtirol until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Eugenio D'Ursi (at Pescara until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ARG | Franco Ferrari (at Pescara until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Michael Folorunsho (at Pordenone until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Gennaro Tutino (at Parma until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Alessio Zerbin (at Frosinone until 30 June 2022) |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee | Notes |
| 30 June 2021 | FW | Matteo Politano | 27 | Internazionale | €25M | Loan deal made permanent |
| 30 June 2021 | DF | Kévin Malcuit | 29 | Fiorentina | N/A | Loan return |
| 30 June 2021 | FW | Adam Ounas | 24 | Crotone | N/A | Loan return |
| 30 June 2021 | DF | Alessandro Zanoli | 20 | Legnago | N/A | Loan return |
| 18 August 2021 | DF | Juan Jesus | 30 | Roma | Free | End of contract |
| 18 January 2022 | MF | Amin Younes | 28 | Eintracht Frankfurt | N/A | Loan terminated early |

#### Loans in

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee | Notes | Source |
| 31 August 2021 | MF | André-Frank Zambo Anguissa | 25 | Fulham | N/A | One year loan with option to buy | |
| 8 January 2022 | DF | Axel Tuanzebe | 24 | Manchester United | N/A | Six month loan | |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes |
| 30 June 2021 | MF | Tiémoué Bakayoko | 26 | Chelsea | N/A | End of loan |
| 30 June 2021 | DF | Elseid Hysaj | 27 | Lazio | Free | End of contract |
| 30 June 2021 | DF | Nikola Maksimović | 29 | Genoa | Free | End of contract |
| 1 January 2022 | DF | Kostas Manolas | 30 | Olympiacos | €2.5M | |
| 23 January 2022 | MF | Amin Younes | 28 | Al-Ettifaq | Free | |

#### Loans out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes | Source |
| 31 August 2021 | MF | Gianluca Gaetano | 21 | Cremonese | N/A | One year loan | |

## 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 | 22 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 3rd | 38 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 74 | 31 | +43 | 063.16 |
| Coppa Italia | 13 January 2022 | 13 January 2022 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 000.00 |
| UEFA Europa League | 16 September 2021 | 24 February 2022 | Group stage | Knockout round play-offs | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 15 | +3 | 037.50 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 47 | 27 | 9 | 11 | 94 | 51 | +43 | 057.45 |
Source: Soccerway

### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Milan (C) | 38 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 69 | 31 | +38 | 86 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Internazionale | 38 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 84 | 32 | +52 | 84 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Napoli | 38 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 74 | 31 | +43 | 79 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 4 | Juventus | 38 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 57 | 37 | +20 | 70 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 5 | Lazio | 38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 77 | 58 | +19 | 64 | 0Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
* ↑ Since the winners of the 2021–22 Coppa Italia, Internazionale, qualified for the Champions League, the Europa League berth awarded to the Coppa Italia winners was passed to the sixth-placed team, and the Europa Conference League berth awarded to the sixth-placed team was passed to the seventh-placed team.

#### 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 | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | L | W | D | L | L | W | L | D | W | W | W | W | D | D | W | L | W | W | W | L | D | L | W | W | W | W |
| Position | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 14 July 2021.

### UEFA Europa League
#### Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 27 August 2021.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | SPM | NAP | LEI | LEG |
| 1 | Spartak Moscow | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 10 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 2–1 | 3–4 | 0–1 |
| 2 | Napoli | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 10 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 2–3 | — | 3–2 | 3–0 |
| 3 | Leicester City | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 11 | +1 | 8 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 1–1 | 2–2 | — | 3–1 |
| 4 | Legia Warsaw | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 6 | | 0–1 | 1–4 | 1–0 | — |
* 1 2 Head–to–head points: Spartak Moscow 6, Napoli 0.

#### Knockout phase
##### Knockout round play-offs

The knockout round play-offs draw was held on 13 December 2021.

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

    Last updated on 22 May 2022
| 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 | ITA | Alex Meret | 15 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Davide Marfella | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | GK | COL | David Ospina | 33 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 46 | GK | POL | Hubert Idasiak | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | FRA | Kévin Malcuit | 13 | 0 | 2+6 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ENG | Axel Tuanzebe | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Juan Jesus | 28 | 1 | 14+7 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | POR | Mário Rui | 39 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | KOS | Amir Rrahmani | 41 | 4 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | ITA | Giovanni Di Lorenzo | 42 | 1 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | SEN | Kalidou Koulibaly | 34 | 3 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | ALG | Faouzi Ghoulam | 16 | 0 | 3+11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 38 | DF | ITA | Davide Costanzo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 59 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Zanoli | 13 | 0 | 5+7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 4 | MF | GER | Diego Demme | 25 | 1 | 7+12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | MKD | Eljif Elmas | 46 | 7 | 12+25 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7+1 | 4 |
| 8 | MF | ESP | Fabián Ruiz | 38 | 7 | 29+3 | 7 | 0+1 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | POL | Piotr Zieliński | 42 | 8 | 26+9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 68 | MF | SVK | Stanislav Lobotka | 26 | 1 | 19+4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 99 | MF | CMR | André-Frank Zambo Anguissa | 30 | 0 | 21+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | NGA | Victor Osimhen | 32 | 18 | 23+4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 3+2 | 4 |
| 11 | FW | MEX | Hirving Lozano | 37 | 6 | 20+10 | 5 | 0+1 | 0 | 5+1 | 1 |
| 14 | FW | BEL | Dries Mertens | 37 | 13 | 16+14 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2+4 | 1 |
| 21 | FW | ITA | Matteo Politano | 39 | 5 | 20+13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1+4 | 2 |
| 24 | FW | ITA | Lorenzo Insigne | 37 | 13 | 28+4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| 33 | FW | ALG | Adam Ounas | 21 | 2 | 1+14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+5 | 2 |
| 37 | FW | ITA | Andrea Petagna | 32 | 4 | 4+20 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4+3 | 0 |
| 58 | FW | ITA | Antonio Cioffi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
| 44 | DF | GRE | Kostas Manolas | 7 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 70 | MF | ITA | Gianluca Gaetano | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos. | Nat. | Player | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | 9 | FW | | Victor Osimhen | 14 | 0 | 4 | 18 |
| 2 | 14 | FW | | Dries Mertens | 11 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| 2 | 24 | FW | | Lorenzo Insigne | 11 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| 4 | 20 | MF | | Piotr Zieliński | 6 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | 7 | MF | | Eljif Elmas | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 8 | MF | | Fabián Ruiz | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 7 | 11 | FW | | Hirving Lozano | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 8 | 21 | FW | | Matteo Politano | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 9 | 13 | DF | | Amir Rrahmani | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | 37 | FW | | Andrea Petagna | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 11 | 26 | DF | | Kalidou Koulibaly | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | 33 | FW | | Adam Ounas | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | 4 | MF | | Diego Demme | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | 5 | DF | | Juan Jesus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | 22 | DF | | Giovanni Di Lorenzo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | 68 | MF | | Stanislav Lobotka | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 74 | 2 | 18 | 94 |