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Juventus is the Football records in Italy Most successful clubs overall (1898 - present) in the history of Football in Italy and 11 in European and world competitions. and the International club competition records World-wide Ranking for international official titles won by squad (top 20) with the International club competition records officially recognised by one of the six FIFA Structure and FIFA.

Juventus was the first Italian and Southern European side to win the UEFA Cup 1976-77. In 1985, Juventus, the Timeline of association football 1980 to have won all official international cups and championships

In Italy, Juventus is Juventus which has the biggest fan base, and will not be completed for use until 2011.

History

Juventus were founded as Sport Club Juventus in late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, but were renamed as Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later. Juventus joined the Italian Football Championship during 1900, wearing their original pink and black kit. Juventus first won the league championship in Italian Football Championship 1905 while playing at their Velodromo Umberto I ground and wearing their famous black and white stripes inspired by English side Notts County F.C.. President Alfredo Dick was unhappy with this and left with some prominent players to found Torino F.C. which in turn spawned the Derby della Mole. Juventus spent much of this period steadily rebuilding after the split, surviving the First World War.

League dominance

Fiat owner Edoardo Agnelli (born 1892) gained control of Juventus in 1923, building a new stadium. This helped Juventus to their second league championship by the Italian Football Championship 1925-26 season beating S.S. Alba-Audace Roma with an aggregate score of 12–1, Antonio Vojak's goals were essential that season.

For the rest of the decade Juventus won the league just once more in Serie A 1966-67,

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. Indeed it was Platini who scored the winning goal in the 1985 European Cup Final final against Liverpool F.C., however this was marred by a tragedy which would change European football; the Heysel Stadium disaster, in which 39 people (mostly Juventus fans) were killed by the stadium wall collapsing when Liverpool supporters rioted, it has been named "the darkest hour in the history of the UEFA competitions" and resulted in the banning of all English clubs from European competition.

With the exception of winning the closely contested Italian Championship of Serie A 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 A.C. Milan and Football Club Internazionale Milano won Italian championships.

The Lippi era of success

Marcello Lippi took over as Juventus manager at the start of the Serie A 1994-95 campaign. His first season at the helm of Juventus was a successful one, as Juventus recorded their first Serie A championship title since the mid-1980s.

Juventus 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 Serie A 1996-97 and Serie A 1997-98, as well as the 1996 UEFA Super Cup European Super Cup. Juventus reached the 1997 UEFA Champions League Final and 1998 UEFA Champions League Final Champions League finals during this period, but lost out to Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid C.F. respectively.

After leaving for a brief season, Lippi returned, signing big name players such as Gianluigi Buffon, David Trézéguet, Pavel Nedvěd and Lilian Thuram, helping Juventus to two more scudetto titles in the Serie A 2001-02 and Serie A 2002-03 seasons.

Recent times

Fabio Capello became manager 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 2006 Serie A scandal, the result of the which saw Juventus relegated to Serie B for the first time in their history. Juventus was also stripped of the two titles won under Capello in 2005 and 2006.

Many key players left following the demotion to Serie B, including Thuram, star striker Zlatan Ibrahimović and defensive stalwart Fabio Cannavaro. However, other big name players remained to help Juventus return to Serie A. The season was notable because Alessandro Del Piero broke a club record by becoming the first Juventus player to appear 500 times in all competitions for the club. The bianconeri were promoted straight back up as league winners after the Serie B 2006-07 season. Since their return to Serie A in the Serie A 2007-08 season former Chelsea F.C. manager Claudio Ranieri managed Juventus for two seasons. They finished in 3rd place in their first return season (2007/2008) and qualified for the third qualifying round of the 2008/2009 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 against Chelsea F.C. Claudio Ranieri was sacked following a string of unsuccessful results and Ciro Ferrara was appointed as the coach for the last two games in the season. Later on, Ferrara was appointed as the coach for the 2009/2010 season.

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, which only occurred due to the wrong shirts being sent to them, the father of one of the players made the earliest shirts, but continual washing faded the color so much that in 1903 Juventus sought to replace them.

Juventus asked one of their team members, Englishman John Savage, if he had any contacts in England who could supply new shirts in a color that would better withstand the elements. He had a friend who lived in Nottingham, who being a Notts County supporter, shipped out the black and white striped shirts to Turin. (the Old Lady) being the best example. The "old" part of the nickname is a pun on Juventus which means "youth" in Latin language.) in reference to Juventus' colors.

Stadio

After the first two years (1897 and 1898) in which Juventus played the Parco del Valentino and Parco Cittadella, the matches took place internal Piazza d'Armi Stadium until 1908, except in 1905, Italian Football Championship 1905, and in 1906, years in which it played quickly Stadio Motovelodromo Umberto I.

