Revealed: Roma's 12 best goalscoring teams

With Roma in thrilling goalscoring form under Luciano Spalletti, we look back at the club’s most prolific seasons to see how the 2015-16 Serie A campaign compares…

Roma’s remarkable recent attacking form continued last weekend, as Spalletti’s side scored four against Lazio in a brilliant derby victory. The Giallorossi have now scored 66 goals in 31 league games this term – or 2.13 goals per game – meaning they are currently on course to finish with an impressive 81 goals for the entire season.

Where would that put the 2015-16 team on the list of Roma’s all-time most prolific sides? We count down the club’s 12 most successful goalscoring seasons to find out…

12. 2009-2010: 68 goals, 38 games

Roma got off to a terrible start as they lost their first two matches, resulting in Spalletti’s resignation and Claudio Ranieri coming in to replace him. The team suddenly clicked and started racking up goals, wins and points - even overtaking Inter at the top of the table. There was to be no fairytale ending, however, as the Giallorossi's 2-1 home defeat at the hands of Sampdoria at the end of April dealt a fatal blow to their Scudetto ambitions.

11. 2003-2004: 68 goals, 34 games

Fabio Capello's Roma were irresistible in the first half of 2003-04, knocking out one win after another as they scored hatfuls while remaining iron-clad at the back. But after suffering a 2-1 reverse at home to AC Milan on 6 January the team began to stutter, eventually slipping back into second place - although Francesco Totti did score 20 goals in a season for the first time.

10. 2000-2001: 68 goals, 34 games

This was the season of AS Roma's third Scudetto, following previous successes in 1942 and 1983. Fabio Capello's Giallorossi displayed all their attacking strength, with three players reaching double figures for goals (Gabriel Batistuta, 20, Francesco Totti, 13, and Vincenzo Montella, 13) as others like Cafu and Vincent Candela also weighed in.

9. 1998-1999: 69 goals, 34 games

The year didn't end with a trophy in the cabinet - nor did Roma go close, finishing fifth - but it was an immensely enjoyable season for Giallorossi fans, who witnessed free-flowing, attacking football and dozens of goals. Three forwards ended up in double figures (Marco Delvecchio, 18, Francesco Totti, 13, and Paulo Sergio, 12) in Zdenek Zeman's second year at the helm. Unfortunately the rearguard proved to be less than impeccable, despite boasting players of the calibre of Cafu, Zago, Aldair and Vincent Candela.

8. 2005-2006: 70 goals, 38 games

An attacking but balanced 4-2-3-1 formation, with Totti fielded as the spearhead and an offensive midfield trio ready to burst into the box and score at any time, was the secret behind Spalletti's 2005-06 Roma – an innovative team that played some spectacular football, the likes of which had never been seen before. After the Calciopoli verdict, Roma officially finished the season in second place.

7. 2012-2013: 71 goals, 38 games

Zdenek Zeman, renowned for his spectacular, highly attacking brand of football but with few trophies in his long career, returned to the club 13 years after his stint. Sadly the Giallorossi's season never really got going under the Czech-born coach dubbed 'Il Boemo' (‘the Bohemian’), as high-scoring victories were alternated with resounding defeats. The team ultimately finished sixth.

6. 1928-1929: 71 goals, 30 games

There were goals galore throughout the season but three matches in particular stand out: a 5-0 success over Modena, a 6-1 hammering of Torino, and a 5-1 victory away to Casale. Rodolfo Volk chipped in with 24 goals from 20 games as Roma finished the season in third behind Torino and AC Milan.

5. 2013-2014: 72 goals, 38 games

This was no ordinary season. Roma set a new club-record points haul (85) as they returned to the upper echelons of Serie A after several years in the shadows. Rudi Garcia's side shot out the blocks, winning their first ten league games - something never previously done in the Italian top flight. But there was no Scudetto, as Juventus recorded 102 points.

4. 2007-2008: 72 goals, 38 games

A head-to-head with Inter fought point by point right up to the last day of the season. A 38-match duel which saw Roma cede to the Nerazzurri only in the second half of the last game of the year. Luciano Spalletti's Giallorossi drew at Catania while Inter triumphed at Parma to claim the title. It was nonetheless a highly memorable campaign for Roma, with goals aplenty and a Coppa Italia crown to add to the trophy cabinet.

3. 1929-1930: 73 goals, 34 games

Roma's first season at Campo Testaccio (which made its debut in Week 5, as Roma beat Brescia 2-1) and the year of the first derby with Lazio (Rodolfo Volk's goal handing Roma a 1-0 victory on December 8 at the Stadio della Rondinella). The Giallorossi were devastating at home as Volk plundered 20 goals for the season alongside many other standout performers. However, results were harder to come by away from home and Roma ended the season in sixth.

2. 2006-2007: 74 goals, 38 games

In the season after Calciopoli, with Juventus in Serie B and a number of other big teams starting with a points handicap (Fiorentina, AC Milan, Lazio), Luciano Spalletti's Roma were down as one of the favourites for the title. Their closest rivals were Roberto Mancini's Inter, who unfortunately hardly put a foot wrong. Roma finished the year second and Francesco Totti was Serie A top scorer with 26 goals, winning the European Golden Shoe.

1.1930-1931: 87 goals, 34 games

Roma came second in the league behind Juventus but the Giallorossi enthralled and set a number of records: most goals scored (87), fewest goals conceded (31), league top scorer (Rodolfo Volk, with 30), and just one defeat at Campo Testaccio (against AC Milan). And amidst all that, one game in particular which entered Giallorossi folklore, going on to inspire a film: Roma 5-0 Juventus.

Can this Roma side maintain their current goalscoring rate and make this the most prolific goalscoring campaign in a 38-match Serie A season? We'll soon find out.