Association football club from Turin, Italy
This article is about the men's association football club from Turin, Italy. For other uses, 🏀 see Juventus FC (disambiguation)
"Iuventus", "Juventus", and "Piemonte Calcio" redirect here. For the ancient Roman goddess, see Juventas . For the 🏀 unrelated Italian football club active from 1907 to 1914, see Piemonte FC . For other uses, see Juventus (disambiguation)
Football club
Juventus 🏀 Football Club (from Latin: iuventūs, 'youth'; Italian pronunciation: [juˈvɛntus]), colloquially known as Juve ( pronounced [ˈjuːve]),[5] is an Italian professional 🏀 football club based in Turin, Piedmont, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league 🏀 system. Founded in 1897 by a group of Torinese students, the club has worn a black and white striped home 🏀 kit since 1903 and has played home matches in different grounds around its city, the latest being the 41,507-capacity Juventus 🏀 Stadium. Nicknamed la Vecchia Signora ("the Old Lady"), the club has won 36 official league titles, 14 Coppa Italia titles 🏀 and nine Supercoppa Italiana titles, being the record holder for all these competitions; two Intercontinental Cups, two European Cups / 🏀 UEFA Champions Leagues, one European Cup Winners' Cup, a joint national record of three UEFA Cups, two UEFA Super Cups 🏀 and a joint national record of one UEFA Intertoto Cup.[6][7] Consequently, the side leads the historical Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio 🏀 (FIGC) classification,[c] whilst on the international stage the club occupies the sixth position in Europe and the twelfth in the 🏀 world for most confederation titles won with eleven trophies,[9] as well as the fourth in the all-time Union of European 🏀 Football Associations (UEFA) competitions ranking,[d] having obtained the highest coefficient score during seven seasons since its introduction in 1979, the 🏀 most for an Italian team in both cases and joint second overall in the last cited.
Founded with the name of 🏀 Sport-Club Juventus, initially as an athletics club,[11] it is the second oldest of its kind still active in the country 🏀 after Genoa's football section (1893) and has competed every season of the premier club division (reformulated in different formats until 🏀 the Serie A inception in 1929) since its debut in 1900 with the exception of the 2006–07 season, being managed 🏀 by the industrial Agnelli family almost continuously since 1923.[e] The relationship between the club and that dynasty is the oldest 🏀 and longest in national sports, making Juventus one of the first professional sporting clubs ante litteram in the country, having 🏀 established itself as a major force in the national stage since the 1930s and at confederation level since the mid-1970s,[14] 🏀 and becoming, in a nearly stable basis, one of the top-ten wealthiest in world football in terms of value, revenue 🏀 and profit since the mid-1990s,[15] being listed on the Borsa Italiana since 2001.[16]
Under the management of Giovanni Trapattoni, the club 🏀 won 13 trophies in the ten years before 1986, including six league titles and five international titles, and became the 🏀 first to win all three seasonal competitions organised by the Union of European Football Associations: the 1976–77 UEFA Cup (first 🏀 Southern European side to do so), the 1983–84 Cup Winners' Cup and the 1984–85 European Champions' Cup.[17] With successive triumphs 🏀 in the 1984 European Super Cup and 1985 Intercontinental Cup, it became the first and thus far only in the 🏀 world to complete a clean sweep of all five historical confederation trophies;[18] an achievement that they revalidated with the title 🏀 won in the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup after another successful era led by Marcello Lippi,[19] becoming in addition, until 2024, 🏀 the only professional Italian club to have won every ongoing honour available to the first team and organised by a 🏀 national or international football association.[f] In December 2000, Juventus was placed seventh in the FIFA's historic ranking of the best 🏀 clubs in the world,[20] and nine years later was ranked second best club in Europe during the 20th century based 🏀 on a statistical study series by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS), the highest for an Italian 🏀 club in both.[21]
The club's fan base is the largest at national level and one of the largest worldwide.[22][23] Unlike most 🏀 European sporting supporters' groups, which are often concentrated around their own club's city of origin, it is widespread throughout the 🏀 whole country and the Italian diaspora, making Juventus a symbol of anticampanilismo ("anti-parochialism") and italianità ("Italianness").[25] Juventus players have won 🏀 eight Ballon d'Or awards, four of these in consecutive years (1982–1985, an overall joint record), among these Michel Platini as 🏀 well as three of the five recipients with Italian nationality as the first player representing Serie A, Omar Sívori, and 🏀 the former member of the youth sector Paolo Rossi; they have also won four FIFA World Player of the Year 🏀 awards, with winners as Roberto Baggio and Zinedine Zidane, a national record and third and joint second highest overall, respectively, 🏀 in the cited prizes. Finally, the club has also provided the most players to the Italy national team—mostly in official 🏀 competitions in almost uninterrupted way since 1924—who often formed the group that led the Azzurri squad to international success, most 🏀 importantly in the 1934, 1982 and 2006 FIFA World Cups.[27]
History
Early years (1897–1918)
One of the first Juventus club shot, 1899
Juventus was 🏀 founded as Sport-Club Juventus in late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo d'Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, among them Eugenio 🏀 Canfari and Enrico Canfari.[28] It was renamed as Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later.[29] The club joined the 1900 Italian 🏀 Football Championship. Juventus played their first Italian Football Championship match on 11 March 1900 in a 1–0 defeat against Torinese.[30]
The 🏀 Juventus team during the 1905 season in which they won their first league title
In 1904, businessman Marco Ajmone-Marsan revived the 🏀 finances of Juventus, making it possible to transfer the training field from piazza d'armi to the more appropriate Velodrome Umberto 🏀 I. During this period, the team wore a pink and black kit. Juventus first won the 1905 Italian Football Championship 🏀 while playing at their Velodrome Umberto I ground. By this time, the club colours had changed to black and white 🏀 stripes, inspired by English side Notts County.[31]
There was a split at the club in 1906, after some of the staff 🏀 considered moving Juve out of Turin.[29] Alfred Dick, the club's president,[g] was unhappy with this, and left with some prominent 🏀 players to found FBC Torino, which in turn spawned the Derby della Mole.[32] Juventus spent much of this period steadily 🏀 rebuilding after the split, surviving the First World War.[31]
League dominance (1923–1980)
