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Torino Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Torino, is a professional Italian football

Football in Italy

Football is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italian national football team has won the FIFA World Cup 4 times , trailing only Brazil . Italy's club sides have won 27 major European trophies, making them the most successful European nation in the subject of football...

club based in Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

, Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

, that was founded in 1906. The club has spent most of its history in the top tier in Italian football.
Torino, who play in claret

Claret

Claret is a name primarily used in British English for red wine from the Bordeaux region of France.-Usage:Claret derives from the French clairet, a now uncommon dark rosé and the most common wine exported from Bordeaux until the 18th century...

(Italian : granata) shirts with white shorts, have won Serie A

Serie A

Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

seven times, first in 1927–28 and most recently in 1975–76. They have also won the Coppa Italia

Coppa Italia

The Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition. Its first edition was held in 1922, but the second champions were not crowned until 1936. Roma and Juventus lead the way with nine wins. Roma has contested more finals, 16, while Torino and Juventus follow with 13...

five times. On the European stage, the nearest Torino came to success was when they finished as runners-up in the UEFA Cup

UEFA Cup

The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

; this was achieved in 1991–92. Historically, Torino are the joint fifth most successful club in Italian football

Football in Italy

in terms of championships won.
The club was known as Associazione Calcio Torino until 1970, and as Torino Calcio from 1970 to 2005.

History

Foot-Ball Club Torino was founded on 3 December 1906 after a meeting at the Voigt brewery in Via Pietro Micca near the center of Turin. Its foundation involved some Juventus dissidents led by Alfredo Dick, who had left the bianconeri after some at the club wanted to move Juventus out of Turin. As well as Alfredo Dick, other prominent founders included the Swiss businessman Hans Schoenbrod (first chairman), and Vittorio Pozzo

Vittorio Pozzo

Vittorio Pozzo 21 December 1968) was an Italian football coach who was most famous for leading the Italian national team to victory in the 1934 FIFA World Cup and 1938 FIFA World Cups; managed the side that won the 1930 and 1935 editions of the Central European International Cup, as well as the...

(later manager of Italy).
The first ground for FBC Torino would be Velodromo Umberto I in the La Crocetta neighbourhood, for which Dick owned the lease. Torino lured some players from other clubs, including FBC Torinese

F.B.C. Torinese

Foot-Ball Club Torinese was an Italian football club from Turin, originally founded in 1894. The club is most noted for competing in the first ever Italian Football Championship and staying in the competition until the club finally became defunct in 1906....

who became defunct as a result. The fact that Torino's split from Juve was not amicable, saw the rise of a heated local known as the Derby della Mole
Derby della Mole
Derby della Mole, known in English as the Turin Derby is the local derby, played out between the city's two most successful teams, Juventus F.C. and Torino F.C.. The first match took place in 1906 and most derbies take place in the Serie A or Coppa Italia...

.

Italian Football Championship

Torino F.C. took part in the world's first international tournament, Torneo Internazionale Stampa Sportiva

Torneo Internazionale Stampa Sportiva

The Torneo Internazionale Stampa Sportiva was one of the very first international football competitions. Held in 1908, it predated the more famous Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy by a year...

1908 which was hosted in Turin

Turin

itself organised by the Italian magazine La Stampa Sportiva. Torino lost in the final 3–1 to Swiss side Servette

Servette

Servette is a district of the city of Geneva, Switzerland. The district's name comes from the Latin word for forest, silva, and means "little forest". Its name alludes to Servette's rural past, before Geneva grew beyond its walls and incorporated the area....

. In 1909 it was succeeded by the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy

Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy

The Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy was an association football competition that took place twice, in Turin, Italy, in 1909 and 1911. It is sometimes referred to as The First World Cup. However it is predated by the Torneo Internazionale Stampa Sportiva, which was hosted in 1908 also in Turin, as the...

, in which a Torino XI composed of Juve

Juventus F.C.

Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...

and Torino players participated but did not make it to the final.
After the early years, Torino were denied their first championship attempt by the outbreak of World War I, and their first title was revoked in 1926/27 due to an irregularity in the match against Juventus. Torino won its first Scudetto, the Italian Serie A

Serie A

league Championship, the following 1927/28 season and, between 1942/43 and 1948/49, "Il Grande Torino" (the Great Torino), widely considered the best ever team in Italian football history, won five other straight scudetti, led by its captain, Valentino Mazzola

Valentino Mazzola

Valentino Mazzola was an Italian footballer and captain of the legendary Grande Torino side, killed in the Superga air disaster. He is considered one of the best football players of all time and perhaps the first modern all-around footballer, as he was an attacking midfielder who could score,...

.
On 4 May 1949, all but one player (who was out for an injury) of Il Grande Torino were killed when their plane crashed into the hills of Superga

Superga air disaster

The Superga air disaster took place on Wednesday, 4 May 1949, when a plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football squad, popularly known as Il Grande Torino, crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club officials, journalists accompanying the...

, on the outskirts of Turin. The club never recovered, and after a decade of mediocre seasons, they were relegated to Serie B

Serie B

Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...

in 1958/59, although they returned to Serie A the following season.
By the early 1960s and until the late 1980s, Torino had good results in Serie A

Serie A

, including another Scudetto in the 1975/76 season. Since the end of the 1980s, the club went up and down between Serie A and Serie B

Serie B

, the top two divisions with little success, except a Coppa Italia

Coppa Italia

in 1992/93 and a Mitropa Cup

Mitropa Cup

The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale was one of the first really international major European football cups for club sides...

win in 1990/91. Among the best results ever achieved in the club's history, it reached the UEFA Cup

UEFA Cup

Final in 1991/92 only to lose it in two aggregate matches to Ajax Amsterdam

Ajax Amsterdam

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax , also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax , is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands...

without being defeated.

In 2004/05, Torino finished 3rd in Serie B

Serie B

and, after winning the playoffs, was promoted back in Serie A

Serie A

. However, the FIGC, the governing body of Italian football, expelled both Torino Calcio and F.C. Messina from Serie A

Serie A

, due to both clubs' financial problems. However, while Messina was re-admitted by a civil court of appeal, Torino was not and it was cancelled from the Italian sport panorama. The club has lost players likes Gaby Mudingayi

Gaby Mudingayi

Gaby Mudingayi is a Congolese-Belgian footballer who plays for Bologna of Italian Serie A.-Biography:Mudingayi started his career at the Belgian club Gent. In January 2004, he joined Italian Serie B side Torino Calcio and helped them win promotion back to Serie A in 2005. However, the club went...

, Gianluca Comotto

Gianluca Comotto

Gianluca Comotto is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Cesena of Serie A.- Club career :Comotto started his career at Ivrea of Serie D. He then played one season for Biellese, also in Serie D.- Torino :...

, Andrea Mantovani

Andrea Mantovani

Andrea Mantovani is an Italian footballer who plays in the defender position for Palermo.-Torino:Mantovani started his career at Torino Calcio. He was the member of Allievi Nazionali Under-18 team in 2000–01 season...

, Federico Balzaretti

Federico Balzaretti

Federico Balzaretti is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a left back for Serie A club Palermo and Italy national football team.-Club career:...

, Robert Acquafresca

Robert Acquafresca

Robert Acquafresca is an Italian footballer of half-Polish descent who plays for Serie A club Bologna as a striker.-Club career:...

, Stefano Sorrentino

Stefano Sorrentino

Stefano Sorrentino is an Italian professional footballer, who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Chievo.- Club career :...

, Diego De Ascentis

Diego De Ascentis

Diego De Ascentis is an Italian football midfielder, who is currently a free agent.-Career:He started his career at Como and moved to A.S. Bari and A.C. Milan ....

, Massimo Marazzina

Massimo Marazzina

Massimo Marazzina is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker.-Early years:Marazzina was born in Pandino, a city near Lodi in the Province of Cremona. He finished his football formation at F.C. Internazionale Milano, and made his Serie A debut on 27 February 1994, in a 0–2 away loss against A.C...

, Fabio Quagliarella

Fabio Quagliarella

Fabio Quagliarella is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Juventus and internationally for the Italian national team. He is known for scoring incredible goals from unconventional angles that often catch the goalkeeper by surprise.-Early career:Quagliarella began his...

and Federico Marchetti

Federico Marchetti

Federico Marchetti is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Lazio. He has also represented the Italian national team, most notably making three appearances after Gianluigi Buffon's injury at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.-Torino:A Torino youth system trainee,...

who all became regular players for other teams in the Serie A.

