1996–97 Juventus F.C. season

Juventus
1996–97 season
President Vittorio Chiusano
Manager Marcello Lippi
Stadium Stadio delle Alpi
Serie A 1st
Coppa Italia Winners
UEFA Champions League Runners-up
UEFA Super Cup Winners
Intercontinental Cup Winners
Top goalscorer League:
Alessandro Del Piero,
Michele Padovano,
Christian Vieri (8)

All:
Alessandro Del Piero (15)
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours

Juventus Football Club had a successful season, despite rebuilding large parts of the team in spite of the 1996 UEFA Champions League title. The result was another domestic title and a second consecutive Champions League final, where Karl-Heinz Riedle scored twice for Borussia Dortmund in a 3–1 victory, thus ensuring Juventus had to settle for only domestic glory.

It was a disappointing end to the season as the club had been impressive in the Champions League, winning 8 games out of 10 on their way to the final and losing none, and beating sides like Manchester United and Ajax both home and away. However, the team made a complete mess of the final played out in Munich, making uncharacteristic mistakes that were always likely to prove costly against opposition of Dortmund's quality.

New signing Zinedine Zidane was a revelation, but the most important feature in Juventus's league title was the spectacular form of Alessandro Del Piero, and a defensive force that Ciro Ferrara led towards glory together with Paolo Montero. Christian Vieri, another player signed in the summer of 1996, scored regularly in Champions League games but his less impressive league form (8 goals) saw him sold at the end of the season to make way for new signing Filippo Inzaghi. Vieri would go on to become top scorer of both the Spanish and Italian leagues for the clubs he subsequently played for.

Players

Squad information

Squad at end of season[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Italy GK Angelo Peruzzi
2 Italy DF Ciro Ferrara
3 Italy DF Moreno Torricelli
4 Uruguay DF Paolo Montero
5 Italy DF Sergio Porrini
6 Portugal DF Dimas
7 Italy MF Angelo Di Livio
8 Italy MF Antonio Conte (captain)
9 Croatia FW Alen Bokšić
10 Italy FW Alessandro Del Piero
11 Italy FW Michele Padovano
12 Italy GK Michelangelo Rampulla
13 Italy DF Mark Iuliano
No. Position Player
14 France MF Didier Deschamps
15 Italy FW Christian Vieri
16 Italy FW Nicola Amoruso
17 Italy GK Davide Falcioni
18 Serbia and Montenegro MF Vladimir Jugović
19 Italy MF Attilio Lombardo
20 Italy MF Alessio Tacchinardi
21 France MF Zinedine Zidane
22 Italy DF Gianluca Pessotto
28 Italy MF Ivano Trotta
29 Italy MF Davide Andorno
30 Italy MF Nicola Cingolani
31 Italy MF Paolo Chivaroli

Transfers

Out

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
6 Italy MF Raffaele Ametrano (on loan to Verona)

Competitions

Serie A

Main article: 1996–97 Serie A

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Juventus (C) 34 17 14 3 51 24+27 65 1997–98 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2 Parma 34 18 9 7 41 26+15 63 1997–98 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
3 Internazionale 34 15 14 5 51 35+16 59 1997–98 UEFA Cup First round
4 Lazio 34 15 10 9 54 37+17 55
5 Udinese 34 15 9 10 53 41+12 54
6 Sampdoria 34 14 11 9 60 46+14 53
7 Bologna 34 13 10 11 50 44+6 49
8 Vicenza 34 12 11 11 43 38+5 47 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round
9 Fiorentina 34 10 15 9 46 41+5 45
10 Atalanta 34 11 11 12 44 462 44
11 Milan 34 11 10 13 43 452 43
12 Roma 34 10 11 13 46 471 41
12 Napoli 34 9 14 11 38 457 41
14 Cagliari (R) 34 9 10 15 45 5510 37 Qualification to Relegation tie-breaker
14 Piacenza 34 9 10 15 31 4817 37
14 Perugia (R) 34 10 7 17 48 6214 0371 Relegation to Serie B
17 Hellas Verona (R) 34 6 9 19 38 6426 27
18 Reggiana (R) 34 2 13 19 28 6739 19

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1 Perugia relegated for direct matches.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Matches

Top scorers

Coppa Italia

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Group C
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Italy Juventus 6510111+1016
England Manchester United 630363+39
Turkey Fenerbahçe 621336–37
Austria Rapid Wien 6024212–102

Knockout phase

Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final

Intercontinental Cup

UEFA Super Cup

Main article: 1996 UEFA Super Cup

References

  1. "Juventus - 1996/97". FootballSquads. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
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