Juventus FC
Also written as Juventus.
The club
Juventus Football Club, commonly known as Juventus and nicknamed the Bianconeri ("black-and-whites") or la Vecchia Signora ("the Old Lady"), was founded on 1 November 1897 by students from the Massimo d'Azeglio Lyceum in Turin, Italy, including Eugenio and Enrico Canfari, under the name Sport-Club Juventus; it became Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later. Juventus is a wholly separate club from AC Milan, based more than 100 miles away in Turin rather than Milan, and is not to be confused with either Milan club. The team's black-and-white striped shirts date to December 1901, when the original pink-and-black kit wore out and an English player, John Savage, arranged replacement shirts from Nottingham inspired by Notts County's stripes. Juventus play at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, known as Juventus Stadium until a 2017 sponsorship naming deal, which opened on 8 September 2011 with a capacity of 41,507 (some sources give 41,689), built on the site of the former Stadio delle Alpi.
Juventus hold the record for the most Italian league titles of any club, 36 scudetti, and are one of only three clubs, alongside Real Madrid and Ajax, to have won all three major UEFA club competitions (the European Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Cup). The club's history was interrupted by the 2006 Calciopoli match-fixing scandal: in July 2006 Juventus were found to have been involved, alongside four other clubs, in a scheme to influence the appointment of referees, and were stripped of the 2004–05 Serie A title (left vacant) and the 2005–06 title (awarded to third-placed Inter Milan after the original winners, also implicated, were also stripped), and relegated to Serie B for the first time in the club's history. Key players including Alessandro Del Piero, Gianluigi Buffon, David Trezeguet and Pavel Nedvěd stayed on, and Juventus won Serie B in 2006–07 to return to Serie A the following season. In 2015 Italy's Supreme Court found that former general manager Luciano Moggi had been actively involved in sporting fraud, while separate proceedings concluded the 2004–05 championship itself showed no match-fixing; Juventus did not pursue further civil appeals after FIFA threatened to suspend Italian clubs from international competition. The club was penalised again in 2023, when a Serie A points deduction connected to false accounting over player valuations ("plusvalenze") was set at 10 points for the 2022–23 season.
Juventus are managed by Luciano Spalletti, appointed head coach on a contract to June 2026 (with the option understood to extend to 2027) in October 2025 after the sacking of Igor Tudor. Spalletti, who led Napoli to the 2022–23 Serie A title and later managed the Italy national team until being sacked in June 2026, succeeded Tudor, who himself had replaced Thiago Motta in March 2025.
Recent seasons
Juventus finished fourth in Serie A in 2021–22, a season the club ended without a trophy for the first time since 2010–11, which was enough to qualify directly for the Champions League group stage the following year. In 2022–23 they were second on the pitch before a 15-point Serie A deduction for false accounting was revised down to 10 points, dropping them to seventh; they were fined and avoided a further deduction in a plea bargain. Juventus finished third with 71 points in 2023–24, qualifying for the Champions League. In 2024–25, under Thiago Motta and then, from 23 March 2025, Igor Tudor, they finished fourth on the final day, beating relegated Venezia 3-2 to pip Roma to the last Champions League place by a single point. In 2025–26 Juventus finished sixth on 69 points (19 wins, 12 draws, 7 losses), one place and one point behind Milan, sending both Turin and Milan into the Europa League rather than the Champions League for 2026–27; Inter (87 points) won the title, with Napoli, Roma and Como also taking the four Champions League places.
Honours and landmarks
Juventus have won the Italian championship a record 36 times (two of them, in 1925–26 and earlier eras, predating the 1929 formation of Serie A as a single national division) and the Coppa Italia a record 15 times, including four in a row from 2015 to 2018. In Europe, Juventus won the European Cup in 1984–85, beating Liverpool 1-0 in the final at Heysel Stadium in Brussels on 29 May 1985 through a Michel Platini penalty, and the UEFA Champions League in 1995–96, beating Ajax 4-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in Rome on 22 May 1996. They also won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983–84, three UEFA Cups (1976–77, 1989–90 and 1992–93), two UEFA Super Cups (1984, 1996) and two Intercontinental Cups, making them the first club to have won all three major UEFA trophies. Juventus additionally hold the record for the most European Cup/Champions League final defeats, seven (1972–73, 1982–83, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2002–03, 2014–15 and 2016–17), including three finals in succession from 1996 to 1998 under Marcello Lippi. The club's biggest recorded win of any kind is a 15-0 victory over Cento in the second round of the 1926–27 Coppa Italia, and its largest league win is an 11-0 defeat of US Fiumana in 1928–29.
Notable scorelines
The 1985 European Cup final win over Liverpool, 1-0 through Platini's 58th-minute penalty, is permanently associated with the Heysel Stadium disaster that killed 39 people, most of them Juventus supporters, in crowd violence before kick-off. The 1996 Champions League final victory over Ajax finished 1-1 after extra time, with goalkeeper Angelo Peruzzi saving in the penalty shootout that Juventus won 4-2. Domestically, Juventus's record win, 15-0 over Cento in the Coppa Italia in 1926–27, and an 11-0 league win over US Fiumana in 1928–29, both stand from the club's early amateur-era history. In the current season, Juventus have already shown their capacity for late drama in both directions: a 1-1 draw at home to Milan on 6 September 2026 in which Federico Gatti equalised in second-half stoppage time after Alphadjo Cissè had put Milan ahead in the 69th minute, and a 3-2 defeat at Sassuolo on 13 September 2026 in which Edon Zhegrova's stoppage-time equaliser was immediately cancelled out by a 94th-minute winner from Vasilije Adžić, a forward on loan from Juventus itself.
European record
Juventus have appeared in seven European Cup/Champions League finals, winning in 1985 and 1996 and losing in 1973 (to Ajax), 1983 (to Hamburg), 1997 (to Borussia Dortmund), 1998 (to Real Madrid), 2003 (to Milan, on penalties), 2015 (to Barcelona) and 2017 (to Real Madrid). They also won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1984 and three UEFA Cups (1977, 1990, 1993), and reached the round of 16 or better in most Champions League campaigns of the 2010s and early 2020s, including the run to the 2016–17 final under Massimiliano Allegri. Detailed match-by-match results for individual European campaigns beyond those already sourced here were not established from the sources read here. For 2026–27, Juventus's sixth-place Serie A finish the previous season sent them into the UEFA Europa League rather than the Champions League, entering directly in the league phase as a Pot 1 seed; their fixtures include a home tie against NEC Nijmegen and conclude the league phase at home to Real Sociedad on 28 January 2027.
Quotes
Luciano Spalletti, speaking before Juventus's Serie A match against Milan on 5 September 2026, said of the opponents: "They have a very strong team, and [Milan coach] Amorim confirmed that too. They have plenty of quality at their disposal for tomorrow as well," adding, on Juventus's summer transfer business, "It's true, we didn't do everything we wanted in the transfer market, but it did allow us to improve our squad." Before the away defeat at Sassuolo on 13 September 2026, Spalletti opened his press conference by saying: "We'll start by saying that we're sorry about what happened to [Manuel] Locatelli."
Right now (2026/27)
Luciano Spalletti is the head coach and Gianluca Ferrero the club chairman. Juventus missed out on the Champions League by finishing sixth in Serie A in 2025–26 and are instead playing in the 2026–27 UEFA Europa League, entering the competition's league phase directly as a Pot 1 seed rather than through qualifying rounds; their campaign opens at home to NEC Nijmegen on 17 September 2026, with the league phase closing at home to Real Sociedad on 28 January 2027.
In Serie A, Juventus opened the season with a 1-0 win away to promoted Frosinone on 23 August 2026, Gleison Bremer scoring the only goal, then beat Parma 2-0 at the Allianz Stadium on 29 August 2026 through Nico González and Teun Koopmeiners. They drew 1-1 at home to Milan on 6 September 2026, Federico Gatti equalising deep into stoppage time, before losing 3-2 away to Sassuolo on 13 September 2026, Edon Zhegrova's two goals not enough after a 94th-minute winner from loanee Vasilije Adžić. After four matchdays Juventus sat eighth in Serie A on 7 points from two wins, one draw and one defeat, with 6 goals scored and 4 conceded.
The summer 2026 transfer window brought nine arrivals and 11 departures, with none of the departures a permanent sale of a senior player. Signings included the forwards Randal Kolo Muani (from Paris Saint-Germain, reported at €41.2 million), Nick Woltemade and Jeff Ekhator, the midfielders Kerim Alajbegović (from Bayer Leverkusen, reported at €32 million) and Pape Matar Sarr, the defenders Jhon Lucumí (from Bologna, reported at €20.1 million) and Zeki Çelik, and the goalkeepers Guglielmo Vicario and Kamil Grabara; Jérémie Boga also joined from Nice. Dušan Vlahović left on a free transfer, Filip Kostić was released, Mattia Perin moved to Palermo on a free, and Arthur Melo had his contract terminated, while Lois Openda, Jonathan David, Michele Di Gregorio, João Mário, Jonas Rouhi, Vasilije Adžić and Fabio Miretti all left on loan. Juventus's reported outlay of roughly €164 million was the second-highest of any Serie A club in the window, behind Milan.
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