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Crotales

Crotales, sometimes called antique cymbals, are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned bronze or brass disks. Each is about 10 cm in diameter with a flat top surface and a nipple on the base. They are commonly played by being struck with hard mallets. However, they may also be played by striking two disks together in the same manner as finger cymbals, or by bowing. Their sound is rather like a small tuned bell, only with a much brighter sound and a much longer resonance. Similar to tuned finger cymbals, crotales are thicker and larger; they also have slight grooves in them. The name comes from the Greek crotalon, for a castanet or rattle.

Modern crotales are arranged chromatically and have a range of up to two octaves. They are typically available in sets (commonly one octave) but may also be purchased individually. Crotales are treated as transposing instruments; music for crotales is written two octaves lower than the sounding pitch to minimize ledger lines.

Crotal bells are a type of small bell, mostly medieval. A different form of crotal is found in Prehistoric Ireland. The National Museum of Ireland and British Museum have several examples on display dating from the late Bronze Age (c. 800 BC) which were found in the Dowris Hoard, alongside various brass wind instruments. These are bronze cylinders in the rough shape of a bull's testicle, with a piece of baked clay or a pebble inside. It is presumed they functioned as a type of rattle. The hoard had 48 of them in total, in two sizes. Only two other examples are known, both Irish.

Uses
One of the earliest uses of crotales in the orchestral repertoire is Hector Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette (1839). Other classical pieces featuring crotales include Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Maurice Ravel's orchestration of his Alborada del gracioso and Henri Dutilleux's Cello Concerto.

The contemporary American composer John Adams uses them in many of his more colorful orchestral pieces such as Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Composer Julia Wolfe uses crotales in her oratorio Fire in my mouth.

Crotales are also found in popular music, particularly in rock music. Neil Peart of Rush used them as part of his basic drum kit for several years, featuring them in the introduction to the instrumental "YYZ", and Alan White of Yes used them in the middle instrumental section of "Awaken" from Going for the One.

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Solifugae

Solifugae is an order of animals in the class Arachnida known variously as camel spiders, wind scorpions, sun spiders, or solifuges. The order includes more than 1,000 described species in about 147 genera. Despite the common names, they are neither true scorpions (order Scorpiones) nor true spiders (order Araneae). Most species of Solifugae live in dry climates and feed opportunistically on ground-dwelling arthropods and other small animals. The largest species grow to a length of 12 - 15 cm, including legs. A number of urban legends exaggerate the size and speed of the Solifugae, and their potential danger to humans, which is negligible.

Etymology
The name Solifugae derives from Latin, and means "those that flee from the sun". The order is also known by the names Solpugida, Solpugides, Solpugae, Galeodea, and Mycetophorae. Their common names include camel spider, wind scorpion, scorpion carrier, jerrymunglum, sun scorpion, and sun spider. In southern Africa, they are known by a host of names, including red romans, haarskeerders ("hair cutters"), and baardskeerders ("beard cutters"), the latter two relating to the belief they use their formidable jaws to clip hair from humans and animals to line their subterranean nests.

Anatomy
Solifuges are moderately small to large arachnids (a few millimeters to several centimeters in body length), with the larger species reaching 12 - 15 cm in length, including legs. In practice, the respective lengths of the legs of various species differ greatly, so the resulting figures are often misleading. More practical measurements refer primarily to the body length, quoting leg lengths separately, if at all. The body length is up to 7 cm. Most species are closer to 5 cm long, and some small species are under 1 cm in head-plus-body length when mature.

Like that of spiders, the body plan of the Solifugae has two main tagmata: the prosoma, or cephalothorax, is the anterior tagma, and the 10-segmented abdomen, or opisthosoma, is the posterior tagma. The abdominal tergites and sternites are separated by large areas of intersegmental membranes, giving it a high degree of flexibility and ability to stretch considerably, which allows it to consume a large amount of food. As shown in the illustrations, the solifuge prosoma and opisthosoma are not separated by nearly as clear a constriction and connecting tube or "pedicel" as occurs in Araneae. The lack of the pedicel reflects another difference between the Solifugae and spiders, namely that solifuges lack both spinnerets and silk, and do not spin webs. Spiders need considerable mobility of their abdomens in their spinning activities, and the Solifugae have no such adaptation.

