2008–09 S.S. Lazio season

Lazio

2008–09 season
Chairman	Claudio Lotito
Owner	Claudio Lotito
Manager	Delio Rossi
Serie A	10th
Coppa Italia	Winners
Top goalscorer	League: Mauro Zárate (13) All: Mauro Zárate (16)
Highest home attendance	55,490 v Roma (11 April 2009)
Lowest home attendance	25,500 v Napoli (26 October 2008)
Average home league attendance	34,626
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 football season was Società Sportiva Lazio's 108th season since the club's existence and their 21st consecutive in the top division of Italian football.

Club

Management

Position	Staff
Head coach	Delio Rossi
Assistant coach	Fedele Limone
Goalkeeping coach	Adalberto Grigioni
Fitness coaches	Valter Vio Adriano Bianchini
Club doctors	Roberto Bianchini Stefano Salvatori

Other information

President	Claudio Lotito
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Stadio Olimpico (72, 698 / 105m x 68m)

Source: SSLazio.it

Squad

First team

As of September 20, 2008^[1][2][3][4] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Juan Pablo Carrizo 2 DF Stephan Lichtsteiner 3 DF Aleksandar Kolarov 4 MF Fabio Firmani 5 MF Cristian Brocchi 6 MF Ousmane Dabo 7 DF Manuel Belleri 8 MF Matuzalém (on loan from Real Zaragoza) 10 FW Mauro Zárate (on loan from Al-Sadd) 11 MF Stefano Mauri 13 DF Sebastiano Siviglia 14 GK Tommaso Berni 16 DF Alessandro Tuia 17 MF Pasquale Foggia 18 FW Tommaso Rocchi (captain) 19 FW Goran Pandev 20 FW Libor Kozák

No. Position Player 21 FW Simone Inzaghi 22 DF David Rozehnal 23 MF Mourad Meghni 24 MF Cristian Ledesma (vice-captain) 25 DF Emílson Sánchez Cribari 26 FW Stephen Ayodele Makinwa 29 DF Lorenzo De Silvestri 32 DF Ştefan Radu 49 MF Antonio Cinelli 68 MF Christian Manfredini 80 MF Massimo Mutarelli 81 FW Simone Del Nero 86 GK Fernando Muslera 87 DF Mobido Diakité 89 GK Vincent Degré 90 FW Ettore Mendicino 91 DF Marco Davide Faraoni

For all transfers and loans pertaining to Lazio for the current season, please see; summer 2008 transfers.

Double passports

• Juan Pablo Carrizo
• Mauro Zárate
• Mourad Meghni
• Cristian Ledesma
• Cribari
• Christian Manfredini
• Fernando Muslera

Non-EU players

• Aleksandar Kolarov
• Matuzalém
• Stephen Makinwa
• Goran Pandev

Serie A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
7	Udinese	38	16	10	12	61	50	+11	58
8	Palermo	38	17	6	15	57	50	+7	57
9	Cagliari	38	15	8	15	49	50	−1	53
10	Lazio	38	15	5	18	46	55	−9	50	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Play-off round 1
11	Atalanta	38	13	8	17	45	48	−3	47
12	Napoli	38	12	10	16	43	45	−2	46
13	Sampdoria	38	11	13	14	49	52	−3	46

Source: lega-calcio.it (Italian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Lazio qualified for the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League 2009–10 by winning the Coppa Italia 2008–09.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Matches

