Naples FBC

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Naples FBC
U.S. Internazionale Napoli
to form FBC Internaples)
GroundCampo del Poligono
1921–22Prima Divisione Campania, 4th

Naples Foot-Ball Club, also known as Naples FBC or more briefly as Naples, was an Italian football club founded in Naples, Campania in 1904 and beginning play in 1905.

They merged with

S.S.C. Napoli
".

History

The Naples Foot-Ball & Cricket Club was founded in late 1905 by engineer Amedeo Salsi and English sailor and amateur footballer William Poths, with the help of the Neapolitan engineer Emilio Anatra and Poths's associate Hector Bayon.[1][2] Salsi was the first president of the club.[3] Originally the club was intended to be the football section of the multi-sport Reale Club Canottieri Italia (Royal Italian Rowing Club), though it separated before playing its first match.[4] In 1906, "Cricket" was removed from the club name, becoming simply Naples Foot-Ball Club.

The club played its matches at the Campo dei

Palermo in the final. Naples quickly became the most competitive team in the city, nearly always outclassing the other Neapolitan teams, namely Audace Napoli, Elios, SS Napoli and Juventus di Napoli. In some cases the other Neapolitan teams, in order to have greater hopes of being able to beat Naples, joined their forces constituting a unified selection of their best elements; however, often this selection too had the worst of the Naples.[6]


The 1909 Lipton Cup winning squad of Naples

At the beginning of 1908 Naples and SS Napoli, recently affiliated to the FIF, applied for the establishment of a Seconda Categoria (second tier) level Campania regional championship organized by the FIF to which they could register.

Bari 9–2 on aggregate to win their second-straight Seconda Categoria Southern Championship in 1911.[5]

Shortly before the beginning of the 1911–12 season, Naples and Audace were the only two remaining teams in Naples as the other teams in the city had all dissolved,

Unione Sportiva Internazionale Napoli.[11][12] The new club would be a true sporting club with sections in other athletics besides only football.[11] The split greatly weakened Naples, who were left with only three first team players from the previous season.[6] However, Naples was able to replace their foreign players with players from the recently dissolved Neapolitan clubs, particularly those of Juventus di Napoli. Naples were defeated by the breakaway club for the Seconda Categoria title.[9]

In 1912 the Valvassori-Faroppa project revolutionized the Italian league system, allowing teams from southern and central Italy to compete for the Prima Categoria title for the first time. This year coincided with the team moving to a new stadium, the Campo del Poligano. Naples beat Internazionale Napoli 5–3 over two legs in the southern final and reached the national semifinal (the central-southern championship) in the

Lazio 3–2 over two legs.[13][14] They would be defeated by Internazionale Napoli in the southern final the following year. In 1915 they were again set to play Internazionale Napoli for the title of Southern Italian Champions but the competition was suspended before completion due to World War I.[15]

After the war, Naples saw much less success in the newly restructured top flight, the

Savoia
.

They merged with Internazionale Napoli in 1922 to form

S.S.C. Napoli.[16] Internazionale Napoli gave to the club the famous "N" crest and the white shorts; this was coupled with the light blue featured on the Naples FBC shirts. The merged club was seen by some media and fans to be a continuation of Internazionale Napoli rather than a new club; the merged club played its games at Internazionale Napoli's Terme di Agnano rather than Naples FBC's Campo del Poligono and kept Internazionale Napoli's nickname of Gli Azzurri (The Blues) rather than I Blucelesti (The Navy Blue and Sky Blues) used by Naples.[17]
Because of this, some club members founded a new club claiming to be the successor to Naples FBC immediately after the merger, first called Speranza Naples and later taking the name Naples FBC. This club folded in 1926.

Honours

  • Prima Categoria Sud
  • Seconda Categoria Sud
    • Winners: 1909–10, 1910–11
  • Terza Categoria Campania
    • Winners: 1908, 1909
  • Lipton Cup
    • Winners: 1909, 1911
  • Coppa Città di Napoli
    • Winners: 1910

References

  1. ^ "Dagli inglesi al mito sudamericano". www.lastampa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  2. ^ "SSC Napoli Storia". sscnapoli.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  3. ^ "Dal Naples Football Club all'Internaples". SSCNapoli.it. 23 June 2007.
  4. ^ "Un romanzo lungo cent'anni". Romolo Acampora. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
  5. ^ a b c La Stampa Sportiva #4 (1907), p. 9.
  6. ^ a b La Stampa Sportiva #50 (1912), p. 15.
  7. ^ La Stampa, 9 febbraio 1908
  8. ^ La Stampa Sportiva #4-5 (1908), p. 22.
  9. ^ a b c La Stampa Sportiva #6-7 (1908), p. 13.
  10. ^ Piergiorgio Renna, Il football a Napoli, p. 30
  11. ^ a b c La Stampa Sportiva #45 (1911), p. 13.
  12. ^ "Storia Del Club, by Pietro Gentile and Valerio Rossano" (in Italian). Napoli 2000. 23 June 2007. Archived from the original on 2 July 2007.
  13. ^ La Stampa Sportiva #5 (1913), p. 13.
  14. ^ "I matches di football". 31 March 1913. p. 5. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
  15. ^ Cfr. La Gazzetta dello Sport, 15 marzo 1919; Guido Baccani, Annuario italiano del football - stagione 1919-20, I.G.D.A. (De Agostini), Novara, 1919.
  16. ^ "SSC Napoli Storia". sscnapoli.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  17. ^ Il Messaggero del 10 novembre 1922, p. 2.
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