Juventus (Ita)

Location: Turin, Italy
Year founded: 1897
Nickname: La Vecchia Signora
Stadium: Delle Alpi
Capacity: 71012
Italian League Championship/Serie A:
Winners (27): 1905; 1925–26 [5]; 1930–31; 1931–32; 1932–33; 1933–34; 1934–35; 1949–50; 1951–52; 1957–58; 1959–60; 1960–61; 1966–67; 1971–72; 1972–73; 1974–75; 1976–77; 1977–78; 1980–81; 1981–82; 1983–84; 1985–86; 1994–95; 1996–97; 1997–98; 2001–02; 2002–03
Italian Second Division/Serie B:
Winners (1): 2006–07
Italian Cup/Coppa Italia :
Winners (9): 1937–38; 1941–42; 1958–59; 1959–60; 1964–65; 1978–79; 1982–83; 1989–90; 1994–95
Italian Super Cup/Super Coppa di Lega:
Winners (4): 1995; 1997; 2002; 2003
UEFA Champions League:
Winners (2): 1984–85; 1995–96
UEFA Cups:
Winners (3): 1976–77; 1989–90; 1992–93
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:
Winners (1): 1983–84
UEFA Intertoto Cup:
Winners (1): 1999
European Super Cup:
Winners (2): 1984; 1996
Intercontinental Cup
Winners (2): 1985; 1996



Squads Information:

Staff:
Claudio Ranieri

Goalkeepers:
Gianluigi Buffon
Landry Bonnefoi

Defenders:
Zdenek Grygera
Giorgio Chiellini
Jonathan Zebina
Nicola Legrottaglie
Jorge Andrade
Jean-Alain Boumsong
Alessandro Birindelli  

Midfielders:
Tiago
Marco Brighi
Cristiano Zanetti
Ruben Olivera
Pavel Nedved
Mauro Camoranesi
Sergio Almiron
David Chiumiento
Luigi Lavecchia
Hasan Salihamidzic
Marco Marchionni

Forwards:
Raffaele Palladino
Alessandro Del Piero
David Trezeguet
Vincenzo Iaquinta


                                          Team History


              Sitting on a bench in Corso Re Umberto in 1897, a group of young students from the Liceo D'Azeglio of Turin decided to found a sports club whose main aim was to play football. Thus was born Juventus Football Club, according to legend, just a game, for fun, out of a desire to do something new. Football was a sport that was spreading rapidly throughout Europe at the time.
             In that period, Juventus, whose first president was Enrico Canfari, played against more experienced sides, and yet already in 1905 it won the first Italian championship in its history after a thrilling three-way final with Genoa and Milanese. Juventus chose Piazza D'Armi as its home ground and played for a number of years in a pink shirt. The change to black and white came by chance in 1903 following a mistaken delivery from England, where the playing strip had been ordered.
            Up until the outbreak of the Great War, Juventus had to be content with playing a secondary role to the football powers of the era, ProVercelli and Casale, but in the immediate post-war period it became a leading actor thanks above all to the goalkeeper Giacone and the full-backs Novo and Bruna, the first players to earn a place in the national team. The president was the poet and man of letters Corrado Corradini, the author of the club’s anthem, that lasted until the sixties.
          In 1923, Giampiero Combi, one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, made his debut in the first team. Edoardo Agnelli, the son of the founder of Fiat, was elected president of the club. This was the start of a special partnership that was destined to last over time. Given the growing number of fans, Juventus moved to the stadium of Corso Marsiglia. A team that already included players of the calibre of Combi, Rosetta, Munerati, Bigatto and Grabbi was strengthened by the arrival of the trainer Jeno Karoly and Hirzer, the inside left forward, both Hungarian. In 1925-26, after an enthralling battle with Bologna and the final against Albo Roma, Juventus won their second championship, the prelude to a cycle of victories that was to bring five successive trophies.
              The Juventus trainer of the period was Carlo Carcano and the team included legendary players like Orsi, Caligaris, Monti, Cesarini, Varglien I and II, Bertolini, Ferrari and Borel II. Juventus won continuously from 1930 to 1935 and made a decisive contribution to the Italian team that won the World Cup in 1934. The victories in Italy brought Juventus its first international experience, taking part in the European Cup (now known as the Champions League), reaching the semi-finals on four occasions. In 1933 Juventus again changed its ground: this was the beginning of the era of the municipal stadium, built to host the World University Games and where the team was to play until the home leg of the 1989/90 UEFA Cup final.
 
            Fabio Capello became manager of Juventus in 2004, and lead Juventus to two more Serie A titles. But during May 2006, Juventus were one of four clubs linked to a Serie A match fixing scandal, the result of the scandal saw the club relegated to Serie B for the first time in their history, as well as being stripped of the two titles won under Capello.
           Many key players were sold, however, other big name players remained to help the club return to Serie A. The season was notable because Alessandro Del Piero broke club records, 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 2006–07 season. For their return to Serie A in the 2007–08 season former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri is at the helm of the Old Lady.