# 2022–23 SPAL season

The 2022–23 season was the 116th in the history of S.P.A.L. and their third consecutive season in the second division. The club participated in Serie B and the Coppa Italia.

## Players

    As of 30 January 2023
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 | Enrico Alfonso |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Fiordaliso |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Tripaldelli |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Christian Dalle Mura (on loan from Fiorentina) |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Biagio Meccariello |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Gabriele Moncini (on loan from Benevento) |
| 10 | MF | ITA | Niccolò Zanellato |
| 11 | MF | GRE | Giannis Fetfatzidis |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Lorenzo Abati |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Marco Varnier (on loan from Atalanta) |
| 14 | MF | ARG | Franco Zuculini |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Filippo Saiani |
| 16 | MF | ITA | Luca Valzania (on loan from Cremonese) |
| 17 | GK | ITA | Alberto Pomini |
| 18 | DF | ITA | Matteo Arena |
| 19 | FW | ITA | Andrea La Mantia (on loan from Empoli) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Matteo Prati |
| 21 | DF | ITA | Raffaele Celia |
| 22 | GK | SEN | Demba Thiam |
| 23 | MF | ITA | Alessandro Murgia |
| 24 | DF | ITA | Lorenzo Dickmann (captain) |
| 27 | DF | POL | Patryk Peda |
| 28 | MF | ITA | Filippo Puletto |
| 29 | DF | ITA | Alberto Almici |
| 32 | FW | ITA | Nicola Rauti (on loan from Torino) |
| 34 | MF | MAR | Ayoub Abou |
| 37 | MF | ITA | Fabio Maistro |
| 40 | MF | EST | Georgi Tunjov |
| 44 | MF | BEL | Radja Nainggolan |
| 70 | MF | ITA | Alessandro Boccia |
| 99 | FW | ITA | Simone Rabbi |

### Out on loan

    As of 30 January 2023
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 | Cesare Galeotti (at Rimini) |
| — | GK | ITA | Andrea Magri (at Union Clodiense) |
| — | GK | ITA | Marco Meneghetti (at Gubbio) |
| — | DF | ITA | Niccolò Bellucci (at Alessandria) |
| — | DF | ITA | Matteo Borsoi (at Vis Pesaro) |
| — | DF | MDA | Daniel Dumbravanu (at APOEL) |
| — | DF | ITA | Riccardo Mari (at Mezzolara) |
| — | DF | TOG | Steven Nador (at Montevarchi) |
| — | DF | ITA | Moustapha Yabre (at Recanatese) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | ITA | Christian Basile (at Cavese) |
| — | MF | ITA | Salvatore Esposito (at Spezia, obligation to buy) |
| — | MF | ROU | Luca Mihai (at Trento) |
| — | MF | ITA | Alessandro Orfei (at Fidelis Andria) |
| — | MF | ITA | Federico Zanchetta (at Olbia) |
| — | FW | ITA | Jionathan Campagna (at Torres) |
| — | FW | ITA | Ludovico D'Orazio (at Mantova) |
| — | FW | MEX | Teun Wilke (at Cercle Brugge) |

## 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 | 14 August 2022 | 19 May 2023 | Matchday 1 | 19th | 38 | 8 | 14 | 16 | 41 | 51 | −10 | 021.05 |
| Coppa Italia | 6 August 2022 | 18 October 2022 | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 40 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 43 | 53 | −10 | 022.50 |
Source: Soccerway

### Serie B
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 16 | Brescia | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 36 | 57 | −21 | 40 | Spared from relegation |
| 17 | Cosenza (O) | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 30 | 53 | −23 | 40 | Qualification for relegation play-out |
| 18 | Perugia (R) | 38 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 40 | 52 | −12 | 39 | Relegation to Serie C |
| 19 | SPAL (R) | 38 | 8 | 14 | 16 | 41 | 51 | −10 | 38 | Relegation to Serie C |
| 20 | Benevento (R) | 38 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 33 | 49 | −16 | 35 | Relegation to Serie C |

#### 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 | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | D | W | D | W | D | L | L | D | W | D | D | L | L | L | D | D | W | L | W | D | L | L | L | D | L | L | W | L | L | D | W | D | D | D | L | L | W |
| Position | 18 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 15 July 2022.