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From which club did Napoli sign Diego Maradona in 1984 for a then world-record fee?
WhyNapoli paid Barcelona a world-record fee of around £6.9m to bring Maradona to Naples in 1984. -
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Who is Napoli's all-time record goalscorer as of 2024?
WhyDries Mertens finished his Napoli career with 148 goals, more than anyone in the club's history. -
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Napoli signed Edinson Cavani in 2010 from which Serie A club?
WhyCavani arrived from Palermo in 2010 and scored over 100 goals in three seasons in Naples. -
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From which French club did Napoli sign striker Victor Osimhen in 2020?
WhyNapoli bought Osimhen from Lille in 2020 for a then club-record fee of around €70m. -
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In their first European Cup campaign in 1987-88, Napoli were knocked out in the first round by which club?
WhyReal Madrid beat Maradona's Napoli 3-1 on aggregate in the first round of the 1987-88 European Cup. -
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Gonzalo Higuaín's 2016 transfer from Napoli to Juventus was for what fee, then an Italian record?
WhyJuventus triggered Higuaín's €90m release clause in 2016, then the highest fee ever paid in Italy. -
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Napoli signed striker Gonzalo Higuaín in 2013 from which club?
WhyHiguaín joined Napoli from Real Madrid in 2013 before his record move to Juventus three years later. -
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Napoli's 1990-91 European Cup run ended in a penalty shootout against which club?
WhySpartak Moscow eliminated the Italian champions on penalties after a goalless aggregate in 1990-91. -
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Napoli thrashed which club 5-1 to win the 1990 Supercoppa Italiana?
WhyChampions Napoli demolished Coppa Italia holders Juventus 5-1 in the 1990 Supercoppa. -
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Napoli beat which club on penalties to win the 2020 Coppa Italia final?
WhyAfter a 0-0 draw, Napoli beat Juventus 4-2 on penalties in the 2020 Coppa Italia final. -
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Napoli signed Khvicha Kvaratskhelia in 2022 from which club?
WhyNapoli picked up Kvaratskhelia from Georgia's Dinamo Batumi for a modest fee in summer 2022. -
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Diego Maradona left Napoli in 1992 to join which club?
WhyAfter his ban expired, Maradona left Napoli for Spanish side Sevilla in 1992. -
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How many Serie A titles had Napoli won in their history as of 2025?
WhyNapoli's Scudetti came in 1986-87, 1989-90, 2022-23 and 2024-25 — four in total. -
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Napoli famously let a Serie A title lead slip late in 1987-88, losing the Scudetto to which club?
WhyArrigo Sacchi's Milan overhauled Napoli in the 1987-88 run-in, including a decisive win in Naples. -
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Which defender's late header won Napoli's April 2018 match at Juventus, briefly reigniting their title bid?
WhyKalidou Koulibaly's 90th-minute header sealed a famous 1-0 win in Turin in April 2018. -
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Which midfielder followed manager Maurizio Sarri from Napoli to Chelsea in 2018?
WhyJorginho moved to Chelsea in 2018, reuniting with his former Napoli boss Maurizio Sarri. -
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Who managed Napoli to their first Scudetto in 1986-87?
WhyOttavio Bianchi coached the 1986-87 double winners; Bigon won the club's second title in 1990. -
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Which Spanish manager guided Napoli to the Coppa Italia in 2014?
WhyRafael Benítez managed Napoli from 2013 to 2015, winning the 2014 Coppa Italia against Fiorentina. -
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Which German club did Napoli beat over two legs to win the 1989 UEFA Cup final?
WhyNapoli edged VfB Stuttgart 5-4 on aggregate in the 1989 UEFA Cup final. -
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In which year was the club that became modern Napoli founded as Associazione Calcio Napoli?
WhyAssociazione Calcio Napoli was founded in 1926, growing out of the earlier Naples Foot-Ball Club. -
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How many times had Napoli won the Coppa Italia as of 2024?
