Filadelfia Stadium
| Filadelfia Stadium | |
|---|---|
| Il Fila | |
|
|
| Rebuilt grandstand (2017) | |
| Data | |
| place | Via Filadelfia 36 10134 Turin , Italy
|
| Coordinates | 45 ° 2 '17.2 " N , 7 ° 39' 31" E |
| owner | Fondazione Stadio Filadelfia |
| start of building | 17th October 2015 |
| opening | 1926 May 25, 2017 |
| First game | October 17, 1926 FBC Torino - Fortitudo Roma 4-0 |
| Renovations | 1932, 1945 |
| demolition | 1998 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | 8 million euros (2015-2017) |
| architect | Miro Gamba |
| capacity |
4,200 seats (new building) 30,000 seats (old stadium) |
| playing area | 110 × 70 m |
| Societies) | |
The Stadio Filadelfia is a football stadium in the Italian city of Turin , Region Piedmont . The old stadium was the home of FC Turin from 1926 to 1963 . In the stadium, the club celebrated its greatest successes in the 1940s as Grande Torino . From October 2015 to May 2017, the stadium was rebuilt on its old site with around 4,200 seats.
history
Opening game
The Stadio Filadelfia was built within a few months in 1926. The application for a building permit was dated March 24, 1926, and the opening match between the Foot Ball Club Turin and Fortitudo Roma - one of three clubs that merged to form AS Roma in 1927 - was played on October 17, 1926. The 15,000 spectators in the sold-out stadium saw the home team win 4-0.
The first years
The new stadium turned out to be a sporting "stroke of luck" for Turin FC, who won the Italian championship title in its first season in 1926/27 at a new place of activity . The fact that he was revoked because of alleged irregularities, however, already cast the shadow of a certain tragedy that linked the club and the stadium. Because the association experienced its greatest successes in connection with this place of activity, but also its greatest misfortune. FC Turin made up for the lost championship in such a way that it proved its dominance again in the following season and won its first official championship title in the 1927/28 season.
Il Grande Torino
Even the best years of the club - like its greatest tragedy - are inextricably linked with the Stadio Filadelfia. The troupe, which was by far the best Italian club team in the early 1940s and was nicknamed Il Grande Torino due to its dominance throughout the 1940s , won five championship titles in a row here, and it would have been even more if the championship between 1943 and 1945 due to the war not two years should have been interrupted.
But Il Grande Torino not only won five championship titles in a row (1943 to 1949), but also remained unbeaten in this historically significant sports facility for more than six years or 93 home games in a row and often sent his opponents home with heavy defeats. This impressive series started on January 17, 1943 and ended for the Turin championship team with the Superga plane crash on May 4, 1949, in which 18 players and five members of the coaching staff were killed.
In the first home game after the tragedy, the club, which has been known as AC Turin since 1936, competed with its youth team for lack of alternatives and the opponent also offered his youth team out of respect. The Stadio Filadelfia, which now holds around 30,000 spectators, was still completely sold out.
Withdrawal and decay
.jpg)
AC Turin used the stadium as their home ground until the 1957/58 season, at the end of which they moved to the neighboring Stadio Comunale . But a year later, the club rose from Serie B and returned to the Stadio Filadelfia for nostalgic reasons for the 1959/60 season. In that season, the second division championship and the associated immediate return to Serie A succeeded . Due to the sporting failure in the Comunale and the successful recovery in Filadelfia , the club decided to keep its old home ground. But at the end of the 1962/63 season, the dream of the Toro fans was finally over. On May 19, 1963, AC Turin played its last competitive game at the Stadio Filadelfia. Opponents in this memorable game, which ended 1-1, were SSC Napoli .
At the beginning of the 1963/64 season, AC Turin played its home games in the neighboring Stadio Comunale, today's Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, which is only a few hundred meters west of the Stadio Filadelfia. Since then, the stadium has not been used for official football matches, but served as a training facility for the first team until 1979 and as a training facility for the youth teams for several years after they moved to a more modern training camp.
In the 1980s, the building fabric deteriorated noticeably, so that the grandstands gradually fell into disrepair. Due to the dilapidated condition, the stadium was demolished in 1998. Only a metal cladding on the former stadium wall (photo above) along the streets of Tunisi, Giovanni Spano, Giordano Bruno and Filadelfia and a lawn behind it, as well as two remaining grandstand corner pillars and the old entrance gate (middle photo) reminded of the venerable Filadelfia stadium.
Only once did something like “big football” return to the lawn of the former Stadio Filadelfia, when a reminder game was held to commemorate the anniversary of the Superga tragedy.
reconstruction
On 28 March 2011, was to rebuild Foundation Fondazione Stadio Filadelfia founded. On October 17th, 2015, 89 years to the day after the opening of the old Stadio Filadelfia, the foundation stone for the construction was laid in the presence of the club's chairman Urbano Cairo . It is designed as a training ground for the professionals and youth teams as well as a venue for the youth teams. It is also a meeting point for fans and a memorial for the Grande Torino . The stadium is equipped with a grandstand with 4,200 seats for around eight million euros . There is also a second playing field and a club museum. Both places have underfloor heating .
The new Stadio Filadelfia reopened with celebrations on May 24th and 25th, 2017. On August 1, 2017, Cesare Salvadori (President of the Fondazione Stadio Filadelfia) and Urbano Cairo signed a rental agreement for the use of the facility. The contract runs for 20 years with an option for a further six years. Turin FC pays 205,000 euros annually. The football club also bears the maintenance costs . The foundation in turn will invest the proceeds from the rental agreement in expanding the facility.
Web links
- filadelfia.it: Website of the Fondazione Stadio Filadelfia (Italian)
- stadiumdb.com: Stadio Filadelfia (English)
- stadiumdb.com: Stadio Filadelfia - until 1963 (English)
- skyscrapercity.com: Website for the new stadium
- youtube.com: Impressions from the old Stadio Filadelfia
- youtube.com: Game scenes from the Turin Derby 1992
- toroclub.it: Stadium articles from the Toroclub (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ spiegel.de: Tragedy of the AC Turin: How the pride of Italy shattered on a mountain article from May 4, 2009
- ↑ filadelfia.it: Storia Fondazione (Italian)
- ↑ torino.repubblica.it: Torino, in diecimila per la prima pietra del mitico stadio Filadelfia. Cairo: "Rivogliamo l'ottavo scudetto toltoci nel '27" article from October 17, 2016 (Italian)
- ↑ youtube.com: Video of the construction site from September 29, 2016 (Italian)
- ↑ filadelfia.it: Progetto Stadio Filadelfia (Italian)
- ↑ stadionwelt.de: Current construction pictures of the Stadio Filadelfia Article from October 9, 2016
- ↑ tuttosport.com: Torino: rinasce il Fila, rinasce lo spirito granata Article from May 24, 2017 (Italian)
- ↑ sport.sky.it: Nuovo stadio Filadelfia, il Toro torna a casa. Presentazione LIVE article from May 24th 2017 (Italian)
- ↑ filadelfia.it: Stadio Filadelfia firmato il contratto di affitto article from August 1, 2017 (Italian)
- ↑ noigranata.com: Il Torino FC paga l'affitto e la Fondazione completerà l'impianto Article of July 19, 2017 (Italian)