Juventus: fact, figures...etc (4 Viewers)

[ReBeL]

Extreme results since 1900 until Serie A began

Victories and defeats:

Home victory:
11-0 v Fiorentina, Federal Championship, 7 October, 1928.
11-0 v Fiumana, Federal Championship, 4 November, 1928.
Away victory: 15-0 v Cento, Italian Cup, second round, 6 January 1927.
Home defeat: 0-8 v Torino Calcio, Federal Championship, 17 November, 1912
Away defeat: 1-8 v Milan, 14 January 1912.

Longest sequence of League victories in a single season: 12, since 16 December 1928 (Pro Vercelli 3-4 Juventus) to 31 March 1929 (Fiumana 1-3 Juventus).

Longest period without conceding a goal: 934 min. (GK: Giampiero Combi), since the third (Juventus 6-0 Milan on 25 October 1925) to thirteenth match (Parma 0-3 Juventus on 28 February 1926) of the Italian Football Championship 1925-26.

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[ReBeL]

Records in the Seria A era

Most points in a season:

3 pts for a win: 74 in 34 games (1997-98).
2 pts for a win: 62 in 38 games (1949-50).

Victories and defeats:

Home victory: 9-1 v Inter Milan, 10 June 1961.
Away victory: 7-0 v Pro Patria, 5 June 1951.
Home defeat: 1-7 v Milan, 5 February 1950.
Away defeat: 0-6 v Inter Milan, 4 April 1954.
Most League victories in a season: 23 in 30 games (1976-77; effectivity: 76.67%).
Fewest League drawns in a season: 4 in 34 games (1932-33 and 1994-95).
Most League drawns in a season: 17 in 34 games (1955-56).
Fewest League defeats in a season: 1 in 38 games (1977-78).
Most League defeats in a season: 15 in 38 games (1961-62).
Most League goals scored in a season (by team): 103 in 38 games (1950-51)
Fewest League goals scored in a season (by team): 28 in 30 games (1938-39).
Fewest League goals conceded in a season (by team): 14 in 30 games (1981-82, 30 games)
Most League goals conceded in a season (by team): 56 in 34 games (1961-62).
Longest period without conceding a goal: 903 min. (GK: Dino Zoff) begun on 3 December 1972, ended on 18 February 1973

Longest sequence of League victories:

In a single season: 10, since the twenty-fourth to thirty-third match of the 1931-32
Since the first match in a single season: 9 (2005-06)
Overall: 10, since the thirty-eighth match of the 2004-05 season to the ninth match of the 2005-06 season.

Longest sequence of unbeaten League matches (consecutive matches):

In a single season: 28 (1949-50).
Overall: 29 (since fifth match of the 1977-78 season to third match of the 1978-79 season).

Longest sequence of League matches without a victory:

In a single season: 8 (1938-39 season and 1955-56 season).
Overall: 13 (since the eighteenth to thirty-first match of 1955-56 season and since the twelfth to twenty-fifth match of the 1961-62 season).

Longest sequence of League defeats:

In a single season: 7 (since the third to twenty-eighth to thirty fourth match of the 1961-62).
Overall: 29 (since fifth match of the 1977-78 season to third match of the 1978-79 season).

 

[ReBeL]

Statistics in European competitions

Appearance (Ap): 45
Played (Pld): 322
Winned (W): 182
Drawn (D): 62
Lost (L): 78
Goals scored (GS): 587
Goals conceded (GC): 297

 

[ReBeL]

And here's the last post today thanks to Reference.com:

---------------------------------

Juventus F.C. honours


First squad

Juventus is the most successful club club in the history of Italian football and one of the most successful and prestigious in the world, having won a total of 51 official trophies : 40 in Italian tournaments and 11 in the international competitions, all recognized by Union of European Football Association and International Federation of Association Football.
The Old Lady has earned the distinction of being allowed to wear a two Golden Stars for Sport Excellence on its jersey representing the league’s victories of the bianconeri: the tenth, happened in 1957-58 season, and the twentieth, in 1981-82 season.

Official honours (recognized by UEFA and FIFA)
National titles

Juventus' tally of twenty seven FIGC football League championships and nine Italian Cups are records of Italian football.
Since 1930, the Old Lady has classified 25 times in the first position, 16 times in the second place and another 10 times in the third place of the Italian League championship (60.21% of its total appeareances since 1900).
Juventus is the only Italian team has achieved two times the national double , in 1959-60 and 1994-95 seasons and other two times the international double (win the league and a one of the main European championship in a single season): in 1976-77 (Juve has won the national League and the UEFA Cup) and 1983-84 season (Juve has won the national League and the Cup Winners’ Cup), also record in Italian football.

