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Venezia FC

2023–24 season
Manager	Paolo Vanoli
Stadium	Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo
Serie B	3rd
Promotion play-offs	Winners
Coppa Italia	Round of 64
Top goalscorer	League: Joel Pohjanpalo (18) All: Joel Pohjanpalo (19)
Biggest win	Venezia 3–0 Como Bari 0–3 Venezia
Biggest defeat	Venezia 1–3 Palermo
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2023–24 season was Venezia FC's 117th season in existence and the club's second consecutive season in the second division of Italian football. The season covers the period from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024.

Players

First-team squad

As of 2 November 2023

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  FIN Jesse Joronen (3rd captain) 4 DF  IDN Jay Idzes 6 MF  USA Gianluca Busio 7 DF  ITA Francesco Zampano 8 MF  USA Tanner Tessmann 9 FW  DEN Christian Gytkjær 10 FW  ITA Nicholas Pierini 12 GK  BRA Bruno Bertinato 13 DF  ITA Marco Modolo (captain) 15 DF  ITA Giorgio Altare (on loan from Cagliari) 17 FW  NOR Dennis Johnsen 18 MF  BIH Mato Jajalo 19 MF  ISL Bjarki Steinn Bjarkason 20 FW  FIN Joel Pohjanpalo (vice-captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 MF  RUS Denis Cheryshev 23 GK  ITA Matteo Grandi 24 MF  ITA Nunzio Lella 25 DF  FRA Ali Dembélé (on loan from Torino) 27 DF  ITA Antonio Candela 28 FW  ISL Hilmir Rafn Mikaelsson 30 DF  AUT Michael Svoboda 31 DF  AUT Maximilian Ullmann 33 DF  CRO Marin Šverko 38 MF  DEN Magnus Kofod Andersen 60 DF  ITA Lorenzo Busato 65 MF  SWE Amin Boudri 77 MF  ISL Mikael Egill Ellertsson 99 FW  ITA Marco Olivieri (on loan from Juventus)

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 — GK  ITA Filippo Neri (at Vis Pesaro until 30 June 2024) — GK  ITA Tommaso Sperandio (at Treviso until 30 June 2024) — DF  SUR Ridgeciano Haps (at Genoa until 30 June 2024) — DF  ISL Jakob Pálsson (at KR until 31 December 2023) — DF  POR Afonso Peixoto (at Vis Pesaro until 30 June 2024) — DF  ARG Facundo Zabala (at Olimpia until 31 December 2023) — MF  SVN Domen Črnigoj (at Reggiana until 30 June 2024) — MF  FRA Michaël Cuisance (at VfL Osnabrück until 30 June 2024) — MF  ITA Filippo Mozzo (at Mestre until 30 June 2024) — MF  USA Jack de Vries (at Vis Pesaro until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Luca Fiordilino (at Feralpisalò until 30 June 2024) — MF  ITA Filippo Mozzo (at Mestre until 30 June 2024) — MF  CAN Damiano Pecile (at KTP until 31 December 2023) — FW  ITA Lorenzo Da Pozzo (at Vis Pesaro until 30 June 2024) — FW  SEN Babacar Diop (at Vis Pesaro until 30 June 2024) — FW  NED Jay Enem (at Ethnikos Achna until 30 June 2024) — FW  ISL Óttar Magnús Karlsson (at Vis Pesaro until 30 June 2024) — FW  USA Andrija Novakovich (at Lecco until 30 June 2024) — FW  SUR Daishawn Redan (at Triestina until 30 June 2024)

Transfers

In

Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Jay Idzes	Go Ahead Eagles	Free	1 July 2023
FW	Christian Gytkjær	Unattached	Free	20 July 2023
FW	Marco Olivieri	Juventus Next Gen	Loan	18 August 2023
DF	Giorgio Altare	Cagliari	Loan	24 August 2023

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss

28 July 2023 Friendly	PEC Zwolle	1–1	Venezia	Zwolle, Netherlands
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Druijf 23'	Report	Okoro 109'	Stadium: MAC³PARK Stadion Referee: Edwin van de Graaf
Note: Match was played in four periods of 30 minutes.

