Stadio Diego Armando Maradona

Naples had a stadium named after the sun before it carried the name of Diego Armando Maradona. The ground opened in December 1959 as the Stadio del Sole, took the name San Paolo in 1963, and only in December 2020, after Diego Armando Maradona's death, did the club and city rename it for him.

The stadium once held something close to 90,000 people on open terraces, a capacity used to the full on 15 December 1974, when 90,736 turned up for Napoli against Juventus, still the highest attendance the ground has recorded. Preparation for the 1990 World Cup changed that: a roof went up, seating replaced standing room, and capacity settled near 76,000. What followed was two decades of visible decline — cracking concrete, a leaking roof, sections closed off rather than repaired — before Naples hosted the 2019 Summer Universiade and used the occasion to rebuild the stands properly, narrowing capacity further to its current 54,726 in exchange for wider seats, glass barriers and modern facilities.

Its biggest football night remains a defeat on paper: the 1990 World Cup semi-final, Italy against Argentina, level at 1-1 before Argentina went through on penalties. The ground also staged the second leg of the 1997 UEFA Cup final, Inter beating Schalke 04, and has drawn stadium crowds for music as readily as football, from the Rolling Stones in 1982 to Coldplay in 2023.