Catania S.S.D., commonly known as Catania, is an

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club based in the city of

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, that plays in . Originally founded in 1908 as ''Associazione Sportiva pro Educazione Fisica'', the club boasts 17 appearances in the top flight, achieved moderate success, reaching the top position of eighth place in

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on four occasions: during the early 1960s and again in 2012–13. However, this has not stopped it remaining one of the most important clubs in

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; is the 12th most popular team in Italy, with around 600,000 fans. The club also went on a number of dissolutions and refoundations, the last happening in 2022.

History

Origin

The origins of football being played by representatives of the

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can be traced back to English

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s, thanks to the workers who brought the game to

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. Specifically, the earliest Catania team can be traced to a match which took place on 2 May 1901 at ''San Raineri di Messina'' against

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; the team was named Royal Yacht Catania, an English ship with a local Catanian crew. The ship workers' team was just a pastime, however, and Catania's first professional and most stable football club was founded on 19 June 1908 by Italian film director Gaetano Ventimiglia and Francesco Sturzo d'Aldobrando, who founded the club under the name A.S. Educazione Fisica Pro Patria. Early on, they would always play against sailors visiting the port of Catania, particularly from foreign ships. Though their first ever match was against the Italian battleship , the game ended in a 1–1 draw and the Catania line-up that day consisted of Vassallo, Gismondo, Bianchi, Messina, Slaiter, Caccamo, Stellario, Binning, Cocuzza, Ventimiglia and Pappalardo. Just two years later, they changed the name to Unione Sportiva Catanese.

Foundation

In the north of Italy, football was more organised and those clubs competed in the early

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s, while the southern clubs competed in competitions such as the Lipton, Sant' Agata and Agordad cups. US Catanese survived

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and just after played in the local

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. Seven seasons later, in 1927, they were entered into the Campionato Catanese, which was won in the 1928–29 season. As they gained promotion, the team entered the Second Division, but the fascist reform of Italian football dictated the disbandment of Catanese and the establishment of Società Sportiva Catania on 27 June 1929.Tutto il Catania minuto per minuto (Antonio Buemi, Roberto Quartarone, Carlo Fontanelli, Alessandro Russo, Filippo Solarino - Geo Edizioni); pp. 101, 102, 105, 106, 109, 110, 116 The new club first competed in

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in the 1934–35 season, where they finished fourth; that year,

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won the Serie B title. Catania played in the league for three seasons during this period before ultimately being relegated. Down in

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, Catania were crowned champions in the 1938–39 season, finishing above Sicilian rivals Siracusa and Messina, who came in second- and third-place respectively. Their return to Serie B was not a pleasant one; the club finished bottom of the league and won only three games that season. The club's name was briefly changed to Associazione Calcio Fascista Catania during the 1942–43 season in

, which ended prematurely due to

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Rebirth

After World War II ended, a local competition was organised, the Campionato Siciliano. US Catanese were back; at the end of that season, a local team named Elefante Catania were merged into the club. The merged club kept the Catanese name and competed in Serie C during the 1945–46 season, but finished last. In the same league that season, a team called Virtus Catania were also present, finishing eighth. At the end of the season, Catanese and Virtus merged to form Club Calcio Catania, with the club's first president as Santi Manganaro-Passanisi, who had previously been president of Catanese. They were entered into Serie C, where they spent three seasons. After an epic duel with

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for first place in the league, Catania prevailed with stars such as Goffi, Messora, Ardesi and Prevosti, thereby gaining promotion to Serie B for the 1948–49 season.

