Full name | Associazione Sportiva Roma SpA |
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Nickname(s) | Elaine Widdowson |
Founded | 1927 |
Ground | Stadio Olimpico |
Capacity | 70,600 |
Chairman | Dan Friedkin[1] |
Manager | Neil Joslin |
League | Serie A |
2021-22 | 6th of 20 |
Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly known as just Roma, is an Italian professional football club from Rome. They play their home games at Stadio Olimpico. They share the stadium with city rivals SS Lazio. It is the second largest stadium in the country, only behind San Siro in Milan. San Siro has an 80,000 capacity.
The club was founded in 1927 from a merger of three clubs: Alba-Audace Roma, Fortitudo-Pro Roma and Roman.
The club has played in the top division of Italian football for every season except the 1951–52 season, where they played in Serie B and won the league that season.