Juventus has been the first italian team to have won five consecutive times the FIGC League championship from 1930-31 season to 1934-35 season, a record in Italian football. This period, distinguished as the first golden age of Juventus’ history is so called “Il Quinquennio d’Oro” (The Golden Quinquennium).
Overall, the Old Lady has played in 20 national cups finals: 13 finals in the Italian Cup and 7 in the Italian Super Cup, winning 9 and 4 of them, respectively.
Since its foundation, Juventus hasn’t won official trophies only in the second decade of the twentieth century.

Italian League Championship: 27 (record).

Winners: 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
Runners-up (19): 1903; 1904; 1906; 1937-38; 1945-46; 1946-47; 1952-53; 1953-54; 1962-63; 1973-74; 1975-76; 1979-80; 1982-83; 1986-87; 1991-92; 1993-94; 1995-96; 1999-2000; 2000-01

Italian Cup: 9 (record).

Winners: 1937-38; 1941-42; 1958-59; 1959-60; 1964-65; 1978-79; 1982-83; 1989-90; 1994-95
Runners-up (4): 1972-73; 1991-92; 2001-02; 2003-04

Italian Super Cup: 4

Winners: 1995; 1997; 2002; 2003
Runners-up (3): 1990; 1998; 2005

International titles

Juventus, with 11 official international titles, is the second club in Italy, third in Europe and fifth club in the world with the most international titles recognized by the Union of European Football Associations and the International Federation of Association Football.

Overall, the Old Lady has played in 18 official international competition finals , winning 11 of them: 7 in the main European competition (2 triumphs), 1 in the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup (1 triumph), 4 in the UEFA Cup (3 triumphs), 1 in the UEFA Intertoto Cup (1 triumph), 2 in the UEFA Super Cup (2 triumphs) and 3 in the Intercontinental Cup / World Club Championship (2 triumphs).

In 45 appearances in international official tournaments, the Old Lady has classified between the three first positions in 54.3% of its total appeareances.
Juventus is the only football team in the world to have won all official international cups and championships.

Juventus is also the first team in the history of the European football to have won all Three Major European Trophies, also known as the Grand Slam, which includes; European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1985) , UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1984) and UEFA Cup (1977). To date, only other two clubs have achieved this (Ajax in 1992 and Bayern Munich in 1996).

The Old Lady has received in recognition the Targa UEFA (The UEFA Plaque) by the Union of European Football Associations in 1987.

Juventus is the only Italian team of all time to win an official European tournament without foreigners players in its first team squad (the UEFA Cup in 1976-77 season).

Juventus’ total of three UEFA Cups is a record for Italian clubs and also ties the overall record with other two clubs: Liverpool and Inter Milan.

Juventus finished in joint 7th place -and in the 1st place between Italian clubs- in the list of the FIFA Clubs of the 20th Century (a ranking based on votes by the readers of a bi-monthly FIFA Magazine on December 2000).

Juventus was ranked in the 2th place -and in the 1st place between Italian clubs- in the All-Time Club World Ranking (1991-2006 period) by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics on January 2007.

World Club Championship (former Intercontinental Cup): 2

Winners: 1985; 1996
Runners-up (1): 1973

UEFA Champions League (former European Cup): 2

Winners: 1984-85; 1995-96
Runners-up (5): 1972-73; 1982-83; 1996-97; 1997-98; 2002-03

UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup: 1

Winners: 1983-84
Runners-up (0): none

UEFA Cup: 3 (record).

Winners: 1976-77; 1989-90; 1992-93
Runner-up (1): 1994-95

UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1

Winners: 1999-2000
Runners-up (0): none

European Super Cup: 2

Winners: 1984; 1996
Runners-up (0): none

Other honours

National Department of Public Education Cup (3): 1900; 1901; 1902
Government of City of Torino’s Gold Medal: 1901
City of Torino’s Cup (3): 1902; 1903; 1964
Trino Vercellese’s Tournament (1): 1903
Palla d'Argento Henry Dapples (1): 1904
International University Cup (1): 1904
Second Squad’s Italian Football Championship (1): 1905
Luigi Bozino Cup (2): 1905; 1906
Italian Football Championship, James R. Spensley’s Cup (2) : 1908; 1909
De Martino Championship (1): 1959-60
Cup of the Alps (1): 1963
Italian-Spanish Friendship’s Cup (1): 1965
Pier Cesare Baretti Memorial (2): 1992; 1993
First Centenary 1897-1997 Cup: Republic of San Marino Trophy: 1997


Performance in international competitions before the UEFA era:


Central-European Cup: none (7 appeareances)

Semi-final (5): 1931-32; 1932-33; 1933-34; 1934-35; 1937-38

Rio Cup: none (1 appeareance)

