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Italian football's top-flight football competition, the Serie A, had its inaugural edition in 1891. Played in its present-day (single round) format since 1929, Serie A has been a 20-team league since the 2004 season.
It is one of the top three football leagues in Europe. It is ranked behind Spain's LaLiga and England's Premier League by UEFA's league co-efficient, and ahead of Germany's Bundesliga and France's Ligue 1.
Serie A is the only top-5 European football league to employ a true round-robin system - where teams play each other exactly once during the first half of the season called 'andata', and in the same order - but with home and away teams reversed - during the second half of the season called 'ritorno'.
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A total of 66 different clubs have played the Serie A in its present format (since 1929). Among the 12 clubs to have won Serie A, Juventus are the record 35-time champions, and have won the last eight titles. That is the record for the most number of consecutive titles in the Italian top flight.
Serial winners Juventus have garnered a slew of league records. They have the most goals (5037), most wins (1555), most consecutive wins (17), most consecutive home wins (33), most wins in a season (33), most home wins in a season (19), most points in a season (102) and longest unbeaten streak in a 20-league season (38 in 2011-12).
Juventus' legendary keeper Gianluigi Buffon holds the record for most clean sheets in Serie A (292) and most clean sheets in a season (21 in 2011-12 and 2015-16). Buffon is the only player to win 9 Serie A titles (all for Juventus).
As the 2019-20 Serie A season gets underway this weekend, let us have a look at Juventus' eight successive title triumphs:
#1 First Title (2011-12)
Juventus ended the six-year Serie A reign of Milan clubs in 2011-12, by winning their first Serie A title in nine years and their 28th overall.
Despite producing the first unbeaten Serie A season in a 20-team league, Juventus managed to finish only four points clear of second placed AC Milan and garnered less wins (23) than the defending champions (24).
However, the Bianconeri keeper Gianluigi Buffon set a new Serie A record of most clean sheets (21) during the season. Juventus shut out opposition teams as many number of times during the season.
#2 Second Title (2012-13)
For the first time in 10 years Juventus had a successful title defence as they won their 29th Serie A title - beating SSC Napoli by nine points.
Except for the first match day, the Bianconeri were top of the league on all other match days during the season.
Gianluigi Buffon kept 16 (of Juventus' 19) clean sheets during the season, which was more than what the second placed club, Napoli, managed (14) during the same period.
#3 Third Title (2013-14)
Juventus streaked to their third successive Serie A title in 2013-14, and 30th overall, by becoming the first team to breach the 100-point mark in a Serie A season.
The Bianconeri finished a whopping 17 points clear of second placed AS Roma.
Carlos Tevez of Juventus scored 19 goals during the season, three shy of Capocannoniere winner Ciro Immobile of city rivals Torino.
#4 Fourth Title (2014-15)
Juventus started the season with five consecutive wins without conceding, which set a new Serie A record.
For the second consecutive season, the Bianconeri finished 17 points clear of second placed AS Roma to win their 31st Serie A title.
Carlos Tevez (20 goals) of Juventus finished two goals behind joint Capocannoniere winners Mauro Icardi of Internazionale and Luca Toni of Hellas Verona.
#5 Fifth Title (2015-16)
Juventus matched Internazionale's record of five consecutive Serie A titles since the turn of the century by winning their 32nd Serie A title in 2015-16.
The Bianconeri finished 9 points clear of second placed Napoli. During the season Juventus' keeper Gianluigi Buffon created a new record for most consecutive minutes without conceding (974) en route to tying his own mark of 21 for most clean sheets during a Serie A season.
#6 Sixth Title (2016-17)
In the highest ever signing by an Italian club (third highest in the world at the time), Juventus shelled out 90 million euros to SSC Napoli to acquire the services of the Southern club's prolific marksman Gonzalo Higuain. Higuain had set the record for most goals in a season (36) in the previous season.
In a close title race, the Bianconeri matched their previous season's points tally of 91 to finish four points ahead of AS Roma. The triumph was Juventus' sixth straight Italian top flight title and 33rd overall.
#7 Seventh Title (2017-18)
In another close title race for the second successive season, Juventus scored 95 points to pip second placed SSC Napoli by 4 points and win their seventh straight Serie A title and 34th overall.
Juventus players scored 5 of the 16 hat-tricks registered during the season, with Paulo Dybala contributing three and the duo of Sami Khedira and Gonzalo Higuain scoring one apiece.
After 17 straight seasons playing for the club, Juventus' legendary goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon left the Bianconeri at the end of the season to join Ligue 1 club Paris St. Germain.
#8 Eighth Title (2018-19)
For the second time in three years, Juventus broke the transfer record for a Serie A club by acquiring Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid for 100 million euros.
The prolific Portuguese marksman took a while to get going before registering 21 goals in his debut Serie A season. Juventus finished 11 points clear of SSC Napoli to win an eighth straight Scudetto and a record-extending 35th overall.
During the season, Ronaldo scored in a 3-0 away win at Empoli to equal the record of scoring in the highest number of consecutive away games (9) in the Serie A.
Ronaldo scored the lone goal in a 1-0 win away at city rivals Torino as Juventus became the first Serie A club to score 5000 goals.
