1996–97 Juventus F.C. season

Juventus

1996–97 season
President	Vittorio Caissotti di Chiusano
Manager	Marcello Lippi
Stadium	Stadio delle Alpi
Serie A	1st
Coppa Italia	Quarter-finals
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)
← 1995–96 1997–98 →

Juventus F.C. 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 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 Paolo Montero 5 DF Sergio Porrini 6 DF Dimas 7 MF Angelo Di Livio 8 MF Antonio Conte (captain) 9 FW Alen Bokšić 10 FW Alessandro Del Piero 11 FW Michele Padovano 12 GK Michelangelo Rampulla 13 DF Mark Iuliano

No. Position Player 14 MF Didier Deschamps 15 FW Christian Vieri 16 FW Nicola Amoruso 17 GK Davide Falcioni 18 MF Vladimir Jugović 19 MF Attilio Lombardo 20 MF Alessio Tacchinardi 21 MF Zinedine Zidane 22 DF Gianluca Pessotto 28 MF Ivano Trotta 29 MF Davide Andorno 30 MF Nicola Cingolani 31 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 MF Raffaele Ametrano (on loan to Verona)

Competitions

Serie A

Matches

1	Reggiana	1–1	Juventus
	Tovalieri  9'		Vieri  7'

2	Juventus	2–1	Cagliari
	Bokšić  9' Ferrara  58'		Villa  62'

3	Perugia	1–2	Juventus
	Negri  90'		Padovano  84' Del Piero  89'

4	Juventus	1–0	Fiorentina
	Padovano  9'

5	Vicenza	2–1	Juventus
	Otero  19' Beghetto  71'		Ferrara  46'

6	Juventus	2–0	Inter
	Jugović  40' Zidane  62'

7	Roma	1–1	Juventus
	Delvecchio  90'		Padovano  60'

8	Juventus	1–1	Napoli
	Zidane  42'		Aglietti  53'

9	Juventus	0–0	Milan

10	Udinese	1–4	Juventus
	Cappioli  54'		Bokšić  23' Del Piero  39' (pen.), 54' (pen.) Deschamps  70'

11	Juventus	1–0	Bologna
	Zidane  51'

12	Sampdoria	0–1	Juventus
			Ferrara  33'

13	Juventus	3–2	Verona
	Porrini  45' Del Piero  64' (pen.), 72'		Maniero  24, 44'

14	Piacenza	1–1	Juventus
	Delli Carri  86'		Padovano  59'

15	Parma	1–0	Juventus
	Chiesa  2'

16	Juventus	0–0	Atalanta

17	Lazio	0–2	Juventus
			Padovano  31, 62'

18	Juventus	3–1	Reggiana
	Padovano  5' Jugović  26' Tacchinardi  88'		Parente  90'

19	Cagliari	0–0	Juventus

20	Juventus	2–1	Perugia
	Del Piero  37', 45' (pen.)		Materazzi  90'

21	Fiorentina	1–1	Juventus
	Robbiati  90'		Del Piero  15'

22	Juventus	2–0	Vicenza
	Di Livio  22' Padovano  62' (pen.)

23	Inter	0–0	Juventus

24	Juventus	3–0	Roma
	Vieri  28, 44' Amoruso  85'

25	Napoli	0–0	Juventus

26	Milan	1–6	Juventus
	Simone  76'		Jugović  19, 51' Zidane  32' (pen.) Vieri  71, 81' Amoruso  73'

27	Juventus	0–3	Udinese
			M. Amoroso  42' (pen.), 49' Bierhoff  47'

28	Bologna	0–1	Juventus
			Bokšić  40'

29	Juventus	0–0	Sampdoria

30	Verona	0–2	Juventus
			Ferrara  44' Jugović  90'

31	Juventus	4–1	Piacenza
	Zidane  51' Vieri  54, 88' Jugović  76'		Luiso  56'

32	Juventus	1–1	Parma
	Amoruso  43' (pen.)		Zidane  29' (o.g.)

33	Atalanta	1–1	Juventus
	F. Inzaghi  19'		Iuliano  54'

34	Juventus	2–2	Lazio
	Vieri  31' Amoruso  52'		Casiraghi  73' Protti  85'

Top scorers

• Alessandro Del Piero 8 (4)
• Michele Padovano 8 (1)
• Christian Vieri 8
• Vladimir Jugović 6
• Zinedine Zidane 5 (1)
• Nicola Amoruso 4 (1)
• Ciro Ferrara 4

Coppa Italia

Second round 28 August 1996	Fidelis Andria	0–2	Juventus	Barletta
20:30			Vieri  7' Conte  38'	Stadium: Stadio degli Ulivi Referee: Marcello Nicchi