Thanks to the 'Lodo Petrucci' (Italian law which allows a sport club that is the direct heir of a cancelled one to be re-admitted one division below the previous one), a new club was founded under the current name Torino F.C. and was admitted to play the next season, again in Serie B

Serie B

. Bought by entrepreneur Urbano Cairo

Urbano Cairo

Urbano Cairo is an Italian businessman and chairman of Torino football club.Cairo is a native of Masio Alessandria, Piedmont. His principal business interest is in the Cairo Communications, a business which he founded and is today worth in excess of 230 million euros...

, Torino FC ended its 2005/2006 Serie B campaign in third place, being therefore qualified for the promotion play-offs. Torino subsequently defeated Mantova

A.C. Mantova

Mantova Football Club is an Italian football club, based in Mantua, Lombardy. Mantova had played consecutively in the Italian Serie B from the 2005–06 season to 2009–10 as Associazione Calcio Mantova, when they were relegated after ending the season in 20th place.During the summer 2010, the club...

in the final to earn promotion to Serie A.
Even in its worst seasons, Torino has often achieved good results in epic matches (the so-called "derbies") against the other Turin team, Juventus. From 1990 to 2006 the club played in the 69,040 capacity Stadio Delle Alpi

Stadio delle Alpi

The Stadio delle Alpi was a football and athletics stadium in Turin, Italy and was the home of both Juventus Football Club and Torino Football Club between 1990 and 2006. In English, the name meant "Stadium of the Alps," a reference to the nearby Alps mountain range...

, shared with Juventus. Prior to 1990 the clubs shared the Stadio Comunale for thirty years, Torino moving there from the glorious Stadio Filadelfia

Stadio Filadelfia

Stadio Filadelfia was a multi-use stadium in Turin, Italy. It was initially used as the stadium of Torino F.C. matches. It was replaced by Stadio Olimpico di Torino in 1963. The capacity of the stadium was 30,000 spectators.-External links:*...

, home of Il Grande Torino. Starting from the 2006/07 season, Torino moved into a new, smaller ground of its own, the Stadio Olimpico di Torino (which is the renewed former Stadio Comunale), which Juventus previously shared. It could be renamed the Stadio Grande Torino

Stadio Grande Torino

Stadio Olimpico di Torino is a stadium located in the Santa Rita district in the south of Turin, Italy that is the home of Serie B club Torino...

after Juventus moved to a new stadium called Juventus Arena

Juventus Arena

Juventus Stadium is an all-seater association football stadium in the Vallette borough of Turin, Italy, and the home of Serie A club Juventus....

which was built on the site of the former Stadio delle Alpi, in 2011.

When playing at home Torino wears a claret top and white shorts (sometimes is full claret) but when playing else where the team wears all white. When practicing Torino wears red and white or red and black.

Rivalries

Torino's traditional rivals are their crosstown neighbours Juventus

Juventus F.C.

Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...

, with whom they contest the Derby della Mole

Derby della Mole

Derby della Mole, known in English as the Turin Derby is the local derby, played out between the city's two most successful teams, Juventus F.C. and Torino F.C.. The first match took place in 1906 and most derbies take place in the Serie A or Coppa Italia...

. While Juventus has a more widespread support internationally, Torino's fan base tends to be more localized. The derby between Torino and Juventus does not have the international standing of the Rome and Milan's derbies, but is strongly felt in Turin and Italy. Juventus is the team with more supporters in the Bel Paese, but Torino is Turin's area first team. The mixture is explosive, and in the years when the teams meet, the atmosphere is always hot with frequent riots. They did not contest the derby during the 2009–10 season due to Torino's relegation the previous season.

Il Grande Torino

Il Grande Torino ("The Great Torino") is the name by which the Torino F.C. team of the 1940s is popularly known in Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

and outside Italy. Il Grande Torino set many important records of Italian

Italy

football, all of which still stand today.
Il Grande Torino played with an attacking 4–2–4 formation, 10 years before the Brazil

Brazil national football team

The Brazil national football team represents Brazil in international men's football and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation , the governing body for football in Brazil. They are a member of the International Federation of Association Football since 1923 and also a member of the...

