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 |
Aredio Gimona | Italy | MF | 1949–1953 | 124 | 9 | |
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 | 2022 FIFA World Cup winner; 2022 Finalissima winner; 2021 Copa América winner |
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 |
Ivaylo Chochev | Bulgaria | DF | 2014–2019 | 116 | 12 | |
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 | |
Aleksandar Trajkovski | North Macedonia | FW | 2015–2019 | 104 | 16 | |
Ilija Nestorovski | North Macedonia | FW | 2016–2019 | 94 | 38 | |
Toni Šunjić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | DF | 2017 | 7 | 0 | 2014 FIFA World Cup participant |
Matteo Brunori | Italy | FW | 2021– | 66 | 40 |
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