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Torino Football Club (), commonly referred to as Torino or simply Toro, is an
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professional
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based in
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,
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. They currently play in
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. Founded as ''Foot-Ball Club Torino'' in 1906, Torino are among the most successful clubs in Italy with seven league titles, including five consecutive league titles during the 1940s. The ''
Grande Torino The Grande Torino was the historic Italian football team of Torino Football Club in the 1940s, five-time champions of Italy, whose players were the backbone of the Italy national team and died on 4 May 1949 in the plane crash known as the Superg ...
'', as the team was known, was widely recognised as one of the strongest footballing sides of the period, until the entire team was killed in the 1949
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. They have also won the
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five times, the last of which was in the 1992–93 season. Internationally, Torino won the
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in 1991 and were finalists in the
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in 1991–92. Torino plays all of its home games at the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino (also known as the Stadio Comunale "Vittorio Pozzo" until 2006). The club's traditional colour is maroon, and its symbol is a rampant bull, the traditional symbol of the city of Turin, from which the club's nickname is derived, ''"Il Toro"'' (The Bull). Torino have a local rivalry with
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and the two sides contest the
Derby della Mole The Derby della Mole is the local derby played out between Turin's most prominent football clubs, Juventus and Torino. It is also known as the Derby di Torino or the Turin Derby in English. It is named after the Mole Antonelliana, a major landma ...
.


History


The foundation and first steps

Football first arrived in the city of
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at the end of the 19th century, introduced by the industrial
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. By 1887, ''Football & Cricket Club'' – the oldest Italian football club – had already been founded in the capital of
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, followed in 1889 by ''Nobili Torino''. In 1891 the two clubs merged to form
Internazionale Torino Internazionale Football Club Torino commonly known as just Internazionale Torino was an Italian football club from Turin. The club was founded by a merger in 1891 and is the third Italian club dedicated to football. Origins of the club Two ol ...
, after which
Football Club Torinese Foot-Ball Club Torinese was an Italian football club from Turin that was founded in 1894. It merged with Internazionale Torino in 1900, keeping its name. The club competed in the first Italian Football Championship, and stayed in the competitio ...
was founded in 1894. The new game quickly supplanted the popularity of pallapugno, which led to the foundation of the football sections of the sports clubs Ginnastica Torino and
Juventus Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...
. On 8 May 1898 Internazionale Torino, Football Club Torinese and Ginnastica Torino, along with
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as part of the International Exhibition for the fiftieth anniversary of the
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gave birth to the first
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. In 1900, Football Club Torinese absorbed Internazionale Torino, and on 3 December 1906 at the Voigt brewery (now bar Norman) on Via Pietro Micca an alliance was formed with a group of Juventus dissidents, led by the Swiss financier
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. Through the merger of Football Club Torinese and the aforementioned group, "Foot-Ball Club Torino" was formed. The first official match was played on 16 December 1906 in
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against
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, won 3–1 by Torino. The first
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was played in the new year, dated 13 January 1907, in which Torino defeated
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2–1. Torino successfully replicated this by a margin of 4–1 a month later and gained the right to enter the final round of the
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, placed second behind
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. Torino did not participate in the
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Italian Football Championship as a rule was passed which limited the use of foreign players. The club instead played in two popular "minor" tournaments: the coveted "Palla Dapples" (a silver trophy in the shape of a regulation football), won against Pro Vercelli; and an international
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organised by
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, which took place in
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that year. Torino lost in the final to
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side
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. In
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, Torino were denied their first real championship attempt by the outbreak of
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. With one match left to play, Torino (in second), were two points behind leaders
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. In the final game of the championship, Torino would have had the opportunity to play the Genoese head-on after defeating them in the first leg 6–1.


