Juventus F.C.
For other uses, see Juventus (disambiguation). Giovanni Cobolli Gigli |
manager =
Didier Deschamps |
mgrtitle = Head Coach |
league =
Serie B|
season = 2005-06 |
position =
Serie A, 1st (stripped)
(relegated; see
2006 corruption scandal)|
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Juventus Football Club, also referred to as
Juventus Turin (or
Juventus Torino),
Juventus FC, or simply
Juve (
Latin word for
Youth, pronounced ) is, with
Torino Calcio, one of main clubs from
Turin (in Italian,
Torino),
Italy.
Founded in 1897, Juventus is one of the oldest and most renowned
football clubs of the country (with
AC Milan and FC
Internazionale) and, historically, one of the top-10
[Performance of the clubs of the world in official international tournaments: The all-time ranking (in spanish), legalize by the Worldwide Historical Ranking of Clubs of Rec. Sport. Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF), updated until 03/07/2006] football clubs in the world, the 3rd best club according to the all-time ranking (for performance)
[European Clubs Ranking: The all-time table since 1955-56 season, by the Union of European Football Associations] of the
UEFA's official European tournaments and 4th best club according to the all-time ranking (for performance)
[The C1 (UEFA Champion Clubs' Cup and UEFA Champions League) all-time table since 1955-56 season, by the Union of European Football Associations] of the European Champion Clubs' Cup (now called
UEFA Champions League).
Juventus F.C. has been involved in a
match-fixing scandal and will not be permitted to compete in major Italian and European competions during the 2006/07 season. They were
relegated out of
Serie A (the Italian
first division) for the first time in their history.
With 40 official national titles in team honours (27 National Championships, 9 National Cups and 4 Italian Supercups), Juventus is the most successful Italian Football club.
With 11 official international titles in team honours (second in Italy, Europe and the world), Juve is one of only three clubs to have won all
Three Major European trophies at least once (the European Champions Club' Cup, the European Cup Winner's Cup and the UEFA Cup), the only team in the world to win all International Official Championships (all official european tournaments and the Intercontinental Champions Club' Cup), and one of the founder members of the
G-14, the group of the eighteen main football clubs of
Europe.
The team since 1903 plays in black-and-white striped shirts and white shorts (in some seasons black shorts), and is nicknamed
la Vecchia Signora (the Old Lady, by the first official name and the
Style of the club),
La Fidanzata d'Italia (the Italian Girlfriend, by the supporters),
i bianconeri (black-and-whites, by the colours of the club),
zebre (zebras), or depreciatively
gobbi (humpbacks, from latin
goeba) by the main opponents.
There is no clear information regarding the birth of Juventus. There is no news from those days which document it nor any official papers or newspapers. The only document is the one from 1914, written by Enrico Canfari, one of the founders.
Formation and early years
Juventus F.C. was founded in November 1897 by teachers from
Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum with the name
Società Polisportiva Augusta Taurinorum, in a legendary bench in one of Turin's boulevards, Re Umberto Boulevard. The team won a previous version of the national league title as early as 1905, but did not win their second until 1926. In 1923, the Agnelli family (owners of
Fiat) gained control of the club, and built a private stadium in
Villar Perosa (near Turin) and a complete series of facilities and services.
From 1931, the club collected the record of five consecutive Italian league championships (Italian
scudetto). In 1933, they began playing at the Stadio Municipale '
Benito Mussolini' (later renamed Stadio Comunale). Post-
war the club was very successful domestically, winning its tenth championship in 1961, but did not win any European titles until 1977 with the
UEFA Cup.
Until recently, Juventus' players had to have short (and regular) hair (there was only one exception to this rule: in the 1970s right winger
Franco Causio was so popular that the club allowed him to have long hair); the club also provided the team with official formal wear (made by famous tailors) and forced them to complete their educational studies. Most of its players remained with Juventus until the end of their careers; many still work for the club or for Fiat (or related companies).
