Luca Ceccarelli (born 24 March 1983) is an Italian former footballer, who currently plays as a right back for San Marino.
[2] After Cesena was relegated in June 2008, Ceccarelli returned to the team for their Lega Pro Prima Divisione (ex-Serie C1) campaign, which Romagna side won the Group A champion.
After Nagatomo left the club in January for international duty, his starting place became solid again, only missed the match against Roma.
In late January, Nagatomo left for Internazionale, in exchange with Davide Santon, made Ceccarelli played more regularly, only missed the match against the strong team for team tactic, as the coach demanded a more defensive right-back instead of a wing-back: Napoli (replaced by Dellafiore), Juventus, Lazio and Palermo (replaced by Santon) and a relegation decider (against bottom team Bari) Overall, he started 25 times, made the most assists among the teammate (5), cautioned six times and suspended once (in round 28).
[4] At the start of the season, Cesena signed experienced right-back Gianluca Comotto, made Ceccarelli became his understudy.