Olympic Stadium Turin

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Olympic Stadium Turin
Stadio Olimpico Torino Italy.jpg
Interior view of the Turin Olympic Stadium
Earlier names

Stadio Municipale Benito Mussolini
Stadio Comunale Vittorio Pozzo
Stadio Olimpico Torino

Data
place Corso Sebastopoli 123 10137 Turin , Italy
ItalyItaly
Coordinates 45 ° 2 '30.4 "  N , 7 ° 39' 0.1"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 2 '30.4 "  N , 7 ° 39' 0.1"  E
classification 4th
owner City of Turin
opening 1933
Renovations 1989, 2005
surface Natural grass
capacity 27,958 seats
playing area 105 m × 68 m
Societies)
Events

The Turin Olympic Stadium , officially Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino (previously Stadio Municipale Benito Mussolini , Stadio Comunale Vittorio Pozzo and Stadio Olimpico Torino ), is a football stadium in the north-western Italian city ​​of Turin in Piedmont .

It is located in the southern Santa Rita district , between Corso Sebastopoli and Via Filadelfia, right next to the Pala alpitour multipurpose hall, which opened in 2005, and the Torino Esposizioni exhibition center .

history

The stadium was built in 1933 and was initially called Stadio Municipale Benito Mussolini . The first events held there were the Giochi Littoriali dell'anno XI , the Campionati Internazionali Studenteschi and the European Athletics Championships in 1934 .

It hosted two games during the 1934 World Cup . From the 1934/35 season the arena became the home of Juventus Turin , who celebrated 16 championship titles in it. Local rivals AC Turin only moved from the ailing Stadio Filadelfia to the stadium at the end of the 1950s .

After the end of World War II , it was renamed Stadio Comunale Vittorio Pozzo . On May 11, 1947, Italian football history was written in the Comunale. At the meeting of the Italian national team against Hungary (3: 2) ten players were the Grande Torino chosen, ironically, was the eleventh man Juve poker players Lucidio Sentimenti . Never again were there more players from a single club in the starting line-up of the Squadra Azzurra .

In 1959 and 1970 the Stadio Comunale hosted the Summer Universiade . In addition, many concerts were held in the stadium, especially in the 1980s, such as AC / DC , Bob Marley , Bruce Springsteen , Madonna , Michael Jackson , Pink Floyd , Vasco Rossi and Zucchero .

After the opening of the Stadio delle Alpi , the two football clubs moved to the new stadium, after which the Comunale was for a long time the training ground for Juventus.

On the occasion of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the Comunale was completely renovated for around 30 million euros. It was completely roofed over and received new grandstands and a third tier, and individual seats were installed, which reduced the capacity to around 27,000 seats. The stadium was named Stadio Olimpico and hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, and the capacity was briefly expanded to 35,000 seats.

For the 2006/07 season, both Turin football clubs moved from the unloved Stadio delle Alpi back to the arena. Juventus has been playing in the newly opened Juventus Stadium since the 2011/12 season and the Stadio Olimpico is the sole home of FC Turin.

In April 2016, the city of Turin decided to rename it Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino , in memory of the Grande Torino , the successful AC Turin team in the 1940s, who were almost completely killed in the Superga plane crash in 1949.

Major football games

gallery

  • Juventus fans (2006)

  • Opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics

  • View from the Curva Primavera (2015)

Web links

Commons : Turin Olympic Stadium  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ comune.torino.it: Renaming of the stadium ( PDF , Italian)