2014–15 Udinese Calcio season

Udinese
2014–15 season
President	Franco Soldati
Manager	Andrea Stramaccioni
Stadium	Stadio Friuli
Serie A	16th
Coppa Italia	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: ; Antonio Di Natale (14); All: ; Antonio Di Natale (18)
Highest home attendance	11,241 vs Juventus; (1 February 2015, Serie A)
Lowest home attendance	2,400 vs Cesena; (3 December 2014, Coppa Italia)
Average home league attendance	8,912
	← 2013–14 2015–16 →

The 2014–15 season was Udinese Calcio's 35th in Serie A, and their 20th consecutive season in the top-flight. Having missed out on European football for the first time since the 2010–11 season, the club competed domestically in Serie A and in the Coppa Italia, finishing 16th and being eliminated in the round of 16, respectively.

Players

Squad information

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
24	FW	COL	Luis Muriel
25	DF	ITA	Andrea Coda
26	DF	ITA	Giovanni Pasquale
27	DF	SUI	Silvan Widmer
29	DF	FRA	Alexandre Coeff
30	GK	CRO	Ivan Kelava
32	DF	ITA	Davide Faraoni
33	GK	GRE	Orestis Karnezis
34	DF	BRA	Gabriel Silva
66	MF	ITA	Giampiero Pinzi
75	DF	FRA	Thomas Heurtaux
77	FW	FRA	Cyril Théréau
82	FW	ESP	Alexandre Geijo
88	MF	CRO	Frano Mlinar
89	DF	PAR	Iván Piris (on loan from Deportivo Maldonado)
90	DF	ITA	Daniele Mori
94	MF	POL	Piotr Zieliński
96	MF	MAR	Nabil Jaadi
97	GK	ITA	Alex Meret
99	GK	ITA	Francesco Benussi

Serie A

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
14	Chievo	38	10	13	15	28	41	−13	43
15	Empoli	38	8	18	12	46	52	−6	42
16	Udinese	38	10	11	17	43	56	−13	41
17	Atalanta	38	7	16	15	38	57	−19	37
18	Cagliari (R)	38	8	10	20	48	68	−20	34	Relegation to Serie B

Source: 2014–15 Serie A, 2014-15 Serie A classification.^[2]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) draw. (Head-to-head record is applied for clubs with the same number of points only once all matches between said clubs have been played.).^[3]
(R) Relegated

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	10	11	17	43	56	−13	41	6	5	8	26	29	−3	4	6	9	17	27	−10

Last updated: 31 May 2015.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	L	W	W	W	D	L	W	L	L	D	D	L	W	L	D	L	D	D	W	D	L	L	L	L	W	D	D	D	L	D	W	L	W	L	L	L	L
Position	3	10	5	3	3	4	5	3	6	8	8	8	9	8	9	9	12	12	12	9	12	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	13	14	15	13	14	12	13	15	16	16

Updated to match(es) played on 31 May 2015. Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

31 August 2014 1	Udinese	2–0	Empoli	Udine
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Pasquale 39' Di Natale 57', 62' Badu 64'	Report	Croce 55' Verdi 74'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 7,889 Referee: Marco Di Bello

13 September 2014 2	Juventus	2–0	Udinese	Turin
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Tevez 8' Marchisio 75'	Report	Pasquale 40'	Stadium: Juventus Stadium Attendance: 38,217 Referee: Antonio Damato

21 September 2014 3	Udinese	1–0	Napoli	Udine
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Fernandes 49' Danilo 70'	Report	López 54' Albiol 84' Callejón 90'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,833 Referee: Paolo Tagliavento

25 September 2014 4	Lazio	0–1	Udinese	Rome
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Novaretti 15' Candreva 45+4' Lulić 88'	Report	Théréau 26' Kone 45+1'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 26,919 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi

29 September 2014 5	Udinese	4–2	Parma	Udine
19:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Di Natale 28', 45' Kone 38' Widmer 45+3' Heurtaux 58' Théréau 83'	Report	Mauri 22' Acquah 23' 77' Cassano 45+4' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,652 Referee: Gianpaolo Calvarese

5 October 2014 6	Udinese	1–1	Cesena	Udine
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Fernandes 62' Muriel 81' Widmer 90+1' Karnezis 90+2'	Report	Lucchini 27' Coppola 70' Capelli 78' Cascione 90+2' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,887 Referee: Maurizio Mariani

19 October 2014 7	Torino	1–0	Udinese	Turin
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Molinaro 13' Benassi 43' Quagliarella 62' Pérez 88'	Report	Heurtaux 36' Allan 66'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico di Torino Attendance: 13,434 Referee: Carmine Russo

