football club
Associazione Sportiva Cittadella, normally known as Cittadella, is an italian professional football clubhouse based in the city of Cittadella, Veneto, presently playing in Serie B.
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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 [edit ]
Cittadella was founded in 1973, after the amalgamation of U.S. Cittadellense and A.S. Olympia. The club exhausted most of its inaugural years in amateurish football, and then master football at Serie C2 and Serie C1 ranks. Cittadella won its inaugural 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 part, being then relegated in 2001–02 Serie B. During their beginning 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 state of Cittadella. Cittadella returned to Serie B in 2008, after defeating Cremonese in the 2007–08 Serie C1/A playoffs, under the usher of head coach Claudio Foscarini. In the 2008–09 Serie B season, the cabaret was involved to projects focused to boost the capacity of the Stadio Tombolato to 7,500, in rate to let the clubhouse play in their home township ( with dispensation from the FIGC, since a stadium of at least 10,000 seats is required for Serie B ). thus, Cittadella played the first gear 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 cabaret escaped relegation in the final examination days of the season, frankincense ensuring another year of Serie B football to the local fans. The surveil temper, 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 set, despite a late 1–0 win in the second leg. The club produced two strikers who belated left for Serie A team, namely, Riccardo Meggiorini ( 50 % rights sold for €2.5M ), Matteo Ardemagni ( sold for €3.75M ). furthermore, 2010–11 Serie B topscorer Federico Piovaccari besides left for Sampdoria in 2011 for €3.5M, although Samp was relegated curtly afterwards from Serie A in 2010–11. Cittadella was relegated again to Lega Pro in 2014–15.
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The club returned to Serie B for the 2016–17 season following their forwarding from the Lega Pro and has since regularly competed for the promotion play-off positions, including finish up a high as fifth invest in 2019–20. They reached the promotion play-off final examination to Serie A in 2018–19 against Hellas Verona and, after winning the first match by 2–0 at home, conceded the rejoinder to Verona in the 2nd leg, losing 3–0 away after going down to 10 men when the seduce was even 1–0. [ 4 ] Similarly, Cittadella besides lost in the play-off final against Venezia at the end of the 2020–21 season to again narrowly miss out on the baseball club ‘s beginning forwarding to Serie A. [ 5 ]
Players [edit ]
current police squad [edit ]
- As of 31 August 2021[6]
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Out on loanword [edit ]
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Coaching staff [edit ]
Position
Name
Head Coach
Roberto Venturato
Assistant Coach
Assistant Coach
Goalkeeper Coach
Fitness Coach
Chief Doctor
Club Doctor
luminary players [edit ]
Managers [edit ]
Honours [edit ]
References [edit ]
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