# 2019–20 Hellas Verona FC season

The 2019–20 season was Hellas Verona Football Club's 29th season in Serie A and their first back in the top-flight after being relegated to Serie B at the end of the 2017–18 Serie A season. The club finished 5th in the 2018–19 Serie B season and were promoted via winning the play-off.

## Players
### Squad information

    Last updated on 8 February 2020
    Appearances include league matches only
| No. | Name | Position(s) | Date of birth (Age) | Signed from | Signed in | Contract ends | Apps. | Goals | Notes |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||||
| 1 | Marco Silvestri | GK | (1991-03-02) 2 March 1991 (age 33) | Leeds United | 2017 | 2021 | 65 | 0 | |
| 22 | Alessandro Berardi | GK | (1991-01-16) 16 January 1991 (age 33) | Bari | 2018 | 2021 | 0 | 0 | |
| 96 | Boris Radunović | GK | (1996-05-26) 26 May 1996 (age 28) | Atalanta | 2019 | 2020 | 0 | 0 | Loan |
| Defenders |||||||||||
| 5 | Davide Faraoni | RB / RM / LB | (1991-10-25) 25 October 1991 (age 32) | Crotone | 2019 | 2022 | 40 | 6 | |
| 13 | Amir Rrahmani | CB / RB / LB | (1994-02-24) 24 February 1994 (age 30) | Dinamo Zagreb | 2019 | 2022 | 23 | 0 | |
| 15 | Salvatore Bocchetti | CB / LB / DM | (1986-11-30) 30 November 1986 (age 37) | Spartak Moscow | 2019 | 2021 | 5 | 0 | |
| 21 | Koray Günter | CB / DM / RB | (1994-08-16) 16 August 1994 (age 30) | Genoa | 2019 | 2020 | 20 | 0 | Loan |
| 23 | Federico Dimarco | LB / LM | (1997-11-10) 10 November 1997 (age 26) | Internazionale | 2020 | 2020 | 1 | 0 | Loan |
| 24 | Marash Kumbulla | CB / DM | (2000-02-08) 8 February 2000 (age 24) | Youth Sector | 2018 | 2022 | 18 | 1 | |
| 27 | Paweł Dawidowicz | CB / DM | (1995-05-20) 20 May 1995 (age 29) | Benfica B | 2019 | 2022 | 41 | 2 | |
| 33 | Alan Empereur | CB / LB | (1994-03-10) 10 March 1994 (age 30) | Foggia | 2018 | 2021 | 21 | 0 | |
| 98 | Claud Adjapong | RB | (1998-05-06) 6 May 1998 (age 26) | Sassuolo | 2019 | 2020 | 1 | 0 | Loan |
| Midfielders |||||||||||
| 4 | Miguel Veloso | DM / CM | (1986-05-11) 11 May 1986 (age 38) | Genoa | 2019 | 2020 | 20 | 2 | |
| 7 | Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu | CM / DM | (1990-12-02) 2 December 1990 (age 33) | Udinese | 2019 | 2020 | 3 | 0 | Loan |
| 8 | Valentin Eysseric | AM / LW / RW | (1992-03-25) 25 March 1992 (age 32) | Fiorentina | 2020 | 2020 | 1 | 0 | Loan |
| 14 | Valerio Verre | CM / DM / AM | (1994-01-11) 11 January 1994 (age 30) | Sampdoria | 2019 | 2020 | 21 | 3 | Loan |
| 18 | Lucas Felippe | CM / DM / AM | (2000-05-03) 3 May 2000 (age 24) | Youth Sector | 2019 | 2022 | 0 | 0 | |
| 20 | Mattia Zaccagni | CM / DM | (1995-06-16) 16 June 1995 (age 29) | Bellaria Igea | 2014 | 2022 | 64 | 3 | |
