Auxilium Pallacanestro Torino
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| Nickname | Auxilium CUS Torino | ||
| Leagues | LBA | ||
| Founded | 1974 | ||
| History | 1974–2008 Auxilium Pallacanestro Torino 2015 - present Auxilium CUS Torino |
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PalaRuffini (4,500 seats) |
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| Location | Turin, Piedmont, Italy | ||
| Team colors | Yellow, White, Navy |
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| President | Antonio Forni | ||
| Head coach | Francesco Vitucci | ||
| Retired numbers | 1 (11) | ||
| Website | auxiliumcustorino.com/ | ||
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Auxilium Pallacanestro Torino or Auxilium CUS Torino, known for sponsorship reasons as FIAT Torino, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Turin, Piedmont. It competes in the first division LBA as of the 2015-16 season.
The club was founded in 1966 under the initiative of Don Gino Borgogno, a salesian priest, who regrouped all the different oratories (Christian youth social clubs) practising basketball in Turin under one organisation, Auxilium Torino, based in the Agnelli oratory. The club was promoted to the fourth-division Serie C in 1970 and moved up to the Serie B in 1972. At the same time another local side, Libertas, based in Asti and sponsored by Saclà, was moving quickly up the divisions, reaching the second division in 1971 and the first division Serie A in 1972. However Saclà Asti wanted to move to a bigger arena and market, transferring to Torino in 1973 which meant the city had two clubs in the national divisions. The clubs would fusion in the 1974 offseason after protracted discussions, with Asti president (Carlo Ercole), coach (Lajos Tóth), players and sponsors transferring to Auxilium (now Saclà Torino) who would play in the newly formed second division Serie A2 whilst nearly all the Auxilium players were sent to Asti to play in the Serie B.
In their first season in Serie A2, Auxilium were promoted to the Serie A. During the 1975 off season, the club changed coaches and sponsors, with Martini & Rossi becoming the main sponsor under the Chinamartini brand. The renamed team were relegated domestically but this was compensated by a run to the 1976 Korać Cup final, in which they came back from a first leg deficit of 24 points to eliminate Juventud Schweppes by one point in the semifinals, before losing honourably in the final to the Yugoslavian rising superpower Jugoplastika Split. Torino would return to the Serie A in 1979, staying there until 1989 and battling for honours during that decade, with playoff semifinals places in 1982, 1984, 1985 and 1986. After one season in the Serie A2, the club returned to the Serie A in 1990, staying there until 1993.
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