"Juventus F.C. Juventus Football Club S.p.A. (from , ""youth""; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is an Italian professional football club in Turin, Piedmont. Founded in 1897 by a group of Torinese students, the club has worn a black and white striped home kit since 1903 and has played home matches in different grounds around its city, the latest being the 41,507-capacity Allianz Stadium. Nicknamed ""Vecchia Signora"" (""the Old Lady""), the club has won 34 official league titles, 13 Coppa Italia titles and seven Supercoppa Italiana titles, being the record holder for all these competitions; two Intercontinental Cups, two European"
"""lady"" part of the nickname is how fans of the club affectionately referred to it before the 1930s. The club is also nicknamed ""la Fidanzata d'Italia"" (the Girlfriend of Italy), because over the years it has received a high level of support from Southern Italian immigrant workers (particularly from Naples and Palermo), who arrived in Turin to work for FIAT since the 1930s. Other nicknames include; ""[La] Madama"" (Piedmontese for: Madam), ""i bianconeri"" (the black-and-whites), ""le zebre"" (the zebras) in reference to Juventus' colours. ""I gobbi"" (the hunchbacks) is the nickname that is used to define Juventus supporters, but is"
"of the Juventus Stadium is the main area where the ""Old Lady"" organized supporters attends their home matches. They are composed by current supporters groups as ""Drughi"" -the leading group in La ""Curva Sud"" -, ""Viking Juve"", ""Arditi"", ""Nucleo 1985"", ""06 Clan"", ""Noi Soli"", ""Gruppo Marche 1993"" (also knowns as GM), ""Bruxelles Bianconera"" (composed by supporters from Belgium and Luxembourg ), ""Gruppo Homer"" (also knowns as GH), ""Assiduo Sostegno"" and ""Bravi Ragazzi"" (composed by former ""Irriducibili"" members). The ""Fighters"" group, the leading Juventus group located in La ""Curva Nord"" at the same stadium, have changed his name to ""Tradizione Bianconera"""
"the Stadio Artemio Franchi, which currently has a capacity of 43,147. The stadium has used several names over the years and has undergone several renovations. Fiorentina are known widely by the nickname ""Viola"", a reference to their distinctive purple colours. Associazione Calcio Fiorentina was founded in the autumn of 1926 by local noble and National Fascist Party member Luigi Ridolfi, who initiated the merger of two older Florentine clubs, CS Firenze and PG Libertas. The aim of the merger was to give Florence a strong club to rival those of the more dominant Italian Football Championship sides of the time"
"L.R. Vicenza Virtus L.R. Vicenza Virtus S.p.A. is an Italian professional football club based in Vicenza, Veneto. Founded in 1902 as Associazione del Calcio in Vicenza, they became Lanerossi Vicenza in 1953, then Vicenza Calcio from 1990 to 2018, a year which saw the club going bankrupt and being put under controlled administration in order to preserve the Serie C spot at the end of the 2017-18 season. Renzo Rosso, owner of Diesel, merged its Bassano Virtus and some of the assets of Vicenza Calcio into one team, which will play in Vicenza, while the two sides will preserve their"
"ACF Fiorentina ACF Fiorentina S.p.A., commonly referred to as simply Fiorentina , is a professional Italian football club from Florence, Tuscany. Founded by a merger in August 1926, and refounded in August 2002 following bankruptcy, Fiorentina have played at the top level of Italian football for the majority of their existence; only four clubs have played in more Serie A seasons. Fiorentina has won two Italian Championships, in 1955–56 and again in 1968–69, as well as six Coppa Italia trophies and one Supercoppa Italiana. On the European stage, Fiorentina won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1960–61 and lost the"
"Venezia F.C. Venezia Football Club S.r.l. commonly referred to as Venezia, is an Italian football club from Venice that is playing in Serie B, the Italian second division. Founded by a merger in 1907, Venezia have spent a large part of their history in Serie A and Serie B, the top two divisions in Italy. Venezia won the Coppa Italia in 1941. Venezia's current home stadium, the Pierluigi Penzo, is the second-oldest stadium in Italy (the oldest being Genoa's Stadio Luigi Ferraris). It is a multi-use stadium in Venice, Italy. It is the largest sports facility in Venice. The stadium"
"club's old official name ""Sportgemeinde Eintracht"" (Frankfurt), roughly translated to ""Sports community United."" The nickname ""Launische Diva"" (""Moody Diva"") was heard most often in the early 1990s when the club would comfortably defeat top teams only to surprisingly lose to lesser clubs. This nickname was also held to refer to what was regarded as the dubious work of some club chairmen, including for example, the failure to record the transfer fee of Hungarian star player Lajos Détári on club books. The recent reign of Heribert Bruchhagen appears to have left these practises to the past. <br> World Cup 1954 –"
