Italy 's top football teams voted to give Parma a 5million euro ( £3.7m ) emergency fund to help the club finish the season . Sixteen of the 20 clubs in Serie A voted in favour of the measure on Friday . Roma , Napoli and Sassuolo abstained , and only Cesena voted against the move . The measure means last-place Parma should be able to play Atalanta on Sunday , after their previous two matches - at home with Udinese and at Genoa - were postponed indefinitely because the club could n't pay for basic services such as security and electricity . Parma have an illustrious history , however the club are in dire straits financially and could go out of business . The gates at the stadium were locked as Parma 's second match in a row was postponed last weekend . A banner on the locked gates said the Ennio Tardini stadium was ‘ Closed for robbery ’ Parma have been sold twice this season , players have not been paid in months and a bankruptcy hearing has been set for March 19 . The club 's debts are estimated at nearly 100 million euros ( £72m ) . The emergency fund will come from money that clubs pay to the league for fines from crowd trouble and other violations . After the league decision in Milan , Italian football federation president Carlo Tavecchio was traveling to Parma to formally present the plan to the squad 's players . The plan requires Parma to play its next two matches before the bankruptcy hearing . Parma captain Alessandro Lucarelli and his club team-mates have not been paid since July . Earlier , Italy 's tax police confiscated records related to Parma from club headquarters and the league and federation offices . Also , former Parma president Tommaso Ghirardi and former general director Pietro Leonardi were placed under investigation by judicial authorities for suspected bankruptcy fraud . Last month , Giampietro Manenti took over as Parma 's new owner and president from the Russian-Cypriot conglomerate which had taken control in December from Ghirardi . Agreeing to pay off the club 's debts , Manenti paid a symbolic price of 1 euro ( 0.72p ) for the club . Hernan Crespo , now a youth team coach at the Italian club , used to play for them and he fears for the future .
Sixteen of the current 20 Serie A clubs have voted in favour of measure . The proposal was put forward by Lega Pro president Andrea Agnelli, who said it would help to "strengthen and develop football at all levels".