Buy AS Roma vs Juventus tickets for the 2026/27 Season, with the Stadio Olimpico hosting the Bianconeri on Sunday 20 December 2026 at 20:00 local time. Matchday 16 falls five days before Christmas, in the Sunday evening slot Serie A keeps for the fixtures it wants the whole country watching. Rome in midwinter, a full bowl and the one set of visitors the Curva Sud least wants to see leave with three points.
Thousands trust 1BoxOffice
This is the heavyweight date on the Giallorossi home calendar. Seats for AS Roma at the Stadio Olimpico move quickly for any Sunday night game, and they move faster still when the visitors arrive carrying the deepest trophy cabinet in Italian football and a habit of spoiling parties in the capital. Roma have taken the lead in this fixture and lost it. They have also beaten Juventus at home in seasons when nobody gave them a prayer.
The Olimpico holds 73,261 for football, which sounds like plenty until a December meeting with Juventus is put on general sale. Demand for this one is not a marketing line. It is what happens when a 73,000-seat bowl meets a national television slot, a shortened festive calendar and two clubs both in the Champions League league phase this season.
Roma against Juventus is not a derby in the geographic sense, yet it carries more weight in Rome than most derbies do elsewhere. It is the fixture that has settled title races the Giallorossi were part of and the one that has ended them. Sunday night against Juventus is where the title-race history gets relitigated in front of a full house.
Only one other home date in Rome generates comparable heat, and the AS Roma vs Lazio tickets window is a different animal: local, personal and settled on pride rather than points. Juventus is the fixture that has decided what Roma seasons were actually worth.
Supply is the problem. Roma season ticket holders take a large slice of the bowl before a single general-sale seat appears, and the Curva Sud is effectively spoken for long before December. What is left goes into a public window that lasts hours rather than days for a fixture of this size, which is why the resale market carries most of the late availability.
Juventus travel in numbers wherever they go, and the visiting sector at the Olimpico is small relative to that support. Italian clubs sell every seat in their own stadium, including the away section, so Juventus supporters compete for a block controlled by Roma rather than one distributed by their own club. Neutral buyers, travelling fans from the Gulf and weekend visitors to Rome all push into the same pool.
Add the December timing. This is the last Olimpico fixture of real magnitude before the turn of the year, it sits inside a compressed festive schedule and it is the kind of match tour operators and hospitality agents block-book months out. Premium areas along the Tribuna Monte Mario tend to clear first, followed by the central longside seats, with the corners and upper bands holding availability longest.
Rome itself compounds the squeeze. The third weekend of December puts the city at its busiest short-break point of the winter, so hotel rates and flight loads into Fiumicino are already climbing before anybody thinks about a football ticket. Visitors who were coming anyway convert into buyers the moment they see the fixture, and they are competing with domestic travellers heading down from Turin and the north.
Yes, but the route matters. Roma run a tiered season ticket structure across Plus, Classic Extra and Classic tiers, and holders in the upper tier get a dedicated pre-sale window with reduced pricing before anybody else sees a seat. For the heaviest home dates that pre-sale phase opens a day or more ahead of general sale, and it absorbs a serious share of what would otherwise reach the public.
Once the pre-sale closes, general sale opens with a cap of four tickets per transaction. That cap is a fairness measure, not a supply solution. For a Sunday night meeting with Juventus the public allocation is thin, the queue is long and the sectors with the strongest views tend to vanish inside the first hour.
There is a second gate. Italy operates a loyalty card system, and buying into the visiting sector at a Serie A ground normally means holding the relevant club card and passing a residency test at the point of sale. Roma's terms also block supporters connected to the visiting club's area from taking seats in home sectors, which closes the obvious workaround. Fixtures flagged as sensitive by the Italian Ministry of the Interior's monitoring body can carry further residency restrictions announced only days before kickoff.
That is where a verified resale marketplace earns its place. Buying through 1BoxOffice removes the need for a season ticket, a club card or an Italian residency profile, and it keeps seats available after the club's own windows have closed. Listings are supplied by verified sellers, and every order is covered by a 150% money-back guarantee.