The first scudetto

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, a
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, joined the team in 1923 and became the top scorer in the 1923–1924
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. He scored 22 goals, in 20 games, scoring 51.1% of the team's goals. The club experienced its first success under the presidency of Count Enrico Marone Cinzano, who was responsible for building the
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. In attack, Torino boasted the ''Trio delle meraviglie'' (Trio of Wonders), composed of
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,
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and
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, and won their first ''
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'' on 10 July 1927 after a 5–0 win against
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. However, the title was revoked on 3 November 1927 due to the "Allemandi Case". After the revoking of the prior ''scudetto'', Torino were reconfirmed champions of Italy in the 1927–28 season. The "Trio of Wonders" scored 89 goals between them, with the title won on 22 July 1928, a 2–2 draw against
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. After the resignation of Cinzano, the club began a slow decline in the early 1930s and often finished mid-table. It was not until the 1935–36 season that it began its revival, with a third-place finish in the league and first victory of the
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. Renamed "Associazione Calcio Torino" due to the Italian
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regime, Torino finished in second place in the 1938–39 season, under the technical director Ernest Erbstein. In 1939–40, Torino finished in fifth place, and saw the arrival of club president
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. Novo provided financial support to the club and utilised his skill as a careful administrator. With valuable contributions from
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, Giacinto Ellena and Mario Sperone, Novo was able to build a team known as the ''"Grande Torino"''.


Grande Torino

The club's greatest period is encapsulated in the ''Grande Torino'', a team which won five titles in a row (not considering the interruption to the league in the 1944 Campionato Alta Italia, in which the
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(FIGC) in 2002 recognised only honorary value to
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) between 1942 and 1949, and the
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in 1943 (due to this success, Torino was the first team to win the coveted ''Scudetto'' and Coppa Italia "double" in Italy during the same season). Torino's players formed the backbone of the Italy national team in this period, at one point fielding ten players simultaneously in the ''Azzurri''. The captain and undisputed leader of the team was
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, father of Ferruccio and
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, who would subsequently follow their father in becoming footballers. The typical starting lineup was: Bacigalupo; Ballarin; Maroso; Grezar; Rigamonti; Castigliano; Menti; Loik; Gabetto; Mazzola; Ossola. Their success came to an abrupt end on 4 May 1949 when the
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airliner carrying the whole team crashed against the retaining wall of the
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in Turin. The crash was attributed to dense fog and
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due a faulty altimeter in the cockpit. The team had been returning from a friendly with Benfica played in
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. In addition to the entire team and reserve players, the crash claimed the lives of coaches Egri Erbstein and
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, two club officials, the club masseur, three journalists, and the four members of the crew.


From relegation to the title

Difficult years followed in the aftermath of the tragedy. A slow decline led to the club's first relegation to Serie B, which took place under the name "Talmone Torino" in 1958–59. The stay in Serie B would only last one season, with Torino's return to the top flight in 1960–61. In 1963, Orfeo Pianelli assumed presidency. He appointed
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as manager and signed club icon
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, nicknamed "The Maroon Butterfly" (''La Farfalla Granata''). In 1964–65, the team finished in third place. On 15 October 1967, Meroni was killed while crossing the street after a league game. Despite the tragedy, Torino finished the season in seventh place and won the
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. The reconstruction of a winning team, initiated by the club president Pianelli, continued with the victory of another Coppa Italia in the 1970–71 season. In the 1971–72 season, Torino managed a third-place finish, placed just one point behind
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. Across the following three seasons, Torino placed sixth, fifth, and sixth again ahead of what would be their seventh Serie A title in the 1975–76 season. The scudetto was won after a comeback against Juventus, who held a five-point advantage over the ''Granata'' during the spring. However, three straight losses for the ''Bianconeri'', the second of which was in the derby, allowed Torino to overtake. In the final round, Torino held a one-point advantage and, until then, had won every previous home fixture. Torino hosted
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at the Comunale but could only manage to draw; Juventus, however, were defeated at
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. The title was won by two points ahead of Juventus, 27 years after the Superga tragedy. The same title race was repeated the next year in a season that saw Torino finish with 50 points behind Juventus' 51, a record points total for the 16-team league format. In 1978, Torino finished second again (tied with a Vicenza side led by
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), still behind Juventus but with a larger gulf in points. In later years, whilst still remaining one of Serie A's top teams, the team began a slow decline and was not able to replicate past results, with the exception of the second place in 1984–85, where the team finished behind a
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side led by
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.


