2020–21 Reggina 1914 season

The 2020-21 season will be Reggina 1914's 106th season in existence. After five seasons in the third tier of Italian football, Reggina return to Serie B. They will also participate in this season's Coppa Italia.

Reggina

2020–21 season
President	Luca Gallo
Manager	Domenico Toscano (until 14 December) Marco Baroni (from 15 December)
Stadium	Stadio Oreste Granillo
Serie B	8th
Coppa Italia	Third round
Top goalscorer	Jérémy Ménez (1)
All statistics correct as of 3 October 2020.

First-team squad

As of 25 September 2020[1]

Squad no.	Name	Nationality	Position(s)	Date of birth	Signed from	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	Enrico Guarna		GK	11 August 1985	Monza	29	0
12	Alessandro Plizzari		GK	12 March 2000	Milan	0	0
77	Alessandro Farroni		GK	20 September 1997	Matera	5	0
Defenders
4	Dimitris Stavropoulos		CB	1 May 1997	Panionios	0	0
5	Davide Bertoncini		CB	9 May 1991	Piacenza	15	0
6	Giuseppe Loiacono		CB	6 October 1991	Foggia	29	2
13	Marco Rossi		CB	30 September 1987	Siena	31	0
17	Gianluca Di Chiara		LB	26 December 1993	Perugia	0	0
24	Enrico Del Prato		RB/DM	10 November 1999	Atalanta	0	0
31	Daniele Gasparetto		CB	6 April 1988	Ternana	27	0
94	Daniele Liotti		LB/LM	8 June 1994	Pisa	10	1
Midfielders
8	Lorenzo Crisetig		DM/CM	20 January 1993	Unattached	0	0
11	Hachim Mastour		AM	15 June 1998	Unattached	1	0
14	Gabriele Rolando		LM/RM	2 April 1995	Sampdoria	24	1
15	Nicolò Bianchi		CM	24 February 1992	Vicenza	30	1
20	Francesco De Rose		CM/DM	21 June 1987	Südtirol	84	0
Forwards
44	Lorenzo Peli		RW	24 January 2000	Atalanta	0	0

Transfers and loans

Transfers in

Entry date	Position	No.	Player	From club	Fee	Ref.
23 June 2020	FW	7	Jérémy Ménez	Unattached	Free	[2]
25 July 2020	FW	18	Kyle Lafferty	Unattached	Free	[3]
19 August 2020	MF	8	Lorenzo Crisetig	Unattached	Free	[4]
24 August 2020	DF	4	Dimitris Stavropoulos	Panionios	Free	[5]
16 September 2020	MF	91	Ricardo Faty	Unnattached	Free	[6]
28 September 2020	DF	3	Thiago Cionek	S.P.A.L.	Free	[7]
2 October 2020	FW		Nikola Vasic	Akropolis	Undisclosed	[8]
3 October 2020	FW		Mario Situm	Kayserispor	Free	[9]
5 October 2020	MF		Andrea Marcucci	Imolese	Undisclosed	[10]
14 January 2021	GK		Nícolas	Udinese	Undisclosed	[11]
Total					N/A

Loans in

Start date	End date	Position	No.	Player	To club	Fee	Ref.
20 August 2020	6 January 2021	MF		Lorenzo Peli	Atalanta	None	[12]
21 August 2020	30 June 2021	GK		Alessandro Plizzari	Milan	None	[13]
11 September 2020	30 June 2021	MF		Enrico Del Prato	Atalanta	None	[14]
16 September 2020	30 June 2021	MF		Michael Folorunsho	Napoli	None	[15]
17 September 2020	30 June 2021	FW		Gabriel Charpentier	Genoa	None	[16]
23 September 2020	30 June 2022	DF		Gianluca Di Chiara	Perugia	None	[17]
12 January 2021	30 June 2021	MF		Claudiu Micovschi	Genoa	None	[18]

