Cesena vs Empoli (27 October 2026) ⋆ Serie B ⋆ Live Score, Results, H2H, Stats & Lineups

Match events

14' Yellow card - S. Romagnoli
24' Yellow card - G. Frabotta
31' Yellow card - L. D'Andrea
34' SubstitutionG. Frabotta off - A. David on
39' Goal - C. ShpendiAssist - L. D'Andrea • 1 : 0
45+4' Yellow card - L. Magnino
46' SubstitutionM. Piacentini off - A. Ciofi on
46' SubstitutionS. Romagnoli off - G. Indragoli on
46' SubstitutionL. Magnino off - D. Bembnista on
56' SubstitutionB. Popov off - J. Ceesay on
62' Goal - E. Saporiti1 : 1
71' SubstitutionE. Bohinen off - M. Guidi on
71' SubstitutionL. D'Andrea off - A. Debenedetti on
72' SubstitutionG. Yepes off - F. Bandinelli on
74' Goal - J. Seghetti (o.g.)2 : 1
75' SubstitutionC. Cauz off - F. Di Stefano on
79' Yellow card - A. Debenedetti
81' Yellow card - C. Shpendi
83' SubstitutionX. Druiventak off - V. Magni on
89' Yellow card - V. Magni
90+5' Red card - S. Shpendi

Match statistics

46%Ball Possession54%

13Shots Total11

3Shots On Goal5

41Dangerous Attacks52

85Attacks119

7Corners5

Full statistics

Match information

Country: Italy
Competition: Serie B
Season: 2026/2027
Round: 9
Date: 27 October 2026
Kick-off: 19:00
Stadium: Stadio Dino Manuzzi
Referee: M. Perri

Standings

#	Team	P	GD	Pts
10	Avellino	9	+3	12
11	Cesena	9	-3	11
12	Entella	9	+1	10
…
17	Juve Stabia	9	0	8
18	Empoli	9	-7	7
19	Sampdoria	9	-10	5

Full standings

Recent form

Cesena

DDLDL

Empoli

LLLDL

Head-to-head

28 February 2026 • Serie B • Empoli 1 : 1 Cesena (Half-time 0 : 1)
10 January 2026 • Serie B • Cesena 0 : 1 Empoli (Half-time 0 : 0)

Full H2H

Clubs

Cesena

Founded: 1940
Country: Italy
Stadium: Orogel Stadium-Dino Manuzzi
City: Cesena
Capacity: 23 860
Surface: artificial turf

Empoli

Founded: 1920
Country: Italy
Stadium: Stadio Carlo Castellani
City: Empoli
Capacity: 16 284
Surface: grass

Match commentary

It is all over: Cesena 2 : 1 Empoli.
90+5'Red card! S. Shpendi (Empoli) is sent off.
89'Yellow card for V. Magni (Cesena).
83'Cesena make a change: X. Druiventak off, V. Magni on.
81'Yellow card for C. Shpendi (Cesena).
79'Yellow card for A. Debenedetti (Cesena).
75'Empoli make a change: C. Cauz off, F. Di Stefano on.
74'Goal! J. Seghetti (o.g.) scores for Cesena. 2 : 1.
72'Empoli make a change: G. Yepes off, F. Bandinelli on.
71'Cesena make a change: L. D'Andrea off, A. Debenedetti on.
71'Cesena make a change: E. Bohinen off, M. Guidi on.
62'Goal! E. Saporiti scores for Empoli. 1 : 1.
56'Empoli make a change: B. Popov off, J. Ceesay on.
46'Empoli make a change: L. Magnino off, D. Bembnista on.
46'Empoli make a change: S. Romagnoli off, G. Indragoli on.
46'Cesena make a change: M. Piacentini off, A. Ciofi on.
We are back for the second half.
Half-time. 1 : 0.
45+4'Yellow card for L. Magnino (Empoli).
39'Cesena score! L. D'Andrea sets it up and C. Shpendi finishes. 1 : 0.
34'Cesena make a change: G. Frabotta off, A. David on.
31'Yellow card for L. D'Andrea (Cesena).
24'Yellow card for G. Frabotta (Cesena).
14'Yellow card for S. Romagnoli (Empoli).
Kick-off! The match is under way.

