Editing Parma Calcio 1913 (section)

===Early years (1913–1968)===
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The club was founded in July 1913 as Verdi Foot Ball Club in honour of the [[Century|centenary]] of famous opera composer [[Giuseppe Verdi]], who was born in the [[province of Parma]]. It adopted yellow and blue as its colours.<ref name="Dizionario del calcio italiano">Sappino (2000), p. 986</ref><ref name="FI history">{{Cite web|url=http://www.football-italia.net/clubs/Parma/history|title=Parma Club History|access-date=12 January 2012|work=Football-Italia.net|publisher=[[Football Italia]]}}</ref>

In December of the same year, Parma Foot Ball Club was formed from many of the original club's players and began wearing white shirts emblazoned with a black cross.<ref name="Goal history">{{cite web|url=http://www.goal.com/it/teams/italy/4/parma/info|title=Parma|publisher=Goal.com|work=Goal.com|access-date=5 January 2011}}</ref> Parma began playing league football during the [[1919–20 in Italian football|1919–20 season]] after the end of [[World War I]]. Construction of a stadium, the [[Stadio Ennio Tardini]], began two years later.<ref name="official site tardini">{{Cite web|url=http://fcparma.com/descrizione-stadio?lang=en|work=FCParma.com|publisher=Parma F.C.|title=Stadium|access-date=22 December 2013|archive-date=28 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928073751/http://fcparma.com/descrizione-stadio?lang=en|url-status=usurped}}</ref> Parma became a founder member of [[Serie B]] after finishing as runners-up in the [[Prima Divisione]] in the [[1928–29 Prima Divisione|1928–29 season]]. The club would remain in Serie B for three years before being relegated and changing its name to Associazione Sportiva Parma in 1930.<ref name="FI history"/> In the [[1935–36 Serie C#Girone B|1935–36 season]], Parma became a founding member of [[Lega Pro|Serie C]], where the club stayed until winning promotion back to Serie B in [[1942–43 Serie C#Girone G|1943]]. [[Football in Italy|Italian football]] was then brought to a halt as the [[Second World War]] intensified, although the team did make an appearance in the [[1944 Campionato Alta Italia#Group D|Campianto Alta Italia]] in 1944.
[[File:Parma Associazione Sportiva 1956-57.jpg|thumb|1956–57 Parma in ''Gialloblù'' shirt]]

Following the restart of organised football, Parma spent three years in Serie B, then split into two regional divisions, before again being relegated in [[1948–49 Serie B#Girone B|1948–49]] to Serie C. The side would spend another five seasons in Serie C before an eleven-year spell in Serie B that included the achievement of ninth position in [[1954–55 Serie B|1954–55]], a club record at that time.<ref name="Gazzetta di Parma history"/> This was an era in which the club's players generally held down other jobs or were still in education and when the town's amateur [[rugby union]] and [[volleyball]] sides, [[Rugby Parma F.C. 1931]] and [[Pallavolo Parma|Ferrovieri Parma]], proved more popular among the more privileged.<ref name="Dunford poem">Dunford (2011), pp. 739–740</ref> Parma made its debut in European competition during the 1960–61 season, defeating Swiss side [[AC Bellinzona]] in the [[Coppa delle Alpi]], but relegation to Serie C followed in [[1964–65 Serie B|1964–65 season]]. Parma spent just one season in Serie C before a second successive relegation, this time to [[Serie D]], in 1966.