The club was founded in 1906, and has a past that is both glorious and tragic. In 1949 the entire championship-winning squad was wiped out in an aeroplane crash, a terrible event recorded in the book The Day Italian Football Died.

Official website: www.toro.it.

Known as: Toro, Granata

Match Tickets

As well as outlets in Turin, Torino tickets can be bought online from Listicket.

Stadium

Stadio delle Alpi
Capacity: 71,000

A bus service runs on matchdays from the centre of Turin, stopping by the railway station.

Travel and tourism

The setting for the most famous car chase in cinema, Turin is nowadays renowned chiefly for its industrial success, and for being the home to Fiat.

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