2024–25 FC Lugano season

FC Lugano
2024–25 season
Manager	Mattia Croci-Torti
Stadium	Cornaredo Stadium
Swiss Super League	4th
Swiss Cup	Second round
UEFA Champions League	Second qualifying round
UEFA Europa League	Play-off round
UEFA Conference League	League phase
Top goalscorer	League: ; Ignacio Aliseda; Kacper Przybyłko; Renato Steffen; (3 each); All: ; Kacper Przybyłko; Renato Steffen; (6 each)
Home colours	Away colours
	All statistics correct as of 24 October 2024.

The 2024–25 season is the 117th season in the history of FC Lugano, and the club's 10th consecutive season in Swiss Super League. In addition to the domestic league, the team is scheduled to participate in the Swiss Cup and the UEFA Champions League as 2023–24 Super League runner-up.

Transfers

In

Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Antonios Papadopoulos	Borussia Dortmund	Free	1 July 2024	^[1]
MF	Zachary Brault-Guillard	Free agent		1 July 2024	^[2]
DF	Mattia Zanotti	Inter Milan	Undisclosed	13 July 2024	^[3]
FW	Georgios Koutsias	Chicago Fire	Loan	1 January 2025

Out

Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Kreshnik Hajrizi	Widzew Łódź	End of contract	1 July 2024	^[4]
GK	Serif Berbic	Bellinzona	Loan	17 July 2024	^[5]
MF	Chinwendu Johan Nkama	Bellinzona	Loan	17 July 2024	^[5]
FW	Žan Celar	Queens Park Rangers	Undisclosed	19 July 2024	^[6]

Friendlies

Pre-season

29 June 2024 Friendly	Lugano	2–0	Stade Nyonnais	Caslano
11:00	Mahou 20' Aliseda 86'	Report		Stadium: Centro Sportivo Roque Maspoli

3 July 2024 Friendly	Bellinzona	1–5	Lugano	Sementina
17:30	Nivokazi 11'		Przybyłko 9' Doumbia 24' Bottani 38' Bislimi 62' Aliseda 70'

6 July 2024 Friendly	Lugano	0–1	Aarau	Caslano
14:00		Report	Dickenmann 73'	Stadium: Centro Sportivo Roque Maspoli

13 July 2024 Friendly	Lugano	3–1	Parma	Lugano
19:00	Aliseda 2' (pen.) Cimignani 14' Mahou 72'	Report	Partipilo 90+1'	Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Attendance: 2,748 Referee: Mirel Turkes

17 July 2024 Friendly	Inter Milan	3–2	Lugano	Appiano Gentile, Italy
18:30	Correa 11' Taremi 50' (pen.), 58'		Przybyłko 21', 27'	Stadium: Angelo Moratti Sports Centre

Competitions

Overall record

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Swiss Super League	20 July 2024		Matchday 1		3	3	0	0	7	3	+4	100.00
Swiss Cup	18 August 2024				0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
UEFA Champions League	23–24 July 2024	30 July 2024	Second qualifying round	Second qualifying round	2	0	0	2	4	6	−2	000.00
UEFA Europa League	8 August 2024		Third qualifying round		0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Total					5	3	0	2	11	9	+2	060.00

Last updated: 3 August 2024
Source: Soccerway

Swiss Super League

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^[a]
2	Servette	38	17	12	9	64	55	+9	63	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
3	Young Boys	38	17	10	11	60	49	+11	61	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round^[b]
4	Lugano	38	15	9	14	55	58	−3	54	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
5	Lausanne-Sport	38	14	11	13	62	54	+8	53	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
6	Luzern	38	14	10	14	66	64	+2	52

Source: Swiss Super League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored 6) Away goals scored; 7) Draw.^[7]
Notes:

^ Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).
^ The 2024–25 Swiss Cup winner (Basel) qualifies for the Europa League play-off round. Since the cup winner finished in the top three, the remaining European berths were passed down to the next highest qualifying teams.

