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Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli S.p.A. (Italian: Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli S.p.A.), commonly referred to simply as Naples, is an Italian football club based on the San Paolo Stadium in Naples. The current director is Gennaro Gattuso.

This soccer team was founded in 1926. Currently in Serie A, the 2012-13 Serie A season ended in second place.

This is the club Diego Maradona played. After moving to Naples with the best transfer fee ever, Maradona won 2 Scudettos, 1 Copa Italia, 1 UEFA Cup, and 1 Supercopa Italiana. The club recognized the contribution and the number 10, which was Maradona's uniform, has been designated as a permanent absence. Maradona is still quite popular in Naples, so there is Maradona.

Naples is the most successful club in southern Italy, and the fourth most supported club in Italy. Naples is the 15th highest grossing club in Europe. Total income in 2012 was 148.8m. Naples supporters are also famous for being divided into two at their home stadium and cheering for who is more passionate as if competing.

Naples changed its name several times since its founding in 1926. The most important name change was in 1964 from Associazione Calcio Napoli (AC Napoli) to Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli (SSC Napoli). The most recent change was in 2004, after Naples went bankrupt, when filmmaker Aurelio de Laurentis invested money to change the club's name to Naples Soccer. Two years later, De Laurentis restored the club's name back to SSC Naples. Naples was relegated to Serie C1 due to the club's bankruptcy in 2004, but they started to improve the organization of the club and returned to Serie A in three years.

The club's main theme song is "O surdato'nnammurato'".

Naples history

SSC Naples was first started in 1904 by William Poths and his assistant Hector M. Bayo as the Naples Foot-Ball & Cricket Club. The first Naples uniform was a sky blue background, a navy blue striped shirt, and black shorts. In 1906 the name of the club was shortened to Naples Foot-Ball Club.

Initially, the Italian league was divided into north and south. Since the Italian Football Championship was restricted to only northern clubs, clubs in southern Italy, including Naples, competed in competitions such as Thomas Lipton's Lipton Challenge Cup. In the Cup, Napoli and Palermo FBC competed, and Napoli won three times. In 1912, the Internazionale Napoli split for foreigners who wanted to play soccer, and from 1912-13 both teams were able to participate in the Italian league. Both teams were fiery rivals in the Campania region, but compared to other clubs in the league, they weren't very good clubs. A few years after the end of World War I, both teams were shortened to FC Internazionale-Napoli and merged into FBC Internapoli.

AC Napoli (Associazione Calcio Napoli)

On August 23, 1926, Naples owner Giorgio Ascarelli changed the team name to AC Napoli. In that season, Naples was a poor club with only one point, but the Italian Football Association allowed Naples to play in the National Division (predecessor of Serie A) the following year. Naples of the season was played by Attila Salistro from Paraguay, who became the first hero of Naples fans. He is a very good striker, and his goal is still in Naples' record list.

Under the direction of director William Gabott, Naples enters the era of Serie A. He organizes the team well and Naples' power is soaring. Gabot's Naples frequently topped Serie A. This period included two seasons in which Naples took third place: 1932-33 and 1933-34. Famous Naples players of this period include Antonio Boyac, Analdo Sentimenti, and Carlo Buscali. However, after the outbreak of World War II, Naples entered a period of decline, and in 1939-40, it was barely relegated due to a goal difference.

In 1942, Naples was relegated to a slight margin and headed for Serie B. Naples changed the field from Stadio Giorgio Ascarelli to Stadio Arturo Collana and had to stay in Serie B until the end of World War II. After that, Naples gained permission to be promoted to Serie A, but was eventually relegated for two seasons due to bribery scandals. In the early 1950s, Naples rebounded again and was promoted to Serie A. In 1959, Naples home to the new stadium, Stadio San Paolo. From this period, it was a jagged period of up and down the upper and lower ranks every year. Even relegation and promotion were repeated. And in 1962, he won his first Copa Italia Championship, thanks to the goals of Gianni Corelli and Pierluigi Ronzon. Despite earning a brilliant championship trophy, Naples was relegated for the fourth time for their disastrous performance in the league, which ended their festival shortly.

Diego Maradona's era, Naples' heyday

On June 25, 1964, Napoli renamed the club SSC NapolI (Società Sportiva Calcio NapolI). Napoli, who was on the rise, was finally promoted in the 1964-65 season, won the Copa d'Ele Alfi under the coach of Naples player Bruno Pisaola, and became a strong player in the top five at Serie A. In the 1967-68 season, he was close to Scudetto, but was pushed back by AC Milan and had to be satisfied with the Serie A runner-up. Famous Naples players of this period included Dino Chov, Jose Altapini, Omar Sivory, and Naples-born Antonio Giuliano. Antonio Giuliano's number of appearances remains the record for the most appearances in Naples.

