Calcio Catania was formed in 1946, it is current playing Serie A.

The team became popular during the late 1970s and the early 1980s during its Serie A time, when led by local chairman Angelo Massimino, considered a popular icon of Italian football of the period.

Massimino led the team to six promotions, two in Serie A, having rebuilt the team after its exclusion from the national divisions in 1993.

The following year, after a long legal struggle, the club was judged not to be insolvent, as the Italian football federation had claimed, and Catania was admitted back to football, and included to the Eccellenza (6th division).

The team then concluded its climb of the Italian football pyramid returning to Serie B in 2001.

Since 2004, the team is owned by Antonino Pulvirenti, better known as founder and president of Windjet, one of the most popular low-cost flight companies in Italy.