Runner-up (1): 1951

Latin Cup: none (1 appeareance)

Third place (1): 1951-52

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup : none (6 appeareances)

Runner-up (2): 1964-65; 1970-71


Unofficial honours

Super Clubs Cup (Mondialito per clubs) (1): 1983
Joan Gamper Trophy of Barcelona (1): 2005
Republic of Malta Trophy (1): 1998
Republic of San Marino Tournament (3): 1998; 2001; 2002
Nicola Ceravalo Tournament (1): 1991
Valenti Memorial (2): 1992; 1993
Valle d’Aosta Trophy (3): 2001; 2002; 2003
Luigi Berlusconi Cup (8): 1991; 1995; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2003; 2004
Birra Moretti Cup (5): 1997; 2000; 2003; 2004; 2006
Novara Cup (1): 1994
"Andrea Fortunato" Memorial Trophy (1): 1995
Saint Vincent Cup (1): 1995
Salerno Cup (1): 1995

Youth sector
The Old Lady attaches great importance to working with young people. The club maintains several soccer schools, and is considered a springboard to a professional career in Italian soccer. As a matter of fact, the successful Squadra Azzura has often been dominated by past and present Juve players.

“Primavera” Squad
National honours

Primavera National Championship, Giacinto Facchetti’s Trophy (4): 1962-63; 1971-72; 1993-94; 2005-06
Primavera Italian Cup (3): 1994-95; 2003-04; 2006-07
Primavera Super Cup (1): 2005-06

International honours

Viareggio World Tournament, Coppa Carnevale (5): 1961; 1994; 2003; 2004; 2005
Gubbio Tournament (1): 2003

Unofficial honours

Di Cecco Tournament (2): 2004-05; 2005-06

“Berretti” Squad
National honours

“Dante Berretti” National Championship (3): 2001-02; 2003-04; 2004-05
Carlin’s Boys Tournament (6): 1961; 1965; 1967; 1997; 1998; 2004

International honours

Salice Teme’s International Tournament (1): 2003

“Allievi Nazionali” Squad
National honours

Allievi National Championship (1): 2005-06
"Maggiani-Righi" Memorial (1): 2004

International honours

City of Rieti’s International Trophy, “Scopigno Memorial” (1): 2003
Città di Arco's International Youth Trophy “Beppe Viola” (5): 1983; 1984; 1991; 1996; 2007
“Nereo Rocco” Memorial International Tournament (1): 2005
City of San Bonifacio’s International Tournament, Ferroli’s Trophy (1): 2002
“Gaetano Scirea” International Tournament (1): 2003
International Friendship’s Tournament (1): 1997
“G. Allemandi” International Tournament (1): 1984

“Allievi Sperimentali” Squad
National honours

“Stefano Sardi” Memorial Tournament (3): 1978; 1995; 1997

“Giovanissimi Nazionali” Squad
National honours

Giovanissimi Nazionali National Championship (1): 1997-98

International honours

City of Arco’s Tournament (4): 1983; 1984; 1991; 1996
“Vespignani” Memorial International Tournament (1): 2004
City of Bastia’s Tournament (2): 2004; 2006
“Michele Cara” Memorial (1): 2003
A.S.A.R International Tournament (1): 2002
“Tommaso Maestrelli” International Tournament (2): 2000; 2005

“Giovanissimi Sperimentali” Squad
International honours

“Stefano Maggioncalda” International Trophy (2): 2001; 2002
“Carletto Annovazzi” Memorial International Tournament (1): 2005
De Cillis Tournament (1): 2000
Bergamin Memorial Tournament (1): 2001
“Gaetano Scirea” Memorial, Castiglio Balsamo’s Tournament (1): 2002
“Flavio Frontali” Memorial (1): 2005
City of Gallipoli’s Carnival Trophy (2): 2002; 2004

 

[ReBeL]

Look at this effort:

http://stats.football365.com/dom/ITA/teams/Juventus.html

 

[ReBeL]

European Cup Record

1959
1st Round - Wiener Sport Club 3-1, 0-7 (3-8)

1961
1st Round - CDNA Sofia 2-0, 1-4 (3-4)

1962
1st Round - Panathinaikos 1-1, 2-1 (3-2)
2nd Round - Partizan Belgrade 2-1, 5-0 (7-1)
Quarter-Final - Real Madrid 0-1, 1-0 (1-1) replay 1-3

1968
1st Round - Olympiakos 0-0, 2-0 (2-0)
2nd Round - Rapid Bucharest 1-0, 0-0 (1-0)
Quarter-Final - Eintracht Brunswick 2-3, 1-0 (3-3) replay 1-0
Semi-Final - Benfica 0-2, 0-1 (0-3)