| 25 | Andrea Danzi | DM / LM / CM | (1999-02-25) 25 February 1999 (age 25) | Youth Sector | 2018 | 2022 | 1 | 0 | |
| 32 | Matteo Pessina | CM / AM / DM | (1997-04-21) 21 April 1997 (age 27) | Atalanta | 2019 | 2020 | 22 | 3 | Loan |
| 34 | Sofyan Amrabat | CM / RM / CB | (1996-08-21) 21 August 1996 (age 28) | Club Brugge | 2019 | 2020 | 21 | 0 | Loan |
| 88 | Darko Lazović | RM / RW / LW | (1990-09-15) 15 September 1990 (age 34) | Genoa | 2019 | 2022 | 23 | 1 | |
| Forwards |||||||||||
| 9 | Mariusz Stępiński | CF / SS | (1995-05-12) 12 May 1995 (age 29) | Chievo | 2019 | 2020 | 12 | 2 | Loan |
| 10 | Samuel Di Carmine | CF | (1988-09-29) 29 September 1988 (age 36) | Perugia | 2019 | 2021 | 11 | 3 | |
| 11 | Giampaolo Pazzini | CF | (1984-08-02) 2 August 1984 (age 40) | Milan | 2015 | 2021 | 122 | 49 | |
| 16 | Fabio Borini | LW / CF / RW | (1991-03-29) 29 March 1991 (age 33) | Milan | 2020 | 2020 | 5 | 2 | Loan |
| 29 | Eddie Salcedo | CF / LW | (2001-10-01) 1 October 2001 (age 23) | Genoa | 2019 | 2020 | 9 | 1 | Loan |
| Players transferred during the season |||||||||||
| 3 | Luigi Vitale | LB / LM / LW | (1987-10-05) 5 October 1987 (age 37) | Salernitana | 2019 | 2021 | 12 | 0 | |
| 6 | Luca Marrone | CB / DM | (1990-03-28) 28 March 1990 (age 34) | Juventus | 2018 | 2021 | 24 | 0 | |
| 8 | Liam Henderson | CM / RM / AM | (1996-04-25) 25 April 1996 (age 28) | Bari | 2018 | 2022 | 32 | 3 | |
| 12 | Daniel Bessa | CM / LM / AM | (1993-01-14) 14 January 1993 (age 31) | Internazionale | 2016 | 2021 | 58 | 9 | |
| 16 | Abdoullaye Traoré | LW / CF / SS | (2000-04-30) 30 April 2000 (age 24) | Youth Sector | 2019 | 2021 | 0 | 0 | |
| 17 | Alessandro Crescenzi | LB / RB / LM | (1991-09-25) 25 September 1991 (age 33) | Pescara | 2018 | 2021 | 12 | 0 | |
| 19 | Ľubomír Tupta | CF / LW / SS | (2000-04-30) 30 April 2000 (age 24) | Youth Sector | 2018 | 2021 | 19 | 2 | |
| 23 | Antonio Di Gaudio | LW / LM / SS | (1989-08-16) 16 August 1989 (age 35) | Parma | 2019 | 2021 | 0 | 0 | |
| 66 | Gennaro Tutino | LW / CF / RW | (1996-08-20) 20 August 1996 (age 28) | Napoli | 2019 | 2020 | 6 | 0 | Loan |
| — | Lee Seung-woo | LW / SS | (1998-01-06) 6 January 1998 (age 26) | Barcelona B | 2017 | 2021 | 37 | 2 | |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee | Notes |
| 27 June 2019 | DF | Amir Rrahmani | 25 | Dinamo Zagreb | €2,1 M | |
| 20 July 2019 | MF | Miguel Veloso | 33 | Genoa | Free | Signed as a free agent |
| 25 July 2019 | DF | Salvatore Bocchetti | 33 | Spartak Moscow | Free | Signed as a free agent |
| 6 August 2019 | MF | Darko Lazović | 29 | Genoa | Free | Signed as a free agent |
| Winter ||||||||
| 14 January 2020 | MF | Fabio Borini | 28 | Milan | Free | Signed as a free agent |