Later, from 1909 to 1922, Juventus played its internal competitions at Corso Sebastopoli Camp, and then move from the following year until 1933 to Corso Marsiglia Camp, where he won four league titles. At the end of 1933 began to play the new stadium Benito Mussolini (former Stadio Comunale Vittorio Pozzo and finally Stadio Olimpico di Torino), inaugurated in view of the 1934 FIFA World Cup. In that stage played 890 league matches for 57 years until 1990. Even then continued to train at this stage, until the Turin, in 15 July 2003, gave him a royalty-free basis to Turin, giving the same "Delle Alpi" to the company.

In August 2006, the bianconeri returned to play in the Stadio Comunale, now with the stage name of Stadio Olimpico di Torino, after the restructuring of Stadio Delle Alpi during the 2006 Winter Olympics.

In November 2008 Juventus announced that they will invest around €100 million to build a Juventus Arena on the site of the old Delle Alpi ground. Featuring a shopping complex, the facility will be ultra-modern, secure and open seven days a week. Unlike the Delle Alpi there won't be a running track, instead the pitch will only be 8.5 meters away from the stands.

The new stadium will hold 40,700 fans and there will be 120 executive boxes. A shopping area as well as parking for 5,300 vehicles. A Juventus museum is also planned. Naming rights have been snapped up by sports marketing company Sportfive and they will be responsible for coming up with a title. Work began during Spring 2009 and everything should be completed for the start of the 2011/12 season.

Supporters and rivalries

Juventus is the most well supported football club in Italy with over 12 million fans (32.5% of Italian football fans), according to an August 2008 research by Italian newspaper La Repubblica, as well as one of the most supported football clubs in the world, with approximately 170 million supporters The Old Lady has fan clubs all over the world outside the country, from places as far apart as Canada, United States, Malta, San Marino, England, Iran, Greece, Israel, Vietnam, Malaysia,India, Kosovo, Australia, Albania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Republic of Macedonia, Uruguay and many more.

Despite this strong support, attendances at Juventus home matches average about 22,000, much less than many other highly renowned European teams. Contrastingly, 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 Juventus to have one of the largest followings in its away matches, more than in Turin itself.

Juventus ultras have good relationships with Piacenza Calcio, ADO Den Haag and Legia Warsaw fans and have several rivalries, three of which are highly significant. The first is with local club Torino F.C., they compete in the Derby della Mole (Derby of Torino) together; this rivalry dates back to 1906 when Torino was founded by former Juve members. The other most significant rivalry is with Internazionale Milano F.C.; matches between Juventus and Inter are referred to as the Derby d'Italia (Derby of Italy). 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. They also have rivalries with AS Roma and ACF Fiorentina.

For recent transfers, see List of Italian football transfers summer 2009

Non-playing staff

Presidential history

Juventus 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:

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Honours

Historically, Juventus is Football records in Italy Most successful clubs overall (1898 - present), having won a total of 40 trophies, having won a total of 11 official international trophies making them the International_club_competition_records Union_of_European_Football_Association_.28top_clubs.29

Juventus have won the Serie A a record twenty-seven times.

The Old Lady has earned the distinction of being allowed to wear a two star (football crest) (Italian language: the tenth, achieved during the Serie A 1957-58 and the twentieth, in Serie A 1981-82. Also, Juventus is the only Italian team has achieved two times The Double (winning the Italian Serie A and the Coppa Italia competition in the same season), in 1959–60 and 1994–95 seasons.

Juventus, the only football club in the world to have won all official international cups and championships, as Timeline of association football 1980s, UEFA The_UEFA_Plaque by the UEFA in 1987. They have won the UEFA Cup three times, which is a joint record they share with Liverpool F.C. and FC Internazionale Milano.

The Torinese side was placed 7th -and first between all Italian clubs- in the FIFA Clubs of the 20th Centurys selection on 23 December 2000.

Juventus has been proclaimed IFFHS Year-end_leaders twice (1993 and 1996) and was ranked in the 3rd place -and first between all Italian clubs- in the All-Time Club World Ranking (1991-2008 period) by the IFFHS.

National titles
- Serie A / Italian Football Championship: 27 (record)
- - Winners: Italian Football Championship 1905; Italian Football Championship 1925-26; Serie A 1930-31; Serie A 1931-32; Serie A 1932-33; Serie A 1933-34; Serie A 1934-35; Serie A 1949-50; Serie A 1951-52; Serie A 1957-58; Serie A 1959-60; Serie A 1960-61; Serie A 1966-67; Serie A 1971-72; Serie A 1972-73; Serie A 1974-75; Serie A 1976-77; Serie A 1977-78; Serie A 1980-81; Serie A 1981-82; Serie A 1983-84; Serie A 1985-86; Serie A 1994-95; Serie A 1996-97; Serie A 1997-98; Serie A 2001-02; Serie A 2002-03
- - Runners-up (20): Italian Football Championship 1903; Italian Football Championship 1904; Italian Football Championship 1906; Serie A 1937-38; Serie A 1945-46; Serie A 1946-47; Serie A 1952-53; Serie A 1953-54; Serie A 1962-63; Serie A 1973-74; Serie A 1975-76; Serie A 1979-80; Serie A 1982-83; Serie A 1986-87; Serie A 1991-92; Serie A 1993-94; Serie A 1995-96; Serie A 1999-00; Serie A 2000-01; Serie A 2008-09

