The club was founded in 1896 as part of the Societa Udinese di Ginnastica e Scherma. In its very first season, the club won a regional tournament organised by the National Federation of Gymnastics (FGNI). This is considered by some the first national Italian football title.
The club played in the regional leagues until 1929 when it joined Serie B. Never outstandingly successful, the club was quickly relegated and did not return to that division until 1939. Promotion to the top division was first achieved in 1950, and a final second place was reached in 1955, but the club was relegated in that same year, following a nine point deduction for irregularities; the club bounced back the next season.
The club was relegated in 1961-62 and fell all the way to Serie C by 1964. The club remained in C for fourteen seasons before returning to B, and then reaching A in 1979. The club stayed in A until 1987 and then moved between the top two divisions for a time before re-establishing themselves in A from 1995, with the club's second highest finish after 1955 coming in 1997-98 when they were third.
The club has never had success at the top level or in European competition. They have been Serie B champions twice (1955-56 and 1978-79), Serie C champions three times (1938-39, 1948-49, and 1977-78), they won the Anglo-Italian Cup once (1978), the Mitropa Cup once (1980), the Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy once (1999) and the UEFA Intertoto Cup once (2000).
At the end of 2004-2005 season, the club gained the fourth position in the Italian league, and subsequently qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in its history, however not achieving qualification from the group stage.
At the start of the 2008-09 season, during the press conference to present the new season's shirt, the new official website was also presented, and an absolute novelty in the Italian championship, the first Web TV channel dedicated to a football club called Udinese Channel was launched, totally free and visible worldwide.
The 2009–10 was an extremely disappointing ones for the players and fans alike. Even though Antonio Di Natale managed to score 29 goals in the league and finished top goalscorer, they were surprisingly involved in a relegation battle. In the end they finished in 15th, 9 points and 3 places clear of the drop zone. The only highlight of the campaign was reaching the semi-final of the Coppa Italia beating Lumezzane in the Round of 16, A.C. Milan in the Quarter Finals and eventually losing 2-1 to Roma over the two legs.
In the summer transfer window of 2010, Udinese sold a few key players by the names of Gaetano D'Agostino, Simone Pepe, Marco Motta and Aleksander Lukovic. They also brought in players that proved to be the key to their success' in the 2010–11 Serie A. They were Mehdi Benatia and Pablo Armero, a stopper and full back respectively. After a horrible start to the season, losing their first five games and drawing the sixth, Udinese entered some of their best form in their recent history and were able to continue that to the end of the season and finished in 4th spot earning themselves a spot in the UEFA Champions League qualifying round. Along the way the players and coach were praised for playing the most exciting football in Italy. Alexis Sanchez proved to be the revelation of the season while Di Natale was amazing up front all season scoring 28 goals in total in the league and once again winning the top goalscorer award. After a 0-0 draw with Milan which secured the Champions League spot for Udinese, scenes of euphoria erupted around the Stadio Friuli. The Champions League anthem was played on the loudspeaker and the players paraded a banner depicting the Champions League logo on it around the stadium. Coach Francesco Guidolin also kept his promise of 'dancing like Boateng' if they qualify for the Champions League and did a little jig in the middle of the pitch. In the Coppa Italia Udinese lost to Sampdoria in the round of 16 on penalites after it finished 2-2 after extra time.<\/P>","A667671DDBFFBFB212A5D1335EAC16DE":"112480000.00","CB6C8C34A68D7715A055D664FDADB411":"34","97493DA145895B7F":"280459","6D32C6445CC2D59F8C50EC9CE9BD145C":"","2B86CD8155EF4869BD305F9EC6E55A2D":"25,132","7FB3F46040506B81":"Udinese Calcio","EC0A9CD40A79F4A7":"1","FA57902DDF74DCE49FAB6DBEF2AE8499":"Kosta Runjaic","A667671DDBFFBFB2FA72AB297542675213E7B0BF26878540":"1","6BCA2519085BAC06":"
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