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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Juventus Football Club as a company

Since 27 June 1967 Juventus Football Club has been a joint stock company (it. società per azioni) and since 3 December 2001 the torinese side is listed on the Borsa Italiana. Currently, the Juventus' shares are distributed between 60% to Exor S.p.A, the Agnelli family's holding (a company of the Giovanni Agnelli & C.S.a.p.a Group), 7.5% to Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Co. and 32.5% to other shareholders. on 3 April 2010, Juventus announced that they have signed a new contract with Betclic UK Ltd., The company will be the official sponsor from 1 July 2010 up to 30 June 2012. The brand "Betclic" will appear on the Juventus jerseys during all the competitions in which the team will participate. Along with Lazio and Roma, the Old Lady is one of only three Italian clubs quoted on Borsa Italiana (Italian stock exchange). Juventus are also the only association football club in the country member of STAR (Segment of Stocks conforming to High Requirements, it. Segmento Titoli con Alti Requisiti), one of the main market segment in the world.
The club's training ground is owned by Campi di Vinovo S.p.A., controlled by Juventus Football Club S.p.A to 71.3%.
From 1 July 2008 the club has implemented a Safety Management System for employees and athletes in compliance with the requirements of international OHSAS 18001:2007 regulation and a Safety Management System in the medical sector according to the international ISO 9001:2000 resolution.
The club is one of the founders of the European Club Association (ECA), which was formed after the dissolution of the G-14, an international group of Europe's most elite clubs which Juventus were also a founding member.
According to The Football Money League published by consultants Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, in 2 March 2010, Juventus are the eight highest earning football club in the world—the highest ranking of any Italian club—with an estimated revenue of €203.2 million. Currently, the club is also ranked as the 8th most valuable club in the world by Forbes magazine, making them the second richest in Italy.

Shirt sponsors and manufacturers

Period Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
1979–1989 Kappa Ariston
1989–1992 Upim
1992–1995 Danone
1995–1998 Sony / Sony Minidisc
1998–1999 D+Libertà digitale / Tele+
1999–2000 CanalSatellite / D+Libertà digitale / Sony
2000–2001 Ciao Web / Lotto Sportal.com / Tele+
2001–2002 Lotto FASTWEB / Tu Mobile
2002–2003 FASTWEB / Tamoil
2003–2004 Nike
2004–2005 SKY Italia / Tamoil
2005–2007 Tamoil
2007–2010 New Holland (FIAT Group)
2010–2012 BetClic (home shirt) / Balocco (away shirt)

Contribution to the Italian national team

Overall, Juventus are the club that has contributed the most players to the Italian national team in history, they are the only Italian club that has contributed players to every Italian national team since the 2nd FIFA World Cup. Juventus have contributed numerous players to Italy's World Cup campaigns, these successful periods principally have coincided with two golden ages of the Turin club's history, referred as Quinquennio d'Oro (The Golden Quinquennium), from 1931 until 1935, and Ciclo Leggendario (The Legendary Cycle), from 1972 to 1986.
Italy's set up, with eight Juventus players, before the match against France in 1978 FIFA World Cup at Estadio José María Minella (Mar del Plata, Argentina) – 2 June 1978
Below are a list of Juventus players who represented the Italian national team during World Cup winning tournaments;
Two Juventus players have won the golden boot award at the World Cup with Italy; Paolo Rossi in 1982 and Salvatore Schillaci in 1990. As well as contributing to Italy's World Cup winning sides, two Juventus players Alfredo Foni and Pietro Rava, represented Italy in the gold medal winning squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Three bianconeri players represented their nation during the 1968 European Football Championship win for Italy; Sandro Salvadore, Ernesto Càstano and Giancarlo Bercellino.
Juventus have also contributed to a lesser degree to the national sides of other nations. Zinédine Zidane and captain Didier Deschamps were Juventus players when they won the 1998 World Cup with France, making the total number of Juventus World Cup winners 24, more than any other club in the world (three other players in the 1998 squad, Patrick Vieira, David Trézéguet and Lilian Thuram have all played for Juventus at one time or another). Three Juventus players have also won the European Football Championship with a nation other than Italy, Luis del Sol won it in 1964 with Spain, while the Frenchmen Michel Platini and Zidane won the competition in 1984 and 2000 respectively.