Five things set the number you see on a listing for this fixture. Seat location is the largest single factor, since the Olimpico's running track makes the gap between central longside seats and corner positions unusually wide. Demand comes next, then fixture timing, then competition context and finally the hospitality tier attached to the seat.
December pricing for the 2026/27 season reflects a Sunday evening kickoff in a shortened festive window, which tends to firm up rather than soften as the date approaches. Roma's own face values give a useful floor: the Distinti corners start near €40 for ordinary league games, while the Tribuna Monte Mario and Tribuna Tevere sit in a €100 to €150 band before any premium element is added. Resale for a fixture of this weight sits well above those baselines.
| Ticket Type | Resale Price Range | Best For | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curva Sud upper and Distinti corners | £105 – £190 | Atmosphere over sightline | Behind the goal or in the corner wedges. Loudest part of the ground and the last band to sell out. |
| Tribuna Tevere longside | £160 – £300 | Balanced view at sensible money | Side-on across the track. Upper rows here read the game better than lower rows do. |
| Tribuna Monte Mario lower and central | £280 – £520+ | Buyers who want the main stand | Halfway-line side with the dugouts below. Covered for most rows. |
| Premium seating | £480 – £900+ | Comfort without a full package | Padded central seating with lounge access in the Monte Mario premium bands. |
| Hospitality and VIP | £750 – £1,700+ | Clients, groups and one-off treats | Catering, bar service and a dedicated entrance. Priced per person and sold in pairs or larger. |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift closer to the match.
The Olimpico is a single continuous bowl with an athletics track, so the first decision is not which stand you want but how close to the halfway line you need to be. The Stadio Olimpico seating plan shows the layout clearly: two long tribunes facing each other, two curves behind the goals and Distinti wedges linking them at the corners. General availability across the venue, including other events in Rome, sits on the Stadio Olimpico tickets listings.
One feature shapes every seat decision at this ground: the running track. It pushes the front rows further from the touchline than you would find at a purpose-built football stadium, which means elevation matters more than proximity. A mid-height row in a side tribune will usually give you a better afternoon than a front row anywhere, and the difference is sharpest in the corners.
| Area | What It Suits | Pricing Bracket | Guidance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curva Sud | Giallorossi regulars and anyone chasing noise | Lower to mid | The Roma end, behind the south goal. Flags, drums and standing for long spells. Very little of it reaches general sale. |
| Tribuna Monte Mario | Sightline first, comfort second | Upper | The main west side with the dugouts and the halfway line. Best covered rows in the ground and the fastest premium seats to go. |
| Tribuna Tevere | Value on the longside | Mid to upper | Facing Monte Mario from the east. Similar angle for noticeably less, with media and executive areas alongside. |
| Distinti Nord and Distinti Sud | Groups and mixed parties | Lower to mid | Corner wedges between curve and tribune. A fair compromise and usually the widest late availability. |
| Curva Nord upper bands | Budget-conscious buyers | Lower | The north end, at the opposite end from the Roma support on a Giallorossi matchday. Distant from the near goal but honest value. |
| Distinti Ospiti | Juventus supporters only | Fixed by the home club | The visiting wedge, with its own turnstiles and exit route. Bianconeri colours belong here and nowhere else in the ground. |
If you are travelling neutral or you have not decided which way you lean, take the Tribuna Tevere. You get the full sweep of the bowl, you see both curves working and you avoid the colours question entirely. Undecided fans who want to be closer to the action without paying main-stand money should aim for the upper rows of the Distinti Sud, where the elevation cancels out most of the running track.
Roma's premium offer at the Olimpico runs from padded seating with a lounge attached through to full catered packages with dedicated entrances. The club markets these under its VIP hospitality and business club banners, and the products cluster along the Tribuna Monte Mario side where the covered rows and the halfway-line angle are.
| Hospitality Option | Typical Buyer | Main Appeal |
|---|---|---|
| Premium seating with lounge access | Couples and small groups treating themselves | Padded central seats, an indoor bar before kickoff and at half time, no long walk from the entrance. |
| Business club package | Companies entertaining two to eight guests | Seated dining, table service and a professional room where conversation is possible. |
| Private box | Corporate hosts and family celebrations | A closed space for the group, catering on request and a private balcony over the Monte Mario side. |
| Matchday experience package | Overseas visitors on a short Rome trip | Buffet, open bar and in some cases transfers, bundled so nothing needs arranging locally. |
Hospitality for this fixture behaves differently from the rest of the season. Packages that stay live into matchweek for a midweek league game are usually gone by late November when Juventus are the visitors, because agencies and corporate buyers commit early to the dates they know will be full.