FIAT vicepresident Edoardo Agnelli was elected club's president in 1923 🏀 and a new stadium was inaugurated one year before.[29] This helped the club to its second league championship in the 🏀 1925–26 Prima Divisione, after beating Alba Roma in a two-legged final with an aggregate score of 12–1.[31] 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 football championships and form 🏀 the core of the Italy national football team during the Vittorio Pozzo's era, including the 1934 FIFA World Cup champions, 🏀 with star players like Raimundo Orsi, Luigi Bertolini, Giovanni Ferrari, and Luis Monti, among others.[34][35] As of 2024, it is 🏀 the club with the most FIFA World Cup champions at 27.[36]
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 president.[29] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the club added two more league championships 🏀 to its name, winning the 1949–50 Serie A under the management of Englishman Jesse Carver, and then repeating in the 🏀 1951–52 Serie A. For the 1957–58 Serie A, two new strikers, Welshman John Charles and Italian Argentine Omar Sívori, were 🏀 signed to play alongside longtime member Giampiero Boniperti. In the 1959–60 Juventus F.C. season, they beat Fiorentina to complete their 🏀 first league and cup double, winning the 1959–60 Serie A and the 1960 Coppa Italia final. Boniperti retired in 1961 🏀 as the all-time top scorer at the club, with 182 goals in all competitions, a club record that stood for 🏀 45 years.[37]
During the rest of the decade, the club only won the 1966–67 Serie A.[31] The 1970s saw Juventus further 🏀 solidify their strong position in Italian football, and under former player Čestmír Vycpálek they won the scudetto in the 1971–72 🏀 Serie A, and followed through in the 1972–73 Serie A,[31] with players like as Roberto Bettega, Franco Causio, and José 🏀 Altafini breaking through. During the rest of the decade, they won the league thrice more, with defender Gaetano Scirea contributing 🏀 significantly. The latter two success in Serie A was under Giovanni Trapattoni, who also led the club to their first 🏀 ever major European title, the 1976–77 UEFA Cup, and helped the club's domination continue on into the early part of 🏀 the 1980s.[38]
European stage (1980–1993)
The Trapattoni era was highly successful in the 1980s and the club started the decade off well, 🏀 winning the league title three more times by 1984.[31] This meant Juventus had won 20 Italian league titles and were 🏀 allowed to add a second golden star to their shirt, becoming the only Italian club to achieve this.[38] Around this 🏀 time, the club's players were attracting considerable attention, and 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.
Frenchman Michel Platini 🏀 was awarded the European Footballer of the Year title for three years in a row in 1983, 1984 and 1985, 🏀 which is a record.[40] Juventus are the first and one of the only two clubs to have players from their 🏀 club winning the award in four consecutive years.[41][h] It was Platini who scored the winning goal in the 1985 European 🏀 Cup final against Liverpool; this was marred by the Heysel Stadium disaster, which changed European football.[43] That year, Juventus became 🏀 the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major UEFA competitions;[44][45] after their triumph 🏀 in the 1985 Intercontinental Cup, the club also became the first and thus far the only in association football history 🏀 to have won all five possible confederation competitions,[46] an achievement that it revalidated with a sixth title won in the 🏀 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup.[48]
With the exception of winning the closely contested 1985–86 Serie A, 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, A.C. Milan and Inter Milan, won Italian championships; Juventus achieved a double by winning the 1989–90 Coppa Italia and 🏀 the 1990 UEFA Cup final under the guidance of former club legend Dino Zoff.[31] In 1990, Juventus also moved into 🏀 their new home, the Stadio delle Alpi, which was built for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Despite the arrival of 🏀 Italian star Roberto Baggio later that year for a world football transfer record fee, the early 1990s under Luigi Maifredi 🏀 and subsequently Trapattoni once again also saw little success for Juventus, as they only managed to win the 1993 UEFA 🏀 Cup final.[50]
Renewed international success (1994–2004)
Marcello Lippi took over as Juventus manager at the start of the 1994–95 Serie A.[29] 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, as well as the 1995 Coppa Italia final.[31] The crop of players during this period featured 🏀 Ciro Ferrara, Roberto Baggio, Gianluca Vialli, and a young Alessandro Del Piero. Lippi led Juventus to the 1995 Supercoppa Italiana 🏀 and the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League, beating Ajax on penalties after a 1–1 draw in which Fabrizio Ravanelli scored for 🏀 Juventus.[51]
The club did not rest long after winning the European Cup, as more highly regarded players were brought into the 🏀 fold in the form of Zinedine Zidane, Filippo Inzaghi, and Edgar Davids. At home, Juventus won the 1996–97 Serie A, 🏀 successfully defended their title in the 1997–98 Serie A, won the 1996 UEFA Super Cup,[52] and followed through with the 🏀 1996 Intercontinental Cup.[53] Juventus reached two consecutive Champions League finals during this period but lost out to Borussia Dortmund and 🏀 Real Madrid,[54][55] respectively in 1997 and 1998.[56][57]
After a two-and-a-half-season absence, Lippi returned to the club in 2001, following his replacement 🏀 Carlo Ancelotti's dismissal, signing big name players like Gianluigi Buffon, David Trezeguet, Pavel Nedvěd, and Lilian Thuram, helping the team 🏀 to win the 2001–02 Serie A, which was their first since 1998, and confirmed themselves in the 2002–03 Serie A.[31] 🏀 Juventus were also part of the all Italian 2003 UEFA Champions League final but lost out to Milan on penalties 🏀 after the game ended in a 0–0 draw. At the conclusion of the following season, Lippi was appointed as the 🏀 Italy national team's head coach, bringing an end to one of the most fruitful managerial spells in Juventus's history.[38]
Calciopoli scandal 🏀 (2004–2007)
Fabio Capello was appointed as Juventus's coach in 2004 and led the club to two more consecutive Serie A first 🏀 places. In May 2006, Juventus emerged as one of the five clubs linked to the Calciopoli scandal. In July, Juventus 🏀 was placed at the bottom of the league table and relegated to Serie B for the first time in its 🏀 history. The club was also stripped of the 2004–05 Serie A title, while the 2005–06 Serie A winner, after a 🏀 period sub judice, was declared to be third-placed Inter Milan.[58] This remains a much debated and controversial issue,[59][60][61] particularly due 🏀 to Inter Milan's later revealed involvement, the 2004 championship (the sole being investigated) deemed regular and not fixed,[62][63][64] Juventus being 🏀 absolved as club in the ordinary justice proceedings,[65][66] their renounce to the Italian civil courts appeal, which could have cleared 🏀 the club's name and avoid relegation, after FIFA threatened to suspend the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and barring all Italian 🏀 clubs from international play,[67][68][69] and the motivations,[70] such as sentimento popolare (people's feelings),[71] and the newly created ad-hoc rule used 🏀 to relegate the club.[72][73][74]
Star goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was among a group of players who remained with the club following their 🏀 demotion to Serie B in 2006.
