1946–47 AC Torino season explained

Club:Associazione Calcio Torino
Season:1946-47
Manager:Luigi Ferrero
Chairman:Ferruccio Novo
Stadium:Stadio Filadelfia
League:Serie A
League Topscorer:Mazzola (29)
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Prevseason:1945–46
Nextseason:1947–48

During the 1946–1947 season Associazione Calcio Torino competed in Serie A.

Summary

After winning the championship last season, the team clinched again the title with a great performance in the second part of the season with a format of sole group. Valentino Mazzola[1] scored a massive 29 goals to help Torino reach a back-to-back championship.

The wounds of war were healing and football returned to a single-round system.[2] The league, due to the immediate difficulties to find the sixteen best teams, was played with a huge tournament of twenty teams, then occupying 38 days, from September to July 1947. Torino did not make substantial changes to its team, but had strengthened the park of players. Along with the return of Romeo Menti,[3] came the midfielder Danilo Martelli from Brescia,[4] the back-stopper Francesco Rosetta of Novara,[5] the goalkeeper Dante Piani, the Vercellese Guido Tieghi.

From the 21st round the Granata returned to the lead,[6] gradually strengthening their position and subsequently winning the tournament, with a ten-point lead over Juventus. Torino, after a last misstep with Sampdoria (the only team in the tournament to take away three points out of four from Torino) put together a sixteen match unbeaten run, of which fourteen were victories, beginning with the derby won by Guglielmo Gabetto,[7] to go to other successes such as the five goals against Inter and Atalanta, the six against Vicenza, Genoa and Milan. That attack ended with 104 goals scored, an average of nearly three per game, and with Valentino Mazzola Serie A top-scorer.

Squad

Source:[8] (Captain)

Transfers

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GK Triestina
DF Novara
MF (5.200.000 £)
FW loan ended
FW
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GK Alessandria
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MF
FW Novara loan out
FW Modena

Competitions

Serie A

See main article: 1946-47 Serie A.

Matches

Statistics

Source:[9]

Players statistics

Appearances

Goalscorers

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mazzola, Valentino. Enciclopedia Del Calcio. Italian. 25 February 2017. 5 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305082953/http://www.enciclopediadelcalcio.it/Mazzola.html. dead.
  2. Web site: Tre squadre soltanto retrocederanno dalla A alla B. Corriere dello Sport. 22 August 1946 .
  3. Web site: Menti, Romeo. 5 August 2020 . figc.it.
  4. R. Ossola-F. Tavella, "Il romanzo del Grande Torino", Newton & Compton, Roma, 1993, pp. 203-204
  5. Web site: Rosetta, Francesco. 5 August 2020 . FIGC. Italian.
  6. Web site: Grande Torino 1947. 29 July 1947. Corriere dello Sport.
  7. Web site: Gabetto, Guglielmo. Enciclopedia del Calcio. Italian. 30 May 2015. 16 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160316170936/http://www.enciclopediadelcalcio.it/Gabetto.html. dead.
  8. Web site: Rosa toro 46. calcio-seriea.net. Italian.
  9. Web site: Presenze Toro 46/47. Italian. calcio-seriea.net.