List of Palermo F.C. players

For all Palermo players, major or minor, with a Wikipedia article, see Category:Palermo F.C. players.

Below is a list of notable footballers who have played for Palermo Football Club. Generally, this means players that have played 100 or more league matches for the club. However, some players who have played fewer matches are also included; this includes players that have had considerable success at Italian top flight or European level with other clubs, club record holders, and players who have appeared at least once in the FIFA World Cup, or regulars who appeared with a national team during their stay with the club.

Players are listed according to the date of their first-team debut for the club. Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive domestic league matches only; wartime and playoff matches are excluded. Substitute appearances included. Statistics correct as of June 10, 2007.

Name | Nationality | Position | Palermo career | Appearances | Goals | Note

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Carlo Radice |  Italy | FW | 1929–1933, 1934–1935 | ? | 64 | Most league goals
Archimede Valeriani |  Italy | GK | 1929–1934 | 152 | 0 |
Américo Ruffino |  Argentina | FW | 1929–1934 | 135 | 32 |
Ettore Banchero |  Italy | FW | 1931–1933 | 55 | 21 |
Antonio Blasevich |  Italy | MF | 1931–1935 | 121 | 17 |
Luigi Ziroli |  Italy | MF | 1931–1940 | 194 | 9 |
Gennaro Santillo |  Italy | DF | 1932–1940 | 234 | 5 |
Héctor Scarone |  Uruguay | MF | 1932–1934 | 56 | 4 | 1930 FIFA World Cup winner
Maximiliano Faotto |  Uruguay | DF | 1932–1942, 1945–1947 | 129 | 3 |
Oliver Icardi |  Uruguay | MF | 1935–1937, 1939–1940 | 54 | 24 |
Umberto Di Falco |  Italy | FW | 1936–1940 | 73 | 26 |
Carmelo Di Bella |  Italy | MF | 1941–1949 | 111 | 12 |
Čestmír Vycpálek |  Czechoslovakia | MF | 1947–1952 | 143 | 23 |
Aurelio Pavesi De Marco |  Italy | FW | 1947–1950 | 59 | 35 |
Dante Di Maso |  Italy | MF | 1947–1948, 1949–1955 | 164 | 42 |
Pietro De Santis |  Italy | FW | 1948–1950 | 60 | 20 |
Carlo Galli |  Italy | FW | 1949–1951 | 45 | 16 | 1954 FIFA World Cup participant
Gino Giaroli |  Italy | DF | 1949–1954 | 151 | 7 |
Helge Bronée |  Denmark | MF | 1950–1952 | 70 | 22 |
Şükrü Gülesin |  Turkey | FW | 1950–1951, 1952–1953 | 50 | 20 |
Bülent Eken |  Turkey | DF | 1951–1952 | 17 | 0 | 1954 FIFA World Cup participant
Benigno De Grandi |  Italy | DF | 1951–1954, 1955–1956 | 97 | 8 |
Enrique Martegani |  Argentina | FW | 1952–1955 | 93 | 21 |
Enzo Benedetti |  Italy | DF | 1955–1965 | 274 | 0 |
Walter Gómez |  Uruguay | FW | 1956–1958 | 48 | 8 |
Santiago Vernazza |  Argentina | FW | 1956–1960 | 115 | 51 |
Antonio De Bellis |  Italy | DF | 1957–1961, 1965–1971 | 258 | 0 |
Alberto Malavasi |  Italy | MF | 1957–1965 | 248 | 11 |
Roberto Anzolin |  Italy | GK | 1959–1961 | 71 | 0 | 1966 FIFA World Cup participant
Dionisio Arce |  Paraguay | FW | 1959–1961 | 27 | 2 |
Tarcisio Burgnich |  Italy | DF | 1961–1962 | 31 | 1 | 1966, 1970, 1974 FIFA World Cup participant
Rune Börjesson |  Sweden | MF | 1961–1962 | 38 | 10 |
Carlo Mattrel |  Italy | GK | 1961–1962 | 34 | 0 | 1962 FIFA World Cup participant
Metin Oktay |  Turkey | FW | 1961–1962 | 12 | 3 |
José Ferdinando Puglia |  Brazil | MF | 1961–1963 | 62 | 13 |
Lennart Skoglund |  Sweden | MF | 1962–1963 | 6 | 0 | 1950, 1958 FIFA World Cup participant
Mario Giubertoni |  Italy | DF | 1964–1970 | 199 | 2 |
Giovanni Ferretti |  Italy | GK | 1964–1974 | 166 | 0 |
Gaetano Troja |  Italy | FW | 1964–1966, 1968–1973 | 172 | 43 |
Ignazio Arcoleo |  Italy | MF | 1966–1967, 1970–1974, 1978–1980 | 192 | 6 |
