Juventus Women’s loss to league-leading Roma this past weekend was the latest reminder of how the 2025-26 season is one that is increasingly one to forget. The Bianconere sit in a very unfamiliar third place and a whopping 14 points behind that same Roma team that beat them on Saturday, with a spot in the Women’s Champions League qualifying rounds looking anything but certain at this point.
It turns out the result was not the only loss they’re having to deal with.
The club have announced that young
striker Chiara Beccari has suffered a season-ending torn ACL in her left knee after having to come off less than 20 minutes into the loss to Roma. It’s the latest hit to an attacking group that has seen plenty of talent leave for a variety of reasons — namely Sofia Cantore and Cristiana Girelli heading to the NWSL in the United States over the last 12 months. But now they’re about to be without one of their best young players in the form of the 21-year-old Beccari for the better part of the next 12 months — which could very well suddenly change any sort of summer upgrades that the club may have if they are to (hopefully) finish in the top three and get into the UWCL qualifying rounds.
Beccari injured her knee early in Saturday’s loss during a challenge with former teammate Valentina Bergamaschi, who moved to Roma in the summer of 2025 after a season in Turin.
Juventus posted this brief update after Beccari underwent scans at J Medical on Tuesday:
Following an injury to her left knee sustained during the Juventus Women’s First Team’s recent Serie A Women match against Roma, Chiara Beccari underwent diagnostic tests at J|Medical. Those tests revealed a tear in her anterior cruciate ligament.
Chiara will undergo surgery in the coming days to reconstruct her ACL.
Beccari, in her second season back at Juventus after highly impressive 2023-24 season on loan at Sassuolo, was tied with Girelli for the team lead in goals with four at the time of her injury. The fact that Juventus Women are 19 games into the Serie A Women season and their leading goal scorers top the list with all of four goals shows one of the major problems this team has had this season. But it’s also a fact that losing a player as talented as Beccari is something that this club can’t afford to see happen for such an extended period of time.
Based on how long it will likely take for her to recover from the ACL surgery, it probably won’t be until the 2027 calendar year that we see Beccari play another game for Juventus Women. Or for the Italian women’s national team for that matter as they work through the second half of qualifying for the 2027 Women’s World Cup.
Beccari penned this post on Instagram after news broke of her ACL injury. It reads as follows:
There are things you never want to happen.
News you never want to receive.They say life can be cruel sometimes, just like this sport.
And today is one of those days, with so much anger, pain and a thousand things running through your head.But if there’s one thing I’ve learned is that no challenge that comes before you does it by chance,
And I am ready to face it and welcome all the teachings it will bring me.Now it’s time for just a little break.
I’ll miss you so much, but when we meet again it’ll be even more beautiful and intense, I promise.See you soon
It ended, rather appropriately, with a heart and kneeling emoji.
