Pavel Cebanu (born 28 March 1955) is a former Moldovan football player who played as a midfielder.
He transferred to the Sports School of Chișinău and played for the Moldovan team in the pupil's spartakiad of USSR.
[1] Cebanu graduated the Moscow Higher School of Coaches and started his managerial career at Nistru Chişinău in 1990, which placed 7th in the Soviet First League.
In the first season of the Moldovan National Division he coached the newly-formed Amocom Chișinău, which placed 5th, only below teams that played in USSR championships.
In the 1993-94 season he managed Olimpia Satu Mare, becoming the first Moldovan to coach a Romanian team.
The following season he coached both Codru Lozova, which placed last in Divizia A,[3] and Speranța Nisporeni, which promoted to the Moldovan National Division.
On 1 February 1997 he elected president of the federation at the general assembly, a position for which he was re-elected 5 times.