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Florence, Florence · Italy · Serie A

Power-ranking history

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Rank (1 = best)1502Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.089/9094/9599/0004/0509/1014/1519/2024/25

Against expectation

Every Italian top-flight match this club has played in the Serie A, scored against the odds an Elo rating gave it before kick-off. Over 17 seasons from 1986-87 to 2024-25 it has fallen short of them by 11.3 match points.

Empoli FC: surplus against expectation, 1986-87 to 2024-251986-87: −2.4 league points vs expected (23 on 25.4, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.2 match points1987-88: +0.1 league points vs expected (25 on 24.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.1 match points1997-98: −2.2 league points vs expected (37 on 39.2, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.3 match points1998-99: −13.6 league points vs expected (22 on 35.6, 3 for a win) · bar height −4.5 match points2002-03: +0.6 league points vs expected (38 on 37.4, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.5 match points2003-04: −4.1 league points vs expected (30 on 34.1, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.4 match points2005-06: +4.5 league points vs expected (45 on 40.5, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.7 match points2006-07: +7.4 league points vs expected (54 on 46.6, 3 for a win) · bar height +2.6 match points2007-08: −6.5 league points vs expected (36 on 42.5, 3 for a win) · bar height −2.5 match points2014-15: −2.6 league points vs expected (42 on 44.6, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.5 match points2015-16: −0.1 league points vs expected (46 on 46.1, 3 for a win) · bar height −0.1 match points2016-17: −9.4 league points vs expected (32 on 41.4, 3 for a win) · bar height −3.4 match points2018-19: +0.9 league points vs expected (38 on 37.1, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.2 match points2021-22: +0.7 league points vs expected (41 on 40.4, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.6 match points2022-23: +2.7 league points vs expected (43 on 40.3, 3 for a win) · bar height +1.6 match points2023-24: −3.2 league points vs expected (36 on 39.2, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.1 match points2024-25: −9.0 league points vs expected (31 on 40.0, 3 for a win) · bar height −2.4 match points
1986-87one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season2024-25
Best season against expectation
2006-07 +7.4 league pts
54 points on 46.6 expected as Empoli FC
Worst season against expectation
1998-99 13.6 league pts
22 points on 35.6 expected as Empoli FC

Season points use that season’s own scoring, two for a win before 1994-95 and three from it; the bars use match points so the whole series is comparable.

Florence against expectation →How this is measured →

What the squad was worth

Total market value of the squad, EUR millions, by month; the player count beside it is the size of the priced squad.

How this is measured

Drawn as a step, not a curve: Transfermarkt reprices every squad in December and June (marked with a small tick on the axis) and revalues continuously between, so the line only moves when a real valuation changed, never by interpolation.

A month renders no value at all once the priced squad falls below 15 players, so a thin squad is never shown as a cheap one. The series is floored at July 2012on purpose: earlier Transfermarkt totals reflect which players happened to be priced yet rather than the squad’s real worth, and are excluded rather than shown misleadingly low.

Upstream (dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets) has been paused since July 2026, so the series ends where the source ends rather than where the season does.

Player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

What the squad was worth€20m
FC Empoli: squad value by month, 2012-07 to 2025-1206112112-1314-1516-1718-1920-2123-2425-26
Peak
€112m in Jun 2023 · 30 players valued
Most recent
€20m in Dec 2025 · 16 players valued

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The money ledger

Fees paid and received each season, and what the squad was worth once the trading is netted out.

How this is measured

Spent is the fees paid for players arriving, received the fees for players leaving, both in EUR millions by the July-to-June season of the move. A move with no fee on record (a free, a loan, an undisclosed sum) is counted, never priced: the small figure beside each total is the moves with a fee, plus those without (so 4+3 is four priced arrivals and three unpriced), and a quiet window is not mistaken for a cheap one. Wages are not here: they are estimates nobody licenses, and fees are documented.

Appreciationis the season’s change in squad value with the net spend taken out: buy 100m of players and finish 100m higher is zero; finish 120m higher and the club made 20m of players better, or the market repriced them. It needs a priced squad at both ends of the season (the same 15-player floor as the value chart), so it is blank rather than guessed for a season that lacks one.

The source has been paused since 6 July 2026, so the final row holds only the opening days of its window.

Transfer fees and player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

The money ledger+€194m
Spent
€59m
32 arrivals with a fee
Received
€253m
38 departures with a fee
Net
+€194m
330 moves with no fee
Appreciation
+€182m
11 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2026-27, trading +€5m and appreciation . Over the last 5 seasons (2022-232026-27), trading +€107m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 96 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 95% EV-positive. €27m deployed for a 1.6× multiplier.

