# 2020–21 Empoli FC season

The 2020–21 Empoli Football Club season was the club's 100th season in existence and the club's second consecutive season in the second division of Italian football. In addition to the domestic league, Empoli participated in this season's edition of the Coppa Italia. The season covered the period from 5 August 2020 to 30 June 2021.
The team achieved a remarkable feat by finishing the season unbeaten at home.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 27 January 2021
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 | Alberto Brignoli |
| 3 | DF | SRB | Aleksa Terzić (on loan from Fiorentina) |
| 4 | MF | ITA | Giovanni Crociata (on loan from Crotone) |
| 5 | MF | SVN | Leo Štulac |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Simone Romagnoli |
| 7 | FW | ITA | Leonardo Mancuso |
| 8 | FW | BRA | Ryder Matos (on loan from Udinese) |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Marco Olivieri (on loan from Juventus) |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Stefano Moreo |
| 11 | MF | ALB | Nedim Bajrami |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Leandro Pratelli |
| 16 | DF | ITA | Nicolò Casale (on loan from Verona) |
| 19 | FW | ITA | Andrea La Mantia |
| 20 | DF | ITA | Riccardo Fiamozzi (on loan from Lecce) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | DF | ITA | Stefano Sabelli |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Jacopo Furlan |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Filippo Bandinelli |
| 27 | MF | POL | Szymon Żurkowski (on loan from Fiorentina) |
| 28 | MF | ITA | Samuele Ricci |
| 30 | MF | ITA | Samuele Damiani |
| 31 | DF | ITA | Roberto Pirrello |
| 32 | MF | SUI | Nicolas Haas (on loan from Atalanta) |
| 42 | DF | ITA | Mattia Viti |
| 43 | DF | GRE | Dimitris Nikolaou |
| 47 | DF | ITA | Andrea Cambiaso (on loan from Genoa) |
| 65 | DF | ITA | Fabiano Parisi |
| — | MF | LTU | Augustinas Klimavičius (on loan from Genoa) |

### Players 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 |
| — | GK | ITA | Gabriel Meli (at Fano until 30 June 2021) |
| — | GK | ITA | Niccolò Vivoli (at Pistoiese until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | ITA | Andrea Adamoli (at Lucchese until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | ITA | Marco Imperiale (at Carrarese until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | ITA | Emanuele Matteucci (at Pontedera until 30 June 2021) |
| — | DF | ITA | Davide Zappella (at Cesena until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | ITA | Tommaso Fantacci (at Juve Stabia until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | ITA | Giuseppe Montaperto (at Cavese until 30 June 2021) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | SEN | Mouhamadou Sakho (at Arezzo until 30 June 2021) |
| — | MF | CIV | Hamed Junior Traorè (at Sassuolo until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | ITA | Kevin Cannavò (at Vis Pesaro until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | ITA | Antonino La Gumina (at Sampdoria until 30 June 2021, obligation to buy) |
| — | FW | ITA | Davide Merola (at Grosseto until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | SVK | Samuel Mráz (at Zagłębie Lubin until 30 June 2021) |
| — | FW | ITA | Kevin Piscopo (at Carrarese until 30 June 2021) |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Name | Moving from | Moving to | Fee |
| 1 September 2020 | Szymon Żurkowski | Fiorentina | Empoli | Loan |
| 1 September 2020 | Aleksa Terzić | Fiorentina | Empoli | Loan |
| 9 September 2020 | Marco Olivieri | Juventus | Empoli | Loan |
| 17 September 2020 | Marko Brkic | Dinamo Zagreb | Empoli | Loan |
| 18 September 2020 | Mirco Lipari | Juventus | Empoli | Loan |
| 18 September 2020 | Leonardo Manfredi | Atalanta | Empoli | Loan |
| 21 September 2020 | Andrea Cambiaso | Genoa | Empoli | Loan |
| 22 September 2020 | Fabiano Parisi | Avellino | Empoli | Undisclosed |
| 25 September 2020 | Nicolas Haas | Atalanta | Empoli | Loan |
| 3 October 2020 | Nicolò Casale | Verona | Empoli | Loan |
| 3 October 2020 | Duccio Toccafondi | Prato | Empoli | Loan |
| 4 October 2020 | Ryder Matos | Udinese | Empoli | Loan |
| 5 October 2020 | Jacopo Furlan | Catania | Empoli | Undisclosed |
| 5 October 2020 | Augustinas Klimavičius | Genoa | Empoli | Loan |

### Out

| Date | Name | Moving from | Moving to | Fee |
| 22 July 2020 | Arnel Jakupović | Empoli | Domžale | Undisclosed |
| 9 August 2020 | Michał Marcjanik | Empoli | Arka Gdynia | Undisclosed |
| 13 August 2020 | Samuel Mráz | Empoli | Zagłębie Lubin | Loan |
| 18 August 2020 | Marco Curto | Empoli | Südtirol | Undisclosed |
| 21 August 2020 | Kevin Cannavò | Empoli | Vis Pesaro | Loan |
| 24 August 2020 | Frédéric Veseli | Empoli | Salernitana | Undisclosed¨ |
| 29 August 2020 | Marco Imperiale | Empoli | Carrarese | Loan |
| 2 September 2020 | Filippo Perucchini | Empoli | Pistoiese | Undisclosed |
| 7 September 2020 | Davide Bertolini | Empoli | Prato | Loan |
| 7 September 2020 | Gianlorenzo Lupi | Empoli | Poggibonsi | Loan |
| 7 September 2020 | Niccolò Vivoli | Empoli | Pistoiese | Loan |
| 7 September 2020 | Alex Sposito | Empoli | Taranto | Loan |
| 23 September 2020 | Giuseppe Montaperto | Empoli | Cavese | Loan |
| 5 October 2020 | Kevin Piscopo | Empoli | Carrarese | Loan |
| 5 October 2020 | Davide Merola | Empoli | Arezzo | Loan |
| 5 October 2020 | Mouhamadou Sakho | Empoli | Arezzo | Loan |
| 5 October 2020 | Ivan Provedel | Empoli | Spezia | Undisclosed |
| 5 October 2020 | Tommaso Fantacci | Empoli | Juve Stabia | Undisclosed |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### Overview

| 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 | 26 September 2020 | 10 May 2021 | Matchday 1 | 1st | 38 | 19 | 16 | 3 | 68 | 35 | +33 | 050.00 |
| Coppa Italia | 30 September 2020 | 13 January 2021 | Second round | Round of 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 066.67 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 41 | 21 | 16 | 4 | 77 | 40 | +37 | 051.22 |
Source: Soccerway

### Serie B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Empoli (C, P) | 38 | 19 | 16 | 3 | 68 | 35 | +33 | 73 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 2 | Salernitana (P) | 38 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 46 | 34 | +12 | 69 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 3 | Monza | 38 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 51 | 33 | +18 | 64 | Qualification for promotion play-offs semi-finals |
| 4 | Lecce | 38 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 68 | 47 | +21 | 62 | Qualification for promotion play-offs semi-finals |
| 5 | Venezia (O, P) | 38 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 53 | 39 | +14 | 59 | Qualification for promotion play-offs preliminary round |

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

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 9 September 2020.