Palermo Football Club, more simply known as Palermo F.C. or Palermo (; scn, Paliemmu, link=no, ), is an
Italian
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football club based in the
Sicilian city of
Palermo, conventionally founded for the first time on 1 November 1900.
Among the club’s accomplishments are a
Coppa Italia Serie C
Coppa Italia Serie C ( it, Serie C Italian Cup), formerly named Coppa Italia Lega Pro, is a straight knock-out based competition involving teams from Serie C in Italian football first held in 1972.
Format
There are a total of six rounds in the ...
, won in the 1992–93, and five
Serie B
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league titles. It also appeared in three
Italian Cup finals: in
1973-74, in
1978-79 and in
2010-11.
The club has made five appearances in European competitions, all in the
UEFA Cup/Europa League. They are currently playing in
Serie B
The Serie B (), currently named Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been ...
, after having won the
2021–22 Serie C promotion playoffs.
In July 2022, it was announced that
City Football Group
City Football Group Limited (CFG) is a holding company that administers association football clubs. The group is owned by three organisations; of which 81% is majority owned by Newton Investment and Development LLC, 18% by the American firm Si ...
(CFG) acquired a majority stake of Palermo F.C. CFG owns several European clubs, with
Manchester City F.C.
Manchester City Football Club are an English football club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football ...
being their flagship.
History
Early history (1898–1947)
There is some debate and uncertainty about the exact date the club was founded. Some authorities believe that it may have been founded as early as 1898 due to the existence of papers addressed to
Joseph Whitaker, English ornithologist in Palermo and originally believed to be first club president, about a Palermo football team founded in the month of April of that year.
Conversely, another source cites that in April 1897, the future founders of Palemo Calcio founded the association ''Sport Club''.
The most common and officially stated foundation date is November 1, 1900, as the Anglo Palermitan Athletic and Football Club. The club is thought to have been founded by Ignazio Majo Pagano, a young Palermitan colleague of Whitaker who had discovered football while at college in
London
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in the UK, where the modern game of
Association Football
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originated. The initial staff comprised three Englishmen and nine natives of Palermo,
with Whitaker as honorary chairman, Edward De Garston as inaugural president and with red and blue as the original team colours. The first recorded football match, played by the team on December 30, 1900, ended in a 5–0 defeat to an unidentified amateur English team. The club’s first official match, played on April 18, 1901 against
Messina Football Club
Associazioni Calcio Riunite Messina S.r.l. is an Italian football club based in Messina, Sicily. It currently plays in .
History
Football in Messina
The origins of the team go back to 1900, when Messina F.C. was founded in the city. Th ...
, ended in a 3–2 victory for the Palermitan side.
In 1907, the club changed its name to Palermo Foot-Ball Club, and the team colours were changed to the current pink and black. From 1908 until Italy’s entry in
World War I
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 ...
in 1915, Palermo was featured in the
Lipton Challenge Cup, organised by Scottish businessman
Sir Thomas Lipton
Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet (10 May 18482 October 1931) was a Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage who was a self-made man, as company founder of Lipton Tea, merchant, philanthropist and yachtsman who lost 5 straight America's Cup ...
. The competition saw them face off against
Naples FBC; Palermo won the competition three times, including a 6–0 victory in 1912.
After a gap during the First World War, the club was refounded in 1919 as Unione Sportiva Palermo, by a committee of young university students and sportsmen. During the early 1920s, the club mainly competed in the ''Campionato Lega Sud'', a football league in Southern Italy, reaching the semi-finals in 1924 before being knocked out by
Audace Taranto,
Alba Roma and
Internaples. The club was dissolved in 1927 due to financial problems, but was reformed one year later following a merger with Vigor Palermo under the name Palermo FootBall Club. Originally admitted to ''Prima Divisione'' (First Division), the equivalent of today's
Serie C1,
the team was promoted to
Serie B
The Serie B (), currently named Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been ...
in 1930 and finally reached
Serie A
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in 1932. From its debut season in Italy's top division, Palermo relocated to a new home, the ''Stadio Littorio'' (Lictorian Stadium) in the Favorita neighbourhood, today known as
Stadio Renzo Barbera. The club played in Serie A until 1936, when they were relegated to Serie B and first played
Catania in the
Sicilian derby
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 ...
.
In 1936, Palermo was forced by the fascist regime to change its colours to yellow and red, after the official colours of the local municipality.
Meanwhile, economic difficulties arose, and in 1940 the club was expelled by the
Italian Football Federation because of financial problems.
A merger with Unione Sportiva Juventina Palermo brought the foundation of Unione Sportiva Palermo-Juventina, which joined Serie C in 1941 and Serie B in 1942.