26 October 2014 8	Udinese	2–0	Atalanta	Udine
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Di Natale 6' Théréau 36' Kone 43' Guilherme 76'	Report	Cigarini 88'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,300 Referee: Dino Tommasi

29 October 2014 9	Fiorentina	3–0	Udinese	Florence
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Alonso 17' Babacar 44', 70' Savić 60' Valero 80'	Report	Fernandes 52' Allan 55' Piris 67'	Stadium: Stadio Artemio Franchi Attendance: 27,016 Referee: Davide Massa

2 November 2014 10	Udinese	2–4	Genoa	Udine
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Di Natale 1' Fernandes 39' Widmer 41' Guilherme 90'	Report	Marchese 21' Falque 24', 36' De Maio 30' Roncaglia 34' Matri 54' Kucka 87'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,701 Referee: Massimiliano Irrati

9 November 2014 11	Palermo	1–1	Udinese	Palermo
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Sorrentino 42' Dybala 42' (pen.)	Report	Théréau 5' Badu 16' Allan 53' Piris 82' Pinzi 87' Kone 90+3'	Stadium: Stadio Renzo Barbera Attendance: 15,658 Referee: Daniele Doveri

23 November 2014 12	Udinese	1–1	Chievo	Udine
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Di Natale 31', 45+1' Théréau 44' Pinzi 64'	Report	Dainelli 26' Radovanović 74' Frey 90+1'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,544 Referee: Angelo Cervellera

30 November 2014 13	Milan	2–0	Udinese	Milan
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Essien 54' 71' Ménez 65' (pen.), 75'	Report	Badu 60' Domizzi 62' Danilo 64'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 36,170 Referee: Paolo Valeri

7 December 2014 14	Internazionale	1–2	Udinese	Milan
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Icardi 44' Dodô 49' Bonazzoli 90+1'	Report	Fernandes 60' Théréau 71' Pinzi 86'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 34,912 Referee: Andrea Gervasoni

14 December 2014 15	Udinese	1–2	Hellas Verona	Udine
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Di Natale 31', 90+1' Allan 90'	Report	Agostini 6' Toni 45+1' Christodoulopoulos 46' Tachtsidis 87' González 89' Valoti 90' Benussi 90+4'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,247 Referee: Sebastiano Peruzzo

21 December 2014 16	Sampdoria	2–2	Udinese	Genoa
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Obiang 15' Soriano 18' Gabbiadini 37', 60' Éder 86'	Report	Widmer 22' Geijo 31' Danilo 34' Heurtaux 43' 88' Pasquale 65' Pinzi 90+4' Kone 90+5'	Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris Attendance: 21,413 Referee: Massimiliano Irrati

6 January 2015 17	Udinese	0–1	Roma	Udine
12:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Di Natale 21'	Report	Astori 17', 72' Maicon 45+1' Pjanić 52' Torosidis 89' Emanuelson 90'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 10,870 Referee: Marco Guida

10 January 2015 18	Sassuolo	1–1	Udinese	Reggio Emilia
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Zaza 15' Berardi 46' Vrsaljko 49' Cannavaro 57'	Report	Théréau 26', 58' Widmer 47'	Stadium: Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore Attendance: 11,221 Referee: Davide Massa

18 January 2015 19	Udinese	2–2	Cagliari	Udine
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Kone 20' Allan 55' Théréau 56'	Report	Donsah 32' João Pedro 39' Longo 44' Rossettini 57' Dessena 73' Avelar 90+1' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 9,366 Referee: Marco Di Bello

26 January 2015 20	Empoli	1–2	Udinese	Empoli
19:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Saponara 37' (pen.), 38' Barba 90+4'	Report	Di Natale 19' Danilo 36' Widmer 60' Kone 61' 74' Piris 69'	Stadium: Stadio Carlo Castellani Attendance: 7,381 Referee: Davide Ghersini

1 February 2015 21	Udinese	0–0	Juventus	Udine
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Di Natale 87' Théréau 90+3'	Report	Lichtsteiner 83'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 11,241 Referee: Andrea Gervasoni

8 February 2015 22	Napoli	3–1	Udinese	Naples
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Mertens 8', 38' Gabbiadini 21' Théréau 59' (o.g.) Higuaín 81'	Report	Hallberg 1' Allan 11' Théréau 27' Pasquale 68' Heurtaux 85'	Stadium: Stadio San Paolo Attendance: 28,773 Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni

15 February 2015 23	Udinese	0–1	Lazio	Udine
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Wagué 22' Allan 54'	Report	Candreva 23' (pen.), 63' Onazi 29' Cataldi 78' Anderson 83' Radu 88'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,282 Referee: Davide Massa

1 March 2015 25	Cesena	1–0	Udinese	Cesena
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Mudingayi 18' Capelli 26' Magnússon 29' Rodríguez 76' Perico 90+1'	Report	Heurtaux 24' Danilo 89' Perica 90+4'	Stadium: Stadio Dino Manuzzi Attendance: 14,794 Referee: Daniele Doveri

8 March 2015 26	Udinese	3–2	Torino	Udine
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Di Natale 17' Molinaro 25' (o.g.) Pasquale 29' Wagué 49' Kone 53' Pinzi 65'	Report	Quagliarella 15' Gazzi 31' Benassi 64', 69'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,519 Referee: Nicola Rizzoli

15 March 2015 27	Atalanta	0–0	Udinese	Bergamo
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Biava 32' Cigarini 43' Carmona 76'	Report	Pasquale 50' Pinzi 61' Badu 89'	Stadium: Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia Attendance: 14,073 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi

22 March 2015 28	Udinese	2–2	Fiorentina	Udine
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Wagué 15', 49' Kone 62' Pinzi 69' Danilo 72'	Report	Iličić 48' Gómez 50', 53', 62' Kurtić 57'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Massimiliano Irrati

4 April 2015 29	Genoa	1–1	Udinese	Genoa
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	De Maio 19' Costa 62' Rincón 78'	Report	Pinzi 18' Piris 44' Guilherme 49' Théréau 68'	Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris Attendance: 18,117 Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni

8 April 2015 24	Parma	1–0	Udinese	Parma
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Mauri 21' Varela 54', 70'	Report	Wagué 11'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 9,772 Referee: Angelo Cervellera
Note: Postponed from 22 February due to Parma's financial troubles.

12 April 2015 30	Udinese	1–3	Palermo	Udine
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Danilo 72' Guilherme 74' Di Natale 81'	Report	Lazaar 15' Rigoni 21' Chochev 66'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,704 Referee: Dino Tommasi

19 April 2015 31	Chievo	1–1	Udinese	Verona
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Pellissier 39' Meggiorini 58' Zukanović 59' Birsa 64'	Report	Fernandes 31' Allan 36' Pinzi 45' Cesar 71' (o.g.) Danilo 82'	Stadium: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Davide Massa

25 April 2015 32	Udinese	2–1	Milan	Udine
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Domizzi 29' Pinzi 38', 58' Badu 74'	Report	Pazzini 41', 88'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 9,006 Referee: Antonio Damato

28 April 2015 33	Udinese	1–2	Internazionale	Udine
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Pinzi 14' Domizzi 26' 40' Karnezis 46' Di Natale 50' Widmer 51' Badu 58' 58'	Report	Guarín 19' Icardi 48' (pen.) Podolski 65', 71' Palacio 83' Medel 90+3'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,901 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi

3 May 2015 34	Hellas Verona	0–1	Udinese	Verona
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Greco 34' Sala 61' Márquez 90+1'	Report	Perica 30' Allan 51' Piris 54' Di Natale 62' Bubnjić 66'	Stadium: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi Attendance: 17,418 Referee: Angelo Cervellera

10 May 2015 35	Udinese	1–4	Sampdoria	Udine
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Piris 82' Di Natale 87' (pen.)	Report	Soriano 25', 62', 39' Regini 56' Acquah 80' Viviano 86' Duncan 89' Coda 90+4'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,492 Referee: Marco Di Bello

17 May 2015 36	Roma	2–1	Udinese	Rome
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Nainggolan 45', 80' Torosidis 65', 87' Ljajić 90'	Report	Perica 19' Piris 24' Heurtaux 49'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 35,720 Referee: Luca Banti

24 May 2015 37	Udinese	0–1	Sassuolo	Udine
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Kone 51' Guilherme 54' 79'	Report	Berardi 45+1' Magnanelli 70'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 8,899 Referee: Rosario Abisso

31 May 2015 38	Cagliari	4–3	Udinese	Cagliari
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Sau 13' João Pedro 19' M'Poku 79' Fernandes 85' (o.g.) Avelar 90'	Report	Wagué 16' Danilo 28' Aguirre 44', 54' Fernandes 62', 81' Théréau 88'	Stadium: Stadio Sant'Elia Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Gianluca Manganiello

