Parma is the first team arithmetically promoted to Serie A. The ducal club, under American ownership since 2020 with Krause Group, leaders with 76 points, returns to the top category after three seasons of relegation: Mr. Pecchia’s Parma, in its second year in gialloblù, the draw at the San Nicola stadium against an increasingly troubled Bari, third from last and virtually in Serie C with two days to go, was decisive.
Promotion is also getting closer for Como who beat Cittadella (2-1), a decisive goal from the former Genoa player Edoardo Goldaniga who in the January transfer window decided to leave Cagliari and Serie A to embrace the Como team’s project: at 3 points are enough for the Lombard team to celebrate their return to Serie A after 21 years. The sporting growth of Como has been exponential thanks to the investments made by the over eighty brothers Robert Budi and Michael Hartono (according to Forbes, the richest men in Indonesia and in 2024 respectively 71st and 76th among the richest people in the world) through Djarum, a company that produces clove cigarettes on the island of Java.