This article is about the women's association football club from Turin, Italy. For the men's football club, see Juventus F.C. For other uses, see Juventus (disambiguation) and Juve (disambiguation).
Juventus Football Club (from Latin: iuventūs, 'youth'; Italian pronunciation: [juˈvɛntus]), colloquially known as Juventus Women, Juventus, or simply Juve (pronounced [ˈjuːve]), is a women's football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. It was established in 2017 as the women's section of Juventus, following an acquisition of the sporting license of Cuneo.
The team has competed in Serie A, the top flight in national football, since its debut in 2017–18 season, and has won four league titles, one Coppa Italia title, and two Supercoppa Italiana titles. In 2020–21, the club equaled Torres' national record for consecutive league titles won (4), also becoming the first in Italian football history, men or women, to accomplish a perfect season having won all their league matches.
Juventus' general manager Giuseppe Marotta announced in May 2017 that the club was planning to form a women's team.[1] The women's section of Juventus was officially formed on 1 July 2017.[2] 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 Real Juventus and [it], these have never had any connection with the men's club.[2]
Colloquially known as Juventus Women,[3] the team was formed thanks to the possibility given by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) to professional men's clubs to purchase amateur women's clubs. Already active in women's youth football since 2015,[4] Juventus acquired the sporting licence of Serie A club Cuneo,[5] which in the meantime had dissolved,[3] allowing the newly-formed team to directly compete in the Italian top division.[6]
Rita Guarino era: four consecutive league titles (2017–2021)[]
Under the tenure of Rita Guarino,[7] Juventus quickly emerged as a dominating force in Italy, winning four consecutive league titles in their first four years of activity.[8] 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 [it]; Martina Rosucci scored the club's first-ever goal.[9] In [it], Juventus' first season, the club was tied with Brescia for first place in the league at 60 points.[10] The two clubs 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.[10]