Coppa Italia

24 August 2014 Third round	Udinese	5–1	Ternana	Udine
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Di Natale 19', 28', 43', 75' Pasquale 63' Bubnjić 77' Théréau 81' (pen.)		Ceravolo 34' Avenatti 79'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Sebastiano Peruzzo

3 December 2014 Fourth round	Udinese	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Cesena	Udine
21:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Allan 20', 82' Fernandes 44', 88' Danilo 55' Evangelista 99' Théréau 113'		Đurić 4', 94' Succi 55' Volta 61' Krajnc 90' Capelli 103' Cazzola 105+1'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 2,400 Referee: Dino Tommasi

22 January 2015 Round of 16	Napoli	2–2 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Udinese	Naples
21:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Jorginho 65' (pen.), 69' Mesto 94' Strinić 97' Hamšík 99'		Gabriel Silva 3' Hallberg 9' Théréau 28', 58' Widmer 44' 68' Heurtaux 63' Kone 104'	Stadium: Stadio San Paolo Attendance: 10,847 Referee: Daniele Orsato
	Penalties
	De Guzmán Jorginho Mesto Hamšík Higuaín		Fernandes Guilherme Kone Danilo Allan

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Serie A		Coppa Italia
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
22	GK	ITA	Simone Scuffet	2	0	1+1	0	0	0
31	GK	GRE	Orestis Karnezis	37	0	37	0	0	0
97	GK	ITA	Alex Meret	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	MLI	Molla Wagué	10	2	10	2	0	0
5	DF	BRA	Danilo	37	2	37	2	0	0
11	DF	ITA	Maurizio Domizzi	11	0	10+1	0	0	0
18	DF	CRO	Igor Bubnjić	6	0	5+1	0	0	0
26	DF	ITA	Giovanni Pasquale	21	0	14+7	0	0	0
27	DF	SUI	Silvan Widmer	36	2	35+1	2	0	0
34	DF	BRA	Gabriel Silva	11	0	8+3	0	0	0
75	DF	FRA	Thomas Heurtaux	26	1	24+2	1	0	0
89	DF	PAR	Iván Piris	31	0	31	0	0	0
Midfielders
6	MF	BRA	Allan	35	1	33+2	1	0	0
7	MF	GHA	Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu	27	1	20+7	1	0	0
8	MF	POR	Bruno Fernandes	31	3	16+15	3	0	0
19	MF	BRA	Guilherme	34	0	32+2	0	0	0
21	MF	SWE	Melker Hallberg	4	0	2+2	0	0	0
33	MF	GRE	Panagiotis Kone	28	1	20+8	1	0	0
49	MF	ITA	Simone Pontisso	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
66	MF	ITA	Giampiero Pinzi	19	1	14+5	1	0	0
95	MF	BRA	Lucas Evangelista	4	0	1+3	0	0	0
Forwards
9	FW	CRO	Stipe Perica	9	1	5+4	1	0	0
10	FW	ITA	Antonio Di Natale	33	14	27+6	14	0	0
77	FW	FRA	Cyril Théréau	37	10	25+12	10	0	0
82	FW	ESP	Alexandre Geijo	13	1	5+8	1	0	0
94	FW	URU	Rodrigo Aguirre	8	1	1+7	1	0	0
Players transferred out during the season
1	GK	SRB	Željko Brkić	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	MF	COL	Alexis Zapata	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
14	DF	ITA	Nicola Belmonte	2	0	0+2	0	0	0
20	FW	COL	Luis Muriel	11	0	5+6	0	0	0

Last updated: 31 May 2015
Source: Competitions

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Name	Serie A	Coppa Italia	Total
1	10	FW	Antonio Di Natale	14	4	18
2	77	FW	Cyril Théréau	10	3	13
3	8	MF	Bruno Fernandes	3	1	4
4	2	DF	Molla Wagué	2	0	2
	5	DF	Danilo	2	0	2
	6	MF	Allan	1	1	2
	27	DF	Silvan Widmer	2	0	2
	33	MF	Panagiotis Kone	1	1	2
9	7	MF	Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu	1	0	1
	9	FW	Stipe Perica	1	0	1
	66	MF	Giampiero Pinzi	1	0	1
	75	DF	Thomas Heurtaux	1	0	1
	82	FW	Alexandre Geijo	1	0	1
	94	FW	Rodrigo Aguirre	1	0	1
	95	MF	Lucas Evangelista	0	1	1
Own goal				2	0	2
Total				43	11	54

Last updated: 31 May 2015

References

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