The prosoma comprises the head, the mouthparts, and the somites that bear the legs and the pedipalps. It is covered by a carapace, also called a prosomal dorsal shield or peltidium, which is composed of three distinct elements called propeltidium, mesopeltidium and metapeltidium. The propeltidium contains the eyes, the chelicerae that, in most species, are conspicuously large, the pedipalps and the first two pairs of legs. Meso- and metapeltidium contains the third and fourth pairs of legs. The chelicerae serve as jaws and in many species also are used for stridulation. Unlike scorpions, solifuges do not have a third tagma that forms a "tail".

Currently, neither fossil nor embryological evidence shows that arachnids ever had a separate thorax-like division, so the validity of the term cephalothorax, which means a fused cephalon, or head, and thorax, has been questioned. Also, arguments exist against use of "abdomen", as the opisthosoma of many arachnids contains organs atypical of an abdomen, such as a heart and respiratory organs.

Like other arachnids outside the orders of scorpions and the Tetrapulmonata, the Solifugae lack book lungs, having instead a well-developed tracheal system that inhales and exhales air through a number of spiracles - one pair between the second and third pair of walking legs, two pairs on the abdomen on abdominal segments three and four, and an unpaired spiracle on the fifth abdominal segment. Air sacs are attached to the branching tracheae, with tracheoles penetrating the epithelia of internal organs. Hemocyanin, a respiratory pigment common in the hemolymph of many arachnids and other arthropods, is absent. As embryos they also have opisthosomal protuberances resembling the pulmonary sacs found in some palpigrades.

Chelicerae
Among the most distinctive features of the Solifugae are their large chelicerae, which in many species are longer than the prosoma. Each of the two chelicerae has two articles (segments, parts connected by a joint), forming a powerful pincer, much like that of a crab; each article bears a variable number of teeth, largely depending on the species. The chelicerae of many species are surprisingly strong; they are capable of shearing hair or feathers from vertebrate prey or carrion, and of cutting through skin and thin bones such as those of small birds. Many Solifugae stridulate with their chelicerae, producing a rattling noise.

Legs and pedipalps
These elements work the same way as in most other arachnids. Although the Solifugae appear to have five pairs of legs, only the hind four pairs are true legs. Each true leg has seven segments: coxa, trochanter, femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus.

The first, or anterior, of the five pairs of leg-like appendages are not "actual" legs, but pedipalps, and they have only five segments each. The pedipalps of the Solifugae function partly as sense organs similar to insects' antennae, and partly in locomotion, feeding, and fighting. In normal locomotion, they do not quite touch the ground, but are held out to detect obstacles and prey; in that attitude, they look particularly like an extra pair of legs or perhaps arms. Reflecting the great dependence of the Solifugae on their tactile senses, their anterior true legs commonly are smaller and thinner than the posterior three pairs. That smaller anterior pair acts largely in a sensory role as a supplement to the pedipalps, and in many species they accordingly lack tarsi. At the tips of their pedipalps, Solifugae bear a membranous suctorial organ, which are used for capturing prey, and also for bringing water to their mouthparts for drinking and climbing smooth surfaces.

For the most part, only the posterior three pairs of legs are used for running. On the undersides of the coxae and trochanters of the last pair of legs, the Solifugae have fan-shaped sensory organs called malleoli or racquet (or racket) organs. Sometimes, the blades of the malleoli are directed forward, sometimes not. They have been suspected to be sensory organs for the detection of vibrations in the soil, perhaps to detect threats and potential prey or mates. These structures may be chemoreceptors.

