# 2021–22 US Cremonese season

The 2021–22 season was U.S. Cremonese's second consecutive season in second division of the Italian football league, the Serie B, and the 119th as a football club.

## Players
### First-team squad

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 | ITA | Alessandro Fiordaliso |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Emanuele Valeri |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Luca Ravanelli |
| 7 | FW | URU | Jaime Báez |
| 8 | FW | CIV | Cedric Gondo |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Daniel Ciofani |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Cristian Buonaiuto |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Luca Strizzolo |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Marco Carnesecchi (on loan from Atalanta) |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Andrea Meroni (on loan from Sassuolo) |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Luca Valzania (on loan from Atalanta) |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Matteo Bianchetti |
| 16 | MF | ITA | Paolo Bartolomei |
| 17 | MF | ITA | Leonardo Sernicola (on loan from Sassuolo) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | MF | ITA | Michele Castagnetti |
| 20 | MF | ROU | Dennis Politic |
| 21 | MF | ITA | Nicolò Fagioli (on loan from Juventus) |
| 22 | GK | POL | Dorian Ciezkowski |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Crescenzi |
| 27 | DF | FRA | Daniel Frey |
| 29 | FW | ITA | Samuel Di Carmine |
| 32 | DF | ARG | Tiago Casasola (on loan from Lazio) |
| 45 | GK | SEN | Mouhamadou Sarr |
| 55 | DF | ITA | Caleb Okoli (on loan from Atalanta) |
| 70 | MF | ITA | Gianluca Gaetano (on loan from Napoli) |
| 98 | FW | ITA | Luca Zanimacchia (on loan from Juventus) |
| 99 | MF | TUN | Hamza Rafia (on loan from Juventus) |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | ITA | Luca Munaretti (at Virtus Verona until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | ITA | Emanuele Terranova (at Bari until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Christian Acella (at Giana Erminio until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Stefano Cella (at Virtus Verona until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Francesco Cerretelli (at Pro Sesto until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Riccardo Collodel (at Lucchese until 30 June 2022) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | ITA | Francesco Deli (at Pordenone until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Filippo Nardi (at Como until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | ITA | Fausto Perseu (at Olbia until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Blue Mamona (at Fiorenzuola until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | ITA | Marco Zunno (at Fiorenzuola until 30 June 2022) |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## 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 B | 22 August 2021 | 6 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 2nd | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 57 | 38 | +19 | 052.63 |
| Coppa Italia | 15 August 2021 | 15 August 2021 | First round | First round | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 39 | 20 | 10 | 9 | 57 | 38 | +19 | 051.28 |
Source: Soccerway

### Serie B
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Lecce (C, P) | 38 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 59 | 31 | +28 | 71 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 2 | Cremonese (P) | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 57 | 39 | +18 | 69 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 3 | Pisa | 38 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 48 | 35 | +13 | 67 | Qualification for promotion play-offs semi-finals |
| 4 | Monza (O, P) | 38 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 60 | 38 | +22 | 67 | Qualification for promotion play-offs semi-finals |
| 5 | Brescia | 38 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 55 | 35 | +20 | 66 | Qualification for promotion play-offs preliminary round |
* 1 2 Pisa finished ahead of Monza on head-to-head points: Pisa 2–1 Monza, Monza 1–2 Pisa.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Serie B

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | L | W | W | L | W | W | D | L | D | D | D | W | L | D | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | D | D | W | D | W | L | W | W | D | W | L | W | L | L | W |
| Position | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 24 July 2021.