1958 World Cup

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...

team, and some of their game tactics inspired the Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

Total Football

"Total Football" is the label given to an influential tactical theory of association football in which any outfield player can take over the role of any other player in a team. It was pioneered by Dutch football club Ajax from 1969 to 1973, and further used by the Netherlands National Football...

that revolutionized the game in the 1970s.

The starting lineup of Il Grande Torino that died at Superga

Superga air disaster

was: Valerio Bacigalupo

Valerio Bacigalupo

Valerio Bacigalupo was an Italian association football goalkeeper from Vado Ligure, Savona. He started his career with home province side Savona. After a brief spell at Genoa he moved to Torino where he won Serie A four times in a row.Bacigalupo older brother, Manlio Bacigalupo, also played...

, Aldo Ballarin

Aldo Ballarin

Aldo Ballarin was an Italian football player.He played for 5 seasons in the Serie A for U.S. Triestina Calcio and A.C...

, Virgilio Maroso

Virgilio Maroso

Virgilio Maroso was an Italian football player, who played for Torino FC and died in the Superga air disaster together with the whole Grande Torino team.-Biography:...

, Pino Grezar, Mario Rigamonti

Mario Rigamonti

Mario Rigamonti was an Italian football player, who played for Torino FC and died in the Superga air disaster together with the whole Grande Torino team.-Biography:...

, Eusebio Castigliano

Eusebio Castigliano

Eusebio Castigliano was an Italian international footballer who played as a midfielder.-Career:Castigliano played professional club football for Pro Vercelli, Spezia, Biellese and Torino where he was part of the Grande Torino team that won four consecutive league titles.Castigliano also earned...

, Romeo Menti

Romeo Menti

Romeo Menti was an Italian football player.Born at Vicenza, Menti debuted in his city's Serie C club in 1935, in the same stadium that was to be dedicated to him a few years later....

, Ezio Loik

Ezio Loik

Ezio Loik was an Italian football player, who played for Torino FC and died in the Superga air disaster together with the whole Grande Torino team.-Biography:...

, Guglielmo Gabetto

Guglielmo Gabetto

Guglielmo Gabetto was an Italian former soccer player. He played as a striker. Aside from goalkeeper Alfredo Bodoira he is the only player to win the Italian championship with both Torino FC and Juventus FC....

, Valentino Mazzola

Valentino Mazzola

and Franco Ossola; the latter's son is now the main biographer of the Club's history.

The Italy national football team

Italy national football team

The Italy National Football Team , represents Italy in association football and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation , the governing body for football in Italy. Italy is the second most successful national team in the history of the World Cup having won four titles , just one fewer than...

starting lineup in the second half of the forties consisted almost entirely of Il Grande Torino players, which regularly contributed 8–9 starters. On 11 May 1947, for the friendly match between Italy and Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

3–2, the Azzurri starting lineup was made of 10 Il Grande Torino players plus the Juventus goalkeeper Sentimenti IV. Italian manager Vittorio Pozzo

Vittorio Pozzo

reserved the Azzurri starting keeper Valerio Bacigalupo.

Valentino Mazzola

Valentino Mazzola

was also the captain of the Italy national football team

Italy national football team

as well as the father of Sandro Mazzola, who also played for Internazionale and Italy in the 1960s–70s.

Records of Il Grande Torino

Joint holder of most consecutive Italian Serie A
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

league titles (5), from 1943 to 1949 (1942/43, 1945/46, 1946/47, 1947/48, 1948/49; in 1944 and 1945 no league matches were played because of World War II). This tied Juventus' record from 1931–35, and Inter equalled it from 2006–10.
Most consecutive seasons undefeated at home: 4 straight seasons (1945/46, 1946/47, 1947/48, 1948/49)
Most consecutive league matches undefeated at home: 93 straight matches, with 83 wins and 10 draws (from 24 January 1943 to 30 April 1949) and just two visiting teams that didn't allow any goal.
Most points in one season (before the 3 points per win rules): 65 points (1947/48)
Biggest ever advantage on the English average: 6 points above (1946/47)
Greatest ever home win: 10–0 to Alessandria
Alessandria
-Monuments:* The Citadel * The church of Santa Maria di Castello * The church of Santa Maria del Carmine * Palazzo Ghilini * Università del Piemonte Orientale-Museums:* The Marengo Battle Museum...

