Associazione Sportiva Cittadella, commonly referred to as Cittadella, is an Italian professional

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club based in the city of

Cittadella Cittadella () is a medieval walled city in the province of Padua, northern Italy, founded in the 13th century as a military outpost of Padua. The surrounding wall has been restored and is in circumference with a diameter of around . There are fo ...

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, currently playing in , but will play in

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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.

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

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and

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ranks. Cittadella won its first promotion to

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in 1999 after defeating

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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 The 2001–02 Serie B is the 70th season since its establishment in 1929. It is the second highest football league in Italy. Teams Modena, Palermo, Como and Messina had been promoted from Serie C, while Reggina, Vicenza, Napoli and Bari had be ...

. During their first stay in Serie B, the club played in

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Padua Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 20 ...

and, in an attempt to expand the fanbase, was renamed ''A.S. Cittadella Padova'',

(''Padova'' in

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) being the home province of Cittadella. Cittadella returned to Serie B in 2008, after defeating

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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

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, since a stadium of at least 10,000 seats is required for Serie B). Thus, Cittadella played the first season games in

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, about 40 km away. After some delays, the first

game played in

was played on 29 October 2008,

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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

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teams, namely, Riccardo Meggiorini (50% rights sold for €2.5M), Matteo Ardemagni (sold for €3.75M). Moreover,

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topscorer

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also left for

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in 2011 for €3.5M, although Samp was relegated shortly afterwards from Serie A in

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. Cittadella was relegated again to

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in 2014–15. The club returned to Serie B for the 2016–17 season following their promotion from the

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

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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. Similarly, Cittadella also lost in the play-off final against

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at the end of the 2020–21 season to again narrowly miss out on the club's first promotion to

Honours

League

**Winners (1): 2015–16 (group A) * Campionato Interregionale **Winners (1): 1988-89 (group D) *

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**Winners (1): 1992-93 (group B) *

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**Winners (1): 1977-78 (group D)

Cups

Coppa Italia Dilettanti The Coppa Italia Dilettanti (Italian for: Italian Amateurs Cup) is an annual knock-out competition for teams from the fifth and sixth levels of Italian football: the Eccellenza and the Promozione. All ties except for the final, which is held at t ...

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

Players

Current squad

Cittadella Primavera

Out on loan

Club officials

Board of directors

* Last updated: 5 May 2023 * Source:

Current technical staff

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Notable players

Managers

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

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(2021–2024) * Alessandro Dal Canto (2024-)

References

External links

Official website
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