2022–23 Atlético Madrid season

Atlético Madrid

2022–23 season
President	Enrique Cerezo
Head coach	Diego Simeone
Stadium	Cívitas Metropolitano
La Liga	3rd
Copa del Rey	Quarter-finals
UEFA Champions League	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Antoine Griezmann (15) All: Antoine Griezmann (16)
Biggest win	6–1 vs Sevilla (H)
Biggest defeat	0–2 vs Villarreal (H) vs Bayer Leverkusen (A) vs Club Brugge (A) 1–3 vs Real Madrid (A)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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2023–24 away kit, used for club's 120th anniversary

The 2022–23 season was the 116th season in the history of Atlético Madrid and their 21st consecutive season in the top flight. The club participated in La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the UEFA Champions League.

Kits

Home	Home alt	Away	Third	120 Years
Goalkeeper 1	Goalkeeper 2

Players

As of 1 February 2023.^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  CRO Ivo Grbić 2 DF  URU José Giménez (3rd captain) 3 DF  ESP Sergio Reguilón (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur) 4 MF  CAF Geoffrey Kondogbia 5 MF  ARG Rodrigo De Paul 6 MF  ESP Koke (captain) 8 FW  FRA Antoine Griezmann 9 FW  NED Memphis Depay 10 FW  ARG Ángel Correa 11 MF  FRA Thomas Lemar 12 DF  IRL Matt Doherty 13 GK  SVN Jan Oblak (vice-captain) 14 MF  ESP Marcos Llorente

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  MNE Stefan Savić (4th captain) 16 DF  ARG Nahuel Molina 17 MF  ESP Saúl 19 FW  ESP Álvaro Morata 20 MF  BEL Axel Witsel 21 MF  BEL Yannick Carrasco 22 DF  ESP Mario Hermoso 23 DF  MOZ Reinildo Mandava 24 MF  ESP Pablo Barrios 31 GK  ESP Antonio Gomis

Other players under contract

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 7 FW  POR João Félix 9 FW  BRA Matheus Cunha 12 DF  BRA Renan Lodi 26 FW  POR Marcos Paulo

Reserve team

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ESP Diego Espejo (at Atlético Ottawa until 30 November 2023) — DF  ESP Manu Sánchez (at Osasuna until 30 June 2023) — DF  ARG Mariano Gómez (at Badajoz until 30 June 2023) — DF  BRA Renan Lodi (at Nottingham Forest until 30 June 2023) — DF  ESP Sergio Camus (at Atlético Ottawa until 30 June 2023) — MF  ESP Javi Serrano (at Ibiza until 30 June 2023) — MF  URU Juan Sanabria (at Atlético San Luis until 30 June 2023) — MF  ESP Rodrigo Riquelme (at Girona until 30 June 2023) — MF  ESP Vitolo (at Las Palmas until 30 June 2023) — FW  ESP Borja Garcés (at Tenerife until 30 June 2023)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ESP Cedric Teguia (at Córdoba until 30 June 2023) — FW  ESP Germán Valera (at Andorra until 30 June 2023) — FW  ARG Giuliano Simeone (at Zaragoza until 30 June 2023) — FW  BRA Samuel Lino (at Valencia until 30 June 2023) — FW  ESP Sergio Camello (at Rayo Vallecano until 30 June 2023) — FW  ESP Víctor Mollejo (at Zaragoza until 30 June 2023) — FW  BRA Matheus Cunha (at Wolverhampton Wanderers until 30 June 2023) — FW  BRA Marcos Paulo (at São Paulo until 31 December 2023) — FW  POR João Félix (at Chelsea until 30 June 2023)

Transfers

In

Date	Player	From	Type	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2022	Álvaro Morata	Juventus	Loan return		[2]
1 July 2022	Ivo Grbić	Lille	Loan return		[3]
1 July 2022	Santiago Arias	Granada	Loan return		[4]
1 July 2022	Marcos Paulo	Famalicão	Loan return
6 July 2022	Axel Witsel	Borussia Dortmund	Transfer	Free	[5]
8 July 2022	Saúl	Chelsea	Loan return
8 July 2022	Samuel Lino	Gil Vicente	Transfer	€6.5M	[6]
28 July 2022	Nahuel Molina	Udinese	Transfer	€10M	[7]
30 August 2022	Sergio Reguilón	Tottenham Hotspur	Loan		[8]
20 January 2023	Memphis Depay	Barcelona	Transfer	€3M	[9]
31 January 2023	Matt Doherty	Tottenham Hotspur	Transfer	Free	[10]

