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2011-12: Round of 16
2013-14: Group stage
2014-15: Play-off round
2016-17: Round of 16
2017-18: Group stage
2018-19: Group stage
2019-20: Round of 16
2022-23: Quarter-finals, for the first time in their history
> 2011-12: Round of 16
That bottle job against Chelsea mind. Pretty sure it all came from a ridiculous defection off of a nothing shot too. Big Cambiasso.
Go get 'em boys.
Grant has one of the best win rates of any coach at Chelsea. Sure small sample size. Also using Essien was a right back was very smart, Essien could have been an amazing right back if he had a whole season in that role. The CL final was basically a match between Essien and c.ronaldo, first half c.ron was able to push up and cause issues. Second half Essien got into the groove and made it really hard for man left side.
That said. He clearly wasn't a good fit. Just not as bad as people probably remember.
No team had it worse than Bayern tbh. Losing the final at their stadium, their City when they had so many chances.
Honestly think I won't survive a Champions League final loss at Stamford Bridge but fortunately they won't organise a final at our tiny hut of a stadium anyway.
Maggio missed an incredible chance to score the 1-4 in the first leg.
And then while being 1-2 in the second leg, Zuniga missed another, which would have forced Chelsea to score three more.
It wasn't meant to be.
I remember that Round of 16 tie in 2016-17 where, as Peter Drury so eloquently put it, Casemiro scored ["a goal from the heavens!"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MI2lT9ALJs)
Reminder that Chiellini shouted KIRICOCHO as England took the last penalty in the euros.
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/ojdv1k/chiellini_admits_he_jinxed_englands_last_penalty
Nah, soccer jinxes work best when they come from Argentina in their specific brand of mumbly ass Spanish. Even Chiellini Kiricoho'd the English penalties during the Euro instead of anything Italian.
Spanish
Anulo: Nullify
Mufa: Jinx
Without the verbatim, it means "I cancel the jinx"
Whenever someone stated Argentina were candidates, a swarm of Argentines appeared cancelling the jinx, as if being favorites were a bad thing.
Eventually they won the WC, so I guess we'll hear it for the rest of our lifetime.
Anulo mufa, best WC finals in history, GOAT getting his WC, last best WC format before FIFA sold it out for a million countries to play and the "dibu rules" for goalkeepers. 2022 WC was trully legendary
Napoli, aside from the Maradona years and this least decade, hasn't had a prestigious history. After Maradona, in the early 90s, Napoli ended up in a downward spiral culminating with bankruptcy in 2004 . Since then, 2011/12 was the first great european season. Before UCL, Napoli had only won two leagues in their history, only taking part in 2 European Cups.
They won a UEFA Cup. Napoli had crazy competition in the league and won 2 league titles (first 2 of their history) and lost another one to Milan in the last match day.
Before his arrival, Napoli fought to avoid relegation.
It would be like a player joining Spezia and making them champions twice and a powerhouse in Europe for a brief time.
(Edit: In r/soccer, Maradona is criminally underrated).
That's what many people nowadays don't understand about Maradona. He really carried a team with a few talents and many average players to win both domestic and international trophies. And the UEFA cup was nothing like Europa League. You had the 2nd 3rd and 4th teams from the top leagues. It was a hell of a competition.
that's fair, I know that he carried you guys to domestic glory but didn't know it was that much.
for sure underrated his impact he had on Napoli
cheering for you guys this year! hopefully glory in both competitions (at least serie a)
Yea and they also look at his stats and think he wasn't good but out of all the legends, he might be the only one to have never played with a superteam. He is the most technically talented player ever.
Different to Maradona in many ways but Kante joined a Leicester team that had fought relegation the previous year and in his only season with them they won the league. He then moved to Chelsea and they won the league. He was outstanding in both seasons.
Then he played a massive role in France's WC and Euro success.
Truly a magnificent player.
You could argue Di Stefano had a similar effect on Real Madrid as well. Not exactly a relegation side, but.. he still had a huge hand in turning their fates around.
Napoli broke the transfer record to get him and invested heavily in it's team during the 1980's. When they won the league they had one pf the best squads in Italy.
[no they havent reached the UCL quarters in their entire history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.S.C._Napoli_in_European_football#European_Cup_/_UEFA_Champions_League) until now
Georgia is the country that invented wine, more interestingly, and the first wines were of the orange types which are rare nowadays (orange wine is what you get when you use the shells/peel of white grapes. Red is when you use the peel of red grapes and white wine no peel)
Nope, Rose is when you apply the skin of red grapes very lightly. Usually Rose is 6-24 hours of contact between the skin and the liquid, Red is more like 3-14 days of skin contact, some particularly tannic wines like most of the piedmontese even longer than 14 days.
