30-722: Zanatta is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dario Zanatta (born 1997), Canadian soccer player Gustavo Zanatta (born 1951), Mexican politician Ivano Zanatta (born 1960), Canadian ice hockey coach Luca Zanatta (born 1991), Italian ice hockey player Marino Zanatta (born 1947), Italian basketball player Michela Zanatta (born 1978), Italian runner Néstor Zanatta (born 1973), Argentine footballer Sergio Zanatta (born 1946), Canadian soccer player Stefano Zanatta (born 1964), Italian cyclist See also [ edit ] Zanata (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
60-456: A Scottish League Cup tie against Albion Rovers on 6 October 2020. In March 2021, Zanatta would sign a pre-contract with Championship club Raith Rovers for the 2021–22 season. He would make his debut for the club in July 2021 in a League Cup tie against Cowdenbeath . In August 2022, Zanatta moved to fellow Championship side Hamilton Academical for an undisclosed transfer fee and signed
90-402: A 70th-minute substitute in a Scottish Premiership match against Partick Thistle at Firhill Stadium , replacing Sam Nicholson in a 4–0 win. In January 2016, Zanatta was originally expected to be loaned to a lower division club, but he impressed Hearts coach Robbie Neilson enough to stay with the first team. In September 2016, Hearts announced they had loaned Zanatta to Queen's Park of
120-431: A contract and set his ambitions on Europe and went on trial with several European clubs, including Ipswich Town , IFK Göteborg and Heart of Midlothian . Zanatta signed his first professional contract on 6 August 2015, signing with Scottish Premiership side Heart of Midlothian , on a two-year contract, initially joining up with the club's under-20 side. Zanatta made his first team debut on 31 October, coming on as
150-481: A large variation between the wages offered by teams in the Scottish Premiership, with champions Celtic paying an average annual salary of £735,040, per player, whilst traditional rivals Rangers could only pay £329,600 and league runners-up Aberdeen offered £136,382. The lowest salary offered by any of the twelve member clubs was Hamilton's £41,488—one seventeenth that of Celtic, whose wages were close to
180-452: A one-year contract extension with Hearts, with his loan being extended to the end of the 2018–19 season. Zanatta left Hearts in August 2019 and signed a two-year contract with Partick Thistle . Zanatta made his Jags debut on the 31st of August against Ayr United , winning a penalty for the opener before assisting Shea Gordon after dribbling past 5 opposition players. He was named man of
210-569: A penalty. On 31 January 2017, Zanatta joined Queen's Park on another loan, this time, until the end of season. On 31 August 2017, it was revealed that Zanatta had joined Raith Rovers on a loan deal until the end of the season. After impressing in his loan spell, Zanatta was recalled by Hearts in January 2018, and his departure was considered a significant blow to Rovers' promotion battle with Ayr United . In his first appearance with Hearts after his recall, Zanatta would score his first goal for
240-549: A two-year contract. On February 20, 2024, Pacific FC announced the signing of the Victoria native on a free transfer, ahead of the 2024 Canadian Premier League season. In August 2016, Zanatta was called up to the Canada U-20 team for a pair of friendlies against Costa Rica and scored a goal in the first match. In February 2017, Zanatta was named to Canada's roster for the 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship Zanatta
270-519: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Dario Zanatta Dario Zanatta (born 24 May 1997) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Canadian Premier League club Pacific FC . Zanatta has spent most of his senior career in Scotland and has previously played for Heart of Midlothian , Queen's Park , Alloa Athletic , Partick Thistle , Ayr United , and Hamilton Academical . He has also represented
300-775: The William Hill Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is the top division of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL), the league competition for men's professional football clubs in Scotland. The Scottish Premiership was established in July 2013, after the SPFL was formed by a merger of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League . There are 12 teams in this division, with each team playing 38 matches per season. Sixteen clubs have played in
330-530: The 2000–01 season , the longest period without change in the history of the Scottish football league system . During this period the Scottish Premier League, and now the Scottish Premiership, has operated a "split" format, that is, split in two phases as is explained below. This is used to prevent the need for a 44-game schedule, based on playing each other four times. That format was used in
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#1732800898676360-655: The Canada national team at youth level. Zanatta grew up playing for Gorge Soccer Association and Lower Island Metro during his childhood years. As a teenager, he played as a forward and midfielder for the Victoria Capitals youth program before joining Vancouver Whitecaps Residency in 2011, aged 14. Zanatta was offered a spot in the academy and slowly worked his way up the academy ranks. He left Vancouver in February 2015, having been unable to agree to terms on
390-539: The Scottish Championship , provided that the winner satisfies Premiership entry criteria. With the creation of the SPFL, promotion and relegation play-offs involving the top flight were introduced for the first time in seventeen years. The Premiership club in eleventh place plays the Championship play-off winners over two legs, with the winner earning the right to play in the Scottish Premiership
420-752: The Scottish Football Association , determined by Scotland's position in the UEFA country coefficient rankings. The Scottish Football Association in turn allocates a number of these European places to final Scottish Premiership positions. At the end of the 2020–21 season, Scotland was ranked 11th in Europe—granting them two teams in the UEFA Champions League , one team in the UEFA Europa League , and two teams in
450-556: The Scottish League One on a one-month emergency loan. He made his debut for Queen's Park on 24 September 2016 against Albion Rovers , impressing after only being with the squad for one training session. In November 2016, Zanatta scored his first goal as a professional in a match against Stranraer . Zanatta returned from loan in December 2016, and made his Hearts season debut against Kilmarnock , drawing and missing
