Parma Calcio 1913 (), commonly known as Parma, is an Italian professional
football
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club based in
Parma
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,
Emilia-Romagna
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, which competes in the
Serie B
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, the second tier of
Italian football
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.
''Parma Football Club'' was originally founded in December 1913, while the current society dates back to 2015. The team has been playing its home matches in the 27,906-seat
Stadio Ennio Tardini, often referred to as simply ''Il Tardini'', since 1923.
Financed by
Calisto Tanzi
Calisto Tanzi (17 November 1938 – 1 January 2022) was an Italian businessman and convicted fraudster. He founded Parmalat in 1961, after dropping out of college. Parmalat collapsed in 2003 with a €14bn ($20bn; £13bn) hole in its accounts ...
, the club won eight trophies between 1992 and 2002, a period in which it achieved its best ever league finish as runners-up in the
1996–97 season. The club has won three
Coppa Italia
The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since.
History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
, one
Supercoppa Italiana, two
UEFA Cup
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s, one
European Super Cup and one
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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.
Financial troubles were brought about in late 2003 by the
Parmalat scandal
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which caused the
parent company to collapse and resulted in the club operating in
controlled administration until January 2007. The club was declared bankrupt in 2015 and refounded in the
Serie D
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, but secured a record three straight promotions to return to the top flight in 2018.
History
Early years (1913–1968)
The club was founded in July 1913 as Verdi Foot Ball Club in honour of the
centenary of famous opera composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...
, who was born in the
province of Parma. It adopted yellow and blue as its colours.
[Sappino (2000), p. 986]
In December of the same year, Parma Foot Ball Club was formed from many of the original club's players and began wearing white shirts emblazoned with a black cross.
Parma began playing league football during the
1919–20 season after the end of
World War I
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. Construction of a stadium, the
Stadio Ennio Tardini, began two years later.
Parma became a founder member of
Serie B
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after finishing as runners-up in the
Prima Divisione in the
1928–29 season. The club would remain in Serie B for three years before being relegated and changing its name to Associazione Sportiva Parma in 1930.
In the
1935–36 season, Parma became a founding member of
Serie C
The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C.
The unification of the Lega Pro ...
, where the club stayed until winning promotion back to Serie B in
1943
Events
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January
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* January 4 – ...
.
Italian football
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was then brought to a halt as the
Second World War
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intensified, although the team did make an appearance in the
Campianto Alta Italia in 1944.
![Parma Associazione Sportiva 1956-57](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Parma_Associazione_Sportiva_1956-57.jpg)
Following the restart of organised football, Parma spent three years in Serie B, then split into two regional divisions, before again being relegated in
1948–49 to Serie C. The side would spend another five seasons in Serie C before an eleven-year spell in Serie B that included the achievement of ninth position in
1954–55, a club record at that time.
This was an era in which the club's players generally held down other jobs or were still in education and when the town's amateur
rugby union
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and
volleyball
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sides,
Rugby Parma F.C. 1931
Crociati Parma Rugby F.C. are an Italian rugby union club. They are based in Parma in Emilia-Romagna. They were founded in 2010 by the merger of Rugby Parma F.C. (''Overmach Parma'') and F.C. Rugby Noceto and disbanded in 2014.
Rugby Parma
''Rug ...
and
Ferrovieri Parma, proved more popular among the more privileged.
[Dunford (2011), pp. 739–740] Parma made its debut in European competition during the 1960–61 season, defeating Swiss side
AC Bellinzona
AC Bellinzona is a Swiss football club based in Bellinzona. It was founded in 1904, and won the Swiss Super League in 1948. After being folded in 2013 declaring bankruptcy, the team played the Ticino Group of 2.Liga, the sixth tier of the Swi ...
in the
Coppa delle Alpi
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, but relegation to Serie C followed in
1964–65 season. Parma spent just one season in Serie C before a second successive relegation, this time to
Serie D
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, in 1966.
Rebirth and improvement (1968–1989)
The club was in turmoil and was ordered into liquidation by the Court of Parma in 1968, changing its name to Parma Football Club that year. In 1969, another local team, Associazione Calcio Parmense, won promotion to
Serie D
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. On 1 January 1970, A.C. Parmense adopted the sporting licence of the liquidated club which had been formed in 1913. This meant that it had the right to use the ''Crociata'' shirts, the badge and the city's name.