(1947/48)
Greatest ever away win: 0–7 to AS Roma (1945/46 Serie A Finals)
Most wins in one season (16 teams league): 20 wins in 30 matches (1942/43)
Most wins in one season (21 teams league): 29 wins in 40 matches (1947/48)
Most home wins in one season: 19 wins on 20 matches (1947/48)
Most away wins in one season (16 teams league): 10 wins in 15 matches (1942/43)
Most home points in one season: 39 points on 40 available (1947/48)
Most away points in one season (16 teams league): 22 points on 30 available (1942/43)
Fewest home points lost in one season: 1 point on 40 available (1947/48 and 1948/49)
Fewest away defeats in one season: 3 defeats on 19 matches (1946/47 and 1948/49)
Most goals scored in one season: 125 goals (1947/48)
Most home goals scored in one season: 89 goals (1947/48)
Most away goals scored in one season (16 teams league): 31 goals (1942/43)
Most goals scored in the 5 championship seasons: 408 goals scored (1942/43, 1945/46, 1946/47, 1947/48, 1948/49)
Fewest goals suffered in one season (21 teams league): 33 goals (1947/48)
Fewest away goals suffered in one season (16 teams league): 9 goals (1942/43)
Best ever percentage of goals scored in one season: 3.125 goals per match (1947/48)
More points in the second half of the season: 36 points on 40 available (1947/48)

The Superga tragedy

On 4 May 1949, after having secured their record fifth back-to-back Serie A title, and on their way home after a friendly match with Benfica

SL Benfica

Sport Lisboa e Benfica , commonly known as simply Benfica or occasionally as Benfica Lisbon, is a Portuguese multi-sports club based in Lisbon. Although they successfully compete in a number of different sports, Benfica is mostly known for its association football team...

in Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...

, Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

, the airplane carrying Il Grande Torino crashed against the Superga

Superga

Superga is a hill situated on the south bank of the Po River to the east of Turin in north-west Italy. At 672 metres above sea level, it is one of the most prominent of the hills which form an amphitheatre around the city....

hill near Turin

Turin

, killing nearly all the players and managers.

Current squad

As of 9 September 2011

Out on loan

For all transfers and loans pertaining to Torino for the current season, please see 2011 Italian summer transfers.

Managerial history

Torino have had many managers and trainers, some seasons they have had co-managers running the team, here is a chronological list of them from 1912 onwards.

National

Serie A
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
Champions (7): 1927–28, 1942–43, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1975–76
Runners-up (7): 1907, 1914–1915, 1928–1929, 1938–1939, 1941–1942, 1976–1977, 1984–1985
Coppa Italia
Coppa Italia
The Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition. Its first edition was held in 1922, but the second champions were not crowned until 1936. Roma and Juventus lead the way with nine wins. Roma has contested more finals, 16, while Torino and Juventus follow with 13...
Champions (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
Serie B
Serie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...
Champions (3): 1959–60, 1989–90, 2000–01
Serie A Playoffs (3): 2004–05; 2005–06; 2009-10
Italian Super Cup
Runners-up (1): 1993

Notes:

Torino won the title in the 1926–27

Italian Football Championship 1926-27

On the field, the winner was Torino F.C..The Scudetto, however, was revoked during the following season.A member of Torino's board of directors declared to have paid for winning the match Torino-Juventus , played on 5 June 1927....

season, but it was later revoked.

International

UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...
Runners-up (1): 1991–92
Mitropa Cup
Mitropa Cup
The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale was one of the first really international major European football cups for club sides...
Winners (1): 1990–91
Memorial Pier Cesare Baretti
Winners (1): 1990
Runners-up (1): 1993

Youth

Italian Youth Championship (record)
1966/67 – 1967/68 – 1969/70 – 1976/77 – 1984/85 – 1987/88 – 1990/91 – 1991/92
Italian Youth Cup
Coppa Italia Primavera
The Coppa Italia Primavera is an Italian football competition played for by youth teams from Campionato Primavera. All players are under 20 of age. The first edition was held in the 1972-73 season....

