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The story
Founded by Alfredo Armano, Carlo Vittorio Varetti, Domenico Donna, Enrico Canfari, Eugenio Canfari, Gioacchino Armano, Luigi Forlano, Luigi Gibezzi and Umberto Malvano on Nov 1, 1897.1
History
Foundation and early years (1897–1913)
Juventus was founded as Sport-Club Juventus in late 1897 by students from the Massimo d'Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, including Eugenio and Enrico Canfari. The club was renamed Foot-Ball Club Juventus in 1899, and entered the Italian Football Championship in 1900, playing their first league match on 11 March 1900 in a 1–0 defeat to Torinese.
In 1904, businessman Marco Ajmone-Marsan helped stabilise the finances of Juventus, allowing the club to move the training field from Piazza d'Armi to the Velodrome Humbert I. In 1905, Juventus won their first Italian championship. Around this period, the club adopted its famous black-and-white striped shirts, inspired by English side Notts County, replacing its original pink and black colours.
In 1906, internal disagreements over the club's future led president Alfred Dick and several players to leave Juventus and form FBC Torino, creating the foundations of the Derby della Mole. Juventus spent the following years rebuilding and remained active through the disruptions of World War I.
In 1913, Juventus was relegated to the second division after finishing in last place, but after pressure made by their executives to the Italian Federation, it was decided to increase the number of teams in the following season, allowing Juventus to remain in the top flight.
Rise to prominence and first dynasty (1923–1967)
The beginning of Juventus's rise coincided with the arrival of the Agnelli family. In 1923, Edoardo Agnelli, vice president of FIAT, became club president, while the inauguration of a new stadium helped provide the foundations for the club's professional development. Juventus won its second league title in 1925–26, defeating Alba Roma 12–1 on aggregate in the final.
During the 1930s, Juventus became Italy's first major professional club and dominated the national championship, winning five consecutive league titles between 1931 and 1935. Several Juventus players, including Raimundo Orsi, Luigi Bertolini, Giovanni Ferrari, and Luis Monti, formed part of the Italy national team that won the 1934 FIFA World Cup. After moving to the Stadio Comunale, the club experienced a period of transition before rebuilding following World War II.
Under the continued influence of the Agnelli family, Juventus returned to success in the late 1940s and early 1950s, winning Serie A titles in 1949–50 and 1951–52. The arrival of Welsh forward John Charles and Argentine-born Italian striker Omar Sívori alongside club icon Giampiero Boniperti created the renowned "Magical Trio" (Trio Magico), leading Juventus to further domestic success, including the club's first league and cup double in 1959–60. Boniperti retired in 1961 as Juventus's all-time leading goalscorer, having become one of the defining figures in the club's history. In 1961, Juventus became the first Italian club to win ten league titles, earning the right to add a gold star above its crest, a tradition later adopted by other clubs.
Juventus added another league title in 1966–67, ending the period as one of Italy's most successful clubs.
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Domestic dominance and European rise (1971–1993)
Juventus entered a new era of dominance during the 1970s, establishing itself as the leading club in Italian football. Under former player Čestmír Vycpálek, the club won consecutive Serie A titles in 1971–72 and 1972–73, with players such as Roberto Bettega, Franco Causio, and Gaetano Scirea becoming central figures. Under Giovanni Trapattoni, who took charge in 1976, Juventus continued its success, winning further league titles and securing its first major European trophy with the 1976–77 UEFA Cup.The Trapattoni era continued into the 1980s, with Juventus winning three more Serie A titles by 1984, and becoming the first Italian club to win 20 league championships, earning a second golden star on its shirt. The team featured several of the leading players of the period, including Paolo Rossi, Michel Platini, Gaetano Scirea, and Zbigniew Boniek. Platini won the Ballon d'Or three consecutive times between 1983 and 1985, while Juventus reached the pinnacle of European football by winning the 1985 European Cup final against Liverpool. The match was overshadowed by the Heysel Stadium disaster, but the victory made Juventus the first club to win all three major UEFA competitions and, after their Intercontinental Cup triumph later that year, the first club to win all five recognised international club competitions.
After the European triumph, Juventus entered a period of transition as domestic rivals such as Napoli, AC Milan, and Inter Milan challenged their dominance. The club won the 1989–90 Coppa Italia and UEFA Cup under Dino Zoff, and moved to the Stadio delle Alpi ahead of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Despite the arrival of Roberto Baggio in 1990 for a transfer record fee, Juventus experienced limited success in the early 1990s, with their main achievement being another UEFA Cup victory in 1993.
