AS Cittadella

Cittadella

Full name	Associazione Sportiva Cittadella S.r.l.
Nickname(s)	Citta I Granata (The Maroons)
Founded	1973;51 years ago (1973), (as Associazione Sportiva Cittadella)
Ground	Pier Cesare Tombolato
Capacity	7,623 [1]
Owner	Gabrielli SA
Chairman	Andrea Gabrielli
Head coach	Edoardo Gorini
League	Serie B
2022–23	Serie B, 15th of 20
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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.

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

• Lega Pro
  • Winners (1): 2015–16 (group A)
• Campionato Interregionale
  • Winners (1): 1988-89 (group D)
• Campionato Nazionale Dilettanti
  • Winners (1): 1992-93 (group B)
• Prima Categoria
  • Winners (1): 1977-78 (group D)

Cups

• Coppa Italia Dilettanti
  • Winners (1): 1979–80
• Coppa Italia Lega Pro
  • Runners-up: 2015–16

Players

Current squad

As of 17 October 2023 ^[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 1 GK   ITA Filippo Veneran 2 DF   ITA Alessandro Salvi 4 DF   ITA Matteo Angeli 5 MF   ITA Valerio Mastrantonio 6 DF   ITA Edoardo Sottini 7 FW   ITA Luca Pandolfi 8 MF   ITA Francesco Amatucci 9 FW   ITA Andrea Magrassi 10 FW   ITA Claudio Cassano 11 FW   ITA Filippo Pittarello 15 DF   ITA Domenico Frare 16 MF   ITA Alessio Vita 17 MF   DEN Emil Kornvig 18 MF   ITA Andrea Tessiore 20 MF   ITA Giuseppe Carriero

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 MF   ITA Nicholas Saggionetto 23 MF   ITA Simone Branca (vice-captain) 24 DF   ITA Lorenzo Carissoni 26 MF   ITA Nicola Pavan (3rd captain) 27 MF   ITA Andrea Danzi 28 DF   ITA Alessio Rizza 30 DF   ITA Stefano Negro 32 FW   ITA Tommy Maistrello 36 GK   ALB Elhan Kastrati (4th captain) 64 DF   ITA Andrea Cecchetto 74 FW   ITA Ahmed Kader Sanogo 77 GK   ITA Luca Maniero 92 FW   ITA Enrico Baldini 98 DF   ITA Federico Giraudo (on loan from Reggina)

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   ITA Vincenzo Ciriello (at Picerno until 30 June 2024)

Club officials

Board of directors Role Name Owner Gabrielli SA President Andrea Gabrielli Vice-presidents Giancarlo Pavin Nicola Maffei General Director Stefano Marchetti Sporting Director Mauro Michelini Head of basic activities Daniele Rizzo Head of Youth Development Cristian La Grottería Marketing Director Luigi Zanarella Secretaries Alberto Toso Stefano Zonta Laura Dal Zuffo Andrea De Poli Luca Torresin Daniele Ceccato Communications Department Davide De Marchi Front Office Francesco Russo Pitch Facilities Renzo Sartore Mariano Campagnaro Security Director Alessandro Bressa Supporter Liaison Officer Silvio Bizzotto Structure Director Remo Poggiana Team Manager Federico Cerantola Store Department Fabio Lebran Photographer Massimo Felicetti Last updated: 5 May 2023 Source: [7]

Current technical staff Role Name Head coach Edoardo Gorini Assistant coaches Roberto Musso Nicola Donazzan Goalkeeping coach Andrea Pierobon Fitness coach Andrea Redigolo Head of Medical Ilario Candido Club doctor Roberto Bordin Physiotherapist Giovanni Pivato Masseur Nicola De Bardi Kitmen Antonio Sgarbossa Clara Degetto Last updated: 5 May 2023 Source: [8]

Notable players

See Category:AS Cittadella players.

Managers

• Rolando Maran (2002–2005)
• Claudio Foscarini (2005–2015)
• Roberto Venturato (2015–2021)

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. "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". A.S. Cittadella (in Italian). Retrieved 11 August 2014.
7. Board of directors
8. Technical staff

External links

• Official website