WhyNapoli won the Coppa Italia in 1962, 1976, 1987, 2012, 2014 and 2020 — six titles. -
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Napoli sold Edinson Cavani to which club in 2013 for a then club-record fee?
WhyCavani joined PSG in 2013 for around €64m, a record sale for Napoli at the time. -
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Napoli beat which English club 3-1 at home in the 2011-12 Champions League round-of-16 first leg?
WhyNapoli won the home leg 3-1 but Chelsea overturned it 4-1 after extra time at Stamford Bridge. -
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How many Serie A goals did Gonzalo Higuaín score for Napoli in 2015-16, setting a new single-season record?
WhyHiguaín's 36 goals in 2015-16 broke Gunnar Nordahl's long-standing Serie A single-season record. -
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Napoli won which European trophy in 1989, their only major continental honour?
WhyNapoli lifted the 1988-89 UEFA Cup with Maradona in the side — their sole major European title. -
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Which future World Cup-winning Italy captain began his professional career at Napoli in the early 1990s?
WhyFabio Cannavaro came through at Napoli before moving to Parma, later captaining Italy to the 2006 World Cup. -
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Victor Osimhen won the 2022-23 Serie A Capocannoniere with how many goals?
WhyOsimhen's 26 league goals made him the first African to finish as Serie A's outright top scorer. -
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Who replaced Carlo Ancelotti as Napoli manager in December 2019?
WhyGennaro Gattuso took over from Ancelotti in December 2019 and won the Coppa Italia months later. -
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Which Brazilian striker formed the famous 'Ma-Gi-Ca' attacking trio with Maradona and Bruno Giordano at Napoli?
WhyCareca, Maradona and Giordano's initials spelled 'Ma-Gi-Ca', Napoli's feared 1980s front line. -
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Which club knocked Napoli out of their first-ever Champions League quarter-final in 2023?
WhyMilan beat Napoli 2-1 on aggregate in the all-Italian 2022-23 quarter-final. -
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In the 2022-23 Champions League group stage, Napoli thrashed which Dutch club 6-1 away?
WhyNapoli hammered Ajax 6-1 in Amsterdam during their record-breaking 2022-23 group campaign. -
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Which Naples-born captain left Napoli to join Toronto FC in 2022?
WhyLorenzo Insigne, a local product and club captain, departed for MLS side Toronto FC in 2022. -
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After going bankrupt in 2004, Napoli were re-founded and forced to restart in which division?
WhyThe re-founded club began the 2004-05 season in Serie C1, Italy's third tier, before climbing back. -
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Which manager led Napoli to their first-ever Champions League group stage in 2011-12?
WhyWalter Mazzarri took Napoli to the Champions League for the first time in the 2011-12 season. -
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Whose all-time Napoli goalscoring record did Marek Hamšík break in 2017?
WhyHamšík passed Maradona's mark of 115 Napoli goals in December 2017, before Mertens later passed them both. -
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Napoli amassed a club-record 91 points in which season, yet still finished second to Juventus?
WhySarri's Napoli took 91 points in 2017-18 but Juventus won the title with 95. -
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Which manager guided Napoli to the 2022-23 Serie A title, their first in 33 years?
WhyLuciano Spalletti's side ran away with the 2022-23 Scudetto before he left that summer. -
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Napoli's stadium was renamed after Diego Maradona in 2020. What was it called before?
WhyThe Stadio San Paolo was renamed Stadio Diego Armando Maradona shortly after his death in 2020. -
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In which season did Napoli win their first-ever Serie A title?
WhyMaradona inspired Napoli to their maiden Scudetto in the 1986-87 season. -
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Which Slovak midfielder held Napoli's all-time record for most appearances as of 2024?
WhyMarek Hamšík made over 500 appearances for Napoli, more than any other player. -
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Which manager introduced the fluid 'Sarriball' style at Napoli between 2015 and 2018?
