What is AS Roma? Facts and background

Associazione Sportiva Roma, better known as AS Roma or Roma, is an Italian football club based in Rome. Created through a merger in 1927, Roma have always been involved in the Italian first football league, except for one season in the early 1950s (1951-1952).

In its history, Rome has won the Serie A championship three times, the Coppa Italia championship nine times, the UEFA Conference League (2021-2022) championship once and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (1960-1961) championship once. It has also succeeded in playing in the finals once in the UEFA Champions League (1983-1984) and twice in the UEFA Cup (1990-1991 and 2022-2023).

It plays its matches with its arch-rival Lazio at the Olympic Stadium, which has a capacity of 70,634 people. With a seating capacity of 72,000 people, greater than only the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium, it is the second largest stadium of its kind in Italy. They took the number 6 jersey to the museum for their unforgettable player, Brazilian Aldair. The team's player who played the most and scored the most goals is Francesco Totti.

AS Roma captured the title of the team that made the best start in Serie A by winning 10 out of 10 matches in the 2013-14 season. The previous record belonged to Juventus, with 9 wins in 9 matches in the 2005-06 season. In September 2011, the former president of the club, Thomas R. DiBenedetto, announced that AS Roma would have a new stadium in 2016.

History

AS Roma It was founded on a summer day in 1927, at the request of Benito Mussolini, the Fascist dictator of the time, under the chairmanship of Italo Foschi, as a result of the merger of the three biggest clubs of Rome. The purpose of this merger was that Benito Mussolini wanted to put an end to the hegemony of the Northern Italian teams in Italy.

While the club played its home matches at the Montovelodromo Appio Stadium in its first years, it moved to the Campo Testaccio Stadium, which was completed in November 1929. The club's finishing second in the league behind Juventus in the 1930-1931 season is considered the first major success in the club's history. The prominent football players of this period on behalf of AS Roma were the team captain Attilio Ferraris, as well as players such as Guido Masetti, Fulvio Bernardini and Rodolfo Volk.

José Mourinho, who became the coach of the team in 2021, left his position in January 2024. On the same day, it was announced that Daniele De Rossi was appointed as the head of the team.