Juventus FC Youth Sector

History

Despite an extensive international scouting network, the club has historically placed importance on nurturing local talent and continues to do so. One proof of this is the fact of the Italy national team, coached by Enzo Bearzot during the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, was mainly composed of young Juventus players – nicknamed the Blocco-Juve ("Juve-Block") – who formed the backbone of the national team. Examples include Roberto Bettega, Giuseppe Furino and Paolo Rossi, all former members at the Juventus youth program (then known as Nucleo Addestramento Giovani Calciatori or N.A.G.C.).

Graduates of the youth sector ply their trade in other Serie A clubs and top-flight leagues around Europe. More recently the 2012–13 Scudetto-winning squad featured Paolo De Ceglie, second vice-captain Claudio Marchisio, Sebastian Giovinco and Luca Marrone; the latter three were born and raised in the Turin area.

In 2018, Juventus formed a reserve team, Juventus Under-23, and was officially admitted to the Serie C. The club cannot play in the same division—or higher—as their senior team, nor can they compete in the Coppa Italia. They won their first trophy in their second year as a club, after beating Ternana in the 2020 Coppa Italia Serie C final.

From 2021, all clubs with teams competing in the Campionato Primavera 1 (under-19) also have to participate in the under-18 championship. However, since Juventus already have a reserve team they have the choice on whether or not to participate in the under-18 championship.

Structure

The club maintains several soccer schools, some satellite clubs and camps in Italy, the United States, Mexico and England and football initiatives such as the Juventus University, the first of its kind in the world (run jointly with the University of Turin) and the Juventus National Academy, launched to create a network of Juventus football schools (or academies) throughout Italy addressed to boys aged between 8 and 12 years old.

Juventus College

The Juventus College (J-College) was opened in September 2012. It is a boarding school founded mainly to cater to boys who do not reside within the city. It was initially founded as a collaboration with the Istituto Edoardo Agnelli, a high school founded by the Agnelli family's charitable foundation in collaboration with the Salesians, who have a long tradition and history of education in Turin. Since 2014, J-College has been overseen by the International School of Europe. Previously the boys, especially those from outside of the Turin area, would have to drop out of school and move there. J-College was modelled after Premier League clubs' youth academies, which cater to the educational needs of its youth players under 18 years old, in addition to providing lodging for non-local players.

J-College is an accredited scuola secondaria di secondo grado ("upper secondary school", ages 14 to 19) with two streams: a liceo scientifico offering the "applied sciences" option (opzione scienze applicate) and the liceo sportivo. Since 2014, it has been designated a liceo sportivo (sports school), the first of its kind in Italy, by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR). It also provides practical vocational training for the youth sector players past the mandatory schooling age of 16, in particular older boys in the Primavera age group.

''Primavera'' (under-20s)

From the 2012–13 season, the Primavera team is composed of players who are at least 15 years old and who are under 19 in the calendar year in which the season ends. Until the 2011–12 season, the age limit was 20. Starting from 2023–24, the limit was lifted to 20 again. According to Italian football league system, it is the main youth category. Unlike many teams in the league, Juventus tend to field under-age players to send them to play with Juventus Next Gen later.

The team competes in the Campionato Primavera 1. They have won four league titles, three Coppa Italia Primavera titles, and three Supercoppa Primavera titles. Juventus also won the Torneo di Viareggio a record nine times.

In 2007 the Juventus under-19 team finished runners-up in the inaugural edition of the Champions Youth Cup in Malaysia, intended to be a Club World Championship powered by G-14; the hed the best defence of the tournament with only two goals conceded in six matches. In the 2021–22 UEFA Youth League, Juventus were eliminated after penalty shoot-outs against Benfica at the semi-finals, their best-ever placement in the competition.

Current squad

Coaching staff

Honours

National

• Campionato Nazionale Primavera (4): 1962–63, 1971–72, 1993–94, 2005–06
• Coppa Italia Primavera (3): 1994–95, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2012–13
• Supercoppa Primavera (3; record): 2006, 2007, 2013

International

• Torneo di Viareggio (9; record): 1961, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2016

Notable youth team players

The following is a list of players who have played in the Juventus youth team and represented a country at full international level. Players in bold are currently playing at Juventus, or for another club on loan from Juventus.

• AUS Max Vieri
• BEL Koni De Winter
• BEN Angel Chibozo
• CRO Simon Sluga
• CYP Grigoris Kastanos
• ECU José Cevallos
• GHA Raman Chibsah
• GRE Anastasios Donis
• HAI Frantz Bertin
• IDN Emil Audero
• ISL Hörður Björgvin Magnússon
• ITA Giancarlo Bercellino
• ITA Roberto Bettega
• ITA Carlo Bigatto
• ITA Giampiero Boniperti
• ITA Umberto Colombo
• ITA Gianpiero Combi
• ITA Domenico Criscito
• ITA Alessandro Del Piero
• ITA Nicolò Fagioli
• ITA Giuseppe Furino
• ITA Sebastian Giovinco
• ITA Ciro Immobile
• ITA Moise Kean
• ITA Claudio Marchisio
• ITA Domenico Marocchino
• ITA Carlo Mattrel
• ITA Fabio Miretti
• ITA Antonio Nocerino
• ITA Raffaele Palladino
• ITA Carlo Parola
• ITA Pietro Rava
• ITA Enzo Robotti
• ITA Tommaso Rocchi
• ITA Paolo Rossi
• ITA Daniele Rugani
• ITA Luigi Sartor
• ITA Leonardo Spinazzola
• ITA Gino Stacchini
• ITA Giuseppe Vavassori
• CIV Abdoulaye Bamba
• CIV Christian Manfredini
• LIE Marcel Büchel
• LIT Vykintas Slivka
• PER Gianluca Lapadula
• ROU Radu Drăgușin
• RUS Viktor Budyanskiy
• SEN Franck Kanouté
• SVK Jakub Hromada
• SOM Ayub Daud
• ESP Dean Huijsen
• SWE Andreas Isaksson
• SUI Davide Chiumiento
• SUI Andi Zeqiri
• TUR Kenan Yıldız
• URU Franco Israel
• URU César Pellegrín
• VEN Christian Makoun
• UZB Ilyos Zeytulayev

Notes

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