| Full name | Juventus Next Gen[1] | |||
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| Short name | Juve Next Gen Juve NG | |||
| Founded | 3 August 2018; 7 years ago (2018-08-03) as Juventus U23 | |||
| Ground | Stadio Giuseppe Moccagatta,Alessandria | |||
| Capacity | 5,827[2] | |||
| Chairman | Gianluca Ferrero | |||
| Head coach | Massimo Brambilla | |||
| League | Serie C Group B | |||
| 2024–25 | Serie C Group C, 9th of 20 | |||
| Website | juventus.com/next-gen | |||
| Active teams of Juventus F.C. |
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Juventus Next Gen (Italian pronunciation:[juˈvɛntusnɛkstdʒɛn]), also known asJuve Next Gen orJuve NG, is a professionalfootball club based inTurin,Piedmont, Italy, which acts as thereserve team ofSerie A clubJuventus. They compete inSerie C Group B, and play their home games at theStadio Giuseppe Moccagatta, inAlessandria.
Following the reintroduction of reserve teams in Italy,Juventus U23 was formed in 2018 and was registered toSerie C, the third level of theItalian league system. In the first years, the team reached the promotion play-off stages of Serie C, without gaining promotion. In the2019–20 season, under coachFabio Pecchia, Juventus U23 won theCoppa Italia Serie C after defeatingTernana in thefinal. The club changed its name to Juventus Next Gen in 2022. They remained the sole Italian reserve team until August 2023 whenAtalanta foundedits own.[3]
Due to the nature of the club as a reserve team, Juventus Next Gen needs to comply to certainregulations, such as being ineligible for promotion to Serie A and not competing in theCoppa Italia, the major national cup. The club—and in general FIGC's reserve-team project—has faced a lot of criticism, especially from fans of other Serie C teams due to their perceived lack of history and the disruption of the league's competitive balance.

Reserve teams were introduced in Italy in the early 20th century, and played in theSeconda Categoria [it].[a][4] On 17 April 1904, the second team of Juventus lost the final 4–0 toGenoa II at the Ponte Carrega field.[4] On 2 April 1905, after a 3–0 away win toAC Milan II, Juventus II obtained the mathematical certainty of first place at the final three-team group stage to win their only Seconda Categoria trophy.[5]
Juventus II also took part in theCampionato De Martino [it], another league dedicated to reserve teams, until the competition ceased in 1976; they won the 1959–60 edition.[6]
Juventus even had a third team who played friendly matches against local teams,[7][8][9][10] and competed in theTerza Categoria [it] in the early 20th century.[b][11]
A few years before their foundation, Juventus' sporting directorsFabio Paratici andGiuseppe Marotta had already made up an unofficial structure in order to follow youth players' progresses.[12] Following the reintroduction of professionalreserve teams inItalian football after over 40 years,[13] Juventus U23 were founded on 3 August 2018 and were officially admitted to theSerie C championship.[14]
On 21 August,Luca Zanimacchia became the first scorer of the team's history after scoring the only goal in a 1–0 win overCuneo in the group stage of theCoppa Italia Serie C.[15] Juventus U23's first game in Serie C was a 2–1 away defeat toAlessandria, withClaudio Zappa scoring the team's first league goal.[16] Juventus U23 ended their first season in 12th place with 42 points in 37 games,[17] and were eliminated in the group stage of theCoppa Italia Serie C.[18]
In the2019–20 season, coached byFabio Pecchia, Juventus U23 won theCoppa Italia Serie C after beatingTernana 2–1 in thefinal on 27 June 2020. The club won its first trophy in their second year as a professional club.[19][20] In August, U19 coachLamberto Zauli was promoted to U23 level, replacingAndrea Pirlo (who became first-team coach), who had in turn taken Pecchia's place.[21] Zauli coached for the following two seasons; in the last one, his Juventus U23 made their best-ever regular-season score with 54 points.[22]
On 28 June 2022,Massimo Brambilla was appointed as Juventus U23's coach.[23] On 26 August, the club changed its name to Juventus Next Gen.[24] In his first season, Brambilla's Juventus Next Gen reached the final of the Coppa Italia Serie C, lost 5–3 on aggregate toVicenza,[25] but they failed to qualify for the promotion play-offs, having finished the league at the thirteenth place with 49 points.[26] However, in the following season, they obtained the seventh place in the regular season, their best-ever-regular-season placement.[27]
Brambilla left Juventus Next Gen at the end of the season[28] and was replaced by former U19 coach and former first-team defenderPaolo Montero in mid 2024.[29] Montero was sacked in the November of the same year, with the team trailing at the penultimate place in relegation zone and with them obtaining one only victory in 14 league matches.[30][31] Brambilla returned to Juventus Next Gen on a contract until June 2025.[32] Under Brambilla's leadership, Juventus Next Gen climbed the table and reached the play-off zone.[33]

Juventus Next Gen does not possess their own stadium. From 2018 to 2024, it shared theStadio Giuseppe Moccagatta withAlessandria as their home stadium.[34] Although there had been an agreement among the two parts shortly after Juventus's reserve team's foundation, Alessandria's fans protested to not share their stadium.[34] According to the agreement, Juventus Next Gen fans can sit only in the guests sector.[34] Their players train at theJuventus Training Center inVinovo.[34]