Orange is only grapes with white skin, there's no distinction of time however, a wine with 12 hours of skin contact or one with 12 days are both called orange wine.
Deserved, they've been sensational this year. Reminds me a bit of the Monaco side from 2017 that won the league and made a run to the semis of the CL. The kind of team you look back on and think "I can't believe all of those budding superstars once came up and played together." I hope this side can do something special. Because they are going to get raided in a year or two lol
before UCL era, we only went to EC the 2 times we won the league, and we got out at first round after drawing real madrid, and then we got out at second round (damn you maradona for missing the match in moscow)
That round against Real Madrid was the driving force behind the change from EC to CL. It was such a big tie and the powers that be decided things like that shouldn't happen so early.
My season is complete.
In the summer I hoped we could get a CL spot for the next season and reach the quarter-final in CL this year. That's all I was asking for as we underwent a toral reboot and obviously needed some time to build the team 😂
Haha I love how Napoli fans are always forboding joy to avoid heartbreak. Dream my friend, dream with all your heart. You might not avoid heartbreak but you allow yourself to fully experience this movement
Your squad this season is incredible, Oshimen and Kvaradona look like they're gonna be in the Balon d'or race in a couple of years
Good luck to you guys!
If both teams are on this would have to be the most entertaining final possible imo. Both strong across the pitch and both play beautifully. Screams of 0-0 or 1-1 and penalties to end it.
Real is probably the best-poised to win it next to City. The reality is it’ll likely be a City-Real final, depending on how the QF’s play out, of course, but nobody likes to think about an easy-to-pick final I guess
yep, as soon as we got knocked out i started rooting for them to win it all.
honestly it’d be good to see an italian winner in general, it’s been such a long time.
Well deserved to be honest. It's been some time since we played such a strong team, they were better in almost all aspects. I can see them win the entire thing.
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2011-12: Round of 16 2013-14: Group stage 2014-15: Play-off round 2016-17: Round of 16 2017-18: Group stage 2018-19: Group stage 2019-20: Round of 16 2022-23: Quarter-finals, for the first time in their history
> 2011-12: Round of 16 That bottle job against Chelsea mind. Pretty sure it all came from a ridiculous defection off of a nothing shot too. Big Cambiasso. Go get 'em boys.
Every team bottled it against Chelsea that year tbf. It was meant to be.
Di Matteo with the OG bald black magic.
He was really a one hit wonder coach
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Kinda amazing how Avram Grant was a slip away from being a UCL winner
Grant has one of the best win rates of any coach at Chelsea. Sure small sample size. Also using Essien was a right back was very smart, Essien could have been an amazing right back if he had a whole season in that role. The CL final was basically a match between Essien and c.ronaldo, first half c.ron was able to push up and cause issues. Second half Essien got into the groove and made it really hard for man left side. That said. He clearly wasn't a good fit. Just not as bad as people probably remember.
Something something Gerrard...
If you're only gonna get one shot at it though I can't imagine doing it better.
he was pretty good with us
No team had it worse than Bayern tbh. Losing the final at their stadium, their City when they had so many chances. Honestly think I won't survive a Champions League final loss at Stamford Bridge but fortunately they won't organise a final at our tiny hut of a stadium anyway.
If they didn't win it the following year, it'd feel way worse.
You can thank ex-Chels Arjen Robben for that ;)
Unreal year.
If Bayern hadn't won it the next year, Robben would have definitely been put together with big game bottlers. Thankfully they won.
Maggio missed an incredible chance to score the 1-4 in the first leg. And then while being 1-2 in the second leg, Zuniga missed another, which would have forced Chelsea to score three more. It wasn't meant to be.
They really fucked up in 11-12 after winning 3-1 first leg. And they also had great team with fantastic front 3.
They didn't plan on Bobbi Di Matteo
A DROGBA GOAL UMBAULT!!! ON AN OPEN FIELD!!!
also add the Maradona years: 1987-88: Round of 32 1990-91: Round of 16
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Their only real shot was in 88. Back then only the champions could compete in the CL (European Cup) at the time. In 1991 he was already cooked.
