Torino FC
Torino FC | ||||
Basic data | ||||
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Surname | Torino Football Club SpA | |||
Seat | Turin , Italy | |||
founding | December 3, 1906 | |||
Colours | garnet red | |||
president | Urbano Cairo | |||
Website | torinofc.it | |||
First soccer team | ||||
Head coach | Marco Giampaolo | |||
Venue | Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino | |||
Places | 28,177 | |||
league | Series A | |||
2019/20 | 16th place | |||
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The Torino Football Club , Torino FC or Torino for short , known in German-speaking countries as FC Turin , is an Italian football club from the Piedmontese capital, Turin, founded in 1906 . Other names are I Granata ("The Garnets") and Il Toro ("The Bull").
Torino FC is a seven-time Italian champion and five-time Italian cup winner . The club's home venue is the Turin Olympic Stadium .
history
The beginnings
In 1900 the FC Torinese and Internazionale Torino merged , the new team initially kept the name Football Club Torinese . Six years later, some former Juventus players joined the Torinese Football Club under the leadership of Swiss Alfredo Dick , who had been ousted as president there. Together they founded the Foot Ball Club Torino on December 3, 1906 .
The first national championship was revoked because of the outbreak of the First World War . The championship title of the 1926/27 season was subsequently revoked when it came out that defender Luigi Allemandi was bribed by local rivals Juventus Turin in the run-up to a derby . The player and coach of this legendary early days of FC Turin was the future world champion coach Vittorio Pozzo between 1906 and 1924 , who remained closely associated with the club until the end of his life. During his time as national coach from 1929 to 1948, he often built on the players of his home club. In an international match, he put eleven players from Turin in the starting line-up - ten from FC and one from Juventus. In the 1927/28 season , the club won the Italian championship , the Scudetto, for the first time . For the 1936/37 season, the club name was changed to Associazione Calcio Torino , as the fascist rulers did not tolerate any foreign words in club names.
Il Grande Torino
His most successful period witnessed the club between 1942 and 1949. The team this time, under the leadership of team captain Valentino Mazzola , went as Grande Torino in the football history and is still regarded as one of the best ever in the Serie A played. Between 1943 and 1949, interrupted by the Second World War , AC Turin won five championship titles in a row, setting the record set by Juventus in the first half of the 1930s. The last of these five title wins is still one of the saddest chapter in the club's history. Already on the fifth last match day they secured the Scudetto with a 1-1 draw at the main pursuer Inter Milan , Valentino Mazzola equalized shortly before the final whistle. Because of this, there was a trip to Portugal , where a friendly against Benfica Lisbon took place. On the return flight on May 4, 1949, the Fiat G.212 crashed in thick fog a few meters below the Superga basilica in the hill of the same name above Turin. Almost all of the team's players were killed, as were club officials and three accompanying journalists. Of the Grande Torino team , only Sauro Tomà survived , who had not started the trip to Lisbon due to an injury. The season was played to the end by the A-youth.
The club did not recover from this loss. After a decade of mediocrity, they rose to Serie B in 1959 , but returned to Serie A after a year. From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, Turin had good results in Serie A, including another championship in the 1975/76 season . For the 1978/79 season, the club was renamed Torino Calcio . Since the end of the 1980s, they switched back and forth between Serie A and Serie B without achieving any further success, apart from winning the Coppa Italia in 1993 and the Mitropa Cup in 1991.
But even in their worst years, I Granata delivered legendary games in the so-called Derby della Mole against local rivals Juventus .
Current developments
The sporting promotion to Serie A in the 2005/06 season after three years of second-rate status was quickly followed by disillusionment: On July 25, 2005, the sports court of the football association , Torino Calcio, together with FC Messina , decided not to grant a Serie A license, because both clubs had accumulated enormous debts. While the Italian Court of Justice for Sports Matters in Rome overturned the decision in the Messina case, it upheld Torino's license refusal. In total, the association had 34 million euros in liabilities to the tax office. After a guarantee was presented to cover around half of this debt, it turned out that these documents were forged. Nevertheless, Turin was allowed to compete in Serie B in the 2005/06 season after new investors had found. However, it turned out that some of the guarantee papers were also forged and the Torino had a mountain of debt of around 80 million euros. This burden leads to the bankruptcy of the club, with little prospect of the club being saved.
