1997–98 Juventus F.C. season

Juventus

1997–98 season
Head Coach	Marcello Lippi
Serie A	1st
Coppa Italia	Semi-finals
Champions League	Final
Supercoppa Italiana	Winners
Top goalscorer	League: Alessandro Del Piero (21) All: Alessandro Del Piero (32)
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

Juventus F.C. had one of its most successful seasons in the club's history, winning the domestic league competition and reaching the final of the Champions League. There, Juventus stumbled on Real Madrid by Predrag Mijatović' solitary goal, which ensured Juventus lost the final for the second year running. The progress to the final had been much less smooth than in the 1995–96 and 1996–97 European campaigns, prompting fears among supporters that the side was experiencing a decline. Indeed, on their way to the final in Amsterdam, the Italians had lost three games compared to none the previous season. They had needed to win their matchday six fixture against Manchester United to reach the quarter-final, where Dynamo Kyiv held them to a 1–1 draw in Turin in the first leg.

Alessandro Del Piero and Filippo Inzaghi combined with French playmaker Zinedine Zidane were the main reasons in Juventus championship victory. Unlike the tight defence of 1996–97's league title, Juventus had two of the league's top scorers.

Squad

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No. Position Player 1 GK Angelo Peruzzi 2 DF Ciro Ferrara 3 DF Moreno Torricelli 4 DF Paolo Montero 5 MF Fabio Pecchia 6 DF Dimas 7 MF Angelo Di Livio 8 MF Antonio Conte (captain) 9 FW Filippo Inzaghi 10 FW Alessandro Del Piero 11 FW Michele Padovano 12 GK Morgan De Sanctis 13 DF Mark Iuliano 14 MF Didier Deschamps 15 DF Alessandro Birindelli 16 FW Nicola Amoruso

No. Position Player 17 GK Michelangelo Rampulla 18 FW Daniel Fonseca 20 MF Alessio Tacchinardi 21 MF Zinedine Zidane 22 DF Gianluca Pessotto 23 DF Marco Zamboni 24 MF Raffaele Ametrano 25 DF César Pellegrín 26 MF Edgar Davids 27 FW Marcelo Zalayeta 30 DF Rudy Nicoletto 31 DF Salvatore Aronica 32 FW Luigi Giandomenico 33 DF Massimiliano Zazzetta 35 MF Marco Rigoni 36 FW Lorenzo Morandini