1973
1st Round - Marseille 0-1, 3-0 (3-1)
2nd Round - Magdeburg 1-0, 1-0 (2-0)
Quarter-Final - Ujpest Dozsa 0-0, 2-2 (2-2) won on away goals
Semi-Final - Derby County 3-1, 0-0 (3-1)
Final - Ajax 0-1

1974
1st Round - Dynamo Dresden 0-2, 3-2 (3-4)

1976
1st Round - CSKA Sofia 1-2, 2-0 (3-2)
2nd Round - Borussia Moenchengladbach 0-2, 2-2 (2-4)

1978
1st Round - Omonia Nicosia 3-0, 2-0 (5-0)
2nd Round - Glentoran 1-0, 5-0 (6-0)
Quarter-Final - Ajax 1-1, 1-1 (2-2) won on penalties
Semi-Final - Bruges 1-0, 0-2 (1-2)

1979
1st Round - Rangers 1-0, 0-2 (1-2)

1982
1st Round - Celtic 0-1, 2-0 (2-1)
2nd Round - Anderlecht 1-3, 1-1 (2-4)

1983
1st Round - Hvidovre 4-1, 3-3 (7-4)
2nd Round - Standard Liege 1-1, 2-0 (3-1)
Quarter-Final - Aston Villa 2-1, 3-1 (5-2)
Semi-Final - Widzew Lodz 2-0, 2-2 (4-2)
Final - Hamburg 0-1

1985
1st Round - Ilves 4-0, 2-1 (6-1)
2nd Round - Grasshoppers 2-0, 4-2 (6-2)
Quarter-Final Sparta Prague 3-0, 0-1 (3-1)
Semi-Final - Bordeaux 3-0, 0-2 (3-2)
Final - Liverpool 1-0
WINNERS

1986
1st Round - Jeunesse Esch 5-0, 4-1 (9-1)
2nd Round - Verona 0-0, 2-0 (2-0)
Quarter-Final - Barcelona 0-1, 1-1 (1-2)

1987
1st Round - Valur 7-0, 4-0 (11-0)
2nd Round - Real Madrid 0-1, 1-0 (1-1) lost on penalties

1996
1st Round Group
Borussia Dortmund 3-1, 1-2
Steaua Bucharest 3-0, 0-0
Rangers 4-1, 4-0 (1st place)
Quarter-Final - Real Madrid 0-1, 2-0
Semi-Final - Nantes 2-0, 2-3 (4-3)
Final - Ajax 1-1 won on penalties
WINNERS

1997
1st Round Group
Manchester United 1-0, 1-0
Fenerbahce 1-0, 2-0
Rapid Vienna 1-1, 5-0 (1st place)
Quarter-Final - Rosenborg 1-1, 2-0 (3-1)
Semi-Final - Ajax 2-1, 4-1 (6-2)
Final - Borussia Dortmund 1-3

1998
1st Round Group
Feyenoord 5-1, 0-2
Manchester United 2-3, 1-0
Kosice 1-0, 3-2 (2nd place)
Quarter-Final - Dynamo Kiev 1-1, 4-1 (5-2)
Semi-Final - Monaco 4-1, 2-3 (6-4)
Final - Real Madrid 0-1

1999
1st Round Group
Galatasaray 2-2, 1-1
Rosenborg 1-1, 2-0
Athletic Bilbao 0-0, 1-1
Quarter-Final - Olympiakos 2-1, 1-1 (3-2)
Semi-Final - Manchester United 1-1, 2-3 (3-4)

2001
1st Round Group
Hamburg 4-4, 1-3
Panathinaikos 2-1, 1-3
Deportivo La Coruna 0-0, 1-1 (4th place)

2002
1st Round Group
Celtic 3-2, 3-4
Rosenborg 1-1, 1-0
Porto 0-0, 3-1 (1st place)
2nd Round Group
Bayer Leverkusen 4-0, 1-3
Arsenal 1-3, 1-0
Deportivo La Coruna 0-0, 0-2 (4th place)

2003
1st Round Group
Feyenoord 1-1, 2-0
Dynamo Kiev 5-0, 2-1
Newcastle United 2-0, 0-1 (1st place)
2nd Round Group
Deportivo La Coruna 2-2, 3-2
Basel 4-0, 1-2
Manchester United 1-2, 0-3 (2nd place)
Quarter-Final - Barcelona 1-1, 2-1 (3-2)
Semi-Final - Real Madrid 1-2, 3-1 (4-3)
Final - AC Milan 0-0 lost on penalties

2004
1st Round Group
Galatasaray 2-1, 0-2
Olympiakos 2-1, 7-0
Real Sociedad 4-2, 0-0 (1st place)
2nd Round - Deportivo La Coruna 0-1, 0-1 (0-2)

