1946–47 A.C. Torino season

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

Associazione Calcio Torino

1946-47 season
Chairman	Ferruccio Novo
Manager	Luigi Ferrero[1]
Stadium	Stadio Filadelfia
Serie A	1º
Top goalscorer	Mazzola (29)
Home colours Away colours

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[2] scored a massive 29 goals to help Torino reached a back-to-back championship.

The wounds of war were healing and football returned to a single-round system.[3] 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,[4] came the midfielder Danilo Martelli from Brescia,[5] the back-stopper Francesco Rosetta of Novara,[6] the goalkeeper Dante Piani, the Vercellese Guido Tieghi.

From the 21st round the Granata returned to the lead,[7] 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,[8] 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:[9] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  ITA Valerio Bacigalupo — GK  ITA Dante Piani — DF  ITA Aldo Ballarin — DF  ITA Virgilio Maroso — DF  ITA Mario Rigamonti — DF  ITA Francesco Rosetta — MF  ITA Eusebio Castigliano — MF  ITA Giuseppe Grezar

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Ezio Loik — MF  ITA Danilo Martelli — FW  ITA Pietro Ferraris II — FW  ITA Guglielmo Gabetto — FW  ITA Valentino Mazzola (Captain) — FW  ITA Romeo Menti II — FW  ITA Franco Ossola — FW  ITA Guido Tieghi

Transfers

In
Pos.	Name	from	Type
GK	Dante Piani	Triestina}}
DF	Francesco Rosetta	Novara}}
MF	Danilo Martelli	Brescia	(5.200.000 £)
FW	Romeo Menti II	Fiorentina	loan ended
FW	Guido Tieghi	Pro Vercelli

Out
Pos.	Name	To	Type
GK	Alfredo Bodoira	Alessandria}}
DF	Sergio Piacentini	Sampdoria
MF	Alfonso Santagiuliana	Vicenza
FW	Oreste Guaraldo	Novara	loan out
FW	Adriano Zecca	Modena

Competitions

Serie A

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Torino (C)	38	28	7	3	104	35	+69	63
2	Juventus	38	22	9	7	83	38	+45	53
3	Modena	38	21	9	8	45	24	+21	51
4	Milan	38	19	12	7	75	52	+23	50
5	Bologna	38	15	9	14	42	41	+1	39

Source:
(C) Champion.

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

Torino v Triestina

22 September 1946 1	Torino	1-1	Triestina	Torino
15:30 UTC+1	Gabetto  85'	Report	11' Sollazzo	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Otello Piselli

Lazio v Torino

29 September 1946 2	Lazio	1-2	Torino	Roma
15:30 UTC+1	Puccinelli  43'	Report	12' Gabetto  34' Mazzola	Stadium: Stadio Nazionale Referee: Giovanni Galeati

Torino v Sampdoria

6 October 1946 3	Torino	1-1	Sampdoria	Torino
15:30 UTC+1	Mazzola  32'	Report	56' Baldini	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Giorgio Bernardi

Venezia v Torino

13 October 1946 4	Venezia	1-0	Torino	Venezia
15:00 UTC+1	Zambelli  46'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Pierluigi Penzo Referee: Giuseppe Zelocchi

Torino v Juventus

20 October 1946 5	Torino	0-0	Juventus	Torino
15:00 UTC+1		Report		Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Ferruccio Bellè

Roma v Torino

27 October 1946 6	Roma	1-3	Torino	Roma
15:00 UTC+1	Amadei  87'	Report	33' Ossola  78' Castigliano  83' Mazzola	Stadium: Stadio Nazionale Referee: Bruno Zilli

Inter v Torino

3 November 1946 7	Inter	1-3	Torino	Milano
14:30 UTC+1	Bovio  32'	Report	13' Ossola  80' Gabetto  86' (aut.) Cominelli	Stadium: Arena Civica Referee: Giuseppe Fois

Torino v Bologna

10 November 1946 8	Torino	4-0	Bologna	Torino
14:30 UTC+1	Castigliano  33' Ossola  44' Ferraris II  78' Loik  81' (rig.)	Report		Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Ferruccio Bellè

Torino v Brescia

17 November 1946 9	Torino	4-0	Brescia	Torino
14:30 UTC+1	Mazzola  16', 52' Grezar  51' Loik  64'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Bruno Tassini

Vicenza v Torino

24 November 1946 10	Vicenza	0-3	Torino	Vicenza
14:30 UTC+1		Report	41' Gabetto  75' Mazzola  85' Ossola	Stadium: Comunale Referee: Giorgio Bernardi

Torino v Livorno

8 December 1946 11	Torino	3-2	Livorno	Torino
14:30 UTC+1	Mazzola  10' Gabetto  15' Castigliano  45'	Report	62' Stua  83' (rig.) Raccis	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Attendance: 13 000 Referee: Luciano Limido

