Coppa Italia · ITA · Round 1/16

Genoa
3 - 1 Full time
Empoli

Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris · Genova

Lineups

Genoa4-2-3-1
NL1Leali
SS20Sabelli
AM27âš½Marcandalli
JV22Vásquez
AM3Caricol
NS8↓84'Stanciu
MF32⚽↓66'Frendrup
VC23Carboni
JM10↓46'Messias
AG11↓66'Grønbæk
LC29↓60'Colombo
SP1Perisan
TE24↓67'Ebuehi
GG34Guarino
NE5Obaretin
BM27Moruzzi
LB8Belardinelli
GY14↓67'Yepes
FC79↓59'Carboni
RI10Ilie
BP77↓59'Popov
ES70⚽↓80'Saporiti
Empoli3-4-3

Genoa substitutes

76 Lorenzo Venturino 7.0 ↑46'
21 Jeff Ekhator 7.3 ⚽↑60'
2 Morten Thorsby 7.3 ↑66'
73 Patrizio Masini 6.4 ↑66'
40 Seydou Fini ↑84'
31 Benjamin Siegrist
39 Daniele Sommariva
34 Sebastian Otoa
15 Brooke Norton-Cuffy
30 Hugo Cuenca
77 Mikael Egill Ellertsson
17 Ruslan Malinovsky
18 Caleb Ekuban
9 Vitinha

Coach: Patrick Vieira

Empoli substitutes

48 Edoardo Zanaga 6.1 ↑59'
11 Stiven Shpendi 5.9 ↑59'
28 Gabriele Indragoli 6.5 ↑67'
25 Lorenzo Ignacchiti 6.4 ↑67'
89 Thomas Campaniello 6.1 ↑80'
22 Francesco Versari
12 Manuel Gasparini
37 Giovanni Lauricella
42 Kevin Pasalic
29 Lorenzo Tosto
96 Andrea Orlandi
53 Danilo Busiello
31 Ernesto Perin

Coach: Guido Pagliuca

Match events

12'Edoardo Saporiti 0 - 1âš½
15'Morten Frendrup assist: Lorenzo Colombo 1 - 1âš½
Second half
46'↑ Lorenzo Venturino ↓ Junior Messias⇄
56'Alessandro Marcandalli assist: Lorenzo Venturino 2 - 1âš½
59'↑ Stiven Shpendi ↓ Bogdan Popov⇄
59'↑ Edoardo Zanaga ↓ Franco Carboni⇄
60'↑ Jeff Ekhator ↓ Lorenzo Colombo⇄
66'↑ Patrizio Masini ↓ Morten Frendrup⇄
66'↑ Morten Thorsby ↓ Albert Grønbæk⇄
67'↑ Lorenzo Ignacchiti ↓ Gerard Yepes⇄
67'↑ Gabriele Indragoli ↓ Tyronne Ebuehi⇄
80'↑ Thomas Campaniello ↓ Edoardo Saporiti⇄
83'Jeff Ekhator assist: Morten Thorsby 3 - 1âš½
84'↑ Seydou Fini ↓ Nicolae Stanciu⇄

Where to watch

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Match details

CompetitionCoppa Italia
Kick-off (UTC)Thursday, 25 September 2025, 16:30 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

7Genoa wins8Draws2Empoli wins

17 past meetings on record. Biggest Genoa win: Empoli 2–0 Genoa (2015). Biggest Empoli win: Empoli 1–3 Genoa (2019).

2 Mar 2025Genoa 1 - 1 EmpoliSerie A
28 Dec 2024Empoli 1 - 2 GenoaSerie A
3 Feb 2024Empoli 0 - 0 GenoaSerie A
2 Dec 2023Genoa 1 - 1 EmpoliSerie A
6 Mar 2022Genoa 0 - 0 EmpoliSerie A
5 Nov 2021Empoli 2 - 2 GenoaSerie A
28 Jan 2019Empoli 1 - 3 GenoaSerie A
26 Aug 2018Genoa 2 - 1 EmpoliSerie A
5 Mar 2017Empoli 0 - 2 GenoaSerie A
16 Oct 2016Genoa 0 - 0 EmpoliSerie A
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6 Mar 2016Genoa 1 - 0 EmpoliSerie A
24 Oct 2015Empoli 2 - 0 GenoaSerie A
8 Aug 2015Genoa 1 - 0 EmpoliClub Friendlies
8 Mar 2015Empoli 1 - 1 GenoaSerie A
3 Dec 2014Empoli 2 - 0 GenoaCoppa Italia
20 Oct 2014Genoa 1 - 1 EmpoliSerie A
21 Nov 1999Genoa 3 - 1 EmpoliSerie B