The most significant institutional development of a day already defined by the approval of Juventus’s annual accounts emerged on Tuesday evening via a single tweet from Matteo Moretto, one of Italian football’s most reliable and well-sourced transfer journalists: “Ginevra Elkann heading towards the Juventus presidency.”
Who Is Ginevra Elkann?
Ginevra Elkann, born in 1979, is the sister of John Elkann — president of Exor and the family member who has most visibly steered the Juventus project since assuming control — and of Lapo Elkann. She is an Italian film producer and director, with a career built in cinema rather than in the corporate and automotive worlds that have defined the professional identities of her better-known brothers. Her appointment to the Juventus presidency — if confirmed at the shareholders’ assembly on 3 November — would represent a significant and unexpected succession within the family’s ownership of the club, placing a figure from outside the traditional business hierarchy at the institutional head of Italy’s most historically successful football club.
The source of the information — Moretto’s tweet — is presented without elaboration or additional context in the Calciomercato article. The report is treated as credible and newsworthy; no denial from the Juventus side had emerged at the time of publication.
The Capital Increase — and the Context of the Governance Change
The timing of the presidential development is inseparable from the financial one. Today’s Board of Directors — meeting in Venice — approved the accounts for 2025-26 with a €66 million loss and proposed to the 3 November shareholders’ assembly a capital increase of up to €250 million. Exor has confirmed it will subscribe to its proportional share and has advanced €60 million immediately.
A new president at the 3 November assembly would take the chair precisely as that capital increase is voted on — the most consequential financial decision in the club’s recent history, and the one that will set the structural parameters for everything that follows in Carnevali’s rebuilding project. The governance change and the financial restructuring are arriving simultaneously. Whether they are connected in their design, or coincidental in their timing, will become clearer when the 3 November assembly confirms the new board composition.
