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Andrea Agnelli

Turin-born executive, president of Juventus from 2010 to 2022: the club-owned stadium, nine consecutive league titles, the Super League and the accounts investigation.

Andrea Agnelli (Turin, 6 December 1975) is a sports executive and entrepreneur, president of Juventus from 2010 to 28 November 2022. In his twelve years at the helm of the black-and-white club, the team won nineteen trophies; his presidency ended with the resignation of the entire board of directors during the Turin public prosecutor's investigation into the accounts.[1]

The family and the arrival at Juventus

Agnelli belongs to the family that controls Juventus through the holding company Exor and is John Elkann's cousin.[2] The bond between the family and the Turin club is described by the press as that of a company "run by the same family for a century, a unique case in Europe."[3] In 2012 the press reported that for the previous year he had received just over 551,000 euros from the group, while Juventus closed its accounts with a loss of 48.7 million.[2]

Having become president in the spring of 2010, as early as 10 May of that year he filed a complaint with the Italian Football Federation asking for a review of the award to Inter of the 2005-06 league title, which had been taken from Juventus after Calciopoli.[4] It was the start of a long conflict with the governing bodies of Italian football: in August 2011, at a press conference in Rome, he said that title "they called it the title of the honest, but at this point it's the title of those whose crimes have expired."[4] The club asked the Lazio Regional Administrative Court for compensation of 443 million euros and had "30 sul campo" ("30 on the pitch") sewn onto its shirts, disputing the official count of titles; in August 2012, after the confirmation of coach Antonio Conte's ban, he wrote on the club's website that "the system must be reformed from its foundations."[4]

The stadium and the nine league titles

On 8 September 2011 he inaugurated the Juventus Stadium, built on the site of the old Stadio delle Alpi, more intimate and without an athletics track. For the evening, Notts County, the English club from which Juventus had taken its black-and-white colours, was invited.[5]

"After 114 years the black-and-white people have finally won their home"

Andrea Agnelli, inauguration of the Juventus Stadium, 8 September 2011

With the stadium began the longest run in Serie A history: nine consecutive league titles from 2012 to 2020, three with Conte, five with Massimiliano Allegri and one with Maurizio Sarri, an unprecedented record among the main European leagues.[6] In 2017 the headquarters moved from corso Galileo Ferraris to the Continassa, a restored eighteenth-century farmhouse next to the stadium, where the training grounds are also located.[7] Allegri, whom Agnelli had brought to Turin in 2014 and again in 2021, stayed for eight seasons in total; when he was dismissed, on 17 May 2024, the former president wrote him a public farewell.[8]

The ticketing case and the fan base

In 2017 the federal prosecutor's office referred him for the sale of tickets to ultras groups of the stadium. On 25 September 2017 the National Federal Tribunal ruled that Juventus had sold, for about five seasons, tickets beyond the limit of four per person and that Agnelli knew it, and banned him for twelve months; it instead completely rejected the accusation of conscious ties with the 'ndrangheta, calling sporadic the contacts with a fan later placed under investigation, whom the president cut off as soon as he learned of his position.[9] On 18 December 2017 the Federal Court of Appeal upheld the appeal: the ban was reduced to the day of the ruling and replaced with a personal fine of 100,000 euros.[10]

The Super League

As president of the European Club Association (ECA), Agnelli was among the main promoters of the Super League, announced on the evening of 18 April 2021 by twelve major European clubs: the president was to be Florentino Pérez of Real Madrid, with Agnelli as one of the vice-presidents. The same day he left the presidency of the ECA, which was formally opposed to the project.[11] On 21 April, in an interview with Repubblica, he claimed that "among our clubs there is a blood pact, we are moving forward," but the evening before the six English clubs had already withdrawn, and on that same day he admitted that the project could not continue in that form.[12] Evelina Christillin, then UEFA's representative on the FIFA council, has recounted that she was not informed of the "breakaway move" and spent that night in UEFA's crisis room in Montreux.[13]

The accounts investigation and the resignation

From November 2021 Agnelli was investigated by the Turin public prosecutor's office in the Prisma investigation into the club's capital gains, and on 28 November 2022 he resigned along with the entire board of directors.[15] On the sporting side, he served twenty-four months of disqualification for the capital gains and ten for the so-called salary manoeuvre[16][18]; on the criminal side, with the proceedings transferred to Rome, on 22 September 2025 he agreed to a plea bargain of one year and eight months with a suspended sentence.[20] He has appealed the disqualifications all the way to the Court of Justice of the European Union, which ruled in July 2026.[22]

After Juventus

In April 2026 he founded in Amsterdam, with the former black-and-white captain Giorgio Chiellini and with Rocco Benetton, Gamma Waves, a permanent-capital investment company dedicated to sports intellectual property and sports technologies.[24] More than a year after his resignation, for his birthday Juventus dedicated a message to him recalling the "19 trophies won together."[1]

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Related articles: Juventus Football Club, Juventus Stadium, Prisma Investigation into Juventus Finances, Stadio delle Alpi, Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino

Sources

  1. Il Fatto Quotidiano — 6 December 2023
  2. Il Fatto Quotidiano — 18 September 2012
  3. Il Post — 10 July 2022
  4. Il Fatto Quotidiano — 23 August 2012
  5. TUTTOmercatoWEB
  6. ANSA — 26 July 2020
  7. Juventus
  8. Sky Sport — 17 May 2024
  9. Il Post — 26 September 2017
  10. Il Post — 18 December 2017
  11. Il Post — 19 April 2021
  12. Il Post — 21 April 2021
  13. Il Fatto Quotidiano — 19 September 2025
  14. Il Post — 29 November 2021
  15. Il Post — 29 November 2022
  16. Sky Sport
  17. FIGC — 28 August 2023
  18. Fanpage.it — 19 January 2024
  19. Il Fatto Quotidiano — 17 July 2024
  20. Il Post — 23 September 2025
  21. Il Fatto Quotidiano — 22 September 2025
  22. Sky Sport — 16 July 2026
  23. Calcio e Finanza — 25 July 2026
  24. Sky Sport — 24 April 2026

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