Many key players left following their relegation to Serie B, including Thuram, star striker Zlatan 🏀 Ibrahimović, midfielders Emerson and Patrick Vieira, and defensive stalwarts Fabio Cannavaro and Gianluca Zambrotta;[75] other big name players, such as 🏀 Del Piero, Buffon, Trezeguet, and Nedvěd, as well as the club's future defense core Giorgio Chiellini, remained to help the 🏀 club return to Serie A,[76] while youngsters from the Campionato Nazionale Primavera (youth team), such as Sebastian Giovinco and Claudio 🏀 Marchisio, were integrated into the first team.[77][78] Juventus won the Cadetti title (Serie B championship) despite starting with a points 🏀 deduction and gained promotion straight back up to the top division, with Del Piero claiming the top scorer award with 🏀 21 goals, as league winners after the 2006–07 Serie B season.[79]
As early as 2010, when many other clubs were implicated 🏀 and Inter Milan, Livorno, and Milan liable of direct Article 6 violations in the 2011 Palazzi Report, Juventus considered challenging 🏀 the stripping of their scudetto from 2006 and the non-assignment of the 2005 title, dependent on the results of Calciopoli 🏀 trials connected to the 2006 scandal.[80] When former general manager Luciano Moggi's conviction in criminal court in connection with the 🏀 scandal was partially written off by the Supreme Court in March 2024,[81][82] the club sued the FIGC for €443 million 🏀 for damages caused by their 2006 relegation. Then-FIGC president Carlo Tavecchio offered to discuss reinstatement of the lost scudetti in 🏀 exchange for Juventus dropping the lawsuit.[83]
In September 2024, the Supreme Court released a 150-page document that explained its final ruling 🏀 of the case, based on the controversial 2006 sports ruling, which did not take in consideration the other clubs involved 🏀 because they could not be put on trial due to the statute of limitations, and it would be necessary to 🏀 request and open a revocation of judgment pursuant to Article 39 of the Code of Sports Justice. Despite his remaining 🏀 charges being cancelled without a new trial due to statute of limitations, the court confirmed that Moggi was actively involved 🏀 in the sporting fraud, which was intended to favour Juventus and increase his own personal benefits according to La Gazzetta 🏀 dello Sport.[84] As did the Naples court in 2012,[85][86] the court commented that the developments and behavior of other clubs 🏀 and executives were not investigated in depth.[87] Once they exhausted their appeals in Italy's courts,[88] both Moggi and Giraudo appealed 🏀 to the European Court of Human Rights in March 2024; Giraudo's was accepted in September 2024.[89][90] Juventus continued to present 🏀 new appeals,[91] which were declared inadmissible.[92]
Return to Serie A (2007–2011)
After making their comeback for the 2007–08 Serie A, Juventus appointed 🏀 Claudio Ranieri as manager.[93] They finished in third place in their first season back in the top flight and qualified 🏀 for the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League's 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 2008–09 Serie A,[94] before being subsequently appointed as the manager for the 2009–10 Serie A.[95]
Ferrara's stint 🏀 as Juventus manager proved to be unsuccessful, with Juventus knocked out of 2009–10 UEFA Champions League, and also of the 🏀 2009–10 Coppa Italia, as well as just lying on the sixth place in the league table at the end of 🏀 January 2010, leading to the dismissal of Ferrara and the naming of 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 Serie A, 🏀 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.[96] Delneri failed to improve their 🏀 fortunes and was dismissed, and former player and fan favourite Antonio Conte, fresh after winning promotion with Siena, was named 🏀 as Delneri's replacement.[97] In September 2011, Juventus relocated to the new Juventus Stadium, known as the Allianz Stadium since 2024.[98]
Nine 🏀 consecutive scudetti (2011–2024)
Playmaker Andrea Pirlo playing for Juventus in 2012
With Conte as manager, Juventus were unbeaten for the entire 2011–12 🏀 Serie A 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 Inter 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.[99] In 2013–14 Serie A, Juventus won a third consecutive scudetto with 🏀 a record 102 points and 33 wins.[100][101] The title was the 30th official league championship in the club's history.[102] They 🏀 also achieved the semi-finals of 2013–14 UEFA Europa League, where they were eliminated at home against ten-man Benfica's catenaccio, missing 🏀 the 2014 UEFA Europa League final at the Juventus Stadium.[103][104]
In the 2014–15 Serie A, Massimiliano Allegri was appointed as manager, 🏀 with whom Juventus won their 31st official title, making it a fourth-straight, as well as achieving a record tenth Coppa 🏀 Italia, after beating Lazio 2–2 in the 2024 Coppa Italia final, for the domestic double.[105] The club also beat Real 🏀 Madrid 3–2 on aggregate in the semi-finals of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League to face Barcelona in the 2024 UEFA 🏀 Champions League final in Berlin for the first time since the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League.[106] Juventus lost the final against 🏀 Barcelona 3–1.[107] In the 2024 Coppa Italia final, the club won the title for the 11th time and second straight 🏀 win, becoming the first team in Italy's history to win Serie A and Coppa Italia doubles in back-to-back seasons.[108][109][110]
In the 🏀 2024 Coppa Italia final, Juventus won their 12th Coppa Italia title in a 2–0 win over Lazio, becoming the first 🏀 team to win three consecutive titles.[111] Four days later on 21 May, Juventus became the first team to win six 🏀 consecutive Serie A titles.[112] In the 2024 UEFA Champions League final, their second Champions League final in three years, Juventus 🏀 were defeated 1–4 by defending champions Real Madrid; the 2024 Turin stampede happened ten minutes before the end of the 🏀 match.[113][114] In the 2024 Coppa Italia final, Juventus won their 13th title and fourth in a row in a 4–0 🏀 win over Milan, extending the all-time record of successive Coppa Italia titles.[115] Juventus then secured their seventh consecutive Serie A 🏀 title, extending the all-time record of successive triumphs in the competition.[116] In the 2024 Supercoppa Italiana, which was held in 🏀 January 2024, Juventus and Milan, who were tied for Supercoppa Italiana wins with seven each, played against each other; Juventus 🏀 won their eight title after beating Milan 1–0.[117] In April 2024, Juventus secured their eighth consecutive Serie A title, further 🏀 extending the all-time record of successive triumphs in the competition.[118] Following Allegri's departure,[119] Maurizio Sarri was appointed manager of the 🏀 club ahead of the 2024–20 Juventus F.C. season.[120] Juventus were confirmed 2024–20 Serie A champions, reaching an unprecedented milestone of 🏀 nine consecutive league titles.[121]
Recent history (2024–present)
On 8 August 2024, Sarri was sacked from his managerial position, one day after Juventus 🏀 were eliminated from the 2024–20 UEFA Champions League by Lyon.[122] On the same day, former player Andrea Pirlo was announced 🏀 as the new coach, signing a two-year contract.[123] In the 2024 Supercoppa Italiana, which was held in January 2024, Juventus 🏀 won their ninth title after a 2–0 victory against Napoli.[124] With Inter Milan's win of the 2024–21 Serie A, Juventus's 🏀 run of nine consecutive titles came to an end;[125] the club managed to secure a fourth-place finish on the final 🏀 day of the league, granting Juventus qualification to the following season's Champions League.[126] In the 2024 Coppa Italia final, Juventus 🏀 won their 14th title.[127] On 28 May, Juventus sacked Pirlo from his managerial position,[128][129] and announced Allegri's return to the 🏀 club as manager after two years away from management on a four-year contract.[130] Although Allegri had considered the victory of 🏀 the scudetto as a seasonal goal,[131] Juventus reached another fourth place in the league.[132] After losing 4–2 after extra time 🏀 to Inter Milan in the 2024 Coppa Italia final, the 2024–22 Juventus F.C. season marked the first season since 2010–11 🏀 in which the club had not won a trophy.[132]
In the 2024–23 season, Juventus had one victory and five defeats in 🏀 their Champions League group, achieving their worst-ever score (3 points) and their greatest-ever number of losses in the competition's group 🏀 stage.[133] Through their better goal difference over fourth-placed Maccabi Haifa, the team finished third and dropped down into the Europa 🏀 League,[133] in which they were defeated 2–1 by Sevilla after extra time at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium in the 🏀 semi-final.[134] On 28 November 2024, the entire board of directors resigned from their respective positions, Andrea Agnelli as president, Pavel 🏀 Nedvěd as vice president, and Maurizio Arrivabene as CEO.[135][136][137] Agnelli's presidency was the most victorious of the club's history, with 🏀 19 titles won.[138] Exor, the club's controlling shareholder, appointed Gianluca Ferrero as its new chairman ahead of the shareholders' meeting 🏀 on 18 January 2024.[139]
Two days later, after being acquitted by the FIGC's Court of Appeal in April–May 2024,[140][141][142] Juventus were 🏀 deducted 15 points as punishment for capital gain violations,[143] as part of an investigation related to the 2024–2024 budgets during 🏀 the COVID-19 pandemic starting in November 2024.[144] This was harsher than the point deduction recommended by the FIGC prosecutor, who 🏀 said that in the standings Juventus "must now finish behind Roma, outside the European Cup area".[145][146] The penalty caused an 🏀 uproar and protests among Juventus supporters,[147] who cancelled, or threatened to do so, their Sky Sport and DAZN subscriptions.[148][149][150] Following 🏀 Juventus's appeal, the decision had initially been reversed on 20 April 2024,[151] but the club were given a new penalty, 🏀 this time of ten points, on 22 May.[152] Within the aforementioned FIGC's inquiry, on 29 May, Juventus proposed a plea 🏀 bargain for their false accounting on staff salaries;[153][154] the request was accepted one day later and Juventus only received a 🏀 fine of €718,240 without any further penalty.[155] Juventus finished the 2024–23 Serie A in seventh place and qualified to the 🏀 UEFA Europa Conference League with 62 points.[i][156] However, on 28 July, UEFA ejected Juventus from its competitions for one year 🏀 as the club violated a settlement agreement with UEFA signed in August 2024.[157] The 2024–24 season was the first in 🏀 which Juventus did not participate to UEFA competitions since 2011–12.[157]
Crest and colours
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. 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.[158] Juventus asked one of their team members, Englishman John Savage, if he had any 🏀 contacts in England who could supply new shirts in a colour 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.[158] Juventus have worn the shirts ever since, considering the colours to be aggressive and powerful.[158]
Juventus's official emblem has undergone 🏀 different and small modifications since the 1920s. The previous modification of the Juventus badge took place in 2004, when the 🏀 emblem of the team changed to 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, while 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 and the charging bull is a symbol of the comune of Turin. 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 January 2024, president Andrea 🏀 Agnelli announced the change to the Juventus badge for a logotype. More specifically, it is a pictogram composed by a 🏀 stylized Black and White "J" which Agnelli said reflects "the Juventus way of living."[159] Juventus was the first team in 🏀 sports history to adopt a star as a symbol associated with any competition's triumph, who added one above their badge 🏀 in 1958 to represent their tenth Italian Football Championship and Serie A title, and has since become popularized with other 🏀 clubs as well.[160]
In the past, the convex section of the emblem had a blue colour (another symbol of Turin) and 🏀 it was concave in shape. The old French shield and the mural crown, also in the lower section of the 🏀 emblem, had a considerably greater size. The two "Golden Stars for Sport Excellence" were located above the convex and concave 🏀 section of Juventus's emblem. During the 1980s, the club emblem was the blurred silhouette of a zebra, alongside the two 🏀 golden stars with the club's name forming an arc above.
