The history of Parma Calcio covers nearly years of the football from the club based in Parma , Italy. Established in the club would eventually go on to win titles on the national and international stage. The club is most famous for the period in which it collected all of its eight major titles, between and The club was declared bankrupt in A football club was founded in Parma in July as Verdi Foot Ball Club in honour of famous opera composer Giuseppe Verdi , who was born in the province of Parma , adopting its unique white shirts emblazoned with a black cross on the front.
The genesis came about after Verdi's death was commemorated with the dispute of the Coppa Verdi ; the players who competed formed the basis of the first team of Parma Football Club, formed in December of the same year.
In , the president at the time, Ennio Tardini , launched his plans to build a stadium for the club, as Parma initially had no permanent home, having previously used the Piazza d'Armi for two spells, land on the outskirts of the south-east of Parma and the Tre Pioppi. Parma were participating in the Emilian regional championship at this point, from which they would qualify to play nationally by performing well.
They achieved their first promotion from a regional league during the β25 season, moving from the Seconda Divisione to the Prima Divisione , before becoming founding members of Serie B after finishing runners-up in the Prima Divisione in the β29 season.
Parma made their debut in Serie B on 6 October , beating Biellese 2β0. The team remained in Serie B for three years before being relegated to the Prima Divisione at the end of the β32 season, the year before the club changed its name to Associazione Sportiva Parma. Having finished in the top two positions for three consecutive seasons in the Prima Divisione, Parma were accepted into the renamed third tier of Italian football for the β36 season , Serie C , where they competed for the rest of the decade, achieving a best finish of fourth in β After finishing as runners-up in β42 , Parma very nearly achieved a return to Serie B the next year , winning seventeen matches of nineteen and scoring 82 goals to top their group, before progressing to the final , where they would have won promotion but for their disqualification due to alleged corruption on the final day of the season in their match against Lecco.
