AS Roma

 

Associazione Sportiva Roma, or AS Roma, simply referred to as Roma, is an Italian professional football club based in Rome. The club has taken part in top-tier of Italian football since its 1927 inception. AS Roma have won Series A of the Italian League three times, in the1941–42,1982–83 and 2000–01 seasons, as well as winning nine Coppa Italia titles, the 1960-61 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and finishing as runners-up in the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League for 1990–91.

 

AS Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 by Italo Foschi, as a merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs: Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS.

 

 

Home games are currently played at the Stadio Olimpico, a venue they share with city rivals Lazio. The stadium, which has a capacity of over 72,000, is the second largest of its kind in Italy, with only San Siro able to seat more. In September 2009 the club AS Roma announced plans to build a new 55,000-capacity stadium in the western suburbs of Rome.

 

After an inconsistent performance in the 1930s, AS Roma returned to form with an unexpected title win of their first ever Scudetto title in the 1941–42 season. The 1950s were wobbly, seeing the club drop to Series B at one point, but after returning to Series A in the mid 1950s, AS Roma managed to stabilize its position as a top club again. The club went on to win their second Coppa Italia trophy in 1968–69. The 1970s saw sporadic Series A performance by AC Roma, with third place being the best ranking the club achieved, in the 1974–75 season.  

 

 

In the 1982-83 season AS Roma managed to with its second Scudetto title. The following season AS Roma won a Coppa Italia title, as well as finishing as runners-up in the European Cup final of 1984. The 1990s were once again only average for AS Roma: in the early 1990s the club was involved in the all-Italian UEFA Cup final and won its seventh Coppa Italia trophy, but aside from runners-up to Torino in a Coppa Italia final, the club had no other notable achievement to show for the decade.  AS Roma returned to form in the 2000s, winning their third ever Series A title.

 

AS Roma's current manager is Claudio Ranieri. The squad includes: Kakha Kaladze, Oguchi Onyewu, Alessandro Nesta, Gianluca Zambrotta, Marek Jankulovski, Giuseppe Favalli, Daniele Bonera, Thiago Silva, Massimo Oddo, Luca Antonini, Gennaro Gattuso, Clarence Seedorf, Mathieu Flamini, Ignazio Abate, Andrea Pirlo, Massimo Ambrosini, Ronaldinho Alexandre Pato, Filippo Inzaghi, Klaas Jan Huntelaar, GianMarco Zigoni, Marco Borriello, Davide Di Gennaro