"French international footballer Djibril Cissé, despite not acquire the assets of the old club. However, it was reported that such application was declined. A.C. Vicenza 1902 could only possibility apply for Terza Categoria. A.C. Vicenza 1902 also signed Mathieu Manset and Clement Maury. L.R. Vicenza Virtus L.R. Vicenza Virtus S.p.A. is an Italian professional football club based in Vicenza, Veneto. Founded in 1902 as Associazione del Calcio in Vicenza, they became Lanerossi Vicenza in 1953, then Vicenza Calcio from 1990 to 2018, a year which saw the club going bankrupt and being put under controlled administration in order to preserve"
"Derby della Madonnina The Derby della Madonnina, also known as the Derby di Milano (or the Milan Derby, as it is known in the English-speaking world), is a derby football match between the two prominent Milanese clubs Internazionale and Milan. It is called ""Derby della Madonnina"" in honour of one of the main sights in the city of Milan, the statue of the Virgin Mary on the top of the Duomo, which is often referred to as the ""Madonnina"" (""Little Madonna"" in Italian). In the past, Inter was seen as the club of the Milan bourgeoisie (nicknamed , a Milanese"
"""Die Alte Dame"" in German, which translates to ""The Old Lady"". In 2002, the sports activities of the professional, amateur, and under-19 teams were separated into ""Hertha BSC GmbH & Co. KGaA"". The club was formed in 1892 as ""BFC Hertha 92"", taking its name from a steamship with a blue and white smokestack; one of the four young men who founded the club had taken a day trip on this ship with his father. The name Hertha is a variation on Nerthus referring to fertility goddess from Germanic mythology. Hertha performed consistently well on the field, including a win"
"(known locally as ""spanna"") from the ""comune"" of Gattinara, where there is archaeological evidence of vines being grown in Roman times. Unione Sportiva Pro Vercelli that was one of the most successful football clubs in Italy in the early 20th century, winning the national championship seven times between 1908 and 1922. However, in the summer 2010 it was not admitted to the league due to heavy debt. A.S. Pro Belvedere Vercelli to continue the glorious history of the club, has changed its name to the F.C. Pro Vercelli 1892. Currently it plays in the Serie B. Vercelli Vercelli (; ),"
"3rd-tier Serie B, most recently ending 7th. A.S. Vicenza Associazione Sportiva Vicenza is an Italian women's basketball team from Vicenza. Founded in 1958, the team reached Serie A in 1963 and two years later it won the first of its twelve Italian Championships. The team dominated the championship in the second half of the 1960s. The 1970s were unsuccessful, but the following decade marked the club's golden era, with Vicenza appearing in seven European Cup finals in a row between 1983 and 1989. The team defeated twice Agon 08 Düsseldorf and Dynamo Novosibirsk and once 18-times champion Daugava Riga to"
"A.S. Vicenza Associazione Sportiva Vicenza is an Italian women's basketball team from Vicenza. Founded in 1958, the team reached Serie A in 1963 and two years later it won the first of its twelve Italian Championships. The team dominated the championship in the second half of the 1960s. The 1970s were unsuccessful, but the following decade marked the club's golden era, with Vicenza appearing in seven European Cup finals in a row between 1983 and 1989. The team defeated twice Agon 08 Düsseldorf and Dynamo Novosibirsk and once 18-times champion Daugava Riga to win five European Cups, including four consecutive"
"Valencia CF Valencia Club de Fútbol (, ; also known as Valencia CF, Valencia or Los Che) is a Spanish football club based in Valencia. They play in La Liga. Valencia have won six La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey titles, two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups (the predecessor to the UEFA Cup), one UEFA Cup, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and two UEFA Super Cups. They also reached two UEFA Champions League finals in a row, losing to La Liga rivals Real Madrid in 2000 and Bayern Munich on penalties after a 1–1 draw in 2001. Valencia were also members"
"('97–'98, '99–'00 and '10–'11) and a sterling version, mostly in the Coppa Italia, in 2000–01. For the 2017–18 season and the first time in its history, the club used five kits during the season, composing of one home kit (all-purple) and four away kits, each one representing one historic quartiere of the city of Florence: all-blue (Santa Croce), all-white (Santo Spirito), all-green (San Giovanni) and all-red (Santa Maria Novella). Serie A: Serie B Serie C2 (as ""Florentia Viola"") Coppa Italia: Supercoppa Italiana: European Cup: UEFA Cup: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: Coppa Grasshoppers Mitropa Cup Anglo-Italian League Cup This is the"
"notable are those with Monza, Latina and Budapest Honvéd. 90 year-old Foggia fan Nonno Ciccio has been attending matches consistently since 1937, with the exception of wartime years. Nonno is now cited as the oldest ultra in Italy and still regularly attends Foggia matches, home and away. Foggia have had many managers and trainers throughout the history of a club, in some seasons more than one manager was in charge. Here is a chronological list of them from 1923 onwards. Foggia Calcio Foggia Calcio is an Italian football club, based in Foggia, in the northern part of the Southern-Italian region"
