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Juventus Football Club (BIT: JUVE) (from Latin[5] iuventus: youth, pronounced [juˈvɛntus]), commonly referred to as Juventus and familiarly as Juve, is an Italian professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont. The club was founded in 1897 and has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 2006–07 season, in the top flight First Division (called Serie A since 1929). Juventus is historically the most successful team of Italian football[6] and one of the most successful and recognized in the world.[6][7] According to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an international organization recognized by FIFA, Juventus were Italy's best club of the 20th century and the second most successful European club in the same period.[7] Overall, the club has won 51 official competitions, more than any other team in the country; 40 in the national First Division, which is also a record,[8] and 11 in UEFA and world competitions.[9] It is the third most successful club in Europe[10] and the sixth in the world, with the most international titles officially recognized by one of the six continental football confederations and FIFA.[11] The club was the first Italian and Southern European side to win the UEFA Cup.[12] In 1985, Juventus, the only team in the world to have won all official international cups and championships,[13] became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major UEFA club competitions.[14][15][16] Juventus has the largest fan base of any Italian club,[17] and at 170 million also has one of the highest numbers of supporters world-wide (it. the tifosi).[18] The club is a founding member of the European Club Association, which was formed after the dissolution of the G-14, a collection of Europe's most elite clubs. The Torinese side is also recognized for its contribution to the Italian national team. Since 2006 the club plays its home games at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino, while its own stadium, the Stadio delle Alpi, is undergoing long-term structural changes[4] not expected to be completed until 2011.[19] [edit] HistoryMain article: History of Juventus F.C.  Juventus were founded as Sport Club Juventus in late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin,[20] but were renamed as Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later.[3] 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.[21] There was a split at the club in 1906, after some of the staff considered moving Juve out of Turin.[3] 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.[22] Juventus spent much of this period steadily rebuilding after the split, surviving the First World War.[21] [edit] League dominanceFiat owner Edoardo Agnelli gained control of the club in 1923, and built a new stadium.[3] 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.[21] The 1930s proved to be even more fruitful, the club won five consecutive league titles from 1930 through to 1935, most were under coach Carlo Carcano[21] with star players such as Raimundo Orsi, Luigi Bertolini, Giovanni Ferrari and Luis Monti amongst others. 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.[3] 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.[23] 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.[24] During the rest of the decade the club won the league just once more in 1966–67,[21] 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,[21] 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.[25] [edit] European stage The Trapattoni-era was highly successful in the 1980s; the club started the decade off well, winning the league title three more times by 1984.[21] This meant Juventus had won 20 Italian league titles and were allowed to add a second golden star to their shirt, thus becoming the only Italian club to achieve this.[25] Around this time the club's players were attracting considerable attention; Paolo Rossi was named European Footballer of the Year following his contribution to Italy's victory in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, where he was named player of the tournament.[26] Frenchman Michel Platini was also awarded the European Footballer of the Year title for three years in a row; 1983, 1984 and 1985, which is a record.[23] Juventus are the only club to have players from their club winning the award in four consecutive years.[23] Indeed it was Platini who scored the winning goal in the 1985 European Cup final against Liverpool, however this was marred by a tragedy which changed European football. The Heysel Stadium disaster, in which 39 people (mostly Juventus fans) were killed when a stadium wall collapsed, has been called by UEFA Chief Executive Lars-Christer Olsson in 2004, "the darkest hour in the history of the UEFA competitions",[27] and resulted in the banning of all English clubs from European competition. With the exception of winning the closely contested Italian Championship of 1985–86, the rest of the 1980s were not very successful for the club. As well as having to contend with Diego Maradona's Napoli, both of the Milanese clubs, Milan and Internazionale, won Italian championships.