Cesena FC
{{Short description|Italian football club}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox football club |
clubname = Cesena |
image = Cesena FC crest.svg
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fullname = Cesena Football Club |
nickname = I Cavallucci Marini (The Seahorses)
I Bianconeri (The White and Blacks) |
founded = {{start date and age|1973}} |
ground = Orogel Stadium-Dino Manuzzi |
|capacity = 20,194
|chairman = John Aiello, Peter Ciaccia{{cite web |url=https://cesenafc.com/it/societa |language=it |accessdate=13 November 2023 |title=LA SOCIETÀ |publisher=Cesena FC |archive-date=13 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231113171959/https://cesenafc.com/it/societa |url-status=live }} |
manager = Michele Mignani |
league = {{Italian football updater|Cesena}} |
season = {{Italian football updater|Cesena2}}|
position = {{Italian football updater|Cesena3}}
| current = 2024–25 Cesena FC season
| website = {{URL|http://www.calciocesena.com/}}
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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=
The club was founded in 2018.
=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 2018-2019 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=
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.{{cite news|url=http://www.cesenatoday.it/cronaca/nuovo-cesena-calcio-fc-pubblisole1.html|title=Scelta la cordata di Pubblisole, nasce la nuova avventura del "Cesena FC"|date=23 July 2018|access-date=6 August 2018|work=Cesena Today|language=it|archive-date=29 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429161907/https://www.cesenatoday.it/cronaca/nuovo-cesena-calcio-fc-pubblisole1.html|url-status=live}} The club played a friendly match against Romanian club Universitatea Cluj in 2018–19 pre-season.{{cite press release|url=https://www.fcuniversitateacluj.ro/stiri/studentii-italia-u-facut-scor-cu-cei-de-la-romagna-centro-8-1-sambata-intalnim-perugia|title=Studenții în Italia. "U" a făcut scor cu cei de la Romagna Centro: 8-1. Sâmbătă întâlnim Perugia!|date=19 July 2018|access-date=6 August 2018|publisher=FC Universitatea Cluj|language=ro|archive-date=23 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723034045/https://www.fcuniversitateacluj.ro/stiri/studentii-italia-u-facut-scor-cu-cei-de-la-romagna-centro-8-1-sambata-intalnim-perugia|url-status=live}} In July 2018, Romagna Centro announced that the youth sector would train with former A.C. Cesena players.{{cite press release|url=http://www.romagnacentro.it/news/2018/180725/index.html|title=COMUNICATO SETTORE GIOVANILE|date=25 July 2018|access-date=20 August 2018|publisher=A.S.D. Romagna Centro Cesena|language=it|archive-date=31 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831214420/http://romagnacentro.it/news/2018/180725/index.html|url-status=dead}} However, the club was later known as Cesena F.C., and was assigned to Group F of 2018–19 Serie D.{{cite press release|url=http://seried.lnd.it/it/seried-news/news-serie-d/27078-i-gironi-2018-2019|title=Gironi 2018/2019|date=30 August 2018|access-date=31 August 2018|publisher=Lega Nazionale Dilettanti|language=it|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831072020/http://seried.lnd.it/it/seried-news/news-serie-d/27078-i-gironi-2018-2019|archive-date=31 August 2018|url-status=dead}}
=Cesena FC=
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
The current shirt colors are black and white, so that the nickname of the club is "bianconeri".
Stadiums
The club play their home matches in Stadio Dino Manuzzi,{{cite news|url=http://www.sportpiacenza.it/calcio/piacenza-calcio/romagna-centro-piacenza-anticipata-a-sabato-21-febbraio.html|title=Romagna Centro-Piacenza anticipata a sabato 21 febbraio|date=16 February 2015|access-date=13 October 2018|work=Sport Piacenza|language=it|archive-date=13 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013172315/http://www.sportpiacenza.it/calcio/piacenza-calcio/romagna-centro-piacenza-anticipata-a-sabato-21-febbraio.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.cesenatoday.it/sport/cesena-romagna-centro-accordo-prestito-giocatori-vivaio.html|title=Il Romagna Centro per rafforzare il vivaio del Cesena: accordo fatto|date=4 July 2016|access-date=13 October 2018|work=Cesena Today|language=it}} 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=
=Cups=
- Supercoppa di Serie C: 2024
Current squad
{{updated|14 April 2025|{{cite web |website=Cesena FC |url=https://cesenafc.com/it/rosa/2024-2025/cesena-prima-squadra |title=Cesena Prima Squadra |language=it |accessdate=26 October 2024 }}}}
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no= 1|nat=ITA|pos=GK|name=Matteo Pisseri}}
{{fs player|no= 5|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Leonardo Mendicino|other={{small|on loan from Atalanta}}}}