Journey in Europe and bankruptcy

At the end of the 1988–89 season Torino were relegated to Serie B for the second time in their history. The club was promoted back to Serie A in the 1989–90 season, and after having made important signings, qualified for the
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under
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. The following season, Torino knocked
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out of the
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in the semifinals, but lost the
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on the
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to Dutch side
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, after a 2–2 draw in Turin and 0–0 in Amsterdam. In Serie A, Torino finished in third place. In the 1992–93 season, Torino won their fifth
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after defeating
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, however the club subsequently went through a period of severe economic difficulties. The club changed presidents and managers several times, but the results continued to worsen, and at the end of the 1995–96 season, Torino were relegated for a third time. After a play-off lost on penalties in the 1997–98 season to Perugia, Torino returned to Serie A in 1998–99, but were once again relegated at the end of the 1999–2000 season. The club was immediately promoted back in the 2000–01 season, and the following year finished in 11th place, and qualified for the
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. After being eliminated by
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on penalties, Torino suffered its worst performance in Serie A, and were relegated after finishing in last place. Under Renato Zaccarelli, Torino achieved promotion in the 2004–05 season. However, due to heavy debts accumulated under the president Francesco Cimminelli, Torino were denied entry into Serie A and the club's bankruptcy was announced on 9 August 2005. On 16 August, the
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accepted the proposal of a new professional entity known as "Società Civile Campo Torino", formed by a group of businessmen and led by lawyer Pierluigi Marengo. The club was granted admission to the Petrucci Law, which guaranteed registration to Serie B, as well as all of the sporting titles of "Torino Calcio." On 19 August,
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was officially announced as the new president of the club at the bar Norman (once known as Voigt brewery). With the sale, the club changed its name to "Torino Football Club". Torino achieved immediate promotion in the 2005–06 season after winning the play-offs. The following
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, Torino escaped relegation in the penultimate round of matches. After three seasons, the club once again were relegated to Serie B. During the 2009–10 season, Cairo named
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as the new sporting director at Torino, but the club failed to gain promotion that season and the one following.


Return to Europe

On 6 June 2011, the club officially announced
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as the new
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ahead of the
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season, with Ventura signing a one-year contract. After a long campaign, Torino secured promotion to Serie A on 20 May 2012, after defeating
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2–0 in the penultimate round of the season. After achieving safety from relegation in the 2012–13 season, the 2013–14 season marked a sharp upturn for Torino, who finished seventh place, and qualified for the 2014–15 Europa League. The stars of the year were
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and
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; the latter finished as the top scorer in Serie A. The 2014–15 season saw Torino reach the
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of the Europa League, where they were eliminated by
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. In the league, Torino finished ninth, and in spring, won their first derby in 20 years. The following year, Torino finished the 2015–16 season in twelfth place, after which Ventura, after five years in charge, left the club for the
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. He was replaced by
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, who finished the 2016–17 season in ninth place. He was replaced by
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in January, who guided the club to another ninth-place finish at the end of the 2017–18 season. The following season Torino finished in seventh place and qualified for the Europa League after a five-year absence. Torino finished the season on 63 points, a club record since the introduction of the three points system in 1994. Torino, however, would fail to enter the group stages of the 2019–20 Europa League after being eliminated in the play-offs by
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. In the league, after a strong start to the season, Torino collapsed and only obtained a minimum achievement of safety from relegation. The following season was also negative, and marked by the alternation on the bench of managers
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and
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. Torino managed only to achieve safety from relegation on the penultimate round of the season with a 0–0 draw away against
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. The following season saw the arrival of
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on the bench, who guided the club to a tenth place finish.