Out

Date	Player	To	Type	Fee	Ref.
30 June 2022	Benjamin Lecomte	Monaco	End of loan		[11]
1 July 2022	Luis Suárez	Nacional	Released		[12]
2 July 2022	Šime Vrsaljko	Olympiacos	Released		[13]
4 July 2022	Giuliano Simeone	Zaragoza	Loan		[14]
7 July 2022	Héctor Herrera	Houston Dynamo	Released		[15]
19 July 2022	Vitolo	Las Palmas	Loan		[16]
28 July 2022	Samuel Lino	Valencia	Loan		[17]
29 July 2022	Nehuén Pérez	Udinese	Transfer	Undisclosed	[18]
1 August 2022	Rodrigo Riquelme	Girona	Loan		[19]
12 August 2022	Daniel Wass	Brøndby	Transfer	€1.75M	[20]
15 August 2022	Santiago Arias	Unattached	Released
28 August 2022	Renan Lodi	Nottingham Forest	Loan		[21]
1 September 2022	Marcos Paulo	Mirandés	Loan
25 December 2022	Matheus Cunha	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Loan
28 December 2022	Marcos Paulo	São Paulo	Loan
11 January 2023	João Félix	Chelsea	Loan		[22]
31 January 2023	Felipe	Nottingham Forest	Transfer	€2.3M	[23]

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

Numancia v Atlético Madrid

27 July 2022 Friendly	Numancia	0–4	Atlético Madrid	Burgo de Osma
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Carrillo 4' Sidibeh  62'	Report	Lemar 8' Correa 32' Kondogbia 45+1' Cunha 52'	Stadium: Estadio Municipal de El Burgo de Osma Referee: Eder Mallo Fernández

Manchester United v Atlético Madrid

30 July 2022 Friendly	Manchester United	0–1	Atlético Madrid	Oslo, Norway
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Fred  28'  90+1' McTominay  41' Maguire  54'	Report	Lemar  23' Mandava  35' Oblak  41' Saúl  84' Félix 86'	Stadium: Ullevaal Stadion Attendance: 26,129 Referee: Espen Eskås

Cádiz v Atlético Madrid

4 August 2022 Ramón de Carranza Trophy	Cádiz	1–4	Atlético Madrid	Cádiz
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Cala  21' Fali  45' Gil  45' Álvaro 87'	Report	Morata 13' Saúl 45' Wass 46' Griezmann 51',  56'	Stadium: Nuevo Mirandilla Referee: José Luis Munuera Montero

Juventus v Atlético Madrid

7 August 2022 Friendly	Juventus	0–4	Atlético Madrid	Turin, Italy
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Morata 10', 43', 62' Félix 40' Cunha 90+1'	Stadium: Juventus Training Center Attendance: 0 Referee: Paride Tremoleda (Italy)
Note: The match was originally scheduled to be held in Tel Aviv, but was moved to Turin and played behind closed doors due to security concerns.[24]

Ponferradina v Atlético Madrid

14 December 2022 Friendly	Ponferradina	2–4	Atlético Madrid	Ponferrada
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Tavares 31', 55' Jaiteh  75' Diéguez  87'	Report	Mandava 76' Moreno 80' Martín 83', 86'	Stadium: Estadio El Toralín Referee: Oliver de la Fuente Ramos

Beşiktaş v Atlético Madrid

12 April 2023 Friendly	Beşiktaş	2–0	Atlético Madrid	Istanbul, Turkey
20:30 TRT (UTC+3)	Fernandes 25' Welinton  81' Nkoudou 88'	Report		Stadium: Vodafone Park Referee: Hüseyin Göçek (Turkey)

Competitions

Overall record

La Liga

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 23 June 2022.^[26][27]

Copa del Rey

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 25 August 2022.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POR	BRU	LEV	ATM
1	Porto	6	4	0	2	12	7	+5	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–4	2–0	2–1
2	Club Brugge	6	3	2	1	7	4	+3	11			0–4	—	1–0	2–0
3	Bayer Leverkusen	6	1	2	3	4	8	−4	5[a]	Transfer to Europa League		0–3	0–0	—	2–0
4	Atlético Madrid	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	5[a]			2–1	0–0	2–2	—

Atlético Madrid v Porto

7 September 2022 1	Atlético Madrid	2–1	Porto	Madrid, Spain
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Koke  56' Hermoso 90+1',  90+5' Griezmann 90+11'	Report	Pepê  54' Uribe  68', 90+6' (pen.) Taremi  71'  81'	Stadium: Cívitas Metropolitano Attendance: 51,777 Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

Bayer Leverkusen v Atlético Madrid

13 September 2022 2	Bayer Leverkusen	2–0	Atlético Madrid	Leverkusen, Germany
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Kossounou  32' Tah  39' Andrich  77', 84' Diaby 87'	Report		Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 25,825 Referee: Michael Oliver (England)

Club Brugge v Atlético Madrid

4 October 2022 3	Club Brugge	2–0	Atlético Madrid	Bruges, Belgium
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Sowah 36' Odoi  37' Onyedika  45+1' Jutglà 62' Buchanan  70' Mignolet  75' Sylla  88'	Report	Mandava  53' Savić  61' Griezmann 76'	Stadium: Jan Breydel Stadium Attendance: 25,667 Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

