Early years (1897–1918) Juventus was founded as Sport-Club Juventus in late 1897 by pupils from the
Massimo d'Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, among them
Eugenio Canfari and
Enrico Canfari. It was renamed as Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later. The club joined the
1900 Italian Football Championship. Juventus played their first
Italian Football Championship match on 11 March 1900 in a 1–0 defeat against
Torinese. In 1904, businessman
Marco Ajmone-Marsan revived the finances of Juventus, making it possible to transfer the training field from piazza d'armi to the more appropriate Velodrome Umberto I. During this period, the team wore a pink and black kit. Juventus first won the
1905 Italian Football Championship while playing at their
Velodrome Umberto I ground. By this time, the club colours had changed to black and white stripes, inspired by English side
Notts County. There was a split at the club in 1906, after some of the staff considered moving Juve out of Turin. Juventus spent much of this period steadily rebuilding after the split, surviving the First World War.
League dominance (1923–1980) ,
John Charles, and
Giampiero Boniperti in 1957 In 1922, a new stadium was inaugurated and, a year later,
FIAT vice president
Edoardo Agnelli was elected club's president. Juventus moved to the
Stadio Comunale, but for the rest of the 1930s and the majority of the 1940s they were unable to recapture championship dominance. After the Second World War,
Gianni Agnelli was appointed president. During the rest of the decade, the club only won the
1966–67 Serie A.
European stage (1980–1993) The club led under Trapattoni in the 1980s brought them the league title three more times by 1984. Juventus are the first and one of the only two clubs to have players from their club winning the award in four consecutive years. It was Platini who scored the winning goal in the
1985 European Cup final against
Liverpool; this was marred by the
Heysel Stadium disaster, which changed European football. That year, Juventus became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major
UEFA competitions; after their triumph in the
1985 Intercontinental Cup, the club also became the first and thus far the only in association football history to have won all five possible confederation competitions, an achievement that it revalidated with a sixth title won in the
1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup. With the exception of winning the closely contested
1985–86 Serie A, the rest of the 1980s were not very successful for the club. As well as having to contend with
Diego Maradona's
Napoli, both of the Milanese clubs,
A.C. Milan and
Inter Milan, won Italian championships; Juventus achieved a double by winning the
1989–90 Coppa Italia and the
1990 UEFA Cup final under the guidance of former club legend
Dino Zoff.
Renewed international success (1994–2004) Marcello Lippi took over as Juventus manager at the start of the
1994–95 Serie A. The club did not rest long after winning the European Cup, as more highly regarded players were brought into the fold in the form of
Zinedine Zidane,
Filippo Inzaghi, and
Edgar Davids. At home, Juventus won the
1996–97 Serie A, successfully defended their title in the
1997–98 Serie A, won the
1996 UEFA Super Cup, and followed through with the
1996 Intercontinental Cup. Juventus reached two consecutive
Champions League finals during this period but lost out to
Borussia Dortmund and
Real Madrid, respectively in 1997 and 1998. After a two-and-a-half-season absence, Lippi returned to the club in 2001, following his replacement
Carlo Ancelotti's dismissal, signing big name players like
Gianluigi Buffon,
David Trezeguet,
Pavel Nedvěd, and
Lilian Thuram, helping the team to win the
2001–02 Serie A, which was their first since 1998, and confirmed themselves in the
2002–03 Serie A. The decisions surrounding Calciopoli remain a subject of ongoing debate and controversy. Although Juventus executives
Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo received lifetime bans from football, subsequent legal proceedings in ordinary courts did not find Juventus, as a club, guilty of criminal wrongdoing. Nonetheless, the club chose not to pursue an appeal in Italian civil courts. This decision came after FIFA threatened to suspend the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and ban Italian clubs from international competitions if the matter was not resolved within the sport's internal justice system. Critics have questioned various aspects of the process, including the reasoning behind Juventus's relegation, such as the use of an
ad hoc regulation and the cited "sentimento popolare" (public sentiment). Further controversy has stemmed from later suggestions of possible misconduct involving other clubs, including Inter Milan, and from rulings that determined the 2004–05 championship had not been fixed. was among a group of players who remained with the club following their demotion to Serie B in 2006. Many key players left following their relegation to Serie B, including Thuram, star striker
Zlatan Ibrahimović, midfielders
Emerson and
Patrick Vieira, and defensive stalwarts
Fabio Cannavaro and
Gianluca Zambrotta; other big name players, such as Del Piero, Buffon, Trezeguet, and Nedvěd, as well as the club's future defense core
Giorgio Chiellini, remained to help the club return to Serie A, while youngsters from the
Primavera (youth team), such as
Sebastian Giovinco and
Claudio Marchisio, were integrated into the first team. Juventus won the
Cadetti title (Serie B championship) despite starting with a points deduction and gained promotion straight back up to the top division, with Del Piero claiming the top scorer award with 21 goals, as league winners after the
2006–07 Serie B season. As early as 2010, when many other clubs were implicated and Inter Milan,
Livorno, and Milan liable of direct Article 6 violations in the 2011 Palazzi Report, Juventus considered challenging the stripping of their
scudetto from 2005 and the non-assignment of the 2006 title, dependent on the results of
Calciopoli trials connected to the 2006 scandal. When former general manager
Luciano Moggi's conviction in criminal court in connection with the scandal was partially written off by the Supreme Court in March 2015, the club sued the FIGC for €443 million for damages caused by their 2006 relegation. Then-FIGC president
Carlo Tavecchio offered to discuss reinstatement of the lost
scudetti in exchange for Juventus dropping the lawsuit. In September 2015, the Supreme Court released a 150-page document that explained its final ruling of the case, based on the controversial 2006 sports ruling, which did not take in consideration the other clubs involved because they could not be put on trial due to the statute of limitations, and it would be necessary to request and open a revocation of judgment pursuant to Article 39 of the Code of Sports Justice. Despite his remaining charges being cancelled without a new trial due to statute of limitations, the court confirmed that Moggi was actively involved in the sporting fraud, which was intended to favour Juventus and increase his own personal benefits according to
La Gazzetta dello Sport. As did the Naples court in 2012, the court commented that the developments and behavior of other clubs and executives were not investigated in depth. Once they exhausted their appeals in Italy's courts, both Moggi and Giraudo appealed to the
European Court of Human Rights in March 2020; Giraudo's was accepted in September 2021. Juventus continued to present new appeals, which were declared inadmissible.
