1995–96 Juventus F.C. season

Juventus

1995–96 season
Head Coach	Marcello Lippi
Serie A	2nd
Coppa Italia	Last 16
Champions League	Champions
Supercoppa Italiana	Champions
Top goalscorer	League: Fabrizio Ravanelli (12) All: Fabrizio Ravanelli (17)
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

Juventus F.C. finally managed to regain the European Cup trophy after 11 years, winning the Champions League final against Ajax on penalties in Rome. That was the climax of a successful season, that saw Juventus winning the Italian Super Cup in the late summer of 1995, before going on to finish second in the league. Following the Champions League title, strikers Gianluca Vialli and Fabrizio Ravanelli were unceremoniously sold to Chelsea (Vialli) and Middlesbrough (Ravanelli). It also dropped Pietro Vierchowod and Paulo Sousa, much to the surprise of onlookers, since they both were established in the first team. Also Massimo Carrera, who had lost his regular place in the first XI left. Instead, Juventus decided to sign playmaker Zinedine Zidane and young striker Christian Vieri.

Players

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 GK Angelo Peruzzi 2 DF Ciro Ferrara 3 DF Moreno Torricelli 4 DF Massimo Carrera 5 DF Sergio Porrini 6 MF Paulo Sousa 7 MF Angelo Di Livio 8 MF Antonio Conte 9 FW Gianluca Vialli (captain) 10 FW Alessandro Del Piero 11 FW Fabrizio Ravanelli 12 GK Michelangelo Rampulla

No. Position Player 13 MF Giancarlo Marocchi 14 MF Didier Deschamps 15 MF Alessio Tacchinardi 18 MF Vladimir Jugović 19 MF Attilio Lombardo 20 DF Pietro Vierchowod 21 FW Michele Padovano 22 DF Gianluca Pessotto 23 MF Juan Pablo Sorín 24 GK Nicola Visentin 26 DF Simone Loria FW Tommaso Rocchi

Left club during season

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

No. Position Player 16 MF Luca Fusi (to Lugano)

Competitions

Serie A

Matches

1	Juventus	4–1	Cremonese
	Jugović  17' Ravanelli  65', 71' (pen.) Tentoni  87' (o.g.)		Maspero  50'

2	Piacenza	0–4	Juventus
			Vialli  45, 84' Torricelli  60' Ravanelli  76'

3	Juventus	1–0	Vicenza
	Vialli  21'

4	Cagliari	0–0	Juventus

5	Juventus	1–1	Napoli
	Vialli  55'		Pecchia  52'

6	Milan	2–1	Juventus
	Simone  7' Weah  14'		Del Piero  81'

7	Juventus	3–1	Padova
	Del Piero  39' Ravanelli  54' Conte  90'		Amoruso  76'

8	Lazio	4–0	Juventus
	Signori  40' Casiraghi  45, 77' Rambaudi  71'

9	Udinese	1–0	Juventus
	Bierhoff  73'

10	Juventus	1–0	Fiorentina
	Del Piero  11'

11	Parma	1–1	Juventus
	Asprilla  45'		Ferrara  8'

12	Juventus	5–0	Torino
	Vialli  3, 27, 43' Ferrara  47' Ravanelli  67'

13	Sampdoria	2–0	Juventus
	Chiesa  41, 53'

14	Juventus	1–0	Inter
	Vialli  29'

15	Juventus	0–2	Roma
			Balbo  45' Ferrara  66' (o.g.)

16	Atalanta	0–1	Juventus
			Ravanelli  59' (pen.)

17	Juventus	1–1	Bari
	Ravanelli  40' (pen.)		Protti  9'

18	Cremonese	3–3	Juventus
	Peruzzi  21' (o.g.) Maspero  57' (pen.) Tentoni  77'		Vialli  11' Ravanelli  67' (pen.) Vierchowod  90'

