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

Cittadella

Full name	Associazione Sportiva Cittadella S.r.l.
Nickname(s)	Citta
Founded	1973 (49 years ago) (1973)
Ground	Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato, Cittadella, Veneto, Italy
Capacity	7,623[1]
Chairman	Andrea Gabrielli
Manager	Edoardo Gorini
League	Serie B
2021–22	Serie B, 11th of 20
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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

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]

Players

Current squad

As of 31 August 2022[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 Manfrin 2 DF  ITA Romano Perticone 3 DF  ITA Gian Filippo Felicioli 5 DF  ITA Dario Del Fabro 6 DF  ARG Santiago Visentin 7 FW  GNB Carlos Embaló 8 MF  ITA Davide Mazzocco 9 FW  SEN Mamadou Tounkara 10 MF  ITA Mirko Antonucci 11 FW  ITA Giacomo Beretta 15 DF  ITA Domenico Frare 16 MF  ITA Alessio Vita 17 DF  ITA Daniele Donnarumma 18 DF  ITA Alessandro Mattioli

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  ITA Vincenzo Ciriello 20 MF  ITA Giuseppe Carriero 23 MF  ITA Simone Branca 26 MF  ITA Nicola Pavan 29 MF  ITA Valerio Mastrantonio 30 FW  URU Ignacio Lores Varela 36 GK  ALB Elhan Kastrati 72 MF  ITA Andrea Danzi 77 GK  ITA Luca Maniero 84 DF  ITA Tommaso Cassandro 87 DF  ITA Gianluca Bassano 90 FW  ESP Raúl Asencio 92 MF  ITA Enrico Baldini 99 FW  ITA Andrea Magrassi

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 — MF  ITA Simone Icardi (at Feralpisalò) — FW  ITA Luigi Cuppone (at Pescara, obligation to buy)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ITA Camillo Tavernelli (at Novara)

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Head Coach	Roberto Venturato
Assistant Coach	Edoardo Gorini
Assistant Coach	Roberto Musso
Goalkeeper Coach	Andrea Pierobon
Fitness Coach	Andrea Redigolo
Chief Doctor	Ilario Candido
Club Doctor	Roberto Bordin

Notable players

See Category:A.S. Cittadella players.

Managers

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

Honours

• Coppa Italia Dilettanti
  • Winners: 1979–80
• Lega Pro
  • Winners: 2015–16 (group A)

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] A.S. Cittadella

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[es] Associazione Sportiva Cittadella

La Associazione Sportiva Cittadella es un club de fútbol italiano de la ciudad de Cittadella (Padua), en Véneto. Fue fundado en 1973 y actualmente milita en la Serie B, la segunda categoría del fútbol nacional.

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[ru] Читтаделла (футбольный клуб)

«Читтаделла» (итал. AS Cittadella SpA) — итальянский футбольный клуб из одноимённого города, выступающий в Серии B. Основан в 1973 году. Домашние матчи проводит на стадионе «Пьерчезаре Томболато», вмещающем 7 623 зрителя.

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