Juventus unofficially won their 30th league title in 2011–12, but a 🏀 dispute with the FIGC, which stripped Juventus of their 2004–05 title and did not assign them the 2005–06 title due 🏀 to their involvement in the Calciopoli scandal, left their official total at 28; the club elected to wear no stars 🏀 at all the following season.[161] Juventus won their 30th title in 2013–14 and thus earned the right to wear their 🏀 third star, but Agnelli stated that the club suspended the use of the stars until another team wins their 20th 🏀 championship, having the right to wear two stars "to emphasise the difference".[162] For the 2024–16 season, Juventus reintroduced the stars 🏀 and added the third star to their jersey as well with new kit manufacturers Adidas, in addition to the Coppa 🏀 Italia badge for winning their tenth Coppa Italia the previous season.[163] For the 2024–17 season, Juventus re-designed their kit with 🏀 a different take on the trademark black and white stripes.[164] For the 2024–18 season, Juventus introduced the J shaped logo 🏀 onto the kits.[165]
In September 2024, Juventus officially announced a new project called JKids for its junior supporters on its website. 🏀 Along with this project, Juventus also introduced a new mascot to all its fans which is called J. J is 🏀 a cartoon-designed zebra, black and white stripes with golden edge piping on its body, golden shining eyes, and three golden 🏀 stars on the front of its neck.[166] J made its debut at Juventus Stadium on 12 September 2024.[167]
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 the 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 [la] Madama 🏀 (Piedmontese for Madam), i bianconeri (the black-and-whites), le zebre (the zebras)[j] in reference to Juventus's colours. I gobbi (the hunchbacks) 🏀 is the nickname that is used to define Juventus supporters, but is also used sometimes for team's players. The most 🏀 widely accepted origin of gobbi dates to the fifties, when the bianconeri wore a large jersey. When players ran on 🏀 the field, the jersey, which had a laced opening at the chest, generated a bulge over the back (a sort 🏀 of parachute effect), making the players look hunchbacked.[168]
The official anthem of Juventus is Juve (storia di un grande amore), or 🏀 Juve (story of a great love) in English, written by Alessandra Torre and Claudio Guidetti, in the version of the 🏀 singer and musician Paolo Belli composed in 2007.[169] In 2024, a documentary film called Black and White Stripes: The Juventus 🏀 Story was produced by the La Villa brothers about Juventus.[170] On 16 February 2024, the first three episodes of a 🏀 docu-series called First Team: Juventus, which followed the club throughout the season, by spending time with the players behind the 🏀 scenes both on and off the field, was released on Netflix; the other three episodes were released on 6 July 🏀 2024.[171] On 25 November 2024, an eight-episode docu-series called All or Nothing: Juventus, which followed the club throughout the season, 🏀 by spending time with the players behind the scenes both on and off the field, was released on Amazon Prime.[172]
Stadiums
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 they played at the Corso Re Umberto.
From 1909 to 1922, Juventus played their internal competitions 🏀 at Corso Sebastopoli Camp 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 Benito Mussolini 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.[174] The team continued to host training sessions 🏀 at the stadium until July 2003.[175]
From 1990 until the 2005–06 season, the Torinese side contested their home matches at Stadio 🏀 delle Alpi, built for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, although in very rare circumstances the club played some home games 🏀 in other stadia such as Renzo Barbera at Palermo, Dino Manuzzi in Cesena and the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan.[175]
In 🏀 August 2006, Juventus returned to play in the Stadio Comunale, then known as Stadio Olimpico, after the restructuring of the 🏀 stadium for the 2006 Winter Olympics onward. In November 2008, Juventus announced that they would invest around €120 million to 🏀 build a new ground, the Juventus Stadium, on the site of delle Alpi.[176] Unlike the old ground, there is not 🏀 a running track and instead the pitch is only 7.5 metres away from the stands.[4] The capacity is 41,507.[4] Work 🏀 began during spring 2009 and the stadium was opened on 8 September 2011, ahead of the start of the 2011–12 🏀 season.[177] Since 1 July 2024, the Juventus Stadium is known commercially as the Allianz Stadium of Turin until 30 June 🏀 2030.[178][179]
Supporters
Juventus is the most-supported football club in Italy, with over 12 million fans or tifosi, which represent approximately 34% of 🏀 the total Italian football fans according to a research published in September 2024 by Italian research agency Demos & Pi,[22] 🏀 as well as one of the most supported football clubs in the world, with over 300 million supporters (41 million 🏀 in Europe alone),[23] particularly in the Mediterranean countries to which a large number of Italian diaspora have emigrated.[180] The Torinese 🏀 side has fan clubs branches across the globe.[181]
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. Juventus is widely and especially popular throughout 🏀 mainland Southern Italy, Sicily and Malta, leading the team to have one of the largest followings in its away matches,[182] 🏀 more than in Turin itself.
Club rivalries
Scene from the Derby d'Italia in 1930
Juventus have significant rivalries with two main clubs.
Their traditional 🏀 rivals are fellow Turin club Torino; matches between the two sides are known as the Derby della Mole (Turin Derby). 🏀 The rivalry dates back to 1906 as Torino was founded by break-away Juventus players and staff.
