Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), known for commercial purposes as Juventus Women or simply Juve Women, is a women's football club based in

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, Italy. It was established in 2017 as the women's section of the homonymous club, following an acquisition of the sporting license of

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. The team compete in

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, the top flight in national football, since its debut in the 2017–18 season. They have won five league titles, two

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titles, and three

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titles, becoming one of the country's most successful teams. In

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they became the first Italian club (women's or men's) to accomplish a

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, having won all their league matches. After their 2021–22 league triumph, Juventus became the first team to win five consecutive league titles.

History

Formation (2017)

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' general manager

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announced in May 2017 that the club was planning to form a women's team. The women's section of Juventus was officially formed on 1 July 2017. Despite there being other women's football clubs in

in the past which had adopted the name "Juventus" and the black and white colours, such as Real Juventus and , these have never had any connection with the men's club. Colloquially known as Juventus Women, the team was formed thanks to the possibility given by the

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(FIGC) to professional men's clubs to purchase amateur women's clubs. Already active in women's youth football since 2015, Juventus acquired the sporting licence of

club

, which in the meantime had dissolved, allowing the newly-formed team to directly compete in the Italian top division; several players were signed from neighbouring

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, Italian champions in two of the previous four seasons and runners-up in the others.

Rita Guarino era (2017–2021)

Under the tenure of

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, Juventus quickly emerged as a dominating force in Italy, winning four consecutive league titles in their first four years of activity. Juventus' first game was on 27 August 2017, in a 13–0 away victory over

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in the first leg of the first round of ;

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scored the club's first-ever goal. In the

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, the club was tied with

for first place at 60 points. The two sides played a single-legged play-off match where, following a goalless draw after 120 minutes, Juventus beat Brescia 5–4 in a

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. In 2018–19, by virtue of having won the previous season's league title, they qualified for the

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; they lost 3–2 on aggregate to Brøndby in the round of 32. , Juventus achieved the

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, winning their second Serie A title and first

. In 2019–20, Juventus won both the

, their first title, and their third consecutive league title. In only two years, the team won all the trophies of Italian women's football. In the 2020–21 season, Juventus won their second

, and their fourth-consecutive league title, becoming only the second club to achieve this streak after

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in 2013. They finished the season winning all 22 league matches, becoming the first team in the Italian women's top flight to accomplish a

Joe Montemurro era (2021–present)

After four seasons at the club, Guarino left Juventus, and was replaced by

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ahead of the 2021–22 season. Juventus won their fifth-consecutive league title, establishing a record streak in Italian women's football. They also finished among the best eight teams in Europe, reaching the quarterfinals of the 2021–22 Champions League. Having also won the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana that season, their second and third respectively, Juventus achieved their first

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Season by season

Players

Current squad

Managerial history

Below is a list of Juventus Women coaches from 2017 until the present day.

Honours

**Winners (5): 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20,

, 2021–22 *

**Winners (2): , *

**Winners (3):

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, 2021–22 **''Runners-up (1):''

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European record

Overall record

By country

By club

Notes

References

External links

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