This brought about a change of luck in both financial and sporting terms, as the side was crowned Serie D champions and spent three years in
Serie C
The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C.
The unification of the Lega Pro ...
before promotion to
Serie B
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; however, it was a short stay. The team was relegated back to Serie C in its second season in the division. A return to Serie B did not materialise until the end of the 1970s and the club again lasted only one season in the second division of Italian football.
![Parma Associazione Calcio 1973-1974](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Parma_Associazione_Calcio_1973-1974.jpg)
Under the management of
Cesare Maldini, Parma once again returned to Serie B after winning its division in 1984 with victory on the final day over
Sanremo
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;
Juventus
Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...
-bound
Stefano Pioli
Stefano Pioli (; born 20 October 1965) is an Italian football manager and a former footballer who played as a defender. He is the head coach at Serie A club AC Milan, whom he led to the Serie A title in 2022.
Playing career
Pioli, a native of ...
scored the only goal of the game. The Ducali again only spent a year in Serie B, finishing third from bottom and succumbing to relegation as a consequence.
Arrigo Sacchi
Arrigo Sacchi (born 1 April 1946) is an Italian former professional football coach. He has twice managed AC Milan (1987–1991, 1996–1997), with great success. He won the Serie A title in his 1987–88 debut season and then dominated European ...
did, however, manage to return the club to Serie B in 1986 after a single season in the third tier. The side enjoyed good success that season in missing out on promotion to Italy's top tier by just three points and eliminating
A.C. Milan
Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional Association football, football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 ...
from the
Coppa Italia
The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since.
History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
, a result that convinced owner
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ...
to hire Sacchi as the new manager of the ''Rossoneri''. Sacchi's replacement,
Zdeněk Zeman, was fired after just seven matches and replaced by Giampieri Vitali, who secured two consecutive mid-table finishes.
Success and insolvency (1989–2004)
Nevio Scala
Nevio Scala (; born 22 November 1947) is an Italian football sporting director, coach and former player.
Throughout his footballing career, he played as a midfielder for several Italian clubs, and won several titles during his time with A.C. Mil ...
was appointed as head coach in 1989.
Scala's Parma secured a historic promotion in
1990
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to
Serie A
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with a 2–0
Derby dell'Enza win over
Reggiana.
Investment from
parent company Parmalat helped to improve the team's fortunes and the club made its debut in
UEFA
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competition in 1991.
Scala led the club to its first four major honours. The first of these was the
Coppa Italia
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History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
in
1991–92, beating
Juventus
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2–1 over two legs. The following year came the first international triumph in a 3–1 victory in the
Cup Winners' Cup
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over Belgian side
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, at
Wembley
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.
The next season, the side was successful in the
European Super Cup, overcoming
Milan
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2–1 on aggregate, but lost the
Cup Winners' Cup final 1–0 to
Arsenal
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.
Scala's final success with Parma was in another two-legged final against Juventus:
Dino Baggio
Dino Baggio (born 24 July 1971) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Throughout his career, he played for several Italian clubs, and won the UEFA Cup three times, twice with Parma and once with Juven ...
scored twice to give Parma a
2–1 aggregate win, but Juventus exacted revenge in the
Coppa Italia
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History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
final. Replaced by
Carlo Ancelotti
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, Scala departed in 1996 and was a popular coach for the trophies he won and because the team played attractive football in the tradition of the club.
Ancelotti overhauled the team and guided it to a record second place in
1997
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.
Parma consequently made its debut in the
UEFA Champions League
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the following year.
Alberto Malesani
Alberto Malesani (; born 5 June 1954) is an Italian football manager and former player. As a manager, he is mostly remembered for his successful spell with Parma during the late 1990s, where he won the Coppa Italia, the UEFA Cup, and the Superc ...
was installed as coach in 1998 and the club completed a rare cup double in his first season, winning the
Coppa Italia
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History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
final against
Fiorentina
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on the
away goals rule
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and the
UEFA Cup
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against
Marseille
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at the
Luzhniki Stadium
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in
Moscow
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with a 3–0 victory before
1999 Supercoppa Italiana victory over league champions Milan followed in August 1999. In 2000, Hernán Crespo was sold to
Lazio
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for a
world record transfer fee and Malesani departed.
