A.C. Cesena

Cesena

Full name

Associazione Calcio Cesena SpA

Nickname(s)

Cavallucci Marini (Seahorses)
Bianconero (Black and whites)

Founded

1940

Ground

Stadio Dino Manuzzi,
Cesena, Italy

Capacity

23,900

President

Giorgio Lugaresi

Head Coach

Massimo Drago

League

Serie B

2014–15

Serie A, 19th (relegated)

Website

Club home page

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

Associazione Calcio Cesena (Italian pronunciation: [tʃɛˈzeːna]) is an Italian football club based in Cesena, Romagna.

The club was formed in 1940 and won the first promotion to Serie A in 1973. Since then, the club have been in the Serie A for a total of 13 seasons, reaching the best achievement in 1976 with a sixth place finish and a short run in the following season's UEFA Cup. The other three promotions in Serie A have been achieved in 1981, 1987, and 2010, the last one after two consecutive promotions — from the third league (Lega Pro) in 2009 and from Serie B in 2010, both won in the final game of the season. The club currently plays in the Serie B, relegated after one season in the Serie A at the end of the 2014–15 season.

History

Founded in 1940, Cesena reached Serie B in 1968 and were promoted to Serie A for the first time in 1973. With players such as Pierluigi Cera and Gianluigi Savoldi, the club held its own and finished a respectable 11th place in their debut season, repeating that finish the following year. In the 1975–76 season, Cesena surprised Italy by finishing sixth and subsequently qualifying for the UEFA Cup. The glory was short-lived and they would be relegated the next year.

A second promotion to Serie A followed in 1981 and finished a respectable 10th before being relegated once more in 1983, staying in Serie B for four years. After winning a play-off, they were back in Serie A for 1987–88 and enjoyed a four-year stay, being obdurate enough to just avoid relegation in this time.

After relegation in 1991, Cesena had another chance to return to Serie A in 1994. With players such as Alessandro Teodorani, Emiliano Salvetti, Luigi Piangerelli, Aldo Dolcetti, and Dario Hübner, this was a team of considerable ability. They finished level on points with Padova, however, and lost a promotion play-off which would be a bitter blow for the club, who would suffer relegation to Serie C1 in 1997. Whilst promotion followed, a relegation play-off against Pistoiese in 2000 would see them condemned to a four-year stay in the third division.

In the 2005–06 Serie B, Cesena surprisingly emerged as contenders for promotion to Serie A, ending in sixth place and being therefore qualified for the promotion play-offs. They escaped relegation the following season, but not in 2007–08.

Cesena's first campaign in Serie C1, now rebranded Lega Pro Prima Divisione, started with former Foligno boss Pierpaolo Bisoli as new head coach. Throughout the season, Cesena quickly emerged as major contenders for direct promotion, and managed to take first place in the league on Week 33, with only one game remaining and a two-point advantage to challengers Pro Patria. On the final week of the season, Cesena's 0–0 draw with Verona, coupled with Pro Patria's 0–0 draw with Padova, gave the bianconeri the league title and direct promotion back to Serie B, after only one season in the Italian third tier.^[1] Cesena went to as 3rd in Round 33, one point behind Brescia in the 2009–10 season. Cesena earned their second consecutive promotion after a 1–0 victory at Piacenza and Brescia's 2–1 loss in Padua against Padova on 30 May 2010, finishing 19 years of absence from the Serie A.

Yo-yoing between Serie A and B

Cesena returned to Serie A after 19 years of absence in 2010. After the 2011–12 season, Cesena were relegated from the top tier to the Serie B.

Since relegation Cesena also restructured their finance, which the company revered merger with intermediate holding company Cesena 1940 Srl in December 2012.^[2] The company held 98.23% shares of AC Cesena SpA. After the merger, another intermediate holding company, Opera Cesena Calcio Srl represented by Igor Campedelli (from unknown investor through Romagna Sport Srl), which previously own 65.03% shares on Cesena 1940 Srl,^[3] sold 27.6% shares of Cesena to GMG Srl,^[4] a company of Giorgio Lugaresi, who already owned 30.06% shares of Cesena 1940 Srl before the merger.^[3] On 24 April 2013 Giorgio Lugaresi was re-elected as the president of A.C. Cesena SpA.^[5] After the transactions the club also recapitalized €9.5 million during 2013–14 season in order to avoid bankruptcy, which GMG Srl through subsidiary Cesena & Co. Scarl, held 9,499,000 out of 9,500,000 shares (99.9895%) of Cesena as of 30 June 2014, with a nominal value of €1 per shares.^[6] In February 2014 Cesena was under criminal investigation for the fraud in Campedelli era.^[7] Campedelli was banned 6 months in March 2013 by FIGC.^[8]

Despite the financial difficulties, Cesena won promotion back to Serie A on 18 June 2014, winning Latina in playoffs in 4–2 aggregate. In that match, most of the players (12 out of 20) were on loan from other clubs, with only 4 players were under Cesena contract in starting lineup (Renzetti, De Feudis, Garritano and Defrel) and 4 players on the bench (Alberto Iglio, Consolini, Rodríguez and Succi). Financially, Cesena had another year of negative EBITDA in 2013–14 season, for about €11 million, if excluding windfall profit from player trading from the calculation.^[9]

Colors and badge

The team's colours are white and black.