Silvino Bercellino |  Italy | FW | 1966–1972 | 134 | 39 |
Franco Landri |  Italy | DF | 1966–1973 | 213 | 2 |
Romeo Benetti |  Italy | MF | 1967–1968 | 35 | 2 | 1974, 1978 FIFA World Cup participant
Giuseppe Furino |  Italy | DF | 1968–1969 | 27 | 1 | 1970 FIFA World Cup participant
Sergio Pellizzaro |  Italy | FW | 1968–1971 | 85 | 23 |
Enzo Ferrari |  Italy | FW | 1968–1972 | 126 | 22 |
Edoardo Reja |  Italy | MF | 1968–1973 | 124 | 1 |
Franco Causio |  Italy | MF | 1969–1970 | 22 | 3 | 1982 FIFA World Cup winner
Spartaco Landini |  Italy | DF | 1970–1973 | 97 | 0 | 1966 FIFA World Cup participant
Sergio Girardi |  Italy | GK | 1970–1974 | 119 | 0 |
Sandro Vanello |  Italy | MF | 1970–1975 | 153 | 12 |
Erminio Favalli |  Italy | DF | 1971–1978 | 203 | 6 |
Sergio Magistrelli |  Italy | FW | 1973–1974, 1976–1978 | 87 | 23 |
Antonino Trapani |  Italy | GK | 1974–1979 | 119 | 0 |
Valerio Majo |  Italy | MF | 1974–1978, 1983–1986 | 212 | 12 |
Filippo Citterio |  Italy | DF | 1975–1979 | 129 | 2 |
Lorenzo Frison |  Italy | GK | 1975–1981 | 103 | 0 |
Mauro Di Cicco |  Italy | DF | 1976–1984 | 237 | 0 |
Vito Chimenti |  Italy | FW | 1977–1979 | 74 | 29 |
Gian Piero Gasperini |  Italy | MF | 1978–1983 | 128 | 11 |
Massimo De Stefanis |  Italy | MF | 1979–1984 | 169 | 30 |
Giampaolo Montesano |  Italy | MF | 1979–1984 | 170 | 21 |
Giuseppe Volpecina |  Italy | DF | 1980–1984 | 133 | 6 |
Gianni De Rosa |  Italy | FW | 1981–1983 | 61 | 29 | Serie B topscorer title as a Palermo player
Tebaldo Bigliardi |  Italy | DF | 1981–1986, 1993–1994 | 144 | 1 |
Gianni De Biasi |  Italy | MF | 1983–1986 | 105 | 7 |
Pietro De Sensi |  Italy | DF | 1987–1994 | 201 | 17 |
Domenico Di Carlo |  Italy | MF | 1987–1990 | 97 | 6 |
Roberto Biffi |  Italy | DF | 1988–1999 | 319 | 15 | Most league appearances
Vincenzo Sicignano |  Italy | GK | 1994–2003 | 182 | 0 |
Gianluca Berti |  Italy | GK | 1995–1996, 2003–2004 | 78 | 0 |
Gaetano Vasari |  Italy | MF | 1995–1997, 2003–2004 | 95 | 18 |
Davide Bombardini |  Italy | MF | 1999–2002 | 94 | 15 |
Massimiliano Cappioli |  Italy | MF | 2000–2002 | 57 | 16 |
Christian La Grotteria |  Argentina | FW | 2000–2003 | 80 | 17 |
Daniele Di Donato |  Italy | MF | 2000–2004 | 133 | 4 |
Franco Brienza |  Italy | FW | 2000–2002, 2003–2008 | 168 | 17 |
Mario Santana |  Argentina | MF | 2002–2003, 2004–2006 | 91 | 4 |
Lamberto Zauli |  Italy | FW | 2002–2005 | 69 | 14 | Serie B promotion captain
Simone Pepe |  Italy | MF | 2003–2004, 2005–2006 | 22 | 1 | 2010 FIFA World Cup participant
Eugenio Corini |  Italy | MF | 2003–2007 | 129 | 25 |
Luca Toni |  Italy | FW | 2003–2005 | 80 | 51 | 2006 FIFA World Cup winner; most goals in a season
Simone Barone |  Italy | MF | 2004–2006 | 71 | 5 | 2006 FIFA World Cup winner
Andrea Barzagli |  Italy | DF | 2004–2008 | 142 | 4 | 2006 FIFA World Cup winner
Giuseppe Biava |  Italy | DF | 2004–2008 | 112 | 5 |
Fabio Grosso |  Italy | DF | 2004–2006 | 90 | 2 | 2006 FIFA World Cup winner
Cristian Zaccardo |  Italy | DF | 2004–2008 | 142 | 8 | 2006 FIFA World Cup winner
Mariano Andújar |  Argentina | GK | 2005–2006 | 11 | 0 | 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup participant
Giovanni Tedesco |  Italy | MF | 2005–2010 | 78 | 9 |
Amauri |  Italy | FW | 2006–2008 | 52 | 23 |
Alberto Fontana |  Italy | GK | 2006–2009 | 66 | 0 |
Fábio Simplício |  Brazil | MF | 2006–2010 | 129 | 21 | Capped as Palermo player
Mark Bresciano |  Australia | MF | 2006–2010 | 107 | 12 | 2006, 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup participant
Mattia Cassani |  Italy | DF | 2006–2011 | 161 | 2 | Most European appearances
