2022–23 SPAL season

SPAL

2022–23 season
Chairman	Joe Tacopina
Head coach	Roberto Venturato (until 9 October) Daniele De Rossi (from 11 October until 14 February) Massimo Oddo (from 14 February)
Stadium	Stadio Paolo Mazza
Serie B	19th (relegated)
Coppa Italia	Round of 32
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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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^[1]

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)

Transfers

In

Out

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss

SPAL v Virtus Verona

20 July 2022 Friendly	SPAL	3–1	Virtus Verona	Mezzana
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Zanellato 48' La Mantia 51' Rabbi 64'	Report	Vesentini 89'	Stadium: Centro Sportivo Comunale di Mezzana

Cremonese v SPAL

24 July 2022 Friendly	Cremonese	2–0	SPAL	Dimaro
16:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Valeri 48' Báez 90' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Centro Sportivo di Dimaro Referee: Daniele Minelli

SPAL v Pontedera

30 July 2022 Friendly	SPAL	1–0	Pontedera	Ferrara
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Viviani 45'	Report		Stadium: Centro Sportivo “GB Fabbri” SPAL Referee: Daniele Chiffi

Competitions

Overall record

Serie B

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 15 July 2022.^[3][4]

Coppa Italia

References