Colours and badge

The first uniform used by Torino only a few days after its foundation and in the first game of its history against
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was striped
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, similar to the
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used by
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and
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, the historical predecessors of the newly formed club. Incidentally the colours were too similar to that of the
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s, historical enemies of the then ruling Italian house and considered inappropriate. Given the need to adopt a definitive color the founders opted in the end for granata, a dark shade of red similar to
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. The most widely accepted story is that it was adopted in honour of the
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and the
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, which, after the victorious liberation of Turin from the French in 1706, adopted a blood-colored handkerchief in honour of a messenger killed bringing the news of victory. Other accounts, considered less reliable, speak of a tribute to the founder
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, who was a fan of the Genevan team
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, the Swiss club of the founders homeland, or a reference to the English club
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, the oldest football club in the world, whose colours were also initially adopted by Internazionale Torino. There is even the possibility that the dark red was created by chance, as a result of repeated washing—a reconstruction that is found with many other club's football kits—among the uniforms that were
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with
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socks; the colour derived, being considered a good omen, would eventually be chosen as the official colour. Previously, the club had tried to obtain permission to use
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, but the monarchs of Italy were reluctant to grant the use of their dynastic color to a single team, as opposed to a few years later, when Azure adopted by the various national sports teams. Since then, the traditional home uniform of Torino has been composed of a kit combined with traditionally
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but occasionally also maroon shorts, and black socks cuffed maroon. It has not been unusual however to see the team take to the field with maroon socks, especially at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s when the team permanently adopted a complete maroon kit. The away uniform, usually in reverse colours, consists of a white shirt with contrasting cuffs, maroon or sometimes white shorts, white socks and a maroon lapel. Cyclically, an away shirt with a diagonal maroon band has also been used. This is an homage to River Plate, the Argentine club which has had close historical ties to Torino since the tragedy of Superga. the shirt was debuted on 6 January 1953 in a league match against
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, ending 1–1. The Torino club badge has always featured a rampant bull, the symbol of the city of
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. The current badge was adopted in the 2005–06 season, the first following the bankruptcy of ''Torino Calcio''. The "1906" on the left side of the shield was later added to denote the founding year of the historic ''Foot-Ball Club Torino''. In the 1980s, the Torino badge was square in shape with a stylised bull and the words "Torino Calcio." This badge is still held in high regard by the fans, and in 2013 it was voted by the readers of '' Guerin Sportivo'' as the most beautiful club logo of all time. From 1990 until the bankruptcy, the badge in use recalled the one used at the time of the ''
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'', with the important difference that the right side of the oval crossed the letter "T" and "C" (initials of "Torino Calcio") instead of the letters "A", "C" and "T" (initials of "Associazione Calcio Torino"). In 2017, the Irish club Wexford Youths renamed itself
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and adopted a new crest with rampant bull, inspired by Torino's. Club chairman
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is known to be a Torino fan.


Stadium

The first official match after the club's foundation, a derby match against Juventus, took place on 13 January 1907 at the Stadio Velodrome Umberto. The club later moved to the ''Piazza d'armi'', which comprised numerous pitches: from 23 January 1911, the ''Lato Ferrovia''; and from 26 February 1911, the ''Lato Crocetta''. Towards the end of 1913 the club moved to the ''Stradale Stupinigi''; with the outbreak of the
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, the stadium was requisitioned for military purposes. From 11 October 1925 until the end of the 1925–26 season, Torino played their home games at ''Motovelodromo Corso Casale'' (now restored, it is dedicated to
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and also hosts
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matches), while awaiting their move to the
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. The "Fila" as it was known was heavily associated with the exploits of the ''
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'' team of the 1940s: opened on 17 October 1926 with a match against Fortitudo Roma, it hosted Torino's games continuously until 11 May 1958 (the final match being a 4–2 victory over
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). In the 1958–59 season, the club briefly moved to the Stadio Comunale: the move was short-lived however, as the club was relegated to Serie B that year, and returned to the Filadelfia out of superstition. Torino played the entirety of the 1959–60 season and the next at the Filadelfia, but in 1961–62 and 1962–63 the club began to use the Comunale for "special" matches. The move to the Comunale, a stadium with a standing capacity of 65,000, was completed in 1963–64, and Torino remained there until 27 May 1990 when the stadium was abandoned in favour of the Stadio delle Alpi. Built specifically for the
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, the Stadio delle Alpi was home to Torino from 1990 to 2006. Following the reconstruction carried out to make the stadium suitable to host the
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and
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, Torino returned to the Stadio Comunale, renamed the
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. The new capacity was now 27,958 seated, reduced by about 38,000 from the original in compliance with modern safety standards. In April 2016, the Olimpico was renamed in honour of the ''Grande Torino''. The Stadio Filadelfia also served as the training ground of Torino from 1926 to 1993. More recently, from 2006 to 2017, the team's training base was the Sisport di Corso Unione Sovietica. In the 2017–18 season, Torino returned to training at the reconstructed Filadelfia.


