Stadio Filadelfia
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FC Turin
The Stadio Filadelfia was a football stadium in the Italian city of Turin, the FC Turin served as the home ground for decades. In this stadium, the club celebrated his greatest successes and his fans adore the now defunct stadium in a similar way as the fans of the TSV 1860 Munich, the Grünwald Stadium.
History
Opening game
The Stadio Filadelfia was built in 1926 within a few months. The application for planning permission dated March 24, 1926, the opening match between the Foot Ball Club Torino and Roma Fortitude - one of three clubs who merged in 1927 to AS Rome - was held already on 17 October 1926. The 15,000 spectators in the sold-out stadium saw a 4-0 victory for the home team.
The first years
The new stadium proved to be very early as sporting " windfall " for the Torino FC, who won in his first season in 1926/27 at a new workplace the Italian league title. That, however, he again got him revoked because of alleged irregularities, already threw forward the shadow of a certain tragedy, the club and stadium combined with each other. Because the club experienced in connection with this workplace his greatest successes, but also his biggest misfortune. The Championship but knew made the Torino on the way back well that he once again put his dominance already in the following season to the test and in the 1927/28 season won his first official title.
Il Grande Torino
Even the best years of the association are - as well as his greatest tragedy - inseparable from the Stadio Filadelfia. The Maturing in the early 1940s to the by far the best Italian club team squad, which was nicknamed Il Grande Torino due to their dominance throughout the 1940s, here won five league titles in a row and it would probably become even more so when the championship between 1943 and 1945 due to the war would not have to be interrupted two years.
But Il Grande Torino not only won five league titles in a row ( 1943-1949 ), but remained in this historically significant sports facility for more than six years, or 93 home games unbeaten and sent his opponents often with high Defeats home. This impressive series was launched on 17 January 1943 and ended for the Turin champion team with the plane crash of Superga on 4 May 1949 in which 18 players and five members of the coaching staff were killed.
In the first home game after the tragedy of 1936 firmierende as AC Turin club joined to lack of an alternative to his high school team and the opponent offered out of respect also his youth team. The now 30,000 -seat Stadio Filadelfia was still sold out.
Retreat and decay
The Torino used the stadium as a home ground to the season in 1957/58, at the end he moved to neighboring Stadio Comunale. But a year later, the club was relegated to Serie B and returned for nostalgic reasons for the 1959/60 season to the Stadio Filadelfia back. In that season, the second division championship and the associated immediate return to Serie A. Due to the sporting failure in Comunale and the successful resurgence in Filadelfia managed the club opted for retaining his old home ground. But at the end of the season 1962/63 the dream of Toro fans had finally faded away. On 19 May 1963, the Torino completed his last competitive game at the Stadio Filadelfia. Opponent in this memorable game that ended 1-1, was Napoli.
With the beginning of the season 1963/64, the Torino completed its home games in the neighboring Stadio Comunale, now known as Stadio Olimpico, located just a few hundred meters west of the Stadio Filadelfia. Since then, the stadium was no longer used for official soccer matches, but still served until 1979 as a training site of the first team, and after their move to a more modern training camp for several years as a training center for the youth teams.
In the 1980s, the buildings deteriorated rapidly, so that the tribunes gradually fell into disrepair. Due to the ailing state of the stadium was demolished in 1998. Today, only a metal panel at the former stadium wall remind ( photo above ) along the streets Tunisi, Giovanni Spano, Giordano Bruno and Filadelfia and a grassy area behind it and two remaining Tribüneneckpfeiler and the old entrance ( middle photo ) at the venerable Stadio Filadelfia.
Just once more returned to the lawn of the former Stadio Filadelfia something like " the big football " back when commemorating the anniversary of the tragedy of Superga is a memory game was organized.
Sources and links
- Stadium pictures at Skyscrapercity.com
- Impressions from the Stadio Filadelfia
- Scenes from Turin Derby 1992
- Article of 4 May 2009, Spiegel Online about Il Grande Torino ( German )
- Articles by Toro Stadium Club ( Italian)
- Football stadium in Piedmont
- Football stadium in Europe
- Sports facility in Turin
- Built in the 1920s
- Abgegangenes building in Italy
- Destroyed in the 1990s