Editing Juventus FC (section)

=== Early years (1897–1918) ===
[[File:1899 Foot-Ball Club Juventus.jpg|thumb|left|One of the first Juventus club shot, 1899]]
Juventus was founded as Sport-Club Juventus in late 1897 by pupils from the [[Massimo d'Azeglio Lyceum]] school in Turin, among them [[Eugenio Canfari]] and [[Enrico Canfari]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Storia della Juventus Football Club|url=http://www.magicajuventus.com/storia_juventus.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121010508/http://www.magicajuventus.com/storia_juventus.php|archive-date=21 January 2008|access-date=8 July 2007|work=magicajuventus.com|language=it}}</ref> It was renamed as Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later.<ref name="Juventus.com">{{cite web|title=Juventus Football Club: The History|url=http://www.juventus.com/site/eng/CLUB_storia.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080729181702/http://www.juventus.com/site/eng/CLUB_storia.asp|archive-date=29 July 2008|access-date=9 August 2008|work=Juventus Football Club S.p.A. official website}}</ref> The club joined the [[1900 Italian Football Championship]]. Juventus played their first [[Italian Football Championship]] match on 11 March 1900 in a 1–0 defeat against [[F.B.C. Torinese|Torinese]].<ref>{{cite web|title=11/03/1900 Juventus-Torinese F.C. 0–1, Campionato Federale 1899–1900|url=https://www.juworld.net/partita.asp?idpartita=8|access-date=17 June 2021|website=www.juworld.net|archive-date=23 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623064005/https://juworld.net/partita.asp?idpartita=8|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Formazione Juventus 1905.jpg|thumb|The Juventus team during the 1905 season in which they won their first league title]]
In 1904, businessman [[Marco Ajmone-Marsan]] revived the finances of Juventus, making it possible to transfer the training field from piazza d'armi to the more appropriate Velodrome Umberto I. During this period, the team wore a pink and black kit. Juventus first won the [[1905 Italian Football Championship]] while playing at their [[Velodrome Umberto I]] ground. By this time, the club colours had changed to black and white stripes, inspired by English side [[Notts County F.C.|Notts County]].<ref name="league">{{cite book|first=Panini Edizioni|last=Modena|title=Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898–2004|year=2005}}</ref>

There was a split at the club in 1906, after some of the staff considered moving Juve out of Turin.<ref name="Juventus.com"/> [[Alfred Dick (entrepreneur)|Alfred Dick]], the club's president,{{efn|Frédéric Dick, a son of Alfred Dick, was a Swiss footballer and joined the team of the Juventus that won the tournament of the Second Category in 1905.}} was unhappy with this, and left with some prominent players to found [[FBC Torino]], which in turn spawned the ''[[Derby della Mole]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=FIFA Classic Rivalries: Torino vs Juventus|url=https://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/stories/classicderby/news/newsid=924118.html#injuries+clouding+turin+derby|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214072339/http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/stories/classicderby/news/newsid%3D924118.html|archive-date=14 December 2011|access-date=29 June 2007|work=Fédération Internationale de Football Association}}</ref> Juventus spent much of this period steadily rebuilding after the split, surviving the First World War.<ref name="league"/>

In 1913, Juventus was relegated to the second division after ended in [[1912–13 Prima Categoria|last place]], but after pressure made by their executives to the Italian Federation, it was decided to increase the number of teams in the following season, that permitted Juventus to remain in the top league.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/2006/luglio/26/Nel_1913_Juve_retrocede_viene_ga_10_060726050.shtml|title=Nel 1913 la Juve retrocede e viene ripescata|website=gazzetta.it|date=26 July 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.calciomercato.com/news/1913-e-1922-juventus-e-inter-in-serie-b-ecco-come-ando-veramente-34023 |title=1913 e 1922, Juventus e Inter in Serie B? Ecco come andò veramente|date=28 April 2018 |website=calciomercato.com|access-date=9 September 2024}}</ref>