Napoli Quiz Questions and Answers
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Round 1
- How many Serie A titles had Napoli won in their history as of 2025?
- Which Brazilian striker formed the famous 'Ma-Gi-Ca' attacking trio with Maradona and Bruno Giordano at Napoli?
- Which former Chelsea and Juventus manager led Napoli to the 2024-25 Serie A title?
- From which French club did Napoli sign striker Victor Osimhen in 2020?
- Napoli won which European trophy in 1989, their only major continental honour?
- Which German club did Napoli beat over two legs to win the 1989 UEFA Cup final?
- Napoli sold Edinson Cavani to which club in 2013 for a then club-record fee?
- Which manager introduced the fluid 'Sarriball' style at Napoli between 2015 and 2018?
- Which Slovak midfielder held Napoli's all-time record for most appearances as of 2024?
- Napoli amassed a club-record 91 points in which season, yet still finished second to Juventus?
Answers — round 1
- 4 — Napoli's Scudetti came in 1986-87, 1989-90, 2022-23 and 2024-25 — four in total.
- Careca — Careca, Maradona and Giordano's initials spelled 'Ma-Gi-Ca', Napoli's feared 1980s front line.
- Antonio Conte — Antonio Conte joined Napoli in 2024 and won the Scudetto in his first season — the club's fourth.
- Lille — Napoli bought Osimhen from Lille in 2020 for a then club-record fee of around €70m.
- UEFA Cup — Napoli lifted the 1988-89 UEFA Cup with Maradona in the side — their sole major European title.
- VfB Stuttgart — Napoli edged VfB Stuttgart 5-4 on aggregate in the 1989 UEFA Cup final.
- Paris Saint-Germain — Cavani joined PSG in 2013 for around €64m, a record sale for Napoli at the time.
- Maurizio Sarri — Maurizio Sarri's attacking Napoli side became famous for the 'Sarriball' passing style.
- Marek Hamšík — Marek Hamšík made over 500 appearances for Napoli, more than any other player.
- 2017-18 — Sarri's Napoli took 91 points in 2017-18 but Juventus won the title with 95.
Round 2
- Napoli signed Khvicha Kvaratskhelia in 2022 from which club?
- Which Spanish manager guided Napoli to the Coppa Italia in 2014?
- How many times had Napoli won the Coppa Italia as of 2024?
- Which future World Cup-winning Italy captain began his professional career at Napoli in the early 1990s?
- Napoli beat which English club 3-1 at home in the 2011-12 Champions League round-of-16 first leg?
- Napoli signed striker Gonzalo Higuaín in 2013 from which club?
- Which manager led Napoli to their first-ever Champions League group stage in 2011-12?
- Which midfielder followed manager Maurizio Sarri from Napoli to Chelsea in 2018?
- In the 2022-23 Champions League group stage, Napoli thrashed which Dutch club 6-1 away?
- Which Naples-born captain left Napoli to join Toronto FC in 2022?
Answers — round 2
- Dinamo Batumi — Napoli picked up Kvaratskhelia from Georgia's Dinamo Batumi for a modest fee in summer 2022.
- Rafael Benítez — Rafael Benítez managed Napoli from 2013 to 2015, winning the 2014 Coppa Italia against Fiorentina.
- 6 — Napoli won the Coppa Italia in 1962, 1976, 1987, 2012, 2014 and 2020 — six titles.
- Fabio Cannavaro — Fabio Cannavaro came through at Napoli before moving to Parma, later captaining Italy to the 2006 World Cup.
- Chelsea — Napoli won the home leg 3-1 but Chelsea overturned it 4-1 after extra time at Stamford Bridge.
- Real Madrid — Higuaín joined Napoli from Real Madrid in 2013 before his record move to Juventus three years later.
- Walter Mazzarri — Walter Mazzarri took Napoli to the Champions League for the first time in the 2011-12 season.
- Jorginho — Jorginho moved to Chelsea in 2018, reuniting with his former Napoli boss Maurizio Sarri.
- Ajax — Napoli hammered Ajax 6-1 in Amsterdam during their record-breaking 2022-23 group campaign.
- Lorenzo Insigne — Lorenzo Insigne, a local product and club captain, departed for MLS side Toronto FC in 2022.
Round 3
- In which year was the club that became modern Napoli founded as Associazione Calcio Napoli?
- From which club did Napoli sign Diego Maradona in 1984 for a then world-record fee?