Lippi era and Calciopoli (1994–2007)
The appointment of Marcello Lippi as manager in 1994 marked the beginning of one of the most successful periods in Juventus's history. In his first season, in 1994–95, the club won Serie A and the Coppa Italia, with a squad featuring players such as Ciro Ferrara, Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Baggio, and a young Alessandro Del Piero. In 1996, Juventus won their second UEFA Champions League, defeating Ajax on penalties in the final, with Fabrizio Ravanelli scoring in the 1–1 draw.
Following their European triumph, Juventus continued to dominate Italian football and became one of Europe's leading clubs. With players including Zinedine Zidane, Didier Deschamps, Edgar Davids, and Filippo Inzaghi, the club won further Serie A titles in 1996–97 and 1997–98, as well as the 1996 UEFA Super Cup and 1996 Intercontinental Cup. Juventus also reached consecutive Champions League finals in 1997 and 1998, losing to Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid respectively. With their 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup, Juventus became the first team to win all six major UEFA competitions.
After Lippi returned as manager in 2001, following Carlo Ancelotti's dismissal, Juventus rebuilt around players such as Gianluigi Buffon, Pavel Nedvěd, David Trezeguet, and Lilian Thuram. The club won back-to-back Serie A titles in 2001–02 and 2002–03, and reached the 2003 UEFA Champions League final, losing to Milan on penalties. Fabio Capello subsequently led Juventus to two more league titles in 2004–05 and 2005–06.
In 2006, Juventus was involved in the Calciopoli scandal, an investigation into alleged sporting fraud involving several Italian clubs. The club was relegated to Serie B for the first time in its history and stripped of its 2004–05 league title, while the 2005–06 title was later awarded to Inter. Several leading players left following the relegation, but figures including Alessandro Del Piero, Gianluigi Buffon, Pavel Nedvěd, and David Trezeguet remained. Juventus immediately returned to Serie A after winning the 2006–07 Serie B title, beginning the process of rebuilding after the scandal.
Rebuilding and nine-title dynasty (2007–2020)
Following their return to Serie A in 2007, Juventus entered a period of rebuilding after the disruption caused by Calciopoli. The club initially struggled to regain its former status, with managerial changes and inconsistent performances before Andrea Agnelli became president in 2010. Under Agnelli's leadership, Juventus underwent a major transformation, including the opening of the Juventus Stadium in 2011, which marked the beginning of a new era.
With Antonio Conte as manager, Juventus returned to domestic dominance, winning the 2011–12 Serie A title unbeated as the first Italian team to do so under the 20-team format, and beginning a run of consecutive championships. The club secured three league titles under Conte, including the 2013–14 title won with a record 102 points, before Massimiliano Allegri took over in 2014. Under Allegri, Juventus extended its dominance, winning five more Serie A titles and becoming the first Italian club to win seven consecutive league championships. During this period, Juventus also achieved four consecutive domestic doubles and reached the UEFA Champions League final in 2015 and 2017, although they were defeated by Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively.
Seeking further European success, Juventus signed Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid in 2018 in one of the most high-profile transfers in football history. The club won two more Serie A titles during Ronaldo's tenure, extending its unprecedented league-winning streak to nine consecutive championships by 2020. Despite its domestic dominance, Juventus was unable to secure another Champions League title, and the period ended with the departure of Allegri and the appointment of Maurizio Sarri.
Recent period (2020–present)
Juventus's period of domestic dominance ended in 2021, when Inter Milan won Serie A and brought an end to the club's record run of nine consecutive league titles. Andrea Pirlo briefly managed the team during the 2020–21 season, winning the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana, before Massimiliano Allegri returned as manager.
Allegri's second spell proved more challenging, with Juventus finishing fourth in Serie A and failing to win a trophy in 2021–22 for the first time since 2010–11. The club also experienced difficulties off the pitch, with the resignation of Andrea Agnelli's board of directors in 2022 and subsequent investigations into financial matters. Juventus received sporting penalties and, following a settlement with UEFA, missed European competitions during the 2023–24 season.
Despite these setbacks, Juventus won the 2024 Coppa Italia, their first trophy since 2021, before Allegri departed at the end of the season. Following Allegri's departure, Juventus entered a new rebuilding phase under Thiago Motta, who was later replaced by Igor Tudor, and subsequently Luciano Spalletti.
Chairmen history
Juventus have had overall 24 presidents (Italian: presidenti, lit. 'presidents' or Italian: presidenti del consiglio di amministrazione, lit. 'chairmen of the board of directors') and two administrative committees, some of which have been members of the club's main stakeholder group and elected since the club's foundation by the then assemblea di soci (membership assembly) through an annual meeting. Since 1949, they have been often corporate managers that were nominated in charge by the assemblea degli azionisti (stakeholders assembly). On top of chairmen, there were several living former presidents, that were nominated as the honorary chairmen (Italian: Presidenti Onorari, lit. 'honorary presidents').