Line-up - Cesena • 4-3-3

14Druiventak9Shpendi (C)16D'Andrea

32Bohinen10Pagano25Bisoli

7Frabotta24Mangraviti4Gelli26Piacentini

1Siano

4Jacopo Gelli
16Luca D'Andrea
10Riccardo Pagano
9Cristian Shpendi C
26Matteo Piacentini
1Alessandro Siano
7Gianluca Frabotta
24Massimiliano Mangraviti
32Emil Bohinen
25Dimitri Bisoli
14Xavello Druiventak

Substitutes

27Marco Dalla Vecchia
18Matteo Guidi
91Alessandro Debenedetti
6Mihajlo Ilić
39Niccolo Fontana
3Antonio David
11Maat Daniel Caprini
23Vittorio Magni
8Matteo Francesconi
2Mark Natta
15Andrea Ciofi
75FIlippo Galvagno

Line-up - Empoli • 3-5-2

11Shpendi77Popov

91Corrado10Saporiti21Yepes39Biondini98Zedadka

33Cauz6Romagnoli8Magnino (C)

12Seghetti

11Stiven Shpendi
21Gerard Yepes
10Edoardo Saporiti
98Karim Zedadka
91Niccolò Corrado
8Luca Magnino C
12Jacopo Seghetti
39Edoardo Biondini
77Bogdan Popov
33Cristian Cauz
6Simone Romagnoli

Substitutes

15Joseph Ceesay
28Gabriele Indragoli
20Filippo Distefano
5Duccio Degli Innocenti
23Filippo Bandinelli
44Lapo Deli
13Emiliano Filippis
36Dawid Bembnista
35Matteo Egan
1Samuele Perisan

Coaches

Cesena: Alessandro Diamanti
Empoli: Matteo Andreoletti

Team statistics

CesenaEmpoli

7Corners5

0Throw In0

0Free Kick0

0Goal Kick0

0Penalty0

5Substitution5

85Attacks119

41Dangerous Attacks52

46%Ball Possession54%

13Shots Total11

3Shots On Goal5

8Shots Off Goal4

2Shots Blocked2

8Shots Inside Box8

5Shots Outside Box3

14Fouls15

4Offsides0

5Yellow Cards2

0Red Cards1

4Saves2

404Passes Total480

333Passes Accurate410

Player statistics - Cesena

Player	Rating	Min	Goals	Assists	Shots	On target	Dribbles	Offsides
1Alessandro Siano	6.3	90	0	0	0	0	-	0
7Gianluca Frabotta	6.7	34	0	0	0	0	0/1	0
4Jacopo Gelli	6.9	90	0	0	0	0	-	0
24Massimiliano Mangraviti	7.2	90	0	0	1	0	-	0
26Matteo Piacentini	6.7	45	0	0	1	0	-	0
25Dimitri Bisoli	7.2	90	0	0	1	0	-	0
32Emil Bohinen	6.3	71	0	0	2	0	1/1	0
10Riccardo Pagano	7.3	90	0	0	1	1	1/2	0
9Cristian Shpendi C	8.0	90	1	0	2	1	2/2	2
16Luca D'Andrea	6.7	71	0	1	1	1	1/3	0
14Xavello Druiventak	6.3	83	0	0	1	0	0/3	2
3Antonio David sub	6.3	56	0	0	0	0	-	0
15Andrea Ciofi sub	6.9	45	0	0	0	0	-	0
91Alessandro Debenedetti sub	6.5	19	0	0	1	0	-	0
18Matteo Guidi sub	6.7	19	0	0	0	0	-	0
23Vittorio Magni sub	6.7	13	0	0	0	0	-	0

Player	Rating	Passes	Accurate	Accuracy	Key passes	Crosses
1Alessandro Siano	6.3	31	20	65%	0	-
7Gianluca Frabotta	6.7	19	17	89%	0	0/1
4Jacopo Gelli	6.9	51	41	80%	0	-
24Massimiliano Mangraviti	7.2	36	28	78%	0	-
26Matteo Piacentini	6.7	23	22	96%	0	1/2
25Dimitri Bisoli	7.2	49	41	84%	1	-
32Emil Bohinen	6.3	33	25	76%	1	0/1
10Riccardo Pagano	7.3	44	42	95%	1	4/7
9Cristian Shpendi C	8.0	18	17	94%	0	-
16Luca D'Andrea	6.7	28	24	86%	2	1/4
14Xavello Druiventak	6.3	20	18	90%	1	-
3Antonio David sub	6.3	16	13	81%	1	1/4
15Andrea Ciofi sub	6.9	29	22	76%	2	1/4
91Alessandro Debenedetti sub	6.5	3	1	33%	0	-
18Matteo Guidi sub	6.7	3	2	67%	0	-
23Vittorio Magni sub	6.7	1	0	0%	0	-