Club statistics and records

Alessandro Del Piero holds Juventus' official appearance record (646 as of 23 October 2010). He took over from Gaetano Scirea on 6 March 2008 against Palermo. Giampiero Boniperti holds the record for Italian Serie A appearances with 444.
Including all official competitions, Alessandro Del Piero is the all-time leading goalscorer for Juventus, with 277 goals—as of 23 October 2010—since joining the club in 1993. Giampiero Boniperti, who was the all-time topscorer since 1961 comes in second in all competitions with 182.
In the 1933–34 season, Felice Placido Borel II° scored 31 goals in 34 appearances, setting the club record for Serie A goals in a single season. Ferenc Hirzer is the club's highest scorer in a single season with 35 goals in 26 appearances in the 1925–26 season (record of Italian football). The most goals scored by a player in a single match is 6, which is also an Italian record. This was achieved by Omar Enrique Sivori in a game against Internazionale in the 1960–61 season.
The first ever official game participated in by Juventus was in the Third Federal Football Championship, the predecessor of Serie A, against Torinese; Juve lost 0–1. The biggest ever victory recorded by Juventus was 15–0 against Cento, in the second round of the Coppa Italia in the 1926–27 season. In terms of the league; Fiorentina and Fiumana were famously on the end of the Old Lady's biggest championship wins, both were beaten 11–0 and were recorded in the 1928–29 season. Juventus' heaviest championship defeats came during the 1911–12 and 1912–13 seasons; they were against Milan in 1912 (1–8) and Torino in 1913 (0–8).
The sale of Zinédine Zidane to Real Madrid of Spain from Juventus in 2001, was the world football transfer record until recently, costing the Spanish club around £46 million. Now, Cristiano Ronaldo holds the record for the most expensive transfer of all time in football.

Honours

Italy's most successful club of the 20th century, and the most successful club in the history of Italian football, Juventus have won the Italian League Championship, the country's premier football club competition, a record 27 times, and have the record of consecutive triumphs in that tournament (five, between 1930–31 and 1934–35). They have also won the Italian Cup, the country's primary cup competition, nine times, holding the record number of wins—overall and consecutives—for the latter. Overall, Juventus have won 51 official competitions, more than any other team in the country; 40 in the national First Division, which is also a record, and 11 official international competitions, making them, in the latter case, the second most successful Italian club in European competition. The club is currently third in Europe and sixth in the world with the most international titles won officially recognised by their respective association football confederation and FIFA. They have won the UEFA Cup three times, a record they share with Liverpool and Internazionale.
The club has earned the distinction of being allowed to wear two Golden Stars for Sport Excellence (it. Stelle d'oro al Merito Sportivo) on its shirts representing its league victories, the tenth of which was achieved during the 1957–58 season and the twentieth in the 1981–82 season. Juventus were the first Italian team to have twice achieved the national double (winning the Italian top tier division and the national cup competition in the same season), in the 1959–60 and 1994–95 seasons.
The club is unique in the world in having won all official international competitions, and they have received, in recognition to win the three major UEFA competitionsfirst case in the history of the European football The UEFA Plaque by the Union of European Football Associations on 12 July 1988.
the Torinese side was placed 7th—but the top Italian club—in the FIFA Clubs of the 20th Century selection of 23 December 2000.
Juventus have been proclaimed World's Club Team of the Year twice (1993 and 1996) and was ranked in 3rd place—the highest ranking of any Italian club—in the All-Time Club World Ranking (1991–2009 period) by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics.

