AS Roma 1927 Advent Calendar

The tall maroon box places AS ROMA and 1927 above the club crest, while a large wolf silhouette fades into the background behind it. Below, the Colosseum and domed city architecture glow in gold and amber tones, with snowflakes and Christmas detailing turning the scene into a winter version of the Italian capital.

The front phrase “24 GIORNI DI SORPRESE GIALLOROSSE” makes the football identity explicit. Rather than offering a generic red-and-gold Christmas calendar, the design treats each of its 24 acrylic ornaments as part of a wider Roma-themed display.

AS Roma Advent Calendar combining the club crest, Capitoline wolf imagery, maroon-and-gold colors and a Roman Christmas setting.

1927 is the beginning of Roma, not just a number on the crest

AS Roma was created in 1927 through the merger of three Rome-based clubs: Fortitudo-ProRoma, Football Club di Roma and Alba-Audace. The agreement was reached on June 7, with Italo Foschi becoming the new club’s first president.

The new organization deliberately adopted symbols already tied to the capital.

AS Roma’s own history explains that the club chose the Capitoline Wolf for its crest and the yellow and red colors of Rome. Those choices helped establish the new football club as something intended to represent the city rather than simply another local side.

That makes the 1927 on this box especially useful. It is not decorative retro typography; it marks the beginning of the identity carried by the crest directly beneath it.

There is also an important timing distinction in 2026. The club itself marked June 7, 2026 as the 99th anniversary of AS Roma’s establishment, meaning the centenary arrives in 2027.

So this calendar works best as a 1927 heritage design, not as a 100th-anniversary product.

The 1927 founding year sits directly above Roma’s city-linked crest, keeping club history visible throughout the countdown.

The wolf connects the football club directly to Rome

The strongest symbol on the box is not the snowflake or even the football branding. It is the wolf.

At the center of the crest, the she-wolf feeds the twins Romulus and Remus, drawing directly from the founding mythology of Rome. AS Roma has repeatedly described La Lupa as both a symbol of the club and of the Italian capital, with Romulus traditionally regarded as the founder of Rome.

The calendar reinforces that connection by enlarging the wolf beyond the crest. A second stylized wolf head appears almost ghosted into the maroon background, giving the animal a much larger visual role than it would have if the design relied on the badge alone.

That creates two ways to read the same identity.

The crest gives the historical emblem in its formal shield. The oversized wolf provides a more dramatic modern graphic, visible even before the smaller details are examined.

Below them, the Colosseum places that symbolism back into the city itself. The monument, domed skyline and amber evening light stop the calendar from becoming an abstract football-branded box; the architecture makes Rome part of the composition.

Artwork detail showing the Capitoline wolf crest, oversized wolf silhouette, Colosseum and Roman skyline beneath the 1927 wording.

“Giallorosse” turns the countdown into a color identity

Yellow and red have been part of Roma’s identity since the club was founded.

When AS Roma formally restored its traditional shades in 2017, the club explained that they came directly from the historic colors of Rome and named the official tones Giallo Roma and Rosso Roma.

That history gives the phrase “24 GIORNI DI SORPRESE GIALLOROSSE” more weight than a simple festive tagline.

“Giallorossi” is the familiar nickname built from giallo and rosso—yellow and red. On this box, giallorosse agrees grammatically with sorprese, but the underlying idea is the same: these are twenty-four surprises framed specifically through Roma’s colors and identity.

The box translates those colors into a darker Christmas palette. Maroon dominates the background, gold replaces bright yellow in many decorative areas, and red warmth runs through the illuminated city below. Snowflakes then introduce the seasonal layer without weakening the club colors underneath.

That balance is useful after the countdown as well. At approximately 3–4 cm tall, the acrylic ornaments can remain grouped in front of the box once all 24 have been revealed. The large crest, wolf and Roman skyline continue to act as a backdrop, so the collection still reads as one AS Roma display rather than 24 loose seasonal pieces.

Compact Roma-themed ornament collection designed to remain visually connected to the maroon, gold and Roman-city presentation box.

That is where the calendar’s concept is strongest. 1927 provides the history, the wolf provides the mythology, Rome provides the setting and giallorosso provides the color language. Christmas simply gives those four ideas twenty-four days to unfold.

Written by Nadia Marsh, Collectibles Specialist at DoesignUs.