"Hellas Verona F.C. Hellas Verona Football Club, commonly known simply as Hellas Verona and locally as Verona or Hellas, is a professional Italian football club, based in Verona, in the region of Veneto, that currently plays in Serie B. The team won the Serie A Championship in 1984–85. Founded in 1903 by a group of high school students, the club was named ""Hellas"" (the Greek word for Greece), at the request of a professor of classics. At a time in which football was played seriously only in the larger cities of the northwest of Italy, most of Verona was indifferent"
"goals in official meetings. Note: Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. Derby della Madonnina The Derby della Madonnina, also known as the Derby di Milano (or the Milan Derby, as it is known in the English-speaking world), is a derby football match between the two prominent Milanese clubs Internazionale and Milan. It is called ""Derby della Madonnina"" in honour of one of the main sights in the city of Milan, the statue of the Virgin Mary on the top of the Duomo, which is often referred to as the ""Madonnina"" (""Little Madonna"" in Italian). In"
"one features the golden winged lion, along with the green and orange club colours with a golden border. As the city of Venice is situated on the Venetian Lagoon, the club is also nicknamed ""lagunari"" (""Lagoonal ones""). Coppa Italia: Serie B: Serie C / Serie C1: Coppa Italia Lega Pro Serie C2: Serie D: Venezia F.C. Venezia Football Club S.r.l. commonly referred to as Venezia, is an Italian football club from Venice that is playing in Serie B, the Italian second division. Founded by a merger in 1907, Venezia have spent a large part of their history in Serie A"
"U.C. Sampdoria Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly known as Sampdoria , is an Italian association football club based in Genoa. Sampdoria currently competes in Serie A. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria. Both the team name and jersey reflect this, the first being a combination of the former names, the second incorporating the former teams' colours (blue-white and red-black) in a single design. The team's colours are blue with white, red and black hoops, hence the nickname ""blucerchiati"" (""blue-circled""). Sampdoria"
"of minus €45 million, as well as minus €25.5 million in assessment period 2014–15 (aggregate of 2012, 2013 and 2014 results). However, as the limit was reduced to minus €30 million in assessment period 2015–16, 2016–17 and 2017–18 season, the club had to achieve a relevant net income of positive €5.6 million in 2015 financial year. ""La Viola"" sold Juan Cuadrado to Chelsea in January 2015 for €30 million fee, to make the club eligible to 2016–17 edition of UEFA competitions. ACF Fiorentina ACF Fiorentina S.p.A., commonly referred to as simply Fiorentina , is a professional Italian football club from"
"Villarreal's women's team currently plays in Segunda División's Group 7. Villarreal CF Villarreal Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. (), usually abbreviated to Villarreal CF or just Villarreal, is a Spanish football club based in Villarreal, a city in the province of Castellón within the Valencian Community. Founded in 1923, it plays in La Liga, holding home games at Estadio de la Cerámica, with a capacity of 24,890. The club is nicknamed ""El Submarí Groguet"" or ""El Submarino Amarillo"" (Yellow Submarine) due to its yellow home kit, and due to being a low-profile team compared to Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, and"
"Sevilla FC Sevilla Fútbol Club, S.A.D. (), or simply Sevilla, is Spain’s oldest sporting club solely devoted to football. Sevilla FC is based in Seville, the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia. Sevilla FC plays in Spain’s top flight, La Liga. The club was formed on 25 January 1890, Scot Mr. Edward Farquharson Johnston being their first president. A few years later, on 14 October 1905, the club’s articles of association were registered in the Civil Government of Seville under the presidency of the Jerez-born José Luis Gallegos Arnosa. Sevilla FC is also the most successful"
"time for the UEFA Champions League, where it was defeated in the Round of 32 by Swedish champion LdB Malmö. ""For details of current and former players, see ."" U.P.C. Tavagnacco Unione Polisportiva Comunale Tavagnacco, also known as Graphistudio Tavagnacco for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian women's football club from Tavagnacco, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Founded in 1989, UPC Tavagnacco reached in 2001 the Serie A, where it has played since. After struggling to avoid relegation in its first years in Serie A, the club has joined the championship's elite in recent years, ranking between the 2nd and 4th positions since 2007."
