| Competition: | Serie C |
| Season: | 2021–22 |
| Dates: | Regular season: 28 August 2021 – 24 April 2022 Play-offs and play-outs: 1 May 2022 – 12 June 2022 |
| Pixels: | 100 |
| Promoted: | Südtirol Modena Bari Palermo (via play-off) |
| Relegated: | Seregno Giana Erminio Legnago Teramo (excluded) Pistoiese Grosseto Campobasso (excluded) Paganese Vibonese Catania (excluded) |
| Matches: | 1102 |
| Matches Footnote: | [1] |
| Total Goals: | 2583 |
| Total Goals Footnote: | [2] |
| League Topscorer: | Matteo Brunori (25+4 goals) |
| Biggest Home Win: | Feralpisalò 6–0 Pergolettese (27 November 2021) Cesena 6–0 Carrarese (14 April 2022) |
| Biggest Away Win: | Pontedera 0–5 Ancona-Matelica (22 January 2022) |
| Highest Scoring: | Paganese 4–4 ACR Messina (28 August 2021) Campobasso 4–4 Catania (6 November 2021) Picerno 5–3 Paganese (11 December 2021) Virtus Francavilla 4–4 Campobasso (3 April 2022) Foggia 2–6 Catanzaro (11 April 2022) |
| Longest Wins: | Modena (9–20, 23–24) (14 matches)[3] |
| Longest Unbeaten: | Südtirol (1–28) (28 matches)[4] |
| Longest Winless: | Giana Erminio (7–20, 23) (15 matches) |
| Longest Losses: | Siena (15–20) (6 matches) |
| Highest Attendance: | 35,037 Palermo 1–0 Feralpisalò (29 May 2022)[5] |
| Lowest Attendance: | 80 Juventus U23 0–1 Giana Erminio (29 September 2021) |
| Attendance: | 2,027,508[6] [7] |
| Average Attendance: | 1,711 |
| Prevseason: | 2020–21 |
| Nextseason: | 2022–23 |
The 2021–22 Serie C was the eighth season of the unified Serie C division, the third tier of the Italian football league system.
The league is composed by 60 teams, divided into three different groups. On 31 May 2021, the league committee decreed the three groups would be split horizontally in geographical terms, from north to south.[8] The group composition was decided and formalized by the committee on 9 August.[9]
The following teams have changed division since the 2020–21 season:
Relegated from Serie B
Promoted from Serie D
Promoted to Serie B
Relegated to Serie D
On 6 July 2021, the Lega Pro football league announced Serie D Group A winners Gozzano had renounced on their promotion right, thus automatically creating a vacancy in the league.[17]
On 9 July 2021, the Co.Vi.So.C. rejected league application of Carpi, Casertana, Novara, Paganese and Sambenedettese.[18] All these clubs successively requested being admitted on appeal;[19] in case that is denied, they would still have the opportunity for a further appeal at the Italian National Olympic Committee level.[20] On 26 July 2021 the Italian National Olympic Committee admitted Paganese's reclaim.
On 9 April 2022, Catania was excluded from the league with immediate effect due to financial issues, with only four games left for them to play till the end of the regular season; all of the club's results were subsequently expunged.[21]
10 teams from Lombardy, 3 teams from Veneto, 2 teams from Emilia-Romagna, 2 teams from Piedmont, 2 teams from Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and 1 team from Friuli -Venezia Giulia.
| Club | City | Stadium | Capacity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlbinoLeffe | Albino and Leffe | AlbinoLeffe Stadium (Zanica) Città di Gorgonzola (Gorgonzola) | ||
| Feralpisalò | Salò and Lonato del Garda | Lino Turina | ||
| Fiorenzuola | Fiorenzuola d'Arda | Comunale di Fiorenzuola d'Arda | ||
| Giana Erminio | Gorgonzola | |||
| Juventus U23 | Turin | Giuseppe Moccagatta (Alessandria) | ||
| Lecco | Lecco | Rigamonti-Ceppi | ||
| Legnago | Legnago | Mario Sandrini | ||
| Mantova | Mantua | Danilo Martelli | ||
| Padova | Padua | Euganeo | ||
| Pergolettese | Crema | Giuseppe Voltini | ||
| Piacenza | Piacenza | Leonardo Garilli | ||
| Pro Patria | Busto Arsizio | Carlo Speroni | ||
| Pro Sesto | Sesto San Giovanni | Breda | ||
| Pro Vercelli | Vercelli | Silvio Piola | ||
| Renate | Renate | Città di Meda (Meda) | ||
| Seregno | Seregno | Ferruccio Carlo Speroni (Busto Arsizio) | ||
| Südtirol | Bolzano | Druso | ||
| Trento | Trento | Briamasco Lino Turina (Salò) | ||
| Triestina | Trieste | Nereo Rocco | ||
| Virtus Verona | Verona | Mario Gavagnin-Sinibaldo Nocini |
7 teams from Tuscany, 4 teams from Emilia-Romagna, 3 teams from Marche, 2 teams from Abruzzo, 1 team from Lazio, 1 team from Liguria, 1 team from Sardinia and 1 team from Umbria.
6 teams from Apulia, 4 teams from Campania, 3 teams from Sicily, 2 teams from Basilicata, 2 teams from Calabria, 2 teams from Lazio and 1 team from Molise.
As Padova and Südtirol, respectively winners and runners-up of the 2021–22 Coppa Italia Serie C, concluded the season in the first two spots from Group A, an additional spot in the national phase of the playoffs will be handed to the fourth-placed team from Group A itself.
Due to the exclusion of Catania, points for teams from Group C will be multiplied by a fixed coefficient of 1.05555556 in order to determine the best-placed team among different groups in the playoff rounds.[22]
Matches were played on 1 May 2022.|}
Matches were played on 4 May 2022.|}
The first legs were played on 8 May 2022 and the second legs were played on 12 May 2022.[23] |}
The first legs were played on 17 May 2022 and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 May 2022.|}
The semi-finals legs were played on 25 and 29 May 2022 and the final legs were played on 5 and 12 June 2022.
The first legs were played on 7 May 2022 and the second legs were played on 14 and 15 May 2022.|}
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals[24] [25] [26] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matteo Brunori1 | Palermo | 29 |
| 2 | Luca Moro | Catania | 21 |
| 3 | Alex Rolfini | Ancona-Matelica | 18 |
| Luca Zamparo | Reggiana | ||
| 5 | Mirco Antenucci | Bari | 17 |
| Franco Ferrari | Pescara | ||
| Vito Leonetti | Turris | ||
| 8 | Simone Magnaghi | Pontedera | 16 |
| Tommy Maistrello | Renate | ||
| 10 | Alessio Curcio2 | Foggia | 15 |
| Alexis Ferrante | |||
| Eric Lanini | Reggiana | ||
| Jacopo Manconi | AlbinoLeffe |