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
20	10	5	5	35	28	+7	35	6	2	2	21	14	+7	4	3	3	14	14	0

Last updated: 25 January 2025.
Source: soccerway

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Ground	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A
Result	W	W	W	L	W	D	D	W	D	L	W	D	W	L	W	L	W	L	D	W
Position	3	4	1	4	2	2	3	3	3	4	3	3	2	3	2	2	1	1	1	1

Updated to match(es) played on 25 January 2025. Source:
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The match schedule was released on 18 June 2024.^[8]

20 July 2024 1	Lugano	2–1	Grasshopper	Lugano
18:00	Cimignani 22' Mai 24' Przybyłko 61' Bislimi 90+2', 90+3'		Morandi 25' (pen.), 56' Maurin 77'	Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Referee: Urs Schnyder

27 July 2024 2	Basel	1–2	Lugano	Basel
20:30	Leroy 50', 59'		Aliseda 8' Hajdari 53' Przybyłko 69'	Stadium: St. Jakob-Park Attendance: 19,866 Referee: Lukas Fähndrich

3 August 2024 3	Lugano	3–1	Servette	Lugano
18:00	Mahmoud 73' Mazikou 78' (o.g.) Steffen 84'		Kutesa 61'	Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Attendance: 3,334 Referee: Lionel Tschudi

11 August 2024 4	Lugano	2–3	Luzern	Lugano
16:30	Mahou 3' Vladi 43' Papadopoulos 60' Mai 70'	Report	Dorn 12' 61' Ottiger 55' Klidjé 74' 88'	Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Attendance: 3,341 Referee: Alessandro Dudic

1 September 2024 6	Lugano	1–1	St. Gallen	Lugano
16:30 CET	Bottani 34' Przybyłko 45+2' Martim Marques 53' Bislimi 84'	Report	Görtler 19' Diaby 71' Toma 84'	Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Attendance: 3,606 Referee: Anojen Kanagasingam

18 September 2024 5	Lausanne-Sport	1–2	Lugano	Lausanne
19:30 CET	Okou 43' Dussenne 45' Diabaté 90+2'	Report	Poaty 39' (o.g.) Zanotti 45+1' Doumbia 48' Mai 56' Hajdari 65' Aliseda 77'	Stadium: Stade de la Tuilière Attendance: 3,462 Referee: Johannes von Mandach

22 September 2024 7	Sion	0–0	Lugano	Sion
16:30 CET		Report	Grgić 36' Hajdari 49' Cimignani 66' Macek 90+3'	Stadium: Stade de Tourbillon Attendance: 9,300 Referee: Lukas Fähndrich

29 September 2024 8	Lugano	2–1	Winterthur	Lugano
16:30 CET	Papadopoulos 72' Steffen 73' 81'	Report	Lekaj 56' 88' Labinot Bajrami 58' Durrer 85'	Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Attendance: 3,081 Referee: Désirée Grundbacher

6 October 2024 9	Zürich	1–1	Lugano	Zürich
14:15 CET	Perea 35' Condé 66'	Report	Aliseda 26' Doumbia 51' Zanotti 85'	Stadium: Stadion Letzigrund Attendance: 14,393 Referee: Alessandro Dudic

20 October 2024 10	Yverdon-Sport	2–0	Lugano	Yverdon-les-Bains
16:30 CET	Tijani 27' Céspedes 45+4' (pen.) El Wafi 58' (o.g.)	Report	Bislimi 42' Steffen 79' Cimignani 88'	Stadium: Stade Municipal Attendance: 2,100 Referee: Désirée Grundbacher

27 October 2024 11	Lugano	2–0	Young Boys	Lugano
16:30 CET	Aliseda 18' Grgić 24' Mahmoud 33' Brault-Guillard 71' Mai 85'	Report	Husić 36' Athekame 81' Łakomy 85'	Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Attendance: 3,248 Referee: Lionel Tschudi

