Juventus FC

Juventus Football Club, known simply as Juventus, is an Italian soccer club based in Turin.

History[change | change source]

The club was founded in Turin by a group of high school students attending the Liceo Massimo D'Azeglio on November 1, 1897, wearing pink jerseys and black ties. The first official championship was played in 1900, but the team was eliminated by Torinese.

In 1905, the club won its first league title. The following year, President Dick left the club after a dispute with the players and founded a new club: the Torino Football Club, which remains Juventus’s archrival to this day.

After Dick’s departure, the team faced serious financial problems and risked relegation, but was saved thanks to the leadership of Corradini and Hess. In 1923, the club was purchased by Edoardo Agnelli, vice president of FIAT.

The first trophy of the Agnelli era was the 1925 league title. For six years there were no further victories, but in 1931 Juve won the first league title of a winning streak known as the “Golden Five-Year Period,” during which Juventus won five consecutive championships—four of them under the guidance of Carlo Carcano—with key players on the roster such as the Combi-Rosetta-Caligaris trio, Luis Monti, and Raimundo Orsi. The end of this era coincided with Agnelli’s death in 1935. Subsequently, the team went five years without winning a trophy, until it claimed the title in 1950. During this period, thanks to the leadership of the Agnelli brothers (Gianni first, then Umberto), the team enjoyed a golden age, winning the Scudetto in 1952, 1958, 1960, and 1961, thanks to the play of the Magic Trio‘’, consisting of Omar Sívori, John Charles, and Giampiero Boniperti.

A period without major successes followed, with the exception of the 1965 Coppa Italia and the 1967 league title.

In 1971, Giampiero Boniperti became president, ushering in a fifteen-year winning streak during which Juventus won nine league titles, two Coppa Italia trophies, and international victories that made it the first club in Europe to win all the UEFA and, subsequently, the first in the world to win all official club competitions.

However, the victory in the 1985 European Cup was marred by the tragedy that occurred before the final against Liverpool: 39 people, most of them Italians, lost their lives in a clash between moderate fans and “hooligans” (particularly violent fans).

The 1990s saw no major successes for the Bianconeri, with the exception of one Coppa Italia (1990) and two UEFA Cups (1990, 1993). In 1994, however, Marcello Lippi took over as Juventus’s head coach, ushering in a ten-year winning streak that included five league titles and one European Cup (1996).

In 2004, Fabio Capello was hired as head coach and immediately won two consecutive titles (2005, 2006), which were, however, revoked by the Federal Court following the Calciopoli scandal, in which match-fixing was uncovered. In 2006, the team was relegated to Serie B as a penalty, but at the end of the season it returned to Serie A in 2007. After four years without success, Antonio Conte became head coach and Andrea Agnelli became president. Under their leadership, the team won three consecutive league titles (2012, 2013, 2014), the first of which was achieved without suffering a single defeat in the league. After Conte’s sudden resignation before the start of the 2014–2015 season, Massimiliano Allegri was hired as head coach. Allegri led Juventus to the Champions League final twice (in 2015 and 2017) and guided the team to five league titles (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), four Coppa Italia titles (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), and two Italian Super Cups (2015 and 2018). In May 2019, Allegri was fired and replaced by Maurizio Sarri, who won the 2020 Serie A title but was fired after the team’s elimination from the Champions League at the hands of Lyon. He was replaced by Andrea Pirlo, who won the Coppa Italia and the Super Cup before being dismissed to make way for Massimiliano Allegri's return.

Presidents[change | change source]

1897–1898 Eugenio Canfari
1898–1901 Enrico Canfari
1901–1902 Carlo Favale
1903–1904 Giacomo Parvopassu
1904–1906 Alfred Dick
1907–1910 Carlo Vittorio Varetti
1911–1912 Attilio Ubertalli
1913–1915 Giuseppe Hess
1915–1918 Presidential War Committee
1919–1920 Corrado Corradini
1920–1924 Gino Olivetti
1924–1935 Edoardo Agnelli
1935–1936 Enrico Craveri and Giovanni Mazzonis

1936–1941 Emilio de la Forest de Divonne
1941–1947 Piero Dusio
1947–1954 Gianni Agnelli
1954–1955 Interim Committee
1955–1956 Umberto Agnelli (regency)
1956–1962 Umberto Agnelli
1962–1971 Vittore Catella
1971–1990 Giampiero Boniperti
1990–2003 Vittorio Caissotti di Chiusano
2003–2006 Franzo Grande Stevens
2006–2009 Giovanni Cobolli Gigli
2009–2010 Jean-Claude Blanc
2010–2023 Andrea Agnelli
2023–current Gianluca Ferrero

Head Coaches[change | change source]

The longest-serving head coach was Giovanni Trapattoni, who led the team for thirteen years, ten of which were consecutive. Trapattoni is also the most successful coach in the club’s history, having won 14 trophies with Juventus. Many Juventus players have gone on to become coaches, including: Virginio Rosetta, Umberto Caligaris, Giovanni Ferrari, Renato Cesarini, Carlo Parola, Čestmír Vycpálek, Dino Zoff, Fabio Capello, Didier Deschamps, Ciro Ferrara, and Antonio Conte.