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Juventus Football Club

Football club founded in Turin in 1897 by students of the Liceo d'Azeglio, Italy's most decorated team, linked since 1923 to the Agnelli family.

The homepage of juventus.com, 25 September 2026
The homepage of juventus.com on 25 September 2026

Juventus Football Club is the football club founded in Turin on 1 November 1897 by a group of students from the classical lyceum Massimo d'Azeglio.[1] The club presents itself as Italy's most decorated team and the first to have won every European cup.[2] Since 1923 its history has been intertwined with that of the Agnelli family and of FIAT.[1]

A bench on Corso Re Umberto

According to the club's own account, it all begins on a bench on Corso Re Umberto, where a group of friends keen on football, a game recently arrived from England, decide to found a sports club. The oldest of them was no more than seventeen, and the name says as much:[1]

"That is why the name they choose, in Latin, means 'youth'. That name is Juventus."

Juventus, "The Story of a Legend"

The first president was Eugenio Canfari and the first pitch was Piazza d'Armi.[1] The first headquarters was the back room of the Canfari family's bicycle workshop on Corso Re Umberto, and the initial name, "Sport-Club Juventus", was chosen for a Latin flavour that also sounded international.[3]

From the pink shirt to black and white

After an initial white kit, in 1898 the players adopted a pink shirt with a small tie and black trousers. The first success came on 18 March 1900, a 2-0 win over Ginnastica Torino.[3] In 1903 the Englishman Gordon Thomas Savage had the striped shirts of Notts County of Nottingham sent over from England, and from then on black and white have been the club's official colours.[3] In 1905 came the first Italian title, at the end of a three-team final group with Genoa and Milanese.[1]

The Agnellis and the Golden Five-Year Period

On 24 July 1923 Edoardo Agnelli, son of Giovanni Agnelli, founder of FIAT, was elected president; the same year goalkeeper Giampiero Combi made his first-team debut. The second Scudetto came in the 1925-26 season, after a play-off with Bologna.[1] Between 1930 and 1935, under coach Carlo Carcano, the team won five consecutive championships, the so-called Golden Five-Year Period (Quinquennio d'oro), and in 1934 it provided a decisive contribution to the national team that won the World Cup in Rome.[1]

In 1947, twelve years after Edoardo's death in a plane crash, the presidency passed to his son Giovanni, known as Gianni. The Scudetti of 1950 and 1952 followed, and that of 1958, with Omar Sivori and John Charles, which made Juventus the first Italian club to reach ten titles and to sew the star onto its shirt.[1]

The Boniperti era

Giampiero Boniperti played for the black-and-whites from 1946 to 1961, with 444 appearances and 177 goals and five championships won; he retired from playing on 10 June 1961, joined the club's management in 1969, and became president on 13 July 1971.[4] Under his leadership, until 5 February 1990, Juventus won nine championships and, among its international trophies, the 1984-85 European Cup.[4]

That cup is linked to the most tragic night in the club's history. On 29 May 1985, at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, before the final against Liverpool a group of English fans broke through the fencing dividing the sections; in the ensuing panic a wall collapsed and 39 people died, 32 of them Italian. The match was played nonetheless; UEFA banned English clubs from European competitions for five years, and Liverpool for six.[5]

From Rome to Serie B

On 22 May 1996, at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Marcello Lippi's team, captained by Gianluca Vialli and with Alessandro Del Piero among the starters, drew 1-1 with Ajax (goals by Fabrizio Ravanelli and Jari Litmanen) and won the Champions League on penalties; the decisive one was scored by Vladimir Jugović.[6] On 20 December 2001 the club's shares were admitted to the Italian Stock Exchange.[7]

In 2006 the match-fixing scandal known as Calciopoli led the sports justice system to punish the club: on 25 July 2006 the Federal Court of Appeal ordered relegation to Serie B with a 17-point penalty, revoked the 2004-05 Scudetto and left the 2005-06 one unawarded, which the FIGC awarded to Inter the following day; the 2004-05 title remained unawarded.[8] On 10 May 2010 Juventus filed a complaint seeking to strip Inter of the 2006 Scudetto, but on 18 July 2011 the federal council concluded that the legal grounds for doing so were lacking.[8]

