2008–09 Torino FC season

Torino F.C.

2008–09 season
Chairman	Urbano Cairo
Head Coach	Gianni De Biasi (until 8 December 2008) Walter Novellino (until 24 March 2009) Giancarlo Camolese (until 31 May 2009)
Serie A	18th
Coppa Italia	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Rolando Bianchi (9) All: Rolando Bianchi (10)
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Squad

First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   ITA Matteo Sereni 3 DF   ITA Marco Pisano 4 MF   SUI Blerim Džemaili (on loan from Bolton Wanderers) 5 MF   ITA Eugenio Corini 6 DF   ITA Angelo Ogbonna 7 FW   ITA Nicola Ventola 8 MF   ITA Simone Barone 9 FW   ITA Elvis Abbruscato 10 MF   ITA Alessandro Rosina (captain) 11 FW   ITA Nicola Amoruso 14 DF   ITA Cesare Natali 17 FW   ITA Mario Perinelli 18 FW   FRA Dominique Malonga 19 MF   ITA Aimo Stefano Diana

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 DF   ITA Ivan Franceschini 22 DF   ITA Marco Di Loreto 23 MF   ITA Ignazio Abate 24 MF   AUT Jürgen Säumel 27 MF   ITA Paolo Zanetti 28 MF   ITA Tommaso Vailatti 29 MF   ITA Gianluca Rolandone 30 FW   ITA Roberto Stellone 31 GK   ITA Alberto Fontana 32 DF   ITA Riccardo Colombo 33 DF   ITA Matteo Rubin 50 DF   ITA Francesco Pratali 90 FW   ITA Rolando Bianchi 99 GK   ITA Alex Calderoni

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Serie A	—	—	18th	31 August 2008	31 May 2009
Coppa Italia	Third round	—	Quarterfinals	23 August 2008	17 December 2008

Updated to match played 21 Nov
Source: Competitions

Serie A

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
16	Chievo	38	8	14	16	35	49	−14	38
17	Bologna	38	9	10	19	43	62	−19	37
18	Torino (R)	38	8	10	20	37	61	−24	34	Relegation to Serie B
19	Reggina (R)	38	6	13	19	30	62	−32	31
20	Lecce (R)	38	5	15	18	37	67	−30	30

Source: lega-calcio.it (in Italian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
12	3	2	7	12	17	−5	11	3	0	3	8	8	0	0	2	4	4	9	−5

Last updated: 21 Nov.
Source:

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	D	L	D	L	L	L	L	W	L	W	L	D	L	L	L	W	L	L	D	D	D	D	D	W	D	L	L	L	L	W	L	W	L	D	W	L	L

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20060813073241/http://www.lega-calcio.it:80/
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss