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Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli (pronounced) is an Italian professional football club based in the city of Naples that plays in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. In its history, Napoli has won three Serie A titles, six Coppa Italia titles, two Supercoppa Italiana titles, and one UEFA Cup. [1]
Under the name Napoli Soccer, a new club was born thanks to film producer Aurelio De Laurentiis; the intention was to ensure the city of Naples was not left without a football team. During the first season down in Serie C1 , Napoli narrowly missed out on promotion to Avellino after losing 2–1 in the play-offs.
Fritz Kreutzer was Napoli's manager in the first season of the club's history. The Austrian midfielder spent one season at Napoli as a player-manager. [15] The longest serving manager by number of matches is Eraldo Monzeglio, who managed Napoli from 1949 to 1956, for a total of 236 matches. Competitive matches only. [16]
The club has won the Serie A three times, Serie B once, the Coppa Italia six times, the Supercoppa Italiana twice and the UEFA Cup once. Napoli has played 75 seasons in the Serie A, 12 seasons in the Serie B, 2 seasons in the Serie C (or equivalent), 0 seasons in the Serie D (or equivalent) and 0 seasons in lower competitions.
Below is a list of notable footballers who have played for Napoli.Generally, this means players have played at least 50 matches or scored 10 goals for the club, but some players who have played fewer matches are included, if they have had success at other clubs or appeared at least once in the national team.
These are the matches that Napoli have played in European football competitions. In UEFA European football, Napoli has won the 1988–89 UEFA Cup . Forward Dries Mertens is the club's record goalscorer in European competitions with 28 goals.
A wait of more than three decades is over, but can Luciano Spalletti’s team push on where others in Serie A have failed?
Naples Foot-Ball Club, also known as Naples FBC or more briefly as Naples, was an Italian football club founded in Naples, Campania in 1904 and beginning play in 1905.. They merged with U.S. Internazionale Napoli in 1922 for financial reasons, thus giving life to "Foot-Ball Club Internazionale-Naples", better known as "FBC Internaples", and known today as "S.S.C. Napoli".