(record)
1982/83, 1983/84, 1985/86, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1998/99
Viareggio International youth Tournament
Torneo di Viareggio
The Torneo di Viareggio , official name Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale, is one of the most important youth football tournaments in the world. It is officially recognized by CONI, FIGC, UEFA and FIFA. It is held each year in Viareggio, Tuscany and its surroundings, starting...
1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1998

Notable players

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Émile Bongiorni

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Antoine Bonifaci

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Pasquale Bruno

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Walter Casagrande

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Luciano Castellini

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Paul Codrea

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Nestor Combin

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Roberto Cravero

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Jean-Pierre Cyprien

Jean-Pierre Cyprien is a former French footballer who played defender for various clubs in France and Italy.-Honours: Neuchâtel Xamax*Swiss Super League: 1996–97 runner-up-External links:* * * *...

Giuseppe Dossena

Giuseppe Dossena is an Italian football manager and former player. Dossena began his playing career for Torino, being successively even capped for the 1982 FIFA World Cup...

Iosif Fabian

-Career:Born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Fabian started his youth career at Muncitorii Cluj. Then he went to play in the neighborhood country Hungary for a few years starting there his senior career. He returned back in Romania, at Ferar Cluj for a short period before he joins up with Carmen Bucureşti...

Giorgio Ferrini

Giorgio Ferrini was an Italian footballer.Ferrini was born at Trieste. He started his career at A.S. Varese 1910 , and moved to Torino F.C. in 1959, where he played until 1975, making 443 appearances and scoring 42 goals...

Enzo Francescoli

Enzo Francescoli Uriarte is a former uruguayan football player of Italian and Spanish origin, who retired in 1997. An elegant and highly skillful dribbler, passer, and goal-scorer, Francescoli was nicknamed El Príncipe or Le Prince...

Francesco Graziani

Francesco "Ciccio" Graziani is an Italy football manager and former player.-Playing career:Graziani was born in Subiaco, in the province of Rome....

Júnior Denis Law

Denis Law

Denis Law is a retired Scottish football player, who enjoyed a long and successful career as a striker from the 1950s to the 1970s....

Cesare Maldini

Cesare Maldini is an Italian football manager and former player. He played as a centre back and spent the majority of his career with AC Milan. Maldini also represented Italy at international level in the 1962 and 1966 World Cups. His son Paolo, also a defender, previously held the record for the...

Valentino Mazzola

Gigi Meroni

Luigi "Gigi" Meroni was an Italian football player who played for Torino. He died at the age of 24 after being hit by two cars while crossing the main street "Corso Re Umberto" near "Via Legnano" in Turin, Italy. His friend and teammate Fabrizio Poletti was also hit but survived...

Müller Eraldo Pecci

Eraldo Pecci

Eraldo Pecci is an Italian former footballer.During his club career he played for Bologna, Fiorentina and Torino. He also played for the Italy national football team, and was a member of the 1978 FIFA World Cup squad.-References:...

Abedi Pelé

Abédi Pelé

Abedi Ayew, known professionally as Abedi Pele is a former Ghana International football player and captain. Having been given the nickname "Pelé" in recognition of his superior ability that evoked comparisons to Brazilian great Pelé, he found fame in France's Ligue 1 with Lille OSC and Olympique...

Giorgio Puia

Giorgio Puia is a former Italian footballer who played as a midfielder.During his club career he played for A.S. Pro Gorizia, U.S...

Paolino Pulici Álvaro Recoba

Álvaro Recoba

Álvaro Alexander Recoba Rivero , nicknamed "El Chino", is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Primera División Uruguaya side Club Nacional de Football...

Fabio Quagliarella

Felice Romano Claudio Sala

Claudio Sala

Claudio Sala is a former Italian association football player and current commentator.He made his debut for Monza, later moving to Napoli, Torino and Genoa...

Walter Schachner

Walter "Schoko" Schachner is a football manager and former Austrian national player .As he always brought chocolate to the games when he was a boy, he got the nickname schoko...

Enzo Scifo Andrea Silenzi

Andrea Silenzi

Andrea Silenzi is a retired Italian footballer who played as a centre forward.He was known for his goal-poaching ability, but at a highly inconsistent level. The scorer of 89 league goals during his career, Silenzi was also the first Italian to play in the Premier League, when he signed with...

Haris Škoro

Haris Škoro is a former Bosnian football player who represented Yugoslavia at international level....