Player	Rating	Tackles	Interceptions	Clearances	Blocks	Duels won	Aerials	Fouls	YC
1Alessandro Siano	6.3	0	0	0	0	2/2	1	0	0
7Gianluca Frabotta	6.7	0	0	1	0	2/5	0	2	1
4Jacopo Gelli	6.9	3	2	3	0	6/8	3	2	0
24Massimiliano Mangraviti	7.2	3	0	10	1	8/11	4	0	0
26Matteo Piacentini	6.7	0	1	2	0	0/4	0	1	0
25Dimitri Bisoli	7.2	3	3	4	0	5/6	1	0	0
32Emil Bohinen	6.3	1	1	3	0	3/9	1	3	0
10Riccardo Pagano	7.3	2	1	2	1	6/10	0	0	0
9Cristian Shpendi C	8.0	0	0	1	0	4/9	1	1	1
16Luca D'Andrea	6.7	0	2	1	0	1/4	0	1	1
14Xavello Druiventak	6.3	2	0	0	0	5/14	1	2	0
3Antonio David sub	6.3	0	0	2	0	-	0	0	0
15Andrea Ciofi sub	6.9	2	1	1	0	2/3	0	0	0
91Alessandro Debenedetti sub	6.5	0	0	1	0	2/5	2	1	1
18Matteo Guidi sub	6.7	0	0	2	0	1/2	0	0	0
23Vittorio Magni sub	6.7	0	0	0	0	0/1	0	1	1

Player	Rating	Min	Saves	In the box	Punches	Conceded	Pens saved
1Alessandro Siano	6.3	90	4	3	0	1	0

Player statistics - Empoli

Player	Rating	Min	Goals	Shots	On target	Dribbles
12Jacopo Seghetti	5.9	90	0	0	0	-
33Cristian Cauz	6.5	76	0	0	0	-
8Luca Magnino C	6.2	45	0	0	0	-
6Simone Romagnoli	6.7	45	0	0	0	-
39Edoardo Biondini	6.3	90	0	1	0	0/1
10Edoardo Saporiti	8.2	90	1	2	2	3/5
21Gerard Yepes	7.3	71	0	0	0	-
98Karim Zedadka	7.3	90	0	2	1	-
91Niccolò Corrado	7.2	90	0	1	1	1/2
77Bogdan Popov	6.2	56	0	1	0	-
11Stiven Shpendi	6.7	90	0	2	1	1/2
36Dawid Bembnista sub	6.2	45	0	0	0	-
28Gabriele Indragoli sub	6.9	45	0	0	0	-
15Joseph Ceesay sub	6.2	34	0	0	0	0/2
23Filippo Bandinelli sub	6.7	19	0	0	0	0/1
20Filippo Distefano sub	6.7	14	0	0	0	-

Player	Rating	Passes	Accurate	Accuracy	Key passes	Crosses
12Jacopo Seghetti	5.9	30	16	53%	1	-
33Cristian Cauz	6.5	73	67	92%	0	-
8Luca Magnino C	6.2	33	31	94%	0	-
6Simone Romagnoli	6.7	31	30	97%	0	-
39Edoardo Biondini	6.3	37	27	73%	1	0/1
10Edoardo Saporiti	8.2	32	25	78%	0	2/15
21Gerard Yepes	7.3	43	39	91%	2	1/1
98Karim Zedadka	7.3	32	25	78%	0	1/2
91Niccolò Corrado	7.2	56	50	89%	2	2/5
77Bogdan Popov	6.2	10	6	60%	0	-
11Stiven Shpendi	6.7	12	10	83%	2	0/1
36Dawid Bembnista sub	6.2	26	24	92%	0	0/1
28Gabriele Indragoli sub	6.9	36	34	94%	0	-
15Joseph Ceesay sub	6.2	4	3	75%	0	-
23Filippo Bandinelli sub	6.7	18	17	94%	0	0/1
20Filippo Distefano sub	6.7	7	6	86%	0	0/1