Under replacement
Renzo Ulivieri
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Career
After a very short playing career as ...
, the club lost the
Coppa Italia
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History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
final to Fiorentina. Under
Pietro Carmignani
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in 2002, Parma
won the third Coppa Italia trophy against Juventus (but would slip to defeat in the
2002 Supercoppa Italiana
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It was the fifth appearance for Juventus (2 victories in 1995 and 1997) and the fourth for Parma (victory ...
) and finished outside the top six for the first time since promotion in 1990. This success earned it a tag as one of the "Seven Sisters".
In April 2004, the club was declared insolvent following the financial meltdown of Parmalat and the club remained in special administration for three years.
Rebirth and another bankruptcy (2004–2015)
The club re-formed as Parma Football Club SpA in June 2004 (as a subsidiary of being liquidated Parma AC SpA) and the
2004–05 season saw Parma plummet to its lowest finish in Serie A – despite a second consecutive 23-goal haul from Gilardino, who was then sold for €25 million – as managers came and went.
Parma ended
the following season, its first without
European
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competition since 1991, in tenth, but returned in 2006 after the
''Calciopoli'' scandal.
![Hernán Crespo - 07FEB2007 - Francia - presidencia-govar](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Hern%C3%A1n_Crespo_-_07FEB2007_-_Francia_-_presidencia-govar.jpg)
On 24 January 2007, Tommaso Ghirardi bought the club out of
administration
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and became the owner and president of the club.
Manager
Claudio Ranieri
Claudio Ranieri Grande Ufficiale OMRI (; born 20 October 1951) is an Italian football manager and former player. He will be the new head coach of club Cagliari from 1 January 2023.
Ranieri began his managerial career in the lower leagues in ...
helped the team avoid relegation to Serie B on the final day of the
2006–07 season following his February appointment. However, under a succession of managers, Parma's battle with relegation
the following year was not successful, consigning the club to
Serie B
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after 18 years in the top flight.
Francesco Guidolin
Francesco Guidolin (; born 3 October 1955) is an Italian football manager and former player, most recently the manager of Premier League team Swansea City. He has coached various Italian club sides in Serie A, winning the 1996–97 Coppa Ital ...
won promotion back to Serie A at the first attempt with a second-place finish and led the side to eighth on its return to Serie A in
2009–10, narrowly missing out on qualification for the UEFA Europa League before leaving for
Udinese
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. In May 2010, Guidolin swapped jobs with
Pasquale Marino
Pasquale Marino (born 13 July 1962) is an Italian football manager and former midfielder. He most recently served as the manager of Crotone.
Career
Playing career
In his playing career, started for his home team, Marsala, Marino never played in ...
, who was sacked by Ghirardi in April 2011 when Parma was caught in another relegation dogfight. Under Marino's replacement,
Franco Colomba
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Career
Playing
Colomba, a midfielder, started his playing career in Bologna, making his Serie A ...
, Parma escaped the threat of relegation with two games to spare. In January 2012, Colomba was replaced by
Roberto Donadoni
Roberto Donadoni (; born 9 September 1963) is an Italian football manager and former midfielder.
Donadoni was capable of playing on either flank, or in the centre. He began his career with Atalanta, and he later became a pillar of the powerhous ...
following a winless run that culminated in a 5–0 loss to
Inter Milan
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and the new coach led the team to eighth position in a Serie A club record seven-match winning run.
In 2014, Donadoni guided Parma to sixth in Serie A and a third consecutive top ten finish, but a return to Europe in the Europa League for the first time since 2007 was barred due to the late payment of income tax on salaries, not qualifying for a UEFA license, for which the club would also be docked points during the
2014–15 Serie A season. Financial troubles precipitated a succession of ownership changes and the club's eventual bankruptcy in March 2015 with total liabilities of €218 million, including €63m unpaid salaries.
The club was allowed to finish the season but finished bottom of the league in 20th place. Administrators Angelo Anedda and Alberto Guiotto were forced to put some trophies to sell in an
auction
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in a desperate attempt to raise money to cover the debt. These included: three Coppa Italia won in 1992, 1999 and 2002, the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup from 1993, the 1994 UEFA Super Cup, two UEFA Cup of 1995 and 1999 and the 1999 Supercoppa Italiana.