2026-27 spent received €5mto 6 July 2026
out: Tino Anjorin €5m
unpriced
2025-26 spent €2m received €29m
in: Stiven Shpendi €2m
unpriced
2024-25 spent received €11m
out: Sebastian Walukiewicz €5m
+€22m
squad gain
2023-24 spent €11m received €63m
in: Sebastian Walukiewicz €5m
+€7m
squad gain
2022-23 spent €13m received €27m
in: Guglielmo Vicario €9m
+€18m
squad gain
2021-22 spent €9m received €18m
in: Lorenzo Tonelli €2m
unpriced
2020-21 spent €1m received
in: Nedim Bajrami €1m
unpriced
2019-20 spent €3m received €43m
in: Leo Stulac €3m
−€20m
squad gain
Show all 15 seasons
2018-19 spent €3m received €20m
in: Samuel Mráz €2m
+€75m
squad gain
2017-18 spent €7m received €15m
in: Francesco Caputo €3m
−€1m
squad gain
2016-17 spent €4m received €10m
in: Miha Zajc €2m
+€2m
squad gain
2015-16 spent €4m received €5m
in: Riccardo Saponara €4m
+€40m
squad gain
2014-15 spent received
18 moves, no fee on record
+€28m
squad gain
2013-14 spent €1m received €9m
in: Federico Barba €1m
+€2m
squad gain
2012-13 spent received
3 moves, no fee on record
+€11m
squad gain

Money against football

Every priced club-season in the six leagues: points against expectation across, squad value gained beyond the net spend up. This club’s seasons are joined.

Tap or drag on the plot: the nearest club-season, its points and its money.

the frontier: no other club-season beat it on both axes · this club, season by season, the largest dot the latest

Every club’s return on the transfer window →

Greatest games

Empoli's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play.All-time board.

#DateStageResultScore
12007-12-06Coppa Italia · Round of 16 · 1st legHW 2-1 v Juventusgame score 57.5
22008-01-15Coppa Italia · Round of 16 · 2nd leg, agg 5-6AL 3-5 v Juventusgame score 55.3
32006-11-08Coppa Italia · Round of 16 · 1st legAW 1-0 v Genoagame score 52.4
42024-05-26Serie AHW 2-1 v AS Romagame score 51.6
52017-05-28Serie AAL 1-2 v Palermogame score 51.5
62021-01-13Coppa Italia · Round of 16AL 2-3 v SSC Napoligame score 50.7
72008-05-18Serie AHW 2-1 v Livornogame score 50.6
82004-05-09Serie AAL 1-2 v Anconagame score 50.3
92003-04-19Serie AAW 1-0 v AC Milangame score 49.6
102008-11-12Coppa Italia · Round of 16AL 1-2 v Sampdoriagame score 49.5

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
17
First season
1987
Most recent season
2025

The Heartbreak Index8.6 · #236

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1987

8.6
Heartbreak
#236
of 1,139 clubs
#139
in Football
8.6
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 198710.5
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2025 · relegated from the top flight, 2017 · relegated from the top flight, 2019 · relegated from the top flight, 2008

One formula, every club the site covers. See the whole board →

Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers Serie A only. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

2025
Serie A (1) · P18
38 P · 6-13-19 · 33:59 · -26
31
pts
2024
Serie A (1) · P17
38 P · 9-9-20 · 29:54 · -25
36
pts
2023
Serie A (1) · P14
38 P · 10-13-15 · 37:49 · -12
43
pts
2022
Serie A (1) · P14
38 P · 10-11-17 · 50:70 · -20
41
pts
2019
Serie A (1) · P18
38 P · 10-8-20 · 51:70 · -19
38
pts
2017
Serie A (1) · P18
38 P · 8-8-22 · 29:61 · -32
32
pts
2016
Serie A (1) · P10
38 P · 12-10-16 · 40:49 · -9
46
pts
2015
Serie A (1) · P15
38 P · 8-18-12 · 46:52 · -6
42
pts
2008
Serie A (1) · P18
38 P · 9-9-20 · 29:52 · -23
36
pts
UC
2007
Serie A (1) · P7
38 P · 14-12-12 · 42:43 · -1
54
pts
UC
2006
Serie A (1) · P7
38 P · 13-6-19 · 46:62 · -16
45
pts
2004
Serie A (1) · P17
34 P · 7-9-18 · 26:54 · -28
30
pts
Show all 17 seasons
2003
Serie A (1) · P13
34 P · 9-11-14 · 36:46 · -10
38
pts
1999
Serie A (1) · P18
34 P · 4-10-20 · 26:63 · -37
20
pts
1998
Serie A (1) · P13
34 P · 10-7-17 · 50:58 · -8
37
pts
1988
Serie A (1) · P16
30 P · 6-13-11 · 20:30 · -10
20
pts
1987
Serie A (1) · P13
30 P · 8-7-15 · 13:33 · -20
23
pts
European competition appearances

Most recent first. One row per entry showing the deepest round reached. A Cup Winner badge marks tournaments the club won: gold for the European Cup / Champions League, silver for every other UEFA or Intercontinental trophy.

2007-08
UEFA Cup(UC)
Qualifying