- Address: Corso Gaetano Scirea, 50, Turin
- Country: Italian Republic
- Capacity: 41,000
- Opened: 8 September 2011
- Main use: Football
- Tenants: Juventus (football)
Extra stadium info – Allianz Stadium
The construction of the venue, which opened as the Juventus Stadium, started in 2009 and its construction costs were €155 million. It opened with a football match between Juventus Football Club and Notts County Football Club from the United Kingdom. Luca Toni, who played for the national football team of the Italian Republic in the 2006 FIFA World Cup final, scored the first goal at the venue.
Juventus Football Club
The Allianz Stadium is the home of Juventus, also known as La Vecchia Signora (The Old Lady). The football club from Piedmont was founded in 1897. Juventus became one of the first football clubs with a value of at least $1 billion. AC Milan and Juventus became the first Italian sports clubs with 10 million followers on their main social media page. Juve drew an average attendance of 37,000 in 19 home games in their first-ever domestic league season at the venue. They only lost three of their first 100 domestic top-flight league matches at the Allianz Stadium.
Italian top-flight football league titles
In 1905, Juventus were crowned Italian football champions for the first time in their history. In 1926, they were crowned Italian football champions for the second time in their history. Juventus became the first Italian club with 20 top-flight league titles. They won their 20th title in 1982. Juventus drew an average attendance of 37,000 in 15 home matches during that domestic league season. They won 19 of their 30 domestic league games that year. Eight of those 30 league games ended in a draw.
Nine consecutive league titles
Between 2011 and 2020, Juventus Football Club won the Italian top-flight football league nine consecutive times. Juve became the first football club from the Italian Republic with nine consecutive league titles. FC Internazionale Milano, one of the first football clubs with a world championship trophy, broke the hegemony when they were crowned Italian football champions in 2021. That league season, Juventus finished fourth place.
The European championship for football clubs
On 29 May 1985, Juventus were crowned European football champions for the first time in their history. They won the title after beating the English side Liverpool FC in the Belgian city of Brussels. Michel François Platini scored the only goal in the final. A disaster occured at the stadium in Brussels which hosted the final. The stadium disaster took place before the game between Juventus and Liverpool FC. It resulted in the deaths of various fans of Juventus. They were attacked by Liverpool FC fans. People standing near a wall were crushed. The wall collapsed, allowing others to escape. The collapse led to the majority of deaths. English football clubs were banned by the Union of European Football Associations after the tragedy.
The world championship for football clubs
Juventus won their first world championship title on 8 December 1985. They won the title after beating the Argentinos Juniors, a former club of the Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona. The decisive world championship match between Juventus and the Argentinos Juniors took place in the Japanese city of Tokyo. 62,000 people showed up for the game. Juventus started the match with Aldo Serena, Antonio Cabrini, Gaetano Scirea, Lionello Manfredonia, Luciano Favero, Massimo Bonini, Massimo Mauro, Michael Laudrup, Michel François Platini, Sergio Brio and Stefano Tacconi.
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
In 2018, Juventus signed the Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro. He became the world’s highest-paid athlete. The football star was born on the island of Madeira in 1985 and he became the second person with 100 million followers on his or her social media page. He started his professional football career with Sporting Clube de Portugal. In 2003, Cristiano Ronaldo signed with the English football giants Manchester United Football Club. He won several major trophies with MUFC before he left the club for Real Madrid in 2009. Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United in 2021. He left the club for Al-Nassr from Saudi Arabia.
Titles won by Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Club World Cup and the UEFA Champions League several times with the Spanish football club Real Madrid. He also won the European championship for national football teams with the Portuguese Republic before he returned to Manchester United in 2021. The national football team of the Portuguese Republic were crowned European champions on 10 July 2016 for the first time in their history. That day, Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro played in the final of the European championship for national football teams against the French Republic.