European champions
The height of European success was not reached until 1985, when they won the
European Champions Cup, but this success was largely overshadowed by the
Heysel disaster that had occurred during the final between Juventus and Liverpool. Juventus repeated the success by winning the Champions League for a second time in 1996 in a penalty shootout, and have not won it again since, the closest chance being when they lost to
A.C. Milan in the 2003 final due to losing in a penalty shootout. Between 1996 and 1998, they appeared in all three Champions League finals, they lost to Dortmund in 1997 and the 1998 final to
Real Madrid. Juventus were so revered in the tournament, that in the 98/99 tournament after one of
Manchester United's game in the latter stages during a post-match interview United right-back
Gary Neville asked if Juventus had gotten through to the next round and upon being told that they had done Neville's anguish was visible.
Juventus also won the
Cup Winners' Cup in 1984 and two more UEFA Cup titles (1990, 1993). However, in 1999, due to their poor domestic season, they were forced into the ignominy of entering the
UEFA Intertoto Cup in order to qualify for Europe. They have won 27 Italian titles and nine
Coppa Italias to date, both national records. The club is also one of only three to have won all Three Major European trophies. (the other two been;
Ajax, and
Bayern Munich)
Record breaking Juventus
The
two stars on the Juventus shirt signify they have won the Scudetto over 20 times. In fact, Juventus won the Italian Championship 27 times, more than any other Italian club; no other club has won the championship over 20 times, but the closest one to that objective is
AC Milan. Juventus' 28th and 29th championshipsâ€"from
2005 and
2006, respectivelyâ€"were stripped when they were found guilty of sporting fraud (see section below for further details).
Juventus is now a
corporation, listed on the
Borsa Italiana. The sale of
Zinedine Zidane to
Real Madrid of
Spain in 2001 was the most expensive in football to date, costing the Spanish club over $65 million (US), which is approximately £48 million.
On
January 10,
2006 Alessandro Del Piero became the all time leading goalscorer for Juventus when he scored three times in a match against
Fiorentina and took his total goals for the club to 185. The previous record holder was
Giampiero Boniperti, who scored 182 goals for the club.
Forced relegation
In May 2006, Juventus has been involved in an Italian match fixing scandal, which relegated the club to Serie B (see
2006 corruption scandal section).
Manager
Fabio Capello left Juventus in early July 2006 to join
Real Madrid, a club he had managed previously. He was replaced by former French international
Didier Deschamps, who had played for Juventus in the 1990s.
[[1]]On July 14, 2006 the club was sentenced to relegation to
Serie B. The court's decision has created uncertainty over the future of the club's top players. So far six key players have been sold to other clubs.
Emerson and Italian national captain
Fabio Cannavaro will both rejoin
Fabio Capello at
Real Madrid, while Cannavaro's fullback colleague
Gianluca Zambrotta and French defender
Lilian Thuram have been signed by
Barcelona.
Patrick Vieira has moved to Inter Milan for a reported sum of £6.5 million - only a year after he left Arsenal. Striker
Zlatan Ibrahimović has joined Patrick Vieira at Inter Milian, for £17.5 million. Despite the club's difficult circumstances, four of their top stars have stepped forward and pledged their loyalty to the club, by agreeing to stay;
Gianluigi Buffon,
Alessandro Del Piero,
Pavel Nedved and
David Trézéguet.
[[2]] |
The previous Juventus logo |
The team gets its black-and-white striped kits from
English side
Notts County. Originally the team played in pink shirts with polka dots (pink being the cheapest material available) with a black tie, but continual washing faded the colour so much that in 1903 they sought to replace them. The club 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. By coincidence, his friend back home lived in Nottingham, and being a Notts County supporter, shipped out the black and white striped shirts to Turin. Juve have worn the shirts ever since.
*
Name -
Stadio delle Alpi*
City -
Turin*
Capacity - 73,006 (currently being transformed into a 42,000 capacity arena, expected by the end of the 2006-2007 season)
*
Inauguration - 1990
*
Pitch Size - 105 x 68 metres
For many years Juventus played at
Stadio Comunale of
Turin (now
Stadio Grande Torino), until 1990 when the 73,006
Stadio delle Alpi which was built for
1990 World Cup became the club's new ground.
At the end of the 2005/06 season, it was announced that the
Stadio delle Alpi would undergo major changes. Spectators have long complained that the stands are too far from the pitch due to a running track, and that the visibility in some areas is poor. This will change when the stadium is transformed into a 42,000 capacity arena.
