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Name
Stadio San Paolo
Alternate: Stadio Diego Armando Maradona

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Napoli vs Roma
Sun 24 Nov 2024 17:00

Established
1959 (65 years old)

Capacity
60,240

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Architect
Carlo Cocchia, Luigi Corradi

Country
Italy

Location
Napoli, Italy

Timezone
UTC+1

Coordinates
40.8280°N 14.1930°E

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Upcoming

24 Nov	Napoli	-	Roma		5:00pm
08 Dec	Napoli	-	Lazio		7:45pm
29 Dec	Napoli	-	Venezia		2:00pm
12 Jan	Napoli	-	Verona		7:45pm
26 Jan	Napoli	-	Juventus		12:00am
09 Feb	Napoli	-	Udinese		12:00am
02 Mar	Napoli	-	Inter Milan		12:00am

Past Events

03 Nov	Napoli	0 - 3	Atalanta
26 Oct	Napoli	1 - 0	Lecce
04 Oct	Napoli	3 - 1	Como
29 Sep	Napoli	2 - 0	Monza
26 Sep	Napoli	5 - 0	Palermo
31 Aug	Napoli	2 - 1	Parma Calcio
25 Aug	Napoli	3 - 0	Bologna

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Stadio Diego Armando Maradona is a stadium in the western Fuorigrotta suburb of Naples, Italy. It is the third largest football stadium in Italy, after Milan's San Siro and Rome's Stadio Olimpico, as well as the largest to be used by only one team. For the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, the stadium hosted the football preliminaries. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of S.S.C. Napoli. Constructed in 1959, the stadium was extensively renovated in 1989 for the 1990 World Cup and again in 2018. The stadium currently accommodates 60,240 spectators, but in the past with terraced sections, the stadium took close to 90,000

The stadium is probably most famous for hosting the 1990 World Cup semi-final between Italy and Argentina. Considered to be the most intriguing match of that World Cup, Diego Maradona asked for the Napoli fans to cheer for Argentina. The Napoli tifosi responded by hanging a flag in their "curva" of the stadium saying "Maradona, Naples loves you, but Italy is our homeland". It was touching for Maradona as Napoli was the only stadium during that World Cup that the Argentinian national anthem was not jeered. The match finished 1–1 after extra time. A penalty shoot out ensued with Maradona fittingly scoring the winning penalty for Argentina.


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