The Grande Torino was the historic Italian football team of Torino Football Club in the 1940s, five-time champions of Italy, whose players were the backbone of the Italy national team and died on 4 May 1949 in the plane crash known as the Superga air disaster.
A formation of the Grande Torino, multiple champions of Italy
Ferruccio Novo
The union of Torino FIAT, reinforced by Silvio Piola and protagonist in the championship of the war in 1944
The "Grande Torino" of 1945–46
Torino Football Club, commonly referred to as Torino or simply Toro, is an Italian professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont. They currently play in Serie A. Founded as Foot-Ball Club Torino in 1906, Torino are among the most successful clubs in Italy with seven league titles, including five consecutive league titles during the 1940s. The Grande Torino, as the team was known, was widely recognised as one of the strongest footballing sides of the period, until the entire team was killed in the 1949 Superga air disaster. They have also won the Coppa Italia five times, the last of which was in the 1992–93 season. Internationally, Torino won the Mitropa Cup in 1991 and were finalists in the UEFA Cup in 1991–92.
The progress of Torino in the Italian football league structure since the first season of a unified Serie A (1929/30).
Torino players pose for a photograph in 1906.
Torino during a tour of Argentina in 1929
The Invincibles of the "Grande Torino", winners of five consecutive Serie A titles
