Statistics and interesting facts about the match against Padova

Pisa Sporting Club are preparing to face Padova on Sunday (Cetilar Arena, 7.00 pm) in their opening match of the Serie BKT Championship. Let’s take a look at the statistics and interesting facts about the upcoming fixture, courtesy of Opta Facts by Stats Perform:

– The last 12 meetings between Pisa and Padova in Serie BKT have been perfectly balanced: four wins apiece and four draws, with exactly eight goals scored by each side. The last time the two sides met in the second tier was on 30 January 1994 (a 0–0 draw at the Tuscan side’s ground).
– Pisa have remained unbeaten in eight (6W, 2D) of their last nine home matches against Padova in Serie BKT, conceding just one goal during that run – the goal that secured a 1-0 victory for the Biancorossi on 3 May 1992.
– Pisa have remained unbeaten in nine (5W, 4D) of their last 11 opening-day fixtures in Serie BKT, drawing their most recent match (2-2 against Spezia on matchday one of the 2024/25 season).
– Padova have failed to win their opening match of the Serie BKT season in each of the last six campaigns (4 draws, 2 defeats); the Biancorossi’s last victory in the opening match of a Serie BKT season dates back to August 2009 (1–0 against Modena).
– On the one hand, Pisa are the team who scored the highest percentage of goals from set-pieces in last season’s Serie A (54 per cent, or 14 out of 26); on the other hand, Padova are the side who scored the highest percentage of goals from corners in the 2025/26 Serie BKT regular season: 28 per cent (11 out of 39).
– Pisa’s new signing, Tommaso Marras, is just one of two players born in 2004 or later to have scored at least seven goals (7 in his case) in the 2025/26 Serie BKT season, alongside Antonio Raimondo (11).
– Mattia Bortolussi was Padova’s top scorer in the 2025/26 Serie BKT season with 10 goals to his name; amongst the players who played their first Serie BKT season last term, none did better than him (John Yeboah also scored 10). Furthermore, prior to the class of ’96, the last players to have finished a second-tier regular season with double-figure goals for the Biancoscudati were Aniello Cutolo (12) and Diego Farias (10), both in 2012/13.

These are the historical precedents