2005
3rd Qualifying Round - Djurgardens 2-2, 4-1 (6-3)
1st Round Group
Ajax 1-0, 1-0
Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1-0, 1-1
Bayern Munich 1-0, 1-0 (1st place)
2nd Round - Real Madrid 0-1, 2-0 (2-1)
Quarter-Final - Liverpool 1-2, 0-0 (1-2)

2006
1st Round Group
Club Brugge 2-1, 1-0
Rapid Vienna 3-0, 3-1
Bayern Munich 1-2, 2-1 (1st place)
2nd Round - Werder Bremen 2-3, 2-1 (4-4) won on away goals
Quarter-Final - Arsenal 0-2, 0-0 (0-2)

 

[ReBeL]

How Juve Won The 1984/1985 Champions League??


The 1984/85 European Cup campaign was always going to be about two teams - the holders and four times winners Liverpool and the free spending ,star studded Juventus who were still chasing their first ever European Cup win. Graeme Souness, Liverpool’s hard tackling and inspirational captain had left for Sampdoria, but they had brought in the strong and hard running John Wark from Ipswich and tricky forward Paul Walsh from Luton. Juventus had kept the majority of their 1983 European Cup Final team together and had regained the Serie A title a year earlier as well as winning the Cup-Winners Cup.

The holders had to begin their campaign in Poland - the country where they had last been knocked out of the country. This time they were up against Lech Poznan whose manager had stated beforehand that if his team did not reach the last four he would resign. Even without Rush, Johnston and the departed Souness in the team, however, Liverpool were able to produce a typically professional European away performance as they proceeded to dominate the game in Poland. Having survived a scare when Adamiec headed against the crossbar, Liverpool gained a crucial away lead when Wark timed his run into the penalty area perfectly to finish off a Sammy Lee cross. The return match in England saw Wark score another three times as Liverpool went through 5-0 on aggregate.

Wark was not the only hat-trick hero of the first round as Paolo Rossi, not to be outdone, scored three to go alongside Michel Platini’s penalty in Finland as Juventus thrashed Tampere 4-0. Platini then scored another two in a 2-1 second leg win.

Elsewhere, several of the traditionally strong footballing countries found themselves without any representation in the competition as their teams went out in the opening round. German champions Stuttgart could only draw 2-2 at home with Levski Spartak of Bulgaria after a 1-1 first leg draw and went out on away goals. Scotland’s Aberdeen were well placed as they led Dynamo Berlin 2-0 going into the last 10 minutes of their home leg, but let in a late goal to put the tie back in the balance. In Berlin Aberdeen were again looking like favourites with the score at 1-1 until they conceded a goal with 6 minutes left and went on to lose on penalties. The Dutchmen of Feyenoord also went out at the first hurdle as they followed a 0-0 draw with a 2-1 defeat in Greece against Panathinaikos. Athletic Bilbao were unfortunate to be paired with a Bordeaux side that contained famous French stars such as Battiston, Lacombe, Giresse and Tigana as well as the German forward Dieter Muller. Bilbao did manage to gain a 2-1 lead in France but were eventually beaten 3-2 and went out after a 0-0 draw in Spain in which they had two goals disallowed which saw the crowd pelt the referee with missiles. Red Star Belgrade also went out despite recovering from being 2-0 down at half-time in their home leg against Benfica to record an impressive 3-2 win. With 20 minutes remaining in Lisbon Red Star were still ahead, but two late goals from Carlos Manuel sent Benfica through and the Yugoslavs out.

There was always likely to be trouble in store when Linfield of Northern Ireland with their staunchly Protestant fan base were drawn to play Shamrock Rovers of the Irish Republic, and so it proved. Despite being played in the afternoon for security reasons and with all surrounding streets and schools being closed, there were still ugly clashes between police and supporters as Linfield followed a goalless draw at home with a 1-1 scoreline in the return match to progress on away goals.

Linfield were not expected to go any further in the competition, especially when they were drawn against former European Cup finalists Panathinaikos. The Greeks, however, were given a shock in Athens when the Irish team took an early lead and only a penalty given for handball and a winner three minutes from time gave them a slender first leg lead. Panathinaikos were given an even greater shock back in Belfast when they found themselves 3-0 down after just 26 minutes. They fought back, however, through a Saravakos penalty on 29 minutes and further goals from Rocha (33 minutes) and Antonio (63 minutes) and survived a late scare when Rocha was sent off 7 minutes from time to edge through to the quarter-finals.

