2019–20 Serie A


The 2019–20 Serie A is the 118th season of top-tier Italian football, the 88th in a round-robin tournament, and the 10th since its organization under an own league committee, the Lega Serie A. Juventus were the eight-time defending champions and they successfully defended their title following a 2–0 win against Sampdoria on 26 July 2020.
The season was originally scheduled to run from 24 August 2019 to 24 May 2020. However, on 9 March 2020, the Italian government halted the league until 3 April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Serie A did not resume play on this date, citing it would only resume once "health conditions allow it". On 18 May, it was announced that Italian football would be suspended until 14 June. On 28 May, it was announced that Serie A would resume starting 20 June.

Events

On 14 April 2019, Chievo returned to Serie B after 11 years. Following this on 5 May Frosinone was relegated after one year while the last team to be relegated was Empoli also after just one year.
Teams that were promoted directly from 2018–19 Serie B were Brescia and Lecce while the last team to join was Hellas Verona by winning the promotion play-off on 2 June.
On 28 June 2019, Milan were excluded from the Europa League after breaches of the UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations. Roma were then moved to the Europa League group phase while Torino entered the preliminary round.
On 22 February 2020, Prime Minister of Italy, Giuseppe Conte, suspended all sporting events in the regions of Lombardy and Veneto, which included three Serie A matches in those regions, as well as one in Piedmont, that were to be played the following day, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The following week, six matches were initially to be played behind closed doors due to scare of the outbreak, however, all were later outright suspended. On 4 March, the government ruled that all sporting events in Italy would be played behind closed doors until 3 April. On 9 March, the government ruled that all sporting events in Italy be suspended until 3 April. Serie A did not resume play on this date, citing it will only resume once "health conditions allow it". On 13 May, it was announced that team training would be resumed on 18 May, and on 18 May it was announced that Italian football would be suspended until 14 June. On 28 May, Italian Minister for Sport Vincenzo Spadafora announced that Serie A would resume starting 20 June. Protocol was established wherein the entire squad would be quarantined for 14 days if one member, player or staff, tests positive for COVID-19. On 18 June, Spadafora approved the softening of quarantine rules which allowed for the quarantining of only the individual who tests positive for COVID-19, whereas the rest of the squad will ramp up testing, including a rapid-response test the day before a match.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

TeamHome cityRegionStadiumCapacity2018–19 season
AtalantaBergamoLombardyStadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia3rd in Serie A
BolognaBolognaEmilia-RomagnaStadio Renato Dall'Ara10th in Serie A
BresciaBresciaLombardyStadio Mario RigamontiSerie B champions
CagliariCagliariSardiniaSardegna Arena15th in Serie A
FiorentinaFlorenceTuscanyStadio Artemio Franchi16th in Serie A
GenoaGenoaLiguriaStadio Luigi Ferraris17th in Serie A
Hellas VeronaVeronaVenetoStadio Marc'Antonio BentegodiSerie B playoff winners
InternazionaleMilanLombardySan Siro4th in Serie A
JuventusTurinPiedmontJuventus StadiumSerie A champions
LazioRomeLazioStadio Olimpico8th in Serie A
LecceLecceApuliaStadio Via del Mare2nd in Serie B
MilanMilanLombardySan Siro5th in Serie A
NapoliNaplesCampaniaStadio San Paolo2nd in Serie A
ParmaParmaEmilia-RomagnaStadio Ennio Tardini14th in Serie A
RomaRomeLazioStadio Olimpico6th in Serie A
SampdoriaGenoaLiguriaStadio Luigi Ferraris9th in Serie A
SassuoloSassuoloEmilia-RomagnaMapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore 11th in Serie A
SPALFerraraEmilia-RomagnaStadio Paolo Mazza13th in Serie A
TorinoTurinPiedmontStadio Olimpico Grande Torino7th in Serie A
UdineseUdineFriuli-Venezia GiuliaStadio Friuli12th in Serie A

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Players' awards

MVP">Most valuable player">MVP of the Month

MonthPlayerClubRef.
September Franck RibéryFiorentina
October Ciro ImmobileLazio
November Radja NainggolanCagliari
December Sergej Milinković-SavićLazio
January Cristiano RonaldoJuventus
February Luis AlbertoLazio
June Alejandro GómezAtalanta
July Paulo DybalaJuventus

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Ciro ImmobileLazio36
2 Cristiano RonaldoJuventus31
3 Romelu LukakuInternazionale23
4 Francesco CaputoSassuolo21
5 Luis MurielAtalanta18
5 João PedroCagliari18
5 Duván ZapataAtalanta18
8 Andrea BelottiTorino16
8 Edin DžekoRoma16
10 Josip IličićAtalanta15

Top assists

RankPlayerClubAssists
1 Alejandro GómezAtalanta16
2 Luis AlbertoLazio15
3 Domenico BerardiSassuolo10
4 Hakan ÇalhanoğluMilan9
4 Ciro ImmobileLazio9
4 Lorenzo PellegriniRoma9
7 Robin GosensAtalanta8
7 Dejan KulusevskiParma8
7 Alexis SánchezInternazionale8
10 Rodrigo BentancurJuventus7
10 José CallejónNapoli7
10 Antonio CandrevaInternazionale7
10 Francesco CaputoSassuolo7
10 Edin DžekoRoma7
10 Seko FofanaUdinese7
10 Darko LazovićHellas Verona7
10 Dries MertensNapoli7
10 Radja NainggolanCagliari7
10 Sandro TonaliBrescia7

Hat-tricks

PlayerClubAgainstResultDate
Domenico BerardiSassuoloSampdoria01 09 2019
Andreas CorneliusParmaGenoa20 10 2019
Luis MurielAtalantaUdinese27 10 2019
Cristiano RonaldoJuventusCagliari6 1 2020
Ciro ImmobileLazioSampdoria18 1 2020
Josip IličićAtalantaTorino25 1 2020
Duván ZapataAtalantaLecce1 3 2020
Andreas CorneliusParmaGenoa23 6 2020
Mario PašalićAtalantaBrescia14 7 2020
Ciro ImmobileLazioHellas Verona26 7 2020
Federico ChiesaFiorentinaBologna29 7 2020

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– Home – Away

Clean sheets

As of 1 August 2020
RankPlayerClubClean
sheets
1 Samir HandanovićInternazionale13
1 Juan MussoUdinese13
3 Gianluigi DonnarummaMilan12
4 Thomas StrakoshaLazio11
4 Wojciech SzczęsnyJuventus11
6 Emil AuderoSampdoria9
6 Marco SilvestriHellas Verona9
8 Bartłomiej DrągowskiFiorentina8
8 Pierluigi GolliniAtalanta8
10 Salvatore SiriguTorino7

Footnotes