Napoli v Torino

15 December 1946 12	Napoli	2-2	Torino	Napoli
14:30 UTC+1	Andreolo  63' Busani  73'	Report	12', 84' Gabetto	Stadium: Stadio della Liberazione Referee: Luigi Gemini

Torino v Fiorentina

22 December 1946 13	Torino	7-2	Fiorentina	Torino
14:30 UTC+1	Magli  7' (o.g.) Mazzola  17' Ossola  34', 44' Grezar  50' Gabetto  83' Loik  85'	Report	33', 82' Gregorin	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Attendance: 8 000 Referee: Giovanni Galeati

Atalanta v Torino

29 December 1946 14	Atalanta	0-3	Torino	Bergamo
14:30 UTC+1		Report	19', 44' Mazzola  50' Ossola	Stadium: Comunale Attendance: 10 000 Referee: Guido Agnolin

Genoa v Torino

5 January 1947 15	Genoa	2-3	Torino	Genova
14:30 UTC+1	Verdeal  85' Trevisan  88' (rig.)	Report	11' Ossola  52' Grezar  70' Ferraris II	Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris Referee: Achille Pizziolo

Torino v Bari

12 January 1947 16	Torino	2-1	Bari	Torino
14:30 UTC+1	Tieghi  15' Mazzola  67' (rig.)	Report	19' (pen) Tontodonati	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Angelo Pizzato

Alessandria v Torino

19 January 1947 17	Alessandria	2-0	Torino	Alessandria
14:30 UTC+1	Bertoni  79' Stradella  90'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Giuseppe Moccagatta Referee: Ferruccio Bellè

Milan v Torino

26 January 1947 18	Milan	1-2	Torino	Milano
14:30 UTC+1	Puricelli  80'	Report	48' Gabetto  86' Menti II	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Referee: Giorgio Bernardi

Torino v Modena

2 February 1947 19	Torino	1-1	Modena	Torino
15:00 UTC+1	Menti II  18'	Report	46' Brighenti I	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Ferruccio Bonivento

Triestina v Torino

16 February 1947 20	Triestina	0-1	Torino	Trieste
15:00 UTC+1		Report	89' Ossola	Stadium: Stadio Comunale Referee: Guglielmo Matucci

Torino v Lazio

23 February 1947 21	Torino	5-1	Lazio	Torino
15:00 UTC+1	Mazzola  31', 80', 68' Gabetto  62' Menti II  72'	Report	79' Koenig	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Attendance: 15 000 Referee: Mario Codeluppi

Sampdoria v Torino

2 March 1947 22	Sampdoria	3-1	Torino	Genova
15:00 UTC+1	Bassetto  47', 62' Fiorini  73'	Report	15' Menti II	Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris Attendance: 30 000 Referee: Giorgio Bernardi

Torino v Venezia

9 March 1947 23	Torino	2-0	Venezia	Torino
15:00 UTC+1	Menti II  29' (rig.) Ferraris II  70'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Eliseo Camiolo

Juventus v Torino

16 March 1947 24	Juventus	0-1	Torino	Torino
15:00 UTC+1		Report	26' Gabetto	Stadium: Comunale Attendance: 60 000 Referee: Generoso Dattilo

Torino v Roma

23 March 1947 25	Torino	4-0	Roma	Torino
15:30 UTC+1	Mazzola  15' Gabetto  52', 65' Ferraris II  88'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Guido Agnolin

Torino v Inter

30 March 1947 26	Torino	5-2	Inter	Torino
15:30 UTC+1	Grezar  1' Mazzola  30', 57' Menti II  31' Gabetto  55'	Report	14', 19' Neri II	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Attendance: 15.000 Referee: Ferruccio Bonivento

Bologna v Torino

6 April 1947 27	Bologna	1-1	Torino	Bologna
15:30 UTC+1	Valcareggi  4'	Report	63' Loik	Stadium: Stadio Comunale Attendance: 46.000 Referee: Guido Agnolin

Brescia v Torino

13 April 1947 28	Brescia	0-1	Torino	Brescia
15:30 UTC+1		Report	15' Loik	Stadium: Stadium di Viale Piave Attendance: 46 000 Referee: Generoso Dattilo

Torino v Vicenza

20 April 1947 29	Torino	6-0	Vicenza	Torino
15:30 UTC+1	Loik  24' Mazzola  29', 31', 30' Ferraris II  57' Gabetto  64'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Massironi

Livorno v Torino

4 May 1947 30	Livorno	0-2	Torino	Livorno
16:00 UTC+1		Report	10' Castigliano  79' Gabetto	Stadium: Stadio Ardenza Attendance: 20 000 Referee: Luigi Gemini