1	Cagliari	1–4	Lazio
	Larrivey  31'		Zárate  62' (pen.), 71' Foggia  75' Pandev  84'

2	Lazio	2–0	Sampdoria
	Zárate  7' Pandev  72'

3	Milan	4–1	Lazio
	Seedorf  7' Zambrotta  34' Pato  48' Kaká  59'		Zárate  25'

4	Lazio	3–0	Fiorentina
	Mauri  51' Pandev  55' Siviglia  59'

5	Torino	1–3	Lazio
	Amoruso  90+2' (pen.)		Pandev  30' Zárate  63', 83' (pen.)

6	Lazio	1–1	Lecce
	S. Inzaghi  38'		Tiribocchi  26'

7	Bologna	3–1	Lazio
	Volpi  5' Di Vaio  12', 26'		Rocchi  51'

8	Lazio	0–1	Napoli
			Siviglia  61' (o.g.)

9	Chievo	1–2	Lazio
	Pellissier  11'		Pandev  15' Mantovani  82' (o.g.)

10	Lazio	1–0	Catania
	Foggia  85'

11	Lazio	3–0	Siena
	Zárate  58' Rocchi  86', 90+3'

12	Roma	1–0	Lazio
	J. Baptista  50'

13	Lazio	1–1	Genoa
	Dabo  80'		Milito  69'

14	Atalanta	2–0	Lazio
	Valdés  54' Floccari  68'

15	Lazio	0–3	Inter
			Samuel  2' Diakité  45+4' (o.g.) Ibrahimović  55'

16	Udinese	3–3	Lazio
	Di Natale  9', 55' Quagliarella  15'		Zárate  60' Diakité  72' Ledesma  85'

17	Lazio	1–0	Palermo
	Rocchi  66'

18	Reggina	2–3	Lazio
	Corradi  4' Cozza  63'		Pandev  14', 21', 76'

19	Lazio	1–1	Juventus
	Ledesma  25'		Mellberg  30'

20	Lazio	1–4	Cagliari
	Rocchi  3'		Jeda  5', 9' Acquafresca  21' (pen.) Matri  41'

21	Sampdoria	3–1	Lazio
	Delvecchio  13' Cassano  55' Stankevičius  55'		Rocchi  30'

22	Lazio	0–3	Milan
			Pato  42' Ambrosini  47' Kaká  83'

23	Fiorentina	1–0	Lazio
	Gilardino  90'

24	Lazio	1–1	Torino
	Siviglia  75'		Abate  36'

25	Lecce	0–2	Lazio
			Foggia  10' Kolarov  50'

26	Lazio	2–0	Bologna
	Zárate  36', 81'

27	Napoli	0–2	Lazio
			Rocchi  57', 65'

28	Lazio	0–3	Chievo
			Bogdani  27' Pellissier  28', 84'

29	Catania	1–0	Lazio
	Paolucci  24'

30	Siena	2–0	Lazio
	Calaiò  25' Maccarone  85'

31	Lazio	4–2	Roma
	Pandev  2' Zárate  4' Lichtsteiner  58' Kolarov  85'		Mexès  10' De Rossi  80'

32	Genoa	0–1	Lazio
			Zárate  65'

33	Lazio	0–1	Atalanta
			Talamonti  24'

34	Inter	2–0	Lazio
	Ibrahimović  58' Muntari  70'

35	Lazio	1–3	Udinese
	Rocchi  56'		Floro Flores  60' D'Agostino  69' Quagliarella  86' (pen.)

36	Palermo	2–0	Lazio
	Miccoli  6' (pen.) Migliaccio  87'

37	Lazio	1–0	Reggina
	Zárate  26'

38	Juventus	2–0	Lazio
	Iaquinta  3', 59'

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
38	15	5	18	46	55	−9	50	8	4	7	23	24	−1	7	1	11	23	31	−8

Top Scorers

• Mauro Zárate 13 (2)
• Goran Pandev 9
• Tommaso Rocchi 9
• Pasquale Foggia 2
• Cristian Ledesma 2
• Stefano Mauri 2

Coppa Italia

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
24 August 2008	Third Round	Benevento	H	5 – 1	Mauri 9', Meghni 22', Manfredini 54', Pandev (2) 57', 90'	8,000
1 October 2008	Fourth Round	Atalanta	H	2 – 0	Ledesma 17', Pandev 83'	10,000
4 December 2008	Round of 16	Milan	A	2 – 1	Zárate 87' (pen.), Pandev 92'	10,000
23 January 2009	Quarter-final	Torino	H	3 – 1	Pandev 47', Mauri 55', Rocchi 91'	10,000
3 March 2009	Semi-final First leg	Juventus	H	2 – 1	Pandev 66', Rocchi 78'	50,000
22 April 2009	Semi-final Second leg	Juventus	A	2 – 1	Zárate 37', Kolarov 46'
13 May 2009	Final	Sampdoria	N	1 – 1	Zárate 4' (6 – 5p)	68,000

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
9 June 2008	DF	David Rozehnal	Newcastle United	Undisclosed[5]
24 June 2008	DF	Ştefan Radu	Dinamo Bucureşti	€4.2m[6]
5 July 2008	FW	Libor Kozák	Opava	€1.2m[7]
16 July 2008	DF	Stephan Lichtsteiner	Lille	€1.8m[8]
28 August 2008	MF	Cristian Brocchi	Milan	Undisclosed[9]

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
30 June 2008	GK	Marco Ballotta	Unattached	Retired[10]
30 June 2008	MF	Fabio Vignaroli	Unattached	End of contract[11]
9 July 2008	FW	Igli Tare	Unattached	Retired[12]
17 July 2008	MF	Gaby Mudingayi	Bologna	€6m[13]
23 July 2008	MF	Valon Behrami	West Ham United	€6.5m[14]
25 October 2008	MF	Massimo Mutarelli	Unattached	Breach of contract[15]

Loaned in

Date From	Date To	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
5 July 2008	End of the season	FW	Mauro Zárate	Al-Sadd	€3m[16][17]
18 July 2008	End of the season	MF	Matuzalém	Real Zaragoza	Free[18]

Loaned out

Date From	Date To	Pos.	Name	Moving To	Fee
19 July 2008	End of the season	DF	Ivan Artipoli	Modena	Free[11]
18 July 2008	End of the season	DF	Luciano Zauri	Fiorentina	Free[19]
31 August 2008	End of the season	MF	Roberto Baronio	Brescia	Free[11]
31 August 2008	End of the season	DF	Guglielmo Stendardo	Lecce	Free[11]
22 January 2009	End of the season	FW	Stephen Makinwa	Chievo	Free[20]
25 January 2009	End of the season	DF	Manuel Belleri	Bologna	Free[21]
31 January 2009	End of the season	GK	Tommaso Berni	Salernitana	Free[22]

Estimated transfer totals

Does not take into account undisclosed fees.

Expenditure Summer: €10.2 million Winter: €0 Total: €10.2 million

Income Summer: €12.5 million Winter: €0 Total: €12.5 million

Overall Summer: €2.3 million Winter: €0 Total: €2.3 million

References

External links

• S.S. Lazio Official website (Italian)

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2008–09 in Serie A Atalanta Bologna Cagliari Catania Chievo Fiorentina Genoa Internazionale Juventus Lazio Lecce Milan Napoli Palermo Reggina Roma Sampdoria Siena Torino Udinese

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