From Bankrupt to Champions: 7 Clubs That Went Bust

In 2004, Napoli went bankrupt, and on the first day of training at the new club, four players turned up with a deflated ball. Less than nineteen years later, Napoli were champions of Italy. These are seven clubs whose money ran out, from Bury and Gretna to Fiorentina and AEK Athens, and the people who started them again. Chapters 0:00 Four players and a deflated ball 0:19 7. Bury, 2019 2:39 6. Gretna, 2008 4:36 5. Palermo, 2019 6:56 4. Bastia, 2017 8:39 3. Fiorentina, 2002 10:41 2. AEK Athens, 2013 12:43 1. Napoli, 2004 15:08 Still a team today Part 2 of the series. Part 1: Every Club Relegated for Cheating, Explained. Bury: Wikipedia, Sky Sports, Reuters, AFP, Sporting Life, Sports Illustrated, Delayed Gratification, GOV.UK, Companies House, North West Counties Football League, Bury FC. Gretna: Wikipedia, These Football Times, Sky Sports, RTE Sport, The National, Scottish FA, UEFA.com, ESPN, Heart of Midlothian FC. Palermo: Wikipedia, Sky Italia, Corriere dello Sport, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Post, ANSA, Sportmediaset, Football Italia, Il Sole 24 Ore, Giornale di Sicilia, AGI, ESPN. Bastia: Wikipedia, Tribunal administratif de Paris, France Televisions, France Bleu RCFM, Corse Net Infos, Eurosport, beIN Sports, France 24, INA, SC Bastia. Fiorentina: ACF Fiorentina, La Nazione, La Repubblica, Il Post, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Tgcom24, Il Sole 24 Ore, Guerin Sportivo, Sky Sport Italia, Corriere dello Sport, RSSSF. AEK Athens: Wikipedia, Fox Sports, World Soccer, Sports Illustrated (Reuters), ESPN, Gazzetta.gr, ERT, Efimerida ton Syntakton, CNN Greece, UEFA.com. Napoli: Wikipedia, Il Mattino, ANSA, Gazzetta dello Sport, Goal.com Italia, Sport Mediaset, Sky Sport Italia, SSC Napoli, Off The Pitch, ESPN, Sky Sports, Al Jazeera, AFP. Where sources disagreed (debt totals, sale prices, exact dates), the video leaves the number out or shows it on screen as "reported". Footage: Sky News, Bury Football Club, Arab Archive, Scottish FA (Scottish Cup), La Repubblica, alanews, Palermo F.C., PSV, France 3 Corse ViaStella, Ligue 3, Canale 10 (Florence), MuseoBNCesena, Novasports, AEK FC, ERT, Napoli local TV archive, Naplitube. Club crests: English Wikipedia. Narration voice generated with ElevenLabs. Illustrations are hand-drawn cartoon pictures made with Google Flow, not photographs. The Untold Pitch tells the football stories nobody told you. Subscribe for the next one. #football #footballstories #theuntoldpitch