2020 Coppa Italia Serie C final

The 2020 Coppa Italia Serie C Final was an association football match between Ternana and Juventus U23 on 27 June 2020 at Stadio Dino Manuzzi in Cesena, Italy. It was the first Coppa Italia Serie C final for both teams.

The Stadio Dino Manuzzi in Cesena hosted the match
Event	2019–20 Coppa Italia Serie C
Ternana Juventus U23 1 2
Date	27 June 2020 (2020-06-27)
Venue	Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena
Referee	Daniele Paterna
Attendance	0[a]
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The match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. It was also due to be played in two legs according the tournament's regulation.^[1] However, on 20 June 2020, Lega Pro decided to play the final as a single match in Cesena.^[2]

Ternana's Carlo Mammarella scored the first goal in the sixth minute through a free kick. Six minutes later, Matteo Brunori was brought down in the Ternana box and Paterna awarded a penalty. Brunori, scored from the spot to make it 1–1. At the end of the first half, Hamza Rafia scored Juventus U23's second goal after the Antony Iannarilli's save on Brunori's shot and Rafia's rebound. The match ended 2–1 and Juventus U23 won their first trophy of team's history.

As winners, Juventus U23 had a bye for the first two rounds of Serie C promotion play-offs, qualifying to round of 16. The 2020–21 season of the Coppa Italia Serie C will be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.^[3]

Match

Ternana	1–2	Juventus U23
Mammarella 6'	Report	Brunori 12' (pen.) Rafia 45+1'

27 June 2020

20:45 CEST

Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena

Attendance: 0^[a]

Referee: Paterna (Teramo)

GK 24 Antony Iannarilli RB 11 Luca Parodi CB 14 Michele Russo CB 2 Alessandro Celli LB 15 Carlo Mammarella (c)  89' CM 4 Luca Verna  60' CM 5 Antonio Palumbo CM 4 Fabrizio Paghera  80' AM 33 Anthony Partipilo  80' CF 9 Alexis Ferrante CF 10 Daniele Vantaggiato  60' Substitutes: GK 12 Richiard Marcone DF 22 Andrea Tozzo DF 27 Dario Bergmamelli DF 6 Modibo Diakité DF 23 Simone Sini MF 31 Filippo Damian  89' MF 25 Marino Defendi  60' MF 28 Aniello Salzano  60' FW 7 Federico Furlan  80' FW 21 Giuseppe Torromino FW 18 Guido Marilungo  80' Head coach: Fabio Gallo

Juventus U23[4]

GK	1	Timothy Nocchi
RB	18	Alessandro Di Pardo		80'
CB	35	Raffaele Alcibiade (c)
CB	3	Luca Coccolo
LB	24	Gianluca Frabotta
DM	15	Idrissa Touré
DM	26	Nicolò Fagioli		80'
AM	27	Ferdinando Del Sole		47'
AM	19	Hamza Rafia		65'
AM	7	Ettore Marchi
CF	9	Matteo Brunori		58'
Substitutes:
GK	22	Leonardo Loria
GK	30	Alessandro Siani
DF	33	Filippo Delli Carri
DF	31	Radu Drăgușin
DF	36	Alessandro Minelli
DF	20	Pietro Beruatto		80'
MF	6	Daouda Peeters		80'
MF	32	Wesley		47'
MF	8	Manolo Portanova		58'
FW	17	Luca Zanimacchia		65'
FW	14	Alejandro Marqués
FW	21	Giacomo Vrioni
Head coach
Fabio Pecchia

Assistant referees:^[5]
Marco Trinchieri
Emanuele Yoshikawa
Fourth official:^[5]
Ermanno Feliciani

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Twelve named substitutes, of which up to five may be used.[b]

Notes

1. Match played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
2. Each team was given only three opportunities to make substitutions, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

References

1. "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE N. 61/L – 30 LUGLIO 2019" (PDF). lega-pro.com. 30 July 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-08-04. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
2. "Coppa Italia Serie C, ufficializzata la sede e il programma della Finale". Il resto del calcio (in Italian). 2020-06-20. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
3. "Coppa Italia Serie C 20/21, la Figc ufficializza la cancellazione". Virgilio Sport (in Italian). 9 August 2020. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
4. JuventusNews24, Redazione (2020-06-27). "Ternana-Juventus U23 1-2: bianconeri nella storia, è trionfo in Coppa Italia!". Juventus News 24 (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-06-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
5. JuventusNews24, Redazione (2020-06-24). "Arbitro Ternana-Juventus U23 Coppa Italia Serie C: designato il fischietto della finale". Juventus News 24 (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-06-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)