The Derby della Mole is the local derby played out between Turin's most prominent football clubs, Juventus and Torino. It is also known as the Derby di Torino or the Turin Derby in English. It is named after the Mole Antonelliana, a major landmark in the city and the architectural symbol of the Piedmontese capital. It is the oldest ongoing meeting between two teams based in the same city in Italian football.
The match between the two clubs represented until the First World War the juxtaposition of two opposing social classes. Juventus, founded in 1897 by students of a prestigious high school in Turin, soon became akin to the bourgeois in the town especially after enduring bond with the Agnelli family, which began in 1923, during which time they were also supported by the aristocracy of the region. Torino instead was born in 1906 from a division within Juventus, at the hands of dissidents who joined forces with another team from the city, Football Club Torinese, who identified with the then-early industrial world. In the 1960s and 1970s, these differences had eased considerably, partly as a result of the great migration to Turin about forty years earlier, but did not disappear: Juventus has since transcended its status as the symbol of the bourgeois and elite class to become a global phenomenon while Torino still largely retains an exclusively local fanbase.
The colours of the two teams also contribute, in small part, to this distinction: the Bianconeri, originally pink and black, adopted their jerseys from Notts County all the way from England, while the Granata dusted off the colours of the "Brigade Savoia", that two centuries earlier had liberated the then capital of the Duchy of Savoy. Both clubs, however, featured within their emblems a raging bull, taken from the city's coat of arms: Juventus as a bond with their origins, while Torino adopted it as their identity. It was the case until 2017 when Juventus introduced a J-shaped logo and featured the bull no longer.
History
The Turin derby was first played on 13 January 1907. It was also the first competitive match of Torino after its founding on 3 December 1906. The rivalry stems from the fact that Torino was founded through a merger of Football Club Torinese and a group of Juventus dissidents, led by major financier Alfred Dick. It is said that prior to the first derby, Dick was locked inside the changing room, causing him to miss the game and having to listen to updates via players and staff.
Since then, the derby has not been played in Serie A thirteen times: twelve due to Torino being in Serie B, and once after Juventus were relegated following the 2006 Italian football scandal. In addition to the derby against the Granata, the Bianconeri have played many derbies in the top flight with other city teams that no longer exist such as R.S. Ginnastica Torino, Sport Club Audace Torino and Football Club Pastore. In the first two editions of the Italian football championship, the original derbies of Turin were the ones played between Torinese, Ginnastica Torino and Internazionale Torino, before the latter merged with Torinese in 1900.
Before World War II, the rivalry between the two clubs came to represent a class divide in the Piedmont region. The fans of Torino originally represented the proletariat, while Juventus the bourgeoisie. However, with the mass migration to Turin, a major industrial center of northern Italy, in the 1960s and 1970s, the social difference had already diminished considerably. Many blue-collar workers arrived from southern Italy and took up employment with the Agnelli family, the owners of FIAT; thus, they started to see Juventus as "the team of the boss" or the "team of Fiat", and became fans. Torino would stand to represent the "original" spirit of Piedmont, or the purest Torinesità and to this day, it draws its supporters from a predominantly local fanbase, compared to Juventus, which enjoys widespread support even outside of Italy. Today, the differences remain, even if they are less prominent, due to Torino regularly teetering between Serie A and Serie B since the second half of the 1990s.
As of 28 February 2023, Juventus have won the derby 110 times and Torino have won it 73 times. Despite the overall results of the derby generally in favor of Juventus, historically, there have been periods where Torino have prevailed; between 1912 and 1914, in the space of three encounters, Torino submerged Juventus under a heavy "coat" of 23 goals—in which Juventus suffered its heaviest defeat in history, an 0–8 result on 17 November 1912, and especially during the 1940s, thanks to the team led by Valentino Mazzola, known as the Grande Torino. The end of the twenties signaled a period of early dominance of Juventus, who had just passed under the Agnelli, and left their rivals with only three victories in twenty matches; subsequently, the Superga tragedy of 1949 and the consequent technical impoverishment of Torino, was followed by a period more favourable for Juventus in the 1950s, culminating in the derby of 20 April 1952, won 6–0.
The 1970s witnessed the revival of Torino, when Juventus remained without a win in the derby for nearly six years (from December 1973 to March 1979) and Torino established a record of 4 wins in a row in a single championship (1975–76). Coinciding with Torino's economic difficulties (especially at the end of the 1990s), Juventus inflicted heavy defeats (5–0 of 3 December 1995). Recent history has seen a marked dominance of Juventus, so much so that Torino's 2–1 victory on 26 April 2015 was their first derby success in twenty years.