Player	Rating	Tackles	Interceptions	Clearances	Blocks	Duels won	Aerials	Fouls	YC	RC
12Jacopo Seghetti	5.9	0	0	1	0	-	0	0	0	0
33Cristian Cauz	6.5	2	1	4	0	2/4	0	0	0	0
8Luca Magnino C	6.2	0	1	0	0	1/3	0	1	1	0
6Simone Romagnoli	6.7	0	2	8	0	3/5	3	1	1	0
39Edoardo Biondini	6.3	2	0	2	0	3/8	0	2	0	0
10Edoardo Saporiti	8.2	0	0	0	0	6/10	1	1	0	0
21Gerard Yepes	7.3	5	0	1	1	8/12	1	1	0	0
98Karim Zedadka	7.3	2	1	2	0	7/8	2	0	0	0
91Niccolò Corrado	7.2	0	0	1	0	1/2	0	0	0	0
77Bogdan Popov	6.2	0	0	0	0	1/5	1	2	0	0
11Stiven Shpendi	6.7	1	1	0	0	5/13	0	3	0	1
36Dawid Bembnista sub	6.2	0	1	4	0	2/6	2	0	0	0
28Gabriele Indragoli sub	6.9	1	1	4	1	2/3	0	1	0	0
15Joseph Ceesay sub	6.2	0	0	0	0	1/4	0	1	0	0
23Filippo Bandinelli sub	6.7	1	0	0	0	1/4	0	1	0	0
20Filippo Distefano sub	6.7	0	0	1	0	2/5	2	1	0	0

Player	Rating	Min	Saves	In the box	Punches	Conceded	Pens saved
12Jacopo Seghetti	5.9	90	2	1	0	2	0

Head-to-head

Last 2 meetings

Cesena wins0

Draws1

Empoli wins1

Goals: Cesena: 1 (0.5)
Goals: Empoli: 2 (1.0)
Goals per match: 1.5
Both teams scored: 1 / 2
Over 2.5 goals: 0 / 2

Results

28 February 2026 • Serie B • Empoli 1 : 1 Cesena (Half-time 0 : 1)
10 January 2026 • Serie B • Cesena 0 : 1 Empoli (Half-time 0 : 0)

Form: last 9 matches

	Cesena	Empoli
W-D-L	1-5-3	2-2-5
Scored (per match)	8 (0.9)	8 (0.9)
Conceded (per match)	15 (1.7)	14 (1.6)
Clean sheets	0 / 9	2 / 9
Both teams scored	6 / 9	5 / 9
Over 2.5 goals	4 / 9	3 / 9

Recent form - Cesena

L24 October 2026 • Serie B • Modena 3 : 0 Cesena (Half-time 3 : 0)
D18 October 2026 • Serie B • Cesena 1 : 1 Avellino (Half-time 0 : 0)
L10 October 2026 • Serie B • Benevento 2 : 0 Cesena (Half-time 1 : 0)
D18 September 2026 • Serie B • Juve Stabia 1 : 1 Cesena (Half-time 0 : 1)
D12 September 2026 • Serie B • Cesena 2 : 2 Cremonese (Half-time 1 : 0)
D6 September 2026 • Serie B • Cesena 1 : 1 Mantova (Half-time 0 : 1)
W29 August 2026 • Serie B • Entella 1 : 2 Cesena (Half-time 1 : 2)
D23 August 2026 • Serie B • Cesena 1 : 1 Sampdoria (Half-time 1 : 0)
L17 August 2026 • Coppa Italia • Sassuolo 3 : 0 Cesena (Half-time 2 : 0)

Recent form - Empoli

L23 October 2026 • Serie B • Empoli 0 : 2 L.R. Vicenza (Half-time 0 : 1)
D17 October 2026 • Serie B • Ascoli 1 : 1 Empoli (Half-time 1 : 1)
L10 October 2026 • Serie B • Empoli 2 : 4 Palermo (Half-time 0 : 0)
L20 September 2026 • Serie B • Modena 2 : 1 Empoli (Half-time 0 : 1)
L11 September 2026 • Serie B • Empoli 0 : 1 Arezzo (Half-time 0 : 0)
W5 September 2026 • Serie B • Carrarese 0 : 1 Empoli (Half-time 0 : 0)
L30 August 2026 • Serie B • Mantova 3 : 1 Empoli (Half-time 0 : 0)
W22 August 2026 • Serie B • Empoli 1 : 0 Cremonese (Half-time 1 : 0)
D8 August 2026 • Club Friendlies • Livorno 1 : 1 Empoli (Half-time 0 : 0)