Serie A

Matches

1	Juventus	2–0	Lecce
	Inzaghi  84' Conte  90+4'

2	Roma	0–0	Juventus

3	Juventus	4–0	Brescia
	A. Filippini  7' (o.g.) Conte  36' Inzaghi  38' Del Piero  56'

4	Sampdoria	1–1	Juventus
	Morales  16'		F. Inzaghi  90 + 2'

5	Juventus	2–1	Fiorentina
	F. Inzaghi  33' Del Piero  36'		Pessotto  24' (o.g.)

6	Bari	0–5	Juventus
			Ingesson  47' (o.g.) Zidane  63, 81' Del Piero  88' Garzya  90' (o.g.)

7	Juventus	4–1	Udinese
	Conte  36' F. Inzaghi  68' Del Piero  72' (pen.) Amoruso  89'		Locatelli  14'

8	Napoli	1–2	Juventus
	Bellucci  58'		Zidane  38' Fonseca  88'

9	Juventus	2–2	Parma
	Del Piero  43' Amoruso  82'		Chiesa  34' Crespo  45'

10	Milan	1–1	Juventus
	Ferrara  29' (o.g.)		F. Inzaghi  32'

11	Juventus	2–1	Lazio
	Del Piero  15', 34' (pen.)		Marcolin  26' (pen.)

12	Piacenza	1–1	Juventus
	Piovani  80'		Fonseca  78'

13	Juventus	5–2	Empoli
	F. Inzaghi  15' Del Piero  26, 27, 55' Tonetto  79' (o.g.)		Florijančič  41' C. Esposito  74'

14	Inter	1–0	Juventus
	Djorkaeff  47'

15	Juventus	2–0	Vicenza
	Del Piero  27' Ferrara  76'

16	Bologna	1–3	Juventus
	Kolyvanov  90 + 3'		F. Inzaghi  10, 20' Del Piero  60'

17	Juventus	3–1	Atalanta
	Conte  65' Zidane  72, 90 + 1'		Caccia  71'

18	Lecce	0–2	Juventus
			Iuliano  47' Del Piero  89'

19	Juventus	3–1	Roma
	Zidane  47' Del Piero  49' Davids  65'		Paulo Sérgio  57'

20	Brescia	1–1	Juventus
	Savino  73'		F. Inzaghi  52'

21	Juventus	3–0	Sampdoria
	Del Piero  5' F. Inzaghi  11' Fonseca  78'

22	Fiorentina	3–0	Juventus
	Firicano  31' Luís Oliveira  34' Robbiati  79'

23	Juventus	1–0	Bari
	Neqrouz  17' (o.g.)

24	Udinese	1–1	Juventus
	Bachini  76'		Del Piero  89'

25	Juventus	2–2	Napoli
	Del Piero  46' Zalayeta  75'		Turrini  69' Protti  90 + 2'

26	Parma	2–2	Juventus
	Stanić  36' Crippa  40'		Tacchinardi  55' F. Inzaghi  60'

27	Juventus	4–1	Milan
	Del Piero  12' (pen.), 39' F. Inzaghi  60, 83'		Boban  33' (pen.)

28	Lazio	0–1	Juventus
			F. Inzaghi  60'

29	Juventus	2–0	Piacenza
	Zidane  53' Del Piero  81'

30	Empoli	0–1	Juventus
			Pecchia  70'

31	Juventus	1–0	Inter
	Del Piero  21'

32	Vicenza	0–0	Juventus

33	Juventus	3–2	Bologna
	F. Inzaghi  34, 50, 81'		Kolyvanov  11' R. Baggio  56'

34	Atalanta	1–1	Juventus
	Caccia  48' (pen.)		Fonseca  69'

Top Scorers

• Alessandro Del Piero 21 (3)
• Filippo Inzaghi 18
• Zinedine Zidane 7
• Daniel Fonseca 4
• Antonio Conte 4

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Manchester United	6	5	0	1	14	5	+9	15
Juventus	6	4	0	2	12	8	+4	12
Feyenoord	6	3	0	3	8	10	−2	9
Košice	6	0	0	6	2	13	−11	0

1 17 September 1997	Juventus	5–1	Feyenoord	Turin, Italy
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Del Piero  3' (pen.), 11' Ferrara  24' Conte  28' Inzaghi  34' Di Livio  57' Zidane  67' Tacchinardi  69' Birindelli  81'	Report	Van Gobbel  17' Bosvelt  41' Cruz  44' Van Gastel  58' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Germany)

2 1 October 1997	Manchester United	3–2	Juventus	Manchester, England
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Sheringham  37' Giggs  45',  89' Scholes  69'	Report	Del Piero  1',  58' Pecchia  14' Ferrara  53' Deschamps  66', 66' Zidane  90'	Stadium: Old Trafford Attendance: 53,428 Referee: Antonio Jesús López Nieto (Spain)

3 22 October 1997	Košice	0–1	Juventus	Košice, Slovakia
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Dzúrik  39' Lubarskyi  51' Špilár  53'	Report	Dimas  30' Del Piero  34' Pessotto  59'	Stadium: Všešportový areál Attendance: 10,021 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Germany)

4 5 November 1997	Juventus	3–2	Košice	Turin, Italy
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Conte  33' Del Piero  42' Amoruso  59' Fonseca  60'	Report	Lyubarskyi  66' Ferrara  70' (o.g.)	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Juan Ansuátegui Roca Spain)

5 26 November 1997	Feyenoord	2–0	Juventus	Rotterdam, Netherlands
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Boateng  21' Cruz  66', 87',  73' Van Wonderen  79'	Report	Del Piero  38' Torricelli  83'	Stadium: Feijenoord Stadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)

6 10 December 1997	Juventus	1–0	Manchester United	Turin, Italy
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Zidane  60' Inzaghi  84'	Report	Berg  77'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 47,786 Referee: Gilles Veissière (France)

Knockout phase

Quarter-finals

First leg 4 March 1998	Juventus	1–1	Dynamo Kyiv	Turin, Italy
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Davids  47' Montero  64' Inzaghi  69'	Report	Luzhnyi  40' Husin  56' Mykhaylenko  84'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 40,723 Referee: Paul Durkin (England)

Second leg 18 March 1998	Dynamo Kyiv	1–4 (2–5 agg.)	Juventus	Kiev, Ukraine
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Rebrov  54' Gerasimenko  61'	Report	Inzaghi  29', 65', 73' Del Piero  88'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 120,000 Referee: Marc Batta (France)

Semi-finals

First leg 1 April 1998	Juventus	4–1	Monaco	Turin, Italy
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Deschamps  31' Del Piero  35', 45+3' (pen.), 62' (pen.) Zidane  87'	Report	Djetou  34' Costinha  42',  66'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)

Second leg 15 April 1998	Monaco	3–2 (4–6 agg.)	Juventus	Monaco
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Léonard  38' Henry  50' Martin  79' Špehar  83'	Report	Amoruso  15' Del Piero  74' Conte  88'	Stadium: Stade Louis II Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Urs Meier (Germany)

Final

Final 20 May 1998	Juventus	0–1	Real Madrid	Amsterdam, Netherlands
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Davids  34' Montero  79'	Report	Hierro  23' Roberto Carlos  37' Karembeu  56' Mijatović  66' Seedorf  90+4'	Stadium: Amsterdam Arena Attendance: 48,500 Referee: Hellmut Krug (Germany)

References

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