{"id":261840,"date":"2025-10-31T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261840\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:01:09","slug":"ex-napoli-italy-manager-spalletti-named-new-juventus-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261840\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Napoli, Italy manager Spalletti named new Juventus boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct 30, 2025, 01:33 PM ET<\/p>\n

Former Napoli<\/a> and Italy<\/a> boss Luciano Spalletti was confirmed as Juventus’<\/a> new head coach on Thursday, replacing the fired Igor Tudor.<\/p>\n

Spalletti has signed an agreement with the record 36-time Serie A<\/a> champions through to the end of the current season, Juventus said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to reports in Italy, the agreement comes with an automatic renewal if the team qualify for the Champions League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“We are delighted to welcome a coach with such expertise and experience to the Bianconeri family: welcome to Juventus and good luck, coach!” Juventus said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Tudor was fired on Monday following three straight losses and an eight-match winless run that dated to Sept. 13. The unfortunate run was ended on Wednesday after a 3-1 win over Udinese<\/a> under interim coach Massimo Brambilla.<\/p>\n

Spalletti, who will hold his first news conference on Friday, becomes Juventus’ third full-time coach since Massimiliano Allegri was fired in May 2024. Including caretakers, he is the club’s fifth coach in that span.<\/p>\n

Thiago Motta was fired by Juventus in March and replaced by Tudor, who helped the club secure Italy’s last Champions League spot with a fourth -place finish last season.<\/p>\n

Juventus haven’t won Serie A since 2020 when they concluded a run of nine straight titles.<\/p>\n

The club are seventh in the standings, six points behind leaders Napoli and Roma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the Champions League, Juventus have drawn two and lost one and sit in the elimination places.<\/p>\n

Luciano Spalletti led Napoli to a Serie A title in 2023.\u00a0Bernd Thissen\/picture alliance via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The 66-year-old Spalletti is best known for leading Napoli to the Serie A title in 2023. Then he had an unsuccessful run with Italy and was fired in June when the Azzurri got off to a poor start in World Cup qualifying.<\/p>\n

Spalletti has also coached Empoli, Sampdoria, Venezia, Udinese, Ancona, Roma, Zenit St. Petersburg and Inter Milan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At Juventus, Spalletti joins his son, Federico, who is a scout for the club.<\/p>\n

Spalletti is set to make his debut at Cremonese<\/a> in Serie A on Saturday. Juventus then host Sporting CP in the Champions League three days later.<\/p>\n

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 30, 2025, 01:33 PM ET Former Napoli and Italy boss Luciano Spalletti was confirmed as Juventus’ new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-261840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}