Mattia Giovanella (born 27 October 1997) is an Italian curler from Cembra, Italy. He currently plays second on Team Alberto Zisa.
Career Giovanella and his team of Luca Rizzolli, Alessandro Odorizzi, Giovanni Gottardi and Luca Casagrande represented Italy at the 2019 World Junior-B Curling Championships. There, the team made it to the gold medal game, where they lost to New Zealand's Matthew Neilson. Their second-place finish qualified them for the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. At the championship, they finished in last place with a 1–8 round robin record, only beating Sweden's Daniel Berggren.
Giovanella competed as lead for the Italian National Men's Curling Team skipped by Joël Retornaz at the 2021 World Men's Curling Championship as regular lead Simone Gonin failed to pass the COVID-19 regulations to travel outside the country. At the Worlds, Team Italy finished in seventh place with a 7–6 record, just missing the playoffs.
Giovanella would move up from alternate to their full-time lead on Team Retornaz starting during the 2022–23 curling season. With Team Retornaz preparing for the 2026 Winter Olympics, in which it would be hosted by their home country of Italy at Cortina d'Ampezzo, they would start to find more success. Notably, they would win 4 Grand Slam of Curling events (the most ever for an Italian team) at the 2022 Masters, 2023 Tour Challenge, 2023 National, and 2023 Masters. They would also win Italy's first medals at the World Men's Curling Championship, with two bronze medals in 2022 and in 2024.
Personal life Before becoming a full time curler, Giovanella worked as a stone porphyry maker.
Teams Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate 2018–19 Luca Rizzoli Mattia Giovanella Andrea Pilzer Nicola Gottardi Luca Rizzolli Mattia Giovanella Alessandro Odorizzi Giovanni Gottardi Luca Casagrande 2019–20 Luca Rizzoli Mattia Giovanella Andrea Pilzer Nicola Gottardi 2020–21 Alberta Pimpini (Fourth) Mattia Giovanella Luca Rizzoli (Skip) Daniele Ferrazza Joël Retornaz Amos Mosaner Sebastiano Arman Simone Gonin Mattia Giovanella 2021–22 Mattia Giovanella (Fourth) Alberta Pimpini Daniele Ferrazza Luca Rizzoli (Skip) Joël Retornaz Amos Mosaner Sebastiano Arman Simone Gonin Mattia Giovanella 2022–23 Joël Retornaz Amos Mosaner Sebastiano Arman Mattia Giovanella 2023–24 Joël Retornaz Amos Mosaner Sebastiano Arman Mattia Giovanella 2024–25 Joël Retornaz Amos Mosaner Sebastiano Arman Mattia Giovanella 2025–26 Joël Retornaz Amos Mosaner Sebastiano Arman Mattia Giovanella 2026–27 Giacomo Colli (Fourth) Francesco De Zanna Mattia Giovanella Alberto Zisa (Skip) Francesco Vigliani
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Mattia Giovanella at CONI Mattia Giovanella at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Mattia Giovanella at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived)