 Balotelli has been the target of racist abuse
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Juventus have promised they will not tolerate any racist abuse of Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli when the sides meet in the Europa League.
Balotelli was subject to abuse while playing a Serie A match for Inter Milan at Juve's Olympic Stadium last season.
He is likely to be in the squad for City's visit to Turin in December.
"This will be the chance for the supporters to demonstrate that the standard has been raised," said Juve chief executive Jean-Claude Blanc.
"Hopefully fans will behave the way they should be behaving and supporting the team and only this.
"Supporting your team is to support your team, and not to make remarks of a racist nature toward other players. We will be extremely demanding and intransigent about this."
Juventus will be carefully watched by European governing body Uefa after receiving a one-match fans ban in 2009 after supporters racially abused Balotelli.
City will face Juve in the Europa League Group A along with Salzburg from Austria and Polish side Lech Poznan and the Manchester club's football administrator Brian Marwood said they did not anticipate any targeting of Balotelli and were looking forward to the clashes with Juve.
Marwood stated: "I'm sure Mario, like all of our players, will be relishing the opportunity. He's a young man with an incredibly bright future ahead of him and we will give him every support and help that he needs.
"We will leave it to the authorities to deal with anything that happens but we are not anticipating any issue."
Balotelli moved to City from European champions Inter Milan in August for a fee of £24m.
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