Riccardo Gianni Allegretti (born 15 February 1978) is a former Italian footballer and the current head coach of club ChievoVerona.

Playing career

He made his Serie A debut on 14 September 2002 against Empoli F.C. He also played over 200 games at Serie B. Allegretti was the captain of

Triestina Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918, commonly referred to US Triestina or just Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, in the northern Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Originally established in 1918, Triestina was one of the fo ...

. In July 2009, he was signed by A.S. Bari along with teammate Filippo Antonelli. In 2010, he left for Serie B club

U.S. Grosseto F.C. Unione Sportiva Grosseto 1912 is an Football in Italy, Italian association football club, based in the city of Grosseto, Tuscany. The club was founded in 1912 as ''Unione Ginnico Sportiva Grossetana''. The team's most associated nickname is ''g ...

On 31 August 2011, Grosseto announced that he was transferred to

U.S. Triestina Calcio Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918, commonly referred to US Triestina or just Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, in the northern Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Originally established in 1918, Triestina was one of the ...

. The club was newly relegated to

2011–12 Lega Pro Prima Divisione The 2011–12 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season will be the thirty-fourth football league season of Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione since its establishment in 1978, and the fourth since the renaming from Serie C to Lega Pro. It will be divided in ...

. Triestina bankrupted and folded at the end of season, thus Allegretti became a free agent On 30 November 2012, Allegretti was signed by another third division club

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. He made his debut in the following match day (2 December). He extended his contract on 12 July 2013.

Coaching career

Following retirement, he took on a coaching career, starting with newly-founded amateur club Città di Cologno, starting in the

Terza Categoria The Terza Categoria is the lowest level of amateur football in Italy. It is the ninth level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Terza Categoria level progresses to their closest regional league in the ...

league (at the very bottom of the Italian football pyramid), and leading them to promotion to

Seconda Categoria The Seconda Categoria is the 8th level (since 2014–15) in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Seconda Categoria level progresses to their closest regional league in the Prima Categoria level. Depending on ...

in his first season. He successively took on at amateur

Promozione The Promozione (, "promotion") is the sixth level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Promozione level progresses to their closest regional league in the Eccellenza level. Depending on each league's ...

club FC Primorje, winning promotion to

Eccellenza The Eccellenza (, "excellence") is the fifth level (since 2014–15) of Italian football.Official ...

in his second season. In the summer of 2019, after obtaining the UEFA A coaching badges, he returned to

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as a youth coach, first in charge of the Under-17 and then of the Under-19 Primavera squad. On 6 September 2021, he was unveiled as the new head coach of FC Chievo 2021 (then renamed FC Clivense for legal reasons), a new club founded by Sergio Pellissier and admitted to Terza Categoria following the exclusion of his and Allegretti's former team

A.C. ChievoVerona Associazione Calcio ChievoVerona, commonly referred to as ChievoVerona or simply Chievo (, ), is an Italian football club named after and representing Chievo, a suburb of 4,500 inhabitants in Verona, Veneto. It is owned since 2024 by the tea ...

from

Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had b ...

. In the following season, after Clivense's acquisition of

Eccellenza The Eccellenza (, "excellence") is the fifth level (since 2014–15) of Italian football.Official ...

club San Martino Speme, which led to the former occupying a slot in the fifth tier of Italian football, Allegretti was confirmed head coach, with Pablo Granoche as his assistant. In his second season in charge of Clivense, he led the Verona-based club to win the league title, thus ensuring promotion to

Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...

. He departed from Clivense by the end of the season, only to return in charge of the team, now called ChievoVerona, on 9 October 2024.

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