Juventus Next Gen, also known simply as Juve Next Gen or Next Gen, is a professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, which acts as the reserve team of Serie A club Juventus. They play their home games at the Stadio Giuseppe Moccagatta in Alessandria, a comune about 100 km away from Turin.
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Full name | Juventus Next Gen[1] | |||
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Nickname(s) | Juventus B Juventus II | |||
Short name | Juve Next Gen | |||
Founded | 3 August 2018; 4 years ago (2018-08-03), as Juventus U23 | |||
Ground | Stadio Giuseppe Moccagatta | |||
Capacity | 5,926 | |||
Chairman | Andrea Agnelli | |||
Manager | Massimo Brambilla | |||
League | Serie C Group A | |||
2021–22 | Serie C Group A, 8th of 20 | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Founded in 2018 as Juventus U23, the club competes in Serie C, the third level of the Italian football league system. They won a Coppa Italia Serie C, in the 2019–20 season, after beating Ternana in the final.
Juventus U23 were founded on 3 August 2018,[2] following the reintroduction of professional reserve teams in Italian football after over sixty years, and was officially admitted to the Serie C championship.[3] The club cannot play in the same division—or higher—as their senior team, nor can they compete in the Coppa Italia.[4]
On 21 August, Luca Zanimacchia became the first scorer of the team's history after scoring the only goal in a 1–0 win over Cuneo in the group stage of the Coppa Italia Serie C.[5] Juventus U23's first game in Serie C was a 1–2 away defeat to Alessandria, with Claudio Zappa scoring the team's first league goal.[6] Juventus U23 ended their first season in 12th place with 42 points in 37 games,[7] and were eliminated in the group stage of the Coppa Italia Serie C.[8]
On 27 June 2020, Juventus U23 beat Ternana 2–1 in the 2020 Coppa Italia Serie C final, winning their first trophy in their second year as a professional club.[9][10]
On 26 August 2022, the club changed its name to Juventus Next Gen.[11]
Juventus Next Gen play in the same professional league system as their senior team, rather than a separate league dedicated for youth teams. However, the reserve team may not play in the same division or higher as their senior team, nor in the Coppa Italia, making Juventus Next Gen ineligible for promotion to the Serie A.[4] Should both Juventus and Juventus Next Gen qualify in the same league, the reserve team must play in the league immediately below.[12] In case of relegation to the Serie D, they may not register for this league and their activity is suspended.[12] After one season, they may request the team be registered to the Serie C in case of vacancy.[12] Juventus must pay an annual extraordinary fee of €1.2 million to have the reserve team registred to Serie C.[13] In addition, Juventus may not take part to Lega Pro assemblies.[12]
They may insert a maximum of 23 players in their team sheets.[14] Only four players aged more than 23 when the season started may be inserted in the team sheets.[14] Up to a maximum of seven players who had been registered to a FIGC-affiliated club for less than seven sporting seasons may be included in the match list.[14]
In order to be elegible to play for Juventus Next Gen, players must have not been registred to the 25-man list of Serie A players and must have played at most 50 Serie A matches.[14] Instead, to be elegible to play in promotion play-offs and in relegation play-outs, players must have not played over 25 first-team league matches of at least 30 minutes.[14] If a player is suspended, he is unusable in both the first and reserve teams.[14] Suspensions must be served in the team with whom he committed the infraction.[14]
Juventus Next Gen do not own their own stadium, and share the Stadio Giuseppe Moccagatta with Alessandria as their home stadium.[15] Although there had been an agreement among the two parts shortly after Juventus' reserve team's foundation, Alessandria's fans protested to not share their stadium.[15] According to the agreement, Juventus Next Gen fans can sit only in the guests sector.[15] Their players train at the Juventus Training Center in Vinovo.[15]
Season | League | Coppa Italia Serie C | |||
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Tier | Division | Position | |||
2018–19 [it] | 3 | Serie C | 12th of 20 | Group stage | |
2019–20 | 3 | Serie C | 10th of 20 | Champions | |
2020–21 | 3 | Serie C | 10th of 20 | Cancelled | |
2021–22 | 3 | Serie C | 8th of 20 | Round of 16 | |
2022–23 | 3 | Serie C | TBD | TBD | |
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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This list includes players that have appeared in at least one top-league and/or senior international game.
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Last updated: 22 July 2022
Source: Juventus.com
Below is a list of Juventus Next Gen managers from 2018 until the present day.
Name | Nationality | Years |
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Mauro Zironelli | ![]() |
2018–2019 |
Fabio Pecchia | ![]() |
2019–2020 |
Andrea Pirlo | ![]() |
2020 |
Lamberto Zauli | ![]() |
2020–2022 |
Massimo Brambilla | ![]() |
2022–present |
Gravina, Gabriele; Brunelli, Marco (2020). "Comunicato Ufficiale N.24/A" (PDF). FIGC. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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