In the 2005/06 season , the newly founded FC Turin managed to rise to the top of the league. In the decisive relegation second leg, AC Mantova was defeated 3-1 in front of almost 60,000 spectators in the well-filled Stadio delle Alpi , after losing the first leg in Mantua 2-4 . The club was able to narrowly escape relegation in the 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons , but at the end of the 2008/09 season the club had to return to Serie B when they were eighth in the table. After three years in Serie B, he was promoted to Serie A again at the end of the 2011/12 season .
Game and training facilities
Historic venues
FC Turin found its first real home in 1926 in the Stadio Filadelfia , where they played until 1963. To this day, the heart of the Tifosi hangs on the old Filadelfia , which was the home of the Grande Torino . Despite recurring plans to restore it and make it the home of FC Turin again, it has since been demolished.
From 1963 to 1990, the club played its home games in the Stadio Comunale with space for around 65,000 fans, which was shared with local rivals Juve . In 1990 the company moved to the Stadio delle Alpi, which had been newly built for the 1990 World Cup and had a capacity of around 69,000, and which in turn was shared with Juventus. However, the stadium in the north of Turin was extremely unpopular with supporters of both camps because of the poor visibility for spectators.
Stadion
From the 2006/07 season, both Turin clubs played their home games again in the old Stadio Comunale, which can accommodate around 29,000 spectators and was completely modernized for the 2006 Winter Olympics . Since the 2011/12 season, only Torino has played in this stadium, as Juventus has moved to its newly built Juventus Stadium , which is located on the bottom of the Stadio delle Alpi . In April 2016, the venue was renamed Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino in memory of the Grande Torino team .
Fan scene
The Fedelissimi Granata group of FC Turin, founded in 1951, is probably the most important precursor of the Italian ultra movement . In the second half of the 1960s, the first group to give itself a name inspired by guerrilla warfare was brought into being at FC Turin with the merger of the Commandos Fedelissimi . An example that was soon followed by other groups in Italy.
FC Turin sees itself as the city's true club, which is reflected in statements such as "We Turinians love the bull, only he represents this wonderful city". It should be noted that the heraldic animal of both the city and the club is a bull . In fact, the city is largely in the hands of the Torino FC fan scene.
Friendships
The most intense and longest lasting friendship with fans has been with the fans of Fiorentina since the 1970s . It came about because of the intense mutual dislike for Juventus Turin , the arch-rival of both teams.
Another friendship exists with CFC Genoa , which, however, suffered serious damage after around 30 years and threatened to break. On May 24, 2009, the penultimate matchday of the 2008/09 season , CFC Genoa made a guest appearance at FC Turin. There was a lot going on for both clubs: Genoa still had the opportunity to qualify for the qualifying round for the UEFA Champions League (which instead was achieved by Fiorentina, who are also friends with FC Turin) and FC Turin needed a success in the battle to stay relegated (He was relegated to the second division at the end of the season ). Shortly before the end of the game, the score was 2-2, before the Argentine striker Diego Milito scored the winning goal for Genoa in the 89th minute. This was followed by fights between the players and a heated atmosphere in the stadium. After the rise of the "Toro" three years later, on December 16, 2012, the two clubs played for the first time and their fan groups came closer together.
On an international level, there is a friendship with Manchester City as well as several club friendships that have existed for decades. One of these friendships at club level exists with Benfica Lisbon and was formed in 1949. On May 3, 1949, Il Grande Torino played a friendly game in Lisbon at the invitation of Benfica , which was lost 3: 4. On the return flight to Turin on May 4, 1949, the tragic plane crash of Superga occurred , in which all passengers (including almost the entire tribe of the Grande Torino) were killed.