- Coppa Italia: 9 (record)
- - Winners: 1937–38; 1941–42; 1958–59; 1959–60; 1964–65; 1978–79; 1982–83; Coppa Italia 1989-90; Coppa Italia 1994-95
- - Runners-up (4): 1972–73; Coppa Italia 1991-92; Coppa Italia 2001-02; Coppa Italia 2003-04

- Supercoppa Italiana: 4

- Serie B: 1

European titles

- UEFA Champions League (former European Cup): 2
- - Winners: European Cup 1984-85; UEFA Champions League 1995-96
- - Runners-up (5): European Cup 1972-73; European Cup 1982-83; UEFA Champions League 1996-97; UEFA Champions League 1997-98; UEFA Champions League 2002-03

- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1
- - Winners: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1983-84

- UEFA Cup: 3 (record).
- - Winners: UEFA Cup 1976-77; UEFA Cup 1989-90; UEFA Cup 1992-93
- - Runner-up (1): UEFA Cup 1994-95

- UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1
- - Winners: UEFA Intertoto Cup 1999

- European Super Cup: 2
- - Winners: 1984 UEFA Super Cup; 1996 UEFA Super Cup

World-wide titles

- Intercontinental Cup (football): 2
- - Winners: 1985 Intercontinental Cup; 1996 Intercontinental Cup
- - Runners-up (1): 1973 Intercontinental Cup

Club 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 U.S. Città di Palermo. Giampiero Boniperti holds the record for 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 Juventus 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 .

In the 1933–34 season, Felice Borel scored 31 goals in 34 appearances, setting Juventus record for Serie A goals in a single season. Ferenc Hirzer is Juventus's highest scorer in a single season with 35 goals in 26 appearances in the 1925–26 season (record of Football in Italy). The most goals scored by a player in a single match is 6, which is also an Italian record. This was achieved by Omar Sivori in a game against F.C. Internazionale Milano in the 1960–61 season.

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 Serie A 1992-93 season. The sale of Zinedine Zidane to Real Madrid C.F. 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 times in football.

Contribution to the Italian national team

Overall, Juventus is Juventus Juventus F.C. and the Italian national football team List of call-ups of Juventus F.C. players to the Italian national major teams to the Italian national team in history, they are the only Italian club that has contributed players to every Italian national teams since the 1934 FIFA World Cup. Juventus have contributed numerous players to Italy's FIFA World Cup campaigns, these successful periods principally have coincided with two golden ages of the Turin club's history, referred as Il Quinquennio d'Oro (The Golden Quinquennium), from 1931 until 1935, and Il 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;
- 1934 FIFA World Cup (9); Gianpiero Combi, Virginio Rosetta, Luigi Bertolini, Felice Borel, Umberto Caligaris, Giovanni Ferrari, Luis Monti, Raimundo Orsi and Mario Varglien
- 1938 FIFA World Cup (2); Alfredo Foni and Pietro Rava
- 1982 FIFA World Cup (6); Dino Zoff, Antonio Cabrini, Claudio Gentile, Paolo Rossi, Gaetano Scirea and Marco Tardelli
- 2006 FIFA World Cup (5); Fabio Cannavaro, Gianluigi Buffon, Mauro Camoranesi, Alessandro Del Piero and Gianluca Zambrotta

Two Juventus players have won the FIFA World Cup awards award at the World Cup with Italy; Paolo Rossi in 1982 and Salvatore Schillaci in 1990 FIFA World Cup. 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 Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Three bianconeri players represented their nation during the 1968 European Football Championship win for Italy; Sandro Salvadore, Ernesto Castano and Giancarlo Bercellino.

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 French national football team, making the total number of Juventus :Category:FIFA World Cup-winning players 24, more than any other club around 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 European Football Championship with Spanish national football team, while the Frenchmen Michel Platini and Zidane won the competition in 1984 UEFA European Football Championship and 2000 UEFA European Football Championship respectively.

Juventus Football Club as a company

Since 27 June 1967 Juventus Football Club has been a joint stock company (Società per Azioni in Italian language) and since 3 December 2001 the torinese side is listed on the Borsa Italiana. Currently, the Juventus' shares are distributed between 60% to IFIL Investments S.p.A, the Agnelli family's holding (a company of the Giovanni Agnelli & C.S.a.p.a Group), 7.5% to Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Co.

Along with S.S. Lazio and A.S. Roma, the Old Lady is one of only three Italian clubs quotated in Borsa Italiana (Italian stock exchange). According to Deloitte 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 Deloitte Football Money League Full listing of €251.2 million.

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