Consecutive Italian championships, 1942-43 to 1948-49. No Italian club had done it before.
The team
Torino were built after the war around Valentino Mazzola, who captained both the club and Italy. The side scored heavily and was known for a second half surge that supporters signalled with a trumpet from the terrace.
On 11 May 1947 Italy played Hungary in Turin and fielded ten Torino players. The eleventh was a goalkeeper.
4 May 1949
The team had flown to Lisbon for a friendly against Benfica, arranged as a benefit for the Benfica captain Francisco Ferreira.
Coming back, in low cloud and rain, the aircraft approached Turin too low. It struck the retaining wall at the back of the basilica of Superga, on the hill above the city.
All thirty one people on board were killed: eighteen players, the coaching staff, club officials, three journalists and the crew.
What followed
Torino were four points clear with four matches to play and were awarded the championship. They played out the season with their youth team. Their opponents did the same, which was not required of them.
Half a million people are said to have lined the route of the funeral in Turin.
Italy travelled to the 1950 World Cup by ship rather than by air.
Since
Torino have won one Italian championship since, in 1976.
The wall at Superga is still there, with the names on it.