[21] In 1990, Juventus moved into their new home, the Stadio delle Alpi, which was built for the 1990 World Cup.[28] [edit] Lippi era of success Marcello Lippi took over as Juventus manager at the start of the 1994–95 campaign.[3] His first season at the helm of the club was a successful one, as Juventus recorded their first Serie A championship title since the mid-1980s.[21] The crop of players during this period featured Ciro Ferrara, Roberto Baggio, Gianluca Vialli and a young Alessandro Del Piero. Lippi lead Juventus to the Champions League the following season, beating Ajax on penalties after a 1–1 draw in which Fabrizio Ravanelli scored for Juve.[29] The club did not rest long after winning the European Cup, more highly regarded players were brought into the fold in the form of Zinédine Zidane, Filippo Inzaghi and Edgar Davids. At home Juventus won Serie A in 1996–97 and 1997–98, as well as the 1996 UEFA Super Cup[30] and the 1996 UEFA / CSF Intercontinental Cup.[31] Juventus reached the 1997 and 1998 Champions League finals during this period, but lost out to Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid respectively.[32][33] After a season's absence Lippi returned, signing big name players such as Gianluigi Buffon, David Trézéguet, Pavel Nedvěd and Lilian Thuram, helping the team to two more scudetto titles in the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons.[21] Juventus were also part of an all Italian Champions League final in 2003 but lost out to Milan on penalties after the game ended in a 0–0 draw. The following year, Lippi was appointed as Italy's head coach, bringing an end to one of the most fruitful managerial spells in Juventus' history.[25] [edit] 2004–presentFabio Capello became coach of Juventus 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 the 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.[34] 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 remained to help the club return to Serie A. The bianconeri were promoted straight back up as league winners after the 2006–07 season. Since their return to Serie A in the 2007-08 season former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri managed Juventus for two seasons.[35] They finished in 3rd place in their first return season (2007–08) and qualified for the third qualifying round of the 2008–09 Champions League Preliminary stages. They qualified to the group stages,and did very well, beating Real Madrid in both home and away legs, but lost in the knockout round to Chelsea. Claudio Ranieri was sacked following a string of unsuccessful results, and Ciro Ferrara was appointed as the coach for the last two games of the season.[36] Ferrara was subsequently appointed as the coach for the 2009–10 season.[37] [edit] 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.[38] 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.[38] Juve have worn the shirts ever since, considering the colors to be aggressive and powerful.[38] Juventus Football Club's official emblem has undergone different and small modifications since the second decade of the twentieth century. 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.  There is also a black silhouette of a mural crown above the black spherical triangle's base 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[1] (the Old Lady) being the best example. The "old" part of the nickname is a pun on Juventus which means "youth" in Latin.[5] 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) and le zebre (the zebras[39]) in reference to Juventus' colors. [edit] StadiumsFor more details on this topic, see Stadio Olimpico di Torino, Stadio Delle Alpi, Stadio di Corso Marsiglia and Stadio Motovelodromo Umberto I. For information on Juventus' proposed new stadium, see Juventus Arena.  After the first two years (1897 and 1898), during which Juventus played in the Parco del Valentino and Parco Cittadella, their matches were held in the Piazza d'Armi Stadium until 1908, except in 1905, the first year of the scudetto, and in 1906, years in which it played quickly Corso Re Umberto. From 1909 to 1922, Juventus played their internal competitions at Corso Sebastopoli Camp, and before moving the following year to Corso Marsiglia Camp where they remained until 1933, winning four league titles. At the end of 1933 they began to play at the new Stadio Mussolini stadium inaugurated for the 1934 World Championships. After the Second World War, the stadium was renamed as Stadio Comunale Vittorio Pozzo. Juventus played home matches at the ground for 57 years, a total of 890 league matches.[40] The team continued to host training sessions at the stadium until July 2003.[41]  From 1990 until the 2005–06 season, the Torinese side contested their home matches at Stadio Delle Alpi, built for the World Cup Italy 1990, although in very rare circumstances, the club played some home games in other stadia such as Renzo Barbera at Palermo, Dino Manuzzi at Cesena and the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza at Milan.