R.S. Ginnastica Torino

Infobox Football club
clubname = Ginnastica Torino


fullname = Reale Società Ginnastica Torino
nickname =
shortname =
founded = 1844
1897 (football section)
ground = Campo Piazza d’Armi,
Turin
capacity = "unknown"
league = Italian Football Championship
season = 1902
position = Piedmont Group Stage
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Reale Società Ginnastica Torino is a sports club from Turin, founded on 17 March 1844. It is the oldest of its kind in Italy, it is most famous for competing in the Italian Football Championship with its football section which opened in 1897.cite web | url=http://www.lifeinitaly.com/sport/history-italian-soccer.asp | title=Edoardo Bosio and Football in Turin | work=Life in Italy | accessdate=August | accessyear=2007]

Football section

The famous Torinese sports club opened its football section in 1897 to compete in the Concorsi Federali di Calcio, a footballing competition organised by FNGI, this competition was in existence before the Italian Football Championship.cite web | url=http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/ital-fngichamp.html| title=Italy - List of FNGI Champions| work=RSSSF.com | accessdate=August | accessyear=2007] They were victorious in their first ever competition.

1898 was an eventful year for the club, they competed in the first ever Italian Football Championship,cite web | url=http://www.lifeinitaly.com/sport/history-italian-soccer.asp | title=Edoardo Bosio and Football in Turin | work=Life in Italy | accessdate=August | accessyear=2007] it was played on 8 May 1898 at "Velodromo Umberto I" in Turin; Ginnastica Torino lost their semi-final match 2-1 to Genoa. However they also entered the Concorsi Federali di Calcio competition that year and won it for the second time by beating a team from Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna.cite web | url=http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/ital-fngichamp.html| title=Italy - List of FNGI Champions| work=RSSSF.com | accessdate=August | accessyear=2007]

The following season, the club adopted" Campo Piazza d’Armi" as their homeground, it was located near Parco Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto which is in the Santa Rita neighbourhood of Turin. After beating FBC Torinese 2-0 in the elimination match, Ginnastica lost out 2-0 to Internazionale Torino seven days later. After three more unsuccessful seasons in which they went out during the first match (including a 5-0 defeat to Juventus in 1901) the football section of the club stopped competing in 1902.cite web | url=http://www.lifeinitaly.com/sport/history-italian-soccer.asp | title=Edoardo Bosio and Football in Turin | work=Life in Italy | accessdate=August | accessyear=2007]

Honours

Concorsi Federali di Calcio
*Winners: 1897, 1898

Other sports

Various other sporting activities have been practiced by the club, including; judo, artistic gymnastics, basketball and rugby union. In the latter of which Ginnastica Torino won the Italian national league Super 10 in 1947.

References

External links

* [http://www.realeginnastica.it/ Official website]