Juventus Football Club (Latin for Youth, pronounced yoo-VEHN-toos) is one of Italy's oldest and virtually all successful football clubs, based within Turin. It competes around Serie A.

A team usually plays around melanise-&-whiten stripy shirts & black shorts (however for decades around white shorts), & is nicknamed la Vecchia Signora (a Old Lady), bianconeri (black & white), or even zebre (zebras) . A team gets its black-&-white stripy kits from either English side Notts County. Originally a team played inside pinkish shirts (pink existence a inexpensive poop available).

While a club decided to vary these, it was decided to import kits in the red of Nottingham Forest, but a mix-confusion per provider intended that a team had the Notts County black & white instead. A club's bowl is the 69,041-seat Stadio Delle Alpi, which it currently shares sustaining Torino Calcio. This arrangement might prevent when a 2004–05 season, when Torino might open the newly ground of its have.

Juventus F.C. was based within November 1897 by students from Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum, and won a previous version of the national league titles as early as 1905, but did not win their second until 1926. Within 1923, the Agnelli personal (owners of Fiat) gained control of the club, and built the personal bowl around Villar Perosa (near Turin) & the complete series of facilities & services.

From either 1931, the club won 5 sequentially Italian league championships (Italian scudetto). Inside 1933, they began swimming at a Stadio Comunale. Post-war the club was very successful domestically, winning its tenth championship inside 1961, but did non win any European titles until 1977 with the UEFA Cup.

A height of European profits was non reached until 1985, when it won a European Champions Cup, but this was profits was largely overshadowed per Heysel disaster that had occurred when you took a final between Juventus & Liverpool. Juventus repeated a profits by winning a Champions League for another instance around 1996, and use at times non won it once more since, a nearest risk existence whilst it wasted to AC Milan in the 2003 final due to losing in the penalty gunplay.

Juventus likewise won a Cup Winners' Cup in 1984 and two additional UEFA Ventral suction cup (1990, 1993). Still, within 1999, due to their unfortunate household year, it were forced into a ignomany of typing a UEFA Intertoto Cup in order to qualify for Europe. It develop won 28 Italian titles & nine Coppa Italias to date, two national records. A club is likewise one of just 4 to stand won entirely trinity major European trophies.

Until recently, Juventus' players experienced to have on short (& regular) hair; a club as well provided a team sustaining official formal put on (processed by illustrious sartor) & forced the two to complete their training studies. Virtually all of its players remained by owning Juventus until a prevent of their careers; numbers of however operate for even even it or for Edict (or related corporations).

Them stars on a Juventus shirt signify it stand won the Scudetto assibilate Twenty days. In point of fact, Juventus won a Italian Championship Xxviii days, to a higher degree any more Italian club; there is no more club has won a championship concluded Xx days, however a nighest 1 thereto objective is AC Milan.

Juventus is nowadays the corporation, listed on a Borsa Italiana, the stock exchange in Milan. A low of Zinedine Zidane to Real Madrid of Spain was a virtually all expensive around football up to now, costing the Spanish club on top $64 million (U.s.).

Current first team squad
When of September 2005

Team honours
Around terms of league championships (known as ''Albo 500'Oro (palmarés) or even scudetto), a club is the virtually all successful inside Italian football.

Italian Championships: 28 1905, 1925-26, 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, 2004-05.

Italian Cups: 9 1937-38, 1941-42, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1964-65, 1978-79, 1982-83, 1989-90, 1994-95.

Italian Supercups: 4 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003.

European Cups: 2 1984-85, 1995-96.

'Cup Winners' Cups: 1 1983-84.

UEFA Cups: 3 1976-77, 1989-90, 1992-93.

European Super Cups: 2 1985, 1996.

Intertoto Cups: 1 1999.

Intercontinental Cups: 2 1985, 1996.

First team in Europe to win Champion League/Cup Winners Cup/UEFA Cup

Greatest players
A as a consequence occurs as listings, divided inside period, of the greatest players in the history of Juventus.

The champions of the years 1931-1935
Giampiero Combi - Virginio Rosetta - Umberto Caligaris - Raimundo Orsi - Luis Monti - Renato Cesarini - Giovanni Ferrari - Felice Borel

The '50s and '60s
Carlo Parola - Ermes Muccinelli - Giampiero Boniperti - Omar Sivori - John Charles

The period of Boniperti and Trapattoni
José Altafini - Luis Del Sol - Helmut Haller - Roberto Boninsegna - Roberto Bettega - Antonello Cuccureddu - Fabio Capello - Giuseppe Furino - Pietro Anastasi - Franco Causio - Zbigniew Boniek - Michel Platini - Liam Brady - Stefano Tacconi - Michael Laudrup

The 1982 world champions
Dino Zoff - Claudio Gentile - Antonio Cabrini - Gaetano Scirea - Marco Tardelli - Paolo Rossi

The Lippi era
Angelo Peruzzi - Ciro Ferrara - Didier Deschamps - Zinédine Zidane - Gianluca Vialli - Roberto Baggio - Filippo Inzaghi - Edgar Davids

The present
Gianluigi Buffon - Gianluca Zambrotta - Ferreira da Rosa Emerson - Patrick Vieira - Alessandro Del Piero - Pavel Nedvěd - David Trézéguet - Zlatan Ibrahimović