Juventus

Lore & Background

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.

In Their Own Story

Inside the stadium, the air hums with a low, vibrating tension that snaps into a deafening roar the moment the teams emerge. The Nerazzurri stripes cut through the floodlights like a storm front, meeting the stark, defiant white of Turin. Before the referee's whistle even pierces the silence, every eye locks onto the center circle where thousands of past clashes converge in a single second. A veteran Inter midfielder and a Juventus captain exchange a look across the line—a silent acknowledgment of decades of battles—before the kickoff shatters the quiet and history begins to rewrite itself once more.

Reader's Guide

Juventus have won a record 36 Italian league titles, 15 Coppa Italia trophies, and nine Supercoppa Italiana trophies, making them the leading club in the historical Italian Football Federation (FIGC) classification. Internationally, the club has won two European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles, one European Cup Winners' Cup, three UEFA Cups, two Intercontinental Cups, two UEFA Super Cups, and one UEFA Intertoto Cup. With eleven international trophies, Juventus occupy the sixth position in Europe and 12th position worldwide for most confederation titles; they are placed fourth in the all-time UEFA ranking, having obtained the highest coefficient score during seven seasons since its introduction in 1979, the most for an Italian team in both cases and joint second overall in the last cited. They were the first club to win all three major UEFA competitions and remained the only club to have won every official UEFA men's club tournament until the first 2022 UEFA Europa League final. They are the only club to have won six different official European competitions.

Did You Know?

• Juventus is the most successful club in Italian football.
• The club has won a record 36 Italian league titles.
• Juventus was the first club to win all three major UEFA competitions.
• The club's black-and-white striped shirts were inspired by English side Notts County.
• Juventus players have won eight Ballon d'Or awards.