Managerial history
Below is a list of Juventus managers from 1923, when the Agnelli family took over and the club became more structured and organised, until the present day.
Financial information
Founded as an association, in 1923, during the Edoardo Agnelli presidency, the club, ruled by an assemblea di soci (membership assembly), became one of the first in the country to acquire professional status ante litteram, starting also the longest and most uninterrupted society in Italian sports history between a club and a private investor. Juventus was restructured as the football section of multisports parent company Juventus – Organizzazione Sportiva S.A. since the constitution of the later in that year to 1943, when it was merged with another three Turinese enterprises for founding the Compagnia Industriale Sportiva Italia (CISITALIA). In that twenty years Juventus progressive competed in different disciplines such as tennis, swimming, ice hockey, and bocce, gaining success in the first cited. After a long liquidation process of the automotive corporation started after the Italian Civil War (1945), all Juventus O.S.A. sections were closed with the exception of football and tennis, which were demerged. The football section, then called Juventus Cisitalia for sponsorship reasons, was renamed Juventus Football Club and the Agnelli family, which some members have held different executive charges inside the club for the past six years, obtained the club's majority shares after industrialist Piero Dusio, Cisitalia owner, transferred his capital shares in the ending of the decade. Juventus has been constituted as an independent società a responsabilità limitata (S.r.l.), a type of private limited company, in August 1949 and supervised by a consiglio d'amministrazione (board of directors) since then.
On 27 June 1967, the Turinese club changed its legal corporate status to società per azioni (S.p.A.) and on 3 December 2001 it became the third in the country to has been listed on the Borsa Italiana after Lazio and Roma; since that date until 19 September 2011, Juventus's listed shares took part of the Segmento Titoli con Alti Requisiti (STAR), one of the main market segment in the world. Since October 2016 to December 2018, and again since March 2020, The club's stock is included in the FTSE Italia Mid Cap stock market index of the Mercato Telematico Azionario (MTA); previously, between December 2018 and March 2020, it was listed in the FTSE MIB index. The club has also a secondary listing on Borsa's sister stock exchange based in London.
The club becomes, in a nearly stable basis, one of the top-ten wealthiest in world football in terms of value, revenue and profit since the mid-1990s.
As of 29 October 2021, Juventus's shares are distributed between 63.8% to the Agnelli family through EXOR N.V., a holding part of the Giovanni Agnelli and C.S.a.p.a Group, 11.9% to Lindsell Train Investment Trust Ltd. and 24.3% distributed to other stakeholders (<3% each) though the Associazione Piccoli Azionisti della Juventus Football Club, created in 2010 and composed by more 40,000 affiliated, including investors as the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Norway Government Pension Fund Global, one sovereign wealth fund, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and the financial firm BlackRock.
From 1 July 2008, the club has implemented a safety management system for employees and athletes in compliance with the requirements of international OHSAS 18001:2007 regulation and a Safety Management System in the medical sector according to the international ISO 9001:2000 resolution.
The club is one of the founding members of the European Club Association (ECA), which was formed after the merge of the G-14, an independent group of selected European clubs with international TV rights purposes, with the European Clubs Forum (ECF), a clubs' task force ruled by UEFA composed by 102 members, which Juventus was a founder and permanent member by sporting merits, respectively.
In 2022, Juventus was placed seventh in the global ranking drawn up by the British consultancy organisation Brand Finance in terms of brand power, where it was rated with a credit rating AAA ("extremely strong") with a score of 86.1 out of 100, as well as eleventh in terms of brand value (€705 million) and ninth by enterprise value (€2294 billion). All this made I Bianconeri, in 2015, the country's second sports club—first in football—after Scuderia Ferrari by brand equity.
It is ranked in the 12th place on Forbes' list of the most valuable football clubs at international level with an estimate value of US$2.40 billion (as of May 2026).
in May 2016, it became the first football club in the country to cross the billion euro mark.
According to the Deloitte Football Money League, a research published by consultants Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in March 2022, Juventus is the ninth-highest earning football club in the world with an estimated revenue of €433.5 million as of 30 June 2021 and, in 2002, the club reached the second position overall, the highest-ever achieved for a Serie A team, a ranking which they retained for the following two years.
On 14 September 2020, Juventus officially announced that Raffles Family Office, a Hong Kong-based multi-family office would be the club's Regional Partner in Asia for the next three years.
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