Description
The Juventus Stadium, also known as Allianz Stadium, is Juventus's home in the northwest of Turin, between the Vallette and Lucento districts. It holds over 41,000 spectators and was the first modern club-owned stadium in Italy.
It stands where the Stadio delle Alpi used to be, and reuses part of its structures. The result is an English-style ground: the stands are 7.5 meters from the pitch, and the crowd, very close to the field, sees well from every seat.
The exterior is clad in 7,000 aluminum panels in shades of gray and white, which designer Fabrizio Giugiaro compares to a "flag in motion". A tricolor frieze wraps around the entire building, with the yellow stars of the league titles.
The roof, tested in the wind tunnel on the profile of an airplane wing, is held up by two great pylons 86 meters tall, which recall those of the old stadium and have become the symbol of the ground.
If you want to understand the club's history, there is the J-Museum, in the east area: all the trophies won, the jerseys of the most important players, interactive areas and a room dedicated to the victims of Heysel.
Outside, the Walk of Stars honors the club's protagonists, with 39 silver stars for the Brussels 1985 victims.
To inaugurate it, on September 8, 2011, Juventus invited Notts County, the English provincial team from which, in 1903, it took inspiration for its black-and-white colors. The match ended 1-1.
First came years of negotiations. At the old Stadio delle Alpi, municipal and shared with Torino, Juve felt like "a guest in someone else's house": too big, too cold, too far from the pitch.
In 2002 an agreement with the city gave it the site for 99 years. The old ground was demolished and almost all the material was recycled, so much so that the Stadium is considered the first eco-friendly stadium in the world.
Since July 1, 2017 it has been called Allianz Stadium for sponsorship reasons, but the name Juventus Stadium remains in European competitions.
It stands where the Stadio delle Alpi used to be, and reuses part of its structures. The result is an English-style ground: the stands are 7.5 meters from the pitch, and the crowd, very close to the field, sees well from every seat.
The exterior is clad in 7,000 aluminum panels in shades of gray and white, which designer Fabrizio Giugiaro compares to a "flag in motion". A tricolor frieze wraps around the entire building, with the yellow stars of the league titles.
The roof, tested in the wind tunnel on the profile of an airplane wing, is held up by two great pylons 86 meters tall, which recall those of the old stadium and have become the symbol of the ground.
If you want to understand the club's history, there is the J-Museum, in the east area: all the trophies won, the jerseys of the most important players, interactive areas and a room dedicated to the victims of Heysel.
Outside, the Walk of Stars honors the club's protagonists, with 39 silver stars for the Brussels 1985 victims.
To inaugurate it, on September 8, 2011, Juventus invited Notts County, the English provincial team from which, in 1903, it took inspiration for its black-and-white colors. The match ended 1-1.
First came years of negotiations. At the old Stadio delle Alpi, municipal and shared with Torino, Juve felt like "a guest in someone else's house": too big, too cold, too far from the pitch.
In 2002 an agreement with the city gave it the site for 99 years. The old ground was demolished and almost all the material was recycled, so much so that the Stadium is considered the first eco-friendly stadium in the world.
Since July 1, 2017 it has been called Allianz Stadium for sponsorship reasons, but the name Juventus Stadium remains in European competitions.