Juve StabiaMount Vesuvius looms to the north over the Stadio Romeo Menti in Castellammare di Stabia, and the stone pines grow behind one of its ends. The same volcano destroyed the ancient town of Stabiae in AD 79, from which the city takes its name. Juve Stabia grew up in a place with an enormous historical burden, and its own story, full of collapses and rebirths, reads more as a tale of perseverance than of regular success.
The club's roots go back to 19 March 1907, when the brothers Romano and Pauzano Weiss founded Stabia Sporting Club. In 1914 the team affiliated with the federation and began to play in third-category competitions. After that club went bankrupt in 1953, its place in the city was taken by a second, smaller side, Società Sportiva Juventus Stabia, founded in 1935 and affiliated with the federation in 1945, which took over the sporting tradition of its predecessor. The club took the name AC Juve Stabia in 1996. After another collapse in 2001 the city was left for a year without a major team, and in 2003–04 the club returned as Società Sportiva Juve Stabia, won promotion to Serie C2 and lifted the Coppa Italia Serie D.
The stadium is named after Romeo Menti, a forward who died in the 1949 Superga air disaster that killed the Torino players. In 1945 he helped the Stabia side win the Campania regional championship. The ground, built in 1984 in the San Marco district, is small, and its atmosphere is created by the ultras in the Curva Sud. For big matches the ground fills with supporters, though it usually holds only a few thousand.
The team plays in yellow and blue, colours that reflect the identity of the city, and carries the nicknames Le Vespe (the Wasps), I Gialloblù and Gli Stabiesi. For decades the club played mainly in the lower divisions, moving between Serie C1, C2 and Serie B. In 1994 it came close to promotion to Serie B but lost the play-off final to Salernitana in a regional derby, and in 1999 it again came close to the second tier. The road to the second division was therefore long and difficult.
The historic breakthrough came in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In 2010–11 Juve Stabia won the Coppa Italia Lega Pro and were promoted to Serie B after 59 years away. In 2011–12, under coach Piero Braglia and with Marco Sau, who scored 21 league goals, they finished ninth, which at the time was the best result in their history. The following season they stayed up, finishing sixteenth, and after three years in Serie B they were relegated. They returned to the second tier in 2018–19, securing promotion two matchdays early, and after another relegation were promoted again in 2024.
In 2024–25 Juve Stabia finished fifth in Serie B, which earned them a place in the promotion play-offs to Serie A. It was the best result in the club's history, achieved after years in which its very existence was repeatedly in question. The club has no record in European competitions, and its trophies are lower-league cups such as the Coppa Italia Serie D in 2003–04 and the Coppa Italia Lega Pro in 2010–11. Juve Stabia remains a club that can be reborn despite collapses, its strength being the attachment of a city that has long lived in the shadow of Vesuvius.