Parma on course for Europe three years after playing in fourth tier


FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Serie A - Parma v Juventus - Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma, Italy - September 1, 2018 Parma's Gervinho celebrates scoring their first goal REUTERS/Alberto Lingria/File Photo

MILAN (Reuters) - Only three years after being declared bankrupt and demoted to the fourth tier of Italian football, a re-born Parma are on course to return to the European stage where they excelled in the 1990s.

Having risen from the ashes with three successive promotions, Parma -- twice winners of the old UEFA Cup and once winners of the Cup Winners Cup -- were expected to face a battle for survival this season on their return to Serie A.

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