1995–96 Parma A.C. season

Parma

1995–96 season
President	Giorgio Pedraneschi
Manager	Nevio Scala
Stadium	Stadio Ennio Tardini
Serie A	6th
Coppa Italia	Second round
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Gianfranco Zola (10) All: Gianfranco Zola (12)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

Parma Associazione Calcio played its sixth consecutive Serie A season, which was the last under legendary coach Nevio Scala, who stepped down at the end of the season. Defensive stalwarts Alberto Di Chiara and Lorenzo Minotti also left the club following the season's conclusion. Despite being only one point behind third-placed Lazio, Parma finished 6th in the standings. In contrast to the previous four seasons, Parma did not win any cups either. The most significant moment of Parma's season was the debut of the club's new superstar, 17-year-old goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, who saved a penalty on his debut against A.C. Milan.

Players

Squad information

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Luca Bucci 2 DF Antonio Benarrivo 3 DF Alberto Di Chiara 4 DF Lorenzo Minotti 5 DF Luigi Apolloni 6 DF Fernando Couto 7 DF Roberto Sensini 8 FW Hristo Stoichkov 9 MF Massimo Crippa 10 FW Gianfranco Zola 11 FW Thomas Brolin 12 GK Gianluigi Buffon 13 MF Tarcisio Catanese

No. Position Player 14 DF Roberto Mussi 15 DF Massimo Susic 16 FW Filippo Inzaghi 17 DF Fabio Cannavaro 18 FW Faustino Asprilla 19 FW Marco Ferrante 20 FW Alessandro Melli 21 DF Marcello Castellini 22 GK Giovanni Galli 23 MF Massimo Brambilla 24 MF Dino Baggio 25 MF Gabriele Pin 26 GK Alessandro Nista

Competitions

Serie A

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Milan (C)	34	21	10	3	60	24	+36	73	1996–97 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Juventus	34	19	8	7	58	35	+23	065^1
3	Lazio	34	17	8	9	66	38	+28	59	1996–97 UEFA Cup First round
4	Fiorentina	34	17	8	9	53	41	+12	59	1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round
5	Roma	34	16	10	8	51	34	+17	58	1996–97 UEFA Cup First round
6	Parma	34	16	10	8	44	31	+13	58
7	Internazionale	34	15	9	10	51	30	+21	54
8	Sampdoria	34	14	10	10	59	47	+12	52
9	Vicenza	34	13	10	11	36	37	−1	49
10	Cagliari	34	11	8	15	34	47	−13	41
11	Udinese	34	11	8	15	41	49	−8	41
12	Napoli	34	10	11	13	28	41	−13	41
13	Atalanta	34	11	6	17	38	50	−12	39
14	Piacenza	34	9	10	15	31	48	−17	37
15	Bari (R)	34	8	8	18	49	71	−22	32	Relegation to Serie B
16	Torino (R)	34	6	11	17	28	46	−18	29
17	Cremonese (R)	34	5	12	17	37	57	−20	27
18	Padova (R)	34	7	3	24	41	79	−38	24

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Juventus gained entry to the 1996–97 UEFA Champions League as defending champions.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Matches

• Atalanta-Parma 1-1
• 0-1 Hristo Stoichkov (77)
• 1-1 Christian Vieri (90)

• Parma-Inter 2-1
• 0-1 Roberto Carlos (41)
• 1-1 Gianfranco Zola (48)
• 2-1 Dino Baggio (52)

• Sampdoria-Parma 3-0
• 1-0 Christian Karembeu (22)
• 2-0 Christian Karembeu (75)
• 3-0 Claudio Bellucci (88)

• Parma-Fiorentina 3-0
• 1-0 Hristo Stoichkov (35)
• 2-0 Massimo Crippa (41)
• 3-0 Antonio Benarrivo (64)

• Padova-Parma 1-3
• 0-1 Hristo Stoichkov (15)
• 0-2 Hristo Stoichkov (37)
• 1-2 Nicola Amoruso (50 pen)
• 1-3 Gianfranco Zola (77)

• Parma-Udinese 1-0
• 1-0 Alessandro Melli (77)

