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Juventus Football Club (from Latin: iuventūs, 'youth'; Italian pronunciation: [juˈvɛntus]), known for commercial purposes as Juventus Women or simply Juve Women ([ˈjuːve ˈwiːmen]), is a women's football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. It was established in 2017 as the women's section of the homonymous club, following an acquisition of Cuneo's sporting licence.
The team competes in Serie A, the top flight in national football, since its debut in the 2017–18 season. They have won six league titles, four Coppa Italia titles, and four Supercoppa Italiana titles, becoming one of the country's most successful teams. In 2020–21, they became the first Italian club (women's or men's) to accomplish a perfect season, having won all their league matches. In 2021–22, Juventus became the first team to win five consecutive league titles, and they accomplished their first domestic treble.
In May 2017, Juventus' general manager Giuseppe Marotta announced that the club was planning to form a women's team.[2] The women's section of Juventus was officially formed on 1 July 2017.[3] Despite there being other women's football clubs in Turin in the past which had adopted the name "Juventus" and the black and white colours, such as the 1978-founded Juventus Torino; these have never had any connection with the men's club.[3][4]
Colloquially known as Juventus Women,[5] the team was formed after the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) allowed professional men's clubs to purchase amateur women's clubs. Already active in women's youth football since 2015,[6] Juventus acquired the sporting license of Serie A club Cuneo,[7] which in the meantime had dissolved,[5] allowing the newly-formed team to directly compete in the Italian top division.[8] Several players were signed from neighbouring Brescia, Italian champions in two of the previous four seasons and runners-up in the others.[9]
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During the tenure of Rita Guarino,[10] Juventus quickly emerged as a dominating force in Italy, winning four consecutive league titles in their first four years of activity.[11] Juventus' first game was on 27 August 2017, in a 13–0 away victory over Torino in the first leg of the first round of the 2017–18 Coppa Italia; Martina Rosucci scored the club's first-ever goal.[12] In the 2017–18 Serie A, the club was tied with Brescia for first place at 60 points.[13] The two sides played a single-legged play-off match where, following a goalless draw after 120 minutes, Juventus beat Brescia 5–4 in a penalty shoot-out.[13]
In 2018–19, by having won the previous season's league title, they qualified for the UEFA Champions League; they lost 3–2 on aggregate to Brøndby in the round of 32.[14] That season, Juventus achieved the domestic double, winning their second Serie A title and first Coppa Italia.[15] In 2019–20, Juventus won both the Supercoppa Italiana, their first title,[16] and their third consecutive league title.[a][11] In only two years, the team won all the trophies of Italian women's football.[16]
In the 2020–21 season, Juventus won their second Supercoppa Italiana,[19] and their fourth-consecutive league title, becoming only the second club to achieve this streak after Torres in 2013.[20] They finished the season winning all 22 league matches, becoming the first team in the Italian women's top flight to accomplish a perfect season.[21]
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After four seasons at the club, Guarino left Juventus.[22] She was replaced by former Melbourne City and Arsenal coach Joe Montemurro ahead of the 2021–22 season.[23] Juventus won their fifth-consecutive league title, establishing a record streak in Italian women's football.[24] They also finished among the best eight teams in Europe, reaching the quarterfinals of the 2021–22 Champions League.[25] Having also won the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana that season, their second and third respectively, Juventus achieved their first domestic treble.[26]
In the 2022–23 season, Juventus lost the 2022 Supercoppa Italiana to Roma in the penalty shoot-out.[27] Roma also ended their run of five consecutive league titles.[28] Their sole seasonal trophy was the Coppa Italia, after defeating Roma 1–0 thanks to Barbara Bonansea's stoppage-time goal.[29]
Juventus started the 2023–24 season with the early elimination from the Champions League at the hands of Eintracht Frankfurt after penalty shoot-outs in the first qualifying round in September.[30] After a 1–0 defeat to Fiorentina in the first leg of the Coppa Italia semi-finals and a nine-point gap from league leaders Roma, Juventus announced Montemurro's dismissal with immediate effect on 6 March 2024.[31] During Montemurro's tenure, Juventus won one league title, two Coppa Italia titles, and two Supercoppa Italiana titles.[31][32] He was replaced for the rest of the season by his assistant coach, Giuseppe Zappella,[31] who brought Juventus to second place in the league behind Roma, who won their second league title in a row.[33]
On 22 May 2024, Juventus announced that Massimiliano Canzi had agreed to become Juventus' coach on a two-year contract.[34] In their first season under Canzi, Juventus immediately achieved the domestic double: they won the scudetto after a three-year hiatus, and they won the Coppa Italia by defeating Roma 4–0.[35]
| Season | League | Coppa Italia[36] | Supercoppa Italiana[37] | UEFA Champions League[38] | ||
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| Tier | Division | Position[39] | ||||
