The club counts the Coppa Italia Serie C in 1992–1993 as a major honour in their history. The team achieved its greatest sporting success in the 2000s, during which it had three 5th-placed finishes in the Serie A (including two in a row) and also reached the 2005–06 UEFA Cup's round of 16. The current club is the reincarnation of Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo, founded in 1987 and excluded from Serie B in 2019 due to financial irregularities. or more simply Palermo ( Italian pronunciation: ( listen) Sicilian: Palermu, locally ), is an Italian football club based in the Sicilian city of Palermo originally founded on 1 November 1900. Palermo Football Club, known as Palermo F.C.