Roma make football history: World first for Serie A giants

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Roma have made football history this week.

Following the acquisition of Rodrigo Mora for €25 million from Porto, the Portuguese winger opted to select the number 86 shirt.

With that choice, the Giallorossi became the first side in football history to have had all squad numbers, 1-99, represented by at least one player since the club was established in 1927.

Serie A is relatively relaxed about squad numbers compared with several other major European leagues. Italian clubs can generally assign players numbers from 1 to 99, with relatively few restrictions. This is why it is common in Serie A to see players wearing high numbers.

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— AS Roma (@OfficialASRoma) August 19, 2026

The Premier League also allows numbers up to 99, but its rules are more restrictive in practice because squad numbers are generally allocated consecutively. In Germany, the Bundesliga has traditionally had a more limited range for first-team players, while La Liga has historically imposed considerably tighter restrictions on squad numbering.

One of the more famous shirt number quirks in Italian football saw Inter striker Ivan Zamorano have the number 18 on the back but with a small plus sign in between the one and the eight. That's because he was always a number nine, but Ronaldo took the nine jersey at that time following his arrival from Barcelona.

The top and bottom spots for Roma have both been taken by goalkeepers. Wojciech Szczesny is among a few stoppers who took the number one jersey, while Mile Svilar previously took the number 99.

Francesco Totti is famed for being Roma's number 10 for his entire career and although the club has not officially retired that squad number, nobody has worn it since the Italian superstar retired.

Here's the list of players who have represented all the AS Roma squad numbers:

1 - Wojciech Szczęsny

2 - Cafu

3 - Roger Ibañez

4 - Radja Nainggolan

5 - Evan Ndicka

6 - Aldair

7 - Lorenzo Pellegrini

8 - Adem Ljajić

9 - Edin Džeko

10 - Francesco Totti

11 - Mo Salah

12 - Saud Abdulhamid

13 - Maicon

14 - Patrik Schick

15 - Olivier Dacourt

16 - Daniele De Rossi

17 - Kouadio "Manu" Koné

18 - Matias Soulé

19 - Alisson Becker

20 - Federico Fazio

21 - Paulo Dybala

22 - Nicolò Zaniolo

23 - Gianluca Mancini

24 - Alessandro Florenzi

25 - Gini Wijnaldum

26 - Morgan De Sanctis

27 - Gervinho

28 - Enzo Le Fée

29 - Nicolás Burdisso

30 - Gerson da Silva

31 - Leon Bailey

32 - Vincent Candela

33 - Gabriel Batistuta

34 - Anass Salah-Eddine

35 - Tommaso Baldanzi

36 - Claudio Della Penna

37 - Leonardo Spinazzola

38 - Marco D'Alessandro

39 - Adrian Stoian

40 - Shabani Nonda

41 - Roger Ibañez

42 - Amadou Diawara

43 - Wesley França

44 - Kostas Manolas

45 - Stefano Pettinari

46 - Alessio Romagnoli

47 - Gianluca Caprari

48 - Mirko Antonucci

49 - Alessio Riccardi

50 - Michele Somma

51 - Silvio Anočić

52 - Edoardo Bove

53 - Daniele Verde

54 - Riccardo Ciervo

55 - Ebrima Darboe

56 - Alexis Saelemaekers

57 - Ruben Providence

58 - Filippo Missori

59 - Nicola Zalewski

60 - Alessandro Romano

61 - Niccolò Pisilli

62 - Cristian Volpato

63 - Daniel Fuzato

64 - Felix Afena-Gyan

65 - Filippo Tripi

66 - Buba Sangaré

67 - João Costa

68 - Antonio Arena

69 - Angeliño

70 - Giorgio De Marzi

71 - Raul Morichelli

72 - Luigi Cherubini

74 - Jan Oliveras

76 - Jacopo Mirra

77 - Henrikh Mkhitaryan

78 - Robinio Vaz

79 - Edoardo Morucci

80 - Ivan Pelizzoli

81 - Corentin Louakima

82 - Urby Emanuelson

83 - Antonio Mirante

84 - Jacopo Del Bello

85 - Riccardo Pagano

86 - Rodrigo Mora

87 - Aleandro Rosi

88 - Seydou Doumbia

89 - Stefano Okaka Chuka

90 - Romelu Lukaku

92 - Stephan El Shaarawy

93 - Marco Tumminello

94 - Federico Ricci

95 - Pierluigi Gollini

96 - Antonio Sanabria

97 - Bryan Zaragoza

98 - Mathew Ryan

99 - Mile Svilar