Napoli and Carrarese will meet in an amichevole on Sunday 26 July at 18:00 in Dimaro, with the game set for the Stadio Comunale and billed as Napoli's second test of the Dimaro training camp. It is also being described as the first meeting in history between the two clubs, a fresh fixture that arrives at a useful moment for both sides.
For Napoli, the timing matters because the squad is already deep into summer work and the match offers another chance to give rhythm to a broad group under Massimiliano Allegri. For Carrarese, led by Gabriele Cioffi, the night is about measuring organization and fitness against a stronger opponent while building toward a third consecutive Serie B season in Trentino.
The balance on paper is clear. Napoli is viewed as the favorite because of its quality, depth and technical level, and the probable lineup points to that strength with Meret behind Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Beukema and Spinazzola, then Anguissa, Lobotka and Gilmour, with Politano, Lucca and Neres ahead. Carrarese, by contrast, is expected to lean on Bleve; Ruggeri, Salamon and Imperiale; Zanon, Schiavi, Zuelli and Belloni; Melegoni; Abiuso and Finotto.
That gap is exactly why the match carries value for Carrarese. Cioffi's side is not traveling to Dimaro to chase a result on reputation, but to see how its structure holds up when the pace, pressure and quality rise. Napoli's camp work also gives the game a practical edge: this is a preseason checkpoint, and the club has already shown how quickly a training fixture can turn uncomfortable after the loss to Arezzo on 22 July.
So the story now is not just that Napoli vs Carrarese is on the schedule. It is that both teams get something immediate from it: Napoli gets another live rehearsal in front of Allegri, and Carrarese gets a clean read on where it stands before Serie B begins to take shape.
