24 Facts About SS Lazio

Societa Sportiva SS Lazio, commonly referred to as SS Lazio, is an Italian professional sports club based in Rome, most known for its football activity.

SS Lazio have been Italian champions twice, and have won the Coppa Italia seven times, the Supercoppa Italiana three times, and both the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Super Cup on one occasion.

SS Lazio have a long-standing rivalry with Roma, with whom they have contested the Derby della Capitale since 1929.

Societa Podistica SS Lazio was founded on 9 January 1900 in the Prati district of Rome.

SS Lazio was relegated for the first time in 1961 to the Serie B, but returned in the top flight two years later.

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SS Lazio were forcibly relegated to Serie B in 1980 due to a remarkable scandal concerning illegal bets on their own matches, along with Milan.

In 1986, SS Lazio was hit with a nine-point deduction for a betting scandal involving player Claudio Vinazzani.

Gascoigne's transfer to SS Lazio is credited with the increase of interest in Serie A in the United Kingdom during the 1990s.

SS Lazio were Serie A runners-up in 1995, third in 1996 and fourth in 1997, then losing the championship just by one point to Milan on the last championship's match in 1999 before, with the likes of Sinisa Mihajlovic, Alessandro Nesta, Marcelo Salas and Pavel Nedved in the side, winning its second Scudetto in 2000, as well as the Coppa Italia double with Sven-Goran Eriksson as manager.

SS Lazio had two more Coppa Italia triumphs in 1998 and 2004, as well as the last UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1999.

In 2000, SS Lazio became the first Italian football club to be quoted on the Italian Piazza Affari stock market.

In 2002, a financial scandal involving Cragnotti and his food products multinational Cirio forced him to leave the club, and SS Lazio was controlled until 2004 by caretaker financial managers and a bank pool.

SS Lazio's colours of white and sky blue were inspired by the national emblem of Greece, due to the fact that SS Lazio is a mixed sports club this was chosen in recognition of the fact that the Ancient Olympic Games and along with it the sporting tradition in Europe is linked to Greece.

Originally, SS Lazio wore a shirt which was divided into white and sky blue quarters, with black shorts and socks.

Some seasons SS Lazio have used a sky blue and white shirt with stripes, but usually it is sky blue with a white trim, with the white shorts and socks.

SS Lazio have a strong rivalry with Napoli and Livorno, as well as with Pescara and Atalanta.

Internationally, SS Lazio's fans maintain a long-standing strong friendship with the supporters of the Bulgarian club Levski Sofia and as such, SS Lazio were invited to participate in the centenary football match honouring the birthday of the Bulgarian club.

All-time leading goalscorer for SS Lazio is Ciro Immobile, with 170 goals scored, followed by Silvio Piola with 159 goals.

SS Lazio is one of the five players who scored four goals in a single UEFA Champions League match.

Claudio Lotito, the current chairman of SS Lazio, purchased the club from Cragnotti in 2004, but owned just 26.

SS Lazio is one of only three Italian clubs listed on the Borsa Italiana, the others being Juventus and Roma.

SS Lazio was one of the few clubs that self-sustain from the financial support of a shareholder, and consistently make an aggregate profit after every season.

Unlike Inter Milan, Roma and Milan, who were sanctioned by UEFA due to breaches of Financial Fair Play, SS Lazio passed the regulations held by the administrative body with the high achievements.

In February 2022, SS Lazio announced that they had parted ways with Macron after 10 years.