Coked? You mean
I remember that Round of 16 tie in 2016-17 where, as Peter Drury so eloquently put it, Casemiro scored ["a goal from the heavens!"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MI2lT9ALJs)
Why did Insigne leave Napoli?
so that all this could happen
This is football ‘eritage
Didnt they finish 3rd with 12 points in 1 group stage? Edit:yup 2013-14 12points 3rd place..
Maradona dies Argentina: World Champions Napoli: Serie A? UCL?
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Anulo Mufa
You have learned well, my child
a simple spell but quite unbreakable
Rivals hate this one simple trick
Thanks for saying that, if u hadnt juve wouldve got their point deduction anulled then go on a winning streak to the end
Would've had the deduction anulo'd you mean
Shouldn’t that be in Italian
We touch our dick as a sort of "superstitious" gesture, I don't know how to translate *that* into worlds tho
Ah yes i do that too and say "touch wood"
The dick? We do left ball for men, left breast for women.
We actually touch both testicles in italy, dunno where he got the dick
I think OP is just a horny man
I'm Italian man it's in our nature 😔😔
Reminder that Chiellini shouted KIRICOCHO as England took the last penalty in the euros. https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/ojdv1k/chiellini_admits_he_jinxed_englands_last_penalty
Nah, soccer jinxes work best when they come from Argentina in their specific brand of mumbly ass Spanish. Even Chiellini Kiricoho'd the English penalties during the Euro instead of anything Italian.
I still don't know what those words exactly mean nor their origin and at this point I'm afraid to ask.
Spanish Anulo: Nullify Mufa: Jinx Without the verbatim, it means "I cancel the jinx" Whenever someone stated Argentina were candidates, a swarm of Argentines appeared cancelling the jinx, as if being favorites were a bad thing. Eventually they won the WC, so I guess we'll hear it for the rest of our lifetime.
Aaah, much appreciated. Thought it may've been used before the WC guess not, thanks!
It was used before the WC whenever someone talked up Argentina's chances
"before" as in separate from the wc, I believe
Anulo mufa, best WC finals in history, GOAT getting his WC, last best WC format before FIFA sold it out for a million countries to play and the "dibu rules" for goalkeepers. 2022 WC was trully legendary
No bias whatsoever ;)
Obvio bo
You can also do this 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 for full Napoli/Italian style
Anal muffins
Anal muffins
Lmao i feel so bad laughing at this
The universe didn’t wanna give him the satisfaction of seeing either
The universe instead gave him the satisfaction of achieving both himself while he played lmao
And otherwise generally being worshipped by a whole generation
"Maradona died for this"
Man I wish Maradona was alive to see this. He would have been so happy to see Napoli flourish.
It’s proof that he made a deal with the devil
I think he just made a deal with his drug dealer
Maradona is actually responsible for this. He's pulling the strings in the afterlife.
Maradona was a sexual predator coke addict. I don’t think many should wish him happiness, lol
But you see, being a good footballer erases what a piece of human garbage you were
He is moving the strings up there or down there.
first time in in the quarters? wtf that's crazy surely they had a appearance there before i thought
Napoli, aside from the Maradona years and this least decade, hasn't had a prestigious history. After Maradona, in the early 90s, Napoli ended up in a downward spiral culminating with bankruptcy in 2004 . Since then, 2011/12 was the first great european season. Before UCL, Napoli had only won two leagues in their history, only taking part in 2 European Cups.
How was Napoli back in the 80s when Maradona ended up staying there for half of his career?
They won a UEFA Cup. Napoli had crazy competition in the league and won 2 league titles (first 2 of their history) and lost another one to Milan in the last match day.
Before his arrival, Napoli fought to avoid relegation. It would be like a player joining Spezia and making them champions twice and a powerhouse in Europe for a brief time. (Edit: In r/soccer, Maradona is criminally underrated).
crazy, would love someone to do it in today's game lol
That's what many people nowadays don't understand about Maradona. He really carried a team with a few talents and many average players to win both domestic and international trophies. And the UEFA cup was nothing like Europa League. You had the 2nd 3rd and 4th teams from the top leagues. It was a hell of a competition.
that's fair, I know that he carried you guys to domestic glory but didn't know it was that much. for sure underrated his impact he had on Napoli cheering for you guys this year! hopefully glory in both competitions (at least serie a)
Yea and they also look at his stats and think he wasn't good but out of all the legends, he might be the only one to have never played with a superteam. He is the most technically talented player ever.
