Beginnings The club was founded in 1980 as
A.C.F. Delco Costruzioni of Sassari and affiliated to the Federazione Italiana Calcio Femminile (FIGCF; Italy's autonomous women's football association). They began playing in the 1981 season, enrolling in the local division of Serie C. In 1989, by then known as
CUS Sassari, the team won the Sardinian section of Serie C and
promotion to Serie B. The next season the club won its league again and arrived in
Serie A for the first time. In the club's first season at the top level, 1990–91, the team won their first
Italian Women's Cup. In 1993–94 the goals of
Carolina Morace secured a first
Scudetto. The following season, without Morace, the title was lost but the team won their second Italian Cup.
Early trophies Between 1999 and 2005, Torres won two league titles, four Italian Cups, two Italian Super Cups and the
Italy Women's Cup, as well as establishing the record of 38 consecutive wins in official matches including league and Italian Cup. Torres was the first Italian team to participate in the
UEFA Women's Cup, the female version of the
UEFA Champions League. , Top Scorer of
UEFA Women's Champions League in the season
2012–13 and
Serie A in
2010–11 and in
2011–12In 2008, after finishing second in the league, Torres won a seventh Italian Women's Cup by beating
Bardolino 1–0 in the final's second leg, overturning a 3–2 defeat in the first leg. Throughout this period, Torres' success rested on the prolific goal-scoring of players such as
Rita Guarino,
Pamela Conti and the Spaniard
Ángeles Parejo.
Burgeoning success In the 2009–10 season Torres won a fourth
Scudetto, dominating the league from the first day. The club also secured the Super Cup, but were beaten in the final of the Italian Women's Cup. A successful season was crowned by an appearance in the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-finals. 2010–11 culminated in a
treble of the Super Cup,
Scudetto and Italian Women's Cup. In the following season, Torres collected a
Scudetto and Super Cup double, but lost out in the semi-finals of the Italian Women's Cup. In 2013 they retained the league title and were named fifth in the year's best women's clubs by the
International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). The 2013–14 season yielded a Super Cup and runners-up finishes in the league and Italian Women's Cup, as well as another quarter-final placing in the UEFA Women's Champions League.
Patrizia Panico scored more than 40 league goals. But Torres were thrashed 12–1 on aggregate by
Turbine Potsdam and overall the season was considered to be below expectations. A dispute over funding and the club's strategic direction saw the departure of both president Leonardo Marras and coach
Manuela Tesse in 2014.
Insolvency and Promotion Torres were subsumed into the structure of
Torres' male club in June 2014. In September 2015 it was announced that Torres had been refused a license for the forthcoming Serie A season and would be excluded from taking part. La Lega Nazionale Dilettanti, who oversee women's football in Italy, demanded that the club's new owners pay half of the total €90,000 debt up front, rejecting a proposed alternative repayment arrangement which the male club offered to underwrite. In 2021 got promoted again Serie B, after the season 2020-21 in Serie C (level 3). ==Stadium==