One practical point for December. The Olimpico sits in the Foro Italico complex north of the city centre, and a 20:00 kickoff in Rome in midwinter means a cold walk in and a late finish. A package with an indoor base before and after the match is worth more on this date than it would be in September.
Roma issue tickets in fully digital form. Seats are loaded to a phone or accessed through the club's stadium app, and the buyer's details are attached at the point of purchase, so how a listing is delivered matters more here than it does at grounds still using paper.
| Delivery Type | What to Confirm |
|---|---|
| Mobile transfer | Which app or wallet the seller uses and whether the transfer lands in your name before you travel. The most common method for Serie A seats. |
| Email or e-ticket | That the file arrives as a scannable code rather than a screenshot and that the name on it matches whoever walks through the turnstile. |
| Collection in Rome | The meeting point, the window it runs for and what identification the seller expects you to bring. |
| Courier to a Rome address | That your hotel accepts parcels and that the delivery window sits before matchday, not on it. |
Read the listing notes before ordering. They tell you the delivery method, whether seats are together and what the seller needs from you. Bring valid photo identification to the ground, because Italian stadium entry pairs the name on the ticket with a document at the gate. Charge your phone before you leave the hotel, and download the code while you still have hotel wi-fi rather than relying on signal in the queue outside the Foro Italico.
1BoxOffice has been a verified marketplace since 2006, with every order backed by a 150% money-back guarantee. Here is how a booking runs from first search to matchday.
Step1
Open the fixture and set your filters
Load the listings for Sunday 20 December 2026 and narrow by area first. Filtering by Curva, longside or premium before you filter by price saves you comparing seats that are nowhere near each other.
Step2
Set up your account
You can create an account in under a minute. Doing it before you find the listing you want means you are not filling in details while a good block sells out underneath you.
Step3
Compare like with like
Two listings in the same tribune can sit thirty rows apart. Look at the block reference and the row band together, then judge the price against the pricing table above rather than against the lowest-priced seat on the page.
Step4
Read the seller notes in full
The notes carry the detail that decides whether a listing works for you: delivery method, whether the seats are genuinely together and any restriction attached to the sector. Two minutes here prevents most problems later.
Step5
Select your quantity
Most listings sell in pairs, and splitting a pair is often not permitted because it would leave a single seat stranded. If you need three or five, look for a block listed with that exact quantity rather than assuming a larger one will split.
Step6
Confirm your details and pay
Enter the lead attendee's name exactly as it appears on the passport or identity card you will carry in Rome. Italian entry procedures match the two, so a shortened first name can cause a delay at the turnstile.
Step7
Wait for confirmation
You receive an order confirmation immediately. Delivery of the seats themselves follows the timetable in the listing, and for digital transfers that is often closer to matchday than first-time buyers expect.
Step8
Follow your order to delivery
Use track order to see exactly where your booking sits. If anything looks off in the final week before the match, raise it there rather than waiting until you land in Rome.
Overseas buyers should favour mobile transfer or e-ticket delivery over anything physical. Rome hotels handle parcels unevenly, and a December weekend is the wrong time to find out yours does not. If a listing offers collection in the city, confirm the window and the location before you book flights around it, because collection points close earlier than visitors assume. Buyers travelling from the Gulf and the wider MENA region should allow for the connection time into Fiumicino and a transfer north to the Foro Italico that takes longer on a matchday evening than a mapping app suggests.
Seats together are worth asking about rather than assuming. Group bookings for this fixture are best made as a single order in one block, since combining two separate listings rarely puts you in adjacent rows at the Olimpico. Bear in mind too that Serie A kickoff times are confirmed in tranches and broadcast selections can move a fixture by a day. Book flexible accommodation, keep a buffer either side of Sunday 20 December and treat the 20:00 slot as the working plan rather than an unbreakable one until the broadcast schedule for matchday 16 is locked.