Another friendship exists with the Argentine club River Plate . After hearing the news of the plane crash, Antonio Vespucio Liberti, President of River Plate at the time, decided that his team should travel to Italy to play a charity match for the victims' families and to show solidarity with Torino FC. The game, in which the Turin FC team was symbolized by a league selection, took place on May 26, 1949 and ended 2-2. Since then, there have been friendly contacts between the two clubs who, in mutual respect, have based some of their third jerseys on the traditional jerseys of the other club. For example, on June 6, 1953, the team of FC Turin competed in a river-like jersey for the first time in a game against AC Milan, and River wears a garnet jersey for matches that take place on May 4th or the next day out.
The longest contacts (for more than a century) exist with the Brazilian association Corinthians São Paulo . In 1914, the Turin FC team made a trip to South America to play friendly games in Argentina and Brazil . All the games in Brazil were played in São Paulo , where there were many residents with Italian roots. On August 15, 1914, the game against the Corinthians took place, who competed against a foreign team for the first time in this encounter. In 1948, the Grande Torino team traveled to Brazil again to face the Corinthians again and to renew friendly contacts. After the plane crash in Turin the following year, the Corinthians team competed in their next game in honor of FC Turin in a garnet red jersey and donated the proceeds from this and the next games to the families of the fatally injured. In 2011, the Corinthians decided on a second third jersey in garnet red.
Rivalries
In addition to main and city rivals Juventus Turin, against whom the Derby della Mole is contested, there are greater aversions to the two Milanese clubs Milan and Inter , as well as Atalanta Bergamo , FC Bologna , Brescia Calcio , Hellas Verona , US Lecce , AC Perugia Calcio and Piacenza Calcio 1919 . Further rivalries exist with AS Roma , which originated in 1973 when the Torino fans burned a Roma fan banner, and with Sampdoria Genoa , which is primarily due to the fan friendship of the "Toro" with its city rivals CFC Genoa.
Others
Suppliers and sponsors
The supplier has been the Italian sporting goods manufacturer Kappa since 2008 ; the contract runs until 2020.
In 1981, Torino signed an advertising contract with Barbero, who placed their lettering on the jerseys. This was followed by Ariostea (1983–1984), Sweda Italia (1984–1988), Indesit (1988–1991), Fratelli Beretta (1991–1994), Bongioanni Caldaie (1994–1995), SDA Express Courier (1995–2000), Directa (2000–2001), Conto Arancio (2001–2002), Ixfin (2002–2003), Bavaria (2003–2005), Reale Mutua (2005–2008), Renault Trucks (2008–2009), Italporte (2009–2011) , Valmora (2011–2012), Fratelli Beretta (2012–2013) and Fratelli Beretta / Suzuki (since 2013).
Club colors and crests
Since it was founded in 1906, FC Turin has worn garnet red, with white trousers and garnet red socks. The away jersey is traditionally mostly white. Today's club coat of arms in the form of a shield combines the colors of the club and the coat of arms of the city of Turin , it shows the club name and the year of foundation in the upper part and a raised bull in the lower part.
