Juventus FC - last updated on 24 April 2008
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Club name: Juventus Football Club SpA
Foundation: November 1st 1897
City: Torino
Colours: White and black
Website: www.juventus.com
Honours:
Intercontinental Cup - 2 (1985, 1996)
UEFA Champions League - 2 (1984-85, 1995-96)
UEFA Super Cup - 2 (1984, 1996)
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup - 1 (1983-84)
UEFA Cup - 3 (1976-77, 1989-90, 1992-93)
UEFA Intertoto Cup - 1 (1999)
Serie A - 27 (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)
Serie B - 1 (2006-07)
Coppa Italia - 9 (1937-38, 1941-42, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1964-65, 1978-79, 1982-83, 1989-90, 1994-95)
Supercoppa Italiana - 4 (1995, 1997, 2002, 2003)
A bit of history:
Juventus Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Juventus or Juve, is a football club based in Turin, Italy. With the exception of one season, the club has spent its entire history in the top flight of Italian football, where it plays in the Lega Calcio Serie A today.
The name of the society is a literal license in Piedmontese dialect from the Latin substantive iuventus (youth in English language) and it was chosen in tribute to the youth of its founders.
The origin of the club, according to the journalistic point of view, is shrouded in mystery, because in the ending of the nineteenth century the sport was not sufficiently widespread in Italy to capture the interest of the press. The only document regarding the birth of Juventus is the one from the ending of 1915, written by Enrico Canfari, one of the club's founders and publicated in Hurrà Juventus, the club's official magazine.
Juventus is the most successful team in the history of Italian football. Overall, the club 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. The Old Lady is the third most successful club in Europe and the sixth in the world with the most international titles officially recognised by one of the six continental football confederations and FIFA.
The club was the first Italian and Southern European side to have won the UEFA Cup. In 1985, Juventus, the only team in the world to have won all official 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 UEFA competitions.
In Italy, Juventus is the club which has the biggest fan base, having also one of the largest numbers of supporters in the world, with a total of 170 million Juventus's tifosi worldwide. The club is a founding member of the European Club Association, which was formed after the dissolution of the G-14, a collection of Europe's most elite clubs.
At present, the bianconeri play their home games at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino while the stadium which the club actually owns, Stadio delle Alpi is undergoing long-term structural changes and will not be completed for use until 2011.
Juventus Football Club’s official emblem has undergone different and small modifications since the second decade of twentieth century. The last modification of the Old Lady’s badge took place before 2004-05 season. At the present time, the emblem of the team is conformed to a black-and-white oval shield, a type of Italian shield specially used by ecclesiastics, it is divided in five vertical stripes: two white stripes and three black stripes, inside of this are the following elements, in its superior section, the name of the society superimposed a white convex section, over golden curvature (gold for honour). The white silhouette of a charging bull is in the inferior section of the oval shield, superimposed a black old French shield, the charging bull is a symbol of the Comune di Torino. There is also a black silhouette of a mural crown above the black spherical triangle’s base is a reminiscence to "Augusta Tourinorum", the old city of the Roman era which the present capital of Piedmont region is its cultural heiress.
In the past, the convex section of the emblem had a blue colour (another symbol of Turin) and, furthermore, its shape was concave. The old French shield and the mural crown, also in the inferior section of the emblem had, considerably, a greater size with respect to the present. The two Golden Stars for Sport Excellence were located above the convex & concave section of the Juventus’ emblem. During the 1980s, the club emblem was the silhouette of a zebra, to both sides of the equide’s head, the two golden stars and, above this badge, forming an arc, the clubs name.
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