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Naples FBC
Summary
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 U.S. Internazionale Napoli in 1922 for financial reasons, thus giving life to "Foot-Ball Club Internazionale-Naples", better known as FBC Internaples, and known today as S.S.C. Napoli.
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. Salsi was the first president of the club. 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. In 1906, "Cricket" was removed from the club name, becoming simply Naples Foot-Ball Club.
The club played its matches at the Campo dei Bagnoli, in a peripheral area of the city, difficult to reach. In September 1906, Naples became the first central-southern team to join the FIF (precursor to the FIGC). Since Naples was the only southern club affiliated with the FIF, it would have to bear very large travel expenses to play in the national division, since all the teams registered in the tournaments were from Northern Italy, unless Naples were to move their headquarters north, which would have been of great disadvantage for the players, who had other jobs and played football only for fun, rather than as a profession. For this reason, Naples did not play in a FIF-affiliated competition until other teams in Campania joined the FIF. In the early years, however, they won some minor competitions including two Lipton Cups (in 1909 and 1911), both won by beating 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.
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