FIFA Club World Cup: City’s previous meetings with Juventus | OneFootball

City’s third game at this summer’s FIFA Club World Cup will see us play Italian giants Juventus.

Pep Guardiola’s side head to the United States in June for the inaugural edition of the newly expanded tournament.

We’re one of 12 European clubs at the competition, while the very best from Africa, Asia and the Americas will also be in attendance.

Our competition starts with group stage clashes with Moroccan side Wydad AC in Philadelphia and UAE-based Al Ain in Atlanta.

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We’ll need to finish in the top two of the four-team group to progress, so our meeting with Juventus in Orlando could be crucial.

Every game will be globally free to watch on DAZN.

It will be the eighth time we’ve played the Bianconeri in a competitive game, 49 years on from the first ever encounter.

Here we’ll run through the history of this fixture between two of Europe’s most successful clubs.

City 1-0 Juventus, UEFA Cup, 15 September 1976

Tony Book’s City had qualified for the UEFA Cup after winning the League Cup the previous term.

Our reward was a first ever tie with The Old Lady, managed by iconic coach Giovanni Trappatoni early on in his career.

Juventus’ team included many of the stars that would go on to form the backbone of the Italy World Cup winning side in 1982 including an inspired Dino Zoff in goal.

City pushed hard for a goal throughout the match but had to settle for just the one, with Brian Kidd heading home from Dennis Tueart’s corner.

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Juventus 2-0 City, UEFA Cup, 29 September 1976

The return leg of the tie took place in Turin two weeks later, with Juve’s squad of stars determined to ‘do anything to come out on top’, according to Joe Corrigan in his autobiography in 2013.

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City held out for much of the first half but goals either side of the break from Gaetano Scirea and Roberto Boninsegna turned it around and saw the Old Lady through.

They would actually go on and win that year’s tournament, beating Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Magdeburg, AEK Athens and Athletic Club.

City 1-1 Juventus, Europa League, 30 September 2010

In what was City’s most recent season outside of the Champions League, we were drawn against Juventus, Red Bull Salzburg and Lech Poznan in the groups.

While the Poznan games bred a goal celebration that lives on to this day, the likes of Alessandro del Piero, Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini coming to town was perhaps a much bigger draw for supporters initially.

In just the second matchday, we earned a point – putting us in a strong position to progress.

Juventus 1-1 City, Europa League, 16 December 2010

The final matchday of that group saw us travel to Turin’s Stadio Olimpico, which is the home of Torino and Juventus’ interim stadium while building their own.

A point was enough to ensure we went through as group winners but it looked for a long time like it might not come, with Nicolo Giannetti putting the hosts ahead just before the break.

Jo levelled up for City with 15 minutes to go to ensure Juve’s European season was over.

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Dynamo Kyiv brought an end to our Europa League run at the Round of 16 stage, but we would enjoy FA Cup success that term.

Fortunes would dramatically improve for Juve the following season with the arrival of Antonio Conte as boss.

City 1-2 Juventus, Champions League, 15 September 2015

Things had moved on for both clubs since the 2010/11 meetings, with City having won the Premier League twice and Juventus having won Serie A four years in a row and Champions League finalists just a few months prior.

This star-studded clash could easily have been befitting of one of the later rounds, but instead was the very first matchday.

A Chiellini own goal (deflected off Kompany’s header) put us 1-0 up just before the hour mark before Juve’s in-form strike duo Mario Mandzukic and Alvaro Morata scored one each to turn it around.

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Juventus 1-0 City, Champions League, 25 November 2015

City had won all three Champions League games between our previous meeting with Juve and this trip to Turin but the pressure was on to secure top spot.

Instead, it was that man Mandzukic who decided it with his relatively early goal.

It mattered little in the end, as City topped the group and reached the semi-finals for the very first time in our history.

Juve exited at the Round of 16 against Pep’s Bayern Munich.

Juventus 2-0 City, Champions League, 11 December 2024

The two teams played earlier this term as part of the new look league phase of the Champions League.

The game came at a particularly tough time in our season, with injuries mounting up and form suffering as a result.

Dusan Vlahovic and Weston McKennie scored the second half goals to decide the fixture.

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