On 27 November 2022, Juventus Next Gen played exceptionally a match againstMantova at theJuventus Stadium, the first team home ground, in which tickets were free.[35] The match was drawn 2–2, withSimone Iocolano scoring a brace for Juventus Next Gen[36] and was seen by 28,572 fans present at the stadium.[37] On 3 March 2023, the Juventus Stadium also hosted the first leg of the2022–23 Coppa Italia Serie C final between Juventus Next Gen andVicenza with an attendance of 21,572 spectators and with Juventus Next Gen losing 2–1.[38][39]
In the 2024–25 season, Juventus Next Gen, alongsideJuventus women's team, have been using theStadio La Marmora-Pozzo inBiella.[40] Nevertheless, Juventus Next Gen returned to the Moccagatta just one year later.[41]
Since 2021, Juventus has evaluated the opportunity of building a new stadium for both Next Gen and Women's team.[42]
Juventus Next Gen play in the sameprofessional league system as their senior team, rather than a separate league dedicated foryouth teams. However, the reserve team may not play in the same division or higher as their senior team, nor in theCoppa Italia, making Juventus Next Gen ineligible for promotion to theSerie A.[43] Should both Juventus and Juventus Next Gen qualify in the same league, the reserve team must play in the league immediately below.[44] Juventus must pay an annual extraordinary fee of €1.2 million to have the reserve team registered to Serie C.[45] In addition, Juventus may not take part to Lega Pro assemblies.[44]
They may insert a maximum of 23 players in their team sheets.[46] Only four players aged more than 23 when the season started may be inserted in the team sheets.[46] Up to a maximum of seven players who had been registered to aFIGC-affiliated club for less than seven sporting seasons may be included in the match list.[46]
In order to be eligible to play for Juventus Next Gen, players must have not been registered to the 25-man list of Serie A players and must have played at most 50 Serie A matches.[46] Instead, to be eligible to play in promotion play-offs and in relegation play-outs, players must have not played over 25 first-team league matches of at least 30 minutes.[46] If a player is suspended, he is unusable in both the first and reserve teams.[46] Suspensions must be served in the team with whom he committed the infraction.[46]
Until 2024–25, Juventus Next Gen could not register in the Serie D in case of relegation, and the team would have been dissolved; starting from that season, reserve teams are now eligible for registration in Serie D.[47]
Juventus's reserve team and the second-team project itself led by FIGC have faced a lot of criticism. On 28 July 2018, before the team's official foundation,Sicula Leonzio president Giuseppe Leonardo criticised Juventus's choice to form their reserve team by saying: "Reserve teams are a flop, an experiment that does not lead to anywhere. Juventus B are going to be harmful and will distort the championship: they are not a newly promoted team but they are certainly going to be strong, we have seen this in women's football that theBianconeri don't make a bad impression wherever they put their effort".[48] In August 2018,Sportitalia director Michele Criscitellio criticised the second-team project by stating: "The mission of Juve[ntus] B was to get their youngsters to play and not to take away a place from the Serie C clubs to reach the Serie B. The buying power is so different that there would be no competition. It is pointless to make investments for whoever Juventus will end up in the group".[49]
In December 2018,Pisa's fans attacked Juventus U23 by stating, in an official statement: "B teams are an insult to the dignity of those who consider the Lega Pro their own Serie A", further noting that Pisa should not act as a "sparring partner" for "youngsters without a stadium and history". The fans also defected the two league matches against Juventus U23 in the2018–19 Serie C.[50] In September 2019,Arezzo's fans flew a banner in front of their bus saying "No to B teams".[51] They too defected the match against them as they had done in April.[52]
In November 2021, Padova's fans considered Juventus U23 a "Super League franchise" and defected the two league matches against them.[53] In July 2022,Lega Serie B president Mauro Balata expressed dissent towards reserve teams playing in Serie B, saying: "Our league embraces big and important cities. If another league wants to continue with this second-team project they can do so, but without affecting our rights and our history. It is not fair".[54]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Last updated: 12 November 2024
Source:Juventus.com
Below is a list of Juventus Next Gen managers from 2018 until the present day.[58]
| Name | Nationality | Years |
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| Mauro Zironelli | 2018–2019 | |
| Fabio Pecchia | 2019–2020 | |
| Andrea Pirlo[c] | 2020 | |
| Lamberto Zauli | 2020–2022 | |
| Massimo Brambilla | 2022–2024 | |
| Paolo Montero | 2024 | |
| Massimo Brambilla | 2024–present | |
| Edoardo Sacchini | 2025[d] |
| Season | League | Coppa Italia Serie C[61] | |||
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| Tier | Division | Position[62] | |||
| 2018–19 [it] | 3 | Serie C | 12th of 20 | Group stage | |
| 2019–20 | 3 | Serie C | 10th of 20[e] | Champions | |
| 2020–21 | 3 | Serie C | 10th of 20[f] | Cancelled[63] | |
| 2021–22 | 3 | Serie C | 8th of 20[g] | Round of 16 | |
| 2022–23 | 3 | Serie C | 13th of 20 | Runners-up | |
| 2023–24 | 3 | Serie C | 7th of 20[h] | Round of 16 | |
| 2024–25 | 3 | Serie C | 9th of 20[i] | First round | |
| 2025–26 | 3 | Serie C | Second round | ||
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