Parma football club is found in Italy, a country renowned for classical romanticism, rich history and historical destinations, wonderful cuisine and above all the boisterous and lively professional football league. Football has a strong foundation in Italy and without doubt a strong following. There are many professional football clubs in the country, Parma being one of them. To develop and nature the home based football talents, Italian Serie A or Lega Calcio Serie has been introduced and is one of the highest level of national football leagues in Italy.
It is from this league that a number of European cup finalists have been produced. Some of the famous clubs besides parma football to take part in Seria A league include AC Milan, Inter Milan, Roma, Turin, Genoa, Lazio, Bologna, and Juventus. With the likes of Parma football club, Italy is know as one of the most flamboyant football clubs and has even been rated top three European countries with regards to football.
Parma football club is set to compete in serie A, for the 2011-2012 seasons after successfully finishing at position twelve last season. This will be a big moment for a club that has come a long way since It was founded over a decade ago. Parma has displayed a rich talent on the field and has even played its home matches in the 27000 setter stadium, financed by a wealthy property mortgage broker.
For many years, Parma did not win any domestic titles or even compete for domestic trophies until the 1990s when the team started showing remarkable performance. After the 90s, they have won a total of three Italian cups, one supercopper Italiana, and two UEFA Cups, plus of cause one European super cup and one UEFA cup winner’s cup.
All the mentioned 8 trophies have been won in a period 10 years. That is from 1992 to 2002 when parma football club also achieved the best league finish being the runners up in the 1996-1997 season. Their success that season, was a big thereat to the dominance that existed among major teams such as Milan, Juventus and internazionale which are the only Italian teams to have enjoyed much success under European league than Parma.
Like many other clubs, parma football club has had its ups and down some of which almost brought the team down. For instance, the Parmalat scandle caused collapse of the parent company, and thereafter, affected the administration of parma club. This went on until January 2007, but never affected the teams’ entire performance. It only made the team stronger and better.
With collapse of the sponsoring/parent company, parma could not buy established players or compete in titles, rather the team decided to develop young players. Despite all this, Parma has existed and performed well and is among the top eight Italian clubs in the European club association. The association is made up of Europe’s most elite clubs and is used to represent the clubs at continental level. It came into force after the dissolution of G-14 and has existed since.