Previous encounters
Fiorentina and Napoli will square off on Saturday, on matchday three of the 2025/26 season. The game is scheduled for 20:45 at the Stadio Artemio Franchi. Throughout the years, there have been 84 competitive matches between the two teams in Florence, with a total of 38 wins for Fiorentina, 24 draws and 21 wins for Napoli.
The latest win for Fiorentina dates back to 29 April 2018, when the Tuscan team won 3-0. Since then, there have been seven draws and eight wins for Napoli. On that day, Giovanni Simeone scored a hat-trick and Fiorentina’s coach, just like today, was Stefano Pioli.
There have been 14 matches between Stefano Pioli and Antonio Conte, the latest being the 2022/23 Champions League Round of 16 match between Tottenham and Milan. Conte has collected a total of eight wins, Pioli has collected two wins, plus four draws. The first match between the two coaches was Grosseto v Bari in March 2008, in Serie B. The game ended 2-2.
The first professional match Pioli ever coached was against Napoli: the final score was 0-0, he coached Salernitana and that Coppa Italia match was held on 17 August 2003. So far in his career, Pioli has coached 875 matches with professional teams.
Match analysis
Fiorentina started the season with two draws: in the first match Pioli opted for a 3-4-2-1 formation in the first half, subsequently switching to a 3-5-2 formation in the second half. In the second match, instead, having Roberto Piccoli in the starting eleven enabled Fiorentina to play in a 3-4-1-2 formation. The final days of the transfer window also led to the signing of a new playmaker: Hans Nicolussi Caviglia. With him joining the team, Nicolo Fagioli could stop playing in that position and switch to playmaking central midfielder, thus further changing the team’s tactical setup. During his presentation press conference, Nicolussi Caviglia said that vertical passes and reaching the forwards will be crucial, given their attributes.
Player Focus | Moise Kean After scoring three goals for the Italian national team, everyone of course hopes that this positive chapter for the player from Vercelli will also continue with his club. The Italian national team’s striker has so far made six shots in the two matches the team have played – only six players have made more attempts than him, collecting an xG of 1.8.
For the second year in a row, Fiorentina started the Serie A season with two draws in the first two matches. Since the 2020/21 season, Napoli have always collected six points after the first two matchdays, except last year, when they lost to Verona and collected a total of three points in 180 minutes.
Napoli finished the 2024/25 Serie A Enilive season and started the 2025/26 season with a 14-match unbeaten streak (nine wins and five draws). The team’s latest loss was against Como on 23 February, a match they lost 1-2.
In nine of these 14 matches, Napoli have maintained a clean sheet: between the last and the current season, they have not conceded in Serie A for 366 minutes. The last goal they conceded was scored by Johan Vasquez during Napoli-Genoa on 11 May, which ended 2-2.
Napoli had not started a season without conceding any goals in the first two matchdays of the season since the 2020/21 season: Parma 0-2 Napoli and Napoli 6-0 Napoli.
* Dati Kama.Sport