Males are usually smaller than females, with relatively longer legs. Unlike females, the males bear a pair of flagella, one on each chelicera. In the accompanying photograph of a male solifuge, one flagellum is just visible near the tip of each chelicera. The flagella, which bend back over the chelicerae, are sometimes called horns and are believed to have some sexual connection, but their function has not yet been clearly explained.

Eyes
Some species have very large central eyes. They look like simple eyes or ocelli, but are quite sophisticated. They can recognise forms, and are used in hunting and avoiding enemies. These eyes may represent the last step in the integration of the aggregate of simple ocelli into a compound eye, and of further integration of a compound eye into a simple eye. Lateral vestigial eyes can be found inserted into pits on the inner side of the cuticle. The lenses of these eyes are usually atrophied, but in some species there are both nerves and pigment cells present, and their function could be to detect motions or changes in light intensity.

Classification and Phylogeny
The Solifugae are an order of their own, though are sometimes confused with spiders, which form a completely distinct order, the Araneae. The order comprises over 1200 described species in 146 genera assigned to these 16 families:

Suborder Australosolifugae
 * Ammotrechidae Roewer, 1934
 * Ceromidae Roewer, 1933
 * Daesiidae Kraepelin, 1899
 * Dinorhaxidae (Roewer, 1933)
 * Hexisopodidae Pocock, 1897
 * Lipophagidae (Wharton, 1981)
 * Melanoblossiidae Roewer, 1933
 * Mummuciidae Roewer, 1934
 * Namibesiidae (Wharton, 1981)
 * Solpugidae Leach, 1815

Suborder Boreosolifugae
 * Eremobatidae Kraepelin, 1901
 * Galeodidae Sundevall, 1833
 * Gylippidae Roewer, 1933
 * Karschiidae Kraepelin, 1899
 * Rhagodidae Pocock, 1897

incertae sedis
 * †Protosolpugidae Petrunkevitch, 1953

In 2023, the internal phylogeny of solifuges was resolved for the first time using phylogenomics. The molecular phylogeny of the order showed evidence for two groups of families, which were recognized as suborders. Boreosolifugae comprises five families predominantly from the Northern Hemisphere (Eremobatidae, Gylippidae, Karschiidae, Galeodidae, and Rhagodidae). Australosolifugae comprises seven families predominantly from the Southern Hemisphere (Ammotrechidae, Ceromidae, Daesiidae, Hexisopodidae, Melanoblossidae, Mummuciidae, and Solpugidae). Daesiidae and Ammotrechidae were both recovered as non-monophyletic, due to the nested position of Melanoblossidae inside Daesiidae, and the nested position of Mummuciidae inside Ammotrechidae. A subsequent genomic study established three additional families: Dinorhaxidae (formerly within Melanoblossidae) was recovered as part of Boreosolifugae; and Lipophagidae (formerly within Gylippidae) and Namibesiidae (formerly within Daesiidae) were recovered as part of Australosolifugae. This phylogeny is considered congruent with a Gondwanan origin for Australosolifugae and a Laurasian origin for Boreosolifugae.

Ecology
Although the Solifugae are considered to be endemic indicators of desert biomes, they occur widely in semidesert and scrub. Some species also live in grassland or forest habitats. The Solifugae generally inhabit warm and arid habitats, including virtually all warm deserts and scrublands in all continents except Antarctica and Australia.

Solifugae species are carnivorous or omnivorous, with most feeding on termites, darkling beetles, and other small, ground-dwelling arthropods. They are aggressive hunters and voracious opportunistic feeders, and have been recorded as feeding on snakes, small lizards, birds, and rodents. Prey is located with the pedipalps and killed and cut into pieces by the chelicerae. The prey is then liquefied, and the liquid ingested through the pharynx. Although they do not normally attack humans, their chelicerae can penetrate human skin, and painful bites have been reported.

Various other predators, such as the large slit-faced bat, scorpions, toads, and insectivores, may prey on the Solifugae.

Life cycle
The Solifugae are typically univoltine (reproducing once a year). Reproduction can involve direct or indirect sperm transfer; when indirect, the male emits a spermatophore on the ground and then inserts it with his chelicerae in the female's genital pore. To do this, he flings the female on her back.

