A look back ahead of the friendlies against France and Ukraine
02 November 2024
Azzurri numbers and the Mancini era
The most important facts and figuresFriday, February 24, 2023
861
The number of matches that have been played by the National Team: 459 wins, 235 draws and 167 defeats; 1503 goals scored and 844 conceded.
401
The number of friendlies played in 112 years. 195 wins, 115 draws and 91 defeats; a goal difference of +229 (677/448). The match against Albania in November was the Azzurri’s 400th friendly.
846
The number of players who have worn the Italy shirt, the most recent of whom featured in November’s friendlies: Pafundi, Fagioli and Pinamonti in Albania; Miretti in Austria.
57
The number of Italy matches played under Mancini’s stewardship: 35 wins, 15 draws and 7 defeats. Across 5132 minutes, Italy have been in front for 1915’ (37.32%), on level terms for 2580 and behind for 635’. With the two games in November, Mancini moved ahead of Lippi and Prandelli in terms of number of Italy games managed (57); only Bearzot (88) and Pozzo (95) are ahead of him in this regard.
35
The number of wins recorded under Mancini’s stewardship (61.4%). In percentage terms, only Pozzo (63 wins in 95 matches, 66%) and Sacchi (34 wins in 53 matches, 64.15%) have done better. Then come Vicini (32/54, 59.25%), Valcareggi (28/54, 51.85%), Lippi (28/56, 50.00%) and Bearzot (40/88, 45.45%).
37
The number of games Italy went unbeaten for between 17/10/2018 and 8/9/2021, a world record.
13
The number of consecutive wins between November 2020 and July 2021 (against Estonia, Poland, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, San Marino, Czech Republic, Turkey, Switzerland, Wales, Austria and Belgium). It’s the National Team’s longest winning streak, with Mancini’s men also recording ten wins from ten in Euro 2020 qualifying (another Azzurri record) and going on an eleven-game winning run between November 2018 and November 2019.
12
The number of positions that Italy have climbed in the FIFA ranking: from 20th to their current 8th-place position (after their Euro 2020 triumph, the Azzurri moved up to fourth).
120
The number of points in 57 games. In terms of points per match, Mancini sits third (behind Pozzo with 2.16 and Sacchi with 2.13).
16
The number of points won from losing positions: 4 against Bosnia; 3 against Armenia, Albania and Turkey; 1 against Poland, England and Switzerland.
+77
Italy's goal difference: 116 scored and 39 conceded.
116
The number of goals scored among 35 players (Barella, Belotti and Immobile the top scorers with 8). There have been 4 own goals.
| GOALSCORERS / MANCINI ERA | |
|---|---|
| 8 | Barella, Belotti, Immobile |
| 6 | Berardi, Insigne |
| 5 | Bernardeschi, Jorginho, Lo. Pellegrini, Raspadori |
| 4 | Chiesa, Grifo, Kean, Pessina |
| 3 | Bonucci, Di Lorenzo, El Shaarawy, Locatelli, Politano, Sensi |
| 2 | Cristante, Orsolini, Quagliarella, Romagnoli, Verratti, Zaniolo |
| 1 | Acerbi, Balotelli, Bastoni, Biraghi, Caputo, Dimarco, Ferrari, Gnonto, Pavoletti, Zaza |
| 4 own goals | |
2.03
The average number of goals scored per game (only under Pozzo have Italy done better, 2.45).
18
The number of goals scored by substitutes, including 2 for Politano (San Marino), Orsolini (Armenia and Estonia) and Belotti (Saudi Arabia and San Marino).
15
The number of headed goals: 2 Belotti (Liechtenstein), Immobile (Finland and Armenia) and Cristante (Moldova and Turkey); 1 Sensi and Kean (Liechtenstein), Bonucci (Greece), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Armenia), Romagnoli (Liechtenstein); Barella (Netherlands), El Shaarawy (Moldova), Di Lorenzo (Switzerland) and Bastoni (Germany).
9
The number of matches Italy have failed to score in (just under 16%): 5 goalless draws, 4 defeats (against Portugal, North Macedonia, Argentina and Austria). Only once have the Azzurri been unable to find the net in two consecutive matches: against Northern Ireland and North Macedonia.
6
The number of wins by a 5-goal margin since Mancini took over, a feat that Italy have achieved 31 times in history. The Azzurri’s 9-1 victory over Armenia is the biggest win under the current Head Coach to date. Italy had last netted 9 goals in 1948 (Italy 9-0 USA, the biggest Azzurri win in history.
