The team clinched its 8th title despite a colossal 1–7 home defeat against Milan with a superb hat-trick of Swedish striker Gunnar Nordahl.

The championship was a reward to chairman Gianni Agnelli who built this team buying Danish players unknown at the time.

In the summer he transferred in an Argentinian midfielder Rinaldo Martino from San Lorenzo to boost the club performance.

[2] In this season, Jesse Carver replaced fellow Englishman William Chalmers as head coach of Juventus, and a less rigid and physically demanding training schedule paid off for Hansen.

Præst was a left winger with electric dribbling skills who scattered opponents through the field and produced precise crosses to Hansen, who netted them thanks to his violent and accurate headers.