The 2020–21 Serie B (known as the Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons) was the 89th season of the Serie B since its establishment in 1929. It started on 25 September 2020 and ended on 10 May 2021.
On 5 November 2020, Serie B announced it would use VAR from the second half of the season. However, it was used only on promotion play-off matches. DAZN broadcast all matches live domestically, with MyCujoo further distributing games in 15 countries.
Changes The following teams have changed division since the 2019–20 season:
To Serie B Relegated from Serie A Lecce Brescia SPAL
Promoted from Serie C Monza (Group A) Vicenza (Group B) Reggina (Group C) Reggiana (Play-off winners)
From Serie B Promoted to Serie A Benevento Crotone Spezia
Relegated to Serie C Perugia Trapani Juve Stabia Livorno
Teams Stadiums and locations
Team Home city Stadium Capacity 2019–20 season Ascoli Ascoli Piceno Stadio Cino e Lillo Del Duca 14th in Serie B Brescia Brescia Stadio Mario Rigamonti 19th in Serie A Chievo Verona Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi 6th in Serie B Cittadella Cittadella (Padua) Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato 5th in Serie B Cosenza Cosenza Stadio San Vito-Gigi Marulla 15th in Serie B Cremonese Cremona Stadio Giovanni Zini 12th in Serie B Empoli Empoli (Florence) Stadio Carlo Castellani 7th in Serie B Frosinone Frosinone Stadio Benito Stirpe 8th in Serie B Lecce Lecce Stadio Via del Mare 18th in Serie A Monza Monza Stadio Brianteo Serie C Group A Champions Pescara Pescara Stadio Adriatico – Giovanni Cornacchia 17th in Serie B Pisa Pisa Arena Garibaldi – Romeo Anconetani 9th in Serie B Pordenone Pordenone Stadio Guido Teghil (Lignano Sabbiadoro) 4th in Serie B Reggiana Reggio Emilia Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore 2nd in Serie C Group B, play-off winner Reggina Reggio Calabria Stadio Oreste Granillo Serie C Group C Champions Salernitana Salerno Stadio Arechi 10th in Serie B SPAL Ferrara Stadio Paolo Mazza 20th in Serie A Venezia Venice Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo 11th in Serie B Vicenza Vicenza Stadio Romeo Menti Serie C Group B Champions Virtus Entella Chiavari (Genoa) Comunale Aldo Gastaldi 13th in Serie B
Personnel and kits TeamPresidentManagerCaptainKit manufacturerShirt sponsor (front)Shirt sponsor (back)Shirt sponsor (sleeve)Shorts sponsor Ascoli Carlo Neri Andrea Sottil Riccardo Brosco Nike Fainplast, BricoferBricoferEcotel ItaliaSky Network/Gruppo Boero Brescia Massimo Cellino Pep Clotet Dimitri Bisoli Kappa UBI BancaOfficine Meccaniche RezzatesiNoneNone Chievo Luca Campedelli Alfredo Aglietti Filip Đorđević Givova Mitsubishi Motors/Paluani, Coati SalumiNobis AssicurazioniAveliaVicentini Carni Cittadella Andrea Gabrielli Roberto Venturato Manuel Iori Mizuno Sirmax, Gabrielli Gavinox (H)/Quartzforms (A)OCSAMetalservice Cosenza Eugenio Guarascio Roberto Occhiuzzi Angelo Corsi Legea Quattropuntozero, Concessionaria CarlomagnoNoneLa Valle ViaggiNone Cremonese Paolo Rossi Fabio Pecchia Emanuele Terranova Acerbis Ilta Inox (H)/Arinox (A), ArvediFattorie CremonaArvedi Tubi AcciaioNone Empoli Fabrizio Corsi Alessio Dionisi Simone Romagnoli Kappa Computer Gross, Sammontana (H)/Logli Massimo (A)PediatricaInpaChiantiBanca Frosinone Maurizio Stirpe Alessandro Nesta Nicolò Brighenti Zeus Banca Popolare del Frusinate AceaPolsinelli EnologiaNone Lecce Saverio Sticchi Damiani Eugenio Corini Marco Mancosu M908 Links Management & Technology, Pasta MaffeiBarocco SpABanca Popolare PuglieseAsfalti Isolbit Monza Paolo Berlusconi Cristian Brocchi Andrea D'Errico Lotto