39
The number of goals conceded. 29 clean sheets in 57 matches (50.7%).
0.68
The average number of goals conceded per game.
1168’
The number of minutes the Azzurri went without conceding between 2020 and 2021, an Azzurri record: from Van de Beek’s finish in Italy vs. the Netherlands on 14/10/2020 to Kalajdizic’s goal on 26/06/2021 in Italy 1-1 Austria.
24.9
The average age of the side that faced Germany last June, the youngest team since the Mancini era beganand slightly younger than the one that had played against Hungary in Cesena a few days before (25.0).
2
The number of red cards: Criscito in Italy vs. the Netherlands (2018) and Bonucci in Italy vs. Spain (2021). In total, there have been 44 sendings-off in Azzurri history (40 players have been given their marching orders on at least one occasion).
99
The number of players called up by Mancini between May 2018 and June 2022, the most recent of which were Fagioli, MIretti and Pafundi.
| THE 99 PLAYERS CALLED UP BY MANCINI | |
|---|---|
| Goalkeepers (10) | Cragno, Donnarumma, Gollini, Mirante, Meret, Perin, Provedel, Silvestri, Sirigu, Vicario |
| Defenders (32) | Acerbi, Bastoni, Biraghi, Bonucci, Calabria, Caldara, Chiellini, Cistana, Criscito, D’Ambrosio, De Sciglio, Di Lorenzo, Dimarco, Emerson Palmieri, Florenzi, Gatti, Izzo, Lazzari, Luiz Felipe, G. Mancini, Mazzocchi, Ogbonna, Parisi, Piccini, Lu. Pellegrini, Romagnoli, Rugani, Scalvini, Spinazzola, Toloi, Tonelli, Zappacosta. |
| Midfielders (25) | Barella, Baselli, Benassi, Bonaventura, Castrovilli, Cristante, S. Esposito, Fagioli, Frattesi, Gagliardini, Jorginho, Locatelli, Mandragora, Marchisio, Miretti, Lo. Pellegrini, Pessina, Pobega, S. Ricci, M. Ricci, Sensi, Soriano, Tonali, Verratti, Zaniolo. |
| Forwards (32) | Balotelli, Belotti, Berardi, Bernardeschi, Cancellieri, Caprari, Caputo, Chiesa, Cutrone, El Shaarawy, Giovinco, Gnonto, Grifo, Immobile, Insigne, Joao Pedro, Kean, Lasagna, Okaka, Orsolini, Pafundi, Pavoletti, Pellegri, Pinamonti, Politano, Raspadori, Scamacca, Quagliarella, Verdi, Zaccagni, Zaza, Zerbin. |
88
The number of players who have been fielded. Donnarumma(45, 3862’) has featured the most, followed by Bonucci (43, 3587’), Barella (42, 3236’) and Jorginho (41, 3532’).
| PLAYER | A | MP | G | Sub | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donnarumma | 45 | 3.862 | -32 | 0 | 3 |
| Barella | 42 | 3.236 | 8 | 3 | 19 |
| Bonucci | 43 | 3.587 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Jorginho | 41 | 3.532 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| Chiesa F. | 38 | 2.247 | 4 | 14 | 15 |
| Insigne L. | 31 | 2.425 | 6 | 2 | 21 |
| Belotti | 29 | 1.305 | 8 | 16 | 16 |
| E. Palmieri | 28 | 1.956 | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| Cristante | 27 | 1.373 | 2 | 15 | 2 |
| Acerbi | 26 | 2.125 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Verratti | 26 | 2.101 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Bernardeschi | 26 | 1.344 | 5 | 10 | 12 |
| Di Lorenzo | 25 | 1.983 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Locatelli | 24 | 1.379 | 3 | 11 | 7 |
| Berardi | 24 | 1.291 | 6 | 11 | 12 |
| Immobile | 23 | 1.566 | 8 | 3 | 14 |
| Florenzi | 23 | 1.564 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| Chiellini | 21 | 1.666 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Pellegrini Lo. | 21 | 1.017 | 5 | 8 | 11 |
| Bastoni | 17 | 1.254 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Spinazzola | 16 | 1.115 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Raspadori | 17 | 847 | 5 | 7 | 8 |
| Pessina | 15 | 754 | 4 | 8 | 5 |
| Biraghi | 13 | 1.069 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Tonali | 12 | 644 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Kean | 12 | 504 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| Sirigu | 11 | 820 | -4 | 2 | 2 |
| Zaniolo | 11 | 456 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| Toloi | 10 | 547 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Mancini G. | 9 | 746 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Sensi | 9 | 529 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Scamacca | 9 | 425 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| Romagnoli | 7 | 630 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Dimarco | 8 | 496 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Politano | 8 | 440 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Grifo | 8 | 429 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Gnonto | 8 | 340 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| De Sciglio | 7 | 350 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Bonaventura | 7 | 344 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Calabria | 7 | 266 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Lasagna | 7 | 213 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| El Shaarawy | 6 | 164 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| D'Ambrosio | 5 | 424 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Zappacosta | 4 | 242 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| PLAYER | A | MP | G | Sub | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criscito | 4 | 233 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Frattesi | 4 | 225 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Castrovilli | 4 | 126 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Balotelli | 3 | 226 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Lazzari | 3 | 225 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Gagliardini | 3 | 194 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Scalvini | 3 | 180 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Meret | 3 | 135 | -3 | 2 | 0 |
