Stadio San Paolo
- Napoli
- European Football Championship 1968
- European Football Championship 1980
- Final first leg UEFA Cup 1988/89
- Football World Cup 1990
The Stadio San Paolo is a football stadium with track and field facility in the italienienischen city of Naples. It is named after the Apostle Paul.
The seating capacity is 60,240 seats. Thus the Neapolitan arena after the Stadio Olimpico in Rome and the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium in Milan is the third largest in Italy.
The San Paolo is the home of the Serie A club SSC Napoli.
History
The Stadio San Paolo in the neapolitan area Fuorigrotta was inaugurated on December 6, 1959, and initially offered 87,000 visitors.
Prior to the 1980 European it was partially renovated. For the 1990 World Cup, the stadium was then completely modernized: it got a roof, video walls and a new press box, as well as the floodlights and the athletics track were renewed and adapted to the security at the required by FIFA standards. The capacity dropped by a few thousand places.
Regardless of the current capacity information is currently only a maximum crowd of 60,240 visitors officially possible because Not more viewers are let into the wide circular. The end of 2007, the stadium was secured with an electronic access system after previously only police forces canceled the tickets at the entrance gates and, not infrequently, persons without a valid ticket were admitted. So there are definitely stories in Naples that Diego Maradona times to around 100,000 spectators those games actually visited that were sold officially with 82,000 spectators ( in international games) or 85,000 spectators ( in league games).
Major Games
San Paolo Stadium hosted in its history many important games, the most memorable of these was probably the semifinals of the 1990 World Cup, Italy vs Argentina, who lost the host with 4:5 on penalties. Of all the plays for Napoli Diego Maradona scored the decisive penalty in this case. In addition, the arena was home to four other World Cup games. At the European Championships in 1980 some preliminary matches, as well as the third-place match took place that Italy also with 9:10 lost on penalties to Czechoslovakia.
The native Napoli made regularly in the past for well-filled ranks, since the inauguration came regularly on average more than 50,000 spectators to the Serie A games of Partenopei. In the 1980s, when the team had such great players such as Diego Maradona, Gianfranco Zola or Careca in their ranks and twice the Italian championship in 1989 and won the UEFA Cup, the average was about 70,000 spectators. After relegation, Napoli viewership declined, but still remained at a higher than average for the relevant Major League level. So the team had in the 2005/06 season in Serie C1, ie the " third division " with 51,000 the third-highest average attendance in the entire Italian football.
In summer 2005, Ciro Ferrara celebrated at the San Paolo his farewell game, but this thing became a minor matter, as the 70,000 spectators the specially- traveled Diego Maradona frenetically celebrated as this, surrounded by journalists, turned a lap of honor by the entire stadium.
Events
In the Stadio San Paolo also been a series of concerts also took place, such as the Rolling Stones, U2 or Claudio Baglioni played to a full house.