Cesena Football Club is an Italian professional

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club based in

Cesena Cesena (; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy; and - with Forlì - is the capital of the Province of Forlì-Cesena. Served by Autostrada A14 (Italy), Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine M ...

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. It currently plays in the

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, after promotion from the

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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

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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

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 Stadio Dino Manuzzi is a football stadium in Cesena Cesena (; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy; and - with Forlì - is the capital of the Province of Forlì-Cesena. Served by Autostrada ...

, 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

: 2023–24 *

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: 2018–19

Cups

Supercoppa di Serie C The Supercoppa di Serie C, formerly named Supercoppa di Lega Pro, is an Italian football competition played by the three group winners of Serie C. The competition was inaugurated in 2000. Forerunners The FIGC introduced a third-level national foo ...

: 2024

Current squad

Cesena Primavera

Out on loan

Technical staff

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cesena Football clubs in Italy Football clubs in Emilia-Romagna Sport in Cesena Phoenix clubs (association football) 1973 establishments in Italy