Delle Alpi's stadium name will change once it is complete, however. Juventus are looking to sell the naming rights of the new reconstructed stadium to a sponsor, much to the disappointment of the club's fans who wanted to see the stadium named to honor the Agnelli family members
Giovanni Agnelli or
Gianni Agnelli.
For the 2006/07 season, Juventus will be playing in the stadium they previously used prior to 1990;
Stadio Grande Torino.
Juventus is the most supported
[L'altra metà del pallone: Supporters of football clubs in Italy, L'Expresso April 2006] football club in
Italy with 11 040 000 (35% of Italian football fans, according to Doxa Institute-L'Expresso's research of April 2006) and one of the most supported football clubs in the world.
Rivalries
In spite (or perhaps because) of their huge popularity, Juve are considered the most controversial club in Italy. Their detractors mainly point to the gap between Juve's national and international successes, citing "influenced" refereeing in Italy as the cause of this gap, although there are 11 official international titles in Juventus'
[Juventus FC: the successes, legalize by Juventus FC: official international Records by the Union of European Football Associations] honours.
Juve has significant rivalries with several teams, such as
Fiorentina,
AC Milan,
AS Roma,
S.S. Lazio,
Torino and
Internazionale.
Notably, matches between Juventus and Inter are referred to as the
Derby d'Italia (Derby of Italy), because these football teams are the most supported in Italy. In recent years there have been many disagreements between the two clubs. A particularly controversial event during the late 90s which elevated the rivalry between Inter and Juve was a disputed penalty on
Ronaldo not given to Inter in a crucial tiebreaker match for the Serie A title in
1998.
One of the most controversial matches in Juventus history was their clash with English Champions
Derby County FC in the Semi Final of the
European Cup in 1973. After Juventus won 3-1 on aggregate the West German referee admitted to accepting bribes from Juventus officials in order to give decisions favourably towards them. Derby's then manager
Brian Clough responding by calling the Italians "cheating bastards" and taunted the Italian nation's courage in the war.
In
2002, Juventus overtook Inter after the last match of that season beating
Udinese 2-0 away, while Inter lost to
S.S. Lazio 4-2 in
Rome. This allowed Juventus to win their 27th
scudetto.
Juventus however, has also been on the receiving end of similar decisions, for example; two years after the Inter controversy in 2000, Juventus lost the
Serie A championship in the season finale against AC
Perugia. Despite a violent thunderstorm which had soaked the pitch with rain, referee
Pierluigi Collina (after retirement, he declared himself a life-long Lazio supporter), under immense pressure, after an hour delay, had the players continue the match on a ground that was in very poor shape, due to the weather conditions. In the meantime
Lazio's match was already over, and its supporters waited in their stadium as Juventus was beaten 1-0, thus giving the Roman team its second
Scudetto title. Anyway it is also true that one week before that match, referee
Massimo De Santis (one of the main accused of 2006 Serie A Scandal), disallowed, with absolutely no valid reasons, the equalizer scored by then
Parma F.C. defender
Fabio Cannavaro at the last minute of the match against Juventus.
Doping accusations
In 1998, former
A.S. Roma manager
Zdeněk Zeman accused Juventus physicians of doping its players from 1993-94 to 1997-98 seasons. After several years of official inquiries and 2 trials by UEFA and FIGC, the case was dismissed in late December 14, 2005 for statute of limitations, and the Juventus physician Riccardo Agricola has been cleared of all the doping charges due to the statute of limitations. (The substances in question were
Erythropoietin, legal in sports medicine and used frequently among
cyclists, but was prohibited until the 2000-01 season by the
World Anti-Doping Agency, and, principally,
creatine, which is considered an athletic legal supplement and has never been prohibited by WADA and COI).
