Torino Football Club (Italian spelling [to'ri:no]) is commonly known as Torino, or just Toro is an Italian professional football team based within Turin, Piedmont. They currently are part of Serie A.
The club was founded in 1906 as Foot-Ball Club Torino in 1906, Torino are among the most successful clubs in Italy with seven league championships and five consecutive league titles in the 1940s. Torino, or the Grande Torino, as the team was also known was widely recognized for being one of the most powerful teams in football of the time until the entire team was tragically killed by the 1949 Superga air crash. They also have been crowned the Coppa Italia five times, the latest of which came in the season 1992-1993. On the international stage, Torino won the Mitropa Cup in 1991, and they were the finalists of the UEFA Cup in 1991-92.
Torino is home to all its home matches at the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino (also called"the Stadio Comunale "Vittorio Pozzo" up to 2006). The club's official color is maroon and the symbol of the club is a raging bull that is the emblem of Turin. Turin and from which the nickname of the club is derived "Il Toro" (The Bull). Torino have a rivalry local to them and a rivalry with Juventus F.C. and both sides compete in their own version of the Derby della Mole.
