Napoli 2023

Coach: Luciano Spalletti

Napoli's first Scudetto in thirty-three years arrived in 2022-23 under Luciano Spalletti, a dominant title win secured with weeks to spare, driven by Victor Osimhen's ruthless finishing (he won the Serie A top scorer award) and Kvicha Kvaratskhelia's electric wing play in his debut Italian season after arriving from Georgian football relatively unknown to most of Europe. The title ended a wait stretching back to the Diego Maradona era of the late 1980s, and the celebrations across Naples — a city where football holds a cultural significance comparable to few other places in Europe — were reported as among the largest civic celebrations in the club's history, with murals of Maradona around the city repainted and reworked to mark the achievement. Spalletti's tactical setup emphasised quick transitions and wide combination play, getting the very best from a squad that, while talented, had a considerably smaller wage bill than Juventus, Inter or Milan. The title's connection to Maradona's legacy — Napoli's stadium was renamed in his honour after his death in 2020 — gave this triumph an emotional resonance well beyond the football itself.