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Napoli

Name: Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli League: Serie A Location: Naples, Italy Nickname: Azzurri Founded: 1904 Team Colours - Home: faded blue/white - Away: red/faded blue Joined the League: 1926 Manager: Edoardo Reja Stadium: Stadio San Paolo Club Honours Serie A: 1986–87; 1989–90 Coppa Italia: 1961–62; 1975–76; 1986–87 Supercoppa Italia: 1990–91 UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 1988–89

The Club was formed in 1904, and as back then the Italian championship was limited to northern teams, the club had to compete to its neighbor contenders, so they decided to promote games on foreign grounds, which helped them sign abroad players for many years, until the 1930’s when the format of the Italian championship changed and included southern teams.

After a good start in the Serie A, the team declined during war years, finally facing relegation in 1942, and after that, the team went up and down between divisions several times.

Due to their overseas experiences in the past, they decided to hire all-time super star Diego Maradona in the 80's and the decision proved to be wise, as they won their first national and European titles during his era.

The team declined again during the 1990’s, when they spent some years in the Serie B again and were even downgraded to the Serie C1 in 2004 after many financial problems, but after a big restoration made the following seasons, the team managed to come back finally to Serie A in June 2007.

In the season 2007-08, their first campaign back in Serie A, the team managed to finish in a respectable 8th position in the table and even earned the pass to the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008, even though they were eliminated in the first round.

Recently promoted Napoli is back on the top elite of Italian football for 08-09 after a six year nonappearance and is apprehensive to survive downgrading this season.

Napoli Current Squad

No.	Pos	Player	No.	Pos	Player
1	GK	Gennaro Iezzo	18	MF	Mariano Bogliacino
2	DF	Gianluca Grava	19	FW	Germán Denis
4	MF	Francesco Montervino (captain)	21	MF	Luca Cigarini
5	MF	Michele Pazienza	22	GK	Matteo Gianello
6	DF	Salvatore Aronica	23	MF	Walter Gargano
7	FW	Ezequiel Lavezzi	26	GK	Morgan De Sanctis
8	MF	Manuele Blasi	27	FW	Fabio Quagliarella
9	FW	Erwin Hoffer	28	DF	Paolo Cannavaro
11	MF	Christian Maggio	32	MF	Nicolás Amodio
12	FW	Inácio Piá	33	DF	Erminio Rullo
13	DF	Fabiano Santacroce	77	DF	Leandro Rinaudo
14	DF	Hugo Campagnaro	80	GK	Nicolás Navarro
15	MF	Jesús Dátolo	87	MF	Luigi Vitale
16	DF	Juan Camilo Zúñiga	96	DF	Matteo Contini
17	MF	Marek Hamšík