| Competition: | Serie A |
| Season: | 2020–21 |
| Dates: | 19 September 2020 – 23 May 2021 |
| Winners: | Internazionale 19th title |
| Relegated: | Benevento Crotone Parma |
| Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Internazionale Milan Atalanta Juventus |
| Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
| Continentalcup3: | Europa Conference League |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Roma |
| Matches: | 380 |
| Total Goals: | 1163 |
| League Topscorer: | Cristiano Ronaldo (29 goals) |
| Biggest Home Win: | Napoli 6–0 Genoa (27 September 2020) Napoli 6–0 Fiorentina (17 January 2021) |
| Biggest Away Win: | Torino 0–7 Milan (12 May 2021) |
| Highest Scoring: | Internazionale 6–2 Crotone (3 January 2021) Lazio 5–3 Benevento (18 April 2021) |
| Longest Wins: | Internazionale (11 matches)[1] |
| Longest Unbeaten: | Internazionale (20 matches) |
| Longest Winless: | Parma (17 matches) |
| Longest Losses: | Parma (9 matches) |
| Prevseason: | 2019–20 |
| Nextseason: | 2021–22 |
The 2020–21 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 119th season of top-tier Italian football, the 89th in a round-robin tournament, and the 11th since its organization under an own league committee, the Lega Serie A.
Following Atalanta's draw with Sassuolo on 2 May 2021, Internazionale were confirmed as champions for the first time since the 2009–10 Serie A, ending Juventus' run of nine consecutive titles.[2]
Twenty teams competed in the league—the top seventeen teams from the previous season and three teams promoted from Serie B. Benevento (on 29 June 2020) and Crotone (on 24 July 2020) were the two teams directly promoted from Serie B, both after a two-year absence.[3] [4] On 20 August 2020, Spezia won the play-offs to earn its first promotion to Serie A; they became the 66th team to participate in the Italian top-level league.
A day following the Napoli–Genoa match on 27 September 2020, Genoa announced that fourteen of their players tested positive for COVID-19.[5] [6] The Genoa–Torino match scheduled for 3 October was thereby postponed.[7]
On 3 October, two Napoli players, Piotr Zieliński and Eljif Elmas, tested positive for COVID-19, and after the denial of the authorization to leave Naples by the Local Health Authority (ASL), Napoli blocked their players' departure for the match in Turin against Juventus.[8] [9] [10] The Lega Serie A decided not to postpone the match scheduled for 4 October 2020. On the day of the game, Juventus took the field, in the absence their opponents who were in a state of quarantine in Naples.[11] On 14 October, Juventus were awarded a 3–0 victory by default, and Napoli docked one point as the Disciplinary Commission ruled Napoli did not follow the COVID-19 pandemic protocol.[12] Following a successful appeal by Napoli to the CONI Sports Guarantee Board, these penalties were overturned on 22 December.[13] The match was eventually recovered on 7 April 2021, more than six months after its originally scheduled date.
| Promoted from 2019–20 Serie B | Relegated from 2019–20 Serie A | |
|---|---|---|
| Benevento | Lecce | |
| Crotone | Brescia | |
| Spezia | SPAL |
| Region | Team(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Bologna, Parma and Sassuolo | |
| Genoa, Sampdoria and Spezia | ||
| Atalanta, Inter and AC Milan | ||
| 2 | Benevento and Napoli | |
| Lazio and Roma | ||
| Juventus and Torino | ||
| 1 | Crotone | |
| Udinese | ||
| Cagliari | ||
| Fiorentina | ||
| Verona |
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cagliari |  Walter Zenga | End of contract | 2 August 2020[15] | Pre-season | Eusebio Di Francesco | 3 August 2020[16] | |
| Torino | Moreno Longo | 2 August 2020 | Marco Giampaolo | 7 August 2020[17] | |||
| Juventus | Maurizio Sarri | Sacked | 8 August 2020[18] | Andrea Pirlo | 8 August 2020[19] | ||
| Parma | Roberto D'Aversa | 23 August 2020[20] | Fabio Liverani | 28 August 2020[21] | |||
| Genoa | Davide Nicola | 26 August 2020 | Rolando Maran | 26 August 2020[22] | |||
| Fiorentina | Giuseppe Iachini | 9 November 2020[23] | 12th | Cesare Prandelli | 9 November 2020 | ||
| Genoa | Rolando Maran | 21 December 2020[24] | 19th | Davide Ballardini | 21 December 2020 | ||
| Parma | Fabio Liverani | 7 January 2021[25] | 18th | Roberto D'Aversa | 7 January 2021[26] | ||
| Torino | Marco Giampaolo | 18 January 2021[27] | 18th | Davide Nicola | 19 January 2021[28] | ||
| Cagliari | Eusebio Di Francesco | 22 February 2021[29] | 18th | Leonardo Semplici | 22 February 2021[30] | ||
| Crotone | Giovanni Stroppa | 1 March 2021[31] | 20th | Serse Cosmi | 1 March 2021[32] | ||
| Fiorentina | Cesare Prandelli | Resigned | 23 March 2021[33] | 14th | Giuseppe Iachini | 24 March 2021[34] |
See main article: Serie A Player of the Month.
