Juventus have now formally abandoned their final appeal against the Calciopoli verdict, putting a seal on the matter that has dragged on for 17 years.
It had already been reported that the club was going to shelve the latest legal action, that had been trying to win over €443m in damages.
Juve were relegated to Serie B in 2006 and had two Serie A titles revoked, so the 2004-05 edition went unassigned, while the 2005-06 trophy was handed to third-placed Inter.
This is because Milan, who finished second that year, were also docked points in the scandal, along with Lazio, Fiorentina and Reggina.
They were all sanctioned for ‘a structured illegality’ that involved putting pressure on the refereeing designator to assign certain referees to particular games.
Nobody was ever formally accused of match-fixing and all the referees themselves were cleared of any wrong-doing with the exception of Massimo De Santis.
Juventus had lodged the appeals after evidence emerged in 2010 that Inter had also made similar phone calls to the refereeing designator via President Giacinto Facchetti, but it was not used in the original Calciopoli trials.