page_title: History of Juventus F.C.
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: History of Juventus F.C. / Early years
caption_attribution_description: A line-up of F.B.C. Juventus in the 1904–05 season. From left to right, top: G. Armano (I), P. A. Walty, O. Mazzia; middle: L. Durante, G. Goccione, J. Diment; bottom: A. Barberis, C. V. Varetti, L. Forlano, J. Squair, D. Donna.
context_page_description: The history of Juventus F.C. covers over 120 years of the football from the club based in Turin, Italy that would eventually become the most successful team in the history of Italian football and amongst the elite football clubs of the world. Iuventūs is Latin for "youth". According to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, an international organization recognized by FIFA, Juventus were Italy's best club of the 20th century and the second most successful European club in the same period.
context_section_description: Juventus were founded as Sport-Club Juventus in late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, among them the brothers Eugenio and Enrico Canfari, but were renamed as Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later. The club joined the Italian Football Championship in 1900. In 1904, the businessman Ajmone-Marsan revived the finances of the football club Juventus, making it also possible to transfer the training field from piazza d'armi to the more appropriate Velodrome Umberto I. During this period, the team wore a pink and black kit. Juventus first won the league championship in 1905 while playing at their Velodrome Umberto I ground. By this time, the club colours had changed to black and white stripes, inspired by English side Notts County. There was a split at the club in 1906 after some of the staff considered moving Juve out of Turin. President Alfred Dick was unhappy with this and left with some prominent players to found FBC Torinese (later Torino F.C.) which in turn spawned the Derby della Mole. Juventus spent much of this period steadily rebuilding after the split, surviving World War I.
caption: The Juventus team during the 1905 season in which they won their first league title
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