On This Day: Our first ever game at Campo Testaccio!

A love affair that began with a 2-1 win over Brescia in Serie A on 3 November 1929 ended in the exact same scoreline a little under 11 years later, with a 2-1 friendly win over Livorno.

Here are some of the key numbers from that spell at Testaccio, a place many fans still think of fondly as the club's native ground.

The games

170 competitive games were played in total at the ground - with Roma winning 112 of them, drawing 32 and losing on 26 occasions.

161 of those matches came in the top flight, five in the Central European Cup and a further four in the Coppa Italia.

363 goals were scored (at an average of 2.14 a game), with 122 conceded (0.72).

85 games finished with the Giallorossi keeping a clean sheet - exactly half of the total.

The biggest win? Roma beat Padova 8-0 back in 1930. But Campo Testaccio also saw a couple of other notable successes - including 5-0 wins over both Juventus (1931) and Lazio (1933).

82 Roma players made appearances at Testaccio

The Top 10:

1. Guido Masetti 134
2. Fulvio Bernardini 128
3. Andrea Gadaldi 83
4. Raffaele Costantino, Attilio Ferraris 80
5. Renato Bodini 70
6. Cesare Fasanelli, Rodolfo Volk 63
7. Antonio Fusco 61
8. Arturo Chini 57
9. Ernesto Tomasi 56
10. Eraldo Monzeglio 50

Volk the king of goalscorers

38 Roma players scored at least one goal for the club at Testaccio. But it was Rodolfo Volk who scored more than any - and he was the first goalscorer too, taking just four minutes to net in that game against Brescia.

The Fiume-born striker went on to score 44 goals in the 63 games he played at the ground, more than earning the chant "È ‘n mago pe’ segnà” (broadly, 'he's a wizard because he scores') that used to eminate from the stands.

Following Volk in this particular record book are Cesare Augusto Fasanelli (32 goals) and Raffaele Costantino (29).

The coaches

A total of seven coaches sat in the home dugout at Testaccio during the period.Luigi Barbesino managed more than anyone else - 67 in total - followed by Herbert Burgess (36) and Guido Ara (33).

The other four were Janos Baar, Guido Baccani, Lajos Kovacs and Alfred Schaffer. Schaffer, of course, would guide the team to the Serie A title in 1942.

The many opponents

32 visiting teams came to Campo Testaccio in its time.

In alphabetical order: Alessandria, Bari, Bologna, Brescia, Casale, Ferencvaros, Fiorentina, First Vienna, Genoa, Inter, Juventus, Lazio, Legnano, Liguria, Livorno, Lucchese, Milan, Modena, Napoli, Novara, Padova, Palermo, Pontedera, Pro Patria, Pro Vercelli, Rapid Vienna, Sampierdarenese, Slavia Praga, Sparta Praga, Torino, Triestina, Venezia.

Triestina made more visits than any other club (12 in total), so perhaps it is no surprise they also suffered the most defeats (eight). Lazio and Torino both visited 10 times, losing seven of those.

Of all the teams to visit at least five times, Brescia were perhaps the most welcome - losing on all six occasions they made the trip down.