text: 2014 coppa italia final the 2014 coppa italia final decided the winner of the 2013 – 14 coppa italia , the 66th season of italy 's main football cup . it was played on 3 may 2014 at the stadio olimpico in rome , between fiorentina and napoli . napoli won the game 3 - 1 , with two early goals from lorenzo insigne and a late third by substitute dries mertens , although they had sent off in the second half . juan manuel vargas scored fiorentina 's goal . as napoli qualified for the uefa champions league by their league position , fiorentina as runners - up qualified for the group stage of the 2014 – 15 uefa europa league . this was the last season in which cup runners - up could qualify for the europa league if the winner had already qualified for the champions league . napoli went on to play in the 2014 supercoppa italiana against the 2013 – 14 serie a champions juventus , and won . the final was marred by pre - match violence , which delayed the scheduled kick - off time . three napoli fans were shot , one of whom died following a two - month coma . club president aurelio de laurentiis dedicated napoli 's victory to the wounded fans . background fiorentina played their 10th coppa italia final , having won six , including their last in 2001 . it was napoli 's ninth , and they had previously won four , including their last final in 2012 . during the league season , fiorentina and napoli had already played each other twice . the first fixture , on 30 october 2013 at the stadio artemio franchi , resulted in a 2 – 1 away win for napoli which ended fiorentina 's unbeaten home record . all of the goals came in the first half — josé callejón opened the scoring , giuseppe rossi equalised with a penalty and dries mertens scored the winner in the 36th minute . in the closing stages of the game , christian maggio was sent off for the visitors , and juan cuadrado for the hosts . in the reverse fixture , at napoli 's stadio san paolo on 23 march 2014 , fiorentina were victorious as joaquín scored the only goal of the game with three minutes remaining ; had been sent off for the hosts in the first half for fouling marko bakić when the fiorentina midfielder had an opportunity to score . prior to the cup final , napoli were in third place in serie a and therefore in the last position to qualify for the champions league , eight points ahead of fiorentina with nine points left to play for . fiorentina manager vincenzo montella said before the game that his priority was to finish fourth and win the coppa italia . his napoli counterpart , rafael benítez , warned his players not to expect to win solely based on their league position . players and staff of both clubs were invited to vatican city the day before the final , where they listened to a speech by pope francis . managers montella and benítez presented souvenirs of their clubs to the pope . road to the final fiorentina fiorentina , of serie a , entered the tournament in the last 16 at home to chievo , also of their league . they won 2 – 0 with first - half goals from joaquín and ante , despite the dismissal of massimo ambrosini . in the quarter - final on 23 january , again at home , they beat serie b siena 2 – 1 with josip iličić opening the scoring and marvin scoring the winner . fiorentina 's semi - final against udinese began with a 2 – 1 away defeat on 4 february , but the second leg on 12 february was a 2 – 0 home victory with goals from manuel pasqual and cuadrado . napoli napoli , also of serie a , entered in the last 16 on 15 january with a 3 – 1 home win over atalanta , in which callejón scored twice and lorenzo insigne the other goal . their quarter - final on 29 january was a 1 – 0 victory at home over cup holders lazio , with a late goal from gonzalo higuaín . like fiorentina , napoli began their semi - final with an away defeat ( 3 – 2 against roma ) , but secured their place in the final with a 3 – 0 victory at home on 12 february , with goals from callejón , higuaín and . match team selection fiorentina were without record signing mario gómez , the german striker having suffered with injury all season . their top scorer of the season , giuseppe rossi , had been injured since january but was included as a substitute . montella opined that rossi would be ready to represent italy at the world cup in june . goalkeeper neto and midfielder borja valero had been doubts due to recent finger and knee injuries respectively , but made the starting line - up . midfielder cuadrado was suspended , having been given a yellow card towards the end of their semi - final victory over udinese . napoli 's top scorer of the season , higuaín , started despite a bruise to his shin from his last match . benítez said " not everyone in the team is 100 per cent , but we are in good shape " . pre - match violence three napoli fans were shot outside the stadium before the match , two with arm injuries . ciro esposito , who was in a critical state after being shot in the chest , died in hospital on 25 june . police , who found the gun , have stated that they do not believe that the shootings were related to other clashes by the two sets of fans : prior to the game , there were reports of firecrackers and other projectiles being thrown between them in the tor di quinto area of rome . kick - off was subsequently delayed as napoli fans did not want the match to start without knowing the condition of the shot fans . when match organisers attempted to speak to the napoli fans , accompanied by their midfielder marek , they were " pelted with flares and smoke bombs " . summary napoli winger insigne opened the scoring in the 11th minute by cutting in from the left and curling a shot past fiorentina goalkeeper neto . he doubled the lead six minutes later by connecting to higuaín 's cross and forcing a deflection off nenad . with two goals in the final , he equalled the amount of goals that he had scored in the entire serie a season . fiorentina responded in the 28th minute , when josip iličić chipped the defence and juan vargas volleyed the ball into the goal . in the last minute of the half , alberto put the ball into napoli 's goal , but it was disallowed for offside . fiorentina had chances to equalise in the second half , with a long shot from substitute matías fernández tipped over the crossbar by napoli goalkeeper pepe reina , and iličić missing a one - on - one . the team also brought on rossi in place of joaquín after 72 minutes , his first action since his injury in january . despite being reduced to ten men for the last 10 minutes after a second booking for after he fouled iličić , napoli extended their lead in injury time when substitute mertens scored a third after being set up by callejón . details post - match napoli supporters invaded the pitch to celebrate following their team 's victory . however , they were brought under control in order to allow the trophy ceremony to take place . aurelio de laurentiis , club president of napoli , dedicated the cup win to the then unidentified fan who had been shot before the match and operated on . on the pre - match violence , demetrio albertini , vice president of the italian football federation , said " it certainly wasn 't a great scene , what we displayed today alongside football , for a football lover like me , it was an ugly display . " as cup winners , napoli qualified for the 2014 supercoppa italiana in which they would face serie a champions juventus . the match had traditionally taken place in august , but napoli requested it be moved due to their champions league play - off that month . the fixture was eventually played on 22 december during the league 's winter break , at the jassim bin hamad stadium in doha , qatar . it finished 1 – 1 after 90 minutes , 2 – 2 after extra time , and napoli won 6 – 5 in the penalty shootout .