# 1997–98 Juventus FC season

Juventus Football Club 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 for Juventus' success. Rather than relying on the tight defence of 1996–97's league title, Juventus had two of the league's top scorers.

## Players

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Angelo Peruzzi |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Ciro Ferrara |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Moreno Torricelli |
| 4 | DF | URU | Paolo Montero |
| 5 | MF | ITA | Fabio Pecchia |
| 6 | DF | POR | Dimas |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Angelo Di Livio |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Antonio Conte (captain) |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Filippo Inzaghi |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Alessandro Del Piero |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Michele Padovano |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Michelangelo Rampulla |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Mark Iuliano |
| 14 | MF | FRA | Didier Deschamps |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Birindelli |
| 16 | FW | ITA | Nicola Amoruso |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | GK | ITA | Morgan De Sanctis |
| 18 | FW | URU | Daniel Fonseca |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Alessio Tacchinardi |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Zinedine Zidane |
| 22 | DF | ITA | Gianluca Pessotto |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Marco Zamboni |
| 24 | MF | ITA | Raffaele Ametrano |
| 25 | DF | URU | César Pellegrín |
| 26 | MF | NED | Edgar Davids |
| 27 | FW | URU | Marcelo Zalayeta |
| 30 | DF | ITA | Rudy Nicoletto |
| 31 | DF | ITA | Salvatore Aronica |
| 32 | FW | ITA | Luigi Giandomenico |
| 33 | DF | ITA | Massimiliano Zazzetta |
| 35 | MF | ITA | Marco Rigoni |

### Transfers

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| FW | Filippo Inzaghi | Atalanta B.C. | - |
| DF | Alessandro Birindelli | Empoli F.C. | - |
| FW | Daniel Fonseca | A.S. Roma | - |
| MF | Fabio Pecchia | S.S.C. Napoli | - |
| MF | Marco Zamboni | Chievo Verona | - |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| FW | Alen Boksic | S.S. Lazio | |
| FW | Christian Vieri | Atletico Madrid | - |
| MF | Attilio Lombardo | Crystal Palace | - |
| MF | Vladimir Jugovic | S.S. Lazio | - |
| DF | Sergio Porrini | Glasgow Rangers | - |
| GK | Davide Falcioni | Treviso | - |
| DF | Massimiliano Notari | Triestina | - |
| MF | Ivano Trotta | Fiorenzuola | - |

#### Winter

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| MF | Edgar Davids | A.C. Milan | - |
| DF | Cesar Pellegrin | Danubio F.C. | - |
| FW | Marcelo Zalayeta | Peñarol | - |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| DF | Marco Zamboni | S.S.C. Napoli | - |
| MF | Raffaele Ametrano | Empoli F.C. | - |
| FW | Michele Padovano | Crystal Palace | - |

## Competitions
### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Juventus (C) | 34 | 21 | 11 | 2 | 67 | 28 | +39 | 74 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Internazionale | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 62 | 27 | +35 | 69 | Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Udinese | 34 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 62 | 40 | +22 | 64 | Qualification to UEFA Cup |
| 4 | Roma | 34 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 67 | 42 | +25 | 59 | Qualification to UEFA Cup |
| 5 | Fiorentina | 34 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 65 | 36 | +29 | 57 | Qualification to UEFA Cup |
* ↑ Fiorentina finished ahead of Parma on head-to-head points: FIO 1–1 PAR; PAR 1–2 FIO.

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | D | W | D | W | W | W | W | D | D | W | D | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | L | W | D | D | D | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | D |
| Position | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |

#### Matches
### Top Scorers

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

### UEFA Champions League
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Manchester United | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 15 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Juventus | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 8 | +4 | 12 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 9 | |
| 4 | Košice | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 13 | −11 | 0 | |

#### Knockout phase
##### Final
### Coppa Italia
#### Semifinals
## Statistics
### Players statistics

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | UEFA Champions League | UEFA Champions League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Peruzzi | 43 | -41 | 31 | -25 | 1 | -1 | 11 | -15 |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Birindelli | 46 | 2 | 26+3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Iuliano | 42 | 1 | 24+1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | URU | Montero | 38 | 0 | 24+2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Di Livio | 43 | 0 | 23+7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | FRA | Deschamps | 33 | 0 | 23+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Conte | 43 | 5 | 25+3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Zidane | 47 | 11 | 31+1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 3 |
| 26 | MF | NED | Davids | 27 | 1 | 19+1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Inzaghi | 45 | 25 | 29+2 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 6 |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Del Piero | 46 | 32 | 32 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Rampulla | 13 | -8 | 3+2 | -3 | 7 | -5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Ferrara | 24 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Torricelli | 33 | 0 | 18+2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | ITA | Pessotto | 36 | 0 | 15+6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | ITA | Pecchia | 34 | 1 | 5+16 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | POR | Dimas | 35 | 0 | 12+9 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Tacchinardi | 41 | 1 | 11+12 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | ITA | Amoruso | 18 | 6 | 4+6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| 18 | FW | URU | Fonseca | 29 | 8 | 1+14 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 27 | FW | URU | Zalayeta | 7 | 1 | 0+5 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Padovano | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Zamboni | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | ITA | Ametrano | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | MF | ITA | Rigoni | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | FW | ITA | Giandomenico | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | ITA | Aronica | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | URU | Pellegrin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | ITA | Nicoletto |
| 17 | GK | ITA | De Sanctis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | ITA | Zazzetta |
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