WithU, U-PowerFebal CasaPontenossaDell'Orto Pescara Daniele Sebastiani Gianluca Grassadonia Vincenzo Fiorillo Erreà Contrader, TecnoRexLiofilchemIndustria Vernici e ColoriPharmapiù Sport Pisa Giuseppe Corrado Luca D'Angelo Robert Gucher Adidas Cetilar, SynlabHi-Turf SolutionDespeMercedes-Benz Palumbo Auto Pordenone Mauro Lovisa Maurizio Domizzi Mirko Stefani Joma Omega Group, Assiteca (H)/6sicuro (A)Lignano SabbiadoroAlea OfficeCRO Area Giovani Reggiana Luca Quintavalli Massimiliano Alvini Paolo Rozzio MacronImmergas, Conad (H)/Tutto per l'Imballo (A)/Safim ArchitetturaAlfa Romeo AutostileRighi FoodAzimut Investments Reggina Luca Gallo Marco Baroni Giuseppe Loiacono Macron Bencivenni Gruppo Volkswagen, Puliservice FrontaleMulti Service 5DCaffè MauroD. Caracciolo & figli Salernitana Marco Mezzaroma & Claudio Lotito Fabrizio Castori Francesco Di Tacchio ZeusMeda Supermercati/Real Sud EqualQuality/BCC Aquara/Centri Verrengia/Check-Up Centro Polidiagnostico/Real Sud/Gruppo Noviello/Ethos Grafica/San Matteo New York/Smyb Business Logistics, Gruppo NovielloNew Energy Gas e LuceReal SudObiettivo Ristrutturare/Ethos Grafica/BTL Industries SPAL Walter Mattioli Massimo Rastelli Sergio Floccari Macron Adamant BioNRG, Omega GroupErrebi TechnologyPentaferteNone Venezia Duncan L. Niederauer Paolo Zanetti Marco Modolo Nike FluorsidIBSA GroupDon PeppeStevanato Prodotti e Lavori Speciali Vicenza Renzo Rosso Domenico Di Carlo Stefano Giacomelli LottoDiesel, Aon (H)/Sergio Bassan John Deere (A)Protek (H)/Famila (A)Legor (H)Zanutta (H) Virtus Entella Antonio Gozzi Vincenzo Vivarini Luca Nizzetto Adidas Duferco EnergiaNoneNoneKia Gecar
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointment Salernitana Gian Piero Ventura End of contract 1 August 2020Pre-season Fabrizio Castori 10 August 2020 Pescara Andrea Sottil 1 August 2020 Massimo Oddo 29 August 2020 SPAL Luigi Di Biagio 2 August 2020 Pasquale Marino 12 August 2020Venezia Alessio Dionisi Mutual consent10 August 2020 Paolo Zanetti14 August 2020 Empoli Pasquale Marino 11 August 2020 Alessio Dionisi 19 August 2020Virtus Entella Roberto Boscaglia Resigned14 August 2020 Bruno Tedino17 August 2020 Lecce Fabio Liverani Sacked 19 August 2020 Eugenio Corini 22 August 2020 Brescia Diego López Mutual consent 20 August 2020 Luigi Delneri 4 September 2020 Ascoli Davide DionigiSacked 24 August 2020 Valerio Bertotto 25 August 2020 Brescia Luigi Delneri 6 October 2020 20th Diego López 6 October 2020 Virtus Entella Bruno Tedino 23 November 2020 18th Vincenzo Vivarini 25 November 2020 Ascoli Valerio Bertotto 29 November 2020 17th Delio Rossi 29 November 2020 Pescara Massimo Oddo 29 November 2020 20th Roberto Breda 29 November 2020 Brescia Diego López 7 December 2020 12th Daniele Gastaldello (caretaker) 7 December 2020 Daniele Gastaldello End of caretaker spell 10 December 2020 11th Davide Dionigi 10 December 2020 Reggina Domenico Toscano Sacked 14 December 2020 15th Marco Baroni 15 December 2020 Ascoli Delio Rossi 22 December 2020 19th Andrea Sottil 23 December 2020 Cremonese Pierpaolo Bisoli 7 January 2021 16th Fabio Pecchia 7 January 2021 Brescia Davide Dionigi 3 February 2021 13th Pep Clotet 5 February 2021 Pescara Roberto Breda 14 February 2021 20th Gianluca Grassadonia 14 February 2021 SPAL Pasquale Marino 16 March 2021 8th Massimo Rastelli 16 March 2021 Frosinone Alessandro Nesta 22 March 2021 12th Fabio Grosso 23 March 2021 Pordenone Attilio Tesser 3 April 2021 15th Maurizio Domizzi 3 April 2021 Virtus Entella Vincenzo Vivarini 12 April 2021 20th Gennaro Volpe 12 April 2021
League table
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.