Going into the second round, Liverpool were in the midst of a domestic crisis. Having just lost at home to their Merseyside rivals Everton and having amassed only 11 points from 11 league games, it seemed that they were not the powerful force of old which may have given some hope to Benfica their next opponents. But although Liverpool were some way below their best, the intelligence of Dalglish and the finishing of Rush were enough to give them a 3-1 win at home with Rush scoring all three. The second leg, however, was a very different affair. After four days of constant lashing rain, the Stadium of Light pitch was almost unplayable with the ball often stopping in puddles. Liverpool hoped to see out the opening stages in their customarily professional way, but their plans had to be torn up when Grobbelaar brought down Jorge Silva in the penalty area and Manniche scored from the penalty spot. The holders then found themselves hanging on to their aggregate lead. As the game approached half-time, however, there was great controversy as Liverpool’s Dalglish and Benfica’s Pietra were sent off after squaring up to each other. The game then became more open with Grobbelaar being forced to make several good saves while Rush hit the woodwork at the other end before the game finished with Liverpool going through 3-2 on aggregate.

Juventus had little trouble in dispensing with Grasshoppers of Zurich. Goals from Vignola and Rossi gave them a 2-0 win in Turin and two from Platini helped Juve to a 4-2 win in Switzerland. Also through were Bordeaux although they had to work hard to get the better of Dinamo Bucharest. Having gone to Romania with a 1-0 lead, Bordeaux were pegged back by a 9th minute Dinamo goal and it was not until the 23rd minute of extra time that Lacombe scored to put the French side into the last eight.

Liverpool were now without the suspended Dalglish for the quarter-final, but they fortunately avoided any of their main rivals when they were drawn against FK Austria. In Vienna they were rocked when a 25 yard Polster thunderbolt gave the Austrians a first half lead, but they scored a crucial equaliser with just 5 minutes remaining when a free-kick was only parried by the goalkeeper and Nicol first scooped the ball onto the bar and then nodded in the rebound. At Anfield Liverpool had little trouble as they won 4-1 with Walsh scoring two and missing a late penalty.

Bordeaux looked as though they would overwhelm Russian champions Dnipro as they took the lead through Lacombe on ten minutes and were awarded a penalty 10 minutes later, but goalkeeper Sergei Krakovski saved Dieter Mullers penalty and despite constant Bordeaux pressure, Lyuty’s 43rd minute equaliser was the only further goal and so the Ukrainians were well placed for the return leg on their home territory. The second game was played in Krivy Rog because Dniepropietrovsk was closed to foreigners and Bordeaux requested that it be postponed for 24 hours after they were delayed due to fog, but UEFA refused and the game went ahead as planned. After 90 minutes of play and a further 30 minutes of extra time the score was 1-1 and so the tie was decided by a penalty shootout in which Bordeaux held their nerve to win 5-3.

Two players were sent off and seven booked as Panathinaikos gained a 1-0 win in a rugged encounter away to IFK Gothenburg. The winning goal came from a penalty on 50 minutes after the Greek Dimopoulos was brought down by the Swedish goalkeeper and Saravakos converted the penalty. In Athens it was another Saravakos penalty that proved decisive when, with only 12 minutes remaining and Gothenburg leading 2-1 and ahead on away goals, Saravakos was brought down in the penalty area and got up to score the crucial penalty himself.

Juventus continued their comfortable progress through the competition with a 3-0 first leg win over Sparta Prague courtesy of goals from Tardelli, Briaschi and Rossi. A late goal for Sparta was not enough to cause the Italians much concern in the second leg.

The semi-finals appeared to be decided after both first legs had been played. Liverpool were drawn against Panathinaikos who were considered to be the weakest of the remaining four teams. The Greeks set out to nullify the Liverpool attack in the first leg in England and looked to be succeeding as they passed the half hour mark with the score still 0-0. In fact, the Greeks could even have been leading if their goal on 15 minutes had not been disallowed for offside. But on 35 minutes goalkeeper Laftsis could not hold a speculative drive from MacDonald and Wark was on hand to put away the rebound. In the few minutes after half-time Rush sealed victory with goals from a left-wing and a right-wing cross into the penalty area. When Dalglish, now returned from suspension, floated in a free kick for Beglin to power home a header to make it 4-0 near the end, the tie was as good as over. Panathinaikos never really threatened to overcome a four goal defeicit in the second leg and Liverpool’s dominance was merely emphasised when Lawrenson played a one-two with Whelan before scoring on the hour to achieve a 5-0 aggregate scoreline and book their place in the Final.

