Parma Calcio 1913

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, who was born in the province of Parma. It adopted yellow and blue as its colours. 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. Construction of a stadium, the Stadio Ennio Tardini, began two years later. Parma became a founder member of Serie B 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, where the club stayed until winning promotion back to Serie B in 1943. Italian football was then brought to a halt as the Second World War intensified, although the team did make an appearance in the Campionato Alta Italia in 1944.

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…

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 AC Milan, Juventus and Inter Milan), and one of thirteen Italian clubs to have won multiple major titles.

National

League

Serie A Runners-up: 1996–97 Serie B Winners: 2023–24 Runners-up: 2008–09, 2017–18 Serie C Winners: 1953–54, 1972–73, 1983–84, 1985–86 Serie D Winners: 1969–70, 2015–16

Cups

Coppa Italia Winners: 1991–92, 1998–99, 2001–02 Runners-up: 1994–95, 2000–01 Supercoppa Italiana Winners: 1999 Runners-up: 1992, 1995, 2002

European

UEFA Cup Winners: 1994–95, 1998–99 European Cup Winners' Cup Winners: 1992–93 Runners-up: 1993–94 European Super Cup Winners: 1993

Others

Parmalat Cup Winners: 1995 Trofeo Colombino Winners: 2007