Juventus Football Club S.p.A. (BIT: JUVE) (from Latin
iuventus: youth, pronounced [juˈvɛntus]), commonly referred to as Juventus and
colloquially as Juve (pronounced [ˈjuːve]), are a professional Italian
association football club based in Turin, Piedmont. The club is the third
oldest of its kind in the country and has spent the majority of its history,
with the exception of the 2006–07 season, in the top flight First Division
(known as Serie A since 1929).
Juventus are historically the most successful club in Italian football and one of the most laureated and important globally. Overall, they have won fifty-three official titles on the national and international stage, more than any other Italian club: a record twenty-eight league titles, a record nine Italian cups and five national super cups and, with eleven titles in confederation and inter-confederation competitions (two Intercontinental Cups, two European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions Leagues, one European Cup Winners' Cup, a record three UEFA Cups, one UEFA Intertoto Cup and two UEFA Super Cups) the club currently ranks fourth in Europe and seventh in the world with the most trophies won. In 1985, under the management of Giovanni Trapattoni, who led the Torinese team to thirteen official trophies in ten years until 1986, including six league titles and five international titles; Juventus became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major competitions organised by the Union of European Football Associations: the European Champions' Cup, the (now-defunct) Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Cup (the first Italian and Southern European side to win the tournament). After their triumph in the Intercontinental Cup the same year, the club also became the first in football history—and remain the only one at present—to have won all possible confederation competitions and the club world title. According to the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.
HISTORY.
Juventus were founded as Sport Club Juventus in late 1897 by
pupils from the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, but were renamed as
Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later. The club joined the Italian Football
Championship during 1900. During this period the team wore a pink and black
kit. Juventus first won the league championship in 1905 while playing at their
Velodromo Umberto I ground. By this time the club colours had changed to black
and white stripes, inspired by English side Notts County.There was a split at the club in 1906, after some of the staff considered moving Juve out of Turin. President Alfredo Dick was unhappy with this and left with some prominent players to found FBC Torino which in turn spawned the Derby della Mole. Juventus spent much of this period steadily rebuilding after the split, surviving the First World War.
League dominance
Fiat owner Edoardo
Agnelli gained control of the club in 1923, and built a new stadium. This
helped the club to its second scudetto (league championship) in the 1925–26
season beating Alba Roma with an aggregate score of 12–1, Antonio Vojak's goals
were essential that season.The club established itself as a major force in
Italian football since the 1930s, becoming the country's first professional
club and the first with a decentralised fan base, which led it to win a record
of five consecutive Italian championships the first four under the management
of Carlo Carcano and form the core of the of the Italy national team during the
Vittorio Pozzo's era, including the 1934 world champion squad. with star
players such as Raimundo Orsi, Luigi Bertolini, Giovanni Ferrari and Luis Monti
amongst others.Sivori, Charles and Boniperti
Juventus moved to the Stadio Comunale, but for the rest of the 1930s and the majority of the 1940s they were unable to recapture championship dominance. After the Second World War, Gianni Agnelli was appointed honorary president. The club added two more league championships to its name in the 1949–50 and 1951–52 seasons, the latter of which was under the management of Englishman Jesse Carver. Two new strikers were signed during 1957–58; Welshman John Charles and Italo-Argentine Omar Sivori, playing alongside longtime member Giampiero Boniperti. That season saw Juventus awarded with the Golden Star for Sport Excellence to wear on their shirts after becoming the first Italian side to win ten league titles. In the same season, Omar Sivori became the first ever player at the club to win the European Footballer of the Year.The following season they beat Fiorentina to complete their first league and cup double, winning Serie A and Coppa Italia. Boniperti retired in 1961 as the all-time top scorer at the club, with 182 goals in all competitions, a club record which stood for 45 years.
During the rest of
the decade the club won the league just once more in 1966–67, However, the
1970s saw Juventus further solidify their strong position in Italian football.
Under former player Čestmír Vycpálek they won the scudetto in 1971–72 and
1972–73, with players such as Roberto Bettega, Franco Causio and José Altafini
breaking through. During the rest of the decade they won the league twice more,
with defender Gaetano Scirea contributing significantly. The later win was
under Giovanni Trapattoni, who helped the club's domination continue on into
the early part of the 1980s and to form the backbone of the Italian national
team during Enzo Bearzot's era, including the 1978 FIFA World Cup and 1982
world champion squads.
The
"Calciopoli" scandal
Fabio Capello became its coach in 2004, and led Juventus to
two more Serie A titles. However, in May 2006, Juventus became one of the five
clubs linked to a Serie A match fixing scandal, the result of which saw the
club relegated to Serie B for the first time in its history. The club was also stripped
of the two titles won under Capello in 2005 and 2006.
Many key players left
following the demotion to Serie B, including Thuram, star striker Zlatan
Ibrahimović and defensive stalwart Fabio Cannavaro. However, other big name
players such as Buffon, Del Piero and Nedvěd remained to help the club return
to Serie A while youngsters from the Primavera such as Sebastian Giovinco and
Claudio Marchisio were integrated into the first team. The bianconeri were
promoted straight back up as league winners after the 2006–07 season while
captain Del Piero claimed the top scorer award with 21 goals.