Golden years

The late 1950s through 1960s are considered the golden years for the Catanian club, as they managed to achieve promotion to

on two occasions during this time. Their first promotion from Serie B came when, during the 1953–54 season, they beat

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and

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side Pro Patria to be crowned champions of the division. Their first season in Serie A saw the club achieve a respectable 12th-place finish, but the club were forcibly relegated due to financial scandal (as were

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). Under the management of

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, who had played for the club in the late 1930s, Catania gained promotion from Serie B in the 1959–60 season. The race for promotion in third spot went down to the last day of the season and was very tense. Catania had lost their final game 4–2 to

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and needed

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to get a good result against

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for the Sicilian club to secure promotion. That is exactly what happened, and Catania had thus gained promotion once more. Catania returned into Serie A for the 1960–61 season to begin what would be a six-year stay in the league. Their return season was emphatic, as the newly promoted club finished in eighth above top Italian clubs such as

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and

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. This season produced several notable wins; they beat Napoli and

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twice,

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3–0 at home and most notably beat

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4–3 in Sicily. Additionally, on the final day of the season, they beat

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2–0, with goals from Castellazzi and Calvanese. This rubbed the salt into the wounds of Inter, who lost the closely contested title that year to

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. Four years later, in 1965, Catania would also finish eighth in the league, this time above

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and Sicilian rivals

. Many of the club's most notable stars played around this time, such as midfielders Alvaro Biagini and the Brazilian

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, along with wingers Carlo Facchin and

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in the side. Catania more than held their own amongst the giants of Italian football, with wins against Juventus (2–0),

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(2–0) and Lazio (1–0).

Mixed fortunes in the 1970s and 1980s

After Catania's relegation in 1966, Carmelo Di Bella left and the club stayed in Serie B, later notably clashing with

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in the

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before the Palermitan club was promoted. Catania followed in 1969–70 with a third-place finish, ensuring promotion. Their stay in Serie A this time, however, was very brief, and they were relegated after just one season. Their most impressive results that season was 3–1 win against Lazio and a draw at home against Milan. Catania lacked goalscorers at the time, as they only scored 18 goals altogether in 30 games. Worse was to come for the club, who in 1973–74 were relegated down to

, but they were able to bounce straight back with a promotion into Serie B as champions. A similar situation occurred in 1976–77, where they were relegated down to Serie C. This time, however, they were not able to bounce right back; they finished second and then third before finally being crowned champions of what was now known as

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in 1979–80. After three short seasons, Catania were promoted after finishing in third place, behind Milan and Lazio, into Serie A. They played the 1983–84 season in Italy's top league, but it proved to be an especially dismal season, with only one win (which came against

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) and 12 points despite the presence of

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and Brazilian imports Luvanor and Pedrinho.

Decline and revival

The decline of Catania began most evidently after its last relegation to Serie B. The team was no longer able to reach the top division of Italian football, and instead continued to decline, remaining in

for the latter part of the 1980s. The lowest point of the club's history, however, was reached in 1993, when the team's participation for the year was cancelled by the

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(FIGC) due to financial irregularities. After a long judicial battle, however, magistrates declared the FIGC's decision as invalid, thus forcing it to include Catania back into the footballing fold for the year. Catania was thus included in the Sicilian Eccellenza (the sixth tier of Italian football), but in the meantime another Sicilian football team, Atletico Leonzio from

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(in the

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), had been relocated in the city and renamed

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. Despite all of this, the "real" Catania was able to rise back to

in a relatively small number of years, and even back to Serie B in 2002. In 2003, Catania was at the centre of a controversy that led to the enlargement of Serie B from 20 to 24 teams, known as ''Caso Catania''. The club claimed that

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fielded an ineligible player in a 1–1 tie, a result which saw Catania relegated, whereas the two extra points from a victory would have kept them safe. They were awarded a 2–0 victory before the result was reverted because the guilty player was a substitute which did not play the match, then Catania appealed to the judges of the Autonomous Region of Sicily who re-awarded the victory again. In August, the FIGC decided to let Catania, along with

and

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, stay in Serie B; the newly reborn

were also added for the 2003–04 season. The ruling led to protests and

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s by the other Serie B clubs that delayed the start of the season, until the intervention of the

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. The league was reduced to 22 teams for 2004–05, while at the same time Serie A expanded from 18 to 20 teams. During the start of that season, Antonino Pulvirenti, chairman of the flight company Windjet and owner of

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, a Sicilian

team, bought the club. Catania's new ownership let the team enjoy a revival, and in 2005–06 Catania ended in second position, earning promotion to Serie A.

