AS Cittadella

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Cittadella
AS Cittadella logo.svg
Full nameAssociazione Sportiva Cittadella S.r.l.
Nickname(s)Citta
I Granata (The Maroons)
Founded1973;52 years ago (1973), (as Associazione Sportiva Cittadella)
Ground Pier Cesare Tombolato
Capacity7,623 [1]
OwnerGabrielli SA
ChairmanAndrea Gabrielli
Head coach Alessandro Dal Canto
League Serie B
2023–24 Serie B, 14th of 20
Website www.ascittadella.it
Soccerball current event.svg Current season

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.

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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

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

League

Cups

Players

Current squad

As of 4 February 2025 [6]

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
2 DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Alessandro Salvi
4 DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Matteo Angeli
5 MF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Federico Casolari
6 DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Emmanuele Matino (on loan from Bari )
7 FW Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Luca Pandolfi
8 MF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Francesco Amatucci
9 FW Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Davide Diaw
10 FW Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Claudio Cassano
11 FW Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Jacopo Desogus
13 DF Flag of Uganda.svg  UGA Elio Capradossi
16 MF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Alessio Vita (captain)
17 MF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Simone Tronchin
18 MF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Andrea Tessiore
19 MF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Francesco D'Alessio
20 FW Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Davide Voltan
21 FW Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Simone Rabbi
No.Pos.NationPlayer
22 GK Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Edoardo Scquizzato
24 DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Lorenzo Carissoni
26 DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Nicola Pavan (3rd captain)
28 DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Alessio Rizza
29 MF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Akim Djibril
30 DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Stefano Negro
31 FW Flag of Nigeria.svg  NGA Orji Okwonkwo (on loan from Bologna )
32 DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Edoardo Masciangelo
35 DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Stefano Piccinini
36 GK Flag of Albania.svg  ALB Elhan Kastrati (4th captain)
37 MF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Riccardo Palmieri
45 GK Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Matteo Cardinali
64 DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Andrea Cecchetto
74 FW Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Ahmed Sanogo
78 GK Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Luca Maniero

Out on loan

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
— DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Domenico Frare (at Triestina until 30 June 2025)
— FW Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Filippo Pittarello (at Catanzaro until 30 June 2025)

Club officials

Notable players

Managers

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References

  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. 1 2 "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. ↑ [ 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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