Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Palermo, known as Palermo Calcio or more simply Palermo, is an Italian football club based in the Sicilian city of Palermo. Originally founded on 1 November 1900, Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo was excluded from Serie B on 12 July 2019. A phoenix club was formed later the same month, and was admitted into in Serie D for the 2019–20 season. Palermo were the first football club founded in Sicily, the first in the South of Italy and also the 7th oldest extant club in the country.
The team achieved its greatest sporting success in the 2000s, during which it had three 5th-placed finishes in the Serie A (including two in a row) and also reached the 2005–06 UEFA Cup's round of 16. The club counts the Coppa Italia Serie C in 1992–1993 as a major honour...