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{{Short description|Italian professional football club}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Infobox football club
| clubname = Cittadella
| image = AS Cittadella logo.svg
| image_size = 180px
| fullname = Associazione Sportiva Cittadella [[Società a responsabilità limitata|S.r.l.]]
| nickname = ''Citta''<br>''I Granata'' (The Maroons)
| ground = [[Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato]]
| capacity = 7,623<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ascittadella.it/StadioMain.asp |publisher=A.S. Cittadella&nbsp;– Sito ufficiale |language=it |title=A.S. Cittadella&nbsp;– Stadio |access-date=17 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129081537/http://www.ascittadella.it/StadioMain.asp |archive-date=29 January 2011}}</ref>
| league = [[Serie C]] 
| season = 2024–25
| position = [[Serie B]], 19th of 20 (relegated)
| current = 2024–25 A.S. Cittadella season
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| founded = {{start date and age|df=yes|1973}}, (as ''Associazione Sportiva Cittadella'')
| owner = Gabrielli [[S.A. (corporation)|SA]]
| chairman = Andrea Gabrielli
| mgrtitle = Head coach
| manager = [[Alessandro Dal Canto]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.ascittadella.it/|ascittadella.it}}
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'''Associazione Sportiva Cittadella''', commonly referred to as '''Cittadella''', is an Italian professional [[Association football|football]] [[Club (organization)|club]] based in the city of [[Cittadella]], [[Veneto]], currently playing in {{Italian football updater|Cittadella}}, but will play in [[Serie C]] following relegation in the [[2024–25 Serie B|2024–25 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.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=http://www.calciopress.net/news/124/ARTICLE/4893/2008-06-14.html |publisher=Calciopress.net |language=it |title=Cittadella, la B al Tombolato |access-date=28 July 2008 |date=14 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907180820/http://www.calciopress.net/news/124/ARTICLE/4893/2008-06-14.html |archive-date=7 September 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==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 Calcio|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'', [[Province of Padua|Padua]] (''Padova'' in [[Italian language|Italian]]) being the home province of Cittadella.

Cittadella returned to Serie B in 2008, after defeating [[U.S. Cremonese|Cremonese]] in the [[Serie C1 2007-08|2007–08 Serie C1/A playoffs]], under the guide of head coach [[Claudio Foscarini]]. In the [[Serie B 2008-09|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&nbsp;km away.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.c1siamo.net/forum/il-forum-dei-tifosi-serie-b/9916-cittadella-scelto-lo-stadio.html |publisher=C1siamo.net |language=it |title=Cittadella: scelto lo stadio |access-date=28 July 2008 |date=17 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720002441/http://www.c1siamo.net/forum/il-forum-dei-tifosi-serie-b/9916-cittadella-scelto-lo-stadio.html |archive-date=20 July 2011}}</ref> After some delays, the first [[Serie B]] game played in [[Cittadella]] was played on 29 October 2008, [[A.C. Ancona|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 [[U.C. Sampdoria|Sampdoria]] in 2011 for €3.5M, although Samp was relegated shortly afterwards from Serie A in [[2010–11 Serie A|2010–11]].

Cittadella was relegated again to [[Lega Pro]] in [[2014–15 Serie B|2014–15]].

The club returned to Serie B for the [[2016–17 Serie B|2016–17 season]] following their promotion from the [[2015–16 Lega Pro|Lega Pro]] and has since regularly competed for the promotion play-off positions, including finishing as high as 5th place in [[2019–20 Serie B|2019–20]]. They reached the promotion play-off final to Serie A in [[2018–19 Serie B|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.<ref>[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/hellas-verona-promoted-back-to-serie-a/articleshow/69627064.cms]{{dead link|date=May 2021}}</ref> Similarly, Cittadella also lost in the play-off final against [[Venezia F.C.|Venezia]] at the end of the [[2020–21 Serie B|2020–21 season]] to again narrowly miss out on the club's first promotion to [[Serie A]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.eurosport.com/football/serie-a/2020-2021/venezia-overcome-cittadella-in-playoff-to-secure-return-to-serie-a-after-20-year-absence-from-italia_sto8340097/story.shtml |publisher=Eurosport |title=Venezia overcome Cittadella in playoff to secure return to Serie A |date=27 May 2021}}</ref>