31 October 2024 12	Grasshopper	1–1	Lugano	Zürich
20:30 CET	Muci 30' Bojang 36' Lee Young-jun 68' Verón Lupi 78'	Report	Daniel Dos Santos 17' Aliseda 52' Grgić 68'	Stadium: Stadion Letzigrund Attendance: 3,641 Referee: David Huwiler

3 November 2024 13	Lugano	2–0	Yverdon-Sport	Lugano
16:30 CET	Steffen 36' Mahou 53' Aliseda 72'	Report	Tijani 31' Sauthier 74'	Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Attendance: 2,961 Referee: Mirel Turkes

10 November 2024 14	Young Boys	2–1	Lugano	Bern
16:30 CET	Itten 19' (pen.) Elia 46' Łakomy 65' Hadjam 67' Virginius 76'	Report	Bottani 19' Valenzuela 24' Grgić 33' (pen.) Bislimi 54' Mahmoud 67' 87' Zanotti 86' Papadopoulos 90+6'	Stadium: Stadion Wankdorf Attendance: 27,972 Referee: Stefan Horisberger

24 November 2024 15	Lugano	4–1	Zürich	Lugano
14:15 CET	Papadopoulos 8' Steffen 22' 50' Grgić 26' (pen.) Vladi 30' Hajdari 67'	Report	Chouiar 9' 26' Gómez 25' Kryeziu 57' Perea 62'	Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Attendance: 4,645 Referee: Fedayi San

1 December 2024 16	Servette	3–0	Lugano	Lancy
16:30 CET	Kutesa 34' Crivelli 55' Mazikou 59' Cognat 59' Rouiller 82' 88'	Report	El Wafi 1' Mai 10' Doumbia 87' Przybyłko 90'	Stadium: Stade de Genève Attendance: 9,242 Referee: Sven Wolfensberger

7 December 2024 17	Luzern	1–4	Lugano	Lucerne
20:30 CET	Spadanuda 20' Stanković 34' Rrudhani 76'	Report	Grgić 35' (pen.) 42' Mahmoud 38' Papadopoulos 49' Steffen 64' (pen.) Hajdari 76' Bottani 90+8'	Stadium: Swissporarena Attendance: 9,444 Referee: Mirel Turkes

15 December 2024 18	Lugano	1–4	Lausanne-Sport	Lugano
16:30 CET	Steffen 21' Hajdari 45+1' Saipi 52' Przybyłko 68' 90+4'	Report	Sanches 10' Koindredi 44' Dussenne 45+2' (pen.) 54' 85' (pen.) Okou 52' Sène 90+5' (pen.)	Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Attendance: 3,592 Referee: Nico Gianforte

19 January 2025 19	Lugano	2–2	Basel	Lugano
16:30 CET	Grgić 45+2' (pen.) Hajdari 53' Steffen 57' Brault-Guillard 90+2'	Report	Kevin Carlos 24' Mendes 28' Leroy 36' Schmid 42' Moussa Cissé 74' Shaqiri 87' (pen.)	Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium Attendance: 4,888 Referee: Sven Wolfensberger

25 January 2025 20	Winterthur	2–3	Lugano	Winterthur
20:30 CET	Baroan 7' 36' (pen.) Zuffi 58'	Report	Papadopoulos 45+1' Bislimi 48' Cimignani 52' 63' Koutsias 90+3'	Stadium: Stadion Schützenwiese Attendance: 6,900 Referee: Fedayi San

1 February 2025 21	Lugano	–	Sion	Lugano
18:00 CET				Stadium: Cornaredo Stadium

Swiss Cup

18 August 2024 First round	SC Brühl	1–7	Lugano	St. Gallen
15:00	Mergim Bajrami 5'	Report	Przybyłko 7' 10' (pen.) 49' Martim Marques 24' Mahou 29' El Wafi 61' Vladi 90+2'	Stadium: Paul-Grüninger-Stadion