facts and figures
Club successes
National | title | season |
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Italian championship | 7th | 1927/28 , 1942/43 , 1945/46 , 1946/47 , 1947/48 , 1948/49 , 1975/76 |
Italian Cup | 5 | 1935/36, 1942/43 , 1967/68 , 1970/71 , 1992/93 |
International | title | season |
Coppa delle Alpi | 1 | 1990 |
Mitropacup | 1 | 1991 |
Successes of the youth teams
- Italian Primavera Championship : 1966/67, 1967/68, 1969/70, 1976/77, 1985, 1987/88, 1990/91, 1991/92, 2014/15
- Italian Primavera Cup : 1982/83, 1983/84, 1985/86, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1998/99, 2017/18
- Torneo di Viareggio : 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1998
staff
Professional team squad (2019/20)
No. | Nat. | Surname | Date of birth | In the team since | Contract until | |
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goalkeeper | ||||||
18th | Samir Ujkani | 5th July 1988 | 2019 | 2020 | ||
25th | Antonio Rosati | June 26, 1983 | 2018 | 2021 | ||
39 | Salvatore Sirigu | January 12, 1987 | 2017 | 2022 | ||
Defender | ||||||
4th | Lyanco | February 1, 1997 | 2017 | 2024 | ||
5 | Armando Izzo | March 2, 1992 | 2018 | 2024 | ||
14th | Kevin Bonifazi | May 19, 1996 | 2014 | 2022 | ||
15th | Cristian Ansaldi | September 20, 1986 | 2019 | 2021 | ||
29 | Lorenzo De Silvestri | May 23, 1988 | 2016 | 2020 | ||
30th | Koffi Djidji | November 30, 1992 | 2019 | 2021 | ||
33 | Nicolas N'Koulou | March 27, 1990 | 2018 | 2021 | ||
34 | Ola Aina | October 8, 1996 | 2019 | 2023 | ||
36 | Bremer | March 18, 1997 | 2018 | 2023 | ||
midfield player | ||||||
7th | Saša Lukić | August 13, 1996 | 2016 | 2023 | ||
8th | Daniele Baselli | March 12, 1992 | 2015 | 2022 | ||
23 | Soualiho Meïté | March 17, 1994 | 2018 | 2023 | ||
88 | Tomás Rincon | January 13, 1988 | 2018 | 2021 | ||
striker | ||||||
9 | Andrea Belotti | December 20, 1993 | 2015 | 2022 | ||
10 | Iago Falque | 4th January 1990 | 2017 | 2022 | ||
11 | Simone Zaza | June 25, 1991 | 2019 | 2023 | ||
21st | Álex Berenguer | 4th July 1995 | 2017 | 2022 | ||
22nd | Vincenzo Millico | August 12, 2000 | 2011 | 2023 | ||
24 | Simone Verdi | July 12, 1992 | 2019 | 2024 | ||
27 | Vittorio Parigini | March 25, 1996 | 2013 | 2020 | ||
As of September 2, 2019 |
Former players
- Christian Abbiati
- Afriyie Acquah
- Carlos Aguilera
- Amauri
- Danilo D'Ambrosio
- Nicola Amoruso
- Jocelyn Angloma
- Danilo Avelar
- Vlada Avramov
- Valerio Bacigalupo
- Dino Baggio
- Joe Baker
- Aldo Ballarin
- Adolfo Baloncieri
- Federico Balzaretti
- Barreto
- Antonio Barreca
- Simone Barone
- Enzo Bearzot
- Marco Benassi
- Rolando Bianchi
- Cesare Bovo
- Sergio Brighenti
- Matteo Brighi
- Luca Bucci
- Horst Buhtz
- Nicolás Burdisso
- Emanuele Calaiò
- Canalli
- Riccardo Carapellese
- Walter Casagrande
- Domenico Caso
- Luca Castellazzi
- Sergio Castelletti
- Luciano Castellini
- Eusebio Castigliano
- Alessio Cerci
- Francesco Coco
- Paul Codrea
- Sandro Cois
- Giancarlo Corradini
- Roberto Cravero
- André Cruz
- Matteo Darmian
- Teobaldo Depetrini
- Massimo Donati
- Mark Edusei
- Enrico Fantini
- Alexander Farnerud
- Marco Ferrante
- Pietro Ferraris
- Giorgio Ferrini
- Daniele Fortunato
- Enzo Francescoli