[41] In August 2006, the bianconeri returned to play in the Stadio Comunale, now known as Stadio Olimpico, after the restructuring of Stadio Delle Alpi from the Winter Olympic Games onwards. In November 2008 Juventus announced that they will invest around €100 million to build a new stadium on the site of the old Delle Alpi ground. Unlike the Delle Alpi there will not be a running track, instead the pitch will be only 8.5 meters away from the stands. The planned capacity is 41,000. Work began during spring 2009 and is scheduled for completion in time for the start of the 2011–12 season.[42] [edit] Supporters Juventus is the best supported football club in Italy, with over 12 million fans,[18] (32.5% of Italian football fans), according to research published in August 2008 by Italian newspaper La Repubblica,[17] and one of the most supported football clubs in the world, with 170 million supporters[18] (43 million in Europe alone),[18] particularly in the Mediterranean countries, to which a large number of Italian diaspora have emigrated.[43] The Torinese side has fan clubs branches across the globe.[44] Demand for Juventus tickets in occasional home games held away from Turin is high; suggesting that Juventus have stronger support in other parts of the country. Juve is widely and especially popular throughout mainland Southern Italy and Sicily, leading the team to have one of the largest followings in its away matches,[45] more than in Turin itself. [edit] RivalriesJuventus has significant rivalries with three clubs. The first is with local club Torino, against whom Juve compete in the Derby della Mole (Derby of Torino) in a rivalry dating back to 1906, when Torino was founded by former Juve members. The other most significant rivalry is with Internazionale; matches between Juventus and Inter are referred to as the Derby d'Italia (Derby of Italy).[46] Up until the 2006 Serie A match-fixing scandal, which saw Juventus relegated, the two were the only Italian clubs to have never played below Serie A. Notably the two sides are the first and the second most supported clubs in Italy and the rivalry has intensified since the later part of the 1990s; reaching its highest levels ever post-Calciopoli, with the return of Juventus to Serie A.[46] They also have rivalries with Milan,[47] Roma[48] and Fiorentina.[49] [edit] Current squadSee also: List of Juventus F.C. players
For recent transfers, see List of Italian football transfers summer 2009. [edit] Out on loan
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Last updated: 14 July 2008 [edit] Presidential historyJuventus have had numerous presidents over the course of their history, some of which have been the owners of the club, others have been honorary presidents, here is a complete list of them:[51]
Legend: [edit] Managerial historySee also: List of Juventus F.C. managers Below is a list of Juventus managers from 1923 when the Agnelli family took over and the club became more structured and organized,[3] until the present day.[52] Legend: [edit] HonoursMain article: Juventus F.C. honours Historically, Juventus is Italy's most successful team, having won a total of 40 competitions in the top flight First Division of the country,[8] and one of the most successful and recognized football clubs in the world,[6][7] having won a total of 11 official international competitions,[9] with a record of 9 UEFA competition titles and 2 Worldwide titles won.[53] making them the third most winning team in Europe[10] and sixth in the world for official international club competitions won,[11] all recognized by Union of European Football Association, one of the six continental football confederations, and International Federation of Association Football.[9] Juventus have won the Italian League Championship, the country's premier football club competition, a record 27 times,[25] and have the record of consecutive triumphs in that tournament (five, between 1930–31 and 1934–35).[25] 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.[54] 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 is the only 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. Juventus, the only football club in the world to have won all official international cups and championships,[13] has received, in recognition to win the three major European club competitions,[15][16] as first case in the history of the European football,[14] The UEFA Plaque by the Union of European Football Associations in 1987.[55] They have won the UEFA Cup three times, a record they share with Liverpool and Internazionale.[56] The Torinese side was placed 7th—but the top Italian club—in the FIFA Clubs of the 20th Century selection of 23 December 2000.[57] Juventus has been proclaimed World's Club Team of the Year twice (1993 and 1996)[58] and was ranked in 3rd place—the highest ranking of any Italian club—in the All-Time Club World Ranking (1991–2008 period) by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics.[59] [edit] National titles
