Torino: High scoring seasons 1927-29

Supporters of Torino saw plenty of goals over the seasons 1927-28 and 1928-29.

1927-28

Torino won the Divisione Nazionale Group A championship and the final round.
Their record was:
Played:  34. goals for: 111. goals against: 37. goal difference +74. average goals per game = 3.2

Julio Libonatti (Capocannoniere)
35 goals in 32 games
Adolfo Baloncieri 
31 goals in 34 games
Gino Rossetti
23 goals in 33 games

Torino scored 5 or more goals in 5 of their 34 matches:
20.11.27: Reggiana 3 Torino 8
  4.12.27: Torino 11 Brescia 0
    5.2.28: Torino 14  Reggiana 0
    4.3.28: Torino 11 Napoli 0
  15.7.28: Torino 5 Genoa 1

 Baloncieri, Libonatti, Rossetti

1928-29 Torino won Divisione Nazionale Group A and lost to Bologna in the national championship play off.

Their record was:
Played:  30. goals for: 115. goals against: 31. goal difference +84. average goals per game = 3.8

Gino Rossetti 36 goals in 30 games (Capocannoniere)
Julio Libonatti 24 goals in 25 games
Luciano Vezzani 21 goals in 25 games

Torino scored 5 or more goals in 10 of their 30 matches:
  30.9.28: Torino 8 La Dominante 1
  7.10.28:  Novara 1 Torino 7
21.10.28: Torino 12 Triestina 0
28.10.28: Modena 1 Torino 5
 1 .11.28: Torino 7  Legnano 0
18.11.28: Torino 6 Alessandria 1
16.12.28: Torino 9 Prato 1
    6.1.29:  Torino 7 Atalanta 0
  10.2.29: Torino 5 Novara 0
  31.3.29: Torino 10 Livorno 1

Vezzani

Coupe Internationale européenne

In terms of international competition at both national and club level, central Europe was very forward thinking. The  Coupe Internationale européenne was another of Hugo Meisl's contributions to the development of the game, and can be seen as a genuine  forerunner of the UEFA European Nations Cup.
In it's favour it was a credible competition that featured some of the strongest nations in continental football. On the negative side the home and away league format meant that the competition took three years to complete. In this, the first edition, begun in 1927 and completed in 1930, the last two matches were separated by 7 months!

Vittorio Pozzo began his second spell as Italy's manager in 1929, so the trophy was the first he won (followed by a further success in the Coupe Internationale européenne, an Olympic Gold Medal and two World Cup wins) . The trophy, made of Bohemian crystal, was dropped and smashed, but Pozzo  always carried a fragment of it with him.

Final Table

                    P  W  T  L   F  A  Pts   
1   Italy           8  5  1  2  21-15   11  
2   Austria         8  5  0  3  17-10   10  
2   Czechoslovakia  8  4  2  2  17-10   10  
4   Hungary         8  4  1  3  20-23    9  
5   Switzerland     8  0  0  8  11-28    0  

Libonatti and Gino Rossetti, both of Torino, were the competition's joint top scorers, with six goals each.