Third round 23 October 1996	Nocerina	0–0	Juventus	Avellino
20:30			Torricelli  48'	Stadium: Stadio Partenio Referee: Roberto Bettin

Replay 6 November 1996	Juventus	2–1	Nocerina	Turin
20:30	Montero  45' Di Rocco  48' (o.g.) Trotta  87'		Marchegiani  39'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Referee: Angelo Bonfrisco

Quarter-finals First leg 13 November 1996	Juventus	0–3	Internazionale	Turin
20:30			Zamorano  32' Ince  76' Djorkaeff  89'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Referee: Graziano Cesari

Quarter-finals Second leg 18 December 1996	Internazionale	1–1	Juventus	Milan
20:30	Ganz  32'		Amoruso  45'	Stadium: San Siro Referee: Marcello Nicchi

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Juventus	6	5	1	0	11	1	+10	16
Manchester United	6	3	0	3	6	3	+3	9
Fenerbahçe	6	2	1	3	3	6	–3	7
Rapid Wien	6	0	2	4	2	12	–10	2

1 11 September 1996	Juventus	1–0	Manchester United	Turin, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bokšić  34',  45' Deschamps  63' Peruzzi  90'	Report	G. Neville  29' Cruyff  43'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

2 25 September 1996	Fenerbahçe	0–1	Juventus	Istanbul, Turkey
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Bokšić  22'	Stadium: Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium Attendance: 29,000 Referee: Serge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)

3 16 October 1996	Rapid Wien	1–1	Juventus	Vienna, Austria
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Lesiak  20' Mandreko  74'	Report	Vieri  9' Porrini  83'	Stadium: Ernst-Happel-Stadion Attendance: 46,500 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

4 30 October 1996	Juventus	5–0	Rapid Wien	Turin, Italy
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Bokšić  5', 59' Montero  26' Del Piero  29', 75'	Report	Penksa  13' Zingler  81'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 26,143 Referee: Hugh Dallas (Scotland)

5 20 November 1996	Manchester United	0–1	Juventus	Manchester, England
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Cantona  27'	Report	Del Piero  36' (pen.) Jugović  60' Torricelli  63' Ferrara  76'	Stadium: Old Trafford Attendance: 53,529 Referee: José María García Aranda (Spain)

6 4 December 1996	Juventus	2–0	Fenerbahçe	Turin, Italy
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Padovano  42' Amoruso  85'	Report		Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Germany)

Knockout phase

Quarter-finals

First leg 5 March 1997	Rosenborg	1–1	Juventus	Trondheim, Norway
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Soltvedt  51'	Report	Vieri  52' Iuliano  63'	Stadium: Lerkendal Stadion Attendance: 20,246 Referee: Marc Batta (France)

Second leg 19 March 1997	Juventus	2–0 (3–1 agg.)	Rosenborg	Turin, Italy
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Zidane  29' Amoruso  90' (pen.)	Report	Stensaas  88'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 35,371 Referee: Vítor Melo Pereira (Portugal)

Semi-finals

First leg 9 April 1997	Ajax	1–2	Juventus	Amsterdam, Netherlands
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Litmanen  66'	Report	Amoruso  14' Vieri  41' Di Livio  64' Tacchinardi  70' Jugović  85'	Stadium: Amsterdam Arena Attendance: 53,000 Referee: Antonio Jesús López Nieto (Spain)

Second leg 23 April 1997	Juventus	4–1 (6–2 agg.)	Ajax	Turin, Italy
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Lombardo  34' Vieri  36',  65' Amoruso  79' Zidane  81'	Report	Bogarde  43' Melchiot  76'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 62,377 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

Final

Final 28 May 1997	Borussia Dortmund	3–1	Juventus	Munich, Germany
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Paulo Sousa  23' Riedle  29', 34' Ricken  71',  71'	Report	Porrini  19' Del Piero  65' Iuliano  90'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 59,000 Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)

Intercontinental Cup

26 November 1996	Juventus	1–0	River Plate	Tokyo, Japan
11:15	Del Piero  81'	Report		Stadium: National Stadium Attendance: 48,305 Referee: Márcio Rezende de Freitas

UEFA Super Cup

First leg 15 January 1997	Paris Saint-Germain	1–6	Juventus	Paris, France
20:30	Raí  53' (pen.) Fournier  64'		Porrini  5' Padovano  22', 40' Ferrara  36' Lombardo  83' Amoruso  89'	Stadium: Parc des Princes Attendance: 29,519 Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)

Second leg 5 February 1997	Juventus	3–1	Paris Saint-Germain	Palermo, Italy
20:30	Del Piero  36', 70' Vieri  90'		Raí  64' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio La Favorita Attendance: 35,100 Referee: Serge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)

References

Sources

• RSSSF - Italy 1996/97

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