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 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. 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, came the midfielder Danilo Martelli from Brescia,R. Ossola-F. Tavella, "Il romanzo del Grande Torino", Newton & Compton, Rome, 1993, pp. 203-204 the back-stopper Francesco Rosetta of Novara, the goalkeeper Dante Piani, the Vercellese Guido Tieghi.
From the 21st round the Granata returned to the lead, 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, 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.
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(Captain)
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
Matches
Statistics Source:
Squad statistics Competition Points Home Away Total GD 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
See also Grande Torino
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