{{Fs player|no= 7|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Daniele Donnarumma}}
{{Fs player|no= 8|nat=BIH|pos=MF|name=Dario Šarić|other={{small|on loan from Palermo}}}}
{{Fs player|no= 9|nat=ALB|pos=FW|name=Cristian Shpendi}}
{{Fs player|no=11|nat=GAM|pos=DF|name=Joseph Ceesay|other={{small|on loan from Malmö}}}}
{{Fs player|no=13|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Raffaele Celia}}
{{Fs player|no=14|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Tommaso Berti}}
{{Fs player|no=15|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Andrea Ciofi|other=vice-captain}}
{{Fs player|no=17|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Emanuele Adamo}}
{{Fs player|no=18|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Alessandro Giovannini}}
{{Fs player|no=19|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Giuseppe Prestia|other=captain}}
{{Fs player|no=20|nat=NED|pos=FW|name=Elayis Tavşan|other={{small|on loan from Hellas Verona}}}}
{{Fs player|no=22|nat=ALB|pos=GK|name=Giulio Veliaj}}
{{Fs player|no=23|nat=ITA|pos=FW|name=Mirko Antonucci|other={{small|on loan from Spezia}}}}
{{Fs player|no=24|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Massimiliano Mangraviti}}
{{fs mid}}
{{fs player|no=26|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Matteo Piacentini}}
{{Fs player|no=27|nat=ITA|pos=FW|name=Antonino La Gumina|other={{small|on loan from Sampdoria}}}}
{{fs player|no=30|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Simone Bastoni}}
{{Fs player|no=32|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Gianmarco Castorri}}
{{fs player|no=33|nat=USA|pos=GK|name=Jonathan Klinsmann}}
{{Fs player|no=35|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Giacomo Calò}}
{{Fs player|no=39|nat=ITA|pos=GK|name=Niccolò Fontana}}
{{Fs player|no=44|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Federico Valentini}}
{{Fs player|no=70|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Matteo Francesconi}}
{{Fs player|no=71|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Giulio Manetti}}
{{Fs player|no=73|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Simone Pieraccini}}
{{Fs player|no=79|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Enea Pitti}}
{{Fs player|no=91|nat=ITA|pos=FW|name=Flavio Russo|other={{small|on loan from Sassuolo}}}}
{{Fs player|no=92|nat=ITA|pos=FW|name=Valentino Coveri}}
{{fs player|no=93|nat=ITA|pos=GK|name=Alessandro Siano}}
{{Fs player|no=99|nat=ITA|pos=GK|name=William Montalti}}
{{Fs end}}
=Cesena Primavera=
{{updated|1 February 2025}}
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=34|nat=SEN|pos=FW|name=Ibrahima Papa Wade}}
{{Fs end}}
=Out on loan=
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=ROU|pos=DF|name=Antonio David|other={{small|at Gubbio until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Luigi Silvestri|other={{small|at Trapani until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=ITA|pos=DF|name=Diego Rossi|other={{small|at Cavese until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=ITA|pos=MF|name=Fabrizio Lilli|other={{small|at Forlì until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=ITA|pos=FW|name=Roberto Ogunseye|other={{small|at Arezzo until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=ALB|pos=FW|name=Stiven Shpendi|other={{small|at Empoli until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=ITA|pos=FW|name=Cristiano Giometti|other={{small|at Pistoiese until 30 June 2025}}}}
{{Fs end}}
Technical staff
| class="wikitable" | |
| Position
!Staff | |
|---|---|
| Head coach | {{flagicon|ITA}} Michele Mignani |
| Assistant coach | {{flagicon|ITA}} Simone Vergassola |
| Athletic coach | {{flagicon|ITA}} Giorgio D'Urbano |
| Goalkeeping coach | {{flagicon|ITA}} Antonello Degiorgi {{flagicon|ITA}} Giuseppe Mammoliti |
| Assistant Athletic coach | {{flagicon|ITA}} Massimo Magrini {{flagicon|ITA}} Filippo Medda |
| Technical assistant | {{flagicon|ITA}} Davide Campofranco |
| Match analyst | {{flagicon|ITA}} Emanuele Insalata |
| Team manager | {{flagicon|ITA}} Matteo Visani |
| Club manager | {{flagicon|ITA}} Alberto Santarelli |
| Referee caretaker | {{flagicon|ITA}} Fiorenzo Treossi |
| Head of medical staff | {{flagicon|ITA}} Gianluigi Sella |
| First Team doctor | {{flagicon|ITA}} Eva Bernardi {{flagicon|ITA}} Antonio Argentoni {{flagicon|ITA}} Giorgio Gandolfi |
| Physiotherapist | {{flagicon|ITA}} Costantino Cucciniello {{flagicon|ITA}} Francesco Canali {{flagicon|ITA}} Stefano Valentini |
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- {{official website}} {{in lang|it}}
{{Serie B}}
{{Serie C}}
{{Serie A}}
{{Football in Italy}}
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Category:Football clubs in Italy
Category:Football clubs in Emilia-Romagna