The female then digs a burrow, into which she lays 50 to 200 eggs; some species then guard them until they hatch. Because the female does not feed during this time, she tries to fatten herself beforehand, and a species of 5 cm has been observed to eat more than 100 flies during that time in the laboratory. The Solifugae undergo a number of stages including, egg, postembryo, 9–10 nymphal instars, and adults.

Solifuges and humans
Solifuges have been recognized as distinct taxa from ancient times. In Aelian's De natura animalium, "four-jawed spiders" are credited, along with scorpions, as being responsible for the abandoning of a desert region near the Astaboras river (said to be in India, but thought to be a river in Ethiopia). Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein theorized in 1797 that the "mice" that plagued the Philistines in the Old Testament were Solifugae. During World War I, troops stationed in Abū Qīr, Egypt, would stage fights between captive "jerrymanders", as they referred to them, and placed bets on the outcome. Similarly, British troops stationed in Libya in World War II staged fights between solifuges and scorpions.

Urban legends
The Solifugae are the subject of many legends and exaggerations about their size, speed, behavior, appetite, and lethality. They are not especially large, the biggest having a leg span around 12 cm. They are fast on land compared to other invertebrates, with their top speed estimated to be 16 km/h.

The Solifugae apparently have neither venom glands nor any venom-delivery apparatus such as the fangs of spiders, stings of wasps, or venomous setae of caterpillars (e.g., Lonomia or Acharia species). One 1978 study is frequently quoted, in which the authors report detection of an exception in India, in that Rhagodes nigrocinctus had venom glands, and that injection of the secretion into mice was frequently fatal. However, no supporting studies have confirmed either statement, such as by independent detection of the glands as claimed, or the relevance of the observations, if correct. Even the authors of the original account admitted to having found no means of delivery of the putative venom by the animal, and the only means of administering the material to the mice was by parenteral injection. Given that many non-venoms such as saliva, blood and glandular secretions can be lethal if injected, and that no venomous function was even speculated upon in this study, there is still no evidence for even one venomous species of solifuge.

Because of their unfamiliar spider-like appearance and rapid movements, Solifugae have startled or even frightened many people. This fear was sufficient to drive a family from their home when one was allegedly discovered in a soldier's house in Colchester, England, and caused the family to blame the solifuge for the death of their pet dog. An Arizona resident developed painful lesions due to a claimed solifuge bite but could not produce a specimen for confirmation. Though they are not venomous, the powerful chelicerae of a large specimen may inflict a painful nip, but nothing medically significant.

Claims that Solifugae aggressively chase people are also untrue, as they are merely trying to stay in the shade/shadow provided by the human.

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Talk:Brute-force search

TSP is not a good example?
The traveling salesman problem is the classic example of this type of problem.

I don't like this example - the previous three show a problem which grows exponentially, while the TSP is one which grows factorially.

On the other hand, I don't know an alternative. Perhaps the wording could be changed to stop suggesting TSP is an exponential problem? r3m0t 23:11, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

D'oh, the time needed to solve TSP does grow exponentially. Remember that n! ~ sqrt(2*pi*n) * (n/e)^n Azotlichid 00:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Moreover, the brute force method is not necessarily restricted to exponential-size search space only. One can use it with polynomial problems too, e.g. to find the fraction m/n with three-digit integers m and n that is nearest to π. The brute-force solution is enumerate all 999×999 possibilities. There are better methods, fortunately. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 23:04, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

A much better way to find prime numbers
Just iterate up to the floor of the square root of the number n, and for every number m that fits also record n/m... INVERTED 11:38, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

 * It doesn't say it's efficient, does it? Brute-force search is usually not the most efficient way to do something, but it's simple. --Spoon! 11:00, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

