Juventus and Torino fans receive a ten-match ban: Italian media

Juventus and Torino fans were given a 10-match ban on traveling to away matches on Wednesday as punishment for trouble ahead of last month’s local derby, which led to the match starting more than an hour late.

Italian media are widely reporting that the Ministry of the Interior has ordered the closure of away matches for Juventus and Torino supporters and a ban on the sale of away tickets for those matches to residents of the Northwest Piedmont and Lombardy regions.

The Turin derby was one of five matches on the final day of last season scheduled to start at 8:45 p.m. local time (6:45 p.m. GMT) as it determined which teams clinched the last two of Serie A’s four Champions League places.

But the match was heavily postponed for ‘public safety’ reasons after a Juve fan was hospitalized following pre-match clashes outside the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino.

Juve fans, the away fans that evening, insisted that the match be suspended, even going so far as to call club captain Manuel Locatelli to voice their demands.

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Ultimately, kick-off was at 9:51 p.m., which angered Juve fans who left the away leg for a match that finished 2–2 and left their team outside the top four of Serie A.

Juve finished the season sixth and will play in the Europa League next season.

The injured fan, 36-year-old Marco Leonardo Basoccu, was released from hospital in Turin on Tuesday after treatment for serious head injuries.

Basoccu, a member of ultra group ‘Viking’ Juve, claimed to reporters outside the city’s Molinette Hospital that he could not remember how he suffered his injuries.

Juve fans have accused police of firing tear gas canisters directly at fans, suggesting this hit Basoccu, and local prosecutors are investigating the incident.

Published on June 10, 2026