Another rebirth (2015–present)
![2017–18 Parma Calcio awarded at the city hall](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/2017%E2%80%9318_Parma_Calcio_awarded_at_the_city_hall.jpg)
The re-founded club, S.S.D. Parma Calcio 1913, was formed in July 2015, taking its name from the year of foundation of the predecessor club and securing a place in the
2015–16 Serie D under
article 52 of N.O.I.F. as the representative of Parma. Ex-head coach
Nevio Scala
Nevio Scala (; born 22 November 1947) is an Italian football sporting director, coach and former player.
Throughout his footballing career, he played as a midfielder for several Italian clubs, and won several titles during his time with A.C. Mil ...
was appointed as president and former player
Luigi Apolloni
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was chosen as head coach. In the club's first season, it sold over 9,000 season tickets, more than doubling the
Serie D
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record. Parma achieved promotion from Serie D into professional football league
Lega Pro
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The unification of the Lega Pro ...
with three games to spare following a 2–1 win against
Delta Rovigo, ending the season in first place with 94 points from 38 games, and an unbeaten run of 28 victories and 10 draws.
Parma ended the
2016–17 Lega Pro season in second place of Group B, but were promoted to Serie B after a 2–0 win over
Alessandria in the promotion play-off final. On 18 May 2018, Parma achieved a third promotion in three seasons, becoming the first Italian football club to achieve this, having finished the
2017–18 Serie B season second behind champions
Empoli
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and level on points with
Frosinone
Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the Va ...
, but achieving automatic promotion due to a better head-to-head record, thus making a comeback to the top flight for the next season in
2018–19 Serie A just three seasons after their bankruptcy relegation to Serie D. On 23 July 2018, Parma were handed a 5 point deduction for the 2018–19 Serie A season, following text messages from Parma player
Emanuele Calaio "eliciting a reduced effort" from two players of
Spezia
La Spezia (, or , ; in the local Spezzino dialect) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy.
La Spezia is the second largest cit ...
(
Filippo De Col and
Claudio Terzi) during the 2017–18 season, a match Parma won 2–0 to secure promotion. On 9 August, Parma had the 5-point deduction expunged.
In the club's first season back in
Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...
, they managed to achieve a 14th placed finish on the table, three points above the relegation zone.
Colours and badge
Originally, the club wore yellow and blue chequered shirts in honour of the city's traditional colours, which date back to 1545 when the
Duchy of Parma
The Duchy of Parma and Piacenza ( it, Ducato di Parma e Piacenza, la, Ducatus Parmae et Placentiae), was an Italian state created in 1545 and located in northern Italy, in the current region of Emilia-Romagna.
Originally a realm of the Farnese ...
was established,
but white shirts with a black
cross
A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars, usually perpendicular to each other. The lines usually run vertically and horizontally. A cross of oblique lines, in the shape of the Latin letter X, is termed a sa ...
on the chest were introduced after the
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, drawing inspiration from
Juventus
Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...
' colours, following a name change.
White continued to be worn as the main colour of the home kits for much of the remainder of the century, although often complemented with yellow, blue or both, rather than black. The club did, however, experiment in the 1950s with blue shirts and blue and yellow striped shirts. The cross shirts were restored and worn until bankruptcy in 1968, when white shirts with off-centre blue and yellow vertical bands were worn, but the cross returned from 1970 until 1983 when a yellow and blue-sleeved white shirt was introduced and used for 8 years.
After decades in the lower divisions, Parma was promoted to Serie A in 1990, where the side immediately became a major force in the battle for major trophies, on many notable occasions in direct opposition to Juventus, who would become fierce rivals of Parma's. This rivalry and the influence of
Parmalat led to the demotion of the white shirts to the away kit, so the side wore yellow and blue hooped shirts at home for six seasons between 1998 and 2004, and navy blue shirts often worn as third choice in this period. This was a time of great success for the club, thus the shirts became synonymous with Parma, often still called the ''Gialloblù'' (Yellow and Blues) today, despite a recent reversion to the traditional white shirts emblazoned with a cross caused by parent company
Parmalat's collapse and the clubs subsequent re-foundation as Parma Football Club. Yellow and blue were Parma's traditional change colours, used in various combinations from 2004 to 2015, such as vertical stripes, hoops, crosses or as solid colour designs.
