1997–98 Juventus F.C. season

Juventus
1997–98 season
President Vittorio Chiusano
Manager Marcello Lippi
Stadium Stadio delle Alpi
Serie A 1st
Supercoppa Italiana Winners
Coppa Italia Semi-finals
UEFA Champions League Runners-up
Top goalscorer League:
Alessandro Del Piero (21)
All:
Alessandro Del Piero (32)
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours

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

Squad information

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

No. Position Player
1 Italy GK Angelo Peruzzi
2 Italy DF Ciro Ferrara
3 Italy DF Moreno Torricelli
4 Uruguay DF Paolo Montero
5 Italy MF Fabio Pecchia
6 Portugal DF Dimas
7 Italy MF Angelo Di Livio
8 Italy MF Antonio Conte (captain)
9 Italy FW Filippo Inzaghi
10 Italy FW Alessandro Del Piero
11 Italy FW Michele Padovano
12 Italy GK Morgan De Sanctis
13 Italy DF Mark Iuliano
14 France MF Didier Deschamps
15 Italy DF Alessandro Birindelli
16 Italy FW Nicola Amoruso
No. Position Player
17 Italy GK Michelangelo Rampulla
18 Uruguay FW Daniel Fonseca
20 Italy MF Alessio Tacchinardi
21 France MF Zinedine Zidane
22 Italy DF Gianluca Pessotto
23 Italy DF Marco Zamboni
24 Italy MF Raffaele Ametrano
25 Uruguay DF César Pellegrín
26 Netherlands MF Edgar Davids
27 Uruguay FW Marcelo Zalayeta
30 Italy DF Rudy Nicoletto
31 Italy DF Salvatore Aronica
32 Italy FW Luigi Giandomenico
33 Italy DF Massimiliano Zazzetta
35 Italy MF Marco Rigoni
36 Italy FW Lorenzo Morandini

Competitions

Serie A

Main article: 1997–98 Serie A

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Juventus (C) 34 21 11 2 67 28+39 74 1998–99 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2 Internazionale 34 21 6 7 62 27+35 69 1998–99 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
3 Udinese 34 19 7 8 62 40+22 64 1998–99 UEFA Cup First round
4 Roma 34 16 11 7 67 42+25 59
5 Fiorentina 34 15 12 7 65 36+29 57
6 Parma 34 15 12 7 55 39+16 57
7 Lazio 34 16 8 10 53 30+23 56 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round
8 Bologna 34 12 12 10 55 46+9 48 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
9 Sampdoria 34 13 9 12 52 553 48 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round
10 Milan 34 11 11 12 37 436 44
11 Bari 34 10 8 16 30 4515 38
12 Empoli 34 10 7 17 50 588 37
13 Piacenza 34 7 16 11 29 389 37
14 Vicenza 34 9 9 16 36 6125 36
15 Brescia (R) 34 9 8 17 45 6318 35 Relegation to Serie B
16 Atalanta (R) 34 7 11 16 25 4823 32
17 Lecce (R) 34 6 8 20 32 7240 26
18 Napoli (R) 34 2 8 24 25 7651 14

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Matches

Top Scorers

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
England Manchester United 6501145+915
Italy Juventus 6402128+412
Netherlands Feyenoord 630381029
Slovakia Košice 6006213110

Knockout phase

Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final

References

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