Derby della Mole
| Other names | Turin Derby, Derby di Torino |
|---|---|
| Locale | Turin, Italy |
| Teams | |
| First meeting |
Torino 3–2 Juventus Italian Football Championship (10 January 1909) |
| Latest meeting |
Torino 1–3 Juventus Serie A (11 December 2016) |
| Next meeting |
Juventus – Torino Serie A (7 May 2017) |
| Stadiums |
Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino (Torino) Juventus Stadium (Juventus) |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | Official matches: 194 Unofficial matches: 41 Total matches: 235 |
| Most wins | Official matches: Juventus (84) Unofficial matches: Torino (17) Total matches: Juventus (100) |
| Top scorer | Giampiero Boniperti (14) |
| Largest victory |
Juventus 0–8 Torino Italian Football Championship (17 November 1912) |
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The Derby della Mole, is the local derby, played out between Turin's most prominent football clubs Juventus and Torino. It is also known as the Derby di Torino or the Turin Derby in English. It is named after the Mole Antonelliana, a major landmark in the city and the architectural symbol of the Piedmontese capital. It is the first derby of Italian football and the oldest meeting between two teams based in the same city still disputed.
The match between the two clubs represented until the First World War the juxtaposition of two opposing social classes. Juventus, founded in 1897 by students of a prestigious high school in Turin, soon became akin to the bourgeois in the town especially after enduring bond with the Agnelli family, which began in 1923, during which time they were also supported by the aristocracy of the region. Torino instead was born in 1906 from a division within Juventus, at the hands of dissidents who joined forces with another team from the city, Football Club Torinese, who identified with the then early industrial world. In the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, these differences had eased considerably, partly as a result of the great migration to Turin about forty years earlier, but did not disappear: Juventus lost much of its parochial connotations to become a global sports phenomenon, with a support detached from social classes and worldwide support, conversely, Torino became a symbol of one of the two citizen's spirit.
The colours of the two teams also contribute, in small part, to this distinction: the Bianconeri, originally pink and black, adopted their jerseys from Notts County all the way from England, while the Granata dusted off the colours of the "Brigade Savoia", that two centuries earlier had liberated the then capital of the Duchy of Savoy. Both clubs, however, feature within their emblems a raging bull, taken from the city's coat of arms: Juventus as a bond with their origins, while Torino adopted it as their identity.
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