- Giovanni Francini
- Diego Fuser
- Luca Fusi
- Guglielmo Gabetto
- Giovanni Galli
- Andrea Gasbarroni
- Alessandro Gazzi
- Jean-François Gillet
- Kamil Glik
- Francesco Graziani
- Giuseppe Grezar
- Luigi Griffanti
- Joe Hart
- Salvador Ichazo
- Ciro Immobile
- Juan Iturbe
- Pontus Jansson
- Robert Jarni
- Hate Jeppson
- Jonathas
- Junior
- Omar El Kaddouri
- Hans fighter
- Wim Kieft
- Georges Lang
- Salvatore Lanna
- Marcelo Larrondo
- Denis Law
- Gianluigi Lentini
- Julio Libonatti
- Adem Ljajic
- Ezio Loik
- Maxi Lopez
- Cristiano Lucarelli
- Nikola Maksimović
- Andrea Mandorlini
- Luca Marchegiani
- Giovanni Marchese
- Virgilio Maroso
- Josef Martínez
- Salvatore Masiello
- Valentino Mazzola
- Riccardo Meggiorini
- Gustavo Méndez
- Romeo Menti
- Gigi Meroni
- Juan Sánchez Miño
- Lorenzo Minotti
- Cristian Molinaro
- Emiliano Mondonico
- Emiliano Moretti
- Heinrich Muller
- Roberto Mussi
- Roberto Muzzi
- M'Baye Niang
- Davide Nicola
- Walter Novellino
- Joel Obi
- Angelo Ogbonna
- Aldo Olivieri
- Piero Operto
- Alberto Orlando
- Franco Ossola
- Alessandro Parisi
- Eraldo Pecci
- Abedi Pelé
- Bruno Peres
- Gianluca pessotto
- Inácio Piá
- Pinga
- Fabrizio Poletti
- Toni upholstery
- Giorgio Puia
- Paolino Pulici
- Fabio Quagliarella
- Álvaro Recoba
- Mario Rigamonti
- Ruggiero Rizzitelli
- Guillermo Rodríguez
- Alessandro Rosina
- Gino Rossetti
- Luca Rossettini
- Rubinho
- Patrizio Sala
- Claudio Sala
- Jürgen Säumel
- Walter Schachner
- Heinrich Schönfeld
- Enzo Scifo
- Franco Selvaggi
- Franco Semioli
- Lucidio Sentimenti
- Aldo Serena
- Gastón Silva
- Roberto Soriano
- Walter Streule
- Hakan Şükür
- Panagiotis Tachtsidis
- Sauro Tomà
- Mirko Valdifiori
- Rafael Martín Vázquez
- Simone Verdi
- Christian Vieri
- Lido Vieri
- Giuseppe Vives
- Johan Walem
- Renato Zaccarelli
- Davide Zappacosta
Player records
(Status: end of season 2019/20; all competitive games and goals are indicated, players in bold are still active in the club)
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Coach history
Head coach | |
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Term of office | Surname |
1954-1956 | Annibale Frossi |
1956-1957 |
Fioravante Baldi Blagoje Marjanović |
1957-1958 |
Blagoje Marjanović Fioravante Baldi |
1958-1959 |
Federico Allasio Quinto Bertoloni Imre Senkey |
1959-1960 |
Imre Senkey Giacinto Ellena |
1960–1962 | Beniamino Santos |
1962-1963 |
Beniamino Santos Giacinto Ellena |
1963-1966 | Nereo Rocco |
1966-1967 |
Marino Bergamasco Nereo Rocco (Technical Director)
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1967-1969 | Edmondo Fabbri |
1969-1971 | Giancarlo Cadè |
1971-1973 | Gustavo Giagnoni |
1973-1974 |
Gustavo Giagnoni Edmondo Fabbri |
1974-1975 | Edmondo Fabbri |
1975-1979 | Luigi Radice |
1979-1980 |
Luigi Radice Ercole Rabitti |
1980-1981 |
Ercole Rabitti Romano Cazzaniga |
1981-1982 | Massimo Giacomini |
1982-1984 | Eugenio Bersellini |
1984-1988 | Luigi Radice |
1988-1989 |
Luigi Radice Claudio Sala Sergio Vatta |
1989-1990 | Eugenio Fascetti |
1990-1994 | Emiliano Mondonico |
1994-1995 |
Rosario Rampanti Nedo Sonetti |
1995-1996 |
Nedo Sonetti Franco Scoglio Lido Vieri |
Head coach | |
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Term of office | Surname |