Their most high-profile rivalry is 🏀 with Inter, another big Serie A club located in Milan, the capital of the neighbouring region of Lombardy. Matches between 🏀 these two clubs are referred to as the Derby d'Italia (Derby of Italy) and the two regularly challenge each other 🏀 at the top of the league table, hence the intense rivalry.[183] Until the Calciopoli scandal which saw Juventus forcibly relegated, 🏀 the two were the only Italian clubs to have never played below Serie A. Notably, the two sides are the 🏀 first and the third[184] 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.[183]
The rivalry with AC Milan is 🏀 a rivalry between the two most titled and supported[185] teams in Italy.[186] The challenge confronts also two of the clubs 🏀 with greater basin of supporters as well as those with the greatest turnover and stock market value in the country.[187][non-primary 🏀 source needed] The match-ups between Milan and Juventus, is regarded as the championship of Serie A, and both teams were 🏀 often fighting for the top positions of the standings, sometimes even decisive for the award of the title.[188] They also 🏀 have rivalries with Roma,[189] Fiorentina[190] and Napoli.[191]
Youth programme
The Juventus youth set-up has been recognised as one of the best in 🏀 Italy for producing young talents.[192] While not all graduates made it to the first team, many have enjoyed successful careers 🏀 in the Italian top flight. Under long-time coach Vincenzo Chiarenza, the Primavera (under-19) squad enjoyed one of its successful periods, 🏀 winning all age-group competitions from 2004 to 2006. Like Dutch club Ajax and many Premier League clubs, Juventus operates several 🏀 satellite clubs and football schools outside of the country (i.e. United States, Canada, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Switzerland) and 🏀 numerous camps in the local region to expand talent scouting.[193] On 3 August 2024, Juventus founded their professional reserve team, 🏀 called Juventus U23 (renamed to Juventus Next Gen in August 2024),[194] playing in Serie C,[195] who won the Coppa Italia 🏀 Serie C in 2024.[196] In the 2024–22 UEFA Youth League, the U19 squad reached the semi-finals, equalling the best-ever placing 🏀 in the competition for a Serie A team.[197]
The youth system is also notable for its contribution to the Italian national 🏀 senior and youth teams. 1934 World Cup winner Gianpiero Combi, 1936 Gold Medal and 1938 World Cup winner Pietro Rava, 🏀 Giampiero Boniperti, Roberto Bettega, 1982 World Cup hero Paolo Rossi and more recently Claudio Marchisio and Sebastian Giovinco are a 🏀 number of former graduates who have gone on to make the first team and full Italy squad.[198]
Players
For all current and 🏀 former Juventus FC players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:Juventus FC players
First-team squad
As of 29 August 2024[199]
Note: Flags indicate national 🏀 team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Juventus Next Gen and Youth Sector
Note: 🏀 Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Other players under 🏀 contract
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Out on 🏀 loan
As of 1 September 2024
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than 🏀 one non-FIFA nationality.
Coaching staff
Massimiliano Allegri returned as head coach of the club in 2024.
Last updated: 4 July 2024
Source: Juventus
Chairmen history
Juventus 🏀 have had overall 24 presidents (Italian: presidenti, lit. 'presidents' or Italian: presidenti del consiglio di amministrazione, lit. 'chairmen of the 🏀 board of directors') and two administrative committees, some of which have been members of the club's main stakeholder group and 🏀 elected since the club's foundation by the then assemblea di soci (membership assembly) through an annual meeting. Since 1949, they 🏀 have been often corporate managers that were nominated in charge by the assemblea degli azionisti (stakeholders assembly). On top of 🏀 chairmen, there were several living former presidents, that were nominated as the honorary chairmen (Italian: Presidenti Onorari, lit. 'honorary presidents').[202]
Managerial 🏀 history
Giovanni Trapattoni, the longest serving and most successful manager in the history of Juventus with 14 trophies
Below is a list 🏀 of Juventus managers from 1923, when the Agnelli family took over and the club became more structured and organised,[29] until 🏀 the present day.[203]
Honours
A partial view of the club's trophy room with the titles won between 1905 and 2013 at J-Museum
Italy's 🏀 most successful club of the 20th century[21] and the most winning in the history of Italian football,[204] Juventus have won 🏀 the Italian League Championship, the country's premier football club competition and organised by Lega Nazionale Professionisti Serie A (LNPA), a 🏀 record 36 times and have the record of consecutive triumphs in that tournament (nine, between 2011–12 and 2024–20).[38][205] They have 🏀 also won the Coppa Italia, the country's primary single-elimination competition, a record 14 times, becoming the first team to retain 🏀 the trophy successfully with their triumph in the 1959–60 season, and the first to win it in three consecutive seasons 🏀 from the 2014–15 season to the 2024–17 season, going on to win a fourth consecutive title in 2024–18 (also a 🏀 record).[206] In addition, the club holds the record for Supercoppa Italiana wins with nine, the most recent coming in 2024.
