Roma travel to Biella on Saturday lunchtime eleven points clear of Juventus with four matches left. A point all but closes out their pursuit of a third Serie A Women scudetto. For Max Canzi and Luca Rossettini, friends of fifteen years, it is the fourth meeting of the season.
Eleven points, four games, one draw needed
Roma sit on forty-three points after eighteen matches: thirteen wins, four draws, one defeat, a goal difference of plus seventeen. Inter trail by six and are the only side still capable of catching Roma on points. Juventus trail by eleven. Roma have three matches after Saturday, Juventus four. Even a Juventus win at Biella leaves them at thirty-five with nine points left on the board, and for Juve to catch Rossettini's side from there Roma would need to lose at Napoli, lose at home to Parma, and lose at Ternana. A draw at Biella closes it.
Roma have faced Canzi's Juventus three times this season. They have drawn once and lost twice. Rossettini has not taken three points from him yet.
Canzi and Rossettini, four times in one season
Canzi took the Juventus Women job in July 2024 and won the 2024-25 scudetto and the Coppa Italia in his debut year. Rossettini arrived at Roma for 2025-26 as a first-time head coach in women's football, stepping across from the men's-game pathway he had walked as a player. The two know each other from Siena fifteen years ago, where Canzi was Mario Beretta's assistant while Rossettini was breaking into Serie A as a defender; Canzi later coached him at Cagliari. Every time they have met this season, both have talked about the friendship publicly. The results have gone Canzi's way.
The Serie A Women's Cup final in Castellammare di Stabia in September went 3-2 to Juventus on Cecilia Thomas's winner in the second minute of stoppage time. The league meeting at Tre Fontane on December 6 ended 1-1, Canzi serving a suspension. The Supercoppa at the Adriatico in Pescara on January 11 went 2-1 to Juventus, with Cristiana Girelli coming off the bench to score a back-heel in the 85th minute. Both cup finals turned late. The league fixture ended level.
Juventus have something else to chase
Juventus carry the best defence in Serie A Women into Biella, twelve goals conceded in eighteen matches. Their title defence, though, is done. Only the Serie A Women champion takes the direct Champions League main-stage place, with one qualifying-round slot below it. Juventus sit third on thirty-two points, one ahead of Napoli, two clear of Milan. For Canzi the final four matches of the league are about Europe.
The trophy haul of Canzi's first season in 2024-25 was the scudetto and the Coppa Italia. The haul of his second already includes the inaugural Serie A Women's Cup and the Supercoppa, with one more live in the Coppa Italia final in Vicenza next month. That is a strong 2025-26 ledger by any measure, but the scudetto is not coming back to Turin.
Amalie Vangsgaard has scored in two of the three previous meetings with Roma this season. Girelli, last season's Serie A Women top scorer on nineteen goals, keeps finding goals against the Giallorosse. If Juventus are to stay third, they probably need to score Saturday, and Canzi's bench has the players who tend to do it.
Biella, absences, and the final Canzi-Rossettini
The fixture moved from a Sunday lunchtime kickoff in Turin to 12:30 CEST Saturday at Biella for organisational reasons of the host club. DAZN, RaiSport and RaiPlay carry the broadcast. A Saturday lunchtime slot in Biella is an unusual stage for the match that may decide Serie A Women. Both squads return from the international break, with official availability lists due Friday. The Coppa Italia final on May 24 in Vicenza is already set as the fifth Canzi-Rossettini of the season and the second cup final between the two in six weeks. Saturday is the only meeting of 2025-26 that will not put a trophy in either manager's hands. For Roma the three points may be worth more than any they have played for all season.
