Juventus Football Club
(from Latin iuventus: youth), commonly referred to as simply Juventus or Juve, is a football club from Turin, Italy. With the exception of one season, the club has spent its entire history in the top flight of Italian football. After winning Serie B, Juventus were promoted back to Serie A for the 2007?08 season.
Juventus is the most successful team in the history of Italian football. Overall, Juventus have won 51 official trophies, more than any other Italian team; 40 in Italy, which is also a record, and 11 in European and world competitions. Juventus is the third most successful club in Europe and the sixth in the world with the most international titles recognized by UEFA and FIFA.
In 1985, Juventus, the only team in the world to have won all international cups and championships (which includes all official European competitions and the Intercontinental Champions Clubs' Cup), became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three Major European trophies. The torinese team is also one of the G-14?s founding members, a group that represents eighteen of the largest and most prestigious European football clubs.
At present, Juventus play their home games at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino while their full-time stadium, Stadio delle Alpi is having structural changes and will not be completed for use until 2008.
Full name: Juventus Football Club S.p.A.
Nicknames: La Vecchia Signora(The Old Lady)
La Fidanzata d'Italia (The Girlfriend of Italy)
I bianconeri (The white-blacks)
Le Zebre (The Zebras)
Founded: 1 November 1897
Ground: Stadio Olimpico di Torino and Stadio Delle Alpi, Turin, Italy
Chairman: Giovanni Cobolli Gigli
Head Coach: Claudio Ranieri
Captain: Alessandro Del Piero
League: Serie A
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