Marco Calogero Aratore (born 4 June 1991) is a Swiss football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder.

It was an away game in Estadi Comunal d'Aixovall, in Andorra la Vella and Aratore played the full 90 minutes as Basel won 4–1 against Santa Coloma.

[4] However, he was unable to obtain a place in the first team in the domestic league, to gain match experience Aratore played in the U-21.

[5] After the winter break, the same situation, therefore, Aratore was loaned to FC Thun for three months for the rest of the 2009–10 Challenge League season.

[9] Aratore did not score a league goal, but netted once in the first round of the 2011–12 Swiss Cup as Aarau won the away game 8–0 against amateur club Amicitia Riehen.

[16] In Summer 2014 Aratore transferred to St. Gallen under head coach Jeff Saibene, with a contract over four-years.

The team ended the 2014–15 Super League season in sixth position with 46 points well clear of the relegation zone.

[18] Aratore's status with FC St.Gallen improved with the start of the 2015–16 Super League season under new coach Josef Zinnbauer.

He scored a brace in the third last game of the season, as FCSG won 3–0 against Zürich and this ensured that St. Gallen remained in the league.

Despite losing nine of the last ten matches, they ended in fifth position and thus achieved qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round.

[23] It was announced on 13 August 2018, that Aratore had signed a three-year contract with the Russian club Ural Yekaterinburg and that it was first engagement abroad.

[24] The club confirmed the news the same day, Aratore has signed a long-term contract with FC Ural Yekaterinburg.

On 10 July 2019, Aratore returned to Switzerland and joined FC Lugano on loan for the 2019–20 Super League season.

[28] Aratore played the first two 2019–20 Russian Premier League matches for Ural Yekaterinburg, but then suffered a muscle strain and was out injured for a month.

[29] On 28 September 2020, Aratore again returned to Switzerland and re-joined FC Aarau and signed a three-year contract, under new head coach Stephan Keller.

On 6 November, Aratore was honoured for his 100th appearance in the FCA jersey in advance of the home game against Yverdon-Sport which ended with a 1–0 victory.

On 4 July 2022, Aratore returned to Basel and was assigned to the club's Under-21 squad that played in the third-tier Swiss Promotion League.

After half a season as a routine reinforcement for the U-21, Aratore decided to retire from his active playing career, this mainly due to his increasingly frequent physical complaints.

He made his international U-20 debut as substitute on 6 September 2010 in the 2–3 home defeat in the Stadion Breite, Schaffhausen, against German U-20 team.

[34] Ahead of the 2023-24 season, Aratore was moved to a new position as assistant coach for the club's U-21 squad under manager Dennis Hediger.