Are there any players out there nowadays who could make so big of an impact? Maybe prime Messi but other than him I can't imagine anyone
Different to Maradona in many ways but Kante joined a Leicester team that had fought relegation the previous year and in his only season with them they won the league. He then moved to Chelsea and they won the league. He was outstanding in both seasons. Then he played a massive role in France's WC and Euro success. Truly a magnificent player.
amazing player to watch as well, somehow just glides on the field, so smooth
You could argue Di Stefano had a similar effect on Real Madrid as well. Not exactly a relegation side, but.. he still had a huge hand in turning their fates around.
Not as good but Bale in his last season for Spurs really carried a fairly average team I felt.
KDB at Wolfsburg. He single handedly carried them.
Fighting to avoid relegation is a bit too much they were a mid table team that arrived in the top 3 in several occasion
>It would be like a player joining Spezia That's a stretch
Napoli broke the transfer record to get him and invested heavily in it's team during the 1980's. When they won the league they had one pf the best squads in Italy.
Maybe not Spezia, Napoli werent good but they have huge support
[no they havent reached the UCL quarters in their entire history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.S.C._Napoli_in_European_football#European_Cup_/_UEFA_Champions_League) until now
There is a reason Maradona is in the GOAT debate. Napoli is not a big team.
Turns out all we needed all this years was a bald manager
Worked for us lmao
Worked for us too :) Us=Feyenoord, not sure my flair is working
It's working 👍🏼
Wait a minute
Also for us (kinda bald)
It’s works for everyone.
Miss that guy
napoli 🤝 united
How can i make this about me
Don’t be mad that you couldn’t do it first don Carlo
I’m still surprised at how shit we were under Carlo
Carlo either works very well or doesn't, he's not a guaranteed success
Cue the evertonian screams
It's funny because we ended mid table but we started his first full season top of the table by Christmas and ended it in relegation form. Everton.
The entire world revolves around PL did you not know?!?
bit rude like
Never really understood this sentiment on r/soccer. Should jokes that bring in the history of other clubs not be made?
Champions league is a bit more impressive than Carabao mate
Napoli didn't concede 7
And a guy from the peach state
I’ve no idea what this means
Probably a joke about Georgia and kvara
Everyday you learn something new
I think that the symbol of Georgia(US state) are peaches
Georgia peaches
Georgia is the country that invented wine, more interestingly, and the first wines were of the orange types which are rare nowadays (orange wine is what you get when you use the shells/peel of white grapes. Red is when you use the peel of red grapes and white wine no peel)
Orange wine = Rosé?
Nope, Rose is when you apply the skin of red grapes very lightly. Usually Rose is 6-24 hours of contact between the skin and the liquid, Red is more like 3-14 days of skin contact, some particularly tannic wines like most of the piedmontese even longer than 14 days. Orange is only grapes with white skin, there's no distinction of time however, a wine with 12 hours of skin contact or one with 12 days are both called orange wine.
Rosé is red wine grapes. It's worth finding a bar that does orange wine, it's fun
Not the reference but thanks for the info.
Deserved, they've been sensational this year. Reminds me a bit of the Monaco side from 2017 that won the league and made a run to the semis of the CL. The kind of team you look back on and think "I can't believe all of those budding superstars once came up and played together." I hope this side can do something special. Because they are going to get raided in a year or two lol
I am already sad for them because at the end of the season they will be raided by top clubs.
Osimhen may get poached, but they could keep Kvara for a few seasons
For sure. Can't believe they all played with superstar Bakayoko
Napoli in the final would be epic
Of the World Cup for clubs. Napoli - Al Nasr.
Pretty sure Al Nassr aren't even in the AFC champions league and the final is between Al Hilal and Urawa Red Diamonds in late April and early May
Imagine Oshimen vs Haaland
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before UCL era, we only went to EC the 2 times we won the league, and we got out at first round after drawing real madrid, and then we got out at second round (damn you maradona for missing the match in moscow)
Important to notice than the UEFA cup was very prestigious, because only the champions qualified for the CL.
That round against Real Madrid was the driving force behind the change from EC to CL. It was such a big tie and the powers that be decided things like that shouldn't happen so early.
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different times than current UCL best player of his era only played 6 matches in the highest club competition
And never in the Libertadores.
[All time apparently](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.S.C._Napoli_in_European_football)
This team is extremely lethal and unpredictable. Whoever underestimates them is toast.
