Home shirt as worn as the side finished 16th in Serie B on 45 points having won 10, drawn 15 and lost 13 games through a torrid season for Gli Azzurri. By the end of the season in August, Napoli were declared bankrupt. To secure football in the city, film producer Aurelio De Laurentiis re-founded the club under the name Napoli Soccer, as they were not allowed to use their old name by the FIGC and they were placed in Serie C1