==Honours==

===League===
*'''[[Serie C|Lega Pro]]'''
**'''Winners (1):''' [[2015–16 Lega Pro|2015–16]] (group A)
*'''[[Serie D|Campionato Interregionale]]'''
**'''Winners (1):''' 1988-89 (group D)
*'''[[Serie 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 Serie C|Coppa Italia Lega Pro]]'''
**Runners-up: 2015–16

==Players==

===Current squad===
{{updated|11 February 2025}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ascittadella.it/la-squadra/ |title=Prima Squadra |work=AS Cittadella |date=14 October 2024 |access-date=11 August 2024 |language=it }}</ref>
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player | no=  2  | nat= ITA | pos= DF | name= [[Alessandro Salvi]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  4  | nat= ITA | pos= DF | name= [[Matteo Angeli]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  5  | nat= ITA | pos= MF | name= Federico Casolari}}
{{Fs player | no=  6  | nat= ITA | pos=DF | name= [[Emmanuele Matino]]|other={{small|on loan from [[SSC Bari|Bari]]}}}}
{{fs player | no=  7  | nat= ITA | pos= FW | name= [[Luca Pandolfi]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  8  | nat= ITA | pos= MF | name= Francesco Amatucci}}
{{Fs player | no=  9  | nat= ITA | pos= FW | name= [[Davide Diaw]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  11 | nat= ITA | pos= FW | name= [[Jacopo Desogus]]}}
{{fs player | no=  13 | nat= UGA | pos= DF | name= [[Elio Capradossi]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  16 | nat= ITA | pos= MF | name= [[Alessio Vita]]|other=[[Captain (association football)|captain]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  17 | nat= ITA | pos= MF | name= [[Simone Tronchin]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  18 | nat= ITA | pos= MF | name= [[Andrea Tessiore]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  19 | nat= ITA | pos= MF | name= [[Francesco D'Alessio]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  20 | nat= ITA | pos= FW | name= [[Davide Voltan]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  21 | nat= ITA | pos= FW | name= [[Simone Rabbi]]}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player | no=  22 | nat= ITA | pos= GK | name= Edoardo Scquizzato}}
{{Fs player | no=  24 | nat= ITA | pos= DF | name= [[Lorenzo Carissoni]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  26 | nat= ITA | pos= DF | name= [[Nicola Pavan]]|other=[[Captain (association football)|3rd captain]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  28 | nat= ITA | pos= DF | name= Alessio Rizza}}
{{Fs player | no=  29 | nat= ITA | pos= MF | name= Akim Djibril}}
{{Fs player | no=  30 | nat= ITA | pos= DF | name= [[Stefano Negro]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  31 | nat= NGA | pos= FW | name= [[Orji Okwonkwo]]|other={{small|on loan from [[Bologna FC 1909|Bologna]]}}}}
{{Fs player | no=  32 | nat= ITA | pos= DF | name= [[Edoardo Masciangelo]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  35 | nat= ITA | pos= DF | name= [[Stefano Piccinini]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  36 | nat= ALB | pos= GK | name= [[Elhan Kastrati]]|other=[[Captain (association football)|4th captain]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  37 | nat= ITA | pos= MF | name= [[Riccardo Palmieri]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  45 | nat= ITA | pos= GK | name= [[Matteo Cardinali]]}}
{{fs player | no=  64 | nat= ITA | pos= DF | name= Andrea Cecchetto}}
{{Fs player | no=  74 | nat= ITA | pos= FW | name= [[Ahmed Kader Sanogo|Ahmed Sanogo]]}}
{{Fs player | no=  78 | nat= ITA | pos= GK | name= [[Luca Maniero (footballer, born 1995)|Luca Maniero]]}}
{{Fs end}}

