Serie A sets Napoli's October run: Roma, Juventus, Lazio

The league has fixed dates and kick-off times for matchdays 6 to 12, starting with Frosinone at the Maradona on 10 October. Roma, Juventus and Lazio follow inside three weeks, with the Juventus game live on DAZN on 1 November.

by Rosaria CimminoFriday 4 September, 23:10 CET· 16 hours ago

Panoramica dello Stadio Olimpico (Roma) — Foto: DoubleJack92 · CC BY-SA 4.0

While the squad prepares for the trip to San Siro to face Inter on Saturday 5 September, Serie A has already released Napoli's fixtures for the next seven matchdays, from the sixth to the twelfth. The block starts after the international break and lines up three high-profile games in quick succession: Roma, Juventus and Lazio.

Action resumes on Saturday 10 October at 20:45 CET, when Napoli host Frosinone at the Maradona. A week later, on Saturday 17 October at 15:00 CET, they travel to Venezia. Then comes the first real test: Napoli-Roma on Saturday 24 October at 18:00 CET. Four days after that, on Wednesday 28 October at 20:45 CET, a midweek round takes Napoli to Monza.

The centrepiece of the block is the next big match. Napoli-Juventus is played on Sunday 1 November at 20:45 CET, live on DAZN. Seven days later, the Maradona hosts Lazio in the Sunday lunchtime kick-off, at 12:30 CET on 8 November. The cycle announced by the league closes on Saturday 21 November with Napoli-Torino, again at 20:45 CET.

All seven matches will be broadcast on DAZN; Napoli-Frosinone, Monza-Napoli and Napoli-Torino will also be shown on Sky.

The schedule lands while Napoli still have to shake off a difficult start: they sit tenth with 3 points after a home defeat to Como and a win away at Genoa, ahead of the trip to San Siro against Inter on Saturday 5 September. Knowing already that Roma, Juventus and Lazio arrive in sequence at the end of October and start of November helps frame the season's real deadline: it will not be Saturday's game against Inter that defines this Napoli side, but that tight run of fixtures against the teams competing with them for the top of the table.