Juventus Football Club ( yoo-VEN-təs; Italian: [juˈvɛntus]; from iuventūs, Latin for 'youth'), commonly known as Juventus or colloquially as Juve (Italian: [ˈjuːve]), is a professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. They compete in Serie A, the top tier of Italian football. Founded in 1897 by a group of Turinese students, Juventus is one of Italy's oldest football clubs and has played their home matches at the Juventus Stadium since 2011. Nicknamed la Vecchia Signora (\"the Old Lady\"), Juventus is the most successful club in Italian football.
Juventus have won a record 36 Italian league titles, 15 Coppa Italia trophies, and nine Supercoppa Italiana titles, making them the leading club in the historical Italian Football Federation (FIGC) classification. Internationally, the club has won two European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles, one European Cup Winners' Cup, three UEFA Cups, two Intercontinental Cups, two UEFA Super Cups, and one UEFA Intertoto Cup. It was the first club to win all three major UEFA competitions and remains the only club to have won every official UEFA men's club competition.
Founded as Sport-Club Juventus, the club established itself as a major force in Italian football during the 1930s. They enjoyed a period of sustained domestic and European success under Giovanni Trapattoni between the late 1970s and mid-1980s, winning six league titles and their first European Cup in 1985, becoming the first club to win all three major UEFA competitions. Under Marcello Lippi in the 1990s, Juventus won five league titles and the 1996 Champions League, reaching three consecutive Champions League finals between 1996 and 1998. Between 2012 and 2020, Juventus won a record nine consecutive Serie A titles and reached two UEFA Champions League finals.
Owned by the Agnelli family since 1923, Juventus is one of the most widely supported football clubs in Italy and among the most supported worldwide. Juventus players have won eight Ballon d'Or awards, while the club has provided more players to the Italy national team than any other, including to its FIFA World Cup-winning squads of 1934, 1982, and 2006. Juventus have long-standing rivalries with Torino, Inter Milan, and AC Milan. Listed on the Borsa Italiana since 2001, the club is also one of the world's most valuable football clubs.
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