Torino v Napoli

18 May 1947 31	Torino	2-1	Napoli	Torino
16:00 UTC+1	Castigliano  7' Ferraris II  59'	Report	20' Barbieri	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Luigi Valsecchi

Fiorentina v Torino

25 May 1947 32	Fiorentina	0-4	Torino	Firenze
16:00 UTC+1		Report	44' Ferraris II  49' Mazzola  60' Castigliano  89' Loik	Stadium: Stadio Comunale Attendance: 40 000 Referee: Giuseppe Zelocchi

Torino v Atalanta

1 June 1947 33	Torino	5-3	Atalanta	Torino
16:00 UTC+1	Loik  14' Ferraris II  25' Mazzola  56', 66', 64'	Report	43' (o.g.) Rosetta  54' Cergoli  85' Meucci	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Attendance: 7 000 Referee: Ferruccio Bonivento

Torino v Genoa

8 June 1947 34	Torino	6-0	Genoa	Torino
16:45 UTC+1	Loik  20' Mazzola  21', 56', 28' Martelli  46' Castigliano  60'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Attendance: 20 000 Referee: Ferruccio Bellè

Bari v Torino

15 June 1947 35	Bari	0-0	Torino	Bari
16:30 UTC+1		Report		Stadium: Stadio della Vittoria Referee: Giuseppe Vannini

Torino v Alessandria

22 June 1947 36	Torino	4-1	Alessandria	Torino
17:00 UTC+1	Ossola  8', 14' Loik  73' (rig.), 79'	Report	89' Sotgiu	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Eliseo Camiolo

Torino v Milan

29 June 1947 37	Torino	6-2	Milan	Torino
17:00 UTC+1	Gabetto  11', 90', 82' Mazzola  23' Castigliano  76' Ossola  80'	Report	28' Carapellese  48' (rig.) Tosolini	Stadium: Stadio Filadelfia Referee: Achille Pizziolo

Modena v Torino

6 July 1947 38	Modena	2-4	Torino	Modena
17:00 UTC+1	Brighenti I  50' Del Medico  85'	Report	2' Tieghi  31' Ossola  38' Mazzola  70' Loik	Stadium: Stadio Cesare Marzari Referee: Generoso Dattilo

Statistics

Source:[10]

Squad statistics

Competition	Points	Home						Away						Total						GD
		G	V	D	L	Gs	Ga	G	V	D	L	Gs	Ga	G	V	D	L	Gs	Ga
Serie A	63	19	15	4	0	68	18	19	13	3	3	36	17	38	28	7	3	104	35	+69

Players statistics

Appearances

• 25.Valerio Bacigalupo
• 38.Aldo Ballarin
• 27.Eusebio Castigliano
• 34.Pietro Ferraris
• 35.Guglielmo Gabetto
• 35.Giuseppe Grezar
• 30.Ezio Loik
• 33.Virgilio Maroso
• 17.Danilo Martelli
• 38.Valentino Mazzola
• 14.Romeo Menti
• 29.Franco Ossola
• 13.Dante Piani
• 34.Mario Rigamonti
• 13.Francesco Rosetta
• 3.Guido Tieghi

Goalscorers

• 29.Valentino Mazzola
• 19.Guglielmo Gabetto
• 13.Franco Ossola
• 12.Ezio Loik
• 8.Eusebio Castigliano
• 8.Pietro Ferraris
• 4.Giuseppe Grezar
• 1.Danilo Martelli
• 6.Romeo Menti
• 2.Guido Tieghi

References

1. 1946–47 A.C. Torino season at WorldFootball.net
2. "Mazzola, Valentino" (in Italian). Enciclopedia Del Calcio. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
3. "Tre squadre soltanto retrocederanno dalla A alla B". Corriere dello Sport. 22 August 1946.
4. "Menti, Romeo". figc.it.
5. R. Ossola-F. Tavella, "Il romanzo del Grande Torino", Newton & Compton, Roma, 1993, pp. 203-204
6. "Rosetta, Francesco" (in Italian). FIGC.
7. "Grande Torino 1947". Corriere dello Sport. 29 July 1947.
8. "Gabetto, Guglielmo" (in Italian). Enciclopedia del Calcio. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
9. "Rosa toro 46" (in Italian). calcio-seriea.net.
10. "Presenze Toro 46/47" (in Italian). calcio-seriea.net.

External Links

• Fabrizio Melegari (a cura di). Almanacco illustrato del calcio - La storia 1898-2004, Modena,. Panini, 2004.
• Fabrizio Melegari e Luigi La Rocca. "Calciatori 1942-43". Storia del Campionato Italiano dal 1942-43 al 1949-50. edizione speciale per "La Gazzetta dello Sport" Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, Modena, 2005.

See also

Grande Torino