| Full name | Internazionale Football Club Torino | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1891 | ||
| Dissolved | 1900 | ||
| Ground | Campo di Piazza d'Armi, Turin | ||
| Capacity | unknown | ||
| League | Italian Football Championship | ||
| 1899 | 2nd | ||
Internazionale Football Club Torino commonly known as justInternazionale Torino was anItalian football club fromTurin. The club was founded by a merger in 1891 and is the third Italian club dedicated tofootball.[1]
Two older clubs in Turin existed before this one, they were mixedsports clubs who competed in football as well as other sports. They were formed respectively in 1887 and 1889, and were calledTorino Football and Cricket Club andNobili Torino.[1] The former was founded byEdoardo Bosio, a merchant worker in the Britishtextile industry, who had brought the game back to Turin after experiencing it in England; this was most likely the first ever Italian club to participate in organised football.[1] Their original colours were red and black stripes.The second club, whose name meant "Turin Nobles", bore the name of noble because it contained theDuke of the Abruzzi and Alfonso Ferrero di Ventimiglia (who would later become a president ofFIGC[2]). The colours of Nobili Torino were amber and black stripes. The two clubs merged in 1891 to form Internazionale Torino,[3] taking on the colours of Nobili.[1]
Along withGenoa and two other Torinese clubs which had sprung up since Internazionale's founding,FBC Torinese and Ginnastica Torino; Internazionale Torino competed in the first everItalian Football Championship in1898. The competition was staged atVelodromo Umberto I inTurin, they took part in the first ever Italian Championship game when they beat FBC Torinese 1–0. In the final against Genoa, the match ended 1–1 and as thus went into extra time, Genoa scored two more and ended the game 3–1 meaning Internazionale Torino were runners-up.
The club returned for a second season, beatingGinnastica Torino 2–0 at theCampo Piazza d’Armi inTurin, to once again qualify for the final against rivals Genoa. The game against Genoa ended in a 3–1 defeat atPonte Carrega inGenoa with Albert Weber scoring for Internazionale. From two seasons in the league, the club ended as runners-up in both.
During 1900 the club merged withFootball Club Torinese, and the resulting club kept the Torinese name.