| Quagliarella | 3 | 128 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Izzo | 3 | 122 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Piccini C. | 3 | 102 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Pobega | 3 | 44 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Caldara | 2 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gatti | 2 | 135 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Zaza | 2 | 118 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Cragno | 2 | 86 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Caputo | 2 | 83 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Verdi | 2 | 78 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Orsolini | 2 | 64 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Ricci | 2 | 50 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Gabbiadini | 2 | 34 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Ferrari Gm. | 1 | 90 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mandragora | 1 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perin | 1 | 90 | -1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rugani | 1 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Soriano | 1 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| L. Felipe | 1 | 46 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Zaccagni | 1 | 45 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Caprari | 1 | 44 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Esposito S. | 1 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Pellegri | 1 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Pellegrini Lu. | 1 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Pavoletti | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Fagioli | 1 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Baselli | 1 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Okaka | 1 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Zerbin | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Cancellieri | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Gollini | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Joao Pedro | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Mazzocchi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Miretti | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Pafundi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Pinamonti | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
A: Appearances; MP: Minutes played; G: Goals; Sub: Subbed on; SO: Subbed off;
55
The number of debutants: Politano (Saudi Arabia); Caldara, Mandragora and Berardi (France); Baselli (Netherlands); Biraghi (Poland); Emerson and Lazzari (Portugal), Barella and Piccini (Ukraine), Lasagna (in Poland); Sensi, Grifo and Kean (USA), Zaniolo (Finland), Izzo, Mancini, Pavoletti (Liechtenstein); Di Lorenzo and Tonali (in Liechtenstein), Castrovilli and Gollini (in Bosnia and Herzegovina), Orsolini and Meret (Armenia), Locatelli (in the Netherlands), Caputo and Cragno (Moldova), Bastoni, Pessina, Pellegri, Lu. Pellegrini and Calabria (Estonia), Toloi (in Lithuania), Ferrari (San Marino), Raspadori (Czech Republic), Scamacca (Lithuania), Joao Pedro (North Macedonia), Zaccagni (in Turkey), Frattesi, Gnonto, Pobega, Dimarco, S. Ricci, Cancellieri (Germany), Zerbin (Hungary), Gatti, S. Esposito (in England), Scalvini, Caprari, Luiz Felipe (in Germany), Mazzocchi (in Hungary), Pafundi, Fagioli and Pinamonti (in Albania), Miretti (in Austria). Pafundi has been the youngest debutant (16 years, 8 months and 2 days - only Gavinelli and De Vecchi are ahead of him in this regard in Azzurri history), followed by Gnonto and Kean.
4
The number of debutants who have found the net (Pavoletti, Orsolini, Caputo, Ferrari).
6
The number of debutants against Germany on 4 June 2022, a record under Mancini’s stewardship (previously 5 against Estonia in 2020).
0.96
The average number of debutants per game under Mancini. This ranks high among those with the most appearances in the Azzurri dugout Bearzot sent on 39 players for their debuts in 88 matches (0.44), Vicini 26/54 (0.48), Sacchi 53/53 (1.00), Trapattoni 39/44 (0.88), Lippi 44/56 (0.78), Prandelli 40/56 (0.71).
68
The number of substitutes (including 16 substitute appearances for Belotti, 15 for Cristante and 12 for Chiesa), with 44 players having been substituted (Insigne 21 times, Barella 18, Chiesa and Immobile 14).
663
The number of minutes needed for Raspadori to score 5 Italy goals: Toni (403’), Riva (405’), Inzaghi (504’)are ahead of him in this regard; Vieri (690), Del Piero (721’), Baggio (916), P. Rossi (1008’), Immobile (1062) and Vialli (1349’) follow.
