2006–07 Juventus F.C. season

The 2006–07 season was Juventus Football Club's 109th season in existence and first season in its history in Serie B following the 2006 Italian football scandal, leaving Internazionale as the only Italian club never to have been relegated. Juventus were docked nine points this season (repealed from the original 30-point deduction). Juventus finished the Serie B season in first place and were thus promoted back up to Serie A.

Juventus

2006–07 season
President	Giovanni Cobolli Gigli
Manager	Didier Deschamps (until 26 May 2007) Giancarlo Corradini (caretaker)
Stadium	Stadio Olimpico di Torino
Serie B	1st (promoted)
Coppa Italia	Third round
Top goalscorer	League: Alessandro Del Piero (20) All: Alessandro Del Piero (23)
Average home league attendance	18,085[1]
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Following the enforced relegation, Juventus lost Fabio Cannavaro and Emerson to Real Madrid, Lilian Thuram and Gianluca Zambrotta to Barcelona, Adrian Mutu to Fiorentina, and Patrick Vieira and Zlatan Ibrahimović to Internazionale. The remainder of the squad did however stay including Alessandro Del Piero, Gianluigi Buffon, Giorgio Chiellini, Pavel Nedvěd, David Trezeguet, Marcelo Zalayeta and Mauro Camoranesi, for the following 2006–07 Serie B season.

Squad

Squad at end of season[2]

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 Gianluigi Buffon 2 DF  ITA Alessandro Birindelli 3 DF  ITA Giorgio Chiellini 6 DF  CRO Robert Kovač 7 DF  ITA Gianluca Pessotto 8 MF  ITA Giuliano Giannichedda 9 FW  BUL Valeri Bojinov 10 FW  ITA Alessandro Del Piero (captain) 11 MF  CZE Pavel Nedvěd 12 GK  ITA Antonio Mirante 13 DF  ITA Felice Piccolo 14 DF  ITA Federico Balzaretti 15 MF  ITA Claudio Marchisio 16 MF  ITA Mauro Camoranesi 17 FW  FRA David Trezeguet

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF  FRA Jean-Alain Boumsong 19 MF  ITA Matteo Paro 20 FW  ITA Raffaele Palladino 22 GK  ITA Emanuele Belardi 25 FW  URU Marcelo Zalayeta 27 DF  FRA Jonathan Zebina 29 DF  ITA Paolo De Ceglie 30 DF  ITA Nicola Legrottaglie 32 MF  ITA Marco Marchionni 40 MF  ITA Dario Venitucci 42 MF  ITA Raffaele Bianco 43 FW  ITA Sebastian Giovinco 44 FW  ITA Michele Paolucci 45 GK  ITA Matteo Trini

Events

In July 2006, former player Didier Deschamps was announced as the new manager following the resignation of Fabio Capello, who left for Spanish club Real Madrid.

The club made its Serie B debut on 9 September 2006, earning their first ever point in Serie B with a 1-1 draw away to Rimini. After that, Juventus won its next eight games, scoring 16 goals and conceding just one. The winning streak ended with a 1–1 draw at Napoli. In that game, goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon's streak of not conceding a goal ended at 733 minutes. Against Albinoleffe, Buffon was shown the red card for the first time in his career and conceded a penalty, but a 10-man Juve team managed to draw the game. They were undefeated in Serie B until the team lost at Mantova on 14 January 2007.

On 15 December 2006, two Berretti (U-18) youth players Alessio Ferramosca, age 17, and Riccardo Neri, age 16, drowned in a pond at the club's training ground in Vinovo, apparently when trying to recover a football that had fallen into the ice-cold water. The Juventus vs Cesena (Serie B) game scheduled for that day was cancelled and postponed until January due to the tragedy.[3][4]

On 19 May 2007, after a 5–1 away win at Arezzo on the 39th matchday, Juventus was mathematically promoted to Serie A. On Matchday 40, Juventus were then crowned Serie B champions following a 2–0 home win to Mantova On 26 May, it was confirmed that Deschamps had resigned as manager due to differences with the club hierarchy, especially director of football Alessio Secco. His assistant Giancarlo Corradini was appointed caretaker for the last two games. On 4 June, Claudio Ranieri was announced as the new manager on the club website as Corradini stepped down to take up another management job full-time.[5]

Squad statistics

Sources: [6][7]