Return to Serie A (2007–2011) After making their comeback for the
2007–08 Serie A, Juventus appointed
Claudio Ranieri as manager. They finished in third place in their first season back in the top flight and qualified for the
2008–09 UEFA Champions League's third qualifying round in the preliminary stages. Juventus reached the group stages, where they beat Real Madrid in both home and away legs, before losing in the knockout round to
Chelsea. Ranieri was sacked following a string of unsuccessful results and
Ciro Ferrara was appointed as manager on a temporary basis for the last two games of the
2008–09 Serie A, before being subsequently appointed as the manager for the
2009–10 Serie A. Ferrara's stint as Juventus manager proved to be unsuccessful, with Juventus knocked out of
2009–10 UEFA Champions League, and also of the
2009–10 Coppa Italia, as well as just lying on the sixth place in the league table at the end of January 2010, leading to the dismissal of Ferrara and the naming of
Alberto Zaccheroni as caretaker manager. Zaccheroni could not help the side improve, as Juventus finished the season in seventh place in Serie A. For the
2010–11 Serie A,
Jean-Claude Blanc was replaced by
Andrea Agnelli as the club's president. Agnelli's first action was to replace Zaccheroni and director of sport
Alessio Secco with
Sampdoria manager
Luigi Delneri and director of sport
Giuseppe Marotta. Delneri failed to improve their fortunes and was dismissed, and former player and fan favourite
Antonio Conte, fresh after winning promotion with
Siena, was named as Delneri's replacement. In September 2011, Juventus relocated to the new
Juventus Stadium, known as the Allianz Stadium since 2017.
Nine consecutive scudetti (2011–2020) playing for Juventus in 2012 With Conte as manager, Juventus were unbeaten for the entire
2011–12 Serie A season. Towards the second half of the season, the team was mostly competing with northern rivals Milan for first place in a tight contest. Juventus won the title on the 37th matchday after beating
Cagliari 2–0 and Milan losing to Inter 4–2. After a 3–1 win in the final matchday against
Atalanta, Juventus became the first team to go the season unbeaten in the current 38-game format. In
2013–14 Serie A, Juventus won a third consecutive
scudetto with a record 102 points and 33 wins. The title was the 30th official league championship in the club's history. They also achieved the semi-finals of
2013–14 UEFA Europa League, where they were eliminated at home against ten-man
Benfica's
catenaccio, missing the
2014 UEFA Europa League final at the Juventus Stadium. receiving the
2016–17 Coppa Italia from
Sergio Mattarella, the president of Italy In the
2014–15 Serie A,
Massimiliano Allegri was appointed as manager, with whom Juventus won their 31st official title, making it a fourth-straight, as well as achieving a record tenth
Coppa Italia, after beating
Lazio 2–2 in the
2015 Coppa Italia final, for the domestic double. The club also beat Real Madrid 3–2 on aggregate in the semi-finals of the
2014–15 UEFA Champions League to face
Barcelona in the
2015 UEFA Champions League final in Berlin for the first time since the
2002–03 UEFA Champions League. Juventus lost the final against Barcelona 3–1. In the
2016 Coppa Italia final, the club won the title for the 11th time and second straight win, becoming the first team in Italy's history to win Serie A and Coppa Italia doubles in back-to-back seasons. In the
2017 Coppa Italia final, Juventus won their 12th Coppa Italia title in a 2–0 win over Lazio, becoming the first team to win three consecutive titles. Four days later on 21 May, Juventus became the first team to win six consecutive Serie A titles. In the
2017 UEFA Champions League final, their second Champions League final in three years, Juventus were defeated 1–4 by defending champions Real Madrid; the
2017 Turin stampede happened ten minutes before the end of the match. In the
2018 Coppa Italia final, Juventus won their 13th title and fourth in a row in a 4–0 win over Milan, extending the all-time record of successive Coppa Italia titles. Juventus then secured their seventh consecutive Serie A title, extending the all-time record of successive triumphs in the competition. in 2018 elevated the club's popularity Juventus, eager to secure the Champions League title, signed
Cristiano Ronaldo for £99.2 million from Real Madrid on 10 July 2018. In Italy, the signing was dubbed the "deal of the century." In April 2019, Juventus secured their eighth consecutive Serie A title, further extending the all-time record of successive triumphs in the competition. Following Allegri's departure,
Maurizio Sarri was appointed manager of the club ahead of the
2019–20 season. Juventus were confirmed
2019–20 Serie A champions, reaching an unprecedented milestone of nine consecutive league titles.