Return to Serie A
Since their return to
Serie A in the 2007–08 season, former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri managed Juventus
for two seasons. They finished in third place in their first return season, and
qualified for the 2008–09 Champions League third qualifying round in the
preliminary stages. Juventus reached the group stages, where they beat Real
Madrid in both home and away legs, before losing in the knockout round to
Chelsea. Ranieri was sacked following a string of unsuccessful results, and
Ciro Ferrara was appointed as manager on a temporary basis for the last two
games of the season, before being subsequently appointed as the manager for the
2009–10 season.However, Ferrara's stint as Juventus manager proved to be unsuccessful, with Juventus knocked out of Champions League and Coppa Italia, and just lying on the sixth place in the league table at the end of January 2010, leading to the dismissal of Ciro Ferrara and naming Alberto Zaccheroni as caretaker manager. Zaccheroni could not help the side improve, as Juventus finished the season in seventh place in Serie A. For the 2010–11 season, Jean-Claude Blanc was replaced by Andrea Agnelli as the club's president. Agnelli's first action was to replace Zaccheroni and Director of Sport Alessio Secco with Sampdoria manager Luigi Delneri and Director of Sport Giuseppe Marotta. However, Delneri failed to improve their fortunes and was dismissed. Former player and fan favourite Antonio Conte, fresh after winning promotion with Siena, was named as Delneri's replacement.
With Conte as manager, Juventus went unbeaten for the entire season. Towards the second half of the season, the team was mostly competing with northern rivals Milan for first place in a tight contest. Juventus won the title on the 37th matchday, after beating Cagliari 2–0, and Milan losing to Internazionale 4–2. After a 3–1 win in the final matchday against Atalanta, Juventus became the first team to go the season unbeaten in the current 38-game format. Other noteworthy achievements include the biggest away win (5–0 at Fiorentina), best defensive record (20 goals conceded) in Serie A and second best in the top six European leagues.
Colours, badge and
nicknames
Juventus have played in black and white striped shirts, with
white shorts, sometimes black shorts since 1903. Originally, they played in
pink shirts with a black tie, but only because they had been sent the wrong
shirts. The father of one of the players made the earliest shirts, but
continual washing faded the colour so much that in 1903 the club sought to
replace them.Juventus asked one of their team members, Englishman John Savage,
if he had any contacts in England who could supply new shirts in a color that
would better withstand the elements. He had a friend who lived in Nottingham,
who being a Notts County supporter, shipped out the black and white striped
shirts to Turin. Juve have worn the shirts ever since, considering the colors
to be aggressive and powerful.
Juventus Football
Club's official emblem has undergone different and small modifications since
the 1920s. The last modification of the Old Lady's badge took place before
2004–05 season. At the present time, the emblem of the team is a black-and-white
oval shield of a type used by Italian ecclesiastics. It is divided in five
vertical stripes: two white stripes and three black stripes, inside which are
the following elements; in its upper section, the name of the society
superimposed on a white convex section, over golden curvature (gold for
honour). The white silhouette of a charging bull is in the lower section of the
oval shield, superimposed on a black old French shield; the charging bull is a
symbol of the Comune di Torino.
Juventus F.C. badge in 2004 There is also a black silhouette of a mural crown above the black spherical triangle's base. This is a reminiscence to Augusta Tourinorum, the old city of the Roman era which the present capital of Piedmont region is its cultural heiress.
In the past, the convex section of the emblem had a blue color (another symbol of Turin) and, furthermore, its shape was concave. The old French shield and the mural crown, also in the lower section of the emblem, had a considerably greater size with respect to the present. The two Golden Stars for Sport Excellence were located above the convex and concave section of Juventus' emblem. During the 1980s, the club emblem was the silhouette of a zebra, to both sides of the equide's head, the two golden stars and, above this badge, forming an arc, the club's name.
During its history, the club has acquired a number of nicknames, la Vecchia Signora (the Old Lady) being the best example. The "old" part of the nickname is a pun on Juventus which means "youth" in Latin. It was derived from the age of the Juventus star players towards the middle of 1930s. The "lady" part of the nickname is how fans of the club affectionately referred to it before the 1930s. The club is also nicknamed la Fidanzata d'Italia (the Girlfriend of Italy), because over the years it has received a high level of support from Southern Italian immigrant workers (particularly from Naples and Palermo), who arrived in Turin to work for FIAT since the 1930s. Other nicknames include; i bianconeri (the black-and-whites), le zebre (the zebras) in reference to Juventus' colors and i gobbi (the hunchbacks), because "old ladies" usually have hunched backs.
