S.S.C. Napoli

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SSC Napoli (Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli) is an Italian football club. The club plays in Serie A. Its home stadium is the Stadio San Paolo in Naples, Italy. They team plays in light blue shirts, white shorts and light blue socks as uniforms.

Contents 1 History 2 Notable Players 3 Major wins 4 Managers 5 Other websites

[change] History

The club was formed in 1926 and it was in most of its history in Serie A. It was Diego Armando Maradona who put Napoli on the world soccer map, leading them to scudettos in 1987 and 1990 and the UEFA Cup in 1989. They also won the Coppa Italia in 1962, 1976, and 1987, a Coppa delle Alpi in 1966 and a Supercoppa Italiana in 1991.

Napoli dropped to Serie B in 2001. With a debt of about 70 million euros, the club went bankrupt in August of 2004. A new club, Napoli Soccer, was born. Napoli Soccer was renamed Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli in early 2006.

[change] Notable Players

These are players who once played for Napoli and players who still do.

1904 - 1940s Giuseppe Cavanna Pietro Ferraris William Poths Nereo Rocco Attila Sallustro Guillermo Stábile Antonio Vojak 1950s - 1960s José Altafini Amedeo Amadei Ottavio Bugatti Tarcisio Burgnich Faustino Jarbas Canè Kurt Hamrin Hasse Jeppson Antonio Juliano Harald Nielsen Bruno Pesaola Omar Sivori Luis Vinicio Dino Zoff

1970s - 1990s Alemão Salvatore Bagni Daniel Bertoni Giuseppe Bruscolotti Careca Andrea Carnevale Luciano Castellini Sergio Clerici Massimo Crippa Fernando De Napoli Ciro Ferrara Moreno Ferrario Claudio Garella Bruno Giordano Giuliano Giuliani Ruud Krol Diego Armando Maradona Alessandro Renica Giuseppe Savoldi Angelo Benedicto Sormani

1990s - 2000s Roberto Ayala Laurent Blanc Alain Boghossian Fabio Cannavaro Paolo Di Canio André Cruz Edmundo Daniel Fonseca Luciano Galletti Francesco Moriero Fabio Pecchia Freddy Rincón Andrea Silenzi Giuseppe Taglialatela Jonas Thern José Luís Vidigal Gianfranco Zola Carlos Pavón

[change] Major wins

• Italian Champion (2): 1987, 1990.
• Italian Cup (3): 1962, 1976, 1987.
• Italian Super Cup (1): 1990.
• UEFA Cup (1): 1989.
• Coppa delle Alpi (1): 1966.
• Anglo-Italian League Cup (1): 1976.
• Thomas Lipton Trophy (3): 1909, 1911, 1914.

[change] Managers

[change] Other websites

• SSC Napoli
• Serie A