Season trivia for Serie B 2021/2022
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2021/2022 Serie B season in Italy.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2021/2022 season were the players Giuseppe Caso - Gabriele Gori (Cosenza), Anthony Partipilo - Antonio Palumbo (Ternana) and Luca Zanimacchia - Jaime Báez (Cremonese). Together they scored 4 goals for their teams, where one of the players scored the goal and the other one assisted to it.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2021/2022 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Gianluca Lapadula, playing for Benevento, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 17 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Benevento-Cittadella.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In November 2021, Gabriel Strefezza (Lecce) scored 6 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2021/2022 season.
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored 3 times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Dany Mota (Monza)
Massimo Coda (Lecce)
Enrico Baldini (Cittadella)
Simone Corazza (Alessandria)
Alfredo Donnarumma (Ternana)
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2021/2022 season was Massimo Coda in Lecce, in total he did it 8 times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Massimo Coda in Lecce during the 2021/2022 season, in total he did this 7 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2021/2022 was shared between 2 players, all of whom scored 6 penalties each, and these were Mirko Maric (Crotone) and Massimo Coda (Lecce).
Most penalty goals by team
Como was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2021/2022 season, in total they scored 10 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, 7 players scored 2 goals in added time, and the players who did so were:
Luigi Canotto (Frosinone)
Gabriel Charpentier (Frosinone)
Ettore Gliozzi (Como)
Emmanuel Latte Lath (Spal)
Massimo Coda (Lecce)
Patrick Ciurria (Monza)
Luca Vido (Cremonese)
Most stoppage time goals by team
When it comes to stoppage time goals, Monza was the best team, in total they scored 7 goals in the final minutes of the match.
Most own goals by player
2 players share the less-than-honourable title of most own goals during the 2021/2022 season in Serie B. These players each scored 2 own goals and they were Alessandro Vogliacco (Benevento) and Nicola Pasini (Vicenza).
Most own goals by team
Ternana scored 4 own goals in all their matches, making them the best at it in the entire league during the 2021/2022 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Massimo Coda in Lecce scored in 6 consecutive matches during the 2021/2022 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
It was Antonio Palumbo in Ternana who had the longest streak of matches in a row with at least one assist, achieving this in 4 consecutive matches.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Massimo Coda in Lecce who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 12 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
2 players were the best at scoring in the second half, something they did 8 times, and the players who did this were Gabriel Charpentier (Frosinone) and Massimo Coda (Lecce).
Most matches in a row without losing
Lecce were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2021/2022 season, playing 15 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Pordenone had a streak of 7 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Serie B during the 2021/2022 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Cosenza managed the feat of not winning a single match in 15 consecutive matches during the 2021/2022 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Cremonese were best at during the 2021/2022 season, they came back to win 5 matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Pordenone have managed this in 5 matches during the 2021/2022 season, more than any other team in Serie B.
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