Club statistics and
records
Alessandro Del Piero
holds Juventus' official appearance record (646 as of 23 October 2010). He took
over from Gaetano Scirea on 6 March 2008 against Palermo. He also holds the
record for Italian Serie A appearances with 467 (as of 21 December 2011).Including all official competitions, Alessandro Del Piero is the all-time leading goalscorer for Juventus, with 277 goals—as of 23 October 2010—since joining the club in 1993. Giampiero Boniperti, who was the all-time topscorer since 1961 comes in second in all competitions with 182.
In the 1933–34 season, Felice Placido Borel II° scored 31 goals in 34 appearances, setting the club record for Serie A goals in a single season. Ferenc Hirzer is the club's highest scorer in a single season with 35 goals in 26 appearances in the 1925–26 season (record of Italian football). The most goals scored by a player in a single match is 6, which is also an Italian record. This was achieved by Omar Enrique Sivori in a game against Internazionale in the 1960–61 season.
The first ever official game participated in by Juventus was in the Third Federal Football Championship, the predecessor of Serie A, against Torinese; Juve lost 0–1. The biggest ever victory recorded by Juventus was 15–0 against Cento, in the second round of the Coppa Italia in the 1926–27 season. In terms of the league; Fiorentina and Fiumana were famously on the end of the Old Lady's biggest championship wins, both were beaten 11–0 and were recorded in the 1928–29 season. Juventus' heaviest championship defeats came during the 1911–12 and 1912–13 seasons; they were against Milan in 1912 (1–8) and Torino in 1913 (0–8).
The sale of Zinédine
Zidane to Real Madrid of Spain from Juventus in 2001, was the world football
transfer record until recently, costing the Spanish club around £46 million.
Now, Cristiano Ronaldo holds the record for the most expensive transfer of all
time in football.[94]
HonoursItaly's most successful club of the 20th century, and the most successful club in the history of Italian football,[20] Juventus have won the Italian League Championship, the country's premier football club competition, a record 28 times and have the record of consecutive triumphs in that tournament (five, between 1930–31 and 1934–35). They have also won the Italian Cup, the country's primary cup competition, nine times, holding the record number of wins—overall and consecutives—for the latter.
Overall, Juventus have won 53 official competitions, more than any other team in the country; 42 in the national First Division, which is also a record, and 11 official international competitions, making them, in the latter case, the second most successful Italian club in European competition. The club is currently fourth in Europe and seventh in the world with the most international titles won officially recognised by their respective association football confederation and FIFA. They have won the UEFA Cup three times, a record they share with Liverpool and Internazionale.
The club has earned
the distinction of being allowed to wear two Golden Stars for Sport Excellence
(it. Stelle d'oro al Merito Sportivo) on its shirts representing its league
victories, the tenth of which was achieved during the 1957–58 season and the
twentieth in the 1981–82 season. Juventus were the first Italian team to have
twice achieved the national double (winning the Italian top tier division and
the national cup competition in the same season), in the 1959–60 and 1994–95
seasons.
The club is unique in the world in having won all official
international competitions,and they have received, in recognition to win the
three major UEFA competitions first case in the history of the European football.
The UEFA Plaque by the Union of European Football Associations on 12 July 1988.The Torinese side was placed 7th—but the top Italian club—in the FIFA Clubs of the 20th Century selection of 23 December 2000.
Juventus have been proclaimed World's Club Team of the Year twice (1993 and 1996) and was ranked in 3rd place—the highest ranking of any Italian club—in the All-Time Club World Ranking (1991–2009 period) by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics.
National titles
Italian Football
Championship / Serie A: 28[37]
1905, 1925–26,[80]
1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1957–58,
1959–60, 1960–61, 1966–67; 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77, 1977–78,
1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1994–95, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2001–02,
2002–03, 2011–12 Runners-up (20): 1903; 1904; 1906; 1937–38; 1945–46; 1946–47;
1952–53; 1953–54; 1962–63; 1973–74; 1975–76; 1979–80; 1982–83; 1986–87;
1991–92; 1993–94; 1995–96; 1999–00; 2000–01; 2008–09
Coppa Italia: 9
1937–38, 1941–42,
1958–59, 1959–60, 1964–65, 1978–79, 1982–83, 1989–90, 1994–95 Runners-up (5):
1972–73; 1991–92; 2001–02; 2003–04; 2011–12
Supercoppa Italiana:
5
1995, 1997, 2002,
2003, 2012 Runners-up (3): 1990; 1998; 2005
Serie B: 1
2006–07 Runners-up
(0): none
European titles
European Champions'
Cup / UEFA Champions League: 2
1984–85, 1995–96
Runners-up (5): 1972–73; 1982–83; 1996–97; 1997–98; 2002–03
UEFA Cup Winners'
Cup: 1
1983–84 Runners-up
(0): none
UEFA Cup: 3
1976–77, 1989–90,
1992–93 Runner-up (1): 1994–95
UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1
1999 Runners-up (0):
none
UEFA Super Cup: 2
1984, 1996 Runners-up
(0): none
World-wide titles
Intercontinental Cup:
21985, 1996 Runners-up (1):
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