Michele Cerofolini

After appearing on the bench 3 times for Fiorentina in November/December 2019, on 9 January 2020 he joined Serie C club Casertana on loan. Three days later, on 12 January, he made his debut for the club in a 2–2 away draw against Rende. Ten more days later, on 22 January, Cerofolini kept his first clean sheet for Casertana in a 0–0 home draw against Potenza.

On 25 January 2019, Cerofolini moved on another loan, to Serie C club Bisceglie. Two days later, on 27 January, he made his debut in a 1–0 home defeat against Viterbese Castrense. Two weeks later, on 10 February, he kept his first clean sheet for the team in a 0–0 home draw against Trapani and two more weeks later, on 24 February, he kept his second in a 0–0 away draw against Paganese. He became Bisceglie's first-choice in the second part of the season. Cerofolini ended his 6-month loan to Bisceglie with 13 appearances, 11 goals conceded and 6 clean sheets.

On 13 July 2018, Cerofolini joined Serie B club Cosenza on a season-long loan. He made his professional debut in Serie B for Cosenza on 26 September 2018 in a 2–0 away defeat against Cremonese. One month later, on 30 October, he played his second match for the club, a 1–1 home draw against Pescara. However, in January 2019, his loan was interrupted and he returned to Fiorentina leaving Cosenza with only these 2 appearances, remaining an unused substitute for 17 times during the loan, here he was the third goalkeeper after Pietro Perina and Umberto Saracco.

Later in the same year he began to be called up to the Under-19 squad, and eventually was included in Italy's roster for the 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, in which Italy was the runner-up to Portugal. He did not make any appearances at the tournament, serving as back-up to Alessandro Plizzari.

In the fall of 2018 he was included in Italy's Under-20 squad and played in 2018–19 Under 20 Elite League games.

He is a product of Fiorentina youth teams and started playing for their Under-19 squad in the 2015–16 season at the age of 17. He started making bench appearances for Fiorentina's senior squad in the 2016–17 Serie A season. On 23 August 2017, he made his first appearance for Fiorentina's senior squad, coming on as an 87th-minute substitute for Bartłomiej Drągowski (becoming Fiorentina's third goalkeeper of the game) in a friendly Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu matchup against Real Madrid. In 2017–18 season, he appeared on the bench in most of the Serie A games for Fiorentina, but did not play in any, remaining a backup to Marco Sportiello and Dragowski.

Cerofolini was first chosen to represent his country when he was called up to Italy national under-18 football team for a series of friendlies in February 2017.

Michele Cerofolini (born 4 January 1999) is an Italian football player. He plays for Casertana on loan from Fiorentina.