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Parco Testaccio (ex Campo Testaccio)

Park · Testaccio, Italy

A public park on via Nicola Zabaglia, on the ground of Campo Testaccio, the football pitch where A.S. Roma played its home matches from 3 November 1929 to 30 June 1940.

History

The club played 161 matches here, winning 103, drawing 32 and losing 26. The ground was designed by the engineer Silvio Sensi on the model of British grounds, and of Goodison Park in particular: four wooden stands painted in the club's gold and Pompeian red, a capacity of 20,000, a grass pitch whose dimensions could be adjusted, and the manager's house on the site with a giant club badge painted on its outside wall. It cost 1,530,000 lire and average attendance was about 10,000. Tickets ran from 5 to 6 lire for the popolari to 30 to 35 for the covered stand, with half price for women, dopolavoristi, soldiers and university students and a 2-lire balilla rate; those without tickets watched from the top of Monte dei Cocci on the via Zabaglia side, where the roof of the stand hid half the pitch. Rugby Roma played here for two seasons, from 1937 to 1939, and the ground held one Italy rugby international. It was abandoned at the end of the 1939-40 season as obsolete and demolished that October. The 5-0 win over Juventus on 15 March 1931 lies behind the film Cinque a zero and the nickname Roma testaccina; the derby of 1 November 1933 is the other match the club's history remembers.

Visit

Via Nicola Zabaglia, 00153 Roma RM

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