On merging Brute-force with Backtracking
I strongly oppose to the merging. Backtracking is a method that can be used to perform a brute force search. Brute force search can be performed in other ways, the most common being a simple loop through the solution space. On the other hand, backtracking can be used in ways that are not brute-force, by using some specific method, a backtracking algorithm ca determine that a given branch of the search space cannot contain a solution, without examining all the space.Gfonsecabr 17:52, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

It is false. Backtracking is mostly the same as brute force except the cases you mentioned above and can be used interchangeably. Both articles contain mostly the same content.71.175.43.242 20:48, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I hope it is clear now that "brute force" is very different from "backtracking". Brute force is the simplest and stupidest method that generates and tests *all* candidates.  Bactracking is more intelligent in that it increases the candidate one step at a time and backtracks as soon as the step leads nowhere. Thus backtracking may be much faster than brute-force (or maynot be, depending on the problem). --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 22:58, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Generate and test is not the same as brute force
A genetic algorithm is a kind of generate and test algorithm but is not brute force Housecarl (talk) 20:27, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Merge with Linear search?
This article subject looks awfully like another article linear search, although the latter is much better explained. Suggest merging unless anyone can think of a reason not to?
 * The two aree similar in a very abstrat sense, but in practice are different topics. Linear search is specifically about searching items in a table.  Brute force search is used when searching a large set that is not stored but generated on the fly; it is meant to contrast with other combinatorial optimization methods, such as backtracking, branch-and-bound, etc..  I will try to clarify this point in the article. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 22:54, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

You can't brute-force a one-time pad
You can't brute-force a one-time pad encrypted cypher text. The best you can do is generate all possible clear texts of the same length. I added a parenthetical note to that effect, but if someone with better writing ability than me wants to tidy it up, feel free. 87.157.198.158 (talk) 21:51, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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2004 attack on Istanbul restaurant

On March 9, 2004, an attack on a restaurant in the Kartal district of Istanbul, Turkey killed Hüseyin Kurugöl, a waiter in the restaurant, and injured five others. The two Islamic militants who carried out the attack, Engin Vural and Nihat Doğruel, were holding automatic weapons and had ten homemade pipe bombs strapped to their flak jackets when they entered the restaurant frequented by freemasons. Shooting the guard in his feet, they entered the dining hall and began firing at the forty people in the room. Then they detonated bombs at the entrance, killing Kurugöl. One of the militants died in the attack, the other was seriously injured.

This attack occurred 911 days after the September 11 attacks. On March 11, the newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi received a statement which claimed that an al-Qaeda affiliated group, Jund al-Quds, ('Soldiers of Jerusalem'), had carried out the attack. The statement's primary purpose was to claim responsibility for the March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks.

In August 2004, the trial of the suspects began. While Turkish authorities said there was likely an al-Qaeda link, the surviving bomber, Engin Vural, claimed it was an independent act he planned along with the dead bomber, Nihat Doğruel. The prosecution charged that a man named Adem Çetinkaya, who was also charged, organized the attack and was also planning to bomb a private television station.

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Was it a Jewish masonic lodge - or just a masonic lodge? Secretlondon 23:13, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

No mention of Jewish in the external link. Secretlondon 23:18, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Also it was a restaurant (frequented by Freemasons) and not a Masonic lodge --Decumanus 23:20, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I wrote the page and would like to talk just made a screen name djkra. how do i talk on this page?

I was wrong in saying that it was a jewish lodge. I found this online.

Many Jewish businessmen and intellectuals are believed to belong to Turkey's five masonic organizations, which have some 14,000 members.

Reason for title namechange - it was too darn long, not to mention silly. - SV (talk) 19:54, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC) Bold text

How could both this attack and the Madrid train bombings be 911 days after 9/11? There must be a mistake in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.14.65.122 (talk) 19:45, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposed move
I propose to move this article to March 9, 2004 attack on Istanbul restaurant (changing 'of' to 'on') in accordance with normal English usage. Are there any other considerations before I proceed? --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 10:16, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
 * In the absence of dissent I'm going ahead with the move. Per WP:NAMINGCRITERIA the new name accords with the requirement of 'naturalness', which is lacking in the old title March 9, 2004 attack of Istanbul restaurant. --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 10:47, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I would suggest moving it to something like 2004 Istanbul restaurant attack, which is much more natural than the current title. I realize this is many years after the previous move, but the current title is a mess. Paris1127 (talk) 17:40, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

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Palermo FC

Palermo Football Club is an Italian professional football club based in Palermo, Sicily, that currently plays in Serie B. It is part of the City Football Group.