The grudge is modern rather than ancient. Roma and Juventus have met since the 1920s, but the current temperature dates from the era when Rome genuinely expected to win the league and Turin kept taking it away. Those Olimpico nights turned an ordinary big-club fixture into the one Roma supporters mark first when the calendar drops, because the result so often decided whether a promising season became a serious one.
Two periods did most of the damage to the relationship. The first ran through the early 2000s, when Roma were a genuine title force and every trip to the capital carried championship weight. The second came in the 2010s, when Juventus assembled a run of consecutive Scudetti and the Olimpico became one of the grounds where that run was repeatedly rubber-stamped in front of a home crowd that had to watch it happen.
The pattern at the Olimpico is stubborn. Roma go long stretches without beating Juventus at home, then win one that nobody forgets, then slip back into draws. Between 2011 and the most recent meeting the fixture has produced more stalemates in Rome than wins for either side, and the last three home meetings alone have all ended level. That is the shape of a rivalry where neither team can quite dominate the other in this stadium, which is precisely why the tickets go.
What makes the fixture distinctive is how rarely it is quiet. Two of the last six home meetings produced six goals or more, and the ones that did not were tight enough to decide a title. For a buyer, that record is the whole argument: this is not a fixture where you risk paying big-match money for a forgettable evening.
The figures below cover Serie A meetings at the Stadio Olimpico with Roma as hosts, from the 2010/11 season to the most recent, and every total is calculated from the match-by-match record that follows.
| Metric | Total |
|---|---|
| Matches played | 16 |
| AS Roma wins | 5 |
| Juventus wins | 4 |
| Draws | 7 |
| AS Roma goals | 22 |
| Juventus goals | 20 |
| Biggest AS Roma win | 3-1 |
| Biggest Juventus win | 0-2 |
| First Serie A meeting in scope | 3 April 2011 |
| Most recent meeting in scope | 1 March 2026 |
Figures compiled from ESPN match reports, Sports Mole live coverage, Sky Sports match reports and the clubs' own published match archives.
Every Serie A match between the sides at the Stadio Olimpico with Roma as hosts, from the 2010/11 season onward, newest first. Cup ties and meetings in Turin are excluded.
| Date | Score |
|---|---|
| 01 Mar 2026 | 3-3 |
| 06 Apr 2025 | 1-1 |
| 05 May 2024 | 1-1 |
| 05 Mar 2023 | 1-0 |
| 09 Jan 2022 | 3-4 |
| 27 Sep 2020 | 2-2 |
| 12 Jan 2020 | 1-2 |
| 12 May 2019 | 2-0 |
| 13 May 2018 | 0-0 |
| 14 May 2017 | 3-1 |
| 30 Aug 2015 | 2-1 |
| 02 Mar 2015 | 1-1 |
| 11 May 2014 | 0-1 |
| 16 Feb 2013 | 1-0 |
| 12 Dec 2011 | 1-1 |
| 03 Apr 2011 | 0-2 |
Scores shown from Roma's perspective. Each result cross-referenced against at least two independent match records.
Not when you buy through a resale marketplace. Club card and residency conditions apply to purchases made through Roma's own sales channels, particularly for the visiting sector.
Two windows work well: the days immediately after general sale closes and the fortnight once broadcast times are locked and travel plans start falling through. Waiting until the final 48 hours is the riskiest approach for a December Sunday night.
Visiting supporters are housed in the designated Ospiti wedge, which has its own turnstiles and exit. Bianconeri colours are for that sector only, and wearing them in a Roma area risks being turned away at the gate.
Serie A seats are overwhelmingly digital, so expect a mobile transfer or a scannable e-ticket rather than card stock. The listing states the method and the timing before you commit.
Yes, provided you buy the quantity you need from a single listing. Splitting an order across two listings usually scatters a group around the bowl, so filter by quantity from the start.
Sources: AS Roma official ticketing and season ticket information, AS Roma premium hospitality information, Juventus club match archives and previous-meeting records, ESPN match reports, Sports Mole live match coverage, Sky Sports match reports, Football Tripper stadium guide, Destination Calcio Serie A ticketing guidance and the Italian Ministry of the Interior's sports events monitoring body.