Salvatore Sirigu |  Italy | GK | 2006–2011 | 69 | 0 | 2014 FIFA World Cup participant
Cesare Bovo |  Italy | DF | 2006–2007, 2008–2011 | 89 | 7 |
Fabrizio Miccoli |  Italy | FW | 2007–2013 | 165 | 74 | Most Serie A league goals
Edinson Cavani |  Uruguay | FW | 2007–2010 | 109 | 34 | 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup participant
Marco Amelia |  Italy | GK | 2008–2009 | 34 | 0 | 2006 FIFA World Cup winner
Simon Kjær |  Denmark | DF | 2008–2010 | 62 | 5 | 2010 FIFA World Cup participant
Antonio Nocerino |  Italy | MF | 2008–2011 | 106 | 6 |
Fabio Liverani |  Italy | MF | 2008–2011 | 66 | 0 |
Federico Balzaretti |  Italy | DF | 2008–2012 | 143 | 3 |
Dorin Goian |  Romania | DF | 2009–2011 | 30 | 1 |
Javier Pastore |  Argentina | MF | 2009–2011 | 69 | 14 | 2010 FIFA World Cup participant
Abel Hernández |  Uruguay | FW | 2009–2014 | 111 | 31 | 2014 FIFA World Cup participant
Matteo Darmian |  Italy | DF | 2010–2011 | 11 | 0 | 2014 FIFA World Cup participant
Mauricio Pinilla |  Chile | FW | 2010–2012 | 35 | 10 | 2014 FIFA World Cup participant
Josip Iličić |  Slovenia | MF | 2010–2013 | 98 | 20 |
Ezequiel Muñoz |  Argentina | DF | 2010–2015 | 131 | 5 |
Afriyie Acquah |  Ghana | MF | 2011–2013 | 31 | 0 | 2014 FIFA World Cup participant
Alexandros Tzorvas |  Greece | GK | 2011–2012 | 11 | 0 | 2010 FIFA World Cup participant
Eran Zahavi |  Israel | MF | 2011–2012 | 23 | 2 |
Édgar Barreto |  Paraguay | MF | 2011–2015 | 122 | 7 | 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup participant
Steve von Bergen |  Switzerland | DF | 2012–2013 | 34 | 1 | 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup participant
Egidio Arévalo Ríos |  Uruguay | MF | 2012–2013 | 27 | 2 | 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup participant
Emiliano Viviano |  Italy | GK | 2012–2014 | 20 | 0 |
Paulo Dybala |  Argentina | FW | 2012–2015 | 90 | 21 |
Franco Vázquez |  Italy | MF | 2012–2016 | 105 | 22 |
Kyle Lafferty |  Northern Ireland | FW | 2013–2014 | 34 | 11 |
Andrea Belotti |  Italy | FW | 2013–2015 | 62 | 16 |
Stefano Sorrentino |  Italy | GK | 2013–2016 | 117 | 0 |
Enzo Maresca |  Italy | MF | 2014–2016 | 47 | 1 |
Achraf Lazaar |  Morocco | DF | 2014–2016 | 73 | 3 |
Giancarlo González |  Costa Rica | DF | 2014–2017 | 82 | 4 | 2014 FIFA World Cup participant
Robin Quaison |  Sweden | MF | 2014–2017 | 66 | 7 | 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship winner
Oscar Hiljemark |  Sweden | MF | 2015–2017 | 53 | 4 | 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship winner
Alberto Gilardino |  Italy | FW | 2015–2016 | 33 | 10 | 2006 FIFA World Cup winner
Alessandro Diamanti |  Italy | MF | 2016–2017 | 31 | 1 |
Ilija Nestorovski |  North Macedonia | FW | 2016– | 50 | 21 |
Toni Šunjić |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | DF | 2017 | 7 | 0 | 2014 FIFA World Cup participant

## Key[edit]

* GK — Goalkeeper
* DF — Defender
* MF — Midfielder
* FW — Forward

Nationalities are indicated by the corresponding FIFA country code.

## Sources[edit]

* Channel 4: Palermo All-Time XI
* (in Italian) Cuore Rosanero
* (in Italian) Repubblica.it - Palermo edition article
* (in Italian) RSSSF: Sicilian teams in Serie A
* (in Italian) RSSSF: Sicilian teams in Serie B

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Venues|

* Stadio Renzo Barbera
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Other|

* Derby di Sicilia
* Derby delle Due Sicilie
* Derby delle Isole

Notable matches|

* 1974 Coppa Italia Final
* 1979 Coppa Italia Final
* 2011 Coppa Italia Final

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