Official match results 3P = Third place play-off SF = Semi-finals QF = Quarter-finals R16 = Round of 16 R32 = Round of 32 GS = Group stage R1 = Round 1 R2 = Round 2
Season Competition Date Home team Result Away team1907 Prima Categoria 13 January 1907 Torino Juventus 13 February 1907 Juventus Torino1909 Prima Categoria 10 January 1909 Torino Juventus 17 January 1909 Juventus Torino Prima Categoria () 24 January 1909 Torino Juventus1909–10 Prima Categoria 7 November 1909 Juventus Torino 21 November 1909 Torino Juventus1910–11 Prima Categoria 26 February 1911 Torino Juventus 2 April 1911 Juventus Torino1911–12 Prima Categoria 8 October 1911 Torino Juventus 10 December 1911 Juventus Torino1912–13 Prima Categoria 17 November 1912 Juventus Torino 19 February 1913 Torino Juventus1914–15 Prima Categoria 25 October 1914 Torino Juventus 29 November 1914 Juventus Torino1915–16 Coppa Federale 19 December 1915 Juventus Torino 9 January 1916 Torino Juventus1919–20 Prima Categoria 9 November 1919 Torino Juventus 21 December 1919 Juventus Torino1920–21 Prima Categoria 24 October 1920 Torino Juventus 30 January 1921 Juventus Torino1926–27Divisione Nazionale 3 April 1927 Juventus Torino 5 June 1927 Torino Juventus1927–28Divisione Nazionale 6 May 1928 Juventus Torino 1 July 1928 Torino Juventus1929–30Serie A 24 November 1929 Torino Juventus 27 April 1930 Juventus Torino1930–31Serie A 14 December 1930 Juventus Torino 31 May 1931 Torino Juventus1931–32Serie A 20 December 1931 Torino Juventus 15 May 1932 Juventus Torino1932–33Serie A 4 December 1932 Torino Juventus 30 April 1933 Juventus Torino1933–34Serie A 8 October 1933 Juventus Torino 18 February 1934 Torino Juventus1934–35Serie A 21 October 1934 Juventus Torino 10 March 1935 Torino Juventus1935–36Serie A 29 September 1935 Torino Juventus 2 February 1936 Juventus Torino1936–37Serie A 4 October 1936 Juventus Torino 7 February 1937 Torino Juventus1937–38Serie A 3 October 1937 Torino Juventus 6 February 1938 Juventus TorinoCoppa Italia Final 1 May 1938 Torino Juventus 8 May 1938 Juventus Torino1938–39Serie A 15 January 1939 Torino Juventus 21 May 1939 Juventus Torino1939–40Serie A 15 October 1939 Torino Juventus 18 February 1940 Juventus Torino1940–41Serie A 15 December 1940 Torino Juventus 30 March 1941 Juventus Torino1941–42Serie A 14 December 1941 Juventus Torino 26 April 1942 Torino Juventus1942–43Serie A 18 October 1942 Juventus Torino 31 January 1943 Torino Juventus1944Campionato Alta Italia 13 February 1944 Torino Juventus 16 April 1944 Juventus Torino 21 May 1944 Juventus Torino 18 June 1944 Torino Juventus1945–46Serie A-B 14 October 1945 Juventus Torino 19 March 1946 Torino Juventus 30 May 1946 Juventus Torino 21 July 1946 Torino Juventus1946–47Serie A 20 October 1946 Torino Juventus 16 March 1947 Juventus Torino1947–48Serie A 26 October 1947 Torino Juventus 28 March 1948 Juventus Torino1948–49Serie A 24 October 1948 Juventus Torino 13 February 1949 Torino Juventus1949–50Serie A 6 November 1949 Torino Juventus 19 March 1950 Juventus Torino1950–51Serie A 12 November 1950 Juventus Torino 25 March 1951 Torino Juventus1951–52Serie A 2 December 1951 Torino Juventus 20 March 1952 Juventus Torino1952–53Serie A 9 November 1952 Juventus Torino 15 March 1953 Torino Juventus1953–54Serie A 18 October 1953 Torino Juventus 7 March 1954 Juventus Torino1954–55Serie A 14 November 1954 Juventus Torino 10 April 1955 Torino Juventus1955–56Serie A 9 October 1955 Torino Juventus 4 March 1956 Juventus Torino1956–57Serie A 28 October 1956 Juventus Torino 17 March 1957 Torino Juventus1957–58Serie A 13 October 1957 Torino Juventus 2 March 1958 Juventus TorinoCoppa Italia GS 22 June 1958 Juventus Torino 13 July 1958 Torino Juventus1958–59Serie A 26 October 1958 Juventus Torino 15 March 1959 Torino Juventus1960–61Serie A 13 November 1960 Torino Juventus 19 March 1961 Juventus TorinoCoppa Italia 3P 29 June 1961 Juventus Torino1961–62Serie A 1 October 1961 Juventus Torino 4 February 1962 Torino Juventus1962–63Serie A 28 October 1962 Torino Juventus 3 March 1963 Juventus Torino1963–64Serie A 27 October 1963 Juventus Torino 15 March 1964 Torino JuventusCoppa Italia SF 10 June 1964 Torino Juventus1964–65Serie A 22 November 1964 Torino Juventus 4 April 1965 Juventus TorinoCoppa Italia SF 9 June 1965 Juventus Torino1965–66Serie A 21 November 1965 Juventus Torino 3 April 1966 Torino Juventus1966–67Serie A 16 October 1966 Torino Juventus 26 February 1967 Juventus Torino