Cesena FC
Italian football club
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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.
I Bianconeri (The White and Blacks)
2018 as Cesena Football Club
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| Full name | Cesena Football Club | |||
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| Nicknames | I Cavallucci Marini (The Seahorses) I Bianconeri (The White and Blacks) | |||
| Founded | 1940 as A.C Cesena 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 | |||
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History
Foundation
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.[1]
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 2018–19 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
Cesena F.C.
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.[2] The team played a friendly match against Romanian club Universitatea Cluj in the 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 the 2018–19 Serie D.[5]
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.
Recent seasons
| Season | Division | Tier | Pos | Pl | W | D | L | + | - | P | Cup | Note |
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| 2016–17 | Serie B | II | 13 | 42 | 12 | 17 | 13 | 51 | 48 | 53 | Quarterfinals | |
| 2017–18 | 13 | 42 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 55 | 61 | 50 | 3rd round | Folded post-season due to bankruptcy. Cesena FC, a phoenix club, was admitted to Serie D | ||
| as Cesena FC | ||||||||||||
| 2018–19 | Serie D (Group F) | IV | ↑ 1 | 38 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 70 | 29 | 83 | – | Promoted to Serie C |
| 2019–20 | Serie C (Group B) | III | 13 | 27 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 33 | 42 | 30 | – | |
| 2020–21 | 7 | 38 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 51 | 42 | 57 | – | Eliminated in the Promotion play-offs 1/16-finals to Matelica | ||
| 2021–22 | 3 | 38 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 53 | 31 | 67 | – | Eliminated in the Promotion play-offs 1/8-finals to Monopoli | ||
| 2022–23 | 2 | 38 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 66 | 24 | 79 | – | Eliminated in the Promotion play-offs semifinals to Lecco | ||
| 2023–24 | ↑ 1 | 38 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 80 | 19 | 96 | 1st round | Promoted to Serie B | ||
| 2024–25 | Serie B | II | 7 | 38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 46 | 47 | 53 | Round of 16 | Eliminated in the Promotion play-offs quarterfinals to Catanzaro |
| 2025–26 | 11 | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 45 | 56 | 46 | 1st round | |||
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 at 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, such as Rockin'1000.
Honours
Current squad
- As of 5 February 2026[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.
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Cesena Primavera
- As of 22 August 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.
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.
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Technical staff
- As of 1 July 2026[9]
| Position | Staff |
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| 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 |
