Cesena FC
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.
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Cesena FC
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
Foundation
In July 2018 A.S.D. Romagna Centro, or known as Romagna Centro, applied to rename as "Cesena F.C.", as a phoenix club of A.C. Cesena.
Serie D
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 2018–19 season.
They then played five championships in Serie C, from 2019–20 to 2023–24, 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 2024–25 season he will therefore play his 33rd Serie B championship
R.C. Cesena
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. The club played a friendly match against Romanian club Universitatea Cluj in 2018–19 pre-season. In July 2018, Romagna Centro announced that the youth sector would train with former A.C. Cesena players. However, the club was later known as Cesena F.C., and was assigned to Group F of 2018–19 Serie D.
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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, 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
Leagues
• Serie C: 2023–24 • Serie D: 2018–19
Current squad
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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.
<table><thead><tr><th>No.</th><th>Pos.</th><th>Nation</th><th>Player</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>GK</td><td> ITA</td><td>Alessandro Siano</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Michele Castagnetti</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Tommaso Arrigoni</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>FW</td><td> ITA</td><td>Alberto Cerri</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Gaetano Castrovilli</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>FW</td><td> ALB</td><td>Cristian Shpendi</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Simone Bastoni</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Riccardo Ciervo (on loan from Sassuolo)</td></tr><tr><td>14</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Tommaso Berti</td></tr><tr><td>15</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Andrea Ciofi (captain)</td></tr><tr><td>16</td><td>DF</td><td> SWE</td><td>Peter Amoran (on loan from Parma)</td></tr><tr><td>18</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Matteo Guidi</td></tr><tr><td>19</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Giovanni Zaro</td></tr><tr><td>22</td><td>FW</td><td> ALB</td><td>Giacomo Vrioni</td></tr><tr><td>No.</td><td>Pos.</td><td>Nation</td><td>Player</td></tr><tr><td>23</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Vittorio Magni</td></tr><tr><td>24</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Massimiliano Mangraviti</td></tr><tr><td>25</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Dimitri Bisoli</td></tr><tr><td>26</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Matteo Piacentini</td></tr><tr><td>27</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Tommaso Corazza (on loan from Bologna)</td></tr><tr><td>32</td><td>FW</td><td> ITA</td><td>Marco Olivieri</td></tr><tr><td>33</td><td>GK</td><td> USA</td><td>Jonathan Klinsmann</td></tr><tr><td>35</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Davide Zamagni</td></tr><tr><td>39</td><td>GK</td><td> ITA</td><td>Niccolò Fontana</td></tr><tr><td>40</td><td>GK</td><td> ITA</td><td>Luca Ferretti</td></tr><tr><td>70</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Matteo Francesconi</td></tr><tr><td>77</td><td>FW</td><td> ALB</td><td>Frederik Tosku</td></tr><tr><td>99</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Gianluca Frabotta</td></tr></tbody></table>
Cesena Primavera
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
<table><thead><tr><th>No.</th><th>Pos.</th><th>Nation</th><th>Player</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>34</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Simone Abbondanza</td></tr><tr><td>48</td><td>GK</td><td> ITA</td><td>Simone Gianfanti</td></tr><tr><td>No.</td><td>Pos.</td><td>Nation</td><td>Player</td></tr><tr><td>75</td><td>FW</td><td> ITA</td><td>Filippo Galvagno</td></tr></tbody></table>
Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
<table><thead><tr><th>No.</th><th>Pos.</th><th>Nation</th><th>Player</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>—</td><td>DF</td><td> ROU</td><td>Antonio David (at Inter U23 until 30 June 2026)</td></tr><tr><td>—</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Simone Pieraccini (at Catania until 30 June 2026)</td></tr><tr><td>—</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Giulio Manetti (at Forlì until 30 June 2026)</td></tr><tr><td>—</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Enea Pitti (at Carpi until 30 June 2026)</td></tr><tr><td>—</td><td>DF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Federico Valentini (at Sammaurese until 30 June 2026)</td></tr><tr><td>—</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Giacomo Calò (at Frosinone until 30 June 2026)</td></tr><tr><td>No.</td><td>Pos.</td><td>Nation</td><td>Player</td></tr><tr><td>—</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Riccardo Campedelli (at Bra until 30 June 2026)</td></tr><tr><td>—</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Gianmarco Castorri (at Foggia until 30 June 2026)</td></tr><tr><td>—</td><td>MF</td><td> ITA</td><td>Alessandro Giovannini (at Forlì until 30 June 2026)</td></tr><tr><td>—</td><td>FW</td><td> ITA</td><td>Valentino Coveri (at Forlì until 30 June 2026)</td></tr><tr><td>—</td><td>FW</td><td> ITA</td><td>Giovanni Perini (at Arzignano until 30 June 2026)</td></tr><tr><td>—</td><td>FW</td><td> ITA</td><td>Roberto Ogunseye (at Giugliano until 30 June 2026)</td></tr></tbody></table>
Technical staff
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<table><thead><tr><th>Position</th><th>Staff</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Head coach</td><td>Ashley Cole</td></tr><tr><td>Assistant coach</td><td>Jack Mesure</td></tr><tr><td>Athletic coach</td><td>Giorgio D'Urbano</td></tr><tr><td>Goalkeeping coach</td><td>Federico Agliardi</td></tr><tr><td>Assistant athletic coach</td><td>Luca Lancioni Filippo Medda</td></tr><tr><td>Technical assistants</td><td>Massimo Magrini Paolo Stringara Nicola Capellini</td></tr><tr><td>Team manager</td><td>Matteo Visani</td></tr><tr><td>Club manager</td><td>Alberto Santarelli</td></tr><tr><td>Referee caretaker</td><td>Fiorenzo Treossi</td></tr><tr><td>Head of medical staff</td><td>Giorgio Gandolfi</td></tr><tr><td>First team doctors</td><td>Antonio Argentoni Gianluigi Sella</td></tr><tr><td>Physiotherapists</td><td>Costantino Cucciniello Francesco Canali Stefano Valentini</td></tr><tr><td>Nutritionist</td><td>Michela Lantignotti</td></tr></tbody></table>