Standings

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Palermo	9	7	2	0	21	11	+10	23
2	Modena	9	6	1	2	17	9	+8	19
3	Ascoli	9	5	3	1	16	6	+10	18
4	Mantova	9	5	2	2	14	10	+4	17
5	Benevento	9	4	3	2	14	8	+6	15
6	Pisa	9	4	3	2	18	13	+5	15
7	Padova	9	4	1	4	9	10	-1	13
8	Sudtirol	9	3	4	2	10	9	+1	13
9	Verona	9	3	3	3	16	13	+3	12
10	Avellino	9	3	3	3	13	10	+3	12
11	Cesena	9	2	5	2	10	13	-3	11
12	Entella	9	2	4	3	11	10	+1	10
13	Carrarese	9	3	1	5	9	10	-1	10
14	Arezzo	9	3	1	5	9	19	-10	10
15	Cremonese	9	2	3	4	8	11	-3	9
16	L.R. Vicenza	9	2	3	4	12	17	-5	9
17	Juve Stabia	9	3	3	3	9	9	0	8
18	Empoli	9	2	1	6	8	15	-7	7
19	Sampdoria	9	1	2	6	8	18	-10	5
20	Catanzaro	9	1	2	6	10	21	-11	5

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Palermo	4	4	0	0	8	3	+5	12
2	Ascoli	5	3	2	0	8	3	+5	11
3	Modena	4	3	0	1	8	4	+4	9
4	Benevento	6	2	3	1	10	7	+3	9
5	Sudtirol	5	2	3	0	5	2	+3	9
6	Verona	5	2	2	1	11	6	+5	8
7	Avellino	5	2	1	2	9	5	+4	7
8	Cesena	5	1	4	0	7	6	+1	7
9	Padova	5	2	1	2	5	5	0	7
10	Mantova	5	2	1	2	7	7	0	7
11	Pisa	5	2	1	2	9	10	-1	7
12	Carrarese	5	2	0	3	5	6	-1	6
13	Juve Stabia	4	1	1	2	4	5	-1	4
14	Cremonese	4	1	1	2	3	5	-2	4
15	L.R. Vicenza	4	1	1	2	5	8	-3	4
16	Sampdoria	3	1	0	2	4	5	-1	3
17	Entella	5	0	3	2	5	7	-2	3
18	Empoli	4	1	0	3	3	7	-4	3
19	Catanzaro	3	1	0	2	3	9	-6	3
20	Arezzo	4	0	1	3	3	10	-7	1

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Palermo	5	3	2	0	13	8	+5	11
2	Modena	5	3	1	1	9	5	+4	10
3	Mantova	4	3	1	0	7	3	+4	10
4	Arezzo	5	3	0	2	6	9	-3	9
5	Pisa	4	2	2	0	9	3	+6	8
6	Juve Stabia	5	2	2	1	5	4	+1	8
7	Ascoli	4	2	1	1	8	3	+5	7
8	Entella	4	2	1	1	6	3	+3	7
9	Benevento	3	2	0	1	4	1	+3	6
10	Padova	4	2	0	2	4	5	-1	6
11	Avellino	4	1	2	1	4	5	-1	5
12	Cremonese	5	1	2	2	5	6	-1	5
13	L.R. Vicenza	5	1	2	2	7	9	-2	5
14	Carrarese	4	1	1	2	4	4	0	4
15	Verona	4	1	1	2	5	7	-2	4
16	Sudtirol	4	1	1	2	5	7	-2	4
17	Empoli	5	1	1	3	5	8	-3	4
18	Cesena	4	1	1	2	3	7	-4	4
19	Catanzaro	6	0	2	4	7	12	-5	2
20	Sampdoria	6	0	2	4	4	13	-9	2

Top scorers

#	Player	Team	Goals	Pen.	Assists
1	J. Pohjanpalo	Palermo	12	0	2
2	M. Coda	Sampdoria	9	0	3
3	A. Adorante	Venezia	9	0	0
4	E. Gliozzi	Modena	9	0	0
5	C. Shpendi	Cesena	8	0	4
5	F. Ghedjemis	Frosinone	8	0	0
1	C. Shpendi	Cesena	7	1	0
7	J. Yeboah	Venezia	7	0	8
8	F. Abiuso	Carrarese	7	0	4
9	T. Biasci	Avellino	7	0	3
10	M. Bortolussi	Padova	7	0	0
2	Andrea Belotti	Modena	6	0	0
3	Daniel Mosquera	Hellas Verona	6	0	0
11	I. Koutsoupias	Frosinone	6	0	0
12	A. Cisse	Catanzaro	6	0	0
13	A. Tiritiello	Entella	6	0	0
13	L. Candellone	Juve Stabia	6	0	0
13	N. Schiavi	Carrarese	6	0	0
13	S. Shpendi	Empoli	6	0	0
4	Dennis Johnsen	Palermo	5	0	5
10	Saporiti Edoardo	Empoli	3	1	0
34	B. Popov	Empoli	2	1	0
41	A. Fiori	Cesena	2	0	0