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Serie B		Coppa Italia
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Gianluigi Buffon	40	-25	37	-21	3	-4
2	DF		Alessandro Birindelli	40	1	29+8	1	2+1	0
3	DF		Giorgio Chiellini	35	4	29+3	3	3	1
4	DF		Robert Kovač	19	0	15+2	0	2	0
6	MF		Cristiano Zanetti	28	2	24+1	2	2+1	0
8	MF		Giuliano Giannichedda	23	0	19+1	0	3	0
9	FW		Valeri Bojinov	21	7	6+12	5	3	2
10	FW		Alessandro Del Piero	37	23	32+3	20	0+2	3
11	MF		Pavel Nedvěd	36	12	33	11	3	1
12	GK		Antonio Mirante	7	-8	5+2	-8	0	0
13	DF		Felice Piccolo	7	0	5+2	0	0	0
14	DF		Federico Balzaretti	40	2	32+5	2	3	0
15	MF		Claudio Marchisio	26	0	16+9	0	0+1	0
16	MF		Mauro Camoranesi	35	4	27+6	4	0+2	0
17	FW		David Trezeguet	31	15	27+3	15	1	0
18	DF		Jean-Alain Boumsong	33	2	31+2	2	0	0
19	MF		Matteo Paro	30	1	22+6	1	2	0
20	FW		Raffaele Palladino	25	8	14+11	8	0	0
22	GK		Emanuele Belardi	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	FW		Marcelo Zalayeta	18	4	13+4	4	1	0
27	DF		Jonathan Zebina	24	0	21+3	0	0	0
29	MF		Paolo De Ceglie	8	1	1+7	1	0	0
30	DF		Nicola Legrottaglie	12	0	7+3	0	2	0
32	MF		Marco Marchionni	28	2	13+12	1	3	1
40	MF		Dario Venitucci	5	0	3+2	0	0	0
42	MF		Raffaele Bianco	4	1	0+4	1	0	0
43	MF		Sebastian Giovinco	3	0	1+2	0	0	0
44	FW		Davide Lanzafame	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
Players sold or loaned out during the January transfer window:
23	FW		Tomás Guzmán	3	0	0+1	0	0+2	0

Goalscorers

Last updated June 10, 2007

No.	Pos.	Player	Serie B	Coppa Italia	Total
10	FW	Alessandro Del Piero	20	3	23
17	FW	David Trezeguet	15	0	15
11	MF	Pavel Nedvěd	11	1	12
20	FW	Raffaele Palladino	8	0	8
9	FW	Valeri Bojinov	5	2	7
25	FW	Marcelo Zalayeta	4	0	4
16	MF	Mauro Camoranesi	4	0	4
3	DF	Giorgio Chiellini	3	1	4
6	MF	Cristiano Zanetti	2	0	2
14	DF	Federico Balzaretti	2	0	2
18	DF	Jean-Alain Boumsong	2	0	2
32	MF	Marco Marchionni	1	1	2
19	MF	Matteo Paro	1	0	1
29	MF	Paolo De Ceglie	1	0	1
2	DF	Alessandro Birindelli	1	0	1
42	MF	Raffaele Bianco	1	0	1
Own goals			2	0	2
TOTALS			83	8	91

Competitions

Serie B

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Juventus[lower-alpha 1] (C, P)	42	28	10	4	83	30	+53	85	Promotion to Serie A
2	Napoli (P)	42	21	16	5	52	29	+23	79
3	Genoa[lower-alpha 2] (P)	42	23	9	10	68	44	+24	78
4	Piacenza	42	20	8	14	57	50	+7	68
5	Rimini	42	17	16	9	55	38	+17	67[lower-alpha 3]

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio 2008 (in Italian). Panini Edizioni. November 2007.
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted.
Notes:

1. Juventus started the season with a penalization of 30 points, which was later reduced to 9 on appeal
2. Third-placed team Genoa were directly promoted without a play-off being played as they finished 10 points ahead of fourth-placed Piacenza
3. RIM 2–0 BRE; BRE 0–2 RIM

Results by matchday

Note: this table does not take point deductions, such as Juventus’ 9-point one, into account.

Matchday	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	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	D	W	D	W	W	D	L	W	W	D	D	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	L	L
Position	10	6	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Source:
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

9 September 2006 1	Rimini	1–1	Juventus	Romeo Neri, Rimini
16:00 CEST	Cristiano  -'  69' Ricchiuti  74'	Report	60' Paro	Referee: Massimiliano Saccani

16 September 2006 2	Juventus	2–1	Vicenza	Olimpico, Turin
16:00 CEST	Trezeguet  45' Del Piero  53'	Report	59' Raimondi	Referee: Luca Marelli

19 September 2006 3	Crotone	0–3	Juventus	Ezio Scida, Crotone
20:30 CEST		Report	30', 76' Bojinov  36' Boumsong	Referee: Andrea De Marco

23 September 2006 4	Juventus	4–0	Modena	Olimpico, Turin
16:00 CEST	Trezeguet  38', 70' Del Piero  42' Nedvěd  73'	Report		Referee: Tiziano Pieri

30 September 2006 5	Piacenza	0–2	Juventus	Leonardo Garilli, Piacenza
16:00 CEST		Report	30', 44' Trezeguet	Referee: Paolo Bertini

16 October 2006 7	Treviso	0–1	Juventus	Omobono Tenni, Treviso
20:45 CEST		Report	31' Zanetti	Referee: Stefano Farina

21 October 2006 8	Triestina	0–1	Juventus	Nereo Rocco, Trieste
16:00 CEST	Marchini  85'	Report	33' Zanetti  -'  70' Chiellini	Referee: Mauro Bergonzi

28 October 2006 9	Juventus	1–0	Frosinone	Olimpico, Turin
16:00 CEST	Del Piero  73'	Report		Referee: Francesco Squillace

1 November 2006 6	Juventus	2–0	Brescia	Olimpico, Turin
17:30 CET	Del Piero  7' Colombo  22' (o.g.)	Report	88' Zambelli	Referee: Paolo Tagliavento
Note: Postponed due to the concomitant with national team matches; originally scheduled for 8 October 2006.

6 November 2006 10	Napoli	1–1	Juventus	San Paolo, Naples
21:00 CET	Bogliacino  73'	Report	67' Del Piero	Referee: Nicola Rizzoli

11 November 2006 11	Juventus	2–0	Pescara	Olimpico, Turin
16:00 CET	Nedvěd  18', 57'	Report		Referee: Maurizio Ciampi

18 November 2006 12	AlbinoLeffe	1–1	Juventus	Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo
16:00 CET	Joelson  25' (pen.)	Report	24' Buffon  52' Palladino	Referee: Christian Brighi

25 November 2006 13	Juventus	4–1	Lecce	Olimpico, Turin
16:00 CET	Bojinov  64', 75' Palladino  90+1' De Ceglie  90+4'	Report	62' Osvaldo  -'  69' Diamoutene	Referee: Andrea Gervasoni

1 December 2006 14	Genoa	1–1	Juventus	Luigi Ferraris, Genoa
20:45 CET	Jurić  74'	Report	71'  -'  90+3' Nedvěd	Referee: Stefano Farina

9 December 2006 15	Juventus	1–0	Hellas Verona	Olimpico, Turin
16:00 CET	Camoranesi  55'	Report		Referee: Nicola Pierpaoli

19 December 2006 17	Bologna	0–1	Juventus	Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna
20:30 CET		Report	73' Zalayeta	Referee: Domenico Messina

22 December 2006 18	Juventus	2–2	Arezzo	Olimpico, Turin
20:30 CET	Trezeguet  58' Palladino  65'	Report	80' (pen.), 84' Martinetti  90' Terra	Referee: Domenico Celi

13 January 2007 19	Mantova	1–0	Juventus	Danilo Martelli, Mantua
16:00 CET	Kovač  53' (o.g.)	Report		Referee: Antonio Giannoccaro

16 January 2007 16	Juventus	2–1	Cesena	Olimpico, Turin
20:45 CET	Del Piero  17' Trezeguet  25' Zebina  67'	Report	62' Papa Waigo	Referee: Luca Banti
Note: Postponed due to the death of two Berretti squad's players (Riccardo Neri and Alessio Ferramosca) in Vinovo Sport Center; originally scheduled for 15 December 2006.

20 January 2007 20	Juventus	4–2	Bari	Olimpico, Turin
16:00 CET	Trezeguet  35' Nedvěd  46', 73' Del Piero  68'	Report	1' Santoruvo  89' Gervasoni	Referee: Andrea De Marco

27 January 2007 21	Spezia	1–1	Juventus	Alberto Picco, La Spezia
16:00 CET	Confalone  39'	Report	-'  79' Giannichedda     90+2' Nedvěd	Referee: Gianluca Rocchi

10 February 2007 23	Vicenza	2–2	Juventus	Romeo Menti, Vicenza
15:00 CET	73' Nastos  78' Paonessa	Report	Palladino  6' Del Piero  60'	Referee: Paolo Tagliavento

17 February 2007 24	Juventus	5–0	Crotone	Olimpico, Turin
15:00 CET	Nedvěd  17' Balzaretti  23' Del Piero  44', 65', 79'	Report		Referee: Antonio Damato

26 February 2007 25	Modena	0–1	Juventus	Alberto Braglia, Modena
20:45 CET		Report	86' (o.g.) Centurioni	Referee: Luca Marelli

4 March 2007 26	Juventus	4–0	Piacenza	Olimpico, Turin
20:30 CET	Trezeguet  1' Del Piero  50' (pen.), 68', 90+2'	Report	-'  74' Campagnaro	Referee: Paolo Bertini

10 March 2007 27	Brescia	3–1	Juventus	Danilo Martelli, Mantua
15:00 CET	Serafini  4', 26', 46'	Report	9'Del Piero	Referee: Andrea De Marco

13 March 2007 28	Juventus	1–0	Treviso	Olimpico, Turin
15:00 CET	Palladino  71'	Report		Referee: Mauro Bergonzi

19 March 2007 29	Juventus	5–1	Triestina	Olimpico, Turin
21:00 CET	Camoranesi  8' Palladino  27', 47', 60' Bojinov  81'	Report	7' Piovaccari	Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni

31 March 2007 32	Pescara	0–1	Juventus	Adriatico, Pescara
16:00 CEST		Report	74' Birindelli	Referee: Oscar Girardi

6 April 2007 33	Juventus	1–1	AlbinoLeffe	Olimpico, Turin
16:00 CEST	Balzaretti  38'	Report	32' Ruopolo	Referee: Antonio Damato

10 April 2007 31	Juventus	2–0	Napoli	Olimpico, Turin
17:30 CEST	Camoranesi  18' Del Piero  50' Marchisio  62'	Report		Referee: Nicola Ayroldi

14 April 2007 34	Lecce	1–3	Juventus	Via del Mare, Lecce
16:00 CEST	Polenghi  15'	Report	11' Marchionni  47' Zalayeta  64' Camoranesi	Referee: Oberdan Pantana

17 April 2007 22	Juventus	0–0	Rimini	Olimpico, Turin
20:30 CEST	Balzaretti  46'	Report		Referee: Maurizio Ciampi
Note: Postponed due to Catania football violence; originally scheduled for 3 February 2007.

21 April 2007 35	Juventus	3–1	Genoa	Olimpico, Turin
16:00 CEST	Nedvěd  19' Chiellini  38' Trezeguet  66'	Report	46' Di Vaio	Referee: Emidio Morganti

27 April 2007 36	Hellas Verona	0–1	Juventus	Marc'Antonio Bentegodi, Verona
19:00 CEST		Report	43' Boumsong	Referee: Matteo Trefoloni

1 May 2007 30	Frosinone	0–2	Juventus	Matusa, Frosinone
15:00 CEST		Report	Zalayeta  59', 90+3'	Referee: Massimiliano Saccani

6 May 2007 37	Cesena	2–2	Juventus	Dino Manuzzi, Cesena
20:30 CEST	Salvetti  11' Waigo  55'	Report	40' Trezeguet  42' Nedvěd	Referee: Nicola Stefanini

12 May 2007 38	Juventus	3–1	Bologna	Olimpico, Turin
16:00 CEST	Del Piero  37', 86' (pen.) Trezeguet  90+2'	Report	27' Bellucci	Referee: Nicola Ayroldi

19 May 2007 39	Arezzo	1–5	Juventus	Comunale, Arezzo
16:00 CEST	Floro Flores  45'	Report	19', 76' Del Piero  34', 49' Chiellini  87' Trezeguet	Referee: Nicola Rizzoli

26 May 2007 40	Juventus	2–0	Mantova	Olimpico, Turin
16:00 CEST	Trezeguet  55' Nedvěd  73'	Report		Referee: Andrea Romeo

3 June 2007 41	Bari	1–0	Juventus	San Nicola, Bari
	Carrus  57'	Report	86' Legrottaglie	Referee: Andrea De Marco

10 June 2007 42	Juventus	2–3	Spezia	Olimpico, Turin
	Trezeguet  27' Bianco  69'	Report	26' Pecorari  66' Guidetti  90' Padoin	Referee: Christian Brighi

Coppa Italia

19 August 2006 First round	Martina	0–3	Juventus	Bari
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Marchionni  7' Bojinov  35' Nedvěd  82'	Stadium: Stadio San Nicola Referee: Nicola Rizzoli

23 August 2006 Second round	Cesena	1–2	Juventus	Cesena
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Balzaretti  23' (o.g.)	Report	Bojinov  45' Del Piero  74'	Stadium: Stadio Dino Manuzzi Referee: Paolo Bertini

27 August 2006 Third round	Napoli	3–3 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Juventus	Naples
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bucchi  38' Calaiò  53' Cannavaro  107' Grava  -'  114'	Report	Chiellini  27' Del Piero  78', 105' Camoranesi  -'  107'	Stadium: Stadio San Paolo Referee: Matteo Trefoloni
	Penalties
	Trotta Bucchi Domizzi Dalla Bona P. Cannavaro Montervino Amodio		Buffon Guzmán Birindelli Marchionni Del Piero Chiellini Balzaretti

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