Players


Current squad


Out on loan


Notable players

;FIFA World Cup winners *
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(1982) ;UEFA European Championship winners *
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(1968) *
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(1968) *
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(2020)


Torino and the Italy national team

Among the players of Torino to win international honours with the
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are
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,
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,
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and
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, all winners with Italy at the Central European International Cup 1927–30, and who (with exception of Libonatti) also won bronze medals at the
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. Subsequently,
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and
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were victorious at the 1968 European Championship with the ''Azzurri'', whilst
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won the
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in
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. On 11 May 1947, during a friendly match between Italy and
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that finished 3–2,
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fielded 10 players who were at Torino; this remains the largest number of Italian players fielded from the same club in the same match in the history of the Italy national team. With 74 players having represented Italy throughout the club's existence, Torino is the fifth ranked Italian club for number of players capped by the ''Azzurri'' (sixth by number of total admissions).
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is the Torino player who has accumulated the most appearances (47) and goals (20) for Italy. On 11 June 2017,
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scored the hundredth goal of a Torino player in an ''Azzurri'' shirt, during a
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match against
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.


Youth system

The Torino youth system is formed of four men's teams that participate in separate national leagues ( Primavera, Beretti, Allievi Nazionali Serie A & B, and Allievi Nazionali Lega Pro) and three that participate at regional level (Giovanissimi Nazionali, Giovanissimi Regionali A & B). Torino was one of the first Italian clubs to adopt a youth system, organised as early as the 1930s and is considered one of the best in Italy. Domestically, Torino hold the record for most championships won in both the
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with nine titles, and the
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with 10 titles. In addition, they have won the
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a record eight times, and the prestigious
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six times. The players developed in the Torino youth system were nicknamed "Balon-Boys" in honour of
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, the player and club icon who ended his Torino career in 1932. The Torino youth system has developed numerous renowned players, including actor and journalist
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, who devoted himself to a career in the arts after his debut for the first team.