The stadium and the nine Scudetti

On 8 September 2011 the Juventus Stadium was opened, built on the site of the Stadio delle Alpi from Italia '90: without the old stadium's athletics track. Notts County itself was invited for the inaugural friendly, which ended 1-1, with Luca Toni the venue's first scorer.[9] That evening president Andrea Agnelli said: "After 114 years the black-and-white people have finally won their home."[9]

There followed the longest run in the championship's history: nine consecutive Scudetti from 2012 to 2020, three under Antonio Conte, five under Massimiliano Allegri and one under Maurizio Sarri, a record unmatched in Europe's major leagues.[10] In the 2017-18 season the women's team, Juventus Women, was born, and in 2018-19 the men's reserve team, today called Next Gen, entered Serie C.[11]

Crisis and restructuring

Since 2021 the Scudetto has not returned to Turin: in the 2022-23 season the team finished seventh, partly because of a ten-point penalty in the capital gains case. Revenue fell from €621 million in 2018-19 to €394 million in 2023-24, and the accounts for the year ending 30 June 2024 closed with a loss of €199.2 million, the worst ever.[12] On 28 November 2022 the entire board of directors led by Andrea Agnelli and Pavel Nedvěd resigned; on 18 January 2023 the presidency passed to Gianluca Ferrero.[12]

The shareholders' meeting of 7 November 2025 approved the 2024-25 accounts, with the loss reduced to €58.1 million, and a capital increase; it confirmed Ferrero as president and expanded the board from five to nine members, with Damien Comolli as chief executive officer and a representative of Tether, the cryptocurrency company holding 11.5% of the shares; the controlling shareholder remains Exor, chaired by John Elkann.[13]

La Continassa

The headquarters are at via Druento 175, in the J Village complex, between the Allianz Stadium and the pitches of the JTC Continassa training centre; it replaced the old offices on Corso Galileo Ferraris.[14] The building is an eighteenth-century farmhouse, La Continassa, long abandoned and restored between 2015 and 2017 under the supervision of the Heritage Authority, which insisted on preserving its friezes and vaults; it was opened on 17 July 2017.[15] About three hundred employees work there across 4,400 square metres, the meeting rooms are named after the years of titles won, and the old deconsecrated chapel has become a meeting room.[14]

The main channel to the fans is the website juventus.com, in Italian and English: tickets for the stadium, the museum and tours, membership programmes, Juventus TV videos, news on the first team, the women's team and the youth sides, as well as corporate and investor pages.[16]

Pages linking here

Part of the Curva turns its back on the minute of silence for Sandro Mazzola (20 September 2026)

On 20 September 2026, before the Serie A match between Juventus and Atalanta at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, part of the black-and-white Curva Sud turned its back to the pitch during the minute of silence held in memory of Sandro Mazzola, who had died the day before, chanting the names of Gaetano Scirea, Andrea Fortunato and Gianni Agnelli; the rest of the stadium observed the tribute with applause. The club issued a statement condemning the episode, stating that "no rivalry can justify a lack of respect during a minute of silence". On 22 September 2026 the Sports Judge fined Juventus 10,000 euros for the conduct of part of the fans, without ordering the closure of the Curva Sud, taking into account the limited number of people involved relative to the crowd present and the club's swift public stance.

Timeline

  • — Former Juventus, Roma and Inter forward Daniel Osvaldo is admitted to intensive care in Buenos Aires with a severe pleural effusion in his right lung, complicated by an infection. → TorinoOggi Quotidiano Piemontese

Related articles: Alessandro Del Piero, Allianz Stadium, Andrea Agnelli, Giampiero Boniperti, Giovanni Agnelli (1866–1945), Juventus fined over unobserved minute of silence for Sandro Mazzola

Sources

  1. Juventus.com
  2. Juventus.com
  3. Eurosport
  4. Treccani, Enciclopedia dello Sport
  5. Euronews — 28 May 2015
  6. Tuttosport — 24 May 2015
  7. Juventus.com
  8. Sky Sport — 23 March 2015
  9. TUTTOmercatoWEB
  10. ANSA — 26 July 2020
  11. Juventus.com
  12. Key4biz
  13. ANSA — 7 November 2025
  14. Juventus.com
  15. il Giornale — 17 July 2017
  16. Juventus.com
  17. ANSA Piemonte — 20 September 2026
  18. TorinoToday — 22 September 2026

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