2021 Coppa Italia final

The 2021 Coppa Italia Final decided the winners of the 2020–21 Coppa Italia, the 74th season of Italy's main football cup.^[3] It was played on 19 May 2021 for the first time at the Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore, Reggio Emilia, between Atalanta and Juventus. Juventus won the match 2–1 for a record fourteenth title.^[4][5]

2021 Coppa Italia Final

Event	2020–21 Coppa Italia
Atalanta Juventus 1 2
Date	19 May 2021
Venue	Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore, Reggio Emilia
Man of the Match	Federico Chiesa (Juventus)[1]
Referee	Davide Massa[2]
Attendance	4,300[note 1]
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As winners, Juventus would have automatically qualified to the group stage of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, although they had already qualified for European competition through their league position. They also earned the right to contest the 2021 Supercoppa Italiana against the champions of the 2020–21 Serie A, Internazionale.

Background

Atalanta made its fifth appearance in the final, and second in three years. They recorded one win and three defeats in their previous four appearances, having lost three in a row after winning their only title in 1963. It was a record twentieth appearance for Juventus in a Coppa Italia final, and sixth appearance in the last seven years. Going into the final, Juventus had thirteen wins and six losses. The two teams had never met in a Coppa Italia final.

Road to the final

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

Atalanta		Round	Juventus
Opponent	Result	2020–21 Coppa Italia	Opponent	Result
Cagliari (H)	3–1	Round of 16	Genoa (H)	3–2 (a.e.t.)
Lazio (H)	3–2	Quarter-finals	SPAL (H)	4–0
Napoli	0–0 (A), 3–1 (H) (3–1 agg.)	Semi-finals	Internazionale	2–1 (A), 0–0 (H) (2–1 agg.)

Match

Details

Atalanta	1–2	Juventus
Malinovskyi 41'	Report	Kulusevski 31' Chiesa 73'

19 May 2021

21:00 CEST

Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore, Reggio Emilia

Attendance: 4,300^{[note 1]}

Referee: Davide Massa

Atalanta[8]

Juventus[8]

GK 95 Pierluigi Gollini CB 2 Rafael Tolói (c)  88'  77' CB 17 Cristian Romero  78' CB 6 José Luis Palomino RM 33 Hans Hateboer  76' CM 11 Remo Freuler  85' CM 15 Marten de Roon  88' LM 8 Robin Gosens  83' RW 18 Ruslan Malinovskyi  36'  68' LW 32 Matteo Pessina  68' CF 91 Duván Zapata Substitutes: GK 31 Francesco Rossi GK 57 Marco Sportiello DF 3 Joakim Mæhle DF 4 Boško Šutalo DF 13 Mattia Caldara DF 19 Berat Djimsiti  77' DF 40 Matteo Ruggeri MF 59 Aleksei Miranchuk  83' MF 88 Mario Pašalić  68' FW 7 Sam Lammers FW 9 Luis Muriel  68' FW 72 Josip Iličić  89'  76' Manager: Gian Piero Gasperini

GK 77 Gianluigi Buffon (c)  27' RB 16 Juan Cuadrado CB 4 Matthijs de Ligt  40' CB 3 Giorgio Chiellini LB 13 Danilo RM 14 Weston McKennie CM 30 Rodrigo Bentancur CM 25 Adrien Rabiot LM 22 Federico Chiesa  74' CF 44 Dejan Kulusevski  83' CF 7 Cristiano Ronaldo Substitutes: GK 1 Wojciech Szczęsny GK 31 Carlo Pinsoglio DF 19 Leonardo Bonucci  83' DF 28 Merih Demiral DF 38 Gianluca Frabotta MF 5 Arthur MF 8 Aaron Ramsey MF 33 Federico Bernardeschi FW 9 Álvaro Morata FW 10 Paulo Dybala  74' Manager: Andrea Pirlo

Man of the Match: Federico Chiesa (Juventus)[1] Assistant referees:[2] Matteo Passeri Alessandro Costanzo Fourth official: Marco Di Bello Video assistant referee: Paolo Valeri Assistant video assistant referee: Mauro Vivenzi

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

See also

• 2020–21 Coppa Italia
• 2021–22 UEFA Europa League
• 2021 Supercoppa Italiana
• List of Coppa Italia finals

Notes

1. The total capacity of the stadium was established at 20% due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.^[6][7]
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

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3. "Coppa Italia 2018/2019, 2019/2020 e 2020/2021" (PDF) (in Italian). legaseriea.it. 9 July 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
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