2011–12 SS Lazio season explained

Club:	Lazio
Season:	2011–12
Manager:	Edoardo Reja
Mgrtitle:	Manager
Owner:	Claudio Lotito
Owntitle:	Owner
Chairman:	Claudio Lotito
Chrtitle:	Chairman
Stdtitle:	Stadium
Stadium:	Stadio Olimpico
League:	Serie A
League Result:	4th
Cup1:	Coppa Italia
Cup1 Result:	Quarter-finals
Cup2:	UEFA Europa League
Cup2 Result:	Round of 32
League Topscorer:	Miroslav Klose (13)
Season Topscorer:	Miroslav Klose (16)
Highest Attendance:	57,148 (vs Juventus, 26 November 2011)
Lowest Attendance:	8,295 (vs Sporting CP, 14 December 2011)
Average Attendance:	29,439^[1]
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Prevseason:	2010–11
Nextseason:	2012–13

The 2011–12 season was the 112th season in Società Sportiva Lazio's history and their 24th consecutive season in the top-flight of Italian football.

Pre-season

During the pre-season, Lazio purchased Djibril Cissé from Panathinaikos,^[2] Miroslav Klose from Bayern Munich, Abdoulay Konko from Genoa, Lorik Cana from Galatasaray^[3] and Senad Lulić from Young Boys.^{[4] [5]} They also sold Stephan Lichtsteiner to Juventus for €10 million and purchased goalkeeper Federico Marchetti from Cagliari.^{[6] [7]} They then sold goalkeeper Fernando Muslera to Galatasaray.^[8]

Current squad

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Transfers

In

Date		Player	Moving from	Fee
			Bayern Munich	Free
			Young Boys	€3,000,000
			Sampdoria	Undisclosed
				€5,000,000
				€6,000,000
			Panathinaikos	€5,800,000
			Galatasaray	Undisclosed
			Liverpool	€3,200,000
			Udinese	Loan

Out

Date		Player	Moving to	Fee
			Juventus	€10,000,000
			Galatasaray	Undisclosed
			Al-Nasr	€3,900,000^[10]
			Internazionale	Loan^[11]
			Sampdoria	Loan^[12]
			Parma	Loan^[13]
			Atalanta	Loan
			Genoa	Loan
			Catania	Loan
			Bari	Loan
			Cesena	Loan
			Queens Park Rangers	£4,000,000

Competitions

Serie A

See main article: 2011–12 Serie A.

Matches

Coppa Italia

See main article: 2011–12 Coppa Italia.

UEFA Europa League

See main article: 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.

Play-off round

Having qualified for the Europa League play-off round in the previous Serie A campaign, Lazio played a double-legged match for their chance to enter the Europa League. On 5 August 2011, Lazio drew Macedonian side FK Rabotnički, a team who has survived since the first qualifying round, earning them World's Club Team of the Month for July 2011.^[14]

Group stage

Notes

Note 3: Vaslui played their home matches at Stadionul Ceahlăul, Piatra Neamţ as their own Stadionul Municipal did not meet UEFA criteria.

Knockout phase

See main article: 2011–12 UEFA Europa League knockout phase.