Non-playing staff


Board of directors


Staff


Notable coaches


Supporters and rivalries

The fans of Torino hold a number of distinctions, including the first ever organised supporters group in Italy, the Fedelissimi Granata, founded in 1951. The fans also displayed the first banner of an organised club, at the
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, and organised the first away trip by plane in Italian football, in 1963, during a game against
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. It was at the Filadelfia that Oreste Bolmida, the trumpeter fan made famous by the film '' Ora e per sempre'' also performed. In the 1970s the fans began to organise the club's first choreographies, which were used in commercials of French carmaker
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in the subsequent decade. In 1979, the ''curva Maratona'' was awarded "the most beautiful stand of Europe" by French magazine
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; an image of this section of the stadium was later featured on the cover of
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on 21 December 1979. The fans of Torino are "twinned" with the fans of
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. The link between the two sides was born in the early 1970s due to a common anti-
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sentiment and the closeness of the ''Viola'' after the Superga tragedy. Supporters of Torino are on good terms with the ''curva nord'' of
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and ''curva sud'' of Nocerina. The friendship between Brazilian club
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and Torino dates back to 1914; that year, Torino became the first Italian club to travel South America on tour. The club played six friendly matches, two of which were against Corinthians, and despite the results on the field, the two clubs established friendly relationships. On 4 May 1949, when the ''Grande Torino'' team perished in plane crash of Superga, Corinthians paid tribute to the Italians in a friendly match against Portuguesa when its starting XI took to the field in Torino's kit. The Argentines of River Plate are historically twinned with Torino, since the time of the Superga disaster. In the period following the disaster, the Argentine club was very close to the Italian club, organising a friendly and fundraiser to help the devastated team. On 26 May 1949, River flew to Turin to play a friendly charity match organised by the FIGC, together with a selection that included the strongest Italian players of the era, gathered under the name of "Torino symbol." As a testimony to the relationship between the two clubs, the away jersey of the Argentine club has been maroon on several occasions (most recently, the 2005–06 season) while Torino have sported several variations of an away kit with a diagonal band, an homage to River's home kit. The bond with the Portuguese of Benfica is also very strong, the last to have met the Grande Torino before the aerial disaster of Superga. Other supporters with whom there is a friendship are supporters of English club
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. Torino's historical rivalries are with
Sampdoria Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria (), is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, ...
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Internazionale Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Inter is ...
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Ternana Ternana Calcio, commonly referred to as Ternana, is an Italian football club based in Terni, Umbria. The club was founded in 1925 and refounded in 1993. In its history, Ternana has twice played in Serie A (in the 1972–73 and 1974–75 seas ...
and
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. Torino's friendship with
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turned negative as a result of Genoese festivities during the Torino–Genoa match on 24 May 2009 won by the ''Rossoblu''; the result contributed to Torino's relegation to Serie B. On 16 December 2012, the day when the two clubs met for the first time after Torino's return to Serie A, clashes erupted between the two club's organised supporters. The rivalry with city rivals Juventus is the most heated, with the two teams taking part in the ''
Derby della Mole The Derby della Mole is the local derby played out between Turin's most prominent football clubs, Juventus and Torino. It is also known as the Derby di Torino or the Turin Derby in English. It is named after the Mole Antonelliana, a major landma ...
'', one of the most popular derbies in Italian football and the oldest still played.


Honours


Domestic


League

*
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:*Winners (7): 1927–28, 1942–43, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1975–76 :*''Runners-up'' (7):
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, 1914–1915, 1928–1929, 1938–1939, 1941–42, 1976–77, 1984–85 *
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:*Winners (3): 1959–60, 1989–90, 2000–01 :*''Runners-up'' (2): 2004–05, 2011–12


Cups

*
Coppa Italia The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since. History The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
:*Winners (5): 1935–36, 1942–43, 1967–68, 1970–71, 1992–93 :*''Runners-up'' (8): 1937–38, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1969–70, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1987–88 *
Supercoppa Italiana The Supercoppa Italiana ( en, Italian Super Cup) is an annual football match contested by the winners of the Serie A and the Coppa Italia in the previous season. If the same team wins both the Serie A and Coppa Italia titles in the previous seaso ...
:*''Runners-up'' (1):
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European

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Mitropa Cup The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale or Central European Cup, was one of the first international major European football cups for club sides. It was conducted among the successor states of the former Austria-Hungar ...
:*Winners (1): 1990–91 *
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:*''Runners-up'' (1): 1991–92


Others

*
Torneo Internazionale Stampa Sportiva The Torneo Internazionale ''Stampa Sportiva'' (English: ''The'' Sport Press ''International Tournament'') was an early international football competition. Held in 1908, it predated the more famous Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy by a year. Organised by ...
: **''Runners-up'' (1): 1908 *
Anglo-Italian League Cup The Anglo-Italian League Cup ( it, Coppa di Lega Italo-Inglese, also known as the Anglo-Italian League Cup Winners' Cup) was a short-lived football competition between teams from England and Italy – an English cup-winning team (League Cup or FA C ...
:*Runners-up (1): 1971


Friendly

*
Eusébio Cup The Eusébio Cup is a pre-season friendly football match hosted by Portuguese club S.L. Benfica since 2008. It has been played mostly at their home stadium, Estádio da Luz, with the two exceptions being the 2015 and 2018 editions (played at E ...
:*Winners (1): 2016 *
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: **''Runners-up'' (1): 1987 *Torneo Interfederale Coppa Torino: **''Runners-up'' (1): 1910 Notes:
Torino won the title in the 1926–27 season, but it was later revoked.


