PALERMO

Palermo

Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo is currently the top-ranked football club from the island of Sicily.
Following its return to Serie A in 2004, the club has become one of the most prominent in Italy, also providing four players to the Italian team that won the 2006 FIFA World Cup. It has gained a UEFA Cup place in each of the past three seasons, narrowly missing UEFA Champions League qualification in 2007 and 2010, and losing its third Coppa Italia final in 2011.

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The official team colours are pink and black, giving rise to the nickname rosanero; a prominent founding member of the club defined pink and black as "colours of the sad and the sweet", a choice he asserted to be a good fit for a team characterized by "results as up and down as a Swiss clock".