![Santiago Vernazza](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Santiago_Vernazza.jpg)
The club could not finish the 1942–43 season due to the outbreak of
World War II
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. At the same time the pink-and-black colors were chosen because Sicily became a "war zone". After the conflict, the club changed its name to US Palermo.
Post-war years (1947–2002)
After
World War II
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, the team returned to Serie A by winning the Serie B championship of
1947–48. The new Palermo squad featured players such as
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, image_p1 ...
n legend
Čestmír Vycpálek who signed from
Juventus alongside Conti,
Carmelo Di Bella
Carmelo Di Bella (January 30, 1921 – September 9, 1992) was an Italian football player and manager. Di Bella spent the vast majority of his career in Sicily where he was a prominent figure in the footballing scene, especially in relation to the ...
and Pavesi.
Palermo played Serie A until they were relegated in 1954.
Massive changes in the board, as well as the manager's job and the squad, proved successful and the club returned to Serie A in 1956. Palermo became a "
yo-yo club
A yo-yo club is a sporting side that is regularly promoted and relegated. The phrase is most typically used in association football in the United Kingdom, especially in reference to promotion to and relegation from the Premier League.
The name ...
", bouncing up and down between the top two Italian leagues. Several stars played for Palermo during this period, such as
Argentine striker
Santiago Vernazza (51 goals in 115 games with the ''Rosanero''), goalkeepers
Roberto Anzolin
Roberto Anzolin (; 18 April 1938 – 6 October 2017) was an Italian footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. Regarded as one of the best Italian goalkeepers of his generation, he played for several Italian sides, but is mostly remembered for hi ...
and
Carlo Mattrel
Carlo Mattrel (; 14 April 1937 – 25 September 1976) was an Italian footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. During his career, he was regarded as one of the top goalkeepers in Italy, and had a highly successful career at club level playing for ...
,
Giuseppe Furino and
Franco Causio. Palermo marked its best campaign in
1961–62 season, finishing in eighth place in Serie A. In 1963, however, they were relegated to Serie B, where they played for five seasons. Palermo played again in Serie A between 1968 and 1970.
In 1970,
Renzo Barbera took over the club as the new chairman. After 1973, Palermo FBC remained firmly rooted in Serie B. Despite this, Palermo reached two
Italian Cup finals, both of which they narrowly lost: in 1974 to
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, 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 1 ...
on penalty shoot-outs, and in 1979 to Juventus after extra time. Barbera left the club in 1980 and Palermo were relegated to
Serie C1 four years later. The
1985–86 season, however, which ended in the summer was the last for Palermo FBC as having just saved themselves from relegation, the club was expelled by the football federation due to financial problems. In the summer of 1987, after a year without professional football in Palermo, the club was re-founded bearing a new name, and began to play in
Serie C2, which it promptly won.
In the 1990s, Palermo played between Serie B and Serie C1 with a few highs, such as its
1995–96 Serie B and Coppa Italia campaign, the latter ending in the quarter-finals, and a number of lows such as the 1998 relegation to Serie C2 after defeat in the play-offs to
Battipagliese
Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Battipagliese is an Italian football club from Battipaglia, Campania. The club currently plays in Serie D.
History Foundation
The history of Battipagliese can be traced back to the founding of the comune ...
, later revoked by the federation to fill a vacant league slot.
In March 2000, Roma chairman
Franco Sensi
Francesco Sensi, Cavaliere del lavoro (29 July 1926 – 17 August 2008) was an Italian oil tycoon. He was born in Rome, where he lived throughout his entire life, though he also served time as mayor of Visso, the city where his family came from ...
led a holding company to purchase Palermo and
Sergio D'Antoni became the president of Palermo and Palermo were promoted to Serie B one year later after a dramatic final week of the season, with Palermo coming back from behind to take first place from league-toppers Sicilian rivals
Messina. The first comeback season in the Serie B, with
Bortolo Mutti
Bortolo Mutti (born 11 August 1954 in Trescore Balneario, Bergamo) is an Italian football manager and a former player, who was most recently manager of Livorno.
His older brother Tiziano Mutti also played football professionally. To distinguish ...
as head coach, was an eventless one, with Palermo ending in a mid-table placement.
The Zamparini era: back to Serie A and European years (2002–2013)
![Zamparini](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Zamparini.jpg)
In the summer of 2002,
Friuli
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an businessman and
Venezia
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owner
Maurizio Zamparini acquired the club from Franco Sensi in a €15 million bid, with the clear intention to bring Palermo back to Serie A and establish the club as a Serie A regular with aims of participations to European competitions. Palermo failed in its first attempt to reach the Serie A in 2002–03 on the final week of the season, but later managed to achieve it after a hard but successful
2003–04 campaign which saw Palermo crowned as Serie B champions and promoted to Serie A after 31 years, under head coach
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 ...
