AS Cittadella

Cittadella
Full nameAssociazione Sportiva Cittadella S.r.l.
Nickname(s)Citta
I Granata (The Maroons)
Founded1973 (1973), (as Associazione Sportiva Cittadella)
GroundStadio Pier Cesare Tombolato
Capacity7,623[1]
OwnerGabrielli SA
ChairmanAndrea Gabrielli
Head coachManuel Iori
LeagueSerie C Group A
2024–25Serie B, 19th of 20 (relegated)
Websiteascittadella.it

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 C Group A, but will play in Serie C following relegation in the 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.[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 18 August 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. Nation Player
1 GK Italy ITA Luca Maniero
2 DF Italy ITA Alessandro Salvi
4 DF Italy ITA Matteo Angeli
5 MF Italy ITA Andrea Barberis
6 MF Italy ITA Akim Djibril
7 FW Italy ITA Emanuele Anastasia
8 MF Italy ITA Francesco Amatucci
9 FW Italy ITA Davide Diaw
10 MF Italy ITA Federico Casolari
11 FW Italy ITA Jacopo Desogus
14 DF Italy ITA Carlo Crialese
16 MF Italy ITA Alessio Vita (captain)
17 MF Italy ITA Mattia Gaddini
18 DF Italy ITA Nicola Pavan (3rd captain)
19 DF Italy ITA Francesco D'Alessio
21 FW Italy ITA Simone Rabbi
22 GK Italy ITA Edoardo Scquizzato
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 FW Italy ITA Destiny Egharevba
25 DF Italy ITA Andrea Cecchetto
27 DF Italy ITA Alessio Genova
28 DF Italy ITA Alessio Rizza
30 DF Italy ITA Riccardo De Zen
37 MF Italy ITA Riccardo Palmieri
44 DF Italy ITA Riccardo Gatti
45 GK Italy ITA Matteo Cardinali
55 DF Italy ITA Alex Redolfi
69 GK Italy ITA Alessandro Zanellati
77 FW Italy ITA Eduard Ihnatov
80 FW Italy ITA Davide Voltan
90 FW Italy ITA Cristian Bunino
98 FW Italy ITA Luca Pandolfi
99 MF Italy ITA Andrea Tessiore

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. Nation Player
— DF Italy ITA Lorenzo Carissoni (at Juve Stabia until 30 June 2026)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Italy ITA Stefano Piccinini (at Monopoli until 30 June 2026)

Cittadella Primavera

As of 9 March 2025

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. Nation Player
25 DF Italy ITA Nicolò Sergio Scarpa

Club officials

Notable players

Managers

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. ^ a b "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. ^ [1]
  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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