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Cesena
Full nameCesena Football Club
NicknamesI Cavallucci Marini (The Seahorses)
I Bianconeri (The White and Blacks)
Founded1973; 52 years ago (1973)
GroundOrogel Stadium - Dino Manuzzi
Capacity20,194
ChairmanJohn Aiello
Anthony Scotto[1]
ManagerMichele Mignani
LeagueSerie B
2024–25Serie B, 7th of 20
Websitecesenafc.com
Current season

Cesena Football Club is an Italian professional football club based in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna. It currently plays in the Serie B, after promotion from the Serie C in 2023–24. It has claimed to be the phoenix club of AC Cesena since 2018, the year that the club folded.

History

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Foundation

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The club was founded in 2018.

Serie D

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After going bankrupt in 2018, the Associazione Calcio Cesena restarted its activities the following year with a new club called Cesena Football Club. It restarted from Serie D, immediately winning its first championship, and thus rising to Serie C in the 2018-2019 season. He then played five championships in Serie C, from 2019-2020 to 2023-2024, the year in which he won the Serie C championship, in group B, thus returning to Serie B exactly six years after bankruptcy. In the 2024-2025 season he will therefore play his 33rd Serie B championship

R.C. Cesena

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The transitional logo until the agreement with folded AC Cesena was found in late 2018

In July 2018, after the bankruptcy of the main football team of the city, A.C. Cesena, a group of local businessmen acquired Romagna Centro and proposed to rename it to Cesena F.C., to act as a phoenix club. However, the image rights of A.C. Cesena were acquired later.[2] The club played a friendly match against Romanian club Universitatea Cluj in 2018–19 pre-season.[3] In July 2018, Romagna Centro announced that the youth sector would train with former A.C. Cesena players.[4] However, the club was later known as Cesena F.C., and was assigned to Group F of 2018–19 Serie D.[5]

Cesena FC

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The club was renamed Cesena Football Club.

In the 2019–20 season, the club competed in the Serie C's Girone B.

In 2023–24 season, Cesena secured promotion to the following season's Serie B as Serie C Girone B champion.

Colours and badge

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The current shirt colors are black and white, so that the nickname of the club is "bianconeri".

Stadiums

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The club play their home matches in Stadio Dino Manuzzi,[6][7] the larger stadium in the city.

The stadium is quite famous in Italy, and has also hosted some Euro 2019 U-21 matches, charity matches and some other events like concerts, as of Rockin'1000

Honours

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Leagues

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Cups

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Current squad

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As of 19 September 2025[8]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  ITA Alessandro Siano
4 MF  ITA Michele Castagnetti
6 MF  ITA Tommaso Arrigoni
7 FW  ESP Jalen Blesa
9 FW  ALB Cristian Shpendi
10 MF  ITA Simone Bastoni
11 MF  ITA Riccardo Ciervo (on loan from Sassuolo)
13 DF  ITA Raffaele Celia
14 MF  ITA Tommaso Berti
15 DF  ITA Andrea Ciofi (captain)
16 DF  SWE Peter Amoran (on loan from Parma)
17 MF  ITA Emanuele Adamo
18 DF  ITA Matteo Guidi
19 DF  ITA Giovanni Zaro
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 DF  ITA Vittorio Magni (on loan from AC Milan)
24 DF  ITA Massimiliano Mangraviti
25 MF  ITA Dimitri Bisoli
26 DF  ITA Matteo Piacentini
29 FW  ESP Siren Diao (on loan from Atalanta)
32 FW  ITA Marco Olivieri
33 GK  USA Jonathan Klinsmann
35 MF  ITA Davide Zamagni
39 GK  ITA Niccolò Fontana
40 GK  ITA Luca Ferretti
70 MF  ITA Matteo Francesconi
77 FW  ALB Frederik Tosku
99 DF  ITA Gianluca Frabotta

Cesena Primavera

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As of 22 August 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
34 DF  ITA Simone Abbondanza
48 GK  ITA Simone Gianfanti
No. Pos. Nation Player
75 FW  ITA Filippo Galvagno

Out on loan

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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF  ROU Antonio David (at Inter U23 until 30 June 2026)
— DF  ITA Simone Pieraccini (at Catania until 30 June 2026)
— DF  ITA Giulio Manetti (at Forlì until 30 June 2026)
— DF  ITA Enea Pitti (at Carpi until 30 June 2026)
— DF  ITA Diego Rossi (at Monopoli until 30 June 2026)
— DF  ITA Federico Valentini (at Arzignano until 30 June 2026)
— MF  ITA Giacomo Calò (at Frosinone until 30 June 2026)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  ITA Riccardo Campedelli (at Bra until 30 June 2026)
— MF  ITA Gianmarco Castorri (at Foggia until 30 June 2026)
— MF  ITA Alessandro Giovannini (at Forlì until 30 June 2026)
— FW  ITA Valentino Coveri (at Forlì until 30 June 2026)
— FW  ITA Giovanni Perini (at Novara until 30 June 2026)
— FW  ITA Roberto Ogunseye (at Perugia until 30 June 2026)

Technical staff

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As of 26 October 2024[9]
Position Staff
Head coach Italy Michele Mignani
Assistant coach Italy Simone Vergassola
Athletic coach Italy Giorgio D'Urbano
Goalkeeping coach Italy Antonello Degiorgi
Italy Giuseppe Mammoliti
Assistant athletic coach Italy Massimo Magrini
Italy Filippo Medda
Technical assistant Italy Davide Campofranco
Match analyst Italy Emanuele Insalata
Team manager Italy Matteo Visani
Club manager Italy Alberto Santarelli
Referee caretaker Italy Fiorenzo Treossi
Head of medical staff Italy Gianluigi Sella
First team doctor Italy Eva Bernardi
Italy Antonio Argentoni
Italy Giorgio Gandolfi
Physiotherapist Italy Costantino Cucciniello
Italy Francesco Canali
Italy Stefano Valentini

References

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  1. ^ "LA SOCIETÀ" (in Italian). Cesena FC. Archived from the original on 13 November 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Scelta la cordata di Pubblisole, nasce la nuova avventura del "Cesena FC"". Cesena Today (in Italian). 23 July 2018. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Studenții în Italia. "U" a făcut scor cu cei de la Romagna Centro: 8-1. Sâmbătă întâlnim Perugia!" (Press release) (in Romanian). FC Universitatea Cluj. 19 July 2018. Archived from the original on 23 July 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  4. ^ "COMUNICATO SETTORE GIOVANILE" (Press release) (in Italian). A.S.D. Romagna Centro Cesena. 25 July 2018. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Gironi 2018/2019" (Press release) (in Italian). Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. 30 August 2018. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Romagna Centro-Piacenza anticipata a sabato 21 febbraio". Sport Piacenza (in Italian). 16 February 2015. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Il Romagna Centro per rafforzare il vivaio del Cesena: accordo fatto". Cesena Today (in Italian). 4 July 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Cesena Prima Squadra". Cesena FC (in Italian). Retrieved 26 October 2024.
  9. ^ "Staff Tecnico" (in Italian). Cesena FC. Archived from the original on 8 October 2024. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
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