A.C. Cesena

A.C. Cesena

Football club infobox
clubname = Cesena


fullname = Associazione Calcio
Cesena SpA
nickname = "Cavalluccio Marino" (Seahorses)
founded = 1940
ground = Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena, Italy
capacity = 23,860 | chairman = Igor Campedelli
manager = Giovanni Vavassori
league = Lega Pro Prima Divisione - A
season = 2007-08
position = Serie B, 22nd
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Associazione Calcio Cesena is a football club based in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna. The club was formed in 1940 and currently plays in Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione. Its last Serie A stint ended in 1991. The team's colors are white and black.

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 1975-76, Cesena surprised everybody by finishing 6th and 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. However, they finished level on points with Padova, 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 league, Cesena surprisingly emerged as contenders for promotion to Serie A, ending in sixth place and being therefore qualified for the promotion playoffs. They escaped relegation the following season.

Current squad

"As of 2008-03-19" [cite web|url=http://www.cesenacalcio.it/serie-b-tim/2007-2008/giocatori/cesena-2.html|language=Italian |accessdate=2008-01-15|title=Squadra|publisher=AC Cesena]

Notable former players

*flagicon|Italy Massimo Agostini
*flagicon|Brazil Amarildo
*flagicon|Italy Massimo Ambrosini
*flagicon|Italy Marco Ballotta
*flagicon|San Marino Massimo Bonini
*flagicon|Italy Roberto Bordin
*flagicon|Italy Massimo Ciocci
*flagicon|Serbia Vladislav Đukić
*flagicon|Italy Valerio Fiori
*flagicon|Italy Alberto Fontana
*flagicon|Bosnia and Herzegovina Davor Jozić
*flagicon|Italy Sebastiano Rossi
*flagicon|Austria Walter Schachner
*flagicon|Brazil Paulo Silas
*flagicon|Italy Dario Hubner
*flagicon|Italy Alessandro Bianchi
*flagicon|Italy Ruggiero Rizzitelli
*flagicon|Italy Graziano Pellé
*flagicon|Italy Luigi Turci
*flagicon|Senegal Papa Waigo N'Diaye

References

External links

* [http://www.cesenacalcio.it Cesena's official website] it icon


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