Return to Serie A

The 2006–07 season saw Catania in

for its first appearance in 22 years. In their first year back, Catania began well, and though they recorded a couple of heavy defeats, their home form saw them peak as high as fourth after 20 games. Their return season changed drastically on 2 February 2007, due to the

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incident. It happened during the

with

, where policeman

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was killed during football-related violence caused by Catania

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outside the

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. The event led FIGC Commissioner

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to cancel all football-related events in the country for a period of time, including league and national team matches. Catania chairman and owner Antonino Pulvirenti announced his willingness to leave the football world, stating it was not possible to go on producing football in Catania. After the Italian football league restarted, Catania continued on but dropped in form largely. In truth, their slump in form had started just before the derby incident and all together they failed to win for 12 games in a row before beating

1–0 in late April 2007, where they eventually finished 13th. The following season, with manager

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leaving for Udinese and

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taking charge of the team, proved to be much harder. Poor results in the league table were however coupled with impressive performance in the

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, where Catania reached a historical place in the semi-finals, then lost to

. Meanwhile, Baldini resigned from his post on 31 March 2008, being replaced by

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in a somewhat surprise appointment (at least due to Zenga's lack of expertise at the Serie A level). Despite this, Zenga managed to lead the ''rossazzurri'' off the relegation zone, saving his side from falling down to Serie B in a heated final week game, a 1–1 home tie to Roma, with an equaliser goal scored by Jorge Martínez in the 85th minute. Zenga was successively confirmed in charge of the team for the upcoming 2008–09 season. On 5 June 2009, Zenga left Catania to be the manager at arch-rival Palermo. He was replaced by Gianluca Atzori, a relative coaching neophyte with just one year's experience at Lega Pro Prima Divisione team

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. Atzori was noted for using an attacking

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formation at Ravenna and was expected to continue a similar approach with the ''Elefanti''. On 8 December 2009,

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was appointed new head coach of Catania, taking over from Atzori. He signed a contract until June 2011 with the ''Elefanti''. Arriving at the club that was dead last in the Serie A standings, Mihajlović debuted with a loss against

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. The following week, however, his team pulled off a stunning upset by beating heavily favoured

away in

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with a 2–1 scoreline. After Mihajlović's departure to Fiorentina, Catania appointed

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as new head coach for the 2010–11 season. In January 2011, Catania decided to remove Giampaolo from his position due to poor results and replace him with former Argentine star

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, who had no previous experience at Serie A level but managed to guide the Sicilians to safety before to part company by the end of the season, after only four months in charge of the team. As a replacement, Catania appointed 37-year-old

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at his second managerial experience after having served as caretaker at Roma during the final part of the 2010–11 season. Then came

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in the 2012–13 season, who guided Catania to a record-breaking season where they accrued 56 points from 38 Serie A matches. The season also saw Catania take a record number of home wins in one season, its record number of victories overall in a single top flight campaign, as well as its record points total in Serie A for the fifth consecutive season. They also finished ahead of

at the conclusion of the season and were just five points away from competing in the

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, which would have been an incredible achievement for the side.

Another decline and 2022 bankruptcy

After being relegated from Serie A after the 2013–14 season, Catania was again relegated to the

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and deducted nine points, after, during the 2014–15 season, head coach and owner Antonio Pulvirenti admitted to

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five matches. The club announced that Sport Investment Group Italia S.p.A. (S.I.G.I.) acquired 95.4% of the club's assets on Friday, 24 July 2020. On 16 January 2021, a preliminary purchase agreement was signed, with which a group of investors represented by the

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lawyer

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undertook to purchase all shares from SIGI. The takeover however never materialized, and on 22 December 2021 the club was declared insolvent and entered administration. Following three auctions and a takeover offer by entrepreneur Benedetto Mancini which did not meet requirements, the club's provisional exercise by the Tribunal of Catania was effectively ended on 9 April 2022, thus paving the way to the club's immediate exclusion from the

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season. Soon after, the Italian Football Federation formalised the club's exclusion from the Italian professional ranks with immediate effect, and released all of the club's players and non-playing staff.

