AS Cittadella

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Associazione Sportiva Cittadella, commonly referred to as Cittadella, is an Italian professional football club based in the city of Cittadella, Veneto, currently playing in Serie B.

Cittadella
Full nameAssociazione Sportiva Cittadella S.r.l.
Nickname(s)Citta
I Granata (The Maroons)
Founded1973; 51 years ago (1973), (as Associazione Sportiva Cittadella)
GroundPier Cesare Tombolato
Capacity7,623[1]
OwnerGabrielli SA
ChairmanAndrea Gabrielli
Head coachAlessandro Dal Canto
LeagueSerie B
2023–24Serie B, 14th of 20
Websitewww.ascittadella.it
Current season

The team was founded in 1973 and play their home games at the Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato, which has a capacity of 7,623 seats.[2]

History

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Cittadella was founded in 1973, after the merger of U.S. Cittadellense and A.S. Olympia. The club spent most of its first years in amateur football, and then professional football at Serie C2 and Serie C1 ranks. Cittadella won its first promotion to Serie B in 1999 after defeating Brescello in the playoff finals, and spent a total two seasons in the Italian second-highest ranked division, being then relegated in 2001–02 Serie B. During their first stay in Serie B, the club played in Stadio Euganeo in Padua and, in an attempt to expand the fanbase, was renamed A.S. Cittadella Padova, Padua (Padova in Italian) being the home province of Cittadella.

Cittadella returned to Serie B in 2008, after defeating Cremonese in the 2007–08 Serie C1/A playoffs, under the guide of head coach Claudio Foscarini. In the 2008–09 Serie B season, the club was involved to projects focused to boost the capacity of the Stadio Tombolato to 7,500, in order to let the club play in their home town (with dispensation from the FIGC, since a stadium of at least 10,000 seats is required for Serie B). Thus, Cittadella played the first season games in Stadio Omobono Tenni in Treviso, about 40 km away.[2][3] After some delays, the first Serie B game played in Cittadella was played on 29 October 2008, Ancona being the opponents. The club escaped relegation in the final days of the season, thus ensuring another year of Serie B football to the local fans.

The following season, Cittadella thrashed Lecce 5–1 and Mantova 6–0 to finish 6th, and only losing to Brescia in the playoffs due to Brescia's superior league placing, despite a late 1–0 win in the second leg.

The club produced two strikers who later left for Serie A teams, namely, Riccardo Meggiorini (50% rights sold for €2.5M), Matteo Ardemagni (sold for €3.75M). Moreover, 2010–11 Serie B topscorer Federico Piovaccari also left for Sampdoria in 2011 for €3.5M, although Samp was relegated shortly afterwards from Serie A in 2010–11.

Cittadella was relegated again to Lega Pro in 2014–15.

The club returned to Serie B for the 2016–17 season following their promotion from the Lega Pro and has since regularly competed for the promotion play-off positions, including finishing as high as 5th place in 2019–20. They reached the promotion play-off final to Serie A in 2018–19 against Hellas Verona and, after winning the first match by 2–0 at home, conceded the comeback to Verona in the 2nd leg, losing 3–0 away after going down to 10 men when the score was still 1–0.[4] Similarly, Cittadella also lost in the play-off final against Venezia at the end of the 2020–21 season to again narrowly miss out on the club's first promotion to Serie A.[5]

Honours

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League

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Cups

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Players

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Current squad

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As of 30 August 2024[6]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF   ITA Alessandro Salvi
4 DF   ITA Matteo Angeli
5 MF   ITA Federico Casolari
7 FW   ITA Luca Pandolfi
8 MF   ITA Francesco Amatucci
9 FW   ITA Andrea Magrassi
10 FW   ITA Claudio Cassano
11 FW   ITA Jacopo Desogus
16 MF   ITA Alessio Vita
17 MF   ITA Simone Tronchin
18 MF   ITA Andrea Tessiore
19 MF   ITA Francesco D'Alessio
20 FW   ITA Davide Voltan
21 FW   ITA Simone Rabbi
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 GK   ITA Edoardo Scquizzato
23 MF   ITA Simone Branca (captain)
24 DF   ITA Lorenzo Carissoni
26 DF   ITA Nicola Pavan (3rd captain)
28 DF   ITA Alessio Rizza
29 MF   ITA Akim Djibril
30 DF   ITA Stefano Negro
32 DF   ITA Edoardo Masciangelo
35 DF   ITA Stefano Piccinini
36 GK   ALB Elhan Kastrati (4th captain)
64 DF   ITA Andrea Cecchetto
74 FW   ITA Ahmed Sanogo
78 GK   ITA Luca Maniero
91 FW   ITA Mario Ravasio

Out on loan

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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   ITA Domenico Frare (at Triestina until 30 June 2025)
FW   ITA Filippo Pittarello (at Catanzaro until 30 June 2025)

Club officials

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Notable players

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Managers

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References

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  1. ^ "A.S. Cittadella – Stadio" (in Italian). A.S. Cittadella – Sito ufficiale. Archived from the original on 29 January 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Cittadella, la B al Tombolato" (in Italian). Calciopress.net. 14 June 2008. Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
  3. ^ "Cittadella: scelto lo stadio" (in Italian). C1siamo.net. 17 July 2008. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
  4. ^ [1][dead link]
  5. ^ "Venezia overcome Cittadella in playoff to secure return to Serie A". Eurosport. 27 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Prima Squadra". AS Cittadella (in Italian). 14 October 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  7. ^ Board of directors
  8. ^ Technical staff
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