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{{short description|Italian football club}}
{{unreferenced|date=April 2022}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox football club
| clubname = AC Este
| image = A.C. Este logo.png
| upright = 0.8
| fullname = Associazione Calcio Este
| nickname = ''I Giallorossi'' (The Yellow and Reds)
| founded = 1920
| ground = Nuovo Stadio<br/>[[Este, Italy|Este]], [[Italy]]
| capacity = 1,200
| chairman = Renzo Lucchiari
| manager = Andrea Pagan
| league = [[Serie D]]
| season = [[2022–23 Serie D|2022–23]]
| position = 7th
| website = https://www.estecalcio.it/
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| pattern_b2 = _yellowshoulders
| pattern_ra2 = _yellowshoulders
| leftarm2 = FF000
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| rightarm2 = FF000
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'''Associazione Calcio Este''' is an [[Football in Italy|Italian association football]] club located in [[Este, Italy|Este]], [[Padua]]. It currently plays in [[Serie D]].
== History ==
'''Founding and Early History'''
The club was founded in 1920. The club has spent most of their history in the various iterations of the 4th tier of Italian football, having spent the past 19 years of its history in the current [[Serie D]].
For the first several decades of its existence, Este were fairly unknown, and spent most of their time in the 3rd and 4th tiers of [[Football in Italy|Italian football.]] During fascist control in Italy, the club were briefly known as  Unione Sportiva Estense.
'''1990s, 2000s and President Romano'''
In 1995, Dr. Donato Romano was appointed as president of Este. This was a time of rebuilding and recuperating from the past few years, which had seen the club fall as far down as the [[Prima Categoria]], the 7th tier of Italian football.
At the end of the 1999 season, thanks to head coach Antonello Di Chiara, Este had gained promotion from the Prima Categoria, and would be playing the 2000 season in the [[Promozione]].
2002 saw yet another promotion for i Giallorossi, and this time a top place finish in the league guaranteed a spot in the 2003 [[Eccellenza]]. There was yet another promotion in 2005, and the end of the Romano era was brough to a close with the club's reinstatement in Serie D.
'''Serie D'''
In 2005, Este was acquired by local businessman Renzo Lucchiari, and his brother Gianantonio Lucchiari. The start of the Lucchiari era was a bright one, with the club achieving a 10th-place finish in their first season in Serie D.
The next two seasons were ones of turmoil for Este, as in [[2006–07 Serie D|2007]] the club narrowly avoided relegation through the playout, and in [[2007–08 Serie D|2008]], the club lost the relegation playout to [[Virtus Verona]]. The club was saved from relegation due to the restructuring of the Serie D.
To avoid another season of backtracking, Este went into the summer of the 2009 season with style. The club assigned [[Simone Tognon]]. to the role of general manager, and what followed was an era of some stability. To this day the club's 2nd-place finish in the [[2009–10 Serie D]] is their best ever finish to a league season. That year the club lost to [[ASD Union Quinto]] 2–1 on aggregate in the first round of the Serie D promotion playoff. Several more promotion bids over the next half-decade were made, but were all ultimately unsuccessful.
The club enter their 19th consecutive Serie D season in 2023–24 and currently sit 5th in the Serie D Girone C, unbeaten after 3 matches.
== Colors and badge ==
Its colors are yellow and red.
== Current squad ==
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=GK|name=Thomas Agosti|other=}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=GK|name=Luca Petreto}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=GK|name=Klei Leba}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=GK|name=Alessandro Costantini}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Riccardo Pregnolato}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Giulio Gavioli}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Marco Stringari}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Albinot Shukolli}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Nenad Zivotic}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Andrea Giacomazzi}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Tommaso Calgaro}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Yuri Maset}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Giovanni Tessaro|other=}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Francesco Piccardi}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Alessandro Munaretto}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Giacomo Zanetti}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Giovanni Franzolin|other=}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Alessandro Moracchiato}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Luca Rossi}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=[[Roberto Guitto]]}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Emanuele Busetto}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Andrea Tomasi}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Samuel Marchesan}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=[[Giacomo Caccin]]}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Mattia Badon}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Nicola De Vido}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=FW|name=Viktor Ekblom|other=}}
{{Fs player|nat=ITA|pos=FW|name=Lorenzo Moscatelli}}
{{Fs player|nat=SWE|pos=FW|name=Viktor Ekblom}}
{{Fs end}}{{Serie D teamlist}}
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