WhyMaurizio Sarri's attacking Napoli side became famous for the 'Sarriball' passing style. -
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Which former Chelsea and Juventus manager led Napoli to the 2024-25 Serie A title?
WhyAntonio Conte joined Napoli in 2024 and won the Scudetto in his first season — the club's fourth.
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About Napoli
Napoli were founded in 1926 and have spent a century carrying an entire city on their back — the one club that matters in Naples, playing in the sky blue of the bay beneath Vesuvius. This free Napoli quiz spans the whole story: the decades of longing, the seven seasons when Diego Maradona made the San Paolo the centre of the football world, the 33-year wait that followed him out the door, and the astonishing modern run that delivered two more scudetti in three seasons under Luciano Spalletti and Antonio Conte. Four league titles as of 2026, a UEFA Cup, a number 10 shirt retired in Maradona's honour and a stadium renamed after him — few clubs compress this much drama into one history, and none celebrate quite like Naples does. If you know why the ground is no longer called the San Paolo, this is your quiz.
The defining nights are all in here. 1987, when Maradona dragged Napoli to the first scudetto in the club's history and added the Coppa Italia for a double. The 1989 UEFA Cup, their first major European trophy — a 2-1 first-leg win over Stuttgart at the San Paolo with Maradona and Careca on the scoresheet, then a 3-3 draw in Germany to take it 5-4 on aggregate. The 1990 run-in, when Napoli pipped Milan by two points for a second title. Then the long silence, broken on 4 May 2023 by Victor Osimhen's second-half equaliser at Udinese — a 1-1 draw that sealed the third scudetto with five games to spare, 33 years after the last. And 23 May 2025, when Scott McTominay — that season's Serie A MVP — and Romelu Lukaku beat Cagliari 2-0 to clinch a fourth, one point ahead of Inter.
Expect the full spread of topics. Transfers run from the then-world-record fee that brought Maradona from Barcelona in 1984 to the modern churn: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia's €70m move to Paris Saint-Germain in January 2025, Victor Osimhen's €75m sale to Galatasaray that summer, and Kevin De Bruyne arriving on a free from Manchester City in June 2025. Records mean Dries Mertens' 148 goals, the most in club history, and the Ma-Gi-Ca front line of Maradona, Bruno Giordano and Careca, who shared 36 goals in 1987-88 while Maradona took the capocannoniere crown with 15. Managers span Ottavio Bianchi, Luciano Spalletti — at 64 the oldest coach to win Serie A — and Antonio Conte, a champion in his first season before departing at the end of 2025-26. Difficulty is graded easy to hard: warm up on which club sold Maradona to Napoli before the quiz starts asking who scored in the first leg of the 1989 final.
Every question comes with a short explained answer — not just "wrong, it was Careca", but the story behind it: why that UEFA Cup meant so much to Naples, or how a 1-1 draw in Udine set off one of the great city-wide parties in football history. Even the ones you miss leave you knowing more about Napoli than when you started. Play the sample set below for free, straight in your browser, no sign-up needed. When you want the rest, the full Napoli question bank lives in the Ball IQ app, alongside the daily challenge and multiplayer modes — so you can put your Partenopei knowledge up against friends who insist theirs is better.
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From which club did Napoli sign Diego Maradona in 1984 for a then world-record fee?
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Barcelona. Napoli paid Barcelona a world-record fee of around £6.9m to bring Maradona to Naples in 1984.
Who is Napoli's all-time record goalscorer as of 2024?
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Dries Mertens. Dries Mertens finished his Napoli career with 148 goals, more than anyone in the club's history.
Napoli signed Edinson Cavani in 2010 from which Serie A club?
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Palermo. Cavani arrived from Palermo in 2010 and scored over 100 goals in three seasons in Naples.
From which French club did Napoli sign striker Victor Osimhen in 2020?
