S.S.C. Napoli

S.S.C. Napoli

Napoli are an Italian professional football club based in Naples. They play in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. The club have won two league titles, six Coppa Italia titles, two Supercoppa Italiana titles, and one UEFA Cup. Napoli have the fourth largest fanbase in Italy, and were ranked as the fifth highest-earning football club in Italy during the 2017–18 season.

About S.S.C. Napoli in brief

Summary S.S.C. NapoliNapoli are an Italian professional football club based in Naples, Campania. They play in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. The club have won two league titles, six Coppa Italia titles, two Supercoppa Italiana titles, and one UEFA Cup. Napoli have the fourth largest fanbase in Italy, and were ranked as the fifth highest-earning football club in Italy during the 2017–18 season. In 2018, Forbes estimated the club is the fifth most valuable club inItaly, worth USD 379 million. The first club was founded as Naples Foot-Ball & Cricket Club in 1905 by English sailor William Poths and his associate Hector M. Bayon. Under the presidency of Giorgio Ascarelli, the club changed its name to Associazione Calcio Napoli on 25 August 1926. The original kit of the club was a sky blue and navy blue striped shirt, with black shorts. The foreign contingent at the club broke off in 1912 to form Internazionale Napoli, in time for both club’s debut in the Italian Championship of 1912–13. Since 1959, Napoli has played their home games at Stadio San Paolo, and have traditionally worn sky blue shirts and white shorts. In the Italian Football Championship, the southern clubs competed against sailors or in cups such as Thomas Lipton’s Lipton Challenge Cup. In the cup competed between Naples and Palermo FBC Naples won three finals.

This included two third-place finishes during the 1932–33 and 1933–34 seasons, with added notables such as Antonio Vojak, Arnaldo Sentimenti and Carlo Buscaglia. However, in the years leading up to World War II,Napoli went into decline, only surviving by goal average in the 1939–40 season. They moved from the Stadios Arturo Collana to Stadioni Giorgio Arturo collana after the end of Serie B until the war. When Napoli earned the right to compete in Serie B, they moved to their new home ground in 1959. Despite erratic form during this period, they beat SPAL to lift the Coppa. Italia in 1962, but were relegated after two seasons for a bribery scandal at the start of the 1950s. Despite this, they had some success when they won the SPAL cup with goals from Michele Scafoglio and Léon Chaudoir. During the 1980s, the team acquired Diego Maradona, who helped the team win several trophies, which led to the club retiring his number 10 jersey. During this period Napoli won their sole league title, in 1987 and 1990. After his departure, however, Napolis struggled financially, and endured several relegations, prior to being refounded in 2004 by film producer Aurelio De Laurentiis. Under his guise, theClub has stabilized, which has led to renewed on-field success, winning the 2012, 2014, and 2020 Coppa italia titles.