ABSTRACT. This paper introduces the notion of a functorial torsion class (FTC): in a concrete category C which has image factorization, one considers monocoreflective subcategories which are closed under formation of subobjects.Here the interest is in FTCs in the category of abelian lattice-ordered groups with designated strong order unit. The FTCs T consisting of archimedean latticeordered groups are characterized: for each subgroup A of the rationals with the identity 1, either T = S(A), the class of all lattice-ordered groups of functions on a set X which have finite range in A, or T = T(A), the class of all subgroups of A with 1.As for FTCs possessing non-archimedean groups, it is shown that if T is an FTC containing a subgroup A of the reals with 1, of rank two or greater, then T contains all -groups of the form A → × G, for all abelian lattice-ordered groups G. Finally, the least FTC that contains a non-archimedean group is the class of all Z → × G, for all abelian lattice-ordered groups G.