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[edit] World-wide titles[edit] Club statistics and recordsMain article: Juventus F.C. statistics and records Alessandro Del Piero holds Juventus' official appearance record (600 as of 10 May 2009). He took over from Gaetano Scirea on 6 March 2008 against Palermo. Giampiero Boniperti holds the record for Lega Calcio Serie A appearances with 444. Including all official competitions, Alessandro Del Piero is the all-time leading goalscorer for Juventus, with 241 goals—as of 19 May 2008—since joining the club in 1993. Giampiero Boniperti, who was the all-time topscorer since 1961 comes in second in all competitions with 182, but is still the top league goalscorer for the Old Lady as of June 2007[update].[73][74] 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.[21] 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).[21] The Old Lady holds the record for the most goals in a single season, in the top flight of Italian football, this includes national league, national cup and European competition, with a total of 106 goals in the 1992–93 season. 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.[75] [edit] Contribution to the Italian national teamFor more details on this topic, see Italian national football team. Main article: Juventus F.C. and the Italian national football team Overall, Juventus is the club that has contributed the most players to the Italian national team in history,[76] they are the only Italian club that has contributed players to every Italian national team since the 2nd FIFA World Cup.[77] Juventus have contributed numerous players to Italy's World Cup campaigns, these successful periods principally have coincided with two golden ages of the Turin club's history, referred as Quinquennio d'Oro (The Golden Quinquennium), from 1931 until 1935, and Ciclo Leggendario (The Legendary Cycle), from 1972 to 1986.  Below are a list of Juventus players who represented the Italian national team during World Cup winning tournaments;[78]
Two Juventus players have won the golden boot award at the World Cup with Italy; Paolo Rossi in 1982 and Salvatore Schillaci in 1990. As well as contributing to Italy's World Cup winning sides, two Juventus players Alfredo Foni and Pietro Rava, represented Italy in the gold medal winning squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Three bianconeri players represented their nation during the 1968 European Football Championship win for Italy; Sandro Salvadore, Ernesto Càstano and Giancarlo Bercellino.[79] Juventus have also contributed to a lesser degree to the national sides of other nations. Zinédine Zidane and captain Didier Deschamps were Juventus players when they won the 1998 World Cup with France, making the total number of Juventus World Cup winners 24, more than any other club in the world (three other players in the 1998 squad, Patrick Vieira, David Trézéguet and Lilian Thuram have all played for Juventus at one time or another). Three Juventus players have also won the European Football Championship with a nation other than Italy, Luis del Sol won it in 1964 with Spain, while the Frenchmen Michel Platini and Zidane won the competition in 1984 and 2000 respectively.[80] [edit] Juventus Football Club as a companySince 27 June 1967 Juventus Football Club has been a joint stock company (it. Società per Azioni)[81] and since 3 December 2001 the torinese side is listed on the Borsa Italiana.[82] Currently, the Juventus' shares are distributed between 60% to Exor S.p.A,[83] the Agnelli family's holding (a company of the Giovanni Agnelli & C.S.a.p.a Group),[84][85] 7.5% to Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Co.[86] and 32.5% to other shareholders.[86] Along with Lazio and Roma, the Old Lady is one of only three Italian clubs quoted on Borsa Italiana (Italian stock exchange). Juventus is also the only association football club in the country member of STAR (Segment of Stocks conforming to High Requirements, it. Segmento Titoli con Alti Requisiti), one of the main market segment in the world.[87] The club's training ground is owned by Campi di Vinovo S.p.A., controlled by Juventus Football Club S.p.A to 71.3%.[88] From 1 July 2008 the club has implemented a Safety Management System for employees and athletes in compliance with the requirements of international OHSAS 18001:2007 regulation[89] and a Safety Management System in the medical sector according to the international ISO 9001:2000 resolution.[90] According to The Football Money League published by consultants Deloitte, in the season 2005–06, Juventus was the third highest earning football club in the world with an estimated revenue of €251.2 million.[91] Currently, the club are also ranked as the 9th richest football club in the world by Forbes magazine, making them the second richest in Italy.[92] [edit] Shirt sponsors and manufacturers
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