, who was hired in January 2004 as replacement for dismissed
Silvio Baldini
Silvio Baldini (born 11 September 1958 in Massa) is an Italian association football manager, last in charge of Serie B club Perugia.
Career Early years
Born in Massa but hailing from nearby Carrara, Baldini started his coaching career in 1984 ...
.
The
2004–05 season, the first in Serie A for the Palermo club since 1973, ended with an excellent sixth place, securing qualification for the
2005–06 UEFA Cup
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for the first time in its history.
Luca Toni broke the Palermo Serie A scoring record by notching up 20 league goals. In the following season, despite an unimpressive eighth place in the Serie A table, Palermo reached the last 16 in the UEFA Cup as well as 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 ...
semi-finals. The club was however admitted to play UEFA Cup again due to the 2006 ''
Calciopoli'' scandal, with Palermo players
Andrea Barzagli
Andrea Barzagli (; born 8 May 1981) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
A four-time member of the Serie A Team of the Year, Barzagli is regarded as one of the best and most consistent defenders in Italian fo ...
,
Cristian Zaccardo,
Simone Barone and
Fabio Grosso being crowned
2006 World Cup
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winners. A number of impressive signings were made to establish an ambitious team, and a good beginning in the
2006–07 campaign appeared initially to confirm this. An 11-game winless streak, however, forced Palermo to fall down from third to seventh place, ending the season in fifth place and ensuring another
UEFA Cup
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qualification. The club successively established as a force in the mid-table part of the Serie A league, also winning a
Campionato Nazionale Primavera national title in 2009.
The following season started with new manager
Walter Zenga
Walter Zenga (; born 28 April 1960) is an Italian football manager and former player who last managed Serie A club Cagliari. He was a long-time goalkeeper for Inter Milan and the Italian national team.
During his playing career, Zenga was pa ...
, whose appointment from Sicilian arch-rivals Catania was greeted with surprise and dismay from supporters of both parties; Zenga's reign, however, lasted only 13 games, as he was dismissed on 23 November 2009 due to poor performances, ironically after a 1–1 home tie to Sicilian rivals and Zenga's former team, Catania,
with former Lazio boss
Delio Rossi
Delio Rossi (born 26 January 1960) is an Italian football manager and former footballer who played as a midfielder. He was most recently in charge as head coach of Serie B club Ascoli.
Playing career
Rossi was born in Rimini. His playing career ...
being appointed at his place.
Under the tutelage of Delio Rossi, results dramatically improved, and Palermo established a record of seven consecutive home wins, including wins against Italian giants
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
and Juventus, and emerging as serious contenders for a Champions League spot, which they ultimately lost to
Sampdoria by only one point. Such season also launched new emerging stars such as midfielder
Javier Pastore and goalkeeper
Salvatore Sirigu, who went on to become integral part of their respective international teams.
![FabrizioMiccoli](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/FabrizioMiccoli.jpg)
The 2010–11 season started with Delio Rossi still in charge of the club, and also marked Palermo's return into continental football in the form of the
UEFA Europa League
The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. ...
. Palermo reached their third Coppa Italia finals after defeating Milan 4–3 on aggregate on 10 May 2011, losing 3–1 to
Internazionale
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Inter is t ...
in the final, in what is considered one of the peak moments of Zamparini's period at the club.
Zamparini's later years and Serie B return (2011–2018)
For the 2011–12 season, Delio Rossi was replaced by former
Chievo
Chievo (4,500 inhabitants) is a frazione of Verona located to the west of the city, around from the historic city centre, on the shores of the river Adige.
It is best known for its football team, A.C. ChievoVerona, which competes in the second ...
boss
Stefano Pioli, who was, however, sacked before the Serie A kickoff after being eliminated by Swiss minnows
FC Thun
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in the
Europa League
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third preliminary round; new head coach
Devis Mangia, with no managerial experience other than at youth team and minor league level; despite that, Mangia turned Palermo fortunes by leading the ''Rosanero'' in fifth place thanks to an impressive string of six consecutive home wins, thus deserving a long-term deal at the club. A string of poor results, however, led Palermo to three consecutive defeats, including elimination from the Coppa Italia and a disappointing loss in the Sicilian derby, persuading Zamparini to replace Mangia with the more experienced
Bortolo Mutti
Bortolo Mutti (born 11 August 1954 in Trescore Balneario, Bergamo) is an Italian football manager and a former player, who was most recently manager of Livorno.
His older brother Tiziano Mutti also played football professionally. To distinguish ...
. Palermo arrived 16th in that season.