Parma's logo changed in 2005 to reflect the name change from Parma A.C. to Parma F.C., but the logo otherwise remained the same, encompassing the city colours of yellow and blue and the club's traditional black cross set on a white background, and has not changed much in years, although it was dramatically overhauled to feature a prancing bull for one season in 2000–01 before it was criticised and discontinued in favour of the old badge. A new badge with broadly similar features was introduced for the 2014–15 season following the use of a commemorative centenary badge for the 2013–14 campaign. The newly formed club in 2015 adopted a new logo before acquiring the rights to a number of legacy items for €250,000 a year later.
File:FC Parma.svg, Parma F.C.'s crest until 2012
File:Parma FC logo.png, Parma F.C. logo, 2014–15
File:Logo of Parma Calcio.png, S.S.D. Parma Calcio 1913 badge, 2015–16
Grounds
![Ennio Tardini](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Ennio_Tardini.JPG)
Parma initially had no permanent home and used the ''Piazza d'Armi'', where two wooden posts constituted the frame of each goal. In December 1914, the club began to use land between the
Via Emilia
The ( it, Via Emilia; en, Aemilian Way) was a trunk Roman road in the north Italian plain, running from ''Ariminum'' (Rimini), on the Adriatic coast, to ''Placentia'' (Piacenza) on the river ''Padus'' ( Po). It was completed in 187 BC. The ' ...
, the Eridania refinery and the Ferraguti factory, but it was sold, so the club returned to the ''Piazza d'Armi'' before transferring to the ''Tre Pioppi'', the first fenced-off pitch in the city. Parma moved into the
Stadio Ennio Tardini in 1923 and remains there today, although the stadium saw drastic change from the vision of
Ennio Tardini, under whose auspices the stadium was to be built, but who died before completion of the venue.
Much of the renovation took place after the club's first promotion to
Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...
at the start of the 1990s.
Since 1996, the first team has trained and played friendly matches at the
Centro Sportivo di Collecchio in
Collecchio
Collecchio ( Parmigiano: ) is a town in the province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It is located by road southwest of the centre of Parma. A major food-producing area, it is home to multinational Italian dairy and food corporation Parm ...
, which is located 15 kilometres to the south-west of the stadium. Parma's
youth teams also play their home matches in the same complex. Until 2015, younger youth teams trained at Campi Stuard but now train at Collechio.
In 2018, the refounded Parma Calcio 1913 acquired the centre from the administrator of Eventi Sportivi S.p.A., the parent company of Parma F.C., and the former owner of the centre, for about €3 million.
Support
![Coat of arms of the House of Farnese](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Coat_of_arms_of_the_House_of_Farnese.svg)
The supporters of Parma are seen as placid fans. Traditionally, they have been seen as fans who enjoy the spectacle of football and are less partisan, although they have been more characterised by impatience of late.
The supporters were praised for their loyalty after the club sold more season tickets in 2015 when playing in
Serie D
The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...
than the previous year in
Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...
following bankruptcy.
In
Northeast Italy
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, the team is the fifth best supported, behind
Inter Milan
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Football in Italy, Italian professional Association football, football ...
,
Juventus
Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...
,
Milan
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and
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
, the first three of which are not based in that region. They are represented by three main groups: ''il Centro di Coordinamento dei Parma Club'' (which represents most of the fanbase), ''l'Associazione Petitot'' and the club's
ultras
Ultras are a type of association football fans who are renowned for their fanatical support. The term originated in Italy, but is used worldwide to describe predominantly organised fans of association football teams. The behavioural tende ...
, ''Boys Parma'', which was established on 3 August 1977 by young fans wanting to split from the Centro di Coordinamento and to encourage meetings with opposition fans. The Boys Parma occupy the northern end of the home stadium, ''La Curva Nord'', directly opposite to where the away fans sit in the south stand.
In 2008, the Curva Nord was renamed in honour of Boys Parma 1977 member Matteo Bagnaresi, who died when he was run over on the way to the Tardini by a coach which was carrying the opposition
Juventus
Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...
fans. In a not uncommon practice, the
number 12 shirt has been reserved for the Parma fans, meaning no player is registered to play with that number on his kit for the club. The implication is that the supporters, particularly those of the famous Curva Nord, are the
twelfth man. The last player to be registered with the number was Gabriele Giroli for the 2002–03 season. Parma's club anthem is ''Il grido di battaglia'', which means "The Battle Cry".
