[4] Even though Napoli was in the Serie C1 during the 2005–06 season, Napoli achieved the feat of having the 3rd highest average home attendance in Italy for the season, with only two Serie A clubs, AC Milan and Inter Milan recording higher attendances.Napoli's final game of the season drew a crowd of 51,000 which now stands as a Serie C all-time record.Following the death of club legend Diego Maradona in November 2020, Naples' mayor Luigi de Magistris and Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis proposed renaming the stadium to "Stadio Diego Armando Maradona", and on December 4, 2020, the proposal was passed by the city council.The Napoli tifosi responded by hanging a giant flag in their "curva" of the stadium saying "Maradona, Naples loves you, but Italy is our homeland".[6] Maradona later said he was touched that Napoli was the only stadium during that World Cup where the Argentinian national anthem was not jeered.
An external view with the covering installed for the 1990 FIFA World Cup