Hakan Şükür

Hakan Sükür

Hakan Şükür is a retired Turkish footballer who played as a striker. He spent the majority of his professional career with Galatasaray, being a three-time Gol Kralı , representing the club in three different spells and winning a total of 14 major titles.Şükür represented Turkey a...

Rafael Martín Vázquez

Rafael Martín Vázquez is a retired Spanish footballer who played mostly as an attacking midfielder, with above-average skills....

Johan Walem

Johan Walem is a former football midfielder and is now a TV consultant for Belgacom TV. He was one of the best Belgian midfielders of his generation, but he gained surprisingly few caps for the national team, scoring two goals.His former clubs are Molenbeek , Anderlecht, Udinese, Parma ,...

Blerim Džemaili

Blerim Džemaili is a Swiss football midfielder of Albanian origin who plays for Napoli.-FC Zürich:Džemaili started his career at Swiss side FC Zürich. There he was part of the 2005–06 and 2006–2007 Swiss Championship winning team...

Renato Zaccarelli

Renato Zaccarelli was a former Italian footballer, who played in the midfield role.During his career he played for Catania, Novara, Hellas Verona F.C., and Torino, which won the Serie A title in 1976...

Shirt sponsor

1958–59 Talmone (confectionery)
1981–83 Barbero (wines)
1983–84 Ariostea (pottery)
1984–88 Sweda (cash registers)
1988–91 Indesit
Indesit
Indesit Company, an Italian multinational company based in Fabriano, Ancona province, Italy, a leading appliance manufacturer in Europe.- History :...

(home appliances)
1991–94 Beretta (foodstuffs)
1994–95 Bongioanni (boilers)
1995–00 SDA (parcel delivery)

2000–01 Directa (financial services)

2001–02 Conto Arancio

ING Group

The ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...

(net-banking)

2002–03 Ixfin (electronic products)

2003–05 Bavaria (brewery)

2005–08 Reale Mutua (insurance) – Beretta (foodstuffs)

2008–09 Renault Trucks

Renault Trucks

Renault Trucks is a French truck manufacturer with its corporate headquarters at Saint-Priest near Lyon. Originally part of Renault, it has been owned by Volvo Group since 2001....

(trucks and commercial vehicles) – Reale Mutua (insurance)

2009–11 Italporte (doors/windows) – Dahlia TV

Dahlia TV

Dahlia TV was an Italian pay-per-view television network, available on digital terrestrial television, offering 12 Widescreen channels. Telecom Italia Media owns a 9% stake in the company.- Dahlia Calcio:...

(pay television)

2011–12 Valmora (mineral water) – Aruba.it (web services)

Kit manufacturer

1974–79 Umbro
Umbro
Umbro is an English sportswear and football equipment supplier based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England. The company is now part of Nike. Umbro designs, sources, and markets sport-related apparel, footwear, and equipment...
1979–82 Superga Sport
Superga (brand)
Superga is an Italian brand of shoes founded in 1913. It originally made tennis shoes, including the famous model "2750 Classic" but then diversified.-History:...
1982–84 Tixo Sport
1984–90 Adidas
Adidas
Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...
1990–93 ABM

1993–96 Lotto

Lotto Sport Italia

Lotto Sport Italia is an Italian sports apparel manufacturer. Its products are now distributed in more than 60 countries.-History:Lotto was established in 1973 by the Caberlotto family in Montebelluna, northern Italy, the world centre of footwear manufacturing. In June 1973, Lotto made its debut...

1996–01 Kelme

Kelme (company)

Kelme is a Spanish firm that creates sport shoes. It was founded in 1977 by Diego and José Quiles and mainly produces footwear and apparel for football and running....

2001–08 Asics

ASICS

ASICS is a Japanese athletic equipment company. ASICS produces professional footwear and sports equipment designed for football, running, netball, tennis, badminton, squash, martial arts, cricket, golf, wrestling, track & field, cross-training, volleyball, cheerleading, lacrosse, and for many other...

2008–12 Kappa

Kappa (company)

Kappa is an Italian company specialized at the manufacture of sporting clothes and accessories, that started as a sock and underwear manufacturer in 1916 in Turin.-Logo:...

External links

Torino FC Official website

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