"fourth most successful Italian club in terms of championships won. This slew of early successes may lie at the origin of the love professed for the team by the godfather of Italian sports journalists Gianni Brera (1919–92), who, despite having been born nowhere near Genoa, always declared himself a supporter of the team. Brera went as far as creating the nickname ""Vecchio Balordo"" (""Old Fool"" or ""Cranky Old One"") for Genoa. The club has played its home games at the 36,536 capacity Stadio Luigi Ferraris since 1911. Since 1946, the ground has been shared with local rivals Sampdoria. Genoa has"
"Juventus F.C. Women Juventus Football Club S.p.A. (from Latin ""iuventūs"", ""youth""; ), also known as Juve () or with the commercial name of Juventus Women (), is an Italian women's association football club based in Turin, section of the homonymous professional football club. It was established in 2017 by acquiring the Serie A license of a Cuneo-based team Cuneo Calcio Femminile. The team competes in Serie A since its debut in 2017–18 season. Before the 2017–18 season, Juventus only had women's youth teams. A club playing under the name in and Serie A in the past has no connection to"
"top flight of Italian football. Note: this list includes players that have reached international status. The club's original colours were blue and white and not the current blue and yellow. The club's historic nickname is ""Gialloblu"" (from the club colours of yellow and blue), although throughout Italian football, the Verona's team recognised in the past by most fans as ""Gialloblu"" are Hellas Verona, Chievo's main rivals. Local supporters often call the club simply ""Ceo"", which is Venetian for Chievo. The club is now sometimes referred to as the ""I Mussi Volanti"" (""The Flying Donkeys"" in the Verona dialect of Venetian)."
"become current team Levante UD. ""Levante FC"" - ""(1909–1987)"" → ↓ ""Gimnástico FC"" - ""(1909–1939)"" → ↑ Gimnástico FC Gimnástico Fútbol Club is a team that united with Levante FC to become Union Deportiva Levante-Gimnástico with current name of Levante Union Deportiva football club based in Valencia, Spain. Historically backed, Levante Union Deportiva is the most senior football club in Valencia. Levante UD having origin from 1909 from both teams that formed its sports union: Levante Football Club and Gimnástico Football Club. As a matter of fact, Levante UD took their nickname, the Frogs, ""Granota"" in Valencian, from their Gimnástic"
"First Vienna FC First Vienna FC is an Austrian association football club based in the Döbling district of Vienna. Established on 22 August 1894, it is the country's oldest team and has played a notable role in the history of the game there. It is familiarly known to Austrians by the English name ""Vienna"". In the early 1890s English and Austrian gardeners working for Nathaniel Anselm von Rothschild began to play football on his estates. To avoid further damage to his flowers Nathaniel ceded them a pasture nearby and also granted the team's blue-yellow kits, former jockey costumes of his"
"the side were initially royal blue, until when the president Lelio Bettini changed them in black and white, like those of Juventus. G.S.D. Lascaris Gruppo Sportivo Dilettantistico Lascaris or simply Lascaris is an Italian association football club located in Pianezza, Piedmont. It in the season 2012–13 will play in Eccellenza. The club was founded in 1954 by the boys who frequented the oratory of the parish of Pianezza, located near Villa Lascaris, built by the Marquis Agostino Lascaris of Ventimiglia, who gave the name to the team. In summer 2011 it was promoted by repechange from Eccellenza Piedmont and Aosta"
"Polisportiva Filottrano Pallavolo Polisportiva Filottrano Pallavolo is an Italian volleyball club based in Filottrano, most famous for its women's team which currently plays in the Serie A1. Due to sponsorship, the club have competed under the following names: In 1971, don Guerriero Giglioni with other young people took a late 1960s team called (""Flame"" in English) and decided to form a club called . It remained mainly an amateur club with its teams (men and women from various age groups) playing in local, regional and lower national leagues until the 1980s, when former first team players became part of the"
"Elisabetta Vignotto Elisabetta ""Betty"" Vignotto (born 13 January 1954) is an Italian former international footballer who played as a striker. At club level Vignotto represented numerous different clubs in Serie A. In 1986 she told ""la Repubblica"": ""So far I've changed teams ten times. But it's not that I'm capricious. The teams broke up."" According to the ""Dizionario del Calcio Italiano"", she scored 467 goals in 461 Serie A appearances. Shy of manner, she was not slow in striking goals, either for her club or country. She was the chairman () of A.S.D. Reggiana Calcio Femminile (and later A.S.D. Sassuolo"