2022 refoundation

In June 2022, Australian development industry entrepreneur Ross Pelligra, whose mother was born in Catania, was assigned by the City of Catania the right to register a new club in the Italian

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, in compliance with

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regulation. He promised to invest ingent economical resources with the main goal to bring back Catania in Serie A, also showing interest in acquiring the ''Torre Del Grifo'' training center, built during the Pulvirenti era and considered one of the best in Italy. The new club, named Catania Società Sportiva Dilettantistica, with Ross Pelligra as president and

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as vice-president, was subsequently admitted to the

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Players

Current squad

Presidential history

Catania have had several presidents over the course of their history, some of which have been the owners of the club, others have been honorary presidents, here is a list of them from 1946 onwards.

Managerial history

Catania have had many managers and trainers throughout the history of a club, in some seasons more than one manager was in charge. Here is a chronological list of them from 1946 onwards.

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Stadium information

*Name:

*Location:

*Capacity: 23,420 *Inauguration: 27 November 1937 *Pitch Size: 110 x 70 metres Catania first made their debut at the

, then called the Stadio Cibali, in 1937. The stadium was renamed in honour of former president Angelo Massimino in 2002; he had been president of the club from 1969 until his death in 1996. It has been proposed that the club would move to a 33,765 seater stadium named Stadio Dèi Palici, which is to be located in the southern outskirts of the city of Catania in an industrial zone called Pantano d'Arci.

Sports center

Catania carries out its training sessions at the Torre del Grifo Village sports center, considered among the best in Europe, inaugurated on May 18, 2011, and located in the adjacent municipality of Mascalucia. Owned by the Etna club, the center covers an area of 150,000 m² and has four regulation soccer fields, two with natural grass and two with synthetic grass, two swimming pools, four gyms, a hotel with 150 beds, local restaurant and canteen. Furthermore, the structure is equipped with a series of futuristic services, among which a multipurpose center open to the public, a hotel and accommodation for the youth sector and a rehabilitation center equipped with state-of-the-art facilities stand out. The center also includes an 8-a-side football field and two 7-a-side football fields. In addition, Torre del Grifo also houses the headquarters of Calcio Catania.

Honours

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Prima Divisione Prima Divisione (''First Division'') was the name of the first level of the Italian Football Championship from 1921 to 1926. The competition was initially founded in opposition to the FIGC by the richest clubs of Northern Italy, which disagreed the ...

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important placings

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Divisional movements

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1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...

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1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...

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1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...

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1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

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Club records

*Highest League Position: 8th, in the 1960–61 1964–65 and 2012–13 seasons. *Most League Appearances: 281, Damiano Morra between 1975 and 1984. *Most League Goals: 47, Guido Klein and

. *Most Serie A Appearances: 150,

Giuseppe Vavassori Giuseppe Vavassori (; 29 June 1934 – 21 November 1983) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. After his death a stadium in Rivoli was named after him. Honours Juventus * Serie A champion: 1957–58, 1959–60, ...

between 1961 and 1966. *Most Serie A Points: 56 points in the 2012–13 season

Supporters

Catania is one of the two most supported teams in Sicily, together with harsh rivals

, with whom they compete in the

Derby di Sicilia The Derby di Sicilia or Sicilian Derby in English, is a local derby between Italian football clubs Calcio Catania and S.S.D. Palermo. Catania and Palermo are the two main cities on the island of Sicily, and the teams are fierce rivals. However, t ...

References

External links

Catania's official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Catania Football clubs in Italy Football clubs in Sicily Association football clubs established in 1946 Serie D clubs Eccellenza 1946 establishments in Italy Phoenix clubs (association football)