Round of 32

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		Coppa Italia		Europe		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Albano Bizzarri	4	-6	1	-2	3	-2	8	-10	0	1
3	DF	André Dias	16	0	2	1	7	0	24	1	9	1
5	DF	Lionel Scaloni	7(6)	0	0	0	2	0	9(6)	0	0	0
6	MF	Stefano Mauri	3(2)	0	0	0	3	1	6(2)	1	1	0
7	FW	Giuseppe Sculli	11(6)	2	1	0	6(2)	3	18(8)	5	3	0
8	MF	Hernanes	22(2)	7	2	1	9(2)	2	33(4)	10	5	0
9	FW	Tommaso Rocchi (c)	11(2)	5	2	1	7(4)	3	20(6)	9	2	0
11	MF	Matuzalém	15(8)	0	2(1)	0	5(1)	0	22(10)	0	7	0
14	DF	Javier Garrido	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
15	MF	Álvaro González	19(6)	1	2	0	7(2)	0	28(8)	1	2	0
16	GK	Alessandro Berardi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	FW	Libor Kozák	6(6)	2	0	0	7(4)	1	13(10)	3	3	0
19	MF	Senad Lulić	24(4)	4	2	0	9(1)	0	35(5)	4	2	0
20	DF	Giuseppe Biava	15(1)	1	0	0	5(1)	0	20(2)	1	2	0
21	DF	Modibo Diakité	13(4)	0	2	0	9	0	24(4)	0	6	1
22	GK	Federico Marchetti	21	-21	1	-3	7	-8	29	-37	1	0
24	MF	Cristian Ledesma	24(1)	1	2(1)	0	8(2)	0	34(4)	1	3	0
25	FW	Miroslav Klose	24	13	2(2)	0	6(1)	3	33(3)	16	0	0
26	DF	Ștefan Radu	16	0	0	0	5(1)	0	21(1)	0	4	0
27	MF	Lorik Cana	8(5)	1	0	0	6	0	14(5)	1	4	0
28	FW	Stephen Makinwa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	DF	Abdoulay Konko	19(1)	0	1	0	5(2)	0	25(3)	0	0	1
30	FW	Emiliano Alfaro	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
32	MF	Cristian Brocchi	11(1)	0	0	0	3(1)	1	14(2)	1	1	0
33	DF	Marius Stankevičius	11(2)	0	1	0	1(1)	0	13(3)	0	2	0
39	DF	Luis Pedro Cavanda	1	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	0
41	MF	Enrico Zampa	0	0	0	0	3(3)	0	3(3)	0	0	0
51	DF	Ivan Artipoli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
53	FW	Antonio Rozzi	2(2)	0	0	0	0	0	2(2)	0	1	0
78	DF	Luciano Zauri	5	0	0	0	5	0	10	0	0	1
81	MF	Simone Del Nero	2(2)	0	2(1)	0	0	0	4(3)	0	0	0
84	GK	Juan Pablo Carrizo	2(2)	-2	0	0	0	0	2(2)	-2	0	0
87	MF	Antonio Candreva	4(2)	0	0	0	2	0	6(2)	0	2	0
89	DF	Federico Chirico	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
92	FW	Tommaso Ceccarelli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
99	FW	Djibril Cissé	18(5)	1	2	1	7(2)	3	27(7)	5	1	0

Statistics accurate as of match played 23 February 2012^[15]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Statistiche Spettatori Serie A – Attendance Statistics Serie A.
2. Web site: Cissé signing adds to Lazio's attacking options. UEFA. 12 July 2011.
3. Web site: Cana is now in Lazio. S.S. Lazio. Italian. 20 July 2011. 14 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120314033012/http://www.sslazio.it/news/news/1-news/1653-comunicato.html. dead.
4. Web site: Klose to Lazio. S.S. Lazio. Italian. 4 July 2011. 15 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140715005422/http://www.sslazio.it/news/news/1-news/1561-comunicato.html. dead.
5. Web site: Lulic to Lazio. S.S. Lazio. Italian. 4 July 2011. 4 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110704164757/http://www.sslazio.it/news/news/1-news/1578-senad-lulic-ai-microfoni-di-lazio-style-radio.html. dead.
6. Web site: Agreement with Lazio over Lichtsteiner. 2 July 2011. Juventus F.C..
7. Web site: Lazio double swoop. 5 July 2011. Sky Sports News.
8. Web site: Muslera signs for Galatasaray. Muslera Galatasaray'da . Galatasaray. Turkish.
9. Web site: I tesserati 2010–2011. 9 January 2011. S.S. Lazio. Italian. https://web.archive.org/web/20101202084004/http://www.sslazio.it/i-tesserati/i-tesserati-20102011.html. 2 December 2010 . live.
10. Web site: Official: Al Nasr complete signing of Mark Bresciano from Lazio Goal.com.
11. Web site: Mauro Zarate joins Diego Forlan at Inter Milan – ESPN FC . 1 September 2011 . 2 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121102065618/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/951383/mauro-zarate-joins-diego-forlan-at-inter-milan?cc=5901 . dead .
12. Web site: Official: Sampdoria clinches Pasquale Foggia signing from Lazio Goal.com.
13. http://www.sportinglife.com/football/overseas/italy/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/11/08/31/manual_193545.html&BID=253
14. Web site: FK Rabotnički Skopje – the World's Club Team of the Month for July 2011. 9 August 2011. International Federation of Football History & Statistics.
15. Web site: Lazio Squad Stats . https://web.archive.org/web/20121102082710/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/team/squad/_/id/112/lazio?cc=5901. dead. 2 November 2012. ESPN. 9 September 2011. it.