Buy AEK Athens vs AS Roma tickets for the 2026/27 Season and the fixture is set for Tuesday 19 January 2027 with a 22:00 kickoff in Athens, which UEFA publishes as 21:00 CET. Greece runs an hour ahead of Italy in January, so the two figures describe the same moment. Anyone travelling should plan around the local time, because a 22:00 start finishes close to midnight.
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This is Matchday 7 of the eight-match Champions League league phase, staged at the Agia Sophia Stadium in Nea Filadelfeia. The ground carries the commercial name Allwyn Arena, having been branded OPAP Arena from its opening in 2022 until the rebrand in early 2026, while UEFA material calls it AEK Arena because sponsor names are not used in its competitions. All four names describe the same stadium.
Two things make this fixture unusual. It is the first time Roma have played at this stadium, though not the first time they have played on this plot of land. And it arrives at the point in the league phase where the table has hardened enough for both clubs to know exactly what the night is worth.
The league phase runs to eight matches, with the top eight of thirty-six going straight to the round of 16 and places nine to twenty-four entering a playoff round. By the penultimate round the arithmetic is no longer abstract. Clubs arrive knowing whether they are playing for a seeded place, for survival in the competition, or for nothing at all.
That shapes demand in a way a September fixture does not. AEK Athens have four home matches in this campaign, against LASK, Real Madrid, Galatasaray and Roma. Two of those four are the ones the city treats as events. This is one of them.
Capacity is the constraint underneath everything. The stadium seats 31,100, a figure set by its operating licence from the Attica Region and confirmed on the club's own technical specification, split between a lower tier of 17,366 and an upper tier of 13,734. The older design figure of 32,500 still circulates widely in English-language sources, so expect to see both.
The record attendance stands at 31,100, meaning the ground has already been filled to its permitted limit. For a Champions League night against Italian opposition, with AEK back in the competition proper rather than the Conference League, the season ticket base absorbs most of what is available before general sale begins.
Visiting demand is capped by regulation rather than appetite. AS Roma receive an allocation in the region of 1,525 seats, the figure AEK publish for European fixtures, which sits close to the 5% of UEFA spectator capacity that Article 45.01 of the Champions League regulations requires. Roma's travelling support could fill that several times over.
Yes, which makes this one of the more straightforward European away trips on that front. AEK operate a supporter card, the Karta Filou, priced at 50 euros for 2026/27, but it gates season ticket purchases rather than single match tickets. A one-off buyer does not need it.
What AEK sold first for this campaign was a League Phase Pass covering all four home matches, banded by gate from 105 euros at the lowest end to 495 euros for the central lower tier, with VIP at 619 euros and Executive at 1,238 euros. Season ticket holders took a 25% discount on that pass and kept the same seat for all four games. Those passes are transferable, which matters for resale supply.
That last point is the mechanism worth understanding. A four-match pass holder who can attend the Real Madrid night but not a Tuesday in January has a transferable seat and a reason to move it. Pass structures of this kind reliably push inventory into the resale market for the less convenient fixture in the set.
Resale listings on 1BoxOffice come from exactly that pool, alongside corporate seat holders in the eastern main stand and season ticket holders using the release system. You see the gate, the tier and the price before committing, with no supporter card and no membership fee attached.
One operational detail applies to everyone regardless of how they buy. Entry to this stadium runs through the Greek state's Gov.gr Wallet application, which means the ticket has to be activated in an app rather than simply scanned from an email. Visitors from outside Greece are covered. The section below explains how.
Five forces set a resale price for a fixture like this: where the seat sits in the bowl, how hard both supports are chasing tickets, what the result is worth in the table, how convenient the date is, whether hospitality is attached. Matchday 7 pulls hard on the third of those, which is what separates this from AEK's earlier home nights.