===Cittadella Primavera===
{{updated|9 March 2025}}
{{Fs start}}
{{fs player | no=  25 | nat= ITA | pos= DF | name= Nicolò Sergio Scarpa}}
{{Fs end}}

===Out on loan===
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player | no=     | nat= ITA | pos= DF | name= [[Domenico Frare]]|other={{small|at [[US Triestina Calcio 1918|Triestina]] until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs player | no=     | nat= ITA | pos= FW | name= [[Filippo Pittarello]]|other={{small|at [[US Catanzaro 1929|Catanzaro]] until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs end}}

==Club officials==
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===Board of directors===
{| class="toccolours"
|-
! style="background:#AA0000;color:white;{{box-shadow border|a|white|1px}};" |Role
! style="background:#AA0000;color:white;{{box-shadow border|a|white|1px}};" |Name
|-
| Owner
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Gabrielli [[S.A. (corporation)|SA]]
|-
| President
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Andrea Gabrielli
|-
| Vice-presidents
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Giancarlo Pavin <br> {{Flagicon|ITA}} Nicola Maffei  
|-
| General Director
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Stefano Marchetti
|-
| Sporting Director
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Mauro Michelini
|-
| Head of basic activities
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Daniele Rizzo
|-
| Head of Youth Development
| {{Flagicon|ARG}} [[Cristian La Grottería]]
|-
| Marketing Director
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Luigi Zanarella
|-
| Secretaries
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Alberto Toso <br> {{Flagicon|ITA}} Stefano Zonta <br> {{Flagicon|ITA}} Laura Dal Zuffo <br> {{Flagicon|ITA}} Andrea De Poli <br> {{Flagicon|ITA}} Luca Torresin <br> {{Flagicon|ITA}} Daniele Ceccato 
|-
| Communications Department
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Davide De Marchi
|-
| Front Office
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Francesco Russo
|-
| Pitch Facilities
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Renzo Sartore <br> {{Flagicon|ITA}} Mariano Campagnaro
|-
| Security Director
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Alessandro Bressa 
|-
| Supporter Liaison Officer
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Silvio Bizzotto
|-
| Structure Director
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Remo Poggiana
|-
| Team Manager
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Federico Cerantola
|-
| Store Department
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Fabio Lebran
|-
| Photographer
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Massimo Felicetti
|}
* <small>Last updated: 5 May 2023</small>
* <small>Source:<ref>[https://www.ascittadella.it/associazione-sportiva-cittadella/ Board of directors]</ref></small>
{{col-2}}

===Current technical staff===

{| class="toccolours"
|-
! style="background:#AA0000;color:white;{{box-shadow border|a|white|1px}};" |Role
! style="background:#AA0000;color:white;{{box-shadow border|a|white|1px}};" |Name
|-
| Head coach
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} [[Alessandro Dal Canto]]
|-
| Assistant coaches
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} [[Nicola Donazzan]] <br/> {{Flagicon|ITA}} Roberto Musso
|-
| Fitness coach
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Andrea Redigolo
|-
| Goalkeeping coach
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} [[Andrea Pierobon]]
|-
| Head of Medical
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Ilario Candido
|-
| Orthopedic
| {{Flagicon|ITA}} Renato Sattin
|-
| Masseur
| {{flagicon|ITA}} Giovanni Pivato <br/> {{flagicon|ITA}} Nicola De Bardi
|-
| Physiotherapist
| {{flagicon|ITA}} Polimedica FISIO&SPORT
|}
* <small>Last updated: 5 May 2023</small>
* <small>Source:<ref>[https://www.ascittadella.it/associazione-sportiva-cittadella/ Technical staff]</ref></small>
{{col-end}}

==Notable players==
{{Category see also|AS Cittadella players}}

==Managers==
*{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Rolando Maran]] (2002–2005)
*{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Claudio Foscarini]] (2005–2015)
*{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Roberto Venturato]] (2015–2021)
*{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Edoardo Gorini]] (2021–2024)
*{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Alessandro Dal Canto]] (2024-)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category}}
*[http://www.ascittadella.it/ Official website]

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