Riccardo Gianni Allegretti (born 15 February 1978) is a former Italian footballer and the current head coach of Serie D Group B club ChievoVerona.
[5] Following retirement, he took on a coaching career, starting with newly-founded amateur club Città di Cologno, starting in the Terza Categoria league (at the very bottom of the Italian football pyramid), and leading them to promotion to Seconda Categoria in his first season.
[6] He successively took on at amateur Promozione club FC Primorje, winning promotion to Eccellenza in his second season.
[8] In the following season, after Clivense's acquisition of Eccellenza club San Martino Speme, which led to the former occupying a slot in the fifth tier of Italian football, Allegretti was confirmed head coach, with Pablo Granoche as his assistant.
[9] In his second season in charge of Clivense, he led the Verona-based club to win the league title, thus ensuring promotion to Serie D.[10] He departed from Clivense by the end of the season, only to return in charge of the team, now called ChievoVerona, on 9 October 2024.