Libyan shareholders
Libyan leader's
Muammar Gaddafi's family, has since 2002 held a 7.5 percent stake of Juventus shares through the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company (LAFICO).
[[3]]And the sole Official Sponsor is
Tamoil, an oil company based in
the Netherlands and set up by the Libyan state.
2006 corruption scandal
For a comprehensive report, see 2006 Serie A scandal.2006 saw Juventus and three other Serie A clubs, A.C. Milan, ACF Fiorentina, and S.S. Lazio Roma, involved in a corruption scandal, which developed around
Luciano Moggi, Juventus' former controversial general manager. Moggi and other figures of the Italian football federation were accused of
associazione a delinquere (conspiracy to commit a crime). Moggi was accused of trying to "influence" specific referees appointed for some matches, in addition to falsely imprisoning referees after a loss. On
May 13, Moggi along with
Roberto Bettega (who was not accused of corruption) and
Antonio Giraudo, resigned together, along with the entire Juventus administrative council. No Juventus players were accused of wrongdoing.
June 22, 2006 saw, Juventus,
A.C. Milan,
ACF Fiorentina and
S.S. Lazio ordered to stand trial on June 28 2006. The teams were expected to be relegated if found guilty by the
Italian Football Federation.
On
June 27, 2006, Juventus's new director of sport,
Gianluca Pessotto fell from a 4th story window, seriously injuring himself. Reports are unclear on whether the incident has anything to do with the possible match-fixing scandal, however, there are some reports that Pessoto was clutching a
rosary, an indication of a possible
suicide attempt.
Transfers 06/07
In (free transfer)
(free transfer)
(co-ownership resolved in favour Juventus)
(co-ownership with Reggina resolved in favour Juventus)
Out 9.5 million Euro
16 million Euro €24.8m
(co-ownership renewed) 8 million Euro
14 million Euro
5 million Euro
7 million Euro
* Sergeij Alejnikov
* José Altafini
* Alessandro Altobelli
* Pietro Anastasi
* Roberto Baggio
* Alberto Barberis
* Rui Barros
* Romeo Benetti
* Luigi Bertolini
* Roberto Bettega
* Carlo Bigatto I
* Alen Bokšić
* Zbigniew Boniek
* Massimo Bonini
* Giampiero Boniperti
* Roberto Boninsegna
* Felice Plácido Borel II
* Liam Brady
* Sergio Brio
* Tarcisio Burgnich
* Antonio Cabrini
* Umberto Caligaris
* Fabio Cannavaro
* Pierluigi Casiraghi
* Franco Causio
* Renato Cesarini
* Júlio César da Silva
* John Charles
* Giampiero Combi
* Antonio Conte
* Eugenio Corini
* Antonello Cuccureddu
* Edgar Davids
* Luis Del Sol
* Didier Deschamps
* Angelo Di Livio
* Jack Diment
* Domenico Donna
* Emerson
* Ciro Ferrara
* Giovanni Ferrari
* Alfredo Foni
* Andrea Fortunato
* Giuseppe Furino
* Giuseppe Galderisi
* Claudio Gentile
* Bruno Giordano
* Giuseppe Grabbi
* Helmut Haller
* John Hansen
* Thierry Henry
* Férénc Hirzer
* Filippo Inzaghi
* Vladimir Jugović
* Jürgen Kohler
* Michael Laudrup
* Riza Lushta
* Umberto Malvano
* Andreas Möller
* Paolo Montero
* Francesco Morini
* Luis Monti
* Ermes Muccinelli
* Federico Munerati
* Raimundo Orsi
* Carlo Parola
* Gianluca Pessotto
* Silvio Piola
* Michel Platini
* Karl Aage Præst
* Cesare Prandelli
* Pietro Rava
* Fabrizio Ravanelli
* Stefan Reuter
* Virginio Rosetta
* Gianluigi Roveta
* Paolo Rossi
* Sandro Salvatore
* Salvatore Schillaci
* Gaetano Scirea
* Lucidio Sentimenti IV
* Paulo Sousa
* James Squire
* Marcelo Salas
* Enrique Omar Sivori
* Luciano Spinosi
* Gino Stacchini
* Alessio Tacchinardi
* Stefano Tacconi
* Marco Tardelli
* Lilian Thuram
* Moreno Torricelli
* Mario Varglien I
* Giovanni Varglien II
* Gianluca Vialli
* Patrick Vieira
* Christian Vieri
* Benimiano Vignola
* Giovanni Viola
* József Viola
* ÄŒestmÃr Vycpálek
* Paul Arnold Walty
* Gianluca Zambrotta
* Zinedine Zidane
* Dino Zoff
See Also: List of Juventus players and :Category:Juventus F.C. playersAll-time Top 10 Juve Goalscorers(*) player still active in the Juventus FC team.