Transfers out

Exit date	Position	No.	Player	To club	Fee	Ref.
27 August 2020	MF		Urban Zibert	Mantova	Free	[19]
4 September 2020	FW	18	Simone Corazza	Alessandria	Undisclosed	[20]
15 September 2020	FW	36	Manuel Sarao	Catania	Undisclosed	[21]
17 September 2020	FW	23	Reginaldo	Catania	Undisclosed	[22]
21 September 2020	FW	24	Abdou Doumbia	Carrarese	Undisclosed	[23]
22 September 2020	DF	9	Edoardo Blondett	Alessandria	Undisclosed	[24]
22 September 2020	MF	37	Matti Lund Nielsen	Pro Vercelli	Undisclosed	[25]
28 September 2020	MF		Dimitrios Sounas	Perugia	Undisclosed	[26]
30 September 2020	DF		Davide Bertoncini	Como	Undisclosed	[27]
12 January 2021	FW		Kyle Lafferty	Unattached	Released by mutual consent	[28]

Loans out

Start date	End date	Position	No.	Player	To club	Fee	Ref.
4 September 2020	30 June 2021	MF	21	Lorenzo Paolucci	Monopoli	None	[29]
4 September 2020	30 June 2021	DF	33	Matteo Rubin	Alessandria	None	[20]
26 September 2020	30 June 2021	DF		Paolo Marchi	Ravenna	None	[30]
29 September 2020	30 June 2021	DF		Desiderio Garufo	Catanzaro	None	[31]

Pre-season friendlies

Reggina began the first part of pre-season training on July 20 at Centro sportivo Sant'Agata in Reggio Calabria. A squad of 27 players were named for the training camp. [32]

12 September 2020 Friendly	Benevento	2–1	Reggina	Benevento, Italy
19:00 CEST	Moncini  56' Improta  61'	Report	Loiacono  54'	Stadium: Stadio Ciro Vigorito

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Record
				Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Serie B	26 September 2020	May 2021	Matchday 1	17	4	5	8	16	24	−8	023.53
Coppa Italia	30 September 2020	27 October 2020	Second round	2	1	0	1	1	2	−1	050.00
Total				19	5	5	9	17	26	−9	026.32

Last updated: 14 January 2021

Source: Competitions

Serie B

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
14	Cremonese	20	4	8	8	19	25	−6	20[lower-alpha 1]
15	Cosenza	20	3	11	6	15	17	−2	20[lower-alpha 1]
16	Reggina	20	4	7	9	17	26	−9	19	Qualification to relegation play-out[lower-alpha 2]
17	Reggiana	20	5	3	12	17	33	−16	18
18	Ascoli	20	4	5	11	17	28	−11	17[lower-alpha 3]	Relegation to Serie C

Updated to match(es) played on 2 February 2021. Source: Lega Serie B (in Italian), Soccerway (in English)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw.[33]
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Cremonense 3, Cosenza 0
2. If the 16th-placed team finishes 5 or more points ahead of the 17th-placed team, then the relegation play-out is not played and the 17th-placed team is relegated to Serie C.
3. Head-to-head points (goal difference): Ascoli 1 (0), Virtus Entella 1 (0)

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
17	4	5	8	16	24	−8	17	3	1	4	9	10	−1	1	4	4	7	14	−7

Last updated: 4 January 2021.
Source:

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A
Result	D	W	D	D	D	L	L	L	L	W	L	L	L	D	W	W	L
Position	8	3	5	7	7	9	14	15	16	13	15	16	18	18	16	13	14

Updated to match(es) played on 4 January 2021. Source:
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

League fixtures were announced on 9 September 2020.[34]

26 September 2020 1	Salernitana	1–1	Reggina	Salerno
14:00 CEST	Tutino  33' Veseli  56' Migliorini  82' Casasola  84' Schiavone  89'	Report	Loiacono  53' Rossi  62' Ménez  83'	Stadium: Stadio Arechi Referee: Michael Fabbri