![Giuseppe iachini (2)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Giuseppe_iachini_%282%29.JPG)
For the 2012–13 season, Zamparini came with another staff revolution, appointing
Giorgio Perinetti as the new director of football and
Giuseppe Sannino as the manager, both coming from Siena. A complete squad restructuring, a total five managerial changes and some staff changes (including a short stint with
Pietro Lo Monaco as sports director) did not help, and Palermo ended its season in 18th place, being thus relegated to Serie B after nine consecutive seasons in the top flight.
For the new Serie B campaign, Zamparini appointed former Milan and
Italy international star
Gennaro Gattuso
Gennaro Ivan Gattuso (; born 9 January 1978) is an Italian professional football coach and former player, who currently serves as manager of La Liga club Valencia.
He was born in Corigliano (Calabria). As a player, he mainly played in the cent ...
as the new manager, despite him having little prior managerial experience; he was sacked in September 2013, the 28th sacked manager in 11 years. Fortune was reversed rather rapidly, however, as Palermo regained promotion back to Serie A for the 2014–15 season under the guidance of new 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 ...
, with the ''Rosanero'' completing a record-breaking Serie B season with 86 points, one more than previous record holders Juventus,
Chievo
Chievo (4,500 inhabitants) is a frazione of Verona located to the west of the city, around from the historic city centre, on the shores of the river Adige.
It is best known for its football team, A.C. ChievoVerona, which competes in the second ...
and
Sassuolo
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Standing on the right bank of the river Secchia some southwest of Modena, the town is best known f ...
(all of them in the 22-team Serie B format).
With Iachini confirmed in charge, Palermo played a rather successful
2014–15 Serie A season, narrowly missing on a UEFA Europa League spot also thanks to the all-Argentine striking force of
Paulo Dybala
Paulo Exequiel Dybala (born 15 November 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Roma and the Argentina national team. Often considered one of the best in the world, he is nicknamed "''La Joya''" (" ...
and
Franco Vázquez
Franco Damián Vázquez (; born 22 February 1989) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie B club Parma and the Argentina national team.
Beginning his career with Argentine club Belgrano in 2007, V ...
.
In
2015–16 season, Palermo started their season without Dybala after the youngster moved to Juventus; the ''Rosanero'' therefore relied on senior striker
Alberto Gilardino
Alberto Gilardino (; born 5 July 1982) is an Italian professional football manager and a former player who played as a striker.
He is currently in charge as caretaker of Genoa, a club he was contracted with on July 2022 as a youth coach.
A p ...
to play as a partner of Vázquez. Another long list of managerial changes during the season (seven in total, with
Davide Ballardini
Davide Ballardini (born 6 January 1964) is an Italian football manager. He formerly played professionally for Cesena as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of club Cremonese.
Playing career
A former midfielder, Ballardini spent seve ...
as the final one) marked a very troublesome season, during which Palermo escaped relegation on the last day of the league with the necessary win over Hellas Verona 3–2, securing 16th place.
For the 2016–17 season, Zamparini re-appointed
Rino Foschi as director of football; he however resigned after just a month in charge and was replaced by former Trapani director Daniele Faggiano. Most senior players such as Gilardino, Sorrentino, Vázquez and
Maresca were sold and mostly replaced with
Alessandro Diamanti
Alessandro Diamanti (; born 2 May 1983) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for A-League club Western United. At club level, he has previously played for Prato, Empoli, Fucecchio, Fiorentina, AlbinoLeffe, West Ham Uni ...
plus a number of young and quasi-unknown foreign players. Ballardini, who was originally confirmed as head coach, left his position after a draw at
Inter Milan
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at the second matchday of the season and was replaced with Serie A newbie
Roberto De Zerbi who ended his stay after seven league losses in a row, with former club captain
Eugenio Corini taking over. More managerial and staff changes followed with little luck and, on 27 February 2017, Zamparini stepped down as chairman of Palermo after 15 years in charge, announcing he had agreed in principle to sell his controlling stake to an unspecified Anglo-American fund, led by Italian-American
Paul Baccaglini who was named new club president on 6 March.
Palermo ended the season in 19th place, being relegated to Serie B. The takeover, originally scheduled to be finalized by 30 April 2017 and then delayed by 30 June, eventually collapsed after Zamparini, who in the meantime had appointed
Bruno Tedino as new head coach for the
2017–18 Serie B campaign, rejected the final offer he received from Baccaglini. On 4 July 2017, Baccaglini resigned as Palermo chairman, falling back into the hands of Zamparini, after the necessary funds were not in place.
