Torino F.C.
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Full name
Torino Football Club S.p.A

Nicknames
il Toro (The Bull),
i Granata (The Maroons)

Founded
3 December 1906; as Foot-Ball Club Torino
1 September 2005, as Torino Football Club

Ground
Stadio Olimpico

Capacity
28,140

Chairman
Urbano Cairo

Head Coach
Giampiero Ventura

League
Serie A

2014-15
Serie A, 9th

Torino Football Club, commonly referred to as Torino or simply Toro, is a professional Italian football club based in Turin, Piedmont, that plays in Serie A.

Founded as Foot-Ball Club Torino on 3 December 1906, the club was renamed Associazione Calcio Torino from 1936 to 1943 and 1959 to 1977, Torino FIAT in 1944, Associazione Calcio Talmone Torino in 1958-59 and Torino Calcio from 1977 until the club was declared bankrupt in 2005. 

The new club regained the rights and the title of the old association, continuing as Torino Football Club.

Domestically, Torino are among the most successful clubs in Italy with seven league titles, consisting of five successive titles from 1942 to 1949, tying the all-time record, as well as becoming the first Italian club to win the double. 

The club has won the Coppa Italia five times, the last of which was in the 1992-93 season, and the Mitropa Cup, won in 1991. 

On the international stage, Torino were finalists in the UEFA Cup in 1991-92.

In the perpetual ranking of Serie A, which takes into account all the football teams that have played in the top flight at least once, Torino occupies 8th place, having participated in 70 of the 82 editions held.

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