Filippo Bertaccini

Cesena

Full name	Cesena Football Club
Nicknames	I Cavallucci Marini (The Seahorses) I Bianconeri (The White and Blacks)
Founded	1940; 86 years ago (1940) as A.C Cesena 2018; 8 years ago (2018) as Cesena Football Club
Stadium	Orogel Stadium - Dino Manuzzi
Capacity	20,194
Owner	JRL Investment Partners LLC
President	Jonathan Aiello
Head coach	Alessandro Diamanti
League	Serie B
2025–26	Serie B, 11th of 20
Website	cesenafc.com
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

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.

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.

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

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 Cesena F.C., to act as a phoenix club. However, the image rights of A.C. Cesena were acquired later. The team played a friendly match against Romanian club Universitatea Cluj in the 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 the 2018–19 Serie D.

The club was renamed Cesena Football Club.

In the 2019–20 season, the club competed in Serie C's Girone B.

In the 2023–24 season, Cesena secured promotion to the following season's Serie B as Serie C Girone B champions.

The current shirt colors are black and white, so that the nickname of the club is "bianconeri".

The club play their home matches at 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, such as Rockin'1000.

• Serie C: 2023–24
• Serie D: 2018–19

As of 10 September 2026

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 2 DF  AUS Mark Natta 3 DF  ROU Antonio David 4 DF  ITA Jacopo Gelli (on loan from Frosinone) 5 MF  ITA Luca Schirone (on loan from Pineto) 6 DF  SRB Mihajlo Ilić (on loan from Bologna) 7 DF  ITA Gianluca Frabotta 8 MF  ITA Matteo Francesconi 9 FW  ALB Cristian Shpendi 10 MF  ITA Riccardo Pagano 11 FW  ITA Maat Daniel Caprini (on loan from Fiorentina) 13 GK  ITA Luca Ferretti 14 FW  NED Xavello Druiventak 15 DF  ITA Andrea Ciofi (captain) 16 FW  ITA Luca D'Andrea (on loan from Sassuolo)

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF  ITA Matteo Guidi 20 MF  ITA Matteo Casadei 23 DF  ITA Vittorio Magni 24 DF  ITA Massimiliano Mangraviti 25 MF  ITA Dimitri Bisoli 26 DF  ITA Matteo Piacentini 27 MF  ITA Marco Dalla Vecchia (on loan from Torino) 32 MF  NOR Emil Bohinen (on loan from Venezia) 33 GK  USA Jonathan Klinsmann 39 GK  ITA Niccolò Fontana 43 FW  ITA Filippo Bertaccini 80 FW  ITA Antonio Fiori (on loan from Mantova) 90 GK  ITA Tommaso Mazzi 91 FW  ITA Alessandro Debenedetti (on loan from Genoa)

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  ITA Riccardo Biguzzi (at Prato until 30 June 2027) — DF  FRA Mamadou Kebbeh (at Torres until 30 June 2027) — DF  ITA Giulio Manetti (at Lecco until 30 June 2027) — DF  ITA Simone Pieraccini (at Salernitana until 30 June 2027) — MF  ITA Tommaso Arrigoni (at Livorno until 30 June 2027) — MF  ITA Gianmarco Castorri (at Latina until 30 June 2027)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ITA Roberto Ogunseye (at Giugliano until 30 June 2027) — FW  ITA Marco Olivieri (at Arezzo until 30 June 2027) — FW  ITA Giovanni Perini (at Forlì until 30 June 2027) — FW  ALB Frederik Tosku (at Ostiamare until 30 June 2027) — FW  SEN Ibrahima Papa Wade (at Ostiamare until 30 June 2027)

As of 1 July 2026

Position	Staff
Head coach	Alessandro Diamanti
Assistant coach	Jack Mesure Omer Riza
Athletic coach	Giorgio D'Urbano
Goalkeeping coach	Federico Agliardi
Assistant athletic coach	Luca Lancioni Filippo Medda
Technical assistants	Massimo Magrini Paolo Stringara Nicola Capellini
Team manager	Matteo Visani
Club manager	Alberto Santarelli
Referee caretaker	Fiorenzo Treossi
Head of medical staff	Giorgio Gandolfi
First team doctors	Antonio Argentoni Gianluigi Sella
Physiotherapists	Costantino Cucciniello Francesco Canali Stefano Valentini
Nutritionist	Michela Lantignotti

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