Patrick de Napoli

Quick Facts

Full Name	Patrick de Napoli
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Nov 17, 1975(1975-11-17)
Age	49
Birthplace	Baar
Country	Switzerland
Birth City	Canton of Zug
Horoscope	Scorpio

Patrick de Napoli Biography

Patrick de Napoli is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on November 17, 1975 in Baar, Canton of Zug, Switzerland. Patrick de Napoli (born 17 November 1975 in Baar) is a professional footballer who hails from Switzerland and is of Italian descent. He is primarily an forward, but he can also be an attacking midfielder. He has played for various teams within Switzerland and Germany and also for the Switzerland national team. De Napoli last played for SC Menzingen of the Swiss 3. Liga in April of 2012 and has been a part of the highest division of clubs like Grasshopper Club Zurich, Karlsruher SC and BSC Young Boys and been manager of the player at FC Baar. De Napoli has played over 400 league appearances and scored more than 100 league goals with the majority of these totals coming from two stints with FC Aarau.

De Napoli then progressed to Switzerland’s under-21 team and made his debut in the 2-1 victory against Iceland on the 15th of November 1994. De Napoli scored his first goals for Switzerland’s under-21s against Iceland and scored twice in a win of 4-2 on the 15th of August in 1995. In 1996 the year he was a goal scorer in a 3-0 win against Austria with a score of 3-0 victory on the 26th of March and also against Finland in a draw of 1-1 on the 5th of October. De Napoli also played against England in an 0-0 draw during an 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualifying match on April 1, 1997. English The newspaper The Independent described the Swiss team being “inspired by Patrick de Napoli” because he had created numerous chances for himself as well as his teammates. De Napoli scored his fifth goal for the under-21s during his ninth appearance winning 4-1 against Hungary on the 29th April 1997. The last time he played was as a player for under-21s in a match against England under-21 , scoring an 2-0 win on the 24th of March 1998. He scored the second goal for his country.

Joining FC Winterthur midway through the season, de Napoli found himself in a relegation group in the bottom half of Nationalliga B. De Napoli helped steer his new club to safety, as they topped the relegation group with Patrick scoring five times in thirteen games and Winterthur losing just two of their fourteen matches. Despite becoming an important part of Winterthur’s team in such a short period of time, de Napoli moved on again at the end of the 1995–96 season, this time joining FC Aarau, who had just finished fourth in the Nationalliga A, thereby qualifying for the 1996-97 UEFA Cup. Aarau finished fifth in the 1996–97 Nationalliga A, with de Napoli missing just one of their thirty-six games and weighing in with thirteen goals, a career best. This goal haul included eight in the first twenty-two games, making him the league’s joint-seventh top-scorer for the Qualifying Phase and indeed the seventh top-scorer of the overall season. He also featured for Aarau in the UEFA Cup, playing in both legs of the 7–0 aggregate loss to Brøndby IF of Denmark in September 1996.

The forward made his debut for the senior Switzerland side in the 2–1 loss to Russia on 10 February 1997 in the final of the Lunar New Year Cup, held in Hong Kong. He earned his second senior cap against Hungary in a 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier on 20 August 1997. The game ended 1–1. De Napoli played once in 1998, in a 1–1 friendly draw with Yugoslavia and once in 1999, in a 1–0 win over Belarus. De Napoli came on as a substitute in all four of his international games.

He played for Switzerland at the under-21, under-19 and senior levels, and played international football from 1992 until 1999. De Napoli scored seven times for the under-19 team as well as six for under-21s. However, his team failed to score on the net in four of his senior appearances including FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying matches.

Patrick de Napoli Net Worth

Patrick de Napoli is one of the richest Association Football Player from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Patrick de Napoli 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

De Napoli played for the under-19 and under-21 teams prior to moving to the senior team. De Napoli made his debut for the under-19 team in a win of 8-0 against Liechtenstein under-19s on October 7, 1992. He scored the fifth goal for Switzerland. De Napoli went on to score in the rematch against Liechtenstein and another 8-0 victory on October 28, 1992. But he was forced wait for five months to score the next goal for his international team against Turkey on May 4, 1993, when Switzerland fell by a score of 2-1. De Napoli enjoyed arguably the greatest moment of his young career when the defender scored a hat-trick during the 9-0 defeat of Armenia on October 8 in 1993.

De Napoli has said he was a football player since at the age of six. He played in the youth league with FC Baar until 1991, at which point the club joined Grasshoppers. Patrick began his career as a professional playing for Grasshopper Club Zurich in the Swiss Super League in the 1991-92 season. He made his first appearance in the 2-1 victory against FC Servette on 1 March 1992, aged sixteen. Grasshoppers were third in the league in that time. In the 1992-93 season de Napoli only made two league appearances. Grasshoppers were ranked ninth throughout the normal season, and were forced into the promotion- relegation group. The club also made it to in the semi-finals of the Swiss Cup, but were defeated four-one by FC Lugano. 1993-94 was the most than successful in the two clubs de Napoli and Grasshoppers as the club was 2nd in the Swiss Super League, just one point ahead of winners Servette FC, with de Napoli playing seven league games. Grasshoppers were able to reach the semi- finals of the Swiss Cup and this time beat FC Schaffhausen 4-0. De Napoli made a comeback in 1994-1995, making 13 appearances and scoring a goal, the first goal of his career as a senior. Grasshoppers were close to achieving an entire league and cup double by winning the Swiss Super League and reaching the final of the cup for the third time in a row. They were however defeated by 4-2 FC Sion. 1995-96 witnessed Patrick play in 19 games during his final season at Grasshopper Club, scoring three times. Grasshoppers also won the league title, but they were eliminated in the first round of the Cup. Patrick was a part of UEFA Champions League games against Ferencvarosi TC, Real Madrid (twice) and AFC Ajax, coming on as a substitute for every game. At the end of the 1995-96 campaign, de Napoli left Grasshoppers to join FC Winterthur of the Nationalliga B which is the Swiss second division of the Swiss second. It was ironic that his last season at the club was to be one during which he played the most games and also scored the highest number of goals during his five years with Grasshoppers.

De Napoli made a total of seven appearances for the under-19s, scoring seven goals. He scored his last goal at under-19 level in his last match for the under-19s, against Sweden in a 2–1 defeat on 20 April 1994.

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De Napoli played for FC Luzern in the second half of the 2005–06 Swiss Super League campaign, scoring five times in fifteen games and helping Luzern to promotion from the Swiss Challenge League. He scored his first goal for Luzern in a 1–1 draw at FC Chiasso on October 14, 2005. He also scored against YF Juventus, FC Winterthur, FC Sion and FC Baulmes as Luzern cruised to the league title. De Napoli scored a penalty against FC Concordia Basel in a 4–2 penalty shootout win in the second round of the Swiss Cup.

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Patrick Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Switzerland. Patrick de Napoli celebrates birthday on November 17 of every year.

Making his debut in a 1–0 loss to FC Biel-Bienne on 29 September 2007, De Napoli made eighteen appearances for Zug 94 in 2007–08, scoring nine goals for an impressive strike rate of a goal every other game. These goals included a run of five goals in four consecutive games, with his first goal for Zug coming in a 4–2 win over FC Luzern U21 on 7 October 2007. He followed this record up with another twenty-two appearances in 2008–09, scoring fourteen times. De Napoli netted nine times in his first eight games, scoring twice against both FC Grenchen and FC Basel U-21. He played his last game for Zug 94 in a 5–0 loss to SR Delémont on 26 April 2009.