Palermo's campaign in the
2017–18 Serie B aimed for an immediate return to the top flight, with
Bruno Tedino as head coach and
Fabio Lupo as director of football. Initially, the team's form was good and the ''Rosanero'' ended the first half of the season in first place; however, a string of negative results led to the appointment of new manager
Roberto Stellone, who was ultimately unable to win promotion, ending the regular season in fourth place and eventually losing the playoff finals to
Frosinone
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.
New ownerships, financial issues and Serie B exclusion (2018–2019)
For the
2018–19 Serie B
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A total of 19 teams contested in the 2018–19 season, instead of the usual 22 teams, due to the exclusi ...
season, Palermo (with
Rino Foschi back for a third time as sporting director) found themselves having to sell a number of players for financial reasons. On 22 November 2018, the club formally confirmed a takeover agreement between Zamparini and an undisclosed investor, later confirmed to be the
London
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based Sport Capital Group Investments Ltd., with English businessman Clive Richardson, head of the new group, being named as new club chairman. Following a January 2019 transfer window with no signings at all and serious tensions within the board, Clive Richardson (chairman) and John Treacy (director) both resigned from the club with immediate effect on 4 February 2019, citing that the full nature of the serious financial situation at the club had not been fully disclosed to them at the time of their purchase. Days later, the club was acquired for a nominal fee by Daniela De Angeli (former managing director from the Zamparini days) and Rino Foschi (appointed as chairman), only for them to sell it again to hotel and tourism company Arkus Network S.r.l. later in May.
[ The new owner, Sporting Network S.r.l., subscribed a €5 million capital increase to the club.]
At the end of the 2018–19 Serie B
The 2018–19 Serie B (known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons) was the 87th season of Serie B in Italy since its establishment in 1929.
A total of 19 teams contested in the 2018–19 season, instead of the usual 22 teams, due to the exclusi ...
, Palermo finished in third place with 63 points but was demoted by FIGC
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It ...
to last place in Serie B on 13 May due to serious financial irregularities, which meant relegation to Serie C
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The unification of the Lega Pro ...
for the following season. The club appealed to FIGC
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It ...
against this ruling and were successful in having the penalty revised; rather than automatic demotion, the club was merely docked 20 points instead, which consequently placed them in a comfortable mid-table eleventh position. However, on 24 June 2019, Palermo incorrectly submitted to FIGC
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their standard application for the following 2019–20 Serie B season, by failing to provide evidence of a valid insurance policy for the new season. A club trading with no insurance is an extremely serious breach of Italian company law, and as such FIGC
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had no alternative but to formally exclude the club not only from Serie B, but indeed all professional leagues, on 12 July 2019.
A fresh start, City Football Group ownership (2019–present)
On 23 July 2019, in compliance of Article 52 of N.O.I.F., Mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando
Leoluca Orlando (born 1 August 1947), is an Italian politician, Mayor of Palermo for over twenty years and President of Italian Federation of American Football (FIDAF). He is best known for his strong opposition to the Sicilian Mafia during his m ...
confirmed six declarations of interests had been presented for a new phoenix club to be admitted in Serie D
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, the highest level of non-professional football in Italy, for the 2019–20 season. The next day, Orlando announced his choice of a bid by a company named "Hera Hora srl", jointly owned by entrepreneurs Dario Mirri (a Palermo native, and Renzo Barbera's nephew) and a Sicilian-American, Tony DiPiazza. Palermo completed their Serie D
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campaign in first place, and was awarded promotion to Serie C by the Italian Football Federation after all the amateur leagues were stopped in March 2020 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic
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. On 16 July 2020, the club changed its name to Palermo Football Club.
Palermo, under the guidance of Silvio Baldini
Silvio Baldini (born 11 September 1958 in Massa) is an Italian association football manager, last in charge of Serie B club Perugia.
Career Early years
Born in Massa but hailing from nearby Carrara, Baldini started his coaching career in 1984 ...
, concluded the 2021–22 Serie C campaign in third place in the Group C, behind Bari and Catanzaro
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, and then made it to the promotion playoff final after eliminating Triestina, Virtus Entella
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History 1914: Foundation
The club was founded in 1914 as Foot-Ball Club ...
and Feralpisalò in the process. On 12 June 2022, Palermo were promoted to Serie B
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after defeating Padova
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2–0 on aggregate, thus returning to the Italian second division just three years after having been excluded from the league. On 4 July 2022, at the presence of Manchester City F.C.
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CEO Ferran Soriano
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, the club was formally announced to have been acquired by City Football Group
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, with outgoing owner Dario Mirri (who was confirmed as club chairman) keeping a 20% of the quotes.