Statistics and records

Torino is in 8th place in the
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all-time standings, which takes account of all the football teams that have played in the top flight at least once. In the Italian league, the team has finished in first place on eight occasions, although the club has only won seven championship titles, seven times in second place and nine times in third place. In 100 seasons, including 18 in various championships that preluded the single round format (Torino withdrew in
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and the 1915–16 Coppa Federale is not recognised), 73 in Serie A and 12 in Serie B, the club has finished on the podium in 23% of cases. In the 2006–07 season, Torino, for the first time in history played at a level higher than
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: while the ''Granata'' competed in Serie A, Juventus took part in Serie B following the aftermath of the ''
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'' scandal.
Giorgio Ferrini Giorgio Ferrini (; 18 August 1939 – 8 November 1976) was an Italian football manager and former football player who played as a midfielder. Nicknamed ''La Diga'' ('The Dam') for his qualities as a defensive midfielder, Ferrini played for Torin ...
holds the club's official appearance record with 566 appearances (plus 56 goals) accumulated between 1959 and 1975. The record for the most goals scored is held by
Paolo Pulici Paolo Pulici (; born 27 April 1950) is an Italian football manager and former footballer who played as a striker. With 172 goals in all competitions, he is the all-time record goalscorer for Torino. He had several nicknames: amongst the most f ...
, with 172 official goals (in 437 appearances) between 1967 and 1982. Eight different Torino players have won the ''
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with 22 goals in 1923–24. He was followed by the
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Julio Libonatti Julio Libonatti (5 July 1901 – 9 October 1981) was an Argentine football manager and former footballer who played as a forward for the Argentina and Italy national teams. Born in Rosario, he started his career with Newell's Old Boys in 1917. I ...
, who scored 35 goals in 1927–28 and
Gino Rossetti Gino Rossetti (; 7 November 1904 – 15 May 1992) was an Italian football manager and former footballer who played as a forward. He jointly holds the record for the all-time most goals scored in a single Italian league season at 36 goals with T ...
(36) in 1928–29. Rossetti's tally of 36 goals remains the highest number of goals ever scored to win the award.
Eusebio Castigliano Eusebio Castigliano (; 9 February 1921 – 4 May 1949) was an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Castigliano played professional club football for Pro Vercelli, Spezia, Biellese and Torino where he was part of the ''Gra ...
was the leading scorer (13) of the first season after the
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(
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46), followed by
Valentino Mazzola Valentino Mazzola (; 26 January 1919 – 4 May 1949) was an Italian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward. Considered one of the great number 10s in the history of football and, according to some, the best Italian footbal ...
in 1946–47 (29). Torino would have to wait almost 30 years before another league top scorer emerged, namely when
Paolo Pulici Paolo Pulici (; born 27 April 1950) is an Italian football manager and former footballer who played as a striker. With 172 goals in all competitions, he is the all-time record goalscorer for Torino. He had several nicknames: amongst the most f ...
broke his low-scoring streak in the mid-1970s and won the award in 1972–73 (17), 1974–75 (18) and 1975–76 (21). He was succeeded by teammate
Francesco Graziani Francesco "Ciccio" Graziani (; born 16 December 1952) is an Italian football manager and former football player who played as a forward. He began his career with Arezzo in 1970, and later joined Torino in 1973, where he remained until 1981, win ...
in 1976–77 who scored 21 goals. After almost 40 years without a top-scorer from Torino,
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(22) established himself as the league's top scorer in 2013–14.


Divisional movements


Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors


See also

* Dynasties in Italian football


References


External links


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