Stadium inspires Juve fans

Juventus fans have been flocking in their thousands to snap up season tickets for the upcoming campaign in the club’s new stadium.

Juve spent the last five years playing at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin since leaving their former Stadio delle Alpi home, which they bought from the local council in 2003, in order to rebuild a stadium on that site.

And now 23,000 people have bought season tickets for the 41,000-capacity stadium, an increase of 56 per cent on last season’s figure of 14,600 season ticket holders.

The new stadium will be inaugurated on September 8, when its official name will be revealed, just three days before the new venue’s first Serie A match when Parma will be the visitors.

Despite being the best-suppor-ted club in Italy, on average Juve only filled one third of the 67,000-capacity Stadio delle Alpi.