Founded for the first time on 1 November 1900 as Anglo Palermitan Athletic and Football Club, Palermo is one of the oldest clubs in Italy.

Among the club's accomplishments are a Coppa Italia Serie C, won in the 1992–93, and five Serie B league titles. It also appeared in three Coppa Italia finals: in 1973–74, in 1978–79 and in 2010–11; and played 29 seasons in Serie A.

Internationally, the club has made five appearances in European competitions, all in the UEFA Cup/Europa League.

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 Palermo Calcio founded the association Sport Club. The most common and officially stated foundation date is 1 November 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 in the UK, where the modern game of association football 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 30 December 1900, ended in a 5–0 defeat to an unidentified amateur English team. The club's first official match, played on 18 April 1901 against Messina Football Club, 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 in 1915, Palermo was featured in the Lipton Challenge Cup, organised by Scottish businessman Sir Thomas Lipton. 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 in 1930 and finally reached Serie A 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.

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. The club could not finish the 1942–43 season due to the outbreak of World War II. 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, the team returned to Serie A by winning the Serie B championship of 1947–48. The new Palermo squad featured players such as Czechoslovakian legend Čestmír Vycpálek who signed from Juventus alongside Conti, Carmelo Di Bella 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", 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 and Carlo Mattrel, 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 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, later revoked by the federation to fill a vacant league slot.

In March 2000, Roma chairman Franco Sensi 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 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)
In the summer of 2002, Friulian businessman and Venezia 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, who was hired in January 2004 as replacement for dismissed Silvio Baldini.

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 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 semi-finals. The club was however admitted to play UEFA Cup again due to the 2006 Calciopoli scandal, with Palermo players Andrea Barzagli, Cristian Zaccardo, Simone Barone and Fabio Grosso being crowned 2006 World Cup 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 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, 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 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 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.

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. Palermo reached their third Coppa Italia finals after defeating Milan 4–3 on aggregate on 10 May 2011, losing 3–1 to Internazionale 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 boss Stefano Pioli, who was, however, sacked before the Serie A kickoff after being eliminated by Swiss minnows FC Thun in the Europa League 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. Palermo arrived 16th in that season.

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 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, with the Rosanero completing a record-breaking Serie B season with 86 points, one more than previous record holders Juventus, Chievo and Sassuolo (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 and Franco Vázquez.

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 to play as a partner of Vázquez. Another long list of managerial changes during the season (seven in total, with Davide Ballardini 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 sporting director; however, he 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 plus several young and quasi-unknown foreign players. Ballardini, who was originally confirmed as head coach, left his position after a draw at Inter Milan 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.

New ownerships, financial issues and Serie B exclusion (2018–2019)
For the 2018–19 Serie B season, Palermo (with Rino Foschi back for a third time as sporting director) found themselves having to sell many 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 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, Palermo finished in third place with 63 points but was demoted by FIGC to last place in Serie B on 13 May due to serious financial irregularities, which meant relegation to Serie C for the following season. The club appealed to FIGC 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 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 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 confirmed six declarations of interests had been presented for a new phoenix club to be admitted in Serie D, 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 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. On 16 July 2020, the club changed its name to Palermo Football Club.