19	Juventus	2–0	Piacenza
	Conte  34' Ferrara  61'

20	Vicenza	2–1	Juventus
	Otero  18' (pen.) Murgita  48'		Ravanelli  66'

21	Juventus	4–1	Cagliari
	Bonomi  10' (o.g.) Ravanelli  22' Del Piero  79' Jugović  90'		Luís Oliveira  89'

22	Napoli	0–1	Juventus
			Ravanelli  81'

23	Juventus	1–1	Milan
	Conte  3'		Weah  30'

24	Padova	0–5	Juventus
			Del Piero  29, 67' Lombardo  42' Padovano  72, 90'

25	Juventus	4–2	Lazio
	Deschamps  35' Chamot  70' (o.g.) Conte  72' Padovano  83'		Favalli  3' Casiraghi  18'

26	Juventus	2–1	Udinese
	Ravanelli  26' Vierchowod  83'		Stroppa  15'

27	Fiorentina	0–1	Juventus
			L. Amoruso  28' (o.g.)

28	Juventus	1–0	Parma
	Bucci  63' (o.g.)

29	Torino	1–2	Juventus
	Rizzitelli  32'		Sogliano  47' (o.g.) Vialli  65'

30	Juventus	0–3	Sampdoria
			Chiesa  1' Balleri  57' Seedorf  62'

31	Inter	1–2	Juventus
	Ganz  79'		Lombardo  4' Conte  55'

32	Roma	2–2	Juventus
	Delvecchio  4' Moriero  54'		Cappioli  62' (o.g.) Padovano  70'

33	Juventus	1–0	Atalanta
	Deschamps  67'

34	Bari	2–2	Juventus
	Protti  45, 85'		Montanari  20' (o.g.) Vialli  67'

Top scorers

• Fabrizio Ravanelli 12 (5)
• Gianluca Vialli 11
• Alessandro Del Piero 6
• Antonio Conte 5
• Michele Padovano 4

Coppa Italia

Second Round 30 August 1995	Avellino	1 – 4	Juventus	Stadio Partenio, Avellino
20:30	Bortoluzzi  30'		25' Padovano  44' Ravanelli  72' Del Piero  76' Jugović	Referee: Gianni Beschin

Third Round 25 October 1995	Atalanta	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Juventus	Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo
20:30	Gallo  118'		Tacchinardi	Referee: Roberto Bettin

Supercoppa Italiana

17 January 1996	Juventus	1 – 0	Parma	Stadio delle Alpi, Turin
20:30	Vialli  33' Peruzzi   40'	Report		Referee: Piero Ceccarini

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Juventus	6	4	1	1	15	4	+11	13
Borussia Dortmund	6	2	3	1	8	8	0	9
Steaua Bucureşti	6	1	3	2	2	5	−3	6
Rangers	6	0	3	3	6	14	−8	3

1 13 September 1995	Borussia Dortmund	1–3	Juventus	Dortmund, Germany
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Möller  1'	Report	Padovano  12',  22' Del Piero  37' Torricelli  56' Conte  69'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 35,800 Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)

2 27 September 1995	Juventus	3–0	Steaua Bucureşti	Turin, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Deschamps  4' Pessotto  10' Ravanelli  29',  49' Di Livio  35' Del Piero  40' Conte  79'	Report	Lăcătuș  8'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 34,500 Referee: Dermot Gallagher (England)

3 18 October 1995	Juventus	4–1	Rangers	Turin, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Ravanelli  15', 76' Conte  17' Del Piero  23'	Report	Durie  25' Cleland  55' Gough  79'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 49,625 Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Belarus)

4 1 November 1995	Rangers	0–4	Juventus	Glasgow, Scotland
21:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Petrić  73' Gough  88' Brown  89'	Report	Torricelli  5',  65' Del Piero  16' Ravanelli  88' Marocchi  90'	Stadium: Ibrox Park Attendance: 42,523 Referee: Ahmet Çakar (Turkey)

5 22 November 1995	Juventus	1–2	Borussia Dortmund	Turin, Italy
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Carrera  16' Del Piero  90'	Report	Ricken  4',  65' Zorc  29' Kohler  50' Reuter  90'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

6 6 December 1995	Steaua Bucureşti	0–0	Juventus	Bucharest, Romania
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Doboș  53' Vladoiu  59'	Report	Marocchi  62'	Stadium: Stadionul Ghencea Attendance: 2,700 Referee: Gerd Grabher (Austria)

Knockout phase

Quarter-finals

First leg 6 March 1996	Real Madrid	1–0	Juventus	Madrid, Spain
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Raúl  20' Hierro  57'	Report	Carrera  15' Ravanelli  71' Torricelli  88'	Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Stadium Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)

Second leg 20 March 1996	Juventus	2–0 (2–1 agg.)	Real Madrid	Turin, Italy
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Del Piero  17',  29' Jugović  32' Padovano  54' Deschamps  59' Torricelli  79' Conte  81'	Report	Míchel  19' Luis Enrique  31' Alkorta  72' Milla  82'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 69,000 Referee: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands)

Semi-finals

First leg 3 April 1996	Juventus	2–0	Nantes	Turin, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Vialli  49' Jugović  66'	Report	Gourvennec  24' Carotti  44' Ferri  56' Guyot  75' Pignol  79' Le Dizet  81'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Dermot Gallagher (England)

Second leg 17 April 1996	Nantes	3–2 (3–4 agg.)	Juventus	Nantes, France
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Capron  44' N'Doram  69' Renou  82'	Report	Vialli  17' Paulo Sousa  50'	Stadium: Stade de la Beaujoire Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)

Final

Final 22 May 1996	Ajax	1–1 (aet) (2–4 p)	Juventus	Rome, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	George  22' Litmanen  40' Blind  83' Wooter  90+2'	Report	Ravanelli  12' Jugović  50' Deschamps  86' Torricelli  102' Di Livio  106'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 67,000 Referee: Manuel Díaz Vega (Spain)
		Penalties
	Davids Litmanen Scholten Silooy		Ferrara Pessotto Padovano Jugović	|

References

Sources

• RSSSF - Italy 1995/96

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