Juventus Football Club (from Latin: iuventus, meaning 'youth"; Italian pronunciation: [ju'ventus]) is also known by its colloquial name of Juve (pronounced"'ju've ]),[3"ju:ve3"]), is an elite football club located within Turin, Piedmont, Italy which is part of the Serie A, the top level in the Italian football league system. The club was established in the year 1897 by a small group comprised of Torinese students The club has worn an all-white and black uniform since the year 1903. It has also played its home games in various grounds within its city, including the capacity of 41,507 people at the Juventus Stadium. The stadium is referred to as Vecchia Signora ("the Old Lady") The club has been awarded 36 league titles in the official league as well as the 14 Coppa Italia titles as well as the nine Supercoppa Italiana titles, being the only record holder of each of these competitions, Two Intercontinental Cups, two European Cups and two European Cups. UEFA Champions Leagues, one European Cup Winners Cup, a shared national track record with three UEFA Cups, two UEFA Super Cups and the joint record for national records of just one UEFA Intertoto Cup. The team is therefore in the top position of in the historic Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC) classification, while internationally, it occupies the sixth spot in Europe and is ranked 12th worldwide for the winning the most confederation championships with 11 trophies, and is also fourth on time-to-date Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) rankings of competitions with the best coefficient score over seven seasons since the introduction of the classification since 1979. It is the highest of the Italian club in both instances and a joint with the second-highest overall score in the last listed.
Founded with the name of Sport-Club Juventus, initially as an athletics club, it is the second oldest of its kind still active in the country after Genoa's department of football (1893) as well as played for a long time in the premier club division (reformulated with different formats up to it was reformed into Serie A inception in 1929) since the start of the season at the age of 1900, with the exclusion of 2006/07 season being run by the Agnelli family, an industrialist, for almost all of 1923. The association with the team and the family is among the longest and longest among national sports, which makes Juventus among the first official sports clubs to be ante litteram in the country and has established itself as an important player on the national scene in the 1930s, and also at confederation levels from the mid-1970s onwards, becoming among the top ten richest clubs in world football , in relation to revenue, value and profits since the mid-1990s. It has been listed in the Borsa italiana since 2001.
Under the leadership by Giovanni Trapattoni, the club had won 13 awards in the 10 years preceding 1986, which included six league titles as well as five international awards. They also became the first team to take home all three of the seasonal contests held under the Union of European Football Associations in the years 1976-77: the UEFA Cup (first Southern European team to do so) as well as the 1983-84 Winners' Cup, and the European Champions Cup. In the subsequent wins in 1985's European Super Cup and 1985 Intercontinental Cup, it became the first and only club in the world to have an unbeaten winning streak of confederation trophy categories and was confirmed with their win during the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup after another great run under Marcello Lippi. They became, also, up to 2022, the sole professional Italian club to have received every honour that's given to the first team, and is governed by a international or national football association. The year 2000 was the month that Juventus were ranked seventh on FIFA's historical list of the top clubs in the world . It after nine years, was ranked the second highest club in Europe in the 20th century as a result of the statistical study of the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) which is the highest ranking ever for the Italian team in both.
The Juventus fan base is the largest at a national level , and among the biggest in the world. Unlike most European sporting supporters' groups, which are often concentrated around their own club's city of origin, it is widespread throughout the whole country and the Italian diaspora, making Juventus a symbol of anticampanilismo ("anti-parochialism") and italianita ("Italianness"). Juventus players have been awarded 8 Ballon d'Or awards, four of them consecutively (1982-1985 which is a total record for the club) including Michel Platini as well as three of the five winners who have Italian nationality. They were the first player to represent Serie A, Omar Sivori and the former head of youth section Paolo Rossi; they have also received several FIFA World Player of the Award, with the winners being Roberto Baggio and Zinedine Zidane which is a record for the nation and the third and second-highest overall in each of the awards mentioned. In addition the club has supplied the highest number of participants to Italy national team, mostly in official competitions, almost in a continuous manner since 1924. These players frequently formed the team which helped lead the Azzurri team to international success particularly during the 1982, 1934 and the 2006 FIFA World Cups.