Face value gives you a floor to reason from. Dividing the four-match pass bands gives a rough per-match equivalent running from around 26 euros in the upper tier behind the goal to about 124 euros in the central lower tier. Single-match prices for a marquee fixture sit above that average rather than at it, because a pass spreads cost across one glamour night and three ordinary ones.
| Ticket Type | Resale Price Range | Best For | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper tier behind the goal | £60 – £110 | Buyers who want the lowest entry price into the ground | The widest availability at this stadium. A long climb, with the full sweep of the pitch in return |
| Upper tier, long sides | £90 – £150 | A balanced view without lower tier pricing | Elevated and central to the play. Usually the sensible compromise for a first visit |
| Lower tier behind the goal | £110 – £180 | Supporters who want to be inside the noise | Close to the organised support. Expect to stand and sing for most of the evening |
| Lower tier, central sides | £170 – £300 | The halfway line at the level of the pitch | The top band in AEK's own pricing structure. Small blocks, so supply thins early |
| VIP and Executive | £320 – £800+ | Business guests or a matchday built around the dining | Concentrated in the eastern main stand. Roughly 1,684 VIP seats and 132 VVIP seats exist in total |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift closer to the match. One firm ceiling does apply: UEFA caps the price charged to visiting supporters at 50 euros, so Roma fans buying through their own club pay no more than that.
This ground does something no other major stadium guide prepares you for. It is not divided into North, South, East and West stands. Neither AEK nor the ticketing system uses compass names. Everything is sold by numbered gate, with 43 entrances serving a continuous two-tier bowl.
The numbering itself has quirks worth knowing before you look at a listing. Gates 4, 7 and 13 do not exist. Greek media have reported two explanations, one that those numbers carry associations with rival supporter groups, another that the sections concerned were redesigned out of the final plan.
AEK have not confirmed either account. Many gates instead carry the names of Asia Minor cities, reflecting the club's founding by refugees from Constantinople.
For orientation, three things matter more than the rest. Gate 21 is the historic home of the club's most vocal support, carried across from the old ground on the same side of the pitch, behind a goal. The main stand holding the boxes and hospitality sits on the eastern side. Visiting supporters go into the northwest corner of the upper tier, in blocks 46, 47 and 48.
| Area | What It Suits | Pricing Bracket | Guidance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower tier, central eastern side | Reading the game from the halfway line | Highest | The main stand. Boxes, hospitality and the tunnel sit here. AEK's top price band |
| Lower tier, side blocks | Pitch-level position without central pricing | High | Same tier, angled view. The usual upgrade once the middle has gone |
| Gate 21 and the adjacent lower blocks | The loudest home support in the ground | Medium to high | Behind a goal, continuous with the old stadium's hardcore section. Not a seated experience |
| Upper tier, long sides | A wide view of the shape of the game | Medium | The larger tier holds 13,734. Steep, so factor in the climb for anyone in your group |
| Upper tier behind the goal | The lowest price into the ground | Lowest | Where most late availability appears. Furthest from the pitch, still fully within the bowl |
| Blocks 46, 47 and 48, northwest corner | AS Roma supporters, segregated | Capped at 50 euros by UEFA | Around 1,525 seats in the upper tier. Perspex screens separate block 47 from neighbouring home areas |
Two points specific to a January evening here. The stadium has a continuous membrane roof of roughly 13,500 square metres carried on four arched trusses. No stand is described anywhere as open to the sky, though AEK do not publish an explicit statement that every seat is covered. Athens in January runs to daytime highs around 11 to 12 degrees with lows near 5 to 6, so a 22:00 kickoff is a cold one by local standards.
Neutral buyers and mixed groups land best in the upper tier along a long side. You get the full geometry of the match, you stay clear of the organised singing at Gate 21, you avoid the segregation boundary in the northwest corner. The gap between that and the lowest-priced seat in the ground is small enough to be worth closing.
AEK concentrate hospitality in the eastern main stand, where the club count 1,684 VIP seats and 132 VVIP seats alongside the executive suites. In the League Phase Pass structure those two tiers were priced at 619 and 1,238 euros for the four home matches, which puts the per-match equivalent well above general admission.
| Hospitality Option | Typical Buyer | Main Appeal |
|---|---|---|
| VIP seating in the eastern stand | Supporters upgrading from general admission | Central padded seating with indoor access before kickoff and at half time |
| Executive suites | Companies hosting clients | A private room, which suits a 22:00 kickoff better than open seating in January |
| Lounge packages with dining | Groups marking an occasion | A served meal before the match with a reserved table and a seat near the halfway line |
| Premium resale listings | Buyers who missed the club's pass window | The realistic route into the eastern stand once the four-match passes have gone |
Accessibility here is unusually well documented for a ground of this age. The club publish 80 wheelchair positions with 80 companion seats and 8 accessible toilets. The stadium received the Access Champions Certification from AccessibALL in March 2026, having introduced the ColorADD colour-coding system for colour-blind visitors in January of that year.