#### Loans in

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee | Notes |
| 13 July 2019 | MF | Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu | 29 | Udinese | €0,4 M | Obligation to buy |
| 15 July 2019 | GK | Boris Radunović | 23 | Atalanta | N/A | |
| 19 July 2019 | DF | Koray Günter | 24 | Genoa | N/A | Option to buy |
| 10 August 2019 | MF | Valerio Verre | 25 | Sampdoria | N/A | Option to buy |
| 21 August 2019 | DF | Claud Adjapong | 21 | Sassuolo | N/A | |
| 22 August 2019 | MF | Sofyan Amrabat | 23 | Club Brugge | N/A | Option to buy for €3,5 M |
| 27 August 2019 | MF | Matteo Pessina | 22 | Atalanta | N/A | Option to buy |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes | Source |
| 18 July 2019 | GK | Nícolas | 31 | Udinese | €1,2 M | | |
| 30 August 2019 | FW | Lee Seung-Woo | 21 | Sint-Truiden | N/A | | |

#### Loans out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes | Source |
| 8 August 2019 | FW | Jure Balkovec | 24 | Empoli | N/A | Option to buy | |

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 7 | Napoli | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 61 | 50 | +11 | 62 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 8 | Sassuolo | 38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 69 | 63 | +6 | 51 | |
| 9 | Hellas Verona | 38 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 47 | 51 | −4 | 49 | |
| 10 | Fiorentina | 38 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 51 | 48 | +3 | 49 | |
| 11 | Parma | 38 | 14 | 7 | 17 | 56 | 57 | −1 | 49 | |
* ↑ Napoli qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2019–20 Coppa Italia.
* 1 2 3 Positions determined by head-to-head points: Hellas Verona: 10 pts; Fiorentina: 5 pts; Parma: 1 pt.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 2 August 2020. 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | 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 |
| Result | D | W | L | L | D | D | W | L | L | W | W | L | W | L | L | D | D | W | W | D | W | D | W | D | W | L | L | D | W | L | D | D | L | D | D | L | W | L |
| Position | 12 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |

#### Matches
### 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 ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | ITA | Marco Silvestri | 36 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Alessandro Berardi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 96 | GK | SRB | Boris Radunović | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 5 | DF | ITA | Davide Faraoni | 37 | 5 | 36 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Matteo Lovato | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | KOS | Amir Rrahmani | 37 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Salvatore Bocchetti | 5 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | GER | Koray Günter | 33 | 0 | 31+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Federico Dimarco | 13 | 0 | 5+8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | ALB | Marash Kumbulla | 26 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | POL | Paweł Dawidowicz | 15 | 1 | 7+8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | BRA | Alan Empereur | 14 | 1 | 8+5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 98 | DF | ITA | Claud Adjapong | 5 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 4 | MF | POR | Miguel Veloso | 35 | 3 | 32+2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | GHA | Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu | 10 | 0 | 2+8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Valentin Eysseric | 6 | 0 | 3+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Valerio Verre | 33 | 3 | 22+10 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | BRA | Lucas Felippe | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Mattia Zaccagni | 35 | 2 | 26+8 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Andrea Danzi | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | ITA | Matteo Pessina | 35 | 7 | 27+8 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | MAR | Sofyan Amrabat | 34 | 1 | 33+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | MF | SRB | Darko Lazović | 39 | 3 | 37+1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 9 | FW | POL | Mariusz Stępiński | 21 | 3 | 7+14 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Samuel Di Carmine | 22 | 8 | 17+5 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Giampaolo Pazzini | 16 | 4 | 1+14 | 4 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | ITA | Fabio Borini | 14 | 3 | 9+5 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | ITA | Eddie Salcedo | 17 | 1 | 7+10 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 3 | DF | ITA | Luigi Vitale | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | SCO | Liam Henderson | 5 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | MF | ITA | Daniel Bessa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | CIV | Abdoullaye Traoré | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Crescenzi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | SVK | Ľubomír Tupta | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | FW | ITA | Antonio Di Gaudio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | ITA | Alberto Almici | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 66 | FW | ITA | Gennaro Tutino | 7 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Last updated: 2 August 2020 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Total |
| 1 | 10 | FW | | Samuel Di Carmine | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | 32 | MF | | Matteo Pessina | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | 5 | DF | | Davide Faraoni | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | 11 | FW | | Giampaolo Pazzini | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | 14 | MF | | Valerio Verre | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | 4 | MF | | Miguel Veloso | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | 9 | FW | | Mariusz Stępiński | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | 88 | MF | | Darko Lazović | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | 16 | FW | | Fabio Borini | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | 20 | MF | | Mattia Zaccagni | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | 24 | DF | | Marash Kumbulla | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 27 | DF | | Paweł Dawidowicz | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 29 | FW | | Eddie Salcedo | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 34 | MF | | Sofyan Amrabat | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 33 | DF | | Alan Empereur | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 47 | 1 | 48 |
Last updated: 29 July 2020

### Clean sheets

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Total |
| 1 | 1 | GK | | Marco Silvestri | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Last updated: 8 February 2020

### Disciplinary record

| No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Total | Total | Total |
| 1 | GK | | Marco Silvestri | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | | Davide Faraoni | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | | Amir Rrahmani | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | | Salvatore Bocchetti | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | | Koray Günter | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | | Marash Kumbulla | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | | Paweł Dawidowicz | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 33 | DF | | Alan Empereur | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | | Miguel Veloso | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | | Liam Henderson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | | Valerio Verre | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | | Mattia Zaccagni | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | | Matteo Pessina | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | | Sofyan Amrabat | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| 88 | MF | | Darko Lazović | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | | Mariusz Stępiński | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | FW | | Samuel Di Carmine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | | Fabio Borini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 56 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 2 | 3 |
Last updated: 8 February 2020