Rivalries
Parma maintains rivalries with regional and national clubs; some of these are keenly fought
local derbies. ''
Derby dell'Enza'' opponents
Reggiana are the club's bitterest rivals. The ill-feeling with Reggiana comes from a traditional city rivalry between Parma and
Reggio Emilia
Reggio nell'Emilia ( egl, Rèz; la, Regium Lepidi), usually referred to as Reggio Emilia, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, and known until 1861 as Reggio di Lombardia, is a city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has abou ...
. Parma contests the ''
Derby dell'Emilia'' with
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
.
Bologna and Parma are
Emilia-Romagna
egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman)
, population_note =
, population_blank1_title ...
's two most decorated clubs, winning the region's only domestic titles: 7
Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...
titles and 5
Coppe Italia. Two other local derbies are the ''Derby dei Ducati'', which is contested with neighbours
Modena
Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...
, and the ''Derby del Ducato'', which is played against
Piacenza
Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over ...
.
Despite their relative obscurity,
Lombardian side
Cremonese and
Tuscan outfit
Carrarese
Carrarese Calcio 1908, commonly referred to as Carrarese, is an Italian football club based in Carrara, Tuscany. It currently plays in Serie C, having last been in Serie B in 1948.
History
The club was founded in 1908.
In the season 2010–1 ...
, to Parma's north and south, respectively, are both seen as rivals too.
Juventus is considered a great rival of Parma largely due to their recent duels, which include Parma's
1995 UEFA Cup victory, its
first
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*World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement
Arts and media Music
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and
third Coppa Italia triumphs, Supercoppa Italiana defeats in
1995
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and
2002
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, and its
1995
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domestic cup final defeat to ''The Old Lady''. These six matches comprise nearly half of the fourteen major finals Parma has participated in. Ironically, Parma's colours have their origins in those Juventus wears, and the switch from white and black to a yellow and blue home kit in the late 1990s took place in order to distance and distinguish Parma from Juventus. Parma maintain keenly fought rivalries with
Vicenza
Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan.
Vicenza is a th ...
and
Genoa
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.
In Italy, it is common for clubs to be twinned in an arrangement called ''gemellaggi''. This is a practice uncommon elsewhere. Parma enjoy amicable relations with
Empoli
Empoli () is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy, about southwest of Florence, to the south of the Arno in a plain formed by the river. The plain has been usable for agriculture since Roman times. The comm ...
in an arrangement that dates back to a game played in foggy conditions in
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 ...
that ended in the Parma fans congratulating those of Empoli on its win when the full-time whistle was blown without the ''Azzurri'' fans' knowledge. Perhaps a more current bond is felt towards the fans of
Sampdoria
Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria (), is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa.
The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, ...
.
Ownership and finances
In 1991, the club was bought by
multinational Italian dairy and food corporation
Parmalat. This was the platform for success on the pitch but the club eventually succumbed to
administration
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* Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal
** Administrative assistant, Administrative Assistant, traditionally known as a Secretary, or also known as an admini ...
in 2004 due to Parmalat's
massive bankruptcy with debts of $20 billion and fraudulent activity at Parmalat worth over €10 billion and a €167 million net loss by the club in 2003.
On 24 January 2007, engineering entrepreneur
Tommaso Ghirardi
Tommaso Ghirardi (born 10 May 1975 in Brescia) is an Italian businessman, mostly known for having served as chairman (of BoD) and owner of Italian association football club Parma F.C. from January 2007 to December 2014. His main activities are in ...
bought the club after three years of administration for $39 million and incorporated Eventi Sportivi as a holding company owning 100% of the club's shares of €20 million nominal value.
Eventi Sportivi Srl (later S.p.A.), at first had a share capital of just €3 million, with
Banca Monte Parma
Banca Monte Parma was an Italian regional bank, active in the provinces of Parma, Piacenza and Reggio-Emilia. In mid-2015 it was absorbed into the parent company.
History
The bank was founded in Parma in 1488 as ''Mons Pietatis Almae Civitatis P ...
, owned 10% of the shares as minority. By 21 January 2009, Ghirardi's ownership of Eventi Sportivi was 75% with
Banca Monte Parma
Banca Monte Parma was an Italian regional bank, active in the provinces of Parma, Piacenza and Reggio-Emilia. In mid-2015 it was absorbed into the parent company.