1 August 2023 Friendly	De Treffers	2–4	Venezia	Groesbeek, Netherlands
19:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Thomassen 20' Maertzdorf 64'	Report	Pohjanpalo 14', 55' Ellertson 38' Zampano 46'	Stadium: Sportpark Zuid

4 August 2023 Friendly	NEC Nijmegen	3–1	Venezia	Nijmegen, Netherlands
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Ogawa 25' Mattsson 51', 64'	Report	Tessmann 55'	Stadium: Goffertstadion

18 November 2023 Friendly	Venezia	4–0	Koper	Caorle
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Olivieri 1' Gytkjær 21' (pen.) Cheryshev 72' Lella 86'			Stadium: Stadio Comunale Giovanni Chiggiato

7 January 2024 Friendly	Bayer Leverkusen	4–1	Venezia	Leverkusen, Germany
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Hložek 16', 20' Schick 33' Hofmann 54'	Report	Ellertsson  28' Olivieri 78'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 12,796 Referee: Nico Fuchs (Germany)

Competitions

Overview

Source: Soccerway

Serie B

League table

Results summary

Source:

Results by round

Matches

The league fixtures were unveiled on 11 July 2023.

20 August 2023 1	Venezia	3–0	Como	Venice
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Pierini 19' 32' Pohjanpalo 54'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Attendance: 4,894 Referee: Ivano Pezzuto

26 August 2023 2	Venezia	1–1	Cosenza	Venice
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Pierini 49' Lella  84'	Report	Voca 38' Tutino  53'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Attendance: 4,962 Referee: Kevin Bonacina

30 August 2023 3	Sampdoria	1–2	Venezia	Genoa
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Verre  25' Estanis Pedrola 46' La Gumina  73' Vieira  85' Panada  90+4' Stojanović  90+5'	Report	Gytkjær 76' Tessmann 89'	Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris Attendance: 21,438 Referee: Daniele Minelli

3 September 2023 4	Cittadella	0–0	Venezia	Cittadella
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Pittarello  46' Branca  71' Frare  74'	Report	Candela  60' Šverko  89'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato Attendance: 5,283 Referee: Marco Monaldi

15 September 2023 5	Venezia	1–0	Spezia	Venice
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Zampano  20' Pohjanpalo 56'  73'	Report	Cassata  62' Nikolaou  73' Bertola  85'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Attendance: 5,334 Referee: Francesco Forneau

23 September 2023 6	Brescia	0–0	Venezia	Brescia
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Farès  31' Paghera  39' Bisoli  75'	Report	Tessmann  64' Zampano  68'	Stadium: Stadio Mario Rigamonti Referee: Luca Zufferli

26 September 2023 7	Venezia	1–3	Palermo	Venice
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Busio  12' Pohjanpalo 45+5'	Report	Brunori 9' (pen.) 62' 90+2' Lucioni  32' Gomes  45+7'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Attendance: 6,748 Referee: Niccoló Baroni

30 September 2023 8	Modena	1–3	Venezia	Modena
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Gerli  30' Bonfanti 48' Oukhadda  57'	Report	Altare 55'  85' Zampano  57' Gytkjær 76' Bjarkason 83'	Stadium: Stadio Alberto Braglia Attendance: 9,151 Referee: Paride Tremolada

7 October 2023 9	Venezia	3–2	Parma	Venice
16:15 CEST (UTC+2)	Busio 46' Tessmann 63' Ellertsson 78'	Report	Hernani  35' Di Chiara  36' Benedyczak 54' (pen.) Čolak 90+3'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Attendance: 9,360 Referee: Daniele Minelli