Results
Promotion play-offs Rules: Preliminary round: the higher-placed team plays at home. If teams are tied after regular time, extra-time is played. If scores are still level, the higher-placed team advances; Semi-finals: the higher-placed team plays at home for second leg. If teams are tied on aggregate, the higher-placed team advances; Final: the higher-placed team plays at home for second leg. If teams are tied on aggregate, the higher-placed team is promoted to Serie A, unless the teams finished tied on points after regular season, in which case winner is decided by extra-time and a penalty shootout if necessary.
Preliminary round
Semi-finals First leg
Second leg
Final First leg
Second leg
Relegation play-out The relegation play-out was not played because the 16th-placed team Ascoli finished more than 4 points ahead of 17th-placed team Cosenza, then they were relegated directly to Serie C. Cosenza was later readmitted to replace the excluded Chievo.
Season statistics
Top goalscorers +RankPlayerClubGoals1 Massimo CodaLecce222 Leonardo MancusoEmpoli203 Florian AyéBrescia164 Francesco Forte1Venezia155 Michele MarconiPisa13 Gennaro TutinoSalernitana7 Riad BajićAscoli128 Daniel CiofaniCremonese11 Davide DiawPordenone (10)Monza (1) Andrea La MantiaEmpoli Riccardo MeggioriniVicenza Andrija NovakovichFrosinone Mattia ValotiSPAL Note 1 Player scored 1 goal in the play-offs.
Hat-tricks PlayerClubAgainst ResultDate Massimo CodaLecceReggiana 7–1 (H) Riad BajićAscoliCremonese 3–3 (A) Leonardo Mancuso4EmpoliVirtus Entella 5–2 (A) Mattia AramuVeneziaMonza 4–1 (A) Florian AyéBresciaPisa 4–3 (H) Andrija NovakovichFrosinoneReggina 4–0 (A) Enrico BaldiniCittadellaMonza 3–0 (H) Note 4 Player scored four goals; (H) – Home (A) – Away
Clean sheets RankPlayerClubCleansheetsRounds1 Vid BelecSalernitana145, 9–10, 13, 19–20, 27–30, 32–33, 37–382 Michele Di Gregorio1Monza1311–12, 14–17, 19, 24–25, 27, 36–37 Samuele PerisanPordenone6, 9–10, 13, 16–19, 28, 32, 34, 37–38 Adrian ŠemperChievo1, 3–4, 6, 11–12, 17, 19, 22, 26, 29, 33, 385 Alberto BrignoliEmpoli121–2, 7, 14, 17–18, 26, 28–30, 33, 366 Francesco BardiFrosinone112–6, 13, 16, 24, 29, 31, 367 Wladimiro FalconeCosenza94, 8, 12, 14, 16, 19, 25, 28, 35 Vincenzo FiorilloPescara1, 10, 12, 16–17, 24, 26, 28, 36 GabrielLecce1–2, 17–18, 26–27, 30–32 Elhan Kastrati2Cittadella12, 14, 5, 28–29, 34, 36 Luca LezzeriniVenezia1, 3–4, 6, 5, 13–14, 19–20
Note 1 Player kept 1 clean sheet in the play-offs. 2 Player kept 2 clean sheets in the play-offs.
Awards
XI of the Season
Pos.PlayerClubRef.GK Vid BelecSalernitana DF Pasquale MazzocchiVeneziaDF Norbert GyömbérSalernitanaDF Luka BogdanSalernitanaDF Carlos AugustoMonzaMF Davide FrattesiMonzaMF Marco MancosuLecceMF Youssef MalehVeneziaFW Leonardo MancusoEmpoliFW Gennaro TutinoSalernitanaFW Massimo CodaLecceCoach Fabrizio CastoriSalernitana
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