{"id":82523,"date":"2025-08-29T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=82523"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:06:19","slug":"naples-italy-38th-americas-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/racing\/naples-italy-38th-americas-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Naples Italy Confirmed for the 38th America&#8217;s Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/naples-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image disable-lazyload\" alt=\"Regata dei Tre Golfi 2025\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/naples-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/naples-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/naples-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/naples-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/naples.jpg 2000w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">The 38th America\u2019s Cup \u00adhost-city announcement \u00adpreceded a \u00adProtocol, spurring complaints from challengers.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Studio Borlenghi<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p><em>Eccoli<\/em> a<em>rrivare<\/em> (here they come). In two years, seaside residents of Naples will bear witness to the arrival of the <a href=\"\/americas-cup\/\">America\u2019s Cup<\/a> entourage to the Italian city of nearly 2 million people as, for the first time in Cup history, the Louis Vuitton Cup and Louis Vuitton America\u2019s Cup Match will be sailed off the Italian shoreline in what\u2019s promised to be \u201cthe most colorful and enthusiastic\u201d edition ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe id=\"x8aa2rgac1\" src=\"https:\/\/Sailingworld.dragonforms.com\/x8aa2rgac1\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:165px;border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>While Barcelona put on quite a show for the world\u2019s oldest \u00adinternational sports trophy, the Italians certainly have a \u00adreputation for hosting first-class sailing events, and with Italian challenger Luna&nbsp;Rossa Prada Pirelli finally holding court, it does promise to have the expected flair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement of Naples as host to the 38th edition \u00adfollowed months of silence from the defenders of Emirates Team New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. While&nbsp;the defender\u2019s own government declined to host and finance the&nbsp;regatta in Auckland, several remnant teams were keen for&nbsp;the regatta to remain in Europe. The Spanish port of Valencia, which hosted in 2017, seemed a viable choice, but the announcement of Italy comes as no surprise given the tenacity of Patrizio Bertelli, Prada\u2019s chairman and kingpin of the Italian syndicate. Bertelli has been trying to win the Cup for more than three decades in the hopes of bringing the regatta home. He now has the opportunity to do so in a sea of red white and green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the mid-May host announcement, Andrea Abodi, Minister for Sport and Youth for Italy, said that \u00adhosting \u201crepresents a tremendous opportunity for the entire country to enhance the value of its territory, to boost tourism, and to \u00adpromote sports.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi, the benefits of hosting are twofold: It puts an international spotlight on the city, as well as a long-overdue injection of development funds into the port of Bagnoli, 6 miles \u00adnorthwest of Naples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to America\u2019s Cup and Naples government officials, Bagnoli will serve as the epicenter of team bases. It\u2019s a \u201cstrategic area where the government has decided to invest decisively, with the goal of finally returning it to the city and its citizens,\u201d Manfredi said. \u201cThe complex work of environmental remediation and redevelopment in Bagnoli is already underway and progressing according to plan. The America\u2019s Cup will serve as a powerful accelerator for tourism, the maritime economy, local entrepreneurship, and the development of new skills, providing a tangible preview of what this area can become upon completion of its urban regeneration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The America\u2019s Cup village and event activation zone is centered closer to the city, with the racecourse itself set in the Gulf of Naples off the 12th-century waterfront Castel dell\u2019Ovo and Posillipo at the western flank of the Gulf. Historical winds on the Gulf of Naples persist in the 5- to 10-knot range, either from the northeast or southwest, with late spring and early fall being the most reliable for consistent breeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grant Dalton, CEO of America\u2019s Cup Defender Team New Zealand, said in the announcement: \u201cThere is a raw spirit and absolute pride in Italy that seems so appropriate to have the next America\u2019s Cup here\u2026. Italians are the most passionate and engaged America\u2019s Cup audience, and obviously it is the home of Luna Rossa, who are such an amazing team and strong competitor. So, from the Defender\u2019s position, it certainly feels like we are entering the lion\u2019s den competitively, but from an event perspective, it feels like the perfect venue to host the Louis Vuitton 38th America\u2019s Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The America&#8217;s Cup defender got ahead of the release of the next protocol with its announcement of Naples as the next host city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":82524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Dave Reed","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","custom_permalink":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":true,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"ad_targeting":"","alternate_title_newsletter":"","alternate_content_newsletter":"","sponsored_url":"","social_share":true},"categories":[159],"tags":[170,3003,177],"class_list":["post-82523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-americas-cup","tag-print-summer-2025","tag-racing"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}