History
The bank was founded in Parma in 1488 as ''Mons Pietatis Almae Civitatis P ...
holding 10% and Marco Ferrari, former vice-president Diego Penocchio and Penocchio's company Brixia Incipit each owning 5%. In July 2011, Ghirardi sold to both Alberto Rossi and Alberto Volpi 5% each of Eventi Sportivi. On 29 February 2014, Energy T.I. Group bought 10% of the shares in the club from Eventi Sportivi.
![Gian Paolo Dallara](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Gian_Paolo_Dallara.jpg)
On 19 December 2014 and as a result of a ruling which barred the club from a first
European campaign under
Tommaso Ghirardi
Tommaso Ghirardi (born 10 May 1975 in Brescia) is an Italian businessman, mostly known for having served as chairman (of BoD) and owner of Italian association football club Parma F.C. from January 2007 to December 2014. His main activities are in ...
, Ghirardi sold his 66.55% controlling stake in Eventi Sportivi to Dastraso Holding Ltd, a company based in Cyprus and controlled by
Rezart Taçi
Rezart Taçi (born in Tirana) is an Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ioni ...
for €1, at which point the club was $200 million in debt.
The club became the third Serie A club to become foreign-owned as a result and Albanian Emir Kodra was installed as president.
In February 2015, Taci sold his stake to Giampietro Manenti for the price he bought it, €1, less than two months after buying it, at which point salaries at the financially stricken club had not been paid since the previous summer.
With Parma bottom of Serie A, Manenti was arrested in March 2015 on allegations of
money laundering
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and his involvement in a
credit card fraud
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ring, imperilling the already precarious situation as the club was plunged further into debt.
On 19 March 2015, the club was declared bankrupt with a total
liabilities of €218 million (including unpaid wages of €63 million).
On 22 April 2015, the intermediate holding company of Parma, Eventi Sportivi SpA, was also declared bankruptcy by the Tribunal of Parma. The club was then declared legally bankrupt on 22 June 2015 after no new investors willing to refurbish €22.6 million debt in order to trigger Comma 3 of
Article 52 of N.O.I.F. to allow the club to remain in Serie B. Other debts of the club were either waived by the footballers or settled by the administrator. New investor was not required to repay the subordinated debt and bank debt of the old company. The medals of Parma, which was owned by the company, as well as
Centro Sportivo di Collecchio which was owned by its holding company Eventi Sportivi, were under auction after the bankruptcy.
The phoenix club S.S.D. Parma Calcio 1913 S.r.L. was incorporated in 2015 under the ownership of Nuovo Inizio SrL with share capital of €250,000. Nuovo Inizio was owned by a number of backers including representatives of Parmalat and local businessmen
Guido Barilla
Guido Barilla (born 30 July 1958) is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Barilla Group, the world's largest pasta company, which is 85% owned by Guido, a sister and two brothers.
Early life
Guido Barilla was born on 30 July 1 ...
(co-owner of
Barilla Group
Barilla G. e R. Fratelli S.p.A. is an Italian multinational food company. It is the world's largest pasta producer.
History
The company was founded in 1877 as a bakery shop in Parma, Italy by Pietro Barilla Sr. The company expanded in 1908, ...
), Paolo Pizzarotti (president of
Impresa Pizzarotti
Impresa Pizzarotti & C. S.p.A. is a construction and civil engineering company with its headquarters in the Italian city of Parma.
History
Impresa Pizzarotti & C. S.p.A. was founded in 1910 by Gino Pizzarotti and converted in 1945 into a limi ...
), Mauro Del Rio and
Gian Paolo Dallara
Gian Paolo Dallara (born 16 November 1936) is an Italian businessman and motorsports engineer. He is the owner of Dallara Motorsports, a company that develops racing cars.
Biography
Dallara was born in Parma.
Automotive and motorsport
He g ...
.
The new owners sought to overhaul the core philosophy of Italian club ownership and formed Parma Partecipazioni Calcistiche SrL to act as a vehicle for fan ownership, so issued a further €89,286 of shares to that company. Fans therefore own approximately 25% of the club at a cost of €500 per
share.
