Parma has played 30 seasons in the divisions covered here since 1994/95: 25 in Serie A and 5 in Serie B. It has been in Serie A since 2024/25 (2 seasons), after 3 seasons in Serie B. Its best finish was 2nd in Serie A, in 1996/97. Its biggest climb took five seasons: from 2nd in Serie B in 2008/09 to 6th in Serie A in 2013/14. It has been promoted 4 times and relegated 3 times.
Parma
2025/26: 13th in Serie A · 2026/27: Serie A
How high can Parma realistically go?
Based on finishing 13th in Serie A in 2025/26
About 5 in 10
Of the 85 times a club finished 13th or lower in Serie A and stayed up between 2004/05 and 2020/21, 41 stayed up for all of the next five seasons.
41 of 85 (48%); likely range 33%–63%, 24 different clubs.
| Reached the top six within ten seasons | about 2 in 10 15 of 60; range 11%–43% |
| Reached the top four within ten seasons | about 1 in 7 9 of 60; range 4%–30% |
Parma itself: 5 of the last 10 seasons in Serie A.
How do we know?
We took every season since 2004/05 in which a club finished in the same part of the same league, and followed each club forward. The figure is the share that reached each goal. Ten-year goals use finishes from 2004/05 to 2015/16, five-year goals from 2004/05 to 2020/21, so every case has had the full time to play out; results run to the end of 2025/26.
It describes what happened to clubs in this position, not a forecast for one club. A club with much more money or history than is usual for its position has better chances than the figure suggests, which is why the club's own record is shown underneath.
The likely range is a 95% interval worked out by resampling clubs rather than seasons, because the same club often appears several times. It is wide where only a few clubs have been in a position, and two leagues whose ranges overlap may not really differ. Reserve teams such as Barcelona B or Real Madrid Castilla are left out of these counts, because they cannot be promoted into their first team's division.
Counts: stayed up for all of the next five seasons: 41 of 85; reached the top six within ten seasons: 15 of 60; reached the top four within ten seasons: 9 of 60.
The story so far
Final position each seasonRinged dots are titles
How to read this chart
Every club in the divisions covered is placed on one ladder each season: the champions are 1st, and the top club of the second division comes straight after the bottom club of the first. Shaded bands are the divisions. Hover over or tap a dot for the season.
30seasons since 1994/95
25seasons in Serie A
0league titles
4top-four finishes
4promotions
3relegations
Against the money
Not available for Italy: wage bills are not published club by club in one place there, so this is shown for England and France only.
Clubs with a similar path
Clubs whose finishing positions over the last 15 seasons were closest to Parma's, with recent seasons counting more.
In Italy
CagliariItaly · 14th in Serie A, 2025/26UdineseItaly · 10th in Serie A, 2025/26GenoaItaly · 16th in Serie A, 2025/26Hellas VeronaItaly · 19th in Serie A, 2025/26
Elsewhere in Europe
LevanteSpain · 16th in LaLiga, 2025/26ValladolidSpain · 17th in the Segunda División, 2025/26FulhamEngland · 11th in the Premier League, 2025/26
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Sources
- Final tables to 2025/26. Top-flight positions follow the official classification, including head-to-head tie-breaks and point deductions. Second-division positions before 2025/26 are worked out from match results.
- Relegations include dropping out of the divisions covered.
- All figures can be downloaded on the data page. Spotted a mistake? Report it with a source.