Preview | Frosinone vs Juventus

The Men's First Team begin their 2026/27 Serie A campaign with a trip to face newly-promoted Frosinone on Matchday 1. 

The match, taking place on Sunday, August 23 at 18:30 CEST, will be played at the Stadio Benito Stirpe in Lazio.

Let’s get up to speed ahead of Sunday’s game with some pre-match stats.

Interesting Facts

• Juventus have won their last five matches against Frosinone in Serie A, having drawn their first-ever encounter with the Ciociari in September 2015 (1–1, with goals from Simone Zaza and Leonardo Blanchard). In these five matches, the Bianconeri have recorded an aggregate score of 12–3 in their favour, scoring at least two goals on each occasion.

• Juventus have kept a clean sheet in six of the nine matches played against Frosinone across Serie A, Serie B and the Italian Cup; among the teams they have faced at least five times in all competitions since 1929/30, only against Piacenza (83 per cent) and Crotone (75 per cent) do the Bianconeri boast a higher clean sheet percentage than against Frosinone (67 per cent)
• Frosinone and Juventus will face each other on Matchday 1 of Serie A for the first time ever.
• Randal Kolo Muani has scored a goal every 146 minutes on average for Juventus in Serie A, recording his best goals-per-minute ratio with a club in Europe’s top five leagues. 
• Kenan Yıldız’s first Serie A goal came against Frosinone on 23 December 2023 at the Benito Stirpe. The Turkish player is the forward who covered the greatest distance with the ball at his feet in last season’s Serie A: almost seven kilometres (6,826 metres).

Opposition Focus

• Frosinone have lost all three of their home matches against Juventus in Serie A, conceding exactly two goals in each of them. Among the teams they have faced at least three times in home matches in Serie A, Juventus are one of the four against whom Frosinone have recorded a 100 per cent loss rate, alongside Roma, Napoli and Inter.
• Frosinone have lost all three matches played on the opening day of the Serie A season (2-1 against Torino in 2015/16, 4-0 against Atalanta in 2018/19 and 3-1 against Napoli in 2023/24)
• Across Serie A and Serie B in the 2025/26 season, Giacomo Calo was the player who contributed the most points to his team, thanks to the number of assists he provided: an impressive 13, with 15 key passes, at least five more than any other player across both competitions.