14 September 2024 Second round	Rapperswil-Jona	1–3	Lugano	Rapperswil
17:00 CET	Tia 19' Marchand 68' Merlin Hadzi 78' 82' Joseph Ambassa 90+2'	Report	Valenzuela 53' Daniel Dos Santos 58' Bottani 75'	Stadium: Stadion Grünfeld Attendance: 1,652 Referee: Mirel Turkes

4 December 2024 Round of 16	Yverdon-Sport	0–2	Lugano	Yverdon-les-Bains
20:30 CET	Ntelo 55' Mauro Rodrigues 65' Diop 74' 90+3'	Report	Zanotti 60' 83' Mahmoud 76' Hajdari 79' Bislimi 87' Steffen 90+3'	Stadium: Stade Municipal Attendance: 1,220 Referee: Luca Cibelli

26 February 2025 Quarter-finals	Biel-Bienne	–	Lugano	Biel/Bienne
20:30 CET				Stadium: Tissot Arena

UEFA Champions League

Second qualifying round

23 July 2024 First leg	Lugano	3–4	Fenerbahçe	Thun
20:30 UTC+2	El Wafi 4', 29' Papadopoulos 59' Bislimi 64' Bottani 69' Grgić 71' Zanotti 77' Valenzuela 90+4'	Report	Söyüncü 18' Džeko 45+1' (pen.), 46', 67' Tadić 45+3' Oosterwolde 70' Kadıoğlu 73' Tosun 90+5'	Stadium: Stockhorn Arena Referee: Tiago Martins (Portugal)

30 July 2024 Second leg	Fenerbahçe	2–1 (6–4 agg.)	Lugano	Istanbul
20:00 UTC+3	Džeko 59', 86' Szymański 90+3'	Report	Mahmoud 7', 58' Doumbia 55' Aliseda 57' Zanotti 79'	Stadium: Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium Referee: Robert Jones (England)

UEFA Europa League

Third qualifying round

8 August 2024 First leg	Partizan	0–1	Lugano	Belgrade, Serbia
20:00	Ibrahim 29'	Report	Bislimi 35' Zanotti 73'	Stadium: Partizan Stadium Attendance: 3,163 Referee: Sander van der Eijk

15 August 2024 Second leg	Lugano	2–2 (3–2 agg.)	Partizan	Thun
20:30	Steffen 47' 114' Hajdari 49' 87' Valenzuela 104' Mahmoud 111' 112' El Wafi 113' Doumbia 120+3'	Report	Arriaga 17' Ibrahim 33' Zahid 44' Marković 67' Mujakić 69'	Stadium: Stockhorn Arena Attendance: 2,268 Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea

Play-off round

22 August 2024 First leg	Lugano	3–3	Beşiktaş	Thun
20:30	Bislimi 34' Doumbia 47' Steffen 56' Gabriel Paulista 63' (o.g.) Valenzuela 76'	Report	Gedson Fernandes 21' 51' Ndour 45+1' Al-Musrati 55' 84'	Stadium: Stockhorn Arena Attendance: 5,270 Referee: Morten Krogh

29 August 2024 Second leg	Beşiktaş	5–1 (8–4 agg.)	Lugano	Istanbul
21:00	Immobile 7' 71' Gedson Fernandes 28' 65' Kılıçsoy 43' Topçu 61' Rafa Silva 70' Uçan 90+2'	Report	Valenzuela 5' Vladi 59' Bislimi 90+1'	Stadium: Beşiktaş Stadium Attendance: 35,370 Referee: Radu Petrescu

UEFA Conference League

3 October 2024 1	Lugano	3–0	HJK	Thun
21:00 CET	Hajdari 8' Papadopoulos 34' Martim Marques 56' Daniel Dos Santos 90+1'	Report		Stadium: Stockhorn Arena Attendance: 932 Referee: David Dickinson

