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| Full name | Associazione Sportiva CittadellaS.r.l. | |||
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| Nicknames | Citta I Granata (The Maroons) | |||
| Founded | 1973; 52 years ago (1973), (asAssociazione Sportiva Cittadella) | |||
| Ground | Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato | |||
| Capacity | 7,623[1] | |||
| Owner | GabrielliSA | |||
| Chairman | Andrea Gabrielli | |||
| Head coach | Manuel Iori | |||
| League | Serie C Group A | |||
| 2024–25 | Serie B, 19th of 20 (relegated) | |||
| Website | ascittadella.it | |||
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Associazione Sportiva Cittadella, commonly referred to asCittadella, is an Italian professionalfootballclub based in the city ofCittadella,Veneto, currently playing inSerie C Group A, following relegation in the2024–25 season.
The team was founded in 1973 and play their home games at theStadio Pier Cesare Tombolato, which has a capacity of 7,623 seats.[2]
Cittadella was founded in 1973, after the merger ofU.S. Cittadellense andA.S. Olympia. The club spent most of its first years in amateur football, and then professional football atSerie C2 andSerie C1 ranks. Cittadella won its first promotion toSerie B in 1999 after defeatingBrescello in the playoff finals, and spent a total two seasons in the Italian second-highest ranked division, being then relegated in2001–02 Serie B. During their first stay in Serie B, the club played inStadio Euganeo inPadua and, in an attempt to expand the fanbase, was renamedA.S. Cittadella Padova,Padua (Padova inItalian) being the home province of Cittadella.
Cittadella returned to Serie B in 2008, after defeatingCremonese in the2007–08 Serie C1/A playoffs, under the guide of head coachClaudio Foscarini. In the2008–09 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 theFIGC, since a stadium of at least 10,000 seats is required for Serie B). Thus, Cittadella played the first season games inStadio Omobono Tenni inTreviso, about 40 km away.[2][3] After some delays, the firstSerie B game played inCittadella 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 forSerie A teams, namely,Riccardo Meggiorini (50% rights sold for €2.5M),Matteo Ardemagni (sold for €3.75M). Moreover,2010–11 Serie B topscorerFederico Piovaccari also left forSampdoria in 2011 for €3.5M, although Samp was relegated shortly afterwards from Serie A in2010–11.
Cittadella was relegated again toLega Pro in2014–15.
The club returned to Serie B for the2016–17 season following their promotion from theLega Pro and has since regularly competed for the promotion play-off positions, including finishing as high as 5th place in2019–20. They reached the promotion play-off final to Serie A in2018–19 againstHellas 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 againstVenezia at the end of the2020–21 season to again narrowly miss out on the club's first promotion toSerie A.[5]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Board of directors[edit]
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Rolando Maran (2002–2005)Claudio Foscarini (2005–2015)Roberto Venturato (2015–2021)Edoardo Gorini (2021–2024)Alessandro Dal Canto (2024-)
