1988–89 A.S. Roma season

Roma

1988–89 season
President	Dino Viola
Manager	Nils Liedholm Luciano Spinosi
Stadium	Stadio Olimpico
Serie A	7th
Coppa Italia	Second round
UEFA Cup	Third round
Top goalscorer	League: Rudi Völler (10) All: Rudi Völler (15)
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← 1987–88 1989–90 →

Associazione Sportiva Roma finished 7th in Serie A, dropping four places from the season before, even firing coach Nils Liedholm for just a few weeks. It also crashed out of the UEFA Cup against comparatively minnows Dynamo Dresden in the Last 16.

Players

Goalkeepers

• Franco Tancredi
• Angelo Peruzzi

Defenders

• Fulvio Collovati
• Emidio Oddi
• Sebastiano Nela
• Moreno Ferrario
• Lionello Manfredonia
• Manuel Gerolin
• Antonio Tempestilli

Midfielders

• Andrade
• Bruno Conti
• Fabrizio Di Mauro
• Stefano Desideri
• Giuseppe Giannini
• Roberto Policano
• Renato

Forwards

• Daniele Massaro
• Ruggiero Rizzitelli
• Rudi Völler

Competitions

Serie A

Main article: 1988–89 Serie A

Matches

Pescara v Roma

1	Pescara	0–0	Roma

Bologna v Roma

2	Bologna	0–1	Roma
			Desideri  87'

Roma v Lecce

3	Roma	1–1	Lecce
	Rizzitelli  69'		Pasculli  87'

Inter v Roma

4	Inter	2–0	Roma
	Berti  19' Serena  84'

Roma v Pisa

5	Roma	2–1	Pisa
	Rizzitelli  25' Tempestilli  69'		Faccenda  40'

Cesena v Roma

6	Cesena	1–1	Roma
	Agostini  87'		Nela  64'

Roma v Torino

7	Roma	1–3	Torino
	Policano  75'		Edu  26' Fuser  71, 83'

Sampdoria v Roma

8	Sampdoria	0–2	Roma
			Völler  35' Massaro  77'

Roma v Como

9	Roma	1–0	Como
	Giannini  21'

Ascoli v Roma

10	Ascoli	0–3	Roma
			Nela  52' Massaro  80' Policano  89'

Roma v Napoli

11	Roma	1–0	Napoli
	Völler  87'

Roma v Juventus

12	Roma	1–3	Juventus
	Giannini  84' (pen.)		Altobelli  12' Rui Barros  78' Cabrini  90' (pen.)

Lazio v Roma

13	Lazio	1–0	Roma
	Di Canio  25'

Roma v Milan

14	Roma	1–3	Milan
	Völler  11'		Tassotti  7' van Basten  30' Virdis  79'

Fiorentina v Roma

15	Fiorentina	2–2	Roma
	Borgonovo  41, 72'		Massaro  3' Conti  30'

Roma v Verona

16	Roma	0–0	Verona

Atalanta v Roma

17	Atalanta	2–2	Roma
	Evair  45' Madonna  88'		Massaro  3' Völler  19'

Roma v Pescara

18	Roma	1–3	Pescara
	Giannini  62' (pen.)		Tita  45, 55, 70'

Roma v Bologna

19	Roma	1–1	Bologna
	Völler  9'		De Marchi  67'

Lecce v Roma

20	Lecce	0–0	Roma

Roma v Inter

21	Roma	0–3	Inter
			Matthäus  12' Serena  22' Díaz  75'

Pisa v Roma

22	Pisa	1–0	Roma
	Boccafresca  3'

Roma v Cesena

23	Roma	1–0	Cesena
	Völler  54'

Torino v Roma

24	Torino	3–1	Roma
	Müller  31, 83' Fuser  68'		Völler  53'

Roma v Sampdoria

25	Roma	1–0	Sampdoria
	Desideri  59'

Como v Roma

26	Como	0–1	Roma
			Manfredonia  2'

Roma v Ascoli

27	Roma	1–1	Ascoli
	Policano  40'		Giordano  57'

Napoli v Roma

28	Napoli	1–1	Roma
	Careca  58'		Völler  74'

Juventus v Roma

29	Juventus	2–1	Roma
	Manfredonia  23' (o.g.) Magrin  84' (pen.)		Giannini  28' (pen.)

Roma v Lazio

30	Roma	0–0	Lazio

Milan v Roma

31	Milan	4–1	Roma
	Tassotti  3' Tempestilli  53' (o.g.) van Basten  56' Baresi  83'		Massaro  41'

Roma v Fiorentina

32	Roma	2–1	Fiorentina
	Giannini  36' Völler  87'		Borgonovo  33'

Verona v Roma

33	Verona	0–0	Roma

Roma v Atalanta

34	Roma	2–1	Atalanta
	Giannini  43' Völler  66'		Madonna  7' (pen.)

Coppa Italia

Main article: 1988–89 Coppa Italia

UEFA Cup

Main article: 1988–89 UEFA Cup

Statistics

Goalscorers

• Rudi Völler 10
• Giuseppe Giannini 6 (3)
• Daniele Massaro 5
• Roberto Policano 3