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Lille. Napoli bought Osimhen from Lille in 2020 for a then club-record fee of around €70m.
In their first European Cup campaign in 1987-88, Napoli were knocked out in the first round by which club?
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Real Madrid. Real Madrid beat Maradona's Napoli 3-1 on aggregate in the first round of the 1987-88 European Cup.
Gonzalo Higuaín's 2016 transfer from Napoli to Juventus was for what fee, then an Italian record?
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€90m. Juventus triggered Higuaín's €90m release clause in 2016, then the highest fee ever paid in Italy.
Napoli signed striker Gonzalo Higuaín in 2013 from which club?
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Real Madrid. Higuaín joined Napoli from Real Madrid in 2013 before his record move to Juventus three years later.
Napoli's 1990-91 European Cup run ended in a penalty shootout against which club?
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Spartak Moscow. Spartak Moscow eliminated the Italian champions on penalties after a goalless aggregate in 1990-91.
Napoli thrashed which club 5-1 to win the 1990 Supercoppa Italiana?
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Juventus. Champions Napoli demolished Coppa Italia holders Juventus 5-1 in the 1990 Supercoppa.
Napoli beat which club on penalties to win the 2020 Coppa Italia final?
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Juventus. After a 0-0 draw, Napoli beat Juventus 4-2 on penalties in the 2020 Coppa Italia final.
Napoli signed Khvicha Kvaratskhelia in 2022 from which club?
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Dinamo Batumi. Napoli picked up Kvaratskhelia from Georgia's Dinamo Batumi for a modest fee in summer 2022.
Diego Maradona left Napoli in 1992 to join which club?
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Sevilla. After his ban expired, Maradona left Napoli for Spanish side Sevilla in 1992.
How many Serie A titles had Napoli won in their history as of 2025?
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4. Napoli's Scudetti came in 1986-87, 1989-90, 2022-23 and 2024-25 — four in total.
Napoli famously let a Serie A title lead slip late in 1987-88, losing the Scudetto to which club?
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Milan. Arrigo Sacchi's Milan overhauled Napoli in the 1987-88 run-in, including a decisive win in Naples.
Which defender's late header won Napoli's April 2018 match at Juventus, briefly reigniting their title bid?
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Kalidou Koulibaly. Kalidou Koulibaly's 90th-minute header sealed a famous 1-0 win in Turin in April 2018.
Which midfielder followed manager Maurizio Sarri from Napoli to Chelsea in 2018?
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Jorginho. Jorginho moved to Chelsea in 2018, reuniting with his former Napoli boss Maurizio Sarri.
Who managed Napoli to their first Scudetto in 1986-87?
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Ottavio Bianchi. Ottavio Bianchi coached the 1986-87 double winners; Bigon won the club's second title in 1990.
Which Spanish manager guided Napoli to the Coppa Italia in 2014?
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Rafael Benítez. Rafael Benítez managed Napoli from 2013 to 2015, winning the 2014 Coppa Italia against Fiorentina.
Which German club did Napoli beat over two legs to win the 1989 UEFA Cup final?
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VfB Stuttgart. Napoli edged VfB Stuttgart 5-4 on aggregate in the 1989 UEFA Cup final.
In which year was the club that became modern Napoli founded as Associazione Calcio Napoli?
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1926. Associazione Calcio Napoli was founded in 1926, growing out of the earlier Naples Foot-Ball Club.
How many times had Napoli won the Coppa Italia as of 2024?
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6. Napoli won the Coppa Italia in 1962, 1976, 1987, 2012, 2014 and 2020 — six titles.
Napoli sold Edinson Cavani to which club in 2013 for a then club-record fee?
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Paris Saint-Germain. Cavani joined PSG in 2013 for around €64m, a record sale for Napoli at the time.
Napoli beat which English club 3-1 at home in the 2011-12 Champions League round-of-16 first leg?
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Chelsea. Napoli won the home leg 3-1 but Chelsea overturned it 4-1 after extra time at Stamford Bridge.