Atlético Madrid v Club Brugge

12 October 2022 4	Atlético Madrid	0–0	Club Brugge	Madrid, Spain
18:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Savić  45+2' Kondogbia  80'	Report	Buchanan  44' Sowah  45+2'  82' Vanaken  46' Mignolet  90'	Stadium: Cívitas Metropolitano Attendance: 60,810 Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

Atlético Madrid v Bayer Leverkusen

26 October 2022 5	Atlético Madrid	2–2	Bayer Leverkusen	Madrid, Spain
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Carrasco 22', 90+9' De Paul 50' Giménez  79' Kondogbia  87'	Report	Diaby 9' Hudson-Odoi 29' Hrádecký  65' Bakker  66' Hincapié  78'	Stadium: Cívitas Metropolitano Attendance: 63,803 Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

Porto v Atlético Madrid

1 November 2022 6	Porto	2–1	Atlético Madrid	Porto, Portugal
17:45 WET (UTC±0)	Taremi 5' Eustáquio 24' Grujić  39' Cardoso  68'	Report	Mandava  42' Savić  48' De Paul  69' Marcano 90+5' (o.g.)	Stadium: Estádio do Dragão Attendance: 47,546 Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

Statistics

Squad statistics

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		La Liga		Copa del Rey		UEFA Champions League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	CRO	Ivo Grbić	13	0	10+2	0	0	0	1	0
13	GK	SVN	Jan Oblak	38	0	28	0	5	0	5	0
31	GK	ESP	Antonio Gomis	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	URU	José Giménez	36	2	26+2	2	2+1	0	5	0
3	DF	ESP	Sergio Reguilón	12	0	2+9	0	0+1	0	0	0
12	DF	IRL	Matt Doherty	2	0	0+2	0	0	0	0	0
15	DF	MNE	Stefan Savić	29	0	22	0	4	0	3	0
16	DF	ARG	Nahuel Molina	43	4	33	4	4	0	6	0
22	DF	ESP	Mario Hermoso	34	4	24+2	3	5	0	2+1	1
23	DF	MOZ	Reinildo Mandava	33	0	22	0	3+2	0	6	0
Midfielders
4	MF	CAF	Geoffrey Kondogbia	27	0	10+10	0	1+3	0	2+1	0
5	MF	ARG	Rodrigo De Paul	38	3	24+6	2	2+1	0	1+4	1
6	MF	ESP	Koke	42	0	30+3	0	4+1	0	4	0
11	MF	FRA	Thomas Lemar	32	1	17+10	1	3	0	1+1	0
14	MF	ESP	Marcos Llorente	29	3	20+2	1	4	2	3	0
17	MF	ESP	Saúl	38	3	10+21	3	1+1	0	4+1	0
20	MF	BEL	Axel Witsel	43	0	25+8	0	3+1	0	5+1	0
21	MF	BEL	Yannick Carrasco	44	10	26+9	7	2+1	2	3+3	1
24	MF	ESP	Pablo Barrios	26	2	6+15	0	2+2	2	0+1	0
32	MF	ESP	Alberto Moreno	1	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0
Forwards
8	FW	FRA	Antoine Griezmann	48	16	31+7	15	4	0	4+2	1
9	FW	NED	Memphis Depay	9	4	3+5	4	0+1	0	0	0
10	FW	ARG	Ángel Correa	44	10	12+22	9	2+2	1	3+3	0
19	FW	ESP	Álvaro Morata	45	15	23+13	13	4	2	4+1	0
29	FW	ESP	Carlos Martín	4	0	0+4	0	0	0	0	0
Players who have made an appearance this season but have left the club
7	FW	POR	João Félix	20	5	7+7	4	1	1	3+2	0
9	FW	BRA	Matheus Cunha	17	0	2+9	0	0+1	0	0+5	0
12	DF	BRA	Renan Lodi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	DF	BRA	Felipe	4	0	2+1	0	0	0	1	0
26	FW	POR	Marcos Paulo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos.	Nat.	Player	La Liga	Copa del Rey	Champions League	Total
1	8	FW		Antoine Griezmann	15	0	1	16
2	19	FW		Álvaro Morata	13	2	0	15
3	10	FW		Ángel Correa	9	1	0	10
	21	MF		Yannick Carrasco	7	2	1	10
5	7	FW		João Félix1	4	1	0	5
6	9	FW		Memphis Depay	4	0	0	4
	16	DF		Nahuel Molina	4	0	0	4
	22	DF		Mario Hermoso	3	0	1	4
9	5	MF		Rodrigo De Paul	2	0	1	3
	14	MF		Marcos Llorente	1	2	0	3
	17	MF		Saúl	3	0	0	3
12	2	DF		José Giménez	2	0	0	2
	24	MF		Pablo Barrios	0	2	0	2
14	11	MF		Thomas Lemar	1	0	0	1
Own goals					2	0	1	3
Totals					70	10	5	85