Sports in Turin have a rich heritage as the home to two historically significant

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teams:

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(founded in 1897) and

Torino FC Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. T ...

(founded in 1906). Juventus has the larger fan base, especially in southern Italy and worldwide, while Torino enjoys a more localised support. The two clubs contest the oldest

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in Italy, 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 ...

'' or the Turin derby.

Football (soccer)

Juventus is Italy's most successful football club and one of the most winning teams in the world. It ranks twelfth in the list of the world's clubs with the most official international titles (sixth between European clubs).Fourth most successful European club for confederation and FIFA competitions won with 11 titles. Fourth most successful club in Europe for confederation club competition titles won (11), cf. and was

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in association football history — remaining the only one in the world (, after the first UEFA Europa Conference League final) — to have won all possible official continental competitions and the world title.In addition, Juventus were the first club in association football history to have won all possible confederation competitions (e.g. the international tournaments organised by UEFA) and remain the only in the world to achieve this.
The Stadio delle Alpi, one of the host stadiums for the

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, was demolished in 2006 to make way for Juventus' owned ground, the Juventus Stadium, inaugurated in 2011. The other city's club, Torino, currently uses the

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, property of the ''Comune'' of Turin, one of the host stadiums for the

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and the venue of the XX Winter Olympics. Torino FC was founded by breakaways from Juventus and was one of the most formidable teams in the

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during the 1940s (before and after

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), hence the nickname ''Il Grande Torino'' ("The Great Torino"). In 1949, in the Superga air disaster, a plane carrying almost the whole Torino F.C. team (at that time the most important team in Italy and known as the ''Grande Torino'') crashed into the Basilica of Superga in the Turin hills. Valentino Mazzola was among those who perished in the accident.

Other sports

The ''C.U.S. Torino'' volleyball team won the domestic league four times and, in the 1979–80 season, the Volleyball European Champion's Cup. It was the first team from western Europe to win this competition. In the 1990s the team was dismantled as a result of financial issues. There is also the largest rugby team of the city by the same name, ''CUS Torino''. The most important

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team is the

Auxilium Torino Auxilium Pallacanestro Torino was an Italian professional basketball club that was based in Turin, Piedmont. It competed in the first division of Italian basketball, the LBA for the last time in the 2018–19 season. The club won one trophy, wh ...

, founded in 2009, playing in the Italian

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since 2015–16 Season. In 2018 Auxilium Torino went to win its first Italian Basketball Cup ever.

Events

Turin hosted the

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from 10 February 2006, through 26 February 2006. Turin, with a population of over 865,000 and a metropolitan area of 1.7 million, is the largest city to have ever hosted a Winter Olympics and was the largest metropolitan area to host them at the time.The 2002

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games also claims this title because at the time of the Olympics its Combined Statistical Area population was 1,516,227 and some events were held in the Provo metropolitan area of 400,209
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16 May 2009. The title of largest metropolitan area to host the Winter Olympics fell to

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, Canada, (2.3 million) when that city hosted the XXI Olympic Winter Games. Other events hosted by the city include the Universiade ( 1933 IUG; summer:

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and

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; winter:

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

1934 European Athletics Championships The 1st European Athletics Championships were held in Turin, Italy, at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino, Stadio Benito Mussolini between 7 and 9 September 1934. A contemporaneous report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald. Results Medalists ...

1979 European Cup (athletics) The 1979 European Cup was the seventh edition of the European Cup of athletics. The ''"A" Finals'' were held in Turin, Italy. The first two teams qualified for the 1979 IAAF World Cup. "A" Final Held in Turin on 4 and 5 August.< ...

1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships The 1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on 23 March 1997. The races were held at the Parco del Valentino in Torino, Italy. A report of the event was given in ''The New York Times'', in the Herald, and for the IAAF. Compl ...

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and the

2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in Turin, Italy, from Friday, 6 March to Sunday, 8 March 2009. The championships took place at the Oval Lingotto indoor arena

. In recognition of its rich sporting tradition, the City was awarded with the title of European Capital of Sport 2015. The candidature sees the City strongly committed to increasing sports activities and at the forefront of new technologies thanks to an agreement signed with the Interfaculty School of Motor Sciences of Turin aimed to the dissemination of the project We-Sport. The

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(International Rowing Federation) was founded in Turin in 1892. Turin was also the home of the

Valentino Park Parco del Valentino (also known as Valentino Park) is a popular public park in Turin, Italy. It is located along the west bank of the Po river. It covers an area of 500,000m², which makes it Turin's second largest park (Turin's largest park, the ...

motor racing circuit. The Juventus Stadium hosted the

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. This was the first time the city hosted a seasonal UEFA club competition's single-match final. Turin will host the

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