Head-to-Head: Sporting CP vs AS Roma

Sporting CP vs AS Roma carries little competitive baggage. Their club-friendly meeting on 19 July 2022 ended with a 3-2 Sporting CP win, a narrow scoreline that gives the Portuguese side a useful historical marker without establishing a hierarchy. The matchup therefore remains open: future European meetings will show whether that isolated margin was a hint of a recurring pattern or simply one evening’s result.

Upcoming matches, Sporting CP vs AS Roma

8 December 2026 - 20:00 Group Stage

AS Roma

VS

Sporting CP

Past matches, Sporting CP vs AS Roma

19 July 2022 Club Friendlies 1

Sporting CP

3 - 2

AS Roma

Estádio Do Algarve

Match center

Sporting CP

3 - 2

19 July 2022

AS Roma

Starting eleven

Starting XI Sporting CP

AS Roma Starting XI

Substitutes Sporting CP

AS Roma Substitutes

Match events

45'

90'

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29'
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Pote Penalty
31'
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Gonçalo Inácio Own Goal
46'

J. Veretout N. Matić
46'

Adán F. Israel
46'

Trincão Rochinha
46'

R. Karsdorp Z. Çelik
46'

C. Smalling M. Kumbulla
46'

M. Svilar Rui Patrício
46'

N. Zalewski L. Spinazzola
52'

C. Smalling Yellow Card
53'
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Gonçalo Inácio Normal Goal (Asst: Pote)
58'

G. Mancini Yellow Card
62'

M. Ugarte Yellow Card
69'
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L. Pellegrini Normal Goal (Asst: T. Abraham)
72'

Tabata M. Edwards
72'

F. Afena-Gyan T. Abraham
72'

Carles Pérez L. Pellegrini
79'

S. El Shaarawy N. Zaniolo
79'

N. Zaniolo Yellow Card
85'

M. Nunes Yellow Card
85'

J. Veretout Yellow Card
86'
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Tabata Normal Goal

Matchup Sporting CP VS AS Roma

A narrow friendly result

The direct meeting on 19 July 2022 was a club friendly, with Sporting CP defeating AS Roma 3-2. The scoreline gives Sporting CP the only established result between the sides, but the competition’s exhibition character limits what can be inferred from it. A one-goal margin can suggest a close contest, yet it cannot settle how either club would handle a match carrying a different competitive weight.

Competition has yet to decide

Sporting CP can point to the 2022 result as a positive starting marker, while AS Roma have no competitive defeat to explain or overcome in this pairing. That leaves the direct narrative unusually flexible: the next meaningful meeting could confirm a narrow Sporting CP edge, produce an immediate Roma response, or begin a balanced exchange. The lasting question is whether the teams’ future European encounters develop the tension of a recurring contest or remain defined by isolated scorelines in different settings.