Colours and badge
The new official badge as of 2019 is a white eagle's head and three pink/black feathers within a black stylized letter 'P'. The eagle represents the city of Palermo, as it is also part of the city's official coat of arms. This new badge replaced the long-standing badge of the previous formation of the club, an escutcheon with an eagle poised for flight within it, and the previous official club denomination "U.S. Città di Palermo" in capital letters on the top.
From its foundation, Palermo originally played with a red and blue shirt as its official colours, but decided to switch to the unusual current choice of pink and black on 27 February 1907, contemporaneously with the change of denomination to "Palermo FootBall Club".
The colour choice of pink and black was suggested by Count Giuseppe Airoldi, a prominent founding member of the club. In a personal letter Airoldi wrote on 2 February 1905 to English club councillor Joseph Whitaker, he defined pink and black poetically as "colours of the sad and the sweet", a choice he amusingly asserted to be suited for a team characterised by "results as up and down as a Swiss clock", noting also the fact that red and blue were a very commonly used choice of colours around Italy at the time.
The club had to wait for their new jerseys for three months, because no pink cotton flannel
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material was available in Palermo and the appointed tailoring company could only find suitable material from England and had to import it from there. The vivid new shirts were first worn in a friendly match against Sir Thomas Lipton
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's crew team; the match ended in a 2–1 win for Palermo. From 1936 to 1940, the team were forced to play in red and yellow jerseys due to an imposition by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini (red and yellow being the official colours of the municipality of Palermo.) When the club was refounded in 1941 following a merger with Juventina Palermo, they started dressing in light blue shirts on the pitch, but switched back to the very popular pink and black only one year later.
Shirt sponsors and manufacturers
Stadium
Palermo plays its home matches at Stadio Renzo Barbera. The stadium was opened in 1932, during the fascist regime, with the name ''Stadio Littorio'' (after the Italian name for the fasces symbol). The inaugural match, won by Palermo 5–1, was played on 24 January 1932 against Atalanta
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. In 1936, the Littorio was renamed ''Stadio Michele Marrone'' after a fascist soldier who died in the Spanish Civil War
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.
Initially the stadium featured a running track and no spectator space behind the goals, only terraces and a stand along the side. In 1948, following the end of World War II and the fall of the fascist regime, the stadium was renamed ''Stadio La Favorita'', after the Favorita neighbourhood where it was located. It was also restructured to remove the running track and add two curved end sections, increasing its capacity to 30,000. In 1984 it was enlarged to 50,000. The new capacity was reached only twice: for a Serie C1 league match against Sicilian rivals Messina and for a friendly match against Juventus. On the occasion of the 1990 FIFA World Cup, the stadium was renovated, some new seats added, but the overall capacity reduced to 37,619. During the 1989 renovation works, five employees died following the collapse of a section of the stadium. In 2002 the stadium was renamed in honour of Renzo Barbera, legendary Palermo chairman in the 1970s.
In 2007 Palermo chairman and owner Maurizio Zamparini announced plans to move the club to a new state-of-the-art stadium possibly to be located in the ''ZEN'' neighbourhood of Palermo not far from the Velodromo Paolo Borsellino, a smaller stadium which had previously hosted some Palermo matches.
Supporters
The majority of Palermo supporters come from the city and its neighbourhood. However, Palermo is also widely popular throughout Western Sicily, as well as among Sicilian immigrants in northern Italy, For example, a number of Palermo fans living in and around the German city of Solingen
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have even founded a club named ''FC Rosaneri'' in honour of Palermo which, as of 2007, plays in the Kreisliga B league.
Support for Palermo is traditionally closely associated with a strong sense of Sicilian identity; indeed, it is not uncommon to see Sicilian flags waved by fans and ultras
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during Palermo matches. Palermo fans are also twinned with Lecce ultras. This friendship was strengthened by the acquisition of Fabrizio Miccoli
Fabrizio Miccoli (; born on 27 June 1979) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
He scored 103 goals in 259 matches in Serie A across nine seasons, representing Perugia, Juventus, Fiorentina and Palermo, also spen ...
, who is originally from the city of Lecce and a well-known Lecce supporter who went on to become captain of Palermo and also the club's most prolific player, setting records for: most Serie A league goals (74, from 2007 to 2013); most goals in all competitions (81, from 2007 to 2013); and most Serie A league appearances (165, from 2007 to 2013).
Palermo's biggest rivals are fellow islanders Catania. Matches between Palermo and Catania are usually referred to as Sicilian derbies, despite the existence of a third Sicilian team, Messina, who played in Serie A alongside Palermo and Catania in recent years. Rivalry with Messina, although historically older, is generally less intense than that with Catania.
The 2006–07 return match between Palermo and Catania, played on 2 February 2007 at Stadio Angelo Massimino, Catania, is remembered due to the death of policeman Filippo Raciti who was injured during riots between the local police and the Catania supporters.