22 October 2023 10	Reggiana	1–0	Venezia	Reggio Emilia
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Portanova  24' Cigarini  41' Gondo 47' Črnigoj  64'	Report	Zampano  51'  62' Ellertsson  66' Altare  76' Tessmann  88'	Stadium: Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore Attendance: 8,791 Referee: Daniele Rutella

29 October 2023 11	Venezia	2–1	Pisa	Venice
16:15 CEST (UTC+2)	Bruno  3' Pierini 31' Johnsen 74' Ali Dembélé  80'	Report	Valoti 6' (pen.) Leverbe  8' Barbieri  17' Hermannsson  50' Moreo  90+3'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Attendance: 6,990 Referee: Davide Ghersini

4 November 2023 12	Ternana	0–1	Venezia	Terni
14:00 CET (UTC+1)		Report	Busio  43' 74' Johnsen  90+3'	Stadium: Stadio Libero Liberati Attendance: 3,838 Referee: Maurizio Mariani

10 November 2023 13	Venezia	2–1	Catanzaro	Venice
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Pohjanpalo 25' (pen.) Johnsen 45+1' Altare  58' Bjarkason  89' Gytkjær  90+1'	Report	Šitum  5' Ghion 40'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Attendance: 7,765 Referee: Alberto Santoro

25 November 2023 14	Bari	0–3	Venezia	Bari
14:00 CET (UTC+1)	Ahmad Benali  53' Nasti  67' Maita  80'	Report	Pierini 30' Tessmann 90' Ali Dembélé 90+7'	Stadium: Stadio San Nicola Attendance: 16,458 Referee: Giuseppe Collu

2 December 2023 15	Venezia	3–1	Ascoli	Venice
14:00 CET (UTC+1)	Gytkjær 26' 89' Altare 30'  59'	Report	Di Tacchio  41' Masini 47' Falasco  57' Millico  90+2'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Attendance: 5,660 Referee: Giovanni Ayroldi

9 December 2023 16	Cremonese	1–0	Venezia	Cremona
14:00 CET (UTC+1)	Majer  34' Antov  51' Ravanelli 80' Castagnetti  85' Pickel  90' Bianchetti  90+4'	Report	Altare  36' Ali Dembélé  90'	Stadium: Stadio Giovanni Zini Attendance: 8,286 Referee: Antonio Giua

16 December 2023 17	Venezia	2–3	Südtirol	Venice
14:00 CET (UTC+1)	Gytkjær 13' 45+5' (pen.) Johnsen  85' Olivieri  90+1'  90+1'	Report	Rauti 9' Silvio Merkaj 52'  55' Casiraghi 76' (pen.) Andrea Giorgini  85' Davì  89'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Attendance: 4,988 Referee: Paride Tremolada

23 December 2023 18	Venezia	2–2	Lecco	Venice
14:00 CET (UTC+1)	Johnsen  42' 57' Tessmann 60'  90+4'	Report	Lepore 21' (pen.) Mats Lemmens  63'  90+6' Ioniță 71' Eusepi  87'	Stadium: Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo Attendance: 5,976 Referee: Francesco Cosso

26 December 2023 19	Feralpisalò	2–2	Venezia	Piacenza
15:00 CET (UTC+1)	Compagnon 38' 54' Kourfalidis  47' Zennaro  65'	Report	Candela  37' Pohjanpalo 45+2' (pen.) Altare 75' Cheryshev  87'	Stadium: Stadio Leonardo Garilli Attendance: 1,351 Referee: Alberto Santoro

Promotion play-offs

Coppa Italia

14 August 2023 Round of 64	Spezia	2–2 (4–3 p)	Venezia	Cesena
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Antonucci 19' Moro 60' (pen.) Nikolaou  98'	Report	Idzes  26' Pohjanpalo 54' Šverko  62' Gytkjær 81' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Dino Manuzzi Attendance: 626 Referee: Niccolò Baroni

References

5. "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. - Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
6. "È nata la Serie B 23/24: ecco il calendario giornata per giornata". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 12 July 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.

External links

• Official website

• Venezia FC seasons
• Italian football clubs 2023–24 season