Juventus were due to host Fiorentina at the Allianz Stadium at 12:00 on Sunday, 17 May in the 37th round of the 2025/2026 Serie A season, and both clubs released their official lineups ahead of kickoff.
Luciano Spalletti named a Juventus XI of Di Gregorio, Kalulu, Bremer, Kelly, Cambiaso, Locatelli, Koopmeiners, Conceicao, McKennie, Yildiz and Vlahovic, identifying Locatelli as the club captain. Paolo Vanoli’s Fiorentina side were listed to start De Gea, Dodò, Pongracic, Ranieri, Gosens, Ndour, Fagioli, Brescianini, Parisi, Piccoli and Solomon, with De Gea wearing the armband.
Juventus also published a bench that included Perin, Pinsoglio, Holm, Gatti, Zhegrova, Boga, Milik, Adzic, Kostic, Thuram, Openda, Miretti, David and Cabal. Fiorentina’s substitutes were listed as Lezzerini, Christensen, Rugani, Mandragora, Gudmundsson, Comuzzo, Harrison, Fazzini, Fortini, Braschi, Balbo and Fabbian. The official Juventus announcement labeled the fixture a serie a match.
The figures underlining the moment are straightforward: round 37 of the 2025/2026 Serie A season, kickoff at 12:00 on Sunday 17 May at the Allianz Stadium, and two full lineups issued by the clubs. The notices are the primary public record of each coach’s immediate plan for the game, and broadcasters had scheduled the match across multiple feeds, according to supplementary listings: Sky Sport Uno, Sky Sport 252, Sky Sport 4K and NOW.
There is a clear weight to the selections. Spalletti’s starting XI features a blend of experience and big-game names in the middle and up front, while a deep bench contains high-profile options such as Milik, Kostic, Thuram and Openda. Fiorentina’s bench likewise holds established figures — Christensen and Rugani among them — but De Gea was chosen to lead the starting lineup from the first whistle.
Context matters here only after those facts: this is the penultimate official lineups moment before the season’s end and will be read closely by followers and table observers. For readers tracking how other fixtures shift the landscape, recent coverage noted Inter Milan’s 3-0 Rome win and its ripple effects for midweek stakes ( other late-season games such as Verona vs Como and Torino’s fixture with Roberto D’Aversa facing Fabio Grosso are running on similar timelines and interest ( and
The tension in the story is selection versus supply. Juventus have placed several proven contributors on their bench rather than in the starting XI; the listing is factual, not diagnostic, but it poses an immediate question about how Spalletti plans to use those players once the match is underway. Fiorentina’s lineup, with De Gea as captain, gives the visiting coach Paolo Vanoli a stable spine on paper while leaving depth on the bench that could be decisive later.
Those are the concrete choices heading into the fixture: the coaches, the starting elevens, the substitutes and the captains. The single most consequential unanswered question this announcement leaves on the table is simple and precise — will Spalletti’s decision to keep Milik, Kostic, Thuram and Openda among the substitutes pay off when Juventus and Fiorentina take the field at 12:00 on Sunday?