480-487: The Scottish Premier Division in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, but it is now too high a number of games in a league season. A season, which runs from August until May, is divided into two phases. During the first phase, each club plays three games against every other team, either once at home and twice away or vice versa. After this first phase of matches, by which time all clubs have played 33 games,
510-779: The UEFA Europa Conference League . At the end of the 2022–23 season , the Scottish Premiership winners (Celtic FC) gained qualification to the UEFA Champions League group stage, whilst the second placed team (Rangers FC) entered at the third qualifying round. The third placed team (Aberdeen FC) entered the Europa League in the playoff round, while the fourth place (Heart Of Midlothian FC) got UEFA Europa Conference League 3rd Qualifying Round and fifth place (Hibernian FC) got UEFA Europa Conference League 2nd Qualifying Round. Scotland's place in
540-411: The surname Zanatta . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zanatta&oldid=1211156471 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
570-593: The Europa League is awarded to the winners of the Scottish Cup . Should the winners of that competition have already qualified for European competition, then the fifth placed team also enters the Europa Conference League second qualifying round, while third placed team (unless they are cup winners themselves) are promoted from Europa Conference League to the Europa League third qualifying round. The 2017 'Global Sports Salaries Survey' report found
600-418: The Scottish Premiership during the 2024–25 season. UEFA 5-year Club Ranking after 2023/24 season: awarded As of 2024, Scotland's top-flight league championship has been won 55 times by Rangers , 54 times by Celtic . Nine other clubs have won the remaining 19 championships, with three clubs tied for third place with 4 apiece. The last time the championship was won by a club other than Rangers or Celtic
630-430: The Scottish Premiership since its creation in the 2013–14 season . Celtic are the current league champions, having won the 2023–24 Scottish Premiership . Teams receive three points for a win and one point for a draw. No points are awarded for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points, then goal difference , and then goals scored. At the end of each season, the club with the most points is crowned league champion . If
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#1732800898676660-414: The club in a 3–0 win over Hamilton Academical . At the end of January 2018, Zanatta was loaned again to Raith Rovers for the rest of the 2017–18 season. In August 2018, Zanatta moved on loan to Scottish Championship club Alloa Athletic until January 2019. He would be named Championship player of the month for December 2018. After a strong first half of the season with Alloa, Zanatta was rewarded with
690-461: The following season. This enables two clubs to be relegated from the Premiership each season, with two being promoted. Prior to the creation of the Scottish Premiership, only a single club could be relegated each season - with only the second tier champions being promoted. The Scottish Football League had used play-offs amongst its three divisions since 2007. UEFA grants European places to
720-437: The league splits into two halves – a "top six" section and a "bottom six" section. Each club plays a further five matches, one against each of the other five teams in their own section. Points achieved during the first phase of 33 matches are carried forward to the second phase, but the teams compete only within their own sections during the second phase. After the first phase is completed, clubs cannot move out of their own half in
750-407: The league, even if they achieve more or fewer points than a higher or lower ranked team, respectively. At the beginning of each season, the SPFL 'predicts' the likely positions of each club in order to produce a fixture schedule that ensures the best possible chance of all clubs playing each other twice at home and twice away. This is known as the league 'seeding' and is based on clubs' performance in
780-530: The match on his debut appearance. Zanatta scored his first goal for the Jags in a 3–1 away league win against Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Following Thistle's early relegation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Zanatta invoked a release clause in his contract and he left the club on June 7, 2020. On July 21, 2020, Zanatta signed for Championship club Ayr United on a one-year deal. He scored on his debut for Ayr in
810-443: The points, goal difference, goals scored, and head-to-head results between teams are equal, a play-off game held at a neutral venue shall be played to determine the final placings. The play-off will only occur when the position of the teams affects the outcome of the title, European qualification, relegation, or second stage group allocation and shall not occur otherwise. The top flight of Scottish football has contained 12 clubs since
840-407: The previous season. If the clubs do not finish in the half where they are predicted to finish, then anomalies can be created in the fixture list. Clubs sometimes play another three times at home and once away (or vice versa), or a club can end up playing 20 home (or away) games in a season. The bottom placed Premiership club at the end of the season is relegated and swaps places with the winner of
870-581: The sum of the other eleven clubs combined. The report stated that this disparity was the third-greatest from the 18 leagues surveyed, and that the Scottish Premiership offered the third-lowest salaries of those leagues; by contrast, Celtic's opponents in the Champions League that year paid average wages of £6.5m ( Paris Saint-Germain ) and £5.2m ( Bayern Munich ), seven times higher than the Scottish club. The 12 clubs listed below will compete in
900-699: Was named to the Canadian U-23 provisional roster for the 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship on February 26, 2020. Zanatta grew up in Victoria, British Columbia and attended Prospect Lake Elementary School, Royal Oak Middle School, then Holy Cross Regional High School in Surrey, British Columbia and graduated from Burnaby Central Secondary School. Raith Rovers Hamilton Academical Scottish Premiership The Scottish Premiership ( Scots Gaelic : Prìomh Lìog na h-Alba) known as
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