National titles

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
1937–38, 1941–42, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1964–65, 1978–79, 1982–83, 1989–90, 1994–95
1995, 1997, 2002, 2003
2006–07
  • Runners-up (0): none

European titles

1984–85, 1995–96
1983–84
  • Runners-up (0): none
1976–77, 1989–90, 1992–93
1999
  • Runners-up (0): none
1984, 1996
  • Runners-up (0): none

World-wide titles

1985, 1996
  • Runners-up (1): 1973

Presidential history

Juventus have had numerous presidents over the course of their history, some of which have been the owners of the club, others have been honorary presidents, here is a complete list of them:
 
Name Years
Eugenio Canfari 1897–98
Enrico Canfari 1898–01
Carlo Favale 1901–02
Giacomo Parvopassu 1903–04
Alfred Dick 1905–06
Carlo Vittorio Varetti 1907–10
Attilio Ubertalli 1911–12
Giuseppe Hess 1913–15
Gioacchino Armano
Fernando Nizza
Sandro Zambelli
1915–18(cpg.)
Corrado Corradini 1919–20
Gino Olivetti 1920–23
Edoardo Agnelli 1923–35
Giovanni Mazzonis 1935–36
 
Name Years
Emilio de la Forest de Divonne 1936–41
Pietro Dusio 1941–47
Giovanni Agnelli (Honorary president) 1947–54
Enrico Craveri
Nino Cravetto
Marcello Giustiniani
1954–55(int.)
Umberto Agnelli 1955–62
Vittore Catella 1962–71
Giampiero Boniperti (Honorary president) 1971–90
Vittorio Caissotti di Chiusano 1990–03
Franzo Grande Stevens (Honorary president) 2003–06
Giovanni Cobolli Gigli 2006–09
Jean-Claude Blanc 2009–10
Andrea Agnelli 2010–
Legend:
(cpg.) Presidential Committee of War.
(int.) Presidents on interim charge.

Managerial history

Below is a list of Juventus managers from 1923 when the Agnelli family took over and the club became more structured and organized, until the present day.
 
Name Nationality Years
Jenő Károly Hungary 1923–1926
József Viola Hungary 1926(int.)
József Viola Hungary 1926–1928
George Aitken Scotland 1928–1930
Carlo Carcano Italy 1930–1935
Carlo Bigatto Iº
Benedetto Gola
Italy
Italy
1935(int.)
Virginio Rosetta Italy 1935–1939
Umberto Caligaris Italy 1939–1941
Federico Munerati Italy 1941(int.)
Giovanni Ferrari Italy 1941–1942
Luis Monti Argentina / Italy 1942(int.)
Felice Placido Borel IIº Italy 1942–1946
Renato Cesarini Italy 1946–1948
William Chalmers Scotland 1948–1949
Jesse Carver England 1949–1951
Luigi Bertolini Italy 1951(int.)
György Sárosi Hungary 1951–1953
Aldo Olivieri Italy 1953–1955
Sandro Puppo Italy 1955–1957
Ljubiša Broćić Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1957–1959
Teobaldo Depetrini Italy 1959(int.)
Renato Cesarini Italy 1959–1961
Carlo Parola Italy 1961(int.)
Gunnar Gren
Július Korostelev
Sweden
Czechoslovakia
1961(int.)
 
Name Nationality Years
Carlo Parola Italy 1961–1962
Paulo Lima Amaral Brazil 1962–1964
Eraldo Monzeglio Italy 1964(int.)
Heriberto Herrera Paraguay 1964–1969
Luis Carniglia Argentina 1969–1970
Ercole Rabitti Italy 1970(int.)
Armando Picchi Italy 1970–1971
Čestmír Vycpálek Czechoslovakia 1971–1974
Carlo Parola Italy 1974–1976
Giovanni Trapattoni Italy 1976–1986
Rino Marchesi Italy 1986–1988
Dino Zoff Italy 1988–1990
Luigi Maifredi Italy 1990–1991
Giovanni Trapattoni Italy 1991–1994
Marcello Lippi Italy 1994–1999
Carlo Ancelotti Italy 1999–2001
Marcello Lippi Italy 2001–2004
Fabio Capello Italy 2004–2006
Didier Deschamps France 2006–2007
Giancarlo Corradini Italy 2007(int.)
Claudio Ranieri Italy 2007–2009
Ciro Ferrara Italy 2009–2010
Alberto Zaccheroni Italy 2010
Luigi Delneri Italy 2010–
Legend:
(int.) Managers on interim charge.
Nationality is indicated by the corresponding FIFA country code(s).
 

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