AS Roma

This article is about the men's football club. For the women's football club, see AS Roma (women). For other uses, see Roma (disambiguation) § Sports.

Roma
Full nameAssociazione Sportiva Roma S.p.A.
Nickname(s)I Giallorossi (The Yellow and Reds)
Lupi (Wolves)
Founded7 June 1927; 97 years ago (1927-06-07) (as Italo Foschi)
GroundStadio Olimpico
Capacity70,634[1]
OwnerThe Friedkin Group (95.97%)
PresidentDan Friedkin
Head coachClaudio Ranieri
LeagueSerie A
2023–24Serie A, 6th of 20
Websiteasroma.com
Current season

Associazione Sportiva Roma (Rome Sport Association; Italian pronunciation: [ˈroːma]) is a professional football club based in Rome, Italy. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma has participated in the top tier of Italian football for all of its existence, except for the 1951–52 season. Roma has won Serie A three times, in 1941–42, 1982–83 and 2000–01, as well as nine Coppa Italia titles and two Supercoppa Italiana titles. In European competitions, Roma won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1960–61 and the UEFA Conference League in 2021–22, while they finished runners-up in the 1983–84 European Cup, the 1990–91 UEFA Cup and the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League.

Sixteen players have won the FIFA World Cup while playing at Roma: Attilio Ferraris and Enrique Guaita (1934); Guido Masetti and Eraldo Monzeglio (1934 and 1938); Aldo Donati and Pietro Serantoni (1938); Bruno Conti (1982); Rudi Völler and Thomas Berthold (1990); Aldair (1994); Vincent Candela (1998); Cafu (2002); Daniele De Rossi, Simone Perrotta and Francesco Totti (2006); Paulo Dybala (2022).

Since 1953, Roma has played home matches at the Stadio Olimpico, a venue the club shares with city rivals Lazio. With a capacity of over 72,000, the stadium is the second-largest of its kind in Italy, with only the San Siro able to seat more. The club plans to move to a new stadium, though it is yet to start construction. Having a strong local rivalry, Roma and Lazio contest the Derby della Capitale.

The club's home colours are carmine red and golden yellow, which gives Roma its nickname "I Giallorossi" ("The Yellow and Reds"). These colours have often been combined with white shorts. The club badge features a she-wolf, an allusion to the founding myth of Rome.

  1. ^ "Stadi Serie A 2015–2016" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2015.