How many Serie A goals did Gonzalo Higuaín score for Napoli in 2015-16, setting a new single-season record?
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36. Higuaín's 36 goals in 2015-16 broke Gunnar Nordahl's long-standing Serie A single-season record.
Napoli won which European trophy in 1989, their only major continental honour?
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UEFA Cup. Napoli lifted the 1988-89 UEFA Cup with Maradona in the side — their sole major European title.
Which future World Cup-winning Italy captain began his professional career at Napoli in the early 1990s?
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Fabio Cannavaro. Fabio Cannavaro came through at Napoli before moving to Parma, later captaining Italy to the 2006 World Cup.
Victor Osimhen won the 2022-23 Serie A Capocannoniere with how many goals?
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26. Osimhen's 26 league goals made him the first African to finish as Serie A's outright top scorer.
Who replaced Carlo Ancelotti as Napoli manager in December 2019?
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Gennaro Gattuso. Gennaro Gattuso took over from Ancelotti in December 2019 and won the Coppa Italia months later.
Which Brazilian striker formed the famous 'Ma-Gi-Ca' attacking trio with Maradona and Bruno Giordano at Napoli?
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Careca. Careca, Maradona and Giordano's initials spelled 'Ma-Gi-Ca', Napoli's feared 1980s front line.
Which club knocked Napoli out of their first-ever Champions League quarter-final in 2023?
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Milan. Milan beat Napoli 2-1 on aggregate in the all-Italian 2022-23 quarter-final.
In the 2022-23 Champions League group stage, Napoli thrashed which Dutch club 6-1 away?
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Ajax. Napoli hammered Ajax 6-1 in Amsterdam during their record-breaking 2022-23 group campaign.
Which Naples-born captain left Napoli to join Toronto FC in 2022?
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Lorenzo Insigne. Lorenzo Insigne, a local product and club captain, departed for MLS side Toronto FC in 2022.
After going bankrupt in 2004, Napoli were re-founded and forced to restart in which division?
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Serie C1. The re-founded club began the 2004-05 season in Serie C1, Italy's third tier, before climbing back.
Which manager led Napoli to their first-ever Champions League group stage in 2011-12?
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Walter Mazzarri. Walter Mazzarri took Napoli to the Champions League for the first time in the 2011-12 season.
Whose all-time Napoli goalscoring record did Marek Hamšík break in 2017?
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Diego Maradona. Hamšík passed Maradona's mark of 115 Napoli goals in December 2017, before Mertens later passed them both.
Napoli amassed a club-record 91 points in which season, yet still finished second to Juventus?
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2017-18. Sarri's Napoli took 91 points in 2017-18 but Juventus won the title with 95.
Which manager guided Napoli to the 2022-23 Serie A title, their first in 33 years?
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Luciano Spalletti. Luciano Spalletti's side ran away with the 2022-23 Scudetto before he left that summer.
Napoli's stadium was renamed after Diego Maradona in 2020. What was it called before?
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Stadio San Paolo. The Stadio San Paolo was renamed Stadio Diego Armando Maradona shortly after his death in 2020.
In which season did Napoli win their first-ever Serie A title?
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1986-87. Maradona inspired Napoli to their maiden Scudetto in the 1986-87 season.
Which Slovak midfielder held Napoli's all-time record for most appearances as of 2024?
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Marek Hamšík. Marek Hamšík made over 500 appearances for Napoli, more than any other player.
Which manager introduced the fluid 'Sarriball' style at Napoli between 2015 and 2018?
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Maurizio Sarri. Maurizio Sarri's attacking Napoli side became famous for the 'Sarriball' passing style.
Which former Chelsea and Juventus manager led Napoli to the 2024-25 Serie A title?
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Antonio Conte. Antonio Conte joined Napoli in 2024 and won the Scudetto in his first season — the club's fourth.
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