Partenope Napoli is an Italian

Italy

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 basketball team from Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

.

In the past, it has participated in Serie A

Serie A (basketball)

Lega Basket Serie A is the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball where play determines the national champion. The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 30 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals and semifinals series are best-of-five, and...

 (top division) of the Italian basketball (taking 2nd place in the 1967/68 season and 3rd place in the 1968/69 season), won the very first Italian Cup

Coppa Italia di pallacanestro maschile

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 in the 1967/68 season and won the European Cup Winners' Cup

Saporta Cup

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 in 1970.
It has had financial problems in the recent years and, as of 2007/08 season, is playing in the Serie C2 (sixth-highest level division). It has only played once in the top two divisions in the last 30 years (Serie A2

LegADue

Legadue or Lega2 is the second-highest division of professional club basketball in Italy since 2001-2002 season...

 in 1997/98 season)

Due to sponsorship deals, it has also been known as Ignis Sud Napoli (1967-1968), Fides Napoli (1968-1971), Fag Napoli (1973-1976), Cosatto Napoli (1976-1977), Gis Napoli (1977-1978) and Pasta Baronia Napoli (1997-1998).

1960s winning teams

Remo Maggetti Renato Abbate Paolo Vittori Ottorino Flaborea Jim Williams Lorenzo Angori Giovanni Gavagnin Carlos D'Aquila Sauro Bufalini Miles Aiken

Miles Aiken

Miles Aiken is an American former basketball player. He played the power forward position for Real Madrid in the late 60's and lifted with them two consecutive Euroleague titles in 1967 and 1968. He had 23 points in the 1967 final to help Real Madrid beat Simmenthal Milano, and then led all scorers...

1997/98 season

Yamen Sanders Sergio Mastroianni   Kenny Atkinson Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson (basketball)

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2007/08 season

Fabio Morelli Luigi Caprio Fabrizio Esposito Marco Maddaloni

Marco Maddaloni

Marco Maddaloni is an Italian judoka.Marco Maddaloni, 177 cm tall, under-73 kg Italian judoka, was born in Napoli on 7 December 1984 as the third and youngest child of Giovanni Maddaloni and Caterina Iuliano...

 Francesco Montanino Livio Cimmino Nando Smorra Mattia Errico Vinny Pisacane Mirko Perna Gaetano Merola

Gaetano Merola

Gaetano Merola was an Italian conductor and founder of the San Francisco Opera.-Biography:Merola was born in Naples, the son of a Neapolitan court violinist and studied piano and conducting at the Naples conservatory...

 Alfredo Bovier

External links

• Official Site
• Eurobasket.com Team Profile