Palermo, under the guidance of Silvio Baldini, concluded the 2021–22 Serie C campaign in third place in the Group C, behind Bari and Catanzaro, and then made it to the promotion playoff final against Padova after eliminating Triestina, Virtus Entella and Feralpisalò in the process (during playoffs, Renzo Barbera stadium was always sold out). On 12 June 2022, Palermo were promoted to Serie B after defeating Padova 2–0 on aggregate, thus returning to the Italian second division just three years after being excluded from the league. On 4 July 2022, at the presence of Manchester City F.C. CEO Ferran Soriano, the club was formally announced to have been acquired by City Football Group, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi United Group, with outgoing owner Dario Mirri (who was confirmed as club chairman) keeping a 20% of the quotes.

Under new head coach Eugenio Corini, former Palermo captain in the 2000s, the Rosanero ended their season in ninth place, missing on promotion playoffs in the season's final game. The follow-up season saw Palermo aiming for direct promotion; however, inconsistency in league performances led to the dismissal of Corini and the appointment of Michele Mignani as new head coach for the remainder of the campaign.

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 bitter 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 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'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.

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. In 1936, the Littorio was renamed Stadio Michele Marrone after a fascist soldier who died in the Spanish Civil War.

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 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 located in the ZEN neighbourhood of Palermo, not far from the Velodromo Paolo Borsellino, a smaller stadium that had previously hosted some Palermo matches.

In 2024, Palermo inaugurated their own training centre, located in the city of Torretta, their first one in the club's history.

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 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 during Palermo matches. Palermo fans are also twinned with Lecce ultras. This friendship was strengthened by the acquisition of Fabrizio Miccoli, 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, which Palermo lost 3–1, it was estimated that there were 25,000 - 35,000 fans from Palermo, easily outnumbering the Nerazzurri fans present.

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:

 * 🇮🇹 Fabrizio Miccoli; 4183 votes
 * 🇮🇹 Eugenio Corini; 3924 votes
 * 🇦🇷 Javier Pastore; 3835 votes
 * 🇮🇹 Federico Balzaretti; 3738 votes
 * 🇮🇹 Andrea Barzagli; 3495 votes
 * Josip Iličić; 2801 votes
 * 🇦🇷 Paulo Dybala; 2798 votes
 * 🇮🇹 Luca Toni; 2700 votes
 * 🇮🇹 Fabio Grosso; 2575 votes
 * 🇮🇹 Francesco Guidolin; 2516 votes
 * 🇮🇹 Amauri; 2292 votes
 * Edinson Cavani; 1702 votes
 * 🇮🇹 Stefano Sorrentino; 1583 votes
 * 🇮🇹 Roberto Biffi; 1566 votes
 * 🇮🇹 Lamberto Zauli; 1490 votes

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, 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
 * 🇮🇹 Giuseppe Iachini
 * 🇮🇹 Ignazio Arcoleo
 * 🇨🇿 Čestmír Vycpálek
 * 🇮🇹 Fernando Veneranda
 * 🇮🇹 Giuseppe Caramanno
 * 🇮🇹 Rosario Pergolizzi
 * 🇮🇹 Corrado Viciani
 * 🇮🇹 Carmelo Di Bella
 * 🇮🇹 Gipo Viani
 * 🇮🇹 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
 * Champions (5): 1931–32,   1947–48, 1967–68,  2003–04, 2013–14
 * Serie C1
 * Champions (4): 1941–42,   1945–46, 1992–93,  2000–01
 * Serie C2
 * Champions (1): 1987–88
 * Serie D
 * Champions (1): 2019–20
 * Prima Divisione
 * Champions (1): 1929–30
 * Coppa Italia Serie C
 * 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, Franco Brienza and Mattia Cassani
 * Most Serie A league appearances – 165, Fabrizio Miccoli (2007–2013)
 * Most league goals – 74, Fabrizio Miccoli (2007–2013)
 * Most Serie A league goals – 74, Fabrizio Miccoli (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 (2007–2013)
 * Most goals in a season – 30, Luca Toni (2003–2004)
 * Current player with most appearances – 94, Ivan Marconi (as of 30 June 2023)
 * 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, 18 February 1951)
 * Biggest home defeat – 0–7 (v. Udinese, 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)

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