| 2017–18 | 1 | Serie A | Champions | Quarter-finals | N/A | N/A |
| 2018–19 | Champions | Champions | Final | Round of 32 | ||
| 2019–20 | Champions | Not concluded | Champions | Round of 32 | ||
| 2020–21 | Champions | Semi-finals | Champions | Round of 32 | ||
| 2021–22 | Champions | Champions | Champions | Quarter-finals | ||
| 2022–23 | Runners-up | Champions | Final | Group stage | ||
| 2023–24 | Runners-up | Semi-finals | Champions | First round[b] | ||
| 2024–25 | Champions | Champions | N/A | Group stage | ||
Until 2023, Juventus' home ground was the 498-capacity Campo Ale & Ricky ("Ale & Ricky Field"), situated inside the Juventus Training Center in Vinovo.[40][41] Thereafter, Juventus have been playing at the Stadio Vittorio Pozzo in Biella.[42]
For their UEFA Women's Champions League matches (excluding qualifying rounds), Juventus have been using the men's team's Juventus Stadium in Turin since 2020.[43] Juventus played their home matches of the 2018–19 and 2019–20 Champions League seasons respectively at the Stadio Silvio Piola in Novara, and at the Stadio Giuseppe Moccagatta in Alessandria.[c][45][46]
On 24 March 2019, Juventus played an important match against Fiorentina at the Juventus Stadium, in which tickets were free;[47] Juventus won 1–0, and the match was attended by 39,000 people, a record number of spectators in a women's football match in Italy.[48]
During their first season in 2017–18, Juventus trained at the Sisport center in Turin.[40] Starting from 2018, Juventus has been training at the Juventus Training Center.[49]
In July 2015, Juventus formed their under-12 team following a partnership with Turin-based club San Bernando Luserno,[50] after FIGC decided that every Serie A club had to have a women's team.[51] By 2022, Juventus had already had seven youth teams (from U9 to U19 level).[51] In November 2022, Juventus Women's Team Director Stefano Braghin announced a collaboration with Bari-based club Pink Bari's youth set-up.[52]
The under-19 team has won the Women's Torneo di Viareggio thrice (in 2019, 2020 and 2025)[53][54][55] and reached (and lost) five league championship finals in six years (2018,[56] 2020,[57] 2021,[58] 2022[59] and 2023[60]),[d] with the addition of a third place in 2019, after defeating Pink Bari 4–2 in the third-place playoff.[61] They ultimately won the championship in 2025 after defeating rivals Inter Milan 2–0 in the final.[62]
The under-17 team has reached two league championship finals, they won in 2019[63] and lost in both 2022[64] and 2024.[65] The under-15s have won two scudetti (in 2019[66] and 2022).[67] Juventus U12 have won twice the national phase of the Danone Nations Cup, a prestigious international competition among under-12 teams, in 2017 and 2022.[68][69]
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Below is a list of Juventus Women coaches from 2017 until the present day.[71]
| Name | Nationality | Years |
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| Rita Guarino |  Italy
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2017–2021 |
| Joe Montemurro |  Australia
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2021–2024 |
| Giuseppe Zappella | Italy
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2024 |
| Paolo Beruatto | Italy
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2024 |
| Massimiliano Canzi | Italy
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2024– |
Below is a list of Juventus Women trophies from 2017 until the present day.[72]
Juventus holds the record for consecutive Serie A victories (5), between 2018 and 2023,[73] and the most scudetti in the three-point era (6), ex aequo with Torres.[74] In the 2021–22 season, Juventus became the first-ever Italian team in both men's and women's football to accomplish a perfect season with 22 league wins out of 22.[75] In addition, Juventus became the team to score the most league points (66), the most seasonal goals (75) and the best goal-difference (+65) in a single 12-team league.[76]
From 16 February 2020 to 16 January 2022, Juventus achieved the longest series of league matches won consecutively (36).[77] Furthermore, Juventus went unbeaten for 54 Serie A matches in–a–row, from 14 April 2019 to 27 February 2022.[78] From 2 January 2020 to 16 December 2023, Juventus always scored at least one goal for 82 consecutive league matches.[79]
Ahead of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, Italy coach Milena Bertolini called up eight Juventus players—including captain Sara Gama. Six of them were regularly fielded as starters. Italy reached the quarter-finals, their best-ever result in the competition.[80]
The 2022 Algarve Cup Final saw nine Juventus players being fielded. Seven were Italy's, namely Bonansea, Caruso, Cernoia, Gama, Girelli, Lenzini and Rosucci, while two Sweden's, namely Lina Hurtig and Amanda Nildén.[81]
Ahead of the UEFA Women's Euro 2025, where Italy would reach the semifinals, Italy's coach Andrea Soncin called up eight Bianconere players: Boattini, Lenzini, Salvai, Schatzer, Bergamaschi, Bonansea, Cantore and Girelli.[82]
The following Juventus players have been inducted into the Italian Hall of Fame.
| Ind. | Name | Nationality | Pos. | Years | Ref. |
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| 2019 | Sara Gama | Italy
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DF | 2017–2025 | [83] |
| 2021 | Barbara Bonansea | Italy
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FW | 2017–pres. | [83] |
| 2022 | Cristiana Girelli | Italy
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FW | 2018–pres. | [83] |
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