Andrea Bertolacci (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa bertoˈlattʃi]; born 11 January 1991) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Bertolacci began his career at Roma, and was signed by AC Milan in 2015. Following loans to Genoa and Sampdoria, in 2020 he moved to Turkish side Fatih Karagümrük. Having represented Italy at youth level, he made his debut for the senior national team in November 2014, in a friendly match against Albania.
Bertolacci started his career with the Roma academy.
In January 2010 he was sent on loan to Serie A team, Lecce. He scored the first goal for Lecce against Juventus a game in which he scored a brace. In summer 2010, Lecce extended the loan and borrowed Simone Sini also from Roma.
On 22 June 2011, Lecce excised the option to purchase 50% of his registration rights for a pre-agreed fee of €500,000. However, Roma excised the rights against the option for €500,000. Thus, Lecce received €500,000 in net as an incentive for the loan. Then Bertolacci was loaned for another season to Lecce, in order to play as a regular and gain more experience.
Bertolacci scored against his parent club in a 2–1 defeat on 20 November 2011. On 30 June 2012, he returned to Roma.
In summer 2012 he was involved in the deal to sign Genoa's Panagiotis Tachtsidis. 50% of Bertolacci's player rights were tagged for €1 million and also 50% of Tachtsidis's rights for €2.5 million.
On 20 June 2014, Roma and Genoa renewed their co-ownership contract agreement with Bertolacci.
The 2014–15 season with Genoa was Bertolacci's best season of his career. He scored 6 goals in 34 matches of Serie A, producing 8 assists and helping his team reaching 6th place in the league.
In June 2015, Roma bought the other part of Bertolacci's player rights from Genoa for a sum of €8.5m. Subsequently, on 29 June 2015, Bertolacci joined fellow Serie A club AC Milan for €20m.
He scored his first Serie A goal for Milan in a 3–1 away win over Lazio on 1 November 2015.
On 8 October 2019, Bertolacci signed for Sampdoria until 30 June 2020.
On 23 December 2020, Bertolacci signed for Süper Lig club Fatih Karagümrük.
On 14 January 2022, Bertolacci joined Kayserispor on a two-and-a-half-year. On 3 December 2022, he terminated his contract with the club citing unpaid wages.
On 27 December 2022, Bertolacci re-joined Fatih Karagümrük on a one-and-a-half-year deal.
On 21 July 2023, Bertolacci signed a two-year contract with Cremonese.
Second return to Fatih Karagümrük
On 29 December 2023, Cremonese announced that Bertolacci was loaned back to Fatih Karagümrük.