In the 19th century, Turin was a small town until the start of factories in the 1870s. After the wealth of the local merchants, the first Turin football club was established in 1897 with the name Sport-Club Juventus. Juventus means ‘Youth’ in Latin. The players first wore pink shirts before reverting to traditional black and white stripes. When the team needed to replace their washed out pink shirt, one of their English players was asked to arrange something from his home country. The shirts that arrived were Notts County replicas and the club has been wearing black and white stripes since then. The home ground of the club since 2011 has been the Allianz Stadium which is also known as the Juventus Stadium. Juventus is the most successful club in Italy and has won the league title 34 times.









During its history, the club has gained a number of nicknames, La Vecchia Signora (the Old Lady) being the most popular. The “old” part of the nickname is a pun on Juventus which means “youth” in Latin. It was derived from the age of the Juventus star players towards the middle of the 1930s. The “lady” part of the nickname is how fans of the club affectionately referred to it before the 1930s. Another nickname for the club is la Fidanzata d’Italia (the Girlfriend of Italy) because over the years it has received a high level of support from Southern Italian immigrant workers (particularly from Naples and Palermo), who arrived in Turin to work for FIAT since the 1930s. I Gobbi (the hunchbacks) is the nickname that is used to describe Juventus supporters but is used sometimes for the players as well. The most widely accepted origin of Gobbi came from the 1950s when the bianconeri wore a bulky jersey. When players ran on the field, the jersey, which had a laced opening at the chest, generated a bulge over the back (one kind of parachute effect), making the players look hunchbacked.