Top 10 club football teams of the decade (2010-2019)

#7 Juventus (2014-17)

Juventus v S.S. Lazio - 2015 Italian Super Cup

The popular consensus is that Juventus is the quintessential "almost-there" of world football in this past decade.

The club from Turin has managed to reach the Champions League final twice in the past five years but have been unable to run the last mile. While European success has eluded them by a mere whisker, the dominance of the club in Italy has been nothing short of astonishing.

Massimiliano Allegri took over as the club's manager in 2014 as the club looked to embark on a successful European campaign. The Italian took Juventus to the Champions League final where they lost to Luis Enrique's Barcelona. Juventus also reached the final in 2017 but were unable to defeat defending champions Real Madrid.

During this period, Allegri led the club to successive Serie A and Coppa Italia titles and starved other Italian teams of silverware. His first season at the club saw Juventus winning the league by an incredible 17-point margin.

Juventus placed faith in the same set of players during Allegri's reign and it brought them incredible domestic success. A defence consisting of Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci gave creative players like Paul Pogba and Claudio Marchisio a platform to do what they do best. A host of talented strikers ran the roulette during Allegri's time at the club, with Carlos Tevez, Alvaro Morata, Mario Mandzukic, and Paulo Dybala excelling in their roles in the penalty area.

Juventus may not have won the Champions League in a long time, but they have shone the brightest in the Italian peninsula during what has been a difficult decade for Italian football.

Starting XI: Gianluigi Buffon; Patrice Evra, Giorgio Chiellini, Leonardo Bonucci, Stephan Lichtsteiner; Arturo Vidal, Paul Pogba, Claudio Marchisio, Andrea Pirlo; Alvaro Morata, Carlos Tevez