2020 Supercoppa Italiana

The 2020 Supercoppa Italiana (branded as the PS5 Supercup for sponsorship reasons)^[3] was the 33rd edition of the Supercoppa Italiana. It was played on 20 January 2021 for the first time at the Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore, Reggio Emilia, between Juventus, the winners of the 2019–20 Serie A championship, and Napoli, the winners of the 2019–20 Coppa Italia.^[4] The match was initially supposed to be held in December in Saudi Arabia like the previous year, but restrictions related to the global COVID-19 pandemic forced it to remain in Italy.^[5]

2020 Supercoppa Italiana

The Cup displayed in September 2021
Event	Supercoppa Italiana
Juventus Napoli Serie A Coppa Italia 2 0
Date	20 January 2021 (2021-01-20)
Venue	Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore, Reggio Emilia
Man of the Match	Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus)[1]
Referee	Paolo Valeri[2]
Attendance	0[note 1]
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Juventus won the match 2–0 and claimed their record-extending ninth Supercoppa Italiana title.^[6][7]

Background

Juventus made its ninth consecutive Supercoppa Italiana appearance, and 16th overall. They had a 4–4 record during this run, and were 8–7 overall. Napoli took part in the competition for the fourth time, having already participated as Serie A champions once (1990) and as Coppa Italia winners twice (2012, 2014). Napoli won two of the previous three editions in which they played.^[8] On all three occasions Juventus had been the opponent. The match was a rematch if the 2020 Coppa Italia final, in which Napoli defeated Juventus 4-2 on penalties.

Match

Summary

Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring in the 64th minute when a corner from the left broke to him off the back of Napoli's Tiémoué Bakayoko, he finished to the net from six yards out.^[9] Napoli was awarded a penalty kick in the 80th minute, but with a chance to tie the game at 1–1, Lorenzo Insigne missed the net, wide to the left. Álvaro Morata made it 2–0 in the 5th minute of added time with a low shot to the net from the right, after Juan Cuadrado ran into the penalty area and drew goalkeeper David Ospina before passing to him.^[9]

Details

Juventus	2–0	Napoli
Ronaldo 64' Morata 90+5'	Report

20 January 2021 (2021-01-20)

21:00 CET

Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore, Reggio Emilia

Attendance: 0^{[note 1]}

Referee: Paolo Valeri

Juventus

Napoli

GK 1 Wojciech Szczęsny RB 16 Juan Cuadrado CB 19 Leonardo Bonucci CB 3 Giorgio Chiellini (c) LB 13 Danilo RM 14 Weston McKennie CM 30 Rodrigo Bentancur  83' CM 5 Arthur LM 22 Federico Chiesa  46' CF 44 Dejan Kulusevski  83' CF 7 Cristiano Ronaldo  74' Substitutes: GK 31 Carlo Pinsoglio GK 77 Gianluigi Buffon DF 36 Alessandro Di Pardo DF 37 Radu Drăgușin DF 38 Gianluca Frabotta MF 8 Aaron Ramsey MF 25 Adrien Rabiot  83' MF 33 Federico Bernardeschi  46' MF 41 Nicolò Fagioli MF 56 Filippo Ranocchia FW 9 Álvaro Morata  83' Manager: Andrea Pirlo

GK 25 David Ospina RB 22 Giovanni Di Lorenzo CB 44 Kostas Manolas CB 26 Kalidou Koulibaly LB 6 Mário Rui  84' CM 4 Diego Demme  84' CM 5 Tiémoué Bakayoko  67' RW 11 Hirving Lozano AM 20 Piotr Zieliński  89' LW 24 Lorenzo Insigne (c) CF 37 Andrea Petagna  72' Substitutes: GK 1 Alex Meret GK 16 Nikita Contini DF 19 Nikola Maksimović DF 23 Elseid Hysaj DF 31 Faouzi Ghoulam DF 33 Amir Rrahmani MF 7 Eljif Elmas  67' MF 68 Stanislav Lobotka FW 14 Dries Mertens  72' FW 18 Fernando Llorente  84' FW 21 Matteo Politano  84' FW 58 Antonio Cioffi Manager: Gennaro Gattuso

Man of the Match: Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus)[1] Assistant referees:[2] Daniele Bindoni Stefano Del Giovane Fourth official: Maurizio Mariani Video assistant referee: Marco Di Bello Assistant video assistant referee: Giacomo Paganessi

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of twelve named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time.[note 2]

See also

• 2020–21 Serie A
• 2020–21 Coppa Italia
• Juventus FC–SSC Napoli rivalry

Notes

1. The match was 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.