Our monthly schedule, January
7 matches in 25 days, for a full-throttle start to 2026
A new page on the calendar, a new year and new challenges unlocked for the Nerazzurri: seven, to be precise — three of them coming in the opening week of 2026 — crammed into just 25 days, for a start at full throttle. Between league action and Champions League nights, the new calendar year’s calling card leaves no room for doubt: “new year, new tour de force.”
Bridging 2025 and 2026 will be the second act of Atalanta’s hat-trick of big matches scheduled around the turn of the year. Kicking off the new calendar year, a clash as high-stakes as it is special awaits: in the final home fixture of the first half of the season against Roma, Gian Piero Gasperini will return to the New Balance Arena for the first time as an opponent, after nine seasons on the Bergamo bench. Kick-off against the Giallorossi is set for 20:45 CET on Saturday 3.
Bringing the Serie A first half to a close will be the month’s first midweek fixture, filling those calendar slots that, in just a few weeks’ time, will be taken over by Champions League commitments set to crowd the Nerazzurri schedule. Atalanta will be on the road for Matchday 19, travelling to Bologna. The season’s “turning point” against the Rossoblù is scheduled at the Dall’Ara, with kick-off at 18:30 CET on Wednesday 7.
Just as was the case in the opening round back in early August, the start of the return leg will see Atalanta at home. Opening the second act of the Serie A season will be Torino, with both sides taking to the pitch at the New Balance Arena on the evening of Saturday 10, kick-off set for 20:45 CET.
And sticking with the theme of coincidences, the first away fixture for Palladino’s men in the second half of the campaign will be none other than Pisa, already faced on opening day of the 2025/26 season. This time on the road, Atalanta will visit the other Nerazzurri — the Tuscan side — in the first early fixture of the return leg: kick-off “under the Leaning Tower” at 20:45 CET on Friday 16.
With domestic duties wrapped up, attention turns to the first of two Champions League nights in the month. For the seventh and penultimate matchday of the League Phase, the New Balance Arena will throw open its gates for a night with a distinctly Basque flavour: guests on the night will be the “Lions” of Athletic Club Bilbao, with teams taking to the field — or sakea, as they say in Euskera — at 21:00 CET on Wednesday 21.
Another sense of déjà vu in Serie A follows the continental fixture: after Pisa comes… Parma. The Gialloblù will visit Bergamo for a Sunday afternoon fixture, with the New Balance Arena once again centre stage just days after the European showdown with the Basques. Kick-off is set for 15:00 CET on Sunday 25.
Finally, the month’s schedule draws to a close with the curtain falling on the 2025/26 League Phase. Atalanta will travel to the Joseph Marien Stadium to face Union Saint-Gilloise in the final Wednesday night of European football, as the Nerazzurri await to find out whether the next stop on Europe’s biggest stage will be the play-offs or straight in the Round of 16. Kick-off is set for 21:00 CET on Wednesday 28 January, just south of Brussels.