#1 The stars of Juventus
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The Serie B had never seen such a star-studded line-up as that of Juventus when they were relegated in 2006-07. Everyone remembers, or at least knows about the Calciopoli scandal uncovered in Italian football in 2006. Top clubs like Juventus, Lazio, Fiorentina, AC Milan and Reggina had all been implicated in a match-fixing scandal but it was Juventus who was punished most harshly.
They were stripped of their previous Serie A title and moved to last place at the end of 2005-06 and thereby relegated to the second division. They were docked nine points at the start of the 2006-07 season as well. Despite their disadvantage, the Bianconeri rose to the occasion winning the second division title and returning to their rightful place in football the very next year.
Juventus were relegated when they were at the top of their game with the likes of Gianluigi Buffon, Giorgio Chiellini, Patrick Vieira, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alessandro del Piero, Pavel Nedved, David Trezeguet, Gianluca Zambrotta, Lilian Thuram, Fabio Cannavaro and Claudio Marchisio in the side. When they were banished to the second division many left. Ibrahimovic, Cannavaro, Thuram and Vieira were some of the first out of the door but many of the other stars chose to stay.
Trezeguet, Buffon, Camoranesi, Ballon D’Or winner Nedved, Chiellini and Del Piero, however, stayed on and led the team to the title with a six-point lead. Upon their return to the first division, Juventus came third and it was five years before they won the league again,
