List of Palermo FC players

For all Palermo players, major or minor, with a Wikipedia article, see Category:Palermo FC 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
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

Nationalities are indicated by the corresponding FIFA country code.

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