Juventus- The white-blacks
Juventus Football Club (BIT: JUVE) (from Latin iuventus: youth, pronounced [juˈvɛntus]), commonly referred to as Juventus and familiarly as Juve, is an Italian professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont. The club was founded in 1897 and have spent their entire history, with the exception of the 2006–07 season, in the top flight
First Division (since 1929, called
Serie A).
Juventus is the most successful team in the history of
Italian football. Overall, the club have won 51 official trophies, more than any other team in the country; 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
Olimpico (Olympic) Stadium, formerly known as
Comunale, is owned by the city of Turin, who carried out extensive restoring of the facility for the 2006 Winter Olympics; the Stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the event.
As from the 2006/07 season, both city clubs,
Juventus and
Torino, play all their home matches there. The Stadium can hold 25,442 people.
The former
Comunale Stadium was built in the Thirties. The first match played there, on June 29 1933, was
Juventus vs.
Ujpest (6-2), the return leg of the quarter finals of the
Central European Cup, a tournament of the time featuring clubs from
Italy,
Austria,
Czechoslovakia and
Hungary.
Juventus played 890 games at the
Comunale Stadium between 1933 and 1990, and won 17 League titles there in that same period.
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