- Napoli's stadium was renamed after Diego Maradona in 2020. What was it called before?
- In which season did Napoli win their first-ever Serie A title?
- Which manager guided Napoli to the 2022-23 Serie A title, their first in 33 years?
- Who is Napoli's all-time record goalscorer as of 2024?
- Napoli thrashed which club 5-1 to win the 1990 Supercoppa Italiana?
- Diego Maradona left Napoli in 1992 to join which club?
- How many Serie A goals did Gonzalo Higuaín score for Napoli in 2015-16, setting a new single-season record?
- After going bankrupt in 2004, Napoli were re-founded and forced to restart in which division?
Answers — round 3
- 1926 — Associazione Calcio Napoli was founded in 1926, growing out of the earlier Naples Foot-Ball Club.
- Barcelona — Napoli paid Barcelona a world-record fee of around £6.9m to bring Maradona to Naples in 1984.
- Stadio San Paolo — The Stadio San Paolo was renamed Stadio Diego Armando Maradona shortly after his death in 2020.
- 1986-87 — Maradona inspired Napoli to their maiden Scudetto in the 1986-87 season.
- Luciano Spalletti — Luciano Spalletti's side ran away with the 2022-23 Scudetto before he left that summer.
- Dries Mertens — Dries Mertens finished his Napoli career with 148 goals, more than anyone in the club's history.
- Juventus — Champions Napoli demolished Coppa Italia holders Juventus 5-1 in the 1990 Supercoppa.
- Sevilla — After his ban expired, Maradona left Napoli for Spanish side Sevilla in 1992.
- 36 — Higuaín's 36 goals in 2015-16 broke Gunnar Nordahl's long-standing Serie A single-season record.
- Serie C1 — The re-founded club began the 2004-05 season in Serie C1, Italy's third tier, before climbing back.
Round 4
- Which club knocked Napoli out of their first-ever Champions League quarter-final in 2023?
- Victor Osimhen won the 2022-23 Serie A Capocannoniere with how many goals?
- Who replaced Carlo Ancelotti as Napoli manager in December 2019?
- Napoli beat which club on penalties to win the 2020 Coppa Italia final?
- Napoli signed Edinson Cavani in 2010 from which Serie A club?
- In their first European Cup campaign in 1987-88, Napoli were knocked out in the first round by which club?
- Whose all-time Napoli goalscoring record did Marek Hamšík break in 2017?
- Napoli's 1990-91 European Cup run ended in a penalty shootout against which club?
- Who managed Napoli to their first Scudetto in 1986-87?
- Gonzalo Higuaín's 2016 transfer from Napoli to Juventus was for what fee, then an Italian record?
Answers — round 4
- Milan — Milan beat Napoli 2-1 on aggregate in the all-Italian 2022-23 quarter-final.
- 26 — Osimhen's 26 league goals made him the first African to finish as Serie A's outright top scorer.
- Gennaro Gattuso — Gennaro Gattuso took over from Ancelotti in December 2019 and won the Coppa Italia months later.
- Juventus — After a 0-0 draw, Napoli beat Juventus 4-2 on penalties in the 2020 Coppa Italia final.
- Palermo — Cavani arrived from Palermo in 2010 and scored over 100 goals in three seasons in Naples.
- Real Madrid — Real Madrid beat Maradona's Napoli 3-1 on aggregate in the first round of the 1987-88 European Cup.
- Diego Maradona — Hamšík passed Maradona's mark of 115 Napoli goals in December 2017, before Mertens later passed them both.
- Spartak Moscow — Spartak Moscow eliminated the Italian champions on penalties after a goalless aggregate in 1990-91.
- Ottavio Bianchi — Ottavio Bianchi coached the 1986-87 double winners; Bigon won the club's second title in 1990.
- €90m — Juventus triggered Higuaín's €90m release clause in 2016, then the highest fee ever paid in Italy.
Round 5
- Napoli famously let a Serie A title lead slip late in 1987-88, losing the Scudetto to which club?
- Which defender's late header won Napoli's April 2018 match at Juventus, briefly reigniting their title bid?
Answers — round 5
- Milan — Arrigo Sacchi's Milan overhauled Napoli in the 1987-88 run-in, including a decisive win in Naples.
- Kalidou Koulibaly — Kalidou Koulibaly's 90th-minute header sealed a famous 1-0 win in Turin in April 2018.
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