# 2023–24 Catania FC season

The 2023–24 season was Catania FC's 95th season in existence and second consecutive season in the Serie C. They also competed in the Coppa Italia Serie C.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 1 February 2024
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 | LVA | Klāvs Bethers |
| 2 | DF | ARG | Marcos Curado |
| 3 | DF | ALB | Kevin Haveri (on loan from Torino) |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Francesco Rapisarda |
| 6 | MF | ALB | Emanuele Ndoj |
| 7 | MF | COL | Andrés Tello |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Stefano Sturaro |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Rocco Costantino |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Samuel Di Carmine |
| 11 | DF | ITA | Antonio Mazzotta |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Devid Eugene Bouah |
| 14 | DF | CRO | Ivan Kontek |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Tommaso Silvestri |
| 16 | MF | ITA | Alessandro Quaini |
| 18 | MF | ITA | Giuseppe Rizzo (vice-captain) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | MF | ITA | Diego Peralta |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Jacopo Furlan |
| 23 | MF | GHA | Nana Welbeck |
| 26 | DF | ITA | Filippo Lorenzini |
| 27 | DF | ITA | Alessio Castellini |
| 28 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Celli |
| 30 | FW | ITA | Emanuele Cicerelli |
| 31 | FW | ITA | Marco Chiarella |
| 32 | FW | ITA | Cosimo Chiricò |
| 33 | MF | ITA | Roberto Zammarini |
| 46 | DF | ITA | Salvatore Monaco |
| 77 | FW | ITA | Davide Marsura |
| 90 | FW | ITA | Pietro Cianci |
| 95 | GK | ITA | Marco Albertoni |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| MF | Cosimo Chiricò | Crotone | €1k | 14 July 2023 |
| MF | Roberto Zammarini | Pordenone | Free | 18 July 2023 |
| FW | Marco Chiarella | Pescara | Free | 18 July 2023 |
| FW | Samuel Di Carmine | Perugia | Free | 21 July 2023 |
| MF | Michele Rocca | Novara | Free | 21 July 2023 |
| DF | Antonio Mazzotta | Bari | Free | 21 July 2023 |
| MF | Riccardo Ladinetti | Pontedera | Free | 22 July 2023 |
| FW | Miloš Bočić | Pescara | Free | 22 July 2023 |
| GK | Alessandro Livieri | Pisa | Loan | 5 August 2023 |
| DF | Mattia Maffei | Cavese | €50k | 8 August 2023 |
| MF | Davide Marsura | Ascoli | Free | 9 August 2023 |
| FW | Gabriel Popovic | Rudeš | | 10 August 2023 |
| DF | Marcos Curado | Perugia | Free | 11 August 2023 |
| MF | Alessandro Quaini | Fiorenzuola | €50k | 22 August 2023 |
| GK | Klāvs Bethers | Piacenza | Free | 1 September 2023 |
| DF | Tommaso Silvestri | Modena | | 1 September 2023 |
| MF | Francesco Deli | Pordenone | Free | 4 September 2023 |
| DF | Devid Eugene Bouah | Reggio Calabria | Free | 13 September 2023 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures
The club started their pre-season on 23 July with a retreat in Zafferana Etnea.

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Serie C | 1 September 2023 | 28 April 2024 | Matchday 1 | 13th | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 39 | 38 | +1 | 031.58 |
| Promotion play-offs | 14 May 2024 | 25 May 2024 | National phase first round | National phase second round | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | +0 | 050.00 |
| Coppa Italia Serie C | 4 October 2023 | 2 April 2024 | First round | Winners | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 11 | +6 | 062.50 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 50 | 19 | 10 | 21 | 59 | 52 | +7 | 038.00 |
Source: Soccerway

### Serie C
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 11 | Foggia | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 40 | 44 | −4 | 48 | |
| 12 | Sorrento | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 39 | 47 | −8 | 48 | |
| 13 | Catania | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 39 | 38 | +1 | 45 | Qualification for the national play-offs first round |
| 14 | Messina | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 41 | 49 | −8 | 45 | |
| 15 | Turris | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 46 | 57 | −11 | 44 | |
* 1 2 Foggia are ahead of Sorrento on overall goal difference: Foggia -4, Sorrento -8.
* 1 2 Catania are ahead of Messina on overall goal difference: Catania +1, Messina -8.
* ↑ Catania qualify for the national play-offs first round by winning the Coppa Italia Serie C.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Worldfootball

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A |
| Result | L | W | W | D | L | W | D | L | W | D | L | L | L | W | W | D | L | L | W | |
| Position | 14 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 11 | | | |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were unveiled on 7 August 2023.

#### Promotion play-offs
##### National phase first round

Catania advanced by winning the Coppa Italia Serie C.

##### National phase second round

Avellino advanced as a seeded team.