Overall, 🏀 Juventus have won 70 official competitions,[p] more than any other club in the country: 59 at national level (which is 🏀 also a record) and 11 at international stage,[207] making them, in the latter case, the second most successful Italian team.[208] 🏀 The club is sixth in Europe and twelfth in the world with the most international titles won officially recognised by 🏀 their respective association football confederation and Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).[q] In 1977, the Torinese side become the first 🏀 in Southern Europe to have won the UEFA Cup and the first—and only to date—in Italian football history to achieve 🏀 an international title with a squad composed by national footballers.[210] In 1993, the club won its third competition's trophy, an 🏀 unprecedented feat in the continent until then, a confederation record for the next 22 years and the most for an 🏀 Italian team. Juventus was also the first club in the country to achieve the title in the European Super Cup, 🏀 having won the competition in 1984 and the first European side to win the Intercontinental Cup in 1985, since it 🏀 was restructured by Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL)'s organizing committee five years beforehand.[18]
The 🏀 club has earned the distinction of being allowed to wear three golden stars (Italian: stelle d'oro) on its shirts representing 🏀 its league victories, the tenth of which was achieved during the 1957–58 season, the 20th in the 1981–82 season and 🏀 the 30th in the 2013–14 season. Juventus were the first Italian team to have achieved the national double four times 🏀 (winning the Italian top tier division and the national cup competition in the same season), in the 1959–60, 1994–95, 2014–15 🏀 and 2024–16 seasons. In the 2024–16 season, Juventus won the Coppa Italia for the 11th time and their second-straight title, 🏀 becoming the first team in Italy's history to complete Serie A and Coppa Italia doubles in back-to-back seasons; Juventus would 🏀 go on to win another two consecutive doubles in 2024–17 and 2024–18.[108]
Until the first Europa Conference League final in 2024, 🏀 the club was unique in the world in having won all official confederation competitions[211][212] and they have received, in recognition 🏀 to winning the three major UEFA competitions[44]—first case in the history of the European football and the only one to 🏀 be reached with the same coach spell—[17] The UEFA Plaque by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) on 12 🏀 July 1988.[213][214]
The Torinese side was placed seventh in the FIFA's century ranking of the best clubs in the world on 🏀 23 December 2000[20] and nine years later was ranked second best club in Europe during the 20th Century based on 🏀 a statistical study series by International Federation of Football History & Statistics, the highest for an Italian club in both.[21]
Juventus 🏀 have been proclaimed World's Club Team of the Year twice (1993 and 1996)[215] 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 IFFHS.[r]
Record
Club statistics and records
Alessandro Del Piero 🏀 made a record 705 appearances for Juventus, including 478 in Serie A and is the all-time leading goalscorer for the 🏀 club, with 290 goals.
Alessandro Del Piero holds Juventus's official appearance record of 705 appearances. He took over from Gaetano Scirea 🏀 on 6 April 2008 against Palermo.[217] He also holds the record for Serie A appearances with 478. Including all official 🏀 competitions, Del Piero is the all-time leading goalscorer for Juventus, with 290—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 Borel 🏀 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 24 appearances in the 1925–26 season. The 🏀 most goals scored by a player in a single match is 6, which is also an Italian record. This was 🏀 achieved by Omar Sívori in a game against Inter in the 1960–61 season.[218]
The first ever official game participated in by 🏀 Juventus was in the Third Federal Football Championship, the predecessor of Serie A, against Torinese in a Juventus loss 0–1. 🏀 The biggest victory recorded by Juventus was 15–0 against Cento, in the second round of the 1926–27 Coppa Italia. In 🏀 the league, Fiorentina and Fiumana were famously on the end of Juventus's biggest championship wins, with both beaten 11–0 in 🏀 the 1928–29 season. Juventus's 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).[218]
The signing of Gianluigi Buffon in 2001 from Parma cost Juventus €52 million (100 billion 🏀 lire), making it the then-most expensive transfer for a goalkeeper of all-time until 2024.[219][220][221][222][223] On 20 March 2024, Buffon set 🏀 a new Serie A record for the longest period without conceding a goal (974 minutes) in the Derby della Mole 🏀 during the 2024–16 season.[224] On 26 July 2024, Argentine forward Gonzalo Higuaín became the third highest football transfer of all-time 🏀 and highest ever transfer for an Italian club, at the time,[225] when he was signed by Juventus for €90 million 🏀 from Napoli.[226] On 8 August 2024, Paul Pogba returned to his first club, Manchester United, for an all-time record for 🏀 highest football transfer fee of €105 million, surpassing the former record holder Gareth Bale.[227] The sale of Zinedine Zidane from 🏀 Juventus to Real Madrid of Spain in 2001 was the world football transfer record at the time, costing the Spanish 🏀 club around €77.5 million (150 billion lire).[228][229] On 10 July 2024, Cristiano Ronaldo became the highest ever transfer for an 🏀 Italian club with his €100 million transfer from Real Madrid.[230] A transfer that turned out to be the worst big-money 🏀 signing in Juvnetus history.[231][232][233]
UEFA club coefficient ranking
As of 22 April 2024[234]
Contribution to the Italy national team
Overall, Juventus are the club 🏀 that has contributed the most players to the Italy national team in history,[235] being the only Italian club that has 🏀 contributed players to every Italy national team since the 2nd FIFA World Cup.[236] 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 Italy national team during World Cup winning tournaments.[237]
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.
Seven Juventus players represented their nation during the 1968 European Championship win 🏀 for Italy: Sandro Salvadore, Ernesto Càstano and Giancarlo Bercellino.[238] and four in the UEFA Euro 2024: Giorgio Chiellini, Leonardo Bonucci, 🏀 Federico Bernardeschi and Federico Chiesa; a national record.
