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.

Cesena

Full name	Cesena Football Club
Nickname(s)	I Cavallucci Marini (The Seahorses) I Bianconeri (The White and Blacks)
Founded	1973; 52 years ago (1973)
Ground	Orogel Stadium-Dino Manuzzi
Capacity	20,194
Chairman	John Aiello, Mike Melby, Peter Ciaccia [1]
Manager	Michele Mignani
League	Serie B
2024–25	Serie B, 7th of 20
Website	calciocesena.com
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

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

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

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,^[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

Leagues

• Serie C: 2023–24
• Serie D: 2018–19

Cups

• Supercoppa di Serie C: 2024

Current squad

As of 15 August 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 6 MF  ITA Tommaso Arrigoni 7 FW  ESP Jalen Blesa 9 FW  ALB Cristian Shpendi 10 MF  ITA Simone Bastoni 11 FW  ITA Riccardo Ciervo (on loan from Sassuolo) 13 DF  ITA Raffaele Celia 14 MF  ITA Tommaso Berti 15 DF  ITA Andrea Ciofi (captain) 17 MF  ITA Emanuele Adamo 18 MF  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) 33 GK  USA Jonathan Klinsmann 39 GK  ITA Niccolò Fontana 70 MF  ITA Matteo Francesconi 99 DF  ITA Gianluca Frabotta — GK  ITA William Montalti — FW  ITA Roberto Ogunseye

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

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 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)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Giacomo Calò (at Frosinone until 30 June 2026) — 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)

Technical staff

As of 26 October 2024^[9]

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