2006–07 Juventus FC season
# 2006–07 Juventus FC season

The 2006–07 season was Juventus F.C.'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 Juventus were docked nine points this season (repealed from the original 30-point deduction).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.

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. Other players stayed at the club, however, including Alessandro Del Piero, Gianluigi Buffon, Giorgio Chiellini, Pavel Nedvěd, David Trezeguet, Marcelo Zalayeta, and Mauro Camoranesi, for the following 2006–07 Serie B.

## Squad

    Squad at end of season

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 |

## Transfers

In :

| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| - | - | - | - |
| MF | Cristiano Zanetti | Inter | |
| FW | Valeri Bojinov | Fiorentina | loan |
| DF | Jean-Alain Boumsong | Newcastle United | |
| MF | Matteo Paro | Chievo Verona | |
| MF | Raffaele Palladino | AS Livorno | loan ended |
| GK | Antonio Mirante | A.C. Siena | loan ended |
| DF | Nicola Legrottaglie | A.C. Siena | loan ended |

Out :

| Pos. | Name | to | Type |
| - | - | - | - |
| FW | Zlatan Ibrahimovic | Inter | |
| MF | Patrick Vieira | Inter | |
| DF | Fabio Cannavaro | Real Madrid | |
| MF | Emerson Ferreira | Real Madrid | |
| DF | Lilian Thuram | FC Barcelona | |
| DF | Gianluca Zambrotta | FC Barcelona | |
| GK | Christian Abbiati | A.C. Milan | loan ended |
| FW | Adrian Mutu | Fiorentina | |
| MF | Manuele Blasi | Fiorentina | loan |
| GK | Landry Bonnefoi | FC Metz | loan |
| MF | Rubén Olivera | Sampdoria | loan |

### Winter

In :

| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| - | - | - | - |

Out :

| Pos. | Name | to | Type |
| - | - | - | - |
| FW | Tomás Guzmán | A.C. Siena | loan |

## 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.

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.

## Squad statistics

    Sources:

### Appearances and goals

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

### Goalscorers

Last updated 10 June 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 | Own goals | Own goals | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| TOTALS | TOTALS | TOTALS | 83 | 8 | 91 |

## Competitions

### Serie B

**League table**

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Juventus (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 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 3 | Genoa (P) | 42 | 23 | 9 | 10 | 68 | 44 | +24 | 78 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 4 | Piacenza | 42 | 20 | 8 | 14 | 57 | 50 | +7 | 68 | |
| 5 | Rimini | 42 | 17 | 16 | 9 | 55 | 38 | +17 | 67 | |

* ↑ Juventus started the season with a penalization of 30 points, which was later reduced to 9 on appeal
* ↑ Third-placed team Genoa were directly promoted without a play-off being played as they finished 10 points ahead of fourth-placed Piacenza
* ↑ 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 |
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| 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 |