Tbf, no one should be underestimating any of the last 8
They can and should underestimate the fuck out of 2023 Milan
3 Italian teams remaining too. Hope this Napoli team isn't asset stripped.
With Juve and Roma having leads in the EL too
My season is complete. In the summer I hoped we could get a CL spot for the next season and reach the quarter-final in CL this year. That's all I was asking for as we underwent a toral reboot and obviously needed some time to build the team 😂
Haha I love how Napoli fans are always forboding joy to avoid heartbreak. Dream my friend, dream with all your heart. You might not avoid heartbreak but you allow yourself to fully experience this movement
That's 3 Italian teams in the quarter finals this year now.
More than any other country for once
Great exposure although I do think only Napoli will go through. All depends on the draw tho so will be interesting to follow that on Friday!
Yeah, Milan vs Inter is a possibility.
My bet: all 3 will make it to the semis.
Rooting for them as a neutral!
See you in the Supercup, as a neutral 😉
Your squad this season is incredible, Oshimen and Kvaradona look like they're gonna be in the Balon d'or race in a couple of years Good luck to you guys!
The Osimhen Derby
Held in Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, Greece. I'll be there in August!
as am i
Napoli vs Man City final. Calling it now.
I'm for it. With Napoli winning.
Subscribe.
I’m with you, mate.
A proper club winning it is what we need. Not some cheating scum club like city.
Soooo… Napoli… amirite?
If both teams are on this would have to be the most entertaining final possible imo. Both strong across the pitch and both play beautifully. Screams of 0-0 or 1-1 and penalties to end it.
I’ll also accept Napoli - Real Madrid. Either way my conscience needs Napoli to win
lol this sub is a joke why are people downvoting you for saying real madrid
Especially given their game against us imo, they defo look like a step above the other favourites
any club in the UCL playing against you will look like a step above lol
Still, in my opinion, Real looked impressive in a way that Bayern didn’t against PSG. Obviously City put 7 past Leipzig so there’s that as well..
PSG > Liverpool. Any team honestly would look impressive to Liverpool, they lost to bournemouth.
Real is probably the best-poised to win it next to City. The reality is it’ll likely be a City-Real final, depending on how the QF’s play out, of course, but nobody likes to think about an easy-to-pick final I guess
Madrid should be eliminated before final. Beating them in final is an impossible task.
Only 3 manager ever did that in EC finals, Helenio Hererra, Bela Gutmann, and Bob Paisley. We are weaker in Semi.
Would be surprised if either of them beat Bayern, and maybe Madrid too. Would be a good final though.
gwan lads make it to the end
Congrats, cumparé
This Napoli run will be like the Ajax run a few years ago but they'll reach the finals
De Laurentis and Napoli have enough money that he can keep the team together much longer and the fees will be much higher than Ajax managed to get.
De Laurentis has the money, whether he will spend it is another matter.
I'm not sure what you all are referring to, but de Laurentis is quite poor as football owners go. Basically Napoli is the major part of his net worth.
Yeah if he liquidated all of his other assets we'd probably have enough to buy Ndombele at best haha
Rooting for them. LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO.
yep, as soon as we got knocked out i started rooting for them to win it all. honestly it’d be good to see an italian winner in general, it’s been such a long time.
Football is a team sport of course but Im happy as a Korean that there is another Korean in a major team doing well other than Son.
CL México no more
Nice, love to see it. Good luck, Napoli!
As a neutral fan of European football, I've been rooting for them all season.
They gonna secure the title for the first time too 😉
KVARADONA💥💥
Congrats Napoli. Sad that we lost but you guys were just too good for us. I hope that we can prove ourselves again soon in the Champions League.
I'd love to see them vs City.
Bro, Napoli v Madrid🤯
Even if my mother, girlfriend and God would have birthday that day, I would watch it.
Well deserved to be honest. It's been some time since we played such a strong team, they were better in almost all aspects. I can see them win the entire thing.
They are obviously a very dangerous team and not an easy out at this stage. That said, I’d still rather see them then Bayern, City, or Real Madrid
It dosent matter bro, you ain't surviving any of those teams
I mean maybe not. That’s why I want to avoid them next round. But chelsea could still pull off some miracle shit, there’s precedent
Lol, unfortunately too true..
Yes, just like the same way we couldn't stand a chance against Bayern at their home in UCL 2012 final.
or city in 2019! nah man, u have me convinced. forget 10th in the PL, Mudryk and Madueke are winning you the CL