# 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

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. 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.

### 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, 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

### Cups

* Supercoppa di Serie C: 2024

## Current squad

    As of 4 February 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 |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Matteo Pisseri |
| 5 | MF | ITA | Leonardo Mendicino (on loan from Atalanta) |
| 7 | DF | ITA | Daniele Donnarumma |
| 8 | MF | BIH | Dario Šarić (on loan from Palermo) |
| 9 | FW | ALB | Cristian Shpendi |
| 11 | DF | GAM | Joseph Ceesay (on loan from Malmö) |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Raffaele Celia |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Tommaso Berti |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Andrea Ciofi (vice-captain) |
| 17 | MF | ITA | Emanuele Adamo |
| 19 | DF | ITA | Giuseppe Prestia (captain) |
| 20 | FW | NED | Elayis Tavşan (on loan from Hellas Verona) |
| 22 | GK | ALB | Giulio Veliaj |
| 23 | FW | ITA | Mirko Antonucci (on loan from Spezia) |
| 24 | DF | ITA | Massimiliano Mangraviti |
| 26 | DF | ITA | Matteo Piacentini |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 27 | FW | ITA | Antonino La Gumina (on loan from Sampdoria) |
| 30 | MF | ITA | Simone Bastoni |
| 32 | MF | ITA | Gianmarco Castorri |
| 33 | GK | USA | Jonathan Klinsmann |
| 35 | MF | ITA | Giacomo Calò |
| 39 | GK | ITA | Niccolò Fontana |
| 44 | DF | ITA | Federico Valentini |
| 70 | MF | ITA | Matteo Francesconi |
| 71 | DF | ITA | Giulio Manetti |
| 73 | DF | ITA | Simone Pieraccini |
| 79 | DF | ITA | Enea Pitti |
| 91 | FW | ITA | Flavio Russo (on loan from Sassuolo) |
| 92 | FW | ITA | Valentino Coveri |
| 93 | GK | ITA | Alessandro Siano |
| 99 | GK | ITA | William Montalti |

### Cesena Primavera

    As of 1 February 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 | FW | SEN | Ibrahima Papa Wade |

### Other players under contract

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 |
| — | MF | ITA | Alessandro Giovannini |

### 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.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | ROU | Antonio David (at Gubbio until 30 June 2025) |
| — | DF | ITA | Luigi Silvestri (at Trapani until 30 June 2025) |
| — | DF | ITA | Diego Rossi (at Cavese until 30 June 2025) |
| — | MF | ITA | Fabrizio Lilli (at Forlì until 30 June 2025) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | ITA | Roberto Ogunseye (at Arezzo until 30 June 2025) |
| — | FW | ALB | Stiven Shpendi (at Empoli until 30 June 2025) |
| — | FW | ITA | Cristiano Giometti (at Pistoiese until 30 June 2025) |

## Technical staff

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