Even in the 1970s, Naples was a so-called great team. As evidence, in the 1970-71 and 1973-74 seasons, he finished third in Serie A. Napoli, who made their way to the UEFA Cup the following year, beat Porto 2-0 under the guidance of Luis Vinicio and advance to the third round. In the same season, Naples came close to winning Serie A again, but was pushed by Juventus by two points and again missed Scudetto. The players who played for Naples at the time were Bruce Collitti, Antonio Giuliano, Espozito, and the great striker Gusepe Saboldi.

After defeating Southampton in the Anglo-Italian League Cup with a total of 4-1 home away, Naples advanced to the 1976-77 UEFA Winners Cup but lost to Anderlecht in the semi-finals. In the 1975-76 season, Naples defeated Milan and Fiorentina in a row, defeating Verona in the final, and once again lifted the Copa Italia. In Serie A, Naples continued to reign as the strongest in the six fingers of the Serie until the end of 1970. In the early 1980s, Naples remained strong and finished third in the league in the 1980-81 season. However, the club then went downhill rapidly, and in 1983, it turned into a desperate relegation fight. On June 30, 1984, Naples finally paid 12 million euros, the highest transfer fee of the time, to sign the genius football player Diego Maradona from Barcelona. The squad undertook a major rebuild, with players such as Chiro Ferrara, Salvatore Bagni, and Fernando di Napoli. Maradona stormed the league, and in the 1985-86 season, once again finished third in Serie A. And 1986-87 was a historic season for the Naples Club. They managed to win the long-awaited Serie A victory by 3 points, and also achieved the club's first double by defeating Atalanta 4-0 in the Copa Italia final.

In the meantime, Serie A has been taken for granted that the economically rich Northern Club wins. In fact, the Southern Italian club has only won Serie A once since the launch of the Italian football league in the late 1800s. (Kaliari 1969-1970) Moreover, it was considered a dream to poor Southern clubs that Copa had a double win at the same time. Thus, Maradona became a social, cultural, and even religious icon of Neapolitan beyond the scope of football. Naples was eliminated early in the European Cup in the 1987-88 season and remained runner-up in the league, but the following year, in the 1988-89 season, Naples defeated Girondin Bordeaux in the round of 16, Juventus in the quarter-finals, and Bayern Munich in the semi-final. Meet Stuttgart in the final. And with 2 goals by Carreka, 1 goal by Maradona, and 1 goal by Ferrara and Aleman, they beat Stuttgart with a total of 5-4 (home away) to become the European champion. In the 1989-90 season one after another, he beat Milan by two points to raise the club's second scudeto. However, in the match against Atalanta, which confirmed this decisive victory, Atalanta fans threw a 100-lire coin into Aléman's head and wounded it. Also, at the same time the World Cup took place, Maradona was controversial by asking Naples fans to support Argentina instead of supporting the Italian national team, taking advantage of regional conflicts between northern and southern Italy. In the semi-finals of the World Cup between Italy and Argentina at San Paolo, Naples' home stadium, Naples fans either cheered for Italy, cheered for Argentina, or watched both. In the quiet atmosphere of San Paolo, the Italian national team, which did not benefit from the home stadium, lost to Argentina after a penalty shoot-out, and Argentina advanced to the final.

"I don't like the fact that now everybody is asking Neapolitans to be Italian and to support their national team. Naples has always been marginalised by the rest of Italy. It is a city that suffers the most unfair racism"

“I'm offended by everyone taking for granted Naples fans to become Italians and to support their country. Naples has always been treated and marginalized as the outskirts of Italy and is a city suffering from the most unjust discrimination. -July 1990, Diego Maradona-

At the Italian World Cup, the Italians booed and ridiculed whenever a country from another country against Italy was recited. But when Argentina's country was played, Naples fans, who filled San Paolo, quietly listened to their country. Argentina became the only team against Italy to be ridiculed. When the match ended with Argentina's victory, Maradona politely bowed his head to the Naples fans and thanked him. Argentina advanced to the finals and lost to West Germany to take second place.After the tournament, the Italian Football Federation immediately forced Maradona to undergo a cocaine doping test, and Maradona and Naples fans accused it of being a revenge of the sleazy Italian Football Federation. Maradona was deported for 15 months and was permanently disqualified from playing in the club again. After losing Maradona, Naples defeated Juventus 5-1 in the subsequent Supercopa Italiana to win the championship, re-entering the European Cup stage with that qualification, but was eliminated early in the second round. The Supercopa Trophy was to be their last trophy in the 20th century.