Cittadella went well beyond the most optimistic expectations, being a newly promoted team their only goal was to survive relegation, while they reached the 6th position and were eliminated by Carpi in the preliminary round of the playoffs. Needless to say that looking at the roster and considering the inexperience at this level of the coach, back in August they were among the main candidates to go back to Lega Pro. The policy of the club this summer was to keep most of the players who won Lega Pro's title filling the gaps with some young players coming from lower divisions or on loan from top flight sides. This proved to be the wisest policy rather than completely revolutionize the team, as indeed have taught in the recent past Frosinone and Carpi and this season Spal and Benevento, creating a compact group of players, mainly unkown, have brought them even in Serie A. The Veneti had an astonishing start winning the first five games in a row but, when they lost four of the following five games, everybody thought their beginning was only a flash in the pan and that they would soon have been sucked into the bottom of the table. It did not go this way, after the ups and downs of the first rounds they managed to give a certain consistency to their results and keep till the end their playoff spot. Coach Venturato had much credit for this excellent result, if in the past season he usually opted for a very attacking 4-3-3 system of play, system that helped them to win the title with the best attack of entire Lega Pro, this year switched to the 4-3-1-2 however not distorting the peculiar features of his play, without any doubt one of the most entertaining of entire Serie B. Proof of this is that Cittadella had the third best attack of the championship having scored 60 goals. The other side of the coin was that the granata conceded too many goals (54, the fourth worse defense of the league). With regard to single performances worthy of note the one of their most experienced player forward Gianluca Litteri who scored 13 goals, but a very good contribution in attack was given also by Brazilian trequartista Lucas Chiaretti, young striker Luca Strizzolo, at his first experience at this level and other striker Andrea Arrighini...each of them scored 7 goals. From the point of view of the goals scored captain Manuel Iori did even better than the latter having found the net 8 times. No one played under expectations, all kept a good and consistent level giving their contribution for an excellent season. It must be highlighted the season of goalkeeper Enrico Alfonso, who at the first experience at this level, has in many circumstances saved his team.
