# 2023–24 US Cremonese season

The 2023–24 season is US Cremonese's 121st season in existence and the club's first season back in the second division of Italian football. In addition to the domestic league, US Cremonese will participate in this season's edition of the Coppa Italia. The season covers the period from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 17 October 2023
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | SEN | Fallou Sarr |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Emanuele Valeri |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Luca Ravanelli |
| 6 | MF | COD | Charles Pickel |
| 7 | FW | ITA | Nikola Sekulov (on loan from Juventus) |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Michele Collocolo |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Daniel Ciofani |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Cristian Buonaiuto |
| 11 | FW | GHA | Felix Afena-Gyan |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Luca Valzania |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Matteo Bianchetti |
| 17 | DF | ITA | Leonardo Sernicola |
| 18 | DF | ITA | Paolo Ghiglione |
| 19 | MF | ITA | Michele Castagnetti |
| 20 | MF | ARG | Franco Vázquez |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | GK | ITA | Gianluca Saro |
| 22 | GK | DEN | Andreas Jungdal |
| 26 | DF | BUL | Valentin Antov (on loan from Monza) |
| 27 | MF | ITA | Alessio Brambilla |
| 31 | DF | ITA | Yuri Rocchetti |
| 32 | MF | ARG | Gonzalo Abrego (on loan from Godoy Cruz) |
| 33 | DF | ITA | Giacomo Quagliata |
| 37 | MF | SVN | Žan Majer |
| 44 | DF | GEO | Luka Lochoshvili |
| 74 | FW | ITA | Frank Tsadjout |
| 77 | FW | NGA | David Okereke |
| 90 | FW | ITA | Massimo Coda (on loan from Genoa) |
| 91 | MF | ITA | Andrea Bertolacci |
| 98 | FW | ITA | Luca Zanimacchia |
| — | DF | ITA | Alessandro Tuia |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | ITA | Federico Agazzi (at Alcione until 30 June 2024) |
| — | DF | AUT | Emanuel Aiwu (at Birmingham City until 30 June 2024) |
| — | DF | ITA | Luca Munaretti (at Renate until 30 June 2024) |
| — | DF | SEN | Maissa Ndiaye (at Železničar Pančevo until 30 June 2024) |
| — | DF | ITA | Lorenzo Bernasconi (at Atalanta until 30 June 2024) |
| — | DF | ITA | Mattia Scaringi (at Novara until 30 June 2024) |
| — | DF | ITA | Daniel Frey (at Gubbio until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | ITA | Christian Acella (at Perugia until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | ITA | Francesco Cerretelli (at Carrarese until 30 June 2024) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | ITA | Matteo Ghisolfi (at Cerignola until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | ITA | Tommaso Milanese (at Ascoli until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | ITA | Filippo Nardi (at Reggiana until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | ITA | Fausto Perseu (at Latina Calcio until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | ITA | Joshua Tenkorang (at Lecco until 30 June 2024) |
| — | FW | ITA | Alberto Basso Ricci (at loan to Lumezzane until 30 June 2024) |
| — | FW | ITA | Blue Mamona (at Vis Pesaro until 30 June 2024) |
| — | FW | ITA | Marco Zunno (at loan to Messina until 30 June 2024) |
| — | FW | CIV | Cedric Gondo (at loan to Reggiana until 30 June 2024) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| MF | Andrea Bertolacci | Fatih Karagümrük | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Zan Majer | Reggio Calabria | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Nikola Sekulov | Juventus Next Gen | Loan | 15 July 2023 |
| MF | Franco Vázquez | Parma | Free | 17 July 2023 |
| MF | Alessio Brambilla | Cesena | €150k | 21 July 2023 |
| MF | Michele Collocolo | Ascoli | €2.00m | 22 July 2023 |
| GK | Andreas Jungdal | Milan | Free | 10 August 2023 |
| MF | Gonzalo Abrego | Godoy Cruz | Loan | 10 August 2023 |
| FW | Massimo Coda | Genoa | Loan | 27 August 2023 |
| DF | Valentin Antov | Monza | Loan | 31 August 2023 |
| DF | Yuri Rocchetti | Triestina | | 1 September 2023 |
| DF | Alessandro Tuia | Unattached | Free | 17 October 2023 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| FW | Cyriel Dessers | Rangers | €5.00m | 6 July 2023 |
| DF | Stefano Cella | Ancona | €40k | 15 July 2023 |
| FW | Luca Strizzolo | Modena | | 15 July 2023 |
| MF | Dennis Politic | Dinamo București | Free | 16 July 2023 |
| MF | Stefano Girelli | Sampdoria | Free | 19 July 2023 |
| MF | Vlad Chiricheș | FCSB | Free | 25 July 2023 |
| MF | Luca Schirone | Pineto | Free | 25 July 2023 |

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Serie B | 22 August 2023 | 10 May 2024 | Matchday 1 | 4th | 38 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 50 | 3 | +47 | 050.00 |
| Coppa Italia | 14 August 2023 | 3 January 2024 | Round of 64 | Round of 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 066.67 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 41 | 21 | 10 | 10 | 55 | 7 | +48 | 051.22 |
Source: Competitions

### Serie B
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 2 | Como (P) | 38 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 58 | 40 | +18 | 73 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 3 | Venezia (O, P) | 38 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 69 | 46 | +23 | 70 | 0Qualification for promotion play-offs semi-finals |
| 4 | Cremonese | 38 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 50 | 32 | +18 | 67 | 0Qualification for promotion play-offs semi-finals |
| 5 | Catanzaro | 38 | 17 | 9 | 12 | 59 | 50 | +9 | 60 | 0Qualification for promotion play-offs preliminary round |
| 6 | Palermo | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 62 | 53 | +9 | 56 | 0Qualification for promotion play-offs preliminary round |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Worldfootball

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| Ground | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | D | L | W | D | D | D | W | L | W | L | W | W | W | W | D | W | L | W | L |
| Position | 10 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were unveiled on 11 July 2023.