What is Corriere dello Sport-Stadio?
Corriere dello Sport-Stadio is an Italian daily newspaper devoted to sport, published in Rome. Its own site carries the footer line “© 2026 CorriereDelloSport - P.Iva 00878311000”, which identifies the publishing entity by VAT number.[7] It is one of the titles in the ADS directory of audited Italian newspapers and magazines.[8]
Advertising for the paper is sold by Sport Network, which lists Corriere dello Sport among its brands together with Tuttosport, Auto, Autosprint, Guerin Sportivo, Motosprint and InMoto, and describes itself as part of an industrial group owning Italian publishing houses, printing centres and tourism interests. Sport Network counts 14 print titles across the group, six of them daily newspapers, plus 18 websites, 18 television outlets and eight local radio stations.[5]
ADC Group reported on 17 December 2020 that the Amodei group is the publisher of both Corriere dello Sport-Stadio and Tuttosport, and that Sport Network is that group's advertising concession.[6] Italy therefore has three national sports dailies in three cities, but two of the three under one proprietor — a distinction that is easy to lose when the three are described together.
What does Corriere dello Sport-Stadio cover?
The paper is a general sports daily with a Rome base, covering association football — Serie A, the European club competitions and the national team — alongside the other sports that the Italian dailies carry, among them motorsport, basketball, volleyball, cycling and tennis.[7]
The group it sits in is wider than the daily. Sport Network's brand list places the paper beside motoring and motorcycling titles and a football weekly, and the group's stated assets run to regional television and local radio as well as print.[5] ADC Group reported in December 2020 that the same group had taken 51 per cent of PG Esports, and quoted the proprietor Roberto Amodei on covering esports across the group's dailies, websites and events.[6]
Seasonality in the paper's sale is documented. Primaonline's reading of the July 2026 ADS returns, published 11 September 2026, attributes the month's rise in the sports dailies to the summer transfer window, and records that this title and Tuttosport posted the largest percentage increases in the entire survey.[1]
How large is Corriere dello Sport-Stadio's audience?
Primaonline, reporting ADS certified data on 11 September 2026, gave the title a combined print and digital circulation of 34,852 copies for July 2026, 11.2 per cent above June.[1] Annuario Media Sport, reporting ADS data on 11 February 2026, gave 34,885 copies for December 2025, a rise of 13.2 per cent.[2]
Both readings come from the same auditing body, ADS, which publishes monthly declared and certified averages by title; the figures above are two dated observations from that series rather than an annual average.[8]
No current brand-level digital audience figure for the title could be retrieved for this page. Digital and print audiences in Italy are now measured through Audicom's integrated research, which consolidated the former Audiweb and Audipress services.[4]
Since when has Corriere dello Sport-Stadio existed?
The masthead records more than one event, and the dates behind it should be kept apart. The Sapere.it encyclopedia entry states that the paper was “fondato a Bologna nel 1924” — founded in Bologna in 1924 — and that it was moved to Rome by the Fascist authorities, with the title changed to Il Littoriale. That entry dates the move and renaming to 1929.[3]
The Comune di Bologna's history archive dates the renaming earlier. It records that in July 1926 the Bologna sports paper Corriere dello Sport became the official organ of CONI, that towards the end of 1927 the Bologna federation of the Fascist party bought the paper and renamed it Il Littoriale after the city's newly opened stadium, and that the first issue under that title appeared on 12 December 1927; the paper later moved its base to Rome.[9] The two sources agree on the sequence — founded in Bologna, taken over, renamed, moved to Rome — and disagree on the year of the renaming, which is stated here as a disagreement rather than resolved.
Sapere.it then records that in 1944, with Rome liberated, the paper “ha ripreso la testata originaria” — resumed its original masthead — and that “nel 1977 si è fuso con il quotidiano Stadio, assumendo la testata Corriere dello Sport-Stadio”.[3] The 1977 merger is the origin of the present double title and is a different event from the founding of either component; the founding date of the Bologna daily Stadio could not be established from a source retrieved for this page.
Why does Corriere dello Sport-Stadio matter in Italy's sport?
Italy's sports press is structured around three national dailies published in three cities — Milan, Rome and Turin — and this is the Rome title. The ADS returns for July 2026 place the three at 112,693, 34,852 and 20,784 copies.[1]
The three are not three independent proprietors. ADC Group's December 2020 report identifies the Amodei group as publisher of both this paper and Tuttosport, and Sport Network's own brand list carries both mastheads.[5][6] The second and third titles by circulation therefore share an owner and an advertising concession, while the largest sits in a separate group.
The paper's institutional lineage is also documented: the Comune di Bologna archive records that the title was the official organ of CONI, the Italian National Olympic Committee, from July 1926, before the Fascist party federation acquired it.[9] That is a historical relationship recorded by the city archive, not a current one.
References
- Primaonline — Classifiche e trend diffusione quotidiani, ADS data for July 2026, 11 September 2026. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- Annuario Media Sport — Classifiche e trend diffusione quotidiani, ADS data for December 2025, 11 February 2026. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- Sapere.it — De Agostini encyclopedia entry, Corrière dello Spòrt. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- Audicom — Audiweb and Audipress integrated audience research. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- Sport Network — advertising concession, brand list. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- ADC Group — Il Gruppo Amodei, editore del Corriere dello Sport-Stadio e Tuttosport, acquisisce il 51% di PG Esports, 17 December 2020. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- Corriere dello Sport-Stadio — the newspaper's own site. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- ADS — Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa, directory of audited titles. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- Storia e Memoria di Bologna, Comune di Bologna — Il Littoriale. Accessed 2026-09-19.