In June 2017,
Chinese
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**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
businessman
Jiang Lizhang
Jiang Lizhang (; born October 27, 1981 in Fu'an) is a Chinese businessman who owns Granada CF in Spain's La Liga, having bought a controlling stake for over €37m. He is also a part-owner of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, having bought 5% of th ...
's Desports group acquired a 60% majority stake in the club. The seven local businessman who launched the club in 2015 retained 30% of the club, while the remaining 10% remained in the hands of fans through Parma Partecipazione Calcistiche.
At the end of October 2018 the local Nuovo Inizio group regained control of the club reacquiring 60% of the shares, with the Chinese partners forced to downsize to 30% in light of alleged lack of diligence in meeting their obligations, while 10% remained unchanged in the public company Partecipazioni Calcistiche. On 9 November Parma Calcio held a shareholders’ Meeting to appoint a new Board of Directors, at the end of which Pietro Pizzarotti, at the time vice-president, was appointed the new president of the club.
In 2020, Parma were purchased by the Krause Group, owners of American-based convenience store chain
Kum & Go.
Since 2013 the main sponsor is
Cetilar by
Pharmanutra.
Players
Current squad
Others players under contract
Out on loan
Retired numbers
6 – The club announced the retirement of the shirt number worn by club's captain
Alessandro Lucarelli
Alessandro Lucarelli ( born 22 July 1977) is an Italian former professional footballer who last played for Parma as a defender.
Playing career
Alessandro Lucarelli started his professional career at Piacenza, whose youth sides he also represent ...
after his retirement announcement. Lucarelli holds the record for league appearances for the club and stayed with the club from its 2015 relegation from Serie A to Serie D following bankruptcy and through its three straight promotions back to Serie A between 2015 and 2018.
12 – From the
2002–03 season until the present (with the exception of the
2015–16 season in
Serie D
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, where league rules required that the number be assigned to a substitute),
Curva Nord of the
Stadio Ennio Tardini, as a sign of recognition towards the fans who sit in the Curva Nord, considered the 12th man on the pitch.
Academy
Below the first team, the club runs six teams at youth level, as well as a ladies' team.
Former players
Club captains
Player records
Club officials
;Owner(s):
*
Nuovo Inizio Srl (60%)
*
Desports Group (30%)
* Parma Partecipazioni Calcistiche (10%)
; Club management
* President: Pietro Pizzarotti
* Vice-President: Giacomo Malmesi
* Chief Executive Officer: Luca Carra
* Sporting Director: Daniele Faggiano
* Sport Secretary: Dario Della Corte
* Club Manager: Alessandro Lucarelli
* Team Manager: Alessio Cracolici
; Coaching staff
* Head coach:
Giuseppe Iachini
Giuseppe Iachini (; born 7 May 1964) is an Italian professional football manager and former player who most recently managed Serie B club Parma. He played as a midfielder.
Club career
Iachini was born in Ascoli Piceno. He started his playing c ...
* Assistant head coach:
Andrea Tarozzi
* Goalkeeping coach: Alberto Bartoli
* Fitness coach: Paolo Giordani
* Fitness coach: Luca Morellini
Chairmen history
Parma has had numerous chairmen over the course of its history; here is a complete list of them:
Managerial history
Below is a list of Parma managers since the end of the First World War until the present day.
Honours
Parma has won eight major titles in its history, all coming in a period of ten years between 1992 and 2002.
These honours make it
the eleventh most successful team in Italian football history in terms of the number of major trophies won, the fourth most successful Italian team in European competitions (after
A.C. Milan
Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional Association football, football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 ...
,
Juventus
Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...
and
Inter Milan
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Football in Italy, Italian professional Association football, football ...
), and one of thirteen Italian clubs to have won multiple major titles.
National
*
Coppa Italia
The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since.
History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
**Winners:
1991–92,
1998–99,
2001–02
*
SuperCoppa Italiana
**Winners:
1999
*
Serie C
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The unification of the Lega Pro ...
**Winners:
1953–54,
1972–73,
1983–84,
1985–86[
*]Serie D
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**Winners: 1969–70, 2015–16
European
*UEFA Cup
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**Winners: 1994–95, 1998–99
*European Cup Winners' Cup
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**Winners: 1992–93
* European Super Cup
**Winners: 1993
Divisional movements
Notes
Footnotes
Bibliography
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External links
Official website
Parma
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Parma
at Football Italia
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Parma
at ESPN Soccernet
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