Honours

Serie B:
- Runners-up (3): 1972–73, 1981–82 (Shared with Genoa), 2009–10
- Play-off Winners (2): 1986–87, 2013–14
Serie C/Serie C1/Lega Pro:
- Winners (3): 1967–68, 1997–98, 2008–09
- Play-off Winners (1): 2003–04
Coppa Italia Serie C:
- Winners (1): 2003–04
- Runners-up (1): 1997–98
Prima Divisione:
- Winners (1): 1940–41
Serie D:
- Winners (1): 1959–60
Promozione Regionale:
- Winners (2): 1952–53, 1956–57

Current squad

As of 3 February 2016.^[10]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Federico Agliardi
2	MF	Matteo Gasperi
3	DF	Francesco Renzetti
4	MF	Emmanuel Cascione
5	MF	Stefano Sensi (on loan from Sassuolo)
6	DF	Stefano Lucchini
8	MF	Luca Valzania (on loan from Atalanta)
10	MF	Filippo Falco (on loan from Bologna)
11	FW	Antonino Ragusa
13	DF	Mattia Caldara (on loan from Atalanta)
14	FW	Riccardo Improta (on loan from Genoa)
15	FW	Nicola Dalmonte
16	FW	Luca Garritano

No.	Position	Player
18	FW	Milan Đurić
19	FW	Davide Succi
20	DF	Nicola Falasco (on loan from Roma)
22	GK	Alfred Gomis (on loan from Torino)
23	MF	Moussa Koné
24	DF	Gabriele Perico
25	DF	Daniele Capelli
27	FW	Lorenzo Rosseti (on loan from Juventus)
28	FW	Camillo Ciano
29	GK	Pietro Menegatti
30	MF	Franck Kessié (on loan from Atalanta)
32	DF	Hörður Magnússon (on loan from Juventus)
38	DF	Leonardo Fontanesi (on loan from Sassuolo)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Riccardo Melgrati (at Pro Vercelli)
		DF	Davide Adorni (at Santarcangelo)
		DF	Ismaël Bangoura (at Andria)
		DF	Filippo Capitanio (at Santarcangelo)
		DF	Carlo Crialese (at Cremonese)

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Antonio Mazzotta (at Pescara)
		DF	Andrea Ingegneri (at Pordenone)
		MF	Tommaso Arrigoni (at Santarcangelo)
		MF	Andrea Tabanelli (at Pisa)

Other under contract players

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Mohamed Traoré
		DF	Nicolò Lini
		MF	Nicola Capellini
		MF	Marko Đurić
		MF	Felice Di Cecco

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Nicola Del Pivo
		MF	Yago Del Piero
		FW	Saša Čičarević
		FW	Antonio Romano

Retired numbers

No.	Player	Nationality	Position	Reason	Ref
12	Tifosi	Italy	Not applicable	Reserved for the Cesena supporters	^[11]
21	Martelli, PaoloPaolo Martelli	Italy	Defender	Posthumous recognition. Died in a car accident on 000000001999-04-12-000012 April 1999

Notable former players

This list of former players includes those who received international caps while playing for the team, made significant contributions to the team in terms of appearances or goals while playing for the team, or who made significant contributions to the sport either before they played for the team, or after they left. It is clearly not yet complete and all inclusive, and additions and refinements will continue to be made over time.

Managers

Karl Stürmer (1942–43)
Cinzio Scagliotti (1949–50)
Pietro Magni (1953–54)
Gipo Poggi (1961–62)
Luigi Radice (1972–73)
Giuseppe Marchioro (1975–76)
Giulio Corsini (1976–77)
Giuseppe Marchioro (1977–78)
Giancarlo Cadè (1978–79)
Osvaldo Bagnoli (1979–81)
Giovan Battista Fabbri (1981–82)
Bruno Bolchi (1982–83)

Giuseppe Marchioro (1983–84)
Bruno Bolchi (1986–87)
Alberto Bigon (1987–89)
Marcello Lippi (1989–91)
Azeglio Vicini (1992–93)
Bruno Bolchi (1993–95)
Marco Tardelli (1995–98)
Giuseppe Marchioro (1996–97)
Alberto Cavasin (1998–99)
Walter De Vecchi (2000–02)
Agatino Cuttone (2001–02)
Giuseppe Iachini (2002–03)

Fabrizio Castori (2003–07)
Giovanni Vavassori (2007–08)
Fabrizio Castori (2008)
Pierpaolo Bisoli (2008–10)
Massimo Ficcadenti (2010–11)
Marco Giampaolo (2011)
Daniele Arrigoni (2011–12)
Mario Beretta (2012)
Nicola Campedelli (2012)
Pierpaolo Bisoli (2012–14)
Domenico Di Carlo (2014–2015)
Massimo Drago (2015–)

References

↑ "Esplode un urlo di felicità Il Cesena torna in serie B" (in Italian). Il Resto del Carlino. 17 May 2009. Retrieved 18 May 2009.
↑ "Calcio: ecco il nuovo assetto bianconero" (in Italian). romagnanoi.it. 12 October 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
1 2 "Cesena, il cuore in Romagna e il portafoglio a Milano" (in Italian). tuttob.com. 9 October 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
↑ "La NewCo. entra nel Cesena Calcio" (in Italian). AC Cesena. 13 April 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
↑ "Giorgio Lugaresi è il nuovo Presidente del Cesena Calcio" (in Italian). AC Cesena. 24 April 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
↑ A.C. Cesena S.p.A. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2014 (in Italian), PDF purchased from Italian C.C.I.A.A.
↑ "Sequestri della polizia nella sede del Cesena Calcio" (in Italian). AC Cesena. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
↑ http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/60.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_35305_StrilloComunicatoUfficiale_lstAllegati_Allegato_0_upfAllegato.pdf
↑ Marotta, Luca (25 January 2015). "Bilancio Cesena 2013/14: la rateizzazione del debito fiscale e la continuità aziendale col Piano." (in Italian). Retrieved 9 February 2016.
↑ "I numeri di maglia per la stagione 2015/2016" (in Italian). AC Cesena. 7 August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
↑ "Eugeo ritira la maglia n. 12" [Eugeo retire shirt number 12] (in Italian). 29 July 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2011.

External links

Official website (Italian)

Serie B

2015–16 clubs	Ascoli Avellino Bari Brescia Cagliari Cesena Como Crotone Latina Livorno Modena Novara Perugia Pescara Pro Vercelli Salernitana Spezia Ternana Trapani Vicenza Virtus Lanciano Virtus Entella

Former clubs	Acireale Alba Trastevere AlbinoLeffe Alessandria Alzano Virescit Ancona Arezzo Arsenale Taranto Atalanta Barletta Biellese Bologna Bolzano Brindisi Campobasso Carpi Carrarese Casale Casertana Castel di Sangro Catanzaro Cavese Centese Chievo Cittadella Cosenza Crema Cremonese Derthona Empoli Fanfulla Fermana Fidelis Andria Fiorentina Fiumana Foggia Forlì Frosinone Gallaratese Gallipoli Genoa Grion Pola Grosseto Gubbio Juve Stabia Juventus L'Aquila Lazio Lecce Lecco Legnano Licata Liguria Lucchese Maceratese Magenta Mantova Marzotto Massese M.A.T.E.R. Matera Messina Mestre Milan Molinella Monfalcone Monza Napoli Nocerina Padova Palermo Parma Pavia Piacenza Piombino Pisa Pistoiese Portogruaro Potenza Prato Pro Gorizia Pro Patria Pro Sesto Ravenna Reggiana Reggina Rieti Rimini Roma Sambenedettese Sampdoria Sampierdarenese Sanremese Sassuolo Savoia Savona Scafatese Seregno Sestrese Siena Siracusa Sorrento SPAL Suzzara Taranto Torino Trani Treviso Triestina Udinese Varese Venezia Verona Viareggio Vigevano Vita Nova Vogherese

Statistics	Records

Serie B seasons

Serie B seasons	1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

1945–46 postwar season^†	Serie B-C in Northern Italy Serie A-B in Southern Italy

^†Championships recognized as official by the Italian Football Federation

Football in Italy

Overview	National association League system List of clubs List of venues Records Scudetto Capocannoniere

International	Italy Under-21 Under-20 Under-19 Under-18 Under-17 Under-16 Under-15 Italy women

Leagues	Lega Serie A Lega Serie B Lega Pro Lega Nazionale Dilettanti Lega Calcio (defunct)

League competitions	Serie A Serie B Lega Pro Lega Pro Prima Divisione defunct Lega Pro Seconda Divisione defunct Serie D Eccellenza Promozione Prima Categoria Seconda Categoria Terza Categoria

Cup competitions	Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana Coppa Italia Lega Pro Supercoppa di Lega di Prima Divisione Supercoppa di Lega di Seconda Divisione Coppa Italia Serie D Coppa Italia Dilettanti

Youth competitions	Campionato Nazionale Primavera Coppa Italia Primavera Supercoppa Primavera Torneo di Viareggio Campionato Nazionale Dante Berretti

Women's competitions	Serie A Coppa Italia

Awards	Gran Galà del Calcio AIC Italian Football Hall of Fame

Miscellaneous	Totonero 1980 Totonero 1986 Italian Law 91/1981, Article 18B financial doping scandals 2006 Italian football scandal 2011–12 Italian football scandal 2015 Italian football scandal Foreign Serie A players Foreign Serie B players

Seasons	1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

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