According to a survey of 2008, the team has about 1.47 million fans domestically, placing it among the top ten best-supported Italian teams. For example, at the Coppa Italia final played in Rome on 29 May 2011 against Inter
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, which Palermo lost 3–1, it was estimated that there were 25,000 - 35,000 fans from Palermo, easily outnumbering the ''Nerazzurri'' fans present.
Players
Current squad
Out on loan
Former players
In 2020, as part of the celebrations for the club's 120th anniversary, Palermo announced a hall of fame selection, with eleven players and a manager selected from a list of over 100 proposals.
The most voted players were:
* Stefano Sorrentino
* Federico Balzaretti
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A product of the Torino youth system, his first experience a ...
* Andrea Barzagli
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A four-time member of the Serie A Team of the Year, Barzagli is regarded as one of the best and most consistent defenders in Italian fo ...
* Fabio Grosso
* Eugenio Corini
* Josip Iličić
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Iličić began his professional career with Slovenian club Bonifika, later also playing for Interblock ...
* Javier Pastore
* Lamberto Zauli
* Paulo Dybala
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* Fabrizio Miccoli
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He scored 103 goals in 259 matches in Serie A across nine seasons, representing Perugia, Juventus, Fiorentina and Palermo, also spen ...
* Luca Toni
Club officials
Board of directors
* Last updated: 7 August 2022
* Source: Board of directors
Current technical staff
* Last updated: 7 August 2022
* Source: Technical staff
Managers
In 2020, as part of the celebrations for the club's 120th anniversary, Palermo announced a hall of fame selection, asking their supporters to select the best manager in the club's history among a list of successful ones from the past.
The best manager in the club's history was selected to be Francesco Guidolin
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, who led Palermo to win promotion to Serie A in 2004 after a 31-year absence, and sixth place in the top flight (best result in the club's history) and consequent first ever European qualification the year after.
Other candidates for all-time manager were (in order of votes):
* Delio Rossi
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* Giuseppe Iachini
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Iachini was born in Ascoli Piceno. He started his playing c ...
* Ignazio Arcoleo
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Playing career
Arcoleo, born in Mondello, a Palermo maritime ''frazione'', to a fishermans' family, started his professional career in 1966/1967 for h ...
* Čestmír Vycpálek
* Fernando Veneranda
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Playing career
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* Giuseppe Caramanno
* Rosario Pergolizzi
* Corrado Viciani
* Carmelo Di Bella
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* Gipo Viani
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* Benigno De Grandi
Chairmen history
Over the years Palermo has had various owners and chairmen; here is a chronological list of the known chairmen:
* Edward De Garston ''(1900–1903)''
* Barone Michele Vannucci ''(1903–1904)''
* Cavaliere Ignazio Majo Pagano ''(1904–1908)''
* Barone Roberto Pottino ''(1908–1915)''
* Valentino Colombo ''(1920–1923)''
* Cavaliere Michele Utveggio ''(1923–1925)''
* Valentino Colombo ''(1925–1926)''
* Conte Liotta di Lemos ''(1928)''
* Barone Giovanni Sergio ''(1928)''
* Conte Guido Airoldi ''(1928–1929)''
* Barone Luigi Bordonaro di Gebbiarossa ''(1929–1931)''
* Francesco Paolo Barresi ''(1931–1933)''
* Cavaliere Giovanni Lo Casto Valenti ''(1933–1934)''
* Valentino Colombo ''(1934–1935)''
* Giovanni De Luca ''(1935)''
* Luigi Majo Pagano ''(1935–1936)''
* Valentino Colombo ''(1936–1937)''
* Paolo Di Pietra ''(1937–1938)''
* Salvatore Barbaro ''(1938–1940)''
* Duilio Lanni ''(1941–1942)''
* Giuseppe Agnello ''(1942–1947)''
* Stefano La Motta ''(1947–1948)''
* Giuseppe Guazzardella ''(1948–1951)''
* Raimondo Lanza di Trabia ''(1951–1952)''
* Barone Carlo La Lomia ''(1952–1953)''
* Mario Fasino ''(1953–1954)''
* Ernesto Pivetti ''(1954–1955)''
* Giuseppe Trapani ''(1955)''
* Conte Arturo Cassina ''(1955–1956)''
* Giuseppe Seminara ''(1956–1957)''
* Casimiro Vizzini ''(1957–1963)''