Juventus were in a similarly strong position after their game at home to Bordeaux. Ironically it was Platini, up against his French international midfield partners Giresse and Tigana who dominated the match. It was Platini whose 30 yard pass on the half hour put Boniek through to score the opening goal. Then on 68 minutes Platini put Briaschi away and he shrugged off a French defender before doubling Juve’s lead. Then just two minutes later it was Platini himself who rifled home a Boniek cross to make the score 3-0. With a three goal lead, Juventus were expected to progress as comfortably as Liverpool had done, but Bordeaux were to give them some nervous moments first. Juventus had early chances in France to increase their aggregate lead, but it was Dieter Muller for Bordeaux who opened the scoring in the first half with a header to give the home side some hope. With ten minutes remaining and Bordeaux in desperate need of a goal Battiston hit a 30 yard shot which went in off the post to set up a grandstand finish. If Bodini had not made a brilliant save in the last minute to deny Tigana, there would have been extra-time and Bordeaux with the crowd and momentum behind them would have been favourites, but Juventus just managed to hang on and go through to the final 3-2 on aggregate.

And so Europe looked forward to the ‘Dream Final’ in Brussels between the two teams that had dominated the 1984/85 competition from the start. Juventus had the big stars but they had lost two European Cup finals before and had nearly cracked under Bordeaux pressure in the semi-final. Liverpool had endured a disappointing domestic season and were considered to be less impressive than they had been in previous seasons, but they had plenty of European Cup experience and had shown a year earlier how they could win a European Cup final against the odds.

Tragically, the game was a mere footnote to the horror that was the Heysel Disaster. 39 innocent Juventus supporters were killed when Liverpool followers charged a section of Juventus fans. The Italian supporters rushed to the corner of their section to get away from the violence and a crush ensued which resulted in a wall collapsing. Controversially the game went ahead - almost an hour and a half late - in an attempt to stop further violence occurring. There are differing accounts concerning whether the players were aware of the full horror that had occurred in the stadium that evening, but most people regarded the match itself as an irrelevance. For the record, after an hour Boniek was brought down by Gillespie and, although the foul seemed to be outside the penalty area, the referee pointed the spot and Platini scored from the resulting penalty. Juventus won 1-0 and lifted the European Cup for the first time, but they could not have done so in more tragic circumstances.

Sympathy was undoubtedly due to Juventus who had strived for so long to achieve their Holy Grail of winning the European Cup. They had finally achieved their goal, but there was little cause for celebration. Football mourned one of the darkest days in its history and looked to find ways of ensuring that such a tragedy could never happen again. Juventus were indeed European champions, but much more important was the memory of the 39 people who on May 29th 1985 went to a football match and never came back.

1985 European Cup Final (Brussels)
Juventus 1 Liverpool 0
Juventus: Tacconi, Favero, Brio, Scirea (capt), Cabrini, Bonini, Platini, Tardelli, Briaschi (Prandelli), Rossi (Vignola), Boniek
Scorer: Platini (pen)
Liverpool: Grobbelaar, Neal (capt), Lawrenson (Gillespie), Hansen, Beglin, Nicol, Whelan, Wark, Rush, Dalglish, Walsh (Johnston)

 

[ReBeL]

Heysel Disaster​

May 26th 1985 was supposed to be a glorious day in the history of the European Cup as the two dominant teams in Europe were to meet at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels to decide which of them would be crowned European champions. A crowd of 60,000 gathered on a warm sunlit night to watch a much anticipated match that would be watched by millions on television around the world.

Tragically, the game is now hardly remembered. What was memorable about that evening was the horrific events that took place before the match.

One end of the Heysel Stadium was a terrace that was mainly allocated to Liverpool fans, but also contained a small section mainly populated by Juventus supporters on one side. An hour before the game was due to kick off, Liverpool followers began breaking through the fencing that divided the sections. The Liverpool sections were overcrowded, mainly because many ticketless fans had managed to gain entrance through holes in the wall of the crumbling stadium. It has also been alleged that Liverpool fans were hit by missiles from the Juventus section and that they had retaliated fearing the kind of attacks that they had endured a year earlier in Rome. There is some dispute about the extent of the missile throwing, but it is commonly accepted that the neglected state of the stadium terrace made lethal missiles readily available.

In an attempt to escape these aggressive English fans, the people in Section Z retreated towards the corner of the terrace which was bordered by a wall. Most of the people who died were killed during the ensuing crush as the crowd surged towards a brick wall. Eventually the wall collapsed, killing more people as it fell on top of them. For many years the collapse of the wall was cited as the main reason for so many deaths, but in fact the collapse actually relieved the crush and probably stopped the death toll from being even greater.

Liverpool manager Joe Fagan who had announced that morning that he would be retiring after the match, wept as he took to the pitch in his red Liverpool shirt and told the crowd: ‘This is a football match. This is my last game as manager and you are spoiling it. Get back and be sensible.’ The stadium followed by broadcasting appeals in English, Italian, French and Dutch.

There was widespread chaos in the stadium as the dead and injured were carried away from one end, while severe disorder broke out in the other end which was totally populated by Juventus fans.