1996-1997 |
Mauro Sandreani Lido Vieri |
1997-1998 |
Giancarlo Camolese Graeme Souness (Technical Director) Edoardo Reja |
1998-2000 | Emiliano Mondonico |
2000-2001 |
Luigi Simoni Giancarlo Camolese |
2001-2002 | Giancarlo Camolese |
2002-2003 |
Giancarlo Camolese Renzo Ulivieri Renato Zaccarelli |
2003-2004 | Ezio Rossi |
2004-2005 |
Ezio Rossi Renato Zaccarelli |
2005-2006 | Daniele Arrigoni |
2005-2006 | Paolo Stringara |
2005-2006 | Gianni De Biasi |
2006-2007 |
Gianni De Biasi Alberto Zaccheroni Gianni De Biasi |
2007-2008 |
Walter Novellino Gianni De Biasi |
2008-2009 |
Gianni De Biasi Walter Novellino Giancarlo Camolese |
2009-2010 |
Stefano Colantuono Mario Beretta Stefano Colantuono |
2010-2011 |
Franco Lerda Giuseppe Papadopulo Franco Lerda |
2011-2016 | Gian Piero Ventura |
2016-2018 | Sinisa Mihajlovic |
2018-2020 | Walter Mazzarri |
2020 | Moreno Longo |
2020– | Marco Giampaolo |
Web links
- Official website of Torino FC (Italian, English)
- Torino FC on legaseriea.it
- Torino FC on UEFA.com
- Latest news about Torino FC (Italian)
- Torino FC web archive (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ torinofc.it - La Storia del Torino FC
- ↑ Torino: Serie A alternative club guide (English; article from April 16, 2015)
- ↑ Ernst Christian Steinecke (11 friends): The bull is still alive - Why FC Turin is the most extraordinary club in Italy (article from May 29, 2018)
- ↑ Italy expert Tippmann: “Juve is hated!” (Article of October 20, 2015)
- ↑ War and Peace in Italian Football: The Ultras, Gemellaggio and Unexpected Friendships (English; article from August 25, 2015)
- ↑ Torino-Fiorentina, storia di un'amicizia che il tempo non ha scalfito (Italian; article from September 29, 2016)
- ↑ Genoa, la triste fine di un gemellaggio storico (Italian; article from May 25, 2009)
- ↑ Genoa: oltre 400 tifosi in corteo Prima della gara con il Torino per sostenere la squadra ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian; article from December 16, 2012)
- ↑ Da Torino a Manchester: 1600 chilometri di passione per il Manchester City (Italian; article from November 25, 2016)
- ↑ Presente A Bormio Le Maglie de Torino 2013-2014 Firmate Kappa (Italian; accessed April 2, 2019)
- ↑ The last game of Grande Torino at Lisbon, May 4th 1949 (article from August 12, 2018)
- ↑ River Plate and Torino: a tale of friendship (English; article from June 28, 2011)
- ↑ Dramma River Plate: piange anche il Torino (Italian; article from June 27, 2011)
- ↑ Torino and the Corinthian Spirit (English; article from March 4, 2013)
- ↑ Gemellaggi e Rivalità degli Ultras Italiani (Italian; accessed April 2, 2019)
- ↑ Friendships and rivalries (article from September 6, 2014)
- ↑ Curva Ospiti | I tifosi della Roma (Italian; article from October 6, 2018)
- ↑ Samp e Toro: so vicine, so lontane (Italian; article from February 14, 2012)
- ↑ soccerstyle24.it - Le scadenze dei contratti tra squadre e sponsor tecnici
- ↑ Prima Squadra. In: torinofc.it. Torino Football Club SpA, accessed August 12, 2019 (Italian).
- ↑ Torino FC squad. In: transfermarkt.de . Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on August 12, 2019 .
- ↑ archiviotoro.it - see Allenatori