* Conte Guglielmo Pinzero ''(1963–1964)''
* Ernesto Di Fresco, Luigi Barbaccia, Franz Gorgone ''(1964)''
* Casimiro Vizzini ''(1964)''
* Conte Guglielmo Pinzero ''(1964)''
* Totò Vilardo ''(1964–1965)''
* Franco Spagnolo ''(1965)''
* Franz Gorgone ''(1965)''
* Luigi Gioia ''(1965)''
* Giuseppe Pergolizzi ''(1967–1970)''
* Renzo Barbera ''(1970–1980)''
* Gaspare Gambino ''(1980–1982)''
* Roberto Parisi ''(1982–1985)''
* Salvatore Matta ''(1985–1986)''
* Salvino Lagumina ''(1987–1989)''
* Giovanni Ferrara ''(1989–1993)''
* Liborio Polizzi ''(1993–1995)''
* Giovanni Ferrara ''(1995–2000)''
* Sergio D'Antoni ''(2000–2002)''
* Maurizio Zamparini ''(2002–2017)''
* Paul Baccaglini ''(2017)''
* Giovanni Giammarva ''(2017-2018)''
* Clive Richardson ''(2018-2019)''
* Rino Foschi ''(2019)''
* Alessandro Albanese ''(2019)''
* Dario Mirri ''(2019–)''
Honours
*Serie B
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**Champions (5): 1931–32, 1947–48, 1967–68, 2003–04, 2013–14
* Serie C1
**Champions (4): 1941–42, 1945–46, 1992–93
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, 2000–01
* Serie C2
**Champions (1): 1987–88
*Serie D
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**Champions (1): 2019–20
*'' Prima Divisione''
**Champions (1): 1929–30
*Coppa Italia Serie C
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**Winners (1): 1992–93
Other Titles
* Coppa Federale Siciliana
:*Winners (1): 1920
*Whitaker Challenge Cup
:*Winners (1): 1908
* Lipton Challenge Cup
:*Winners (5): 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915
*Torneo di Tunisi
**Winners (1): 1923
* Campionato Primavera:
**Winners (1): 2008–09
* Campionato Nazionale Dante Berretti:
**Winners (1): 2000–01
*Coppa Allievi Professionisti:
**Winners (1): 1997–98
*Campionato Giovanissimi Regionali:
**Winners (2): 2011–12, 2012–13
Records
*Most appearances in all competitions – 372, Roberto Biffi (1988–1999)
*Most European appearances – 15, Andrea Barzagli
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A four-time member of the Serie A Team of the Year, Barzagli is regarded as one of the best and most consistent defenders in Italian fo ...
, Franco Brienza and Mattia Cassani
*Most Serie A league appearances – 165, Fabrizio Miccoli
Fabrizio Miccoli (; born on 27 June 1979) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
He scored 103 goals in 259 matches in Serie A across nine seasons, representing Perugia, Juventus, Fiorentina and Palermo, also spen ...
(2007–2013)
*Most league goals – 74, Fabrizio Miccoli
Fabrizio Miccoli (; born on 27 June 1979) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
He scored 103 goals in 259 matches in Serie A across nine seasons, representing Perugia, Juventus, Fiorentina and Palermo, also spen ...
(2007–2013)
*Most Serie A league goals – 74, Fabrizio Miccoli
Fabrizio Miccoli (; born on 27 June 1979) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
He scored 103 goals in 259 matches in Serie A across nine seasons, representing Perugia, Juventus, Fiorentina and Palermo, also spen ...
(2007–2013)
*Most Coppa Italia cup goals – 7, Massimo De Stefanis (1979–1984)
*Most Europa League/UEFA Cup goals – 4, Franco Brienza (2000–2013), Abel Hernández (2009–2014)
*Most goals in all competitions – 81, Fabrizio Miccoli
Fabrizio Miccoli (; born on 27 June 1979) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
He scored 103 goals in 259 matches in Serie A across nine seasons, representing Perugia, Juventus, Fiorentina and Palermo, also spen ...
(2007–2013)
*Most goals in a season – 30, Luca Toni (2003–2004)
*Current player with most appearances – 78, Roberto Floriano (as of 12 June 2022)
*Biggest win and biggest home win in Serie A – 8–0 (''v.'' Pro Patria, 5 November 1950)
*Biggest away win – 8–1 (''v.'' Potenza, 1 March 1942)
*Biggest defeat and biggest away defeat – 0–9 (''v.'' Milan
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, 18 February 1951)
*Biggest home defeat – 0–7 (''v.'' Udinese
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, 27 February 2011)
*Highest number of points in Serie A league – 65 pt. ( 2009–10) 5th position
*Best series without home defeats – 26 (Palermo–Lecce 5–2, 15 March 2009 – Palermo–Cagliari 0–0, 29 August 2010)
*Greatest series of consecutive victories in Serie A league – 5 ( 2006–07)
Competitions
League
National cups
International competitions
In Europe
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
References
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