24 October 2024 2	Mladá Boleslav	0–1	Lugano	Mladá Boleslav
21:00 CET		Report	Steffen 38' Hajdari 78' Bottani 90+7'	Stadium: Lokotrans Aréna Attendance: 2,836 Referee: Chrysovalantis Theouli

7 November 2024 3	TSC	4–1	Lugano	Bačka Topola
18:45 CET	Stanić 4' 62' Radin 46' Ćirković 56' Pantović 59' 83' Stefan Jovanović 70' Sós 89'	Report	Mahmoud 57' 61' Grgić 62' Hajdari 69' Bottani 89'	Stadium: TSC Arena Attendance: 8,584 Referee: Jacob Sundberg

28 November 2024 4	Lugano	2–0	Gent	Thun
21:00 CET	Mahou 6' 71' Valenzuela 59' Saipi 69' Bislimi 73' Doumbia 86'	Report	Guðjohnsen 31' Torunarigha 49' Watanabe 76' Dean 80'	Stadium: Stockhorn Arena Attendance: 2,672 Referee: Enea Jorgji

12 December 2024 5	Legia Warsaw	1–2	Lugano	Warsaw
18:45 CET	Morishita 11' 90+7' Wszołek 28' Kapustka 83' Marc Gual 90' Pankov 90+1' 90+1' Luquinhas 90+4'	Report	Bislimi 23' Bottani 40' Hajdari 73' Zanotti 90+4' Steffen 90+6'	Stadium: Polish Army Stadium Attendance: 21,767 Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera

19 December 2024 6	Lugano	2–2	Pafos	Thun
21:00 CET	Mahmoud 7' 90+1' Bottani 33' 45+1' Bislimi 70' Grgić 90+4' Przybyłko 90+6'	Report	Saipi 4' (o.g.) Tanković 26' João Correia 29' Luckassen 74' David Goldar 90+5' Domingos Quina 90+6'	Stadium: Stockhorn Arena Attendance: 1,795 Referee: Nenad Minaković

References

^ "Dal Borussia Dortmund al Lugano: ecco Antonios Papadopoulos". Corriere del Ticino. 5 June 2024.
^ "Un difensore canadese a Cornaredo". Corriere del Ticino. 10 June 2024.
^ Mellini, Marzio (13 July 2024). "Mattia Zanotti è Bianconero".
^ "Kreshnik Hajrizi moves to Poland - KOHA.net". 18 June 2024.
^ ^a ^b Mellini, Marzio (19 July 2024). "Berbic e Nkama in prestito all'AC Bellinzona".
^ "QPR sign Slovenia striker Zan Celar from Lugano". BBC Sport. 19 July 2024.
^ "Reglement für den Spielbetrieb der SFL" (PDF) (in Swiss High German). Swiss Football League. 1 July 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
^ "Die SFL hat die Spielpläne der Saison 2024/25 veröffentlicht" (in German).

[7] Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).

[table_note_res_ELPO0.87957437191139-8] The 2024–25 Swiss Cup winner (Basel) qualifies for the Europa League play-off round. Since the cup winner finished in the top three, the remaining European berths were passed down to the next highest qualifying teams.

[1] "Dal Borussia Dortmund al Lugano: ecco Antonios Papadopoulos". Corriere del Ticino. 5 June 2024.

[2] "Un difensore canadese a Cornaredo". Corriere del Ticino. 10 June 2024.

[3] Mellini, Marzio (13 July 2024). "Mattia Zanotti è Bianconero".

[4] "Kreshnik Hajrizi moves to Poland - KOHA.net". 18 June 2024.

[auto-5] Mellini, Marzio (19 July 2024). "Berbic e Nkama in prestito all'AC Bellinzona".

[6] "QPR sign Slovenia striker Zan Celar from Lugano". BBC Sport. 19 July 2024.

[rules-9] "Reglement für den Spielbetrieb der SFL" (PDF) (in Swiss High German). Swiss Football League. 1 July 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2023.

[10] "Die SFL hat die Spielpläne der Saison 2024/25 veröffentlicht" (in German).

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