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Rome 2026 · Tier 1

Football

The first RoboCup Italian Open, an Official RoboCup Regional Event inside Maker Faire Rome. Two divisions, Middle and Large, set by robot size, playing under the 2026 RoboCup Humanoid Soccer League rules where they apply. Fully autonomous throughout: round-robin matches, then final matches and an award ceremony on the last day.

19Results held
9Entrants
2Divisions
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Rules & structure: CompleteEntrants: 9 heldResults: 19 held

RoboPodium holds 19 verified results for this sport, published only after verification against their sources. No complete entrant list, draw or results feed has been verified, so this is not the full record of the competition.

Events

Middle Division12 matchesLarge Division7 matches

Verified results

Date not recordedLarge Division · Final
SPQR1
CAU Mountain&Sea2
Official
Date not recordedLarge Division
CAU Mountain&Sea2
FC Isar0
Official
Date not recordedLarge Division
SPQR2
CAU Mountain&Sea1
Official
Date not recordedLarge Division
FC Isar1
SPQR7
Official
Date not recordedLarge Division
FC Isar1
CAU Mountain&Sea3
Official
Date not recordedLarge Division
CAU Mountain&Sea3
SPQR3
Official

Showing 6 of 19 verified matches, in no particular order: this publication carries no dates. See all results.

Control policy

autonomous · requiredteleoperated · forbidden

Divisions

Divisions in Football at the RoboCup Italian Open 2026, with the eligibility envelope and notes for each.
DivisionEligibility envelopeNotes
Large DivisionHeight ≤ 190 cm · mass ≤ 80 kg · BMI 5–30Size limits inclusive, from rule book sections 3.5.2 and 3.5.3. Three players a side in Foundation or five in Advanced, chosen per match. The organiser budgets support for up to four teams. The RoboCup event listing calls it the Adult Size Division, its name before 2026.
Middle DivisionHeight ≤ 125 cm · mass ≤ 25 kg · BMI 5–30Size limits inclusive, from rule book sections 3.5.2 and 3.5.3. Three players a side in Foundation or five in Advanced, chosen per match, and Advanced from the quarter-finals on. The organiser budgets support for up to six teams. The RoboCup event listing calls it the Middle Size Division.

How a result is structured

Football result definition

Official
Official result as published by the RoboCup Humanoid Soccer League. RoboPodium reproduces it unchanged.
  • Two halves of 10 minutes, with a half-time break of at least 10 minutes.
  • Three players a side in the Foundation configuration, five in Advanced. If either team chooses Foundation, both play it. The Middle Division plays Advanced from the quarter-finals on.
  • A game ends as soon as one team leads by 10 goals.
  • Where a winner is needed: two periods of extra time of up to 5 minutes each, then a penalty shoot-out.
  • No offside. Routine fouls are punished with time penalties; cautions and send-offs are kept for serious misconduct.
  • A team that forfeits a round-robin game leaves its opponent to play an empty field, where own goals do not count.

Known unknowns

  • When each match was played. The league's results page prints no day or time for any match. It links a schedule kept in Google Sheets, which RoboPodium has not assessed as a source, so every match is held undated.
  • Why I-Kid does not appear. Maker Faire Rome announced it among ten teams on 15 October; the league's results show nine teams and no I-Kid match, and say nothing about it.
  • The RoboCup event listing still uses the league's former division names, Adult Size and Middle Size. The organiser and the 2026 rule book say Large and Middle, and RoboPodium follows them.

Sources

More at Rome 2026

ResultsEvery verified matchScheduleWhen each stage runsRome 2026The full competition reference