Recent history (2020–present) On 8 August 2020, Sarri was sacked from his managerial position, one day after Juventus were eliminated from the
2019–20 UEFA Champions League by
Lyon. On the same day, former player
Andrea Pirlo was announced as the new coach, signing a two-year contract. With Inter Milan's win of the
2020–21 Serie A, Juventus's run of nine consecutive titles came to an end; the club managed to secure a fourth-place finish on the final day of the league, granting Juventus qualification to the following season's Champions League. Despite the fact Pirlo had won two seasonal trophies—the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italiana— he was sacked from his managerial position in late May 2021. Allegri agreed to return to the club as manager after two years away from management on a four-year contract. During the three seasons that featured Ronaldo, the Champions League all-time top scorer, Juventus disappointingly failed to win the Champions League. Ronaldo left the club for Manchester United in late August 2021. Juventus reached another fourth place in the league. In the
2022–23 season, Juventus had one victory and five defeats in their Champions League group, achieving their worst-ever score (3 points) and their greatest-ever number of losses in the competition's group stage. The team finished third in the group stage and dropped down into the Europa League, Meanwhile, on 28 November 2022, the entire board of directors had resigned from their respective positions,
Andrea Agnelli as president,
Pavel Nedvěd as vice president, and
Maurizio Arrivabene as CEO. Agnelli's presidency was the most victorious of the club's history, with 19 titles won.
Exor, the club's controlling shareholder, appointed
Gianluca Ferrero as its new chairman ahead of the shareholders' meeting on 18 January 2023. Two days later, after being acquitted by the FIGC's Court of Appeal in April–May 2022, Juventus were deducted 15 points as punishment for capital gain violations, as part of an investigation related to the 2019–2021 budgets during the
COVID-19 pandemic starting in November 2021. Following Juventus's appeal, the decision had initially been reversed on 20 April 2023, but the club were given a new penalty, this time of ten points, on 22 May. Within the aforementioned FIGC's inquiry, on 29 May, Juventus proposed a plea bargain for their false accounting on staff salaries; the request was accepted one day later and Juventus only received a fine of €718,240 without any further penalty. Juventus finished the
2022–23 Serie A in seventh place and qualified to the
UEFA Europa Conference League. However, on 28 July, UEFA ejected Juventus from its competitions for one year as the club violated a settlement agreement with UEFA signed in August 2022. The
2023–24 season was the first in which Juventus did not participate in UEFA competitions since 2011–12. Due to their UEFA competition ban, Juventus only had the Serie A title and Coppa Italia to play for during the 2023–24 season. In
Serie A Juventus finished the season in third place. In the
Coppa Italia, Juventus made the final where they faced
Atalanta. Juventus won the final 1–0 after an early goal from
Dušan Vlahović, earning the Turin club their 15th Coppa Italia title. That was Allegri's sole trophy during his second stint. However the game was not without controversy, Allegri was sent off in stoppage time after shouting at the 4th official. Allegri after leaving the pitch was reported to have attacked the referees, threatened a journalist and waved off sporting director
Cristiano Giuntoli during the post match celebrations. Despite winning the Coppa Italia, two days after the final Juventus announced they had sacked Allegri, mainly due to his behaviour during the game not being in line with the club's values,
Paolo Montero took charge for the final two league games of the season. On 12 June 2024, Juventus announced that former
Bologna coach and Inter Milan midfielder
Thiago Motta would become their new head coach for the
2024–25 season, on a three-year contract. Ahead of the 2024–25 season, Juventus spent almost €200 million in the football market, which included the signings of midfielders
Teun Koopmeiners and
Douglas Luiz (both paid more than €50 milion). However, Motta was sacked in March 2025, and was replaced by former 1990s and 2000s footballer
Igor Tudor. On 7 October 2025, Juventus announced that its chief executive officer,
Maurizio Scanavino, would step down from his position on 7 November 2025, concluding a three-year tenure that began in late 2022 following the resignation of the club's previous board of directors. The club indicated that it expected to appoint
Damien Comolli, then serving as general manager, as Scanavino's successor. Comolli had joined Juventus in June 2025 after holding executive positions at several European clubs, including
Liverpool and
Toulouse. On 30 October 2025, the club confirmed that
Luciano Spalletti had been appointed as their new head coach until the end of the
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