What AEK do not publish is a self-service route to buying accessible seats. Whether the ground has hearing loops is not documented either way. Visiting clubs have historically arranged wheelchair spaces directly with AEK's ticket office rather than online, so contact the club's ticket line ahead of time rather than assuming a listing will appear.
This is the section to read twice, because entry at this stadium works differently from anywhere in Britain or Italy. Tickets are verified through Gov.gr Wallet, the Greek state's digital wallet application. AEK have applied that requirement to European fixtures as well as domestic ones.
Visitors without a Greek tax number are explicitly covered. The Ministry of Digital Governance describes a visitor pathway in which the app reads an NFC-chipped passport and pairs it with the ticket's verification code, with no Greek residency required. If that fails on the phone, AEK run a manual fallback: ticket offices at the ground, including the one at Eagle Square outside the stadium from 13:00 on matchday, can verify a ticket in person and activate it.
| Delivery Type | What to Check |
|---|---|
| Mobile ticket | Allow time to install Gov.gr Wallet and activate the ticket before travelling. Charge the phone, because a screenshot will not scan |
| Verification code listings | Confirm the listing supplies the reservation or verification code the app needs, not only a PDF |
| Local collection | Check the collection point and its hours. The matchday office at Eagle Square opens from 13:00 |
| Courier delivery | Least suitable option for an overseas fixture. Cross-border post inside a week is a gamble |
Practical rules at the turnstiles. Gates open roughly three hours before kickoff, so around 19:00 for a 22:00 start. Bags larger than 25 by 25 by 25 centimetres are refused with no storage facility available.
Alcohol is not sold or permitted inside Greek stadiums, so only non-alcoholic beer is on sale. Carry your passport, since it is both your identification and potentially the thing the app needs to read.
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Step1
Open the fixture listing
Confirm the date and the time you are working to. The match starts at 22:00 in Athens, which is 21:00 in Rome and 20:00 in London, so check which figure a listing is quoting.
Step2
Set up your account
Browsing needs nothing, but you will need to create an account to complete a purchase and to keep the order details together afterwards.
Step3
Install Gov.gr Wallet early
Do this before you fly, not at the turnstile. Check whether your passport has an NFC chip, because the visitor verification path depends on the app being able to read it.
Step4
Choose tier first, then gate
Decide between lower tier and upper tier before filtering on price, then look at which gate a listing sits behind. At this ground the gate number is the location, since there are no stand names.
Step5
Set the quantity before comparing
Pairs are easier to find than groups of four in a ground where four-match pass holders release single seats. Fix your number early, because it changes which listings are worth opening.
Step6
Read the listing notes in full
Gate number, tier, seats-together confirmation, delivery method and whether a verification code is included all sit here. Two listings at the same price are frequently not the same product.
Step7
Complete the secure checkout
Confirm gate, tier, quantity, delivery method and the total before authorising payment. Your confirmation email is the record of exactly what you agreed.
Step8
Follow the order through
Use track order to watch the status to delivery, then activate the ticket in the app once the code arrives rather than leaving it to matchday.
Athens is straightforward to reach and the ground is easier to get to than its suburban location suggests. Athens International Airport sits 34 kilometres away, reachable by the Attiki Odos motorway or by suburban rail connecting into Metro Line 1. From central Athens a taxi runs roughly 15 to 20 euros in normal traffic.
The metro is the sensible route. Perissos on Line 1 is around 600 metres from the stadium, a walk of about ten minutes, with Pefkakia on the same line a little further out. Bus lines B9, 421, 619, 755 and 755B serve the area, as do trolley lines 3 and 6. Driving is the poor option, with 200 spaces inside the ground and roughly 600 more within a kilometre.
Two things to build into the plan for a 22:00 kickoff. The match finishes close to midnight, so check the last metro on Line 1 before you assume you can ride back into the centre. And visiting supporters have historically been escorted, assembling at a central meeting point several hours before kickoff and held back 40 to 45 minutes after the final whistle.
