SC Juventus Torino were founded in 1897 by students from the well-off Massimo d'Azeglio Grammar School, and thanks to the long-term financial support of the Agnelli family, owners of the Fiat car company, they have been amongst Italy's footballing elite almost since day one. They settled on the name that has stuck until the present in 1899, changing from a sporting club to concentrate on football, and FBC Juventus Torino.
Juventus were amongst the top teams in the old regional league system, regularly qualifying from the Piemontese group to reach the national league stages and winning their first Italian League title in 1905 finishing a single point ahead of the then dominant Genoa. Juventus had lost the Championship play-off final to Genoa in both of the previous two seasons, so this victory must have been particularly sweet. Their next taste of championship success came in 1926 when they won their regional league by an eight point margin, beat Bologna in the northern Italy final and beat the southern champions, Alba seven-one and five-one in the two-legged championship final.
On the formation of the national league, Juventus did well to place third in it's inaugural season but from 1931 to 1935 they won a remarkable five successive Serie A titles. During this period, Juventus played one hundred and sixty-six league matches and won one hundred and fifteen of them losing just twenty-one times. Juventus' home form was magnificent and by the end of the decade they had lost only eight league matches on their own ground. 1938 also brought Juventus's first Italian Cup victory, with local rivals Torino the unlucky victims, being beaten five-two over the two legged final. Although Juventus failed to win another championship during the 1940s, they were regularly in the top three of Serie A and won another Italian Cup in 1942, this time with Milan as the beaten finalists, Juventus winning the second leg four-one after the first ended in a one-one draw.
Juventus won the Serie A title in 1950 and 1952 and remained amongst the front runners throughout the decade, regularly finishing in the top three and winning the title again in 1958. This time, it was with the help of a new strike partnership, the purchase of John Charles from Leeds United setting a new British transfer record whilst in 1961 his partner, Argentine Omar Sivori became the first Juventus player to win the prestigious European Footballer of the Year award. Juventus were back on a roll, and won the Italian Cup in 1959 and 1960, the second victory completing a league and cup double. Inter were soundly beaten four-one in the 1959 final, whilst in 1960, Fiorentina had the misfortune to finish second behind Juventus in both the league and cup. In 1961, Juventus won their second Serie A title in succession and their tenth in total, in the process recording their record victory, a nine-one win at home to Inter, who would go on that year to finish in third place. The club did not fare so well in European competition failing to make it past the first round of the European Cup on two occasions and losing out in the final of the 1965 Fairs Cup one-nil to Ferencvaros, despite the match being staged in Turin. The year saw another Italian Cup win however, as Juventus beat Inter one-nil in the final. This was followed by another first round exit from European competition, this time at the hands of Liverpool in the Cup Winners Cup. An eleventh Serie A title came in 1967, when Juventus pipped Inter to the post by a single point.
Juve failed to finish in the top three of Serie A only once in the 1970s and that was in 1971 when they were once again the beaten finalists in the Fairs Cup losing out to Leeds United in the two-legged final on the away goals rule. Anastasi scored for Juventus in the second leg and was the tournament's top scorer with ten goals. In 1972 and 1973 Juventus again won back to back Serie A titles, Milan tasting the disappointment of second place on both occasions, but again, success in Europe was to prove elusive, Juve losing out one-nil to Ajax in the final of the 1973 European Cup. Juventus also lost out in the final of the Italian Cup, this time to Milan on penalties. Another Serie A title in followed in 1975 although there was disappointment the following season as they finished second behind local rivals and new champions, Torino by a two-point margin. A first European trophy was to come in 1977, on the back of their second place in Serie A the previous season. Marco Tardelli scored the only goal of the game as Juve triumphed over Athletico Bilbao in the final of the UEFA Cup. Juventus again won the Serie A title in 1977 and retained it in 1978. Such was Juve's dominance of the domestic scene at this time that national coach Enzo Bearzot used almost the entire Juventus team in his 1978 World Cup squad. Juventus finished third in Serie A in 1979, but won the Italian Cup, beating Palermo two-one in the final. Juventus were now playing with more aplomb in European competitions and they progressed to the semi-final of the Cup Winners Cup in 1980 before losing to Arsenal over two legs.
The first half of the 1980s saw Juventus build on the success they had enjoyed in the previous decade and win the Serie A title in 1981 and 1982. The club had some outstanding talent on their books including at various points Liam Brady, 1982 European Footballer of the Year Paolo Rossi and the incomparable Michel Platini, Italy's top scorer between 1984 and 1986 and European Footballer of the Year in 1983, 1984 and 1985. There were seven Juventus players in Italy's 1982 World Cup Winning team and they went on to enjoy domestic cup triumph in 1983 when they beat Hellas-Verona over two legs in the Italian Cup final. This led to Juve's second European trophy, Paris Saint-German and Manchester United among their victims on the road to the final where first half goals from Vignola and Boniek gave Juventus a two-nil victory over FC Porto. Victory in Serie A by a two-point margin completed a remarkable double. A third European trophy, this time the European Cup followed the season after, but it was an occasion marred by the deaths of almost fifty fans in the Heysel Stadium disaster after a wall collapsed. Michel Platini gave the Turin club a hollow victory over Liverpool by way of a fifty-sixth minute penalty and was the tournaments joint-highest scorer with seven goals. Juventus failed to defend the trophy, going out of the tournament at the semi-final stage the following year, but qualified for the 1987 tournament after winning what would be their last Scudetto for almost a decade. This time, Juve were unlucky to lose on penalties to Barcelona in the second round.
The second half of the 1980s saw Juventus fail to win a trophy, and other than a second place in Serie A in 1987, they did not place in the top three of Serie A until 1992. Fourth position in 1989 did however mean that Juve had qualified for Europe, and 1990 saw a return to winning ways with an Italian Cup and UEFA Cup double. Milan lost out in the Italian Cup final by a single goal and in an all-Italian final, Juve beat Fiorentina three-one in the first leg held at the Comunale Stadium in Turin, holding out for a goalless draw in the away tie to lift the UEFA Cup for the second time in the club's history. That was the last season at the old Comunale Stadium. A third success in this tournament followed in 1993 when a Juventus side that included Roberto Baggio, Dino Baggio, Andreas Moller and Gianluca Vialli blasted Borussia Dortmund out of the final six-one over the two legs. The quality of the side paid off with Juve winning the domestic double and reaching the final of the UEFA Cup again in 1995. For the second year in succession, it was an all-Italian final. Dino Baggio had been sold to finalists Parma in the intervening period, and he came back to haunt his former club, scoring in both legs to clinch a two-one aggregate win for his new team. The Serie A title was won by a ten-point margin, and Juventus gained some measure of revenge over Parma in the Italian Cup final, with a three-nil aggregate win. Via a penalty shoot-out victory over Ajax, in 1996 Juventus won the European Cup. Thankfully, this time the occasion was not clouded by the tragedy which had put a shadow over their win in 1985. |
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