[2][3][4] During the 2013–14 season, the club played its best season in the top flight since 1991–92 Serie A – in which the team placed third, with 43 points – finishing in seventh place thanks to goals from Alessio Cerci and the new signing Ciro Immobile, who became (together with Juventus attacking pair Carlos Tevez and Fernando Llorente) the most prolific strike partnership in Serie A with 35 goals total.

Leaving the team after five years was captain Rolando Bianchi, who do not renew his expiring contract, and Mario Santana, who returned to Napoli at the end of his loan.

Even before the official opening of the transfer market, the purchases of goalkeeper Daniele Padelli[6] and midfielder Alexander Farnerud were made official;[7] the co-ownerships of the defenders Matteo Darmian and Kamil Glik[8] and midfielders Migjen Basha,[9] Alessio Cerci[10] and Alen Stevanović were resolved in favour of Torino,[11] while the co-ownership with Udinese for the striker Barreto was renewed for another season.

[18] The market saw the arrival of defenders Cesare Bovo[19] and Emiliano Moretti[20] from Genoa and midfielders Nicola Bellomo from Bari[21] and Omar El Kaddouri from Napoli.

On 8 August, after three seasons, the defender Valerio Di Cesare left Torino to move outright to Brescia.