3 October 2020 2	Reggina	3–1	Pescara	Reggio Calabria
16:15 CEST	Rossi  17' Liotti  23', 27' Bellomo  31' Ménez  44'	Report	Galano 18' Memushaj  32' Maistro  70'	Stadium: Stadio Oreste Granillo Referee: Valerio Marini

17 October 2020 3	Virtus Entella	1–1	Reggina	Chiavari
14:00 CEST	Brunori  32' Crimi  45'  61' De Col  76' Mancosu  90' (pen.)	Report	Ménez  21' Rossi  33' Crisetig  51' Folorunsho  59'	Stadium: Stadio Aldo Gastaldi Attendance: 500 Referee: Luca Pairetto

20 October 2020 4	Reggina	0–0	Cosenza	Reggio Calabria
15:00 CEST	Denis 38' Liotti  53' Ménez  68' Crisetig  77' Folorunsho  88'	Report	Idda  24' Tiritiello  33'  35' Báez  54' Ba  86'	Stadium: Stadio Oreste Granillo Attendance: 952 Referee: Riccardo Ros

24 October 2020 5	Pordenone	2–2	Reggina	Pordenone
14:00 CEST	Diaw  49' Ciurria  69' Misuraca  74'	Report	Liotti  13' Bellomo  41' Rolando  47' Cionek  52' Di Chiara  75' Folorunsho  90'	Stadium: Stadio Guido Teghil Referee: Eugenio Abbattista

1 November 2020 6	Reggina	0–1	S.P.A.L.	Reggio Calabria
15:00 CET	Loiacono  12' Ménez  23' Bellomo  33' Denis 61'	Report	Castro  31'  90+2' Valoti  37' Tomović  60' Esposito  69' Sala  89'	Stadium: Stadio Oreste Granillo Attendance: 0 Referee: Giovanni Ayroldi

7 November 2020 7	Empoli	3–0	Reggina	Empoli
16:00 CET		Report		Stadium: Stadio Carlo Castellani Attendance: 0 Referee: Giampaolo Calvarese

Coppa Italia

The draw for the tournament was held on 8 September 2020.[35] Reggina will enter in the second round.

30 September 2020 Second round	Reggina	1–0	Teramo	Reggio Calabria
14:00 CEST	34' Folorunsho  70'	Report	Ilari  17' Viero  55'	Stadium: Stadio Oreste Granillo Referee: Alberto Santoro

27 October 2020 Third round	Bologna	2–0	Reggina	Bologna
15:00 CET	Sansone  57' Vignato  70' Michael  71' Orsolini  73'	Report	Lafferty  16' Stavropoulos  47' De Rose  71'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Referee: Gianluca Manganiello

Squad statistics

Appearances

Players with no appearances not included in the list.

As of match played 17 October 2020

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Serie B		Coppa Italia		Total
				Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts	Apps	Starts
1	GK		Enrico Guarna	1	1	1	1	2	2
12	GK		Alessandro Plizzari	2	2	0	0	2	2
3	DF		Thiago Cionek	2	1	1	0	3	1
4	DF		Dimitris Stavropoulos	0	0	1	1	1	1
6	DF		Giuseppe Loiacono	3	3	0	0	3	3
7	FW		Jérémy Ménez	3	3	0	0	3	3
8	MF		Lorenzo Crisetig	3	3	1	0	4	3
10	FW		Nicola Bellomo	3	3	1	0	4	3
11	MF		Hachim Mastour	3	0	1	1	4	1
13	DF		Marco Rossi	3	3	0	0	3	3
14	DF		Gabriele Rolando	1	1	2	0	2	1
15	MF		Nicolò Bianchi	3	3	1	1	4	4
17	DF		Gianluca Di Chiara	3	0	1	1	4	1
18	FW		Kyle Lafferty	2	0	1	1	3	1
19	FW		Germán Denis	3	3	1	0	4	3
20	MF		Francesco De Rose	1	0	0	0	1	0
21	FW		Nikola Vasic	1	0	0	0	1	0
24	MF		Enrico Del Prato	1	1	1	1	2	2
31	DF		Daniele Gasparetto	2	2	0	0	2	2
44	MF		Lorenzo Peli	0	0	1	1	1	1
90	MF		Michael Folorunsho	1	0	1	1	2	1
91	MF		Ricardo Faty	2	0	1	1	3	1
92	FW		Mario Šitum	1	1	0	0	1	1
94	DF		Daniele Liotti	3	3	1	1	4	4

Goalscorers

As of 26 September 2020

Rank	No.	Pos	Nat	Name	Serie B	Coppa Italia	Total
1	7	FW		Jérémy Ménez	1	0	1
Totals					1	0	1

Disciplinary record

As of match played 30 September 2020

No.	Pos.	Name	Serie B		Coppa Italia		Total
6	DF	Giuseppe Loiacono	1	0	0	0	1	0
13	DF	Marco Rossi	1	0	0	0	1	0
90	MF	Michael Folorunsho	0	0	1	0	1	0

References

1. "La Squadra". Retrieved 28 August 2020.
2. "Gallo: "Ménez è un nuovo giocatore della Reggina"". reggina1914.it. 23 June 2020.
3. "Kyle Lafferty è un calciatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 25 July 2020.
4. "Lorenzo Crisetig si lega alla Reggina". reggina1914.it. 19 August 2020.
5. "Stavropoulos è un giocatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 24 August 2020.
6. "Ricardo Faty è un calciatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 16 September 2020.
7. "Thiago Cionek è un calciatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 28 September 2020.
8. "Nikola Vasic è un calciatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 2 October 2020.
9. "Mario Situm è un giocatore della Reggina". reggina1914.it. 3 October 2020.
10. "Andrea Marcucci è un calciatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 5 October 2020.
11. "Nìcolas è un calciatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 14 January 2021.
12. "Lorenzo Peli è un giocatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 20 August 2020.
13. "Alessandro Plizzari è un nuovo giocatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 21 August 2020.
14. "Enrico Delprato è un giocatore della Reggina". reggina1914.it. 20 August 2020.
15. "Michael Folorunsho è un calciatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 16 September 2020.
16. "Gabriel Charpentier si trasferisce in amaranto". reggina1914.it. 17 September 2020.
17. "Gianluca Di Chiara è un calciatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 23 September 2020.
18. "Claudiu Micovschi è un calciatore amaranto". reggina1914.it. 12 January 2021.
19. "Urban Zibert al Mantova 1911" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 27 August 2020.
20. "Corazza e Rubin ceduti all'US Alessandria" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 4 September 2020.
21. "Manuel Sarao al Catania" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 15 September 2020.
22. "Reginaldo al Calcio Catania" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 17 September 2020.
23. "Abdou Doumbia ceduto alla Carrarese" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 21 September 2020.
24. "Edoardo Blondett ceduto all'Alessandria" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 22 September 2020.
25. "Matti Nielsen ceduto alla Pro Vercelli" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 22 September 2020.
26. "Dimitrios Sounas ceduto al Perugia" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 28 September 2020.
27. "Davide Bertoncini ceduto al Como" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 30 September 2020.
28. "Risoluzione consensuale con Kyle Lafferty" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 12 January 2021.
29. "Lorenzo Paolucci in prestito al Monopoli" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 4 September 2020.
30. "Paolo Marchi al Ravenna FC" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 26 September 2020.
31. "Desiderio Garufo ceduto all'US Catanzaro" (in Italian). Reggina 1914. 29 September 2020.
32. "Convocati ritiro Centro Sportivo Sant'Agata". reggina1914.it. 19 July 2020.
33. "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. - Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
34. "E' nata la Serie BKT 2020/2021". Lega B. 9 September 2020.
35. "2020/2021 COPPA ITALIA DRAW". Lega Serie A. 8 September 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.

External links

• Official website