Supporters following Roma across the season will find the other half of the campaign at home. The Stadio Olimpico fixture list covers Roma's home matches in this competition and in Serie A. The Stadio Olimpico seating plan sets out how that ground is divided. Seats-together requests have to be made at the point of purchase, because sellers list seats in fixed blocks that cannot be rearranged afterwards.
Roma have never played at the Agia Sophia Stadium. They have, however, played on this exact site. Their only previous visit to Nea Filadelfeia came on 25 September 2002, to the Nikos Goumas Stadium, which stood here until it was demolished in May 2003 and on whose footprint the current ground was built.
That match finished 0-0. The return in Rome on 12 November 2002 finished 1-1 in front of 32,734, Marco Delvecchio scoring for Roma before Walter Centeno equalised in the final minute. Those two matches are the entire competitive history between these clubs. Neither has ever beaten the other.
The group they shared that season produced one of the stranger records in the competition's history. AEK drew all six of their first group stage matches against Real Madrid, Roma and Genk, finishing with a line of no wins, six draws, no defeats and a goal difference of exactly zero from 7 scored and 7 conceded. They took six points and dropped into the UEFA Cup.
So the meeting on 19 January 2027 opens a record at this stadium rather than continuing one. For context on what AEK bring to it, the ground has hosted around fifteen competitive European home matches since opening in October 2022. AEK have lost only two of them, to Marseille and Brighton in the 2023/24 Europa League group stage.
Attendance for the 2002 match in Athens is the one figure worth treating with caution. Independent archives give numbers ranging from around 9,400 to roughly 20,000, with no source clearly resolving the conflict, so it is left out of the table below rather than presented as settled.
All figures below cover every competitive meeting between AEK Athens and AS Roma in UEFA competition, at any venue. No meeting has taken place at the Agia Sophia Stadium, so a venue-scoped record does not yet exist.
| Metric | Total |
|---|---|
| Competitive meetings played | 2 |
| AEK Athens wins | 0 |
| AS Roma wins | 0 |
| Draws | 2 |
| AEK Athens goals | 1 |
| AS Roma goals | 1 |
| Meetings at the Agia Sophia Stadium | 0 |
| Competition of both meetings | Champions League first group stage |
| First meeting | 25 September 2002 |
| Most recent meeting | 12 November 2002 |
Totals calculated from the match-by-match record below. No meeting has ever taken place in any other competition, in any era, including the European Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Cup.
| Date | Competition and Stage | Venue | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2002 | Champions League, first group stage, Group C | Stadio Olimpico, Rome | Roma 1-1 AEK Athens |
| 25 Sep 2002 | Champions League, first group stage, Group C | Nikos Goumas Stadium, Athens | AEK Athens 0-0 Roma |
Home team listed first in each score. Both results were cross-checked against at least two independent records. The group's final table confirms that neither club won either match.
22:00 local time in Athens on Tuesday 19 January 2027. UEFA publishes the fixture as 21:00 CET, which is the same moment expressed in Italian time, because Greece runs an hour ahead in January.
No. AEK's supporter card is required only for season tickets, not single matches. Entry does run through the Gov.gr Wallet app, which has a visitor pathway using an NFC-chipped passport and no Greek residency.
Both, at different times. The ground's own name is the Agia Sophia Stadium. It carried the OPAP Arena branding from 2022 until early 2026, when it became Allwyn Arena. UEFA lists it as AEK Arena.
In the northwest corner of the upper tier, blocks 46, 47 and 48, in an allocation of around 1,525 seats. UEFA rules cap what a visiting club may charge at 50 euros per ticket.
Twice, both in the 2002/03 Champions League group stage, both drawn. The Athens match was played at the Nikos Goumas Stadium, which stood on this same site until 2003, so this is Roma's first visit to the current ground.
Sources: official AEK Athens club pages for the stadium's technical specification, gate numbering, accessibility provision and 2026/27 League Phase Pass pricing; UEFA's published league phase calendar and its Champions League regulations for the fixture details, the visiting supporter allocation minimum and the away ticket price cap; the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance for the Gov.gr Wallet visitor verification process; Attica Region licensing reported by Sport24 and Gazzetta for the permitted capacity; and match records from ESPN, RSSSF and UEFA archives cross-checked against the 2002/03 group table for the verified head-to-head results.