| Month | Player | Club | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September |  Alejandro Gómez | Atalanta | [35] | |
| October |  Zlatan Ibrahimović | Milan | [36] | |
| November | Cristiano Ronaldo | Juventus | [37] | |
| December |  Hakan Çalhanoğlu | Milan | [38] | |
| January |  Sergej Milinković-Savić | Lazio | [39] | |
| February |  Romelu Lukaku | Internazionale | [40] | |
| March | Lorenzo Insigne | Napoli | [41] | |
| April |  Luis Muriel | Atalanta | [42] | |
| May |  Ruslan Malinovskyi | Atalanta | [43] |
See main article: Serie A Awards. [44]
| Award | Winner | Club | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most Valuable Player | Romelu Lukaku | Internazionale | [45] | |
| Best Young Player | Dušan Vlahović | Fiorentina | [46] | |
| Best Goalkeeper | Gianluigi Donnarumma | Milan | [47] | |
| Best Defender | Cristian Romero | Atalanta | [48] | |
| Best Midfielder | Nicolò Barella | Internazionale | [49] | |
| Best Striker | Cristiano Ronaldo | Juventus | [50] |
| Team of the Year[51] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goalkeeper | Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan) | ||||||
| Defence |  Achraf Hakimi (Internazionale) |  Stefan de Vrij (Internazionale) | Alessandro Bastoni (Internazionale) |  Théo Hernandez (Milan) | |||
| Midfield | Nicolò Barella (Internazionale) | Franck Kessié (Milan) | Federico Chiesa (Juventus) | ||||
| Attack | Luis Muriel (Atalanta) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) | Romelu Lukaku (Internazionale) | ||||
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals[52] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Juventus | 29 | |
| 2 | Romelu Lukaku | Internazionale | 24 | |
| 3 | Luis Muriel | Atalanta | 22 | |
| 4 | Dušan Vlahović | Fiorentina | 21 | |
| 5 | Ciro Immobile | Lazio | 20 | |
 Simy | Crotone | |||
| 7 | Lorenzo Insigne | Napoli | 19 | |
| 8 | Domenico Berardi | Sassuolo | 17 | |
| Lautaro Martínez | Internazionale | |||
| 10 |  João Pedro | Cagliari | 16 |
See main article: List of Serie A hat-tricks.
| Player | Club | Against | Result | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Henrikh Mkhitaryan | Roma | Genoa | 3–1 (A) | ||
| Lautaro Martínez | Internazionale | Crotone | 6–2 (H) | ||
| Dušan Vlahović | Fiorentina | Benevento | 4–1 (A) | ||
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Juventus | Cagliari | 3–1 (A) | ||
| Rodrigo Palacio | Bologna | Fiorentina | 3–3 (H) | ||
| Ante Rebić | Milan | Torino | 7–0 (A) |
| Rank | Player | Club | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gianluigi Donnarumma | Milan | 14 |
| Samir Handanović | Internazionale | ||
| 3 | Pierluigi Gollini | Atalanta | 9 |
 Pepe Reina | Lazio | ||
| 5 |  Bartłomiej Drągowski | Fiorentina | 8 |
| Juan Musso | Udinese | ||
| David Ospina | Napoli | ||
| Mattia Perin | Genoa | ||
| 9 | Andrea Consigli | Sassuolo | 7 |
| Lorenzo Montipò | Benevento | ||
| Marco Silvestri | Hellas Verona | ||
| Salvatore Sirigu | Torino |
Pasquale Schiattarella (Benevento) Rodrigo De Paul (Udinese)