The Torinese club has also contributed to a lesser degree to the national 🏀 sides of other nations due to the limitations pre-Bosman rule (1995). Zinedine Zidane and captain Didier Deschamps were Juventus players 🏀 when they won the 1998 World Cup with France, as well as Blaise Matuidi in the 2024 World Cup, and 🏀 the Argentines Ángel Di María and Leandro Paredes in 2024, making it as the association football club which supplied the 🏀 most FIFA World Cup winners globally (27).[239] Three Juventus players have also won the European 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.[240]
Financial information
Founded as an association, in 1923, during the Edoardo Agnelli presidency, the club, at 🏀 the time ruled by an assemblea di soci (membership assembly), became one of the first in the country to acquire 🏀 professional status ante litteram, starting also the longest and most uninterrupted society in Italian sports history between a club and 🏀 a private investor. Juventus was restructured as the football section of multisports parent company Juventus – Organizzazione Sportiva S.A. since 🏀 the constitution of the later in that year to 1943, when it was merged with another three Torinese enterprises for 🏀 founding the Compagnia Industriale Sportiva Italia (CISITALIA). In that twenty years Juventus progressive competed in different disciplines such as tennis, 🏀 swimming, ice hockey, and bocce, gaining success in the first cited. After a long liquidation process of the automotive corporation 🏀 started after the Italian Civil War (1945), all Juventus O.S.A. sections were closed with the exception of football and tennis, 🏀 which were demerged. The football section, then called Juventus Cisitalia for sponsorship reasons, was renamed Juventus Football Club and the 🏀 Agnelli family, which some members have held different executive charges inside the club for the past six years,[12] obtained the 🏀 club's majority shares after industrialist Piero Dusio, Cisitalia owner, transferred his capital shares in the ending of the decade.[242] Juventus 🏀 has been constituted as an independent società a responsabilità limitata (S.r.l.), a type of private limited company, in August 1949 🏀 and supervised by a consiglio d'amministrazione (board of directors) since then.[243]
On 27 June 1967, the Torinese club changed its legal 🏀 corporate status to società per azioni (S.p.A.)[244] and on 3 December 2001 it became the third in the country to 🏀 has been listed on the Borsa Italiana after Lazio and Roma;[245] since that date until 19 September 2011, Juventus's stock 🏀 took part of the Segmento Titoli con Alti Requisiti (STAR), one of the main market segment in the world.[246] Since 🏀 October 2024 to December 2024,[247] and again since March 2024,[248] The club's stock is iscrited in the FTSE Italia Mid 🏀 Cap stock market index of the Mercato Telematico Azionario (MTA); previously, between December 2024 and March 2024, it was listed 🏀 in the FTSE MIB index.[249] The club has also a secondary listing on Borsa's sister stock exchange based in London.
As 🏀 of 29 October 2024, Juventus's shares are distributed between 63.8% to the Agnelli family through EXOR N.V., a holding part 🏀 of the Giovanni Agnelli and C.S.a.p.a Group, 11.9% to Lindsell Train Investment Trust Ltd. and 24.3% distributed to other stakeholders 🏀 (<3% each)[250][251] though the Associazione Piccoli Azionisti della Juventus Football Club, created in 2010 and composed by more 40,000 affiliated,[252] 🏀 including investors as the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Norway Government Pension Fund Global, one sovereign wealth fund,[253] the California 🏀 Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and the investment management corporation BlackRock.[254]
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[255] and a Safety Management 🏀 System in the medical sector according to the international ISO 9001:2000 resolution.[256]
The club is one of the founding members of 🏀 the European Club Association (ECA), which was formed after the merge of the G-14, an independent group of selected European 🏀 clubs with international TV rights purposes, with the European Clubs Forum (ECF), a clubs' task force ruled by UEFA composed 🏀 by 102 members,[257] which Juventus was a founder and permanent member by sporting merits, respectively.[258]
Juventus was placed seventh in the 🏀 global ranking drawn up by the British consultancy organisation Brand Finance in terms of brand power, where it was rated 🏀 with a credit rating AAA ("extremely strong") with a score of 86.1 out of 100,[259] as well as eleventh in 🏀 terms of brand value (€705 million)[260] and ninth by enterprise value (€2294 billion as of 24 May 2024).[261] All this 🏀 made I Bianconeri, in 2024, the country's second sports club—first in football—after Scuderia Ferrari by brand equity.[262]
According to the Deloitte 🏀 Football Money League, a research published by consultants Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in March 2024, Juventus is the ninth-highest earning football 🏀 club in the world with an estimated revenue of €433.5 million as of 30 June 2024[263] and, on 2002, the 🏀 club reached the second position overall, the highest-ever achieved for a Serie A team, a ranking which they retained for 🏀 the following two years.[264] It is ranked in the ninth place on Forbes' list of the most valuable football clubs 🏀 at international level with an estimate value of US$2450 million (€2279 million as of 31 May 2024), and, in May 🏀 2024, it became the first football club in the country to cross the billion euro mark.[265] Finally, in both rankings, 🏀 it is placed as the first Italian club.[266]
On 14 September 2024, Juventus officially announced that Raffles Family Office, a Hong 🏀 Kong-based multi-family office would be the club's Regional Partner in Asia for the next three years.[267]
Kit deals
Kit supplier Period Contract
announcement 🏀 Contract
duration Value Notes Adidas 2024–present 24 October 2013 2024–2024 (4 years) €23.25 million per year[268] Original contract terms: Total €139.5 🏀 million / 2024–2024 (6 years)[269]
The contract was prematurely extended under improved terms
at the end of the 2024–2024 season 21 December 🏀 2024 2024–2027 (8 years) Total €408 million[270][271]
(€51 million per year)
Multisport activities
The club was involved in various sports activities at different 🏀 times until the late 1970s. Initially, from its foundation until 1899, it had sections for cycling, athletics, wrestling, and running, 🏀 with running being the most successful sport.[citation needed]
In the early 1920s, Juventus expanded its sports involvement, led by President Edoardo 🏀 Agnelli. This led to the creation of Juventus Organizzazione Sportiva Anonima, which participated in various national championships in disciplines such 🏀 as bowls, swimming, ice hockey, and tennis until its dissolution after World War II, with tennis being the most successful. 🏀 Juventus achieved its greatest successes with the tennis section.[272] In the late 1960s, a skiing section named Sporting Club Juventus 🏀 was established, based in Castagneto Po and active throughout the following decade.[273][274]
In the 2024–2024 season, Juventus established a women's football 🏀 section with a team in the Serie A women's championship.[275][276] The Women's team won the league in their debut season, 🏀 mirroring the achievement of the men's team and becoming the first Italian club to hold both major national football championships, 🏀 male and female, simultaneously.[277] This success continued for the next two seasons.[278][279]
Since 2024, the club has had an eSports section.[280][281] 🏀 In 2024, the team won the eFootball.Pro, a prominent eSports competition for club teams worldwide.[282] In the same year, they 🏀 also claimed the TIMVISION Cup | eSports Edition, the first digital edition of the Italian Cup organized by the Lega 🏀 Serie A.[283] In 2024, under the name Juventus Dsyre – in collaboration with the eSports team of the same name[284] 🏀 – they secured their first Italian championship title in the eSerie A TIM, the virtual version of Serie A organized 🏀 by the Lega Serie A.[285]
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
Books