Despite this, the game went ahead some 90 minutes late in an attempt to avoid more violence occurring outside the ground. . There have been varying accounts from players of both sides as to how much they knew about the events that had occurred.

Mr Rudi Rothenbuler, UEFA Press Secretary said afterwards: ‘Some people may say we shouldn’t have started the game. It was a hard decision to make. But it was not as hard as some of the decisions we shall have to make afterwards.’

British Sports Minister Neil MacFarlane: ‘We have seen things on television which I think will shock everybody up and down the country and throughout the whole of the footballing world. We are faced with an appalling problem which will cast a cloud on European football for ever and a day.’

As a consequence of the Heysel Disaster, English clubs were banned from European competition. They did not return until 1990.

These are the names of those who died at the Heysel on May 29th 1985:

Rocco Acerra (29)
Bruno Balli (50)
Alfons Bos
Giancarlo Bruschera (21)
Andrea Casula (11)
Giovanni Casula (44)
Nino Cerrullo (24)
Willy Chielens
Giuseppina Conti (17)
Dirk Daenecky
Dionisio Fabbro (51)
Jaques François
Eugenio Gagliano (35)
Francesco Galli (25)
Giancarlo Gonnelli (20)
Alberto Guarini (21)
Giovacchino Landini (50)
Roberto Lorentini (31)
Barbara Lusci (58)
Franco Martelli (46)
Loris Messore (28)
Gianni Mastrolaco (20)
Sergio Bastino Mazzino (38)
Luciano Rocco Papaluca (38)
Luigi Pidone (31)
Bento Pistolato (50)
Patrick Radcliffe
Domenico Ragazzi (44)
Antonio Ragnanese (29)
Claude Robert
Mario Ronchi (43)
Domenico Russo (28)
Tarcisio Salvi (49)
Gianfranco Sarto (47)
Amedeo Giuseppe Spalaore (55)
Mario Spanu (41)
Tarcisio Venturin (23)
Jean Michel Walla
Claudio Zavaroni (28)

 

[ReBeL]

Finishing top of the scorers' tables in two different leagues is a rarity in itself. The first player ever to achieve this feat was 'the gentle giant' John Charles, a Welshman who reigned supreme first in England (with Leeds in 1957) and then in Italy (with Juventus in 1958).

 

[JCK]

I merged Juventus: facts, figures, etc. with Juventus statistics because I think that statistics are also facts and figures.

 

[ReBeL]

I hope this page will be updated often by Channel 4:

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/clubs/juvstats.html

 

[rvi]

does juventus have a particular method or system that they adopt when selecting the next captain? i know whenever Del Piero has to leave the pitch they give the armband to Buffon so thats a clear indication that he might be the next captain but I was just wondering if theres a specific way....like how in Milan theres the seniority role etc.

 

[Elvin]

I think the way it works at Juve is, the coach suggest a player for the role and the team votes, if they agree he gets to be Il Capitano.

PS and Buffon will be the next captain for sure

 

[Red]

PS and Buffon will be the next captain for sure

With Chiellini and Nocerino in line behind him.

 

[rvi]

I think the way it works at Juve is, the coach suggest a player for the role and the team votes, if they agree he gets to be Il Capitano.

PS and Buffon will be the next captain for sure

oh thanks for the information~i've been wondering for a while now.

and yeah Buffon is gonna get it for sure.

 

[JuveAdam]

I think the way it works at Juve is, the coach suggest a player for the role and the team votes, if they agree he gets to be Il Capitano.

PS and Buffon will be the next captain for sure

With Chiellini and Nocerino in line behind him.

Chiellini as captain! He'd be great. Gigi would deserve it 1st though. Was good to see him lead Italy out last month too.

 

[ReBeL]

http://www.corrieredellosport.it/Notizie/Calcio/15014/Juve+matricola+super+a+fine+andata

 

[ReBeL]

I was just reading in FIFA.com and found this (Which is new to me):

In association football, some national and club sides include one or more stars as part of (or beside) the crest on their shirt to represent important trophies that the team has previously won.

According to various football history sources, the first team to adopt a star was Juventus in Italy, who added a star above their crest in 1958 to represent their tenth Serie A title. This was an extension of the convention by which the reigning champions are entitled to display the scudetto on their shirts for the following season. The star was later formally adopted as a symbol for ten titles. Besides Juventus, AC Milan and their city rivals Internazionale are also allowed to use such a star.
http://www.fifa.com/clubworldcup/organisation/media/newsid=687173.html

 

[rvi]

wow thats really interesting.. i didnt know that either.So Juve are trend-setters in a manner of speaking

 

[Rami]

a more suitable question Rebel is, where we the first to come up with that convention or were we the first to get 10 championships?