;All-time Top 10 Juve Appearances(*) player still active in the Juventus FC team.The club is the most successful in Italian football[Italian Serie A all-time table since 1929 legalize by Rec. Sport. Soccer Statistics Foundation: RSSSF] and, internationally (with 11 official international titles), one of the most successful around the world.
*Italian Championships: 27 (record). (note: 2005 and 2006 titles stripped)
**1905, 1925-26, 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
*Italian Cups: 9 (record).
**Winners: 1937-38, 1941-42, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1964-65, 1978-79, 1982-83, 1989-90, 1994-95.
**Runner-up: 1972-73, 1991-92, 2001-02, 2003-04
*Italian Supercups: 4
**Winners: 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003.
**Runner-up: 1990, 1998, 2005.
*European Cups: 2 (now called: UEFA Champions League).
**Winners: 1984-85, 1995-96.
**Runner-up: 1972-73, 1982-83, 1996-97, 1997-98, 2002-03
*Cup Winners' Cups: 1
**1983-84.
*UEFA Cups: 3 (record).
**Winners: 1976-77, 1989-90, 1992-93.
**Runner-up: 1994-95
*European Super Cups: 2
**1984, 1996 (1985 final with Liverpool FC[History of the European Super Cup by the Union of European Football Associations] not played due to Heysel Stadium disaster).
*Intertoto Cups: 1
**1999-2000.
*Intercontinental Cups: 2
**Winners: 1985, 1996.
**Runner-up: 1973
Also:
*Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (''unofficcial tournament[History of the UEFA Cup by the Union of European Football Associations] by the Union of European Football Associations)
**Runner-up: 1964-65, 1970-71
Other Trophies:
* Coppa delle Alpi (1): 1963
* Joan Gamper Trophy (1): 2005
* National Department of Public Education Cup (3): 1900; 1901; 1902
* Government of Torino's Gold Medal (1901)
* First Centenary 1897-1997 Cup: Republic of San Marino Trophy (1997)
* Viareggio Tournament (5): 1961, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2005
* Italian youth team's Championship (4): 1962-63, 1971-72, 1993-94, 2005-06
* Coppa Italia for youth teams (2): 1994-95, 2003-04
Juventus hold several records in regards to trophies they have won;
*First team in Europe to win all Three Major European Trophies, also known as The European Grand Slam, which includes; UEFA Champions League (1985), UEFA Cup Winner's Cup (1984) and UEFA Cup (1977). To date, only three clubs have achieved this; Juventus, Ajax and Bayern München. The Old Lady has received in recognition the Targa UEFA, by the Union of European Football Associations, in 1987.
*The only team in Europe to win all UEFA's Official Championships (the European Intertoto Cup of 1962 and European SuperCup of 1971 in AFC Ajax's palmares are not official trophies by UEFA).
*The only Italian team to win a European Official Tournament only with Italian players in First team Squad (the UEFA Cup in 1977 as the first southern European club).Juve and the Italian Squad
Juve has formed the backbone [Articles: "Juve players at the World Cup" and "1982-2006: The ‘azzurri' bianconeri" in the official Website] of the World Champion Italian squads in the FIFA World Cups - Italy 1934 (with 9 players), France 1938 (with 2 players), Spain 1982 (with 6 players) and Germany 2006 (with 5 players).*Juventus.com - Official website
