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Calciopoli (Italian: [kalˈtʃɔːpoli]) was a sports scandal in Italy's top professional association football league Serie A and to a lesser extent Serie B. [nb 1] Involving various clubs and numerous executives, both from the same clubs and from the main Italian football bodies (Italian Referee Association (AIA) [it; es], FIGC, and LNP), as well as some referees and referee assistants, the ...
In July 2006, the FIGC's Federal Court of Justice started the sports trial. Juventus was originally to be relegated to Serie C, even though relegation is always for the immediately lower division according to the Italian sports law, for sports illicit (Italian: illecito sportivo), while three other clubs (Fiorentina, Lazio, and Milan) were to be relegated to Serie B.
Until the Calciopoli scandal which saw Juventus forcibly relegated, the two were the only Italian clubs to have never played below Serie A. Notably, the two sides are the first and the second most supported clubs in Italy and the rivalry has intensified since the later part of the 1990s; reaching its highest levels ever post-Calciopoli, with ...
Juventus, Italy's most powerful soccer club, will be forced to forfeit 15 Serie A points after an Italian court essentially found that it had rigged finances related to transfer deals.
Four days later on 21 May, Juventus became the first team to win six consecutive Serie A titles. [89] In the 2017 UEFA Champions League final, their second Champions League final in three years, Juventus were defeated 1–4 by defending champions Real Madrid; the 2017 Turin stampede happened ten minutes before the end of the match.
FC Cincinnati goalkeeper Roman Celentano (18) embraces FC Cincinnati forward Brandon Vázquez (19) after the MLS Easter Conference semifinal match at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati on Saturday, Nov ...
The 2006–07 season was Juventus FC's 109th season in existence and first season in its history in Serie B following the 2006 Italian football scandal, leaving Internazionale as the only Italian club never to have been relegated. Juventus were docked nine points this season (repealed from the original 30-point deduction).
The Juventus team during the 1905 season in which they won their first league title Juventus Football Club is an Italian professional association football club based in Turin , Piedmont. The club was founded as Sport-Club Juventus in late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo d'Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, among them the brothers Eugenio and ...