• Roma-Parma 1-1
• 1-0 Daniel Fonseca (46)
• 1-1 Dino Baggio (75)

• Parma-Piacenza 3-2
• 1-0 Gianfranco Zola (23)
• 1-1 Angelo Carbone (53)
• 2-1 Gianfranco Zola (61)
• 2-2 Nicola Caccia (82 pen)
• 3-2 Filippo Inzaghi (90)

• Cremonese-Parma 0-2
• 0-1 Fabio Cannavaro (43)
• 0-2 Gianfranco Zola (74)

• Parma-Milan 0-0

• Parma-Juventus 1-1
• 0-1 Ciro Ferrara (9)
• 1-1 Faustino Asprilla (45)

• Napoli-Parma 1-1
• 1-0 Fausto Pizzi (38)
• 1-1 Gianfranco Zola (52 pen)

• Parma-Lazio 2-1
• 1-0 Faustino Asprilla (36)
• 2-0 Gianfranco Zola (47)
• 2-1 Roberto Di Matteo (90)

• Bari-Parma 1-1
• 1-0 Igor Protti (45 pen)
• 1-1 Alessandro Melli (87)

• Parma-Vicenza 0-1
• 0-1 Roberto Murgita (56)

• Torino-Parma 2-2
• 0-1 Néstor Sensini (27)
• 1-1 Davide Dionigi (43)
• 1-2 Dino Baggio (67)
• 2-2 Jocelyn Angloma (78)

• Parma-Cagliari 4-0
• 1-0 Roberto Mussi (17)
• 2-0 Alberto Di Chiara (66)
• 3-0 Aldo Firicano (69 og)
• 4-0 Alberto Di Chiara (90)

• Parma-Atalanta 2-0
• 1-0 Gabriele Pin (38)
• 2-0 Alessandro Melli (45)

• Inter-Parma 1-1
• 0-1 Hristo Stoichkov (5)
• 1-1 Marco Branca (83)

• Parma-Sampdoria 1-0
• 1-0 Alessandro Lamonica (19 og)

• Fiorentina-Parma 1-0
• 1-0 Lorenzo Amoruso (25)

• Parma-Padova 2-1
• 1-0 Alessandro Melli (11)
• 2-0 Antonio Benarrivo (58)
• 2-1 Michel Kreek (89)

• Udinese-Parma 0-0

• Parma-Roma 1-1
• 0-1 Daniel Fonseca (3)
• 1-1 Néstor Sensini (45)

• Piacenza-Parma 2-1
• 1-0 Nicola Caccia (2)
• 2-0 Nicola Caccia (45 pen)
• 2-1 Giovanni Arioli (71)

• Parma-Cremonese 2-0
• 1-0 Roberto Mussi (56)
• 2-0 Gianfranco Zola (90)

• Milan-Parma 3-0
• 1-0 Roberto Baggio (43)
• 2-0 Roberto Donadoni (48)
• 3-0 Dejan Savićević (72)

• Juventus-Parma 1-0
• 1-0 Luca Bucci (63 og)

• Parma-Napoli 1-0
• 1-0 Luigi Apolloni (15)

• Lazio-Parma 2-1
• 1-0 Diego Fuser (14)
• 2-0 Pierluigi Casiraghi (39)
• 2-1 Gianfranco Zola (80)

• Parma-Bari 3-1
• 1-0 Dino Baggio (8)
• 1-1 Kennet Andersson (12)
• 2-1 Filippo Inzaghi (26)
• 3-1 Piro (90)

• Vicenza-Parma 0-1
• 0-1 Antonio Benarrivo (78)

• Parma-Torino 1-0
• 1-0 Gianfranco Zola (36)

• Cagliari-Parma 2-0
• 1-0 Néstor Sensini (41 og)
• 2-0 Luis Oliveira (75 pen)

Coppa Italia

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

First round

KS Teuta v Parma

14 September 1995 First leg	KS Teuta	0–2	Parma	Tirana, Albania
16:30			Zola  72', 85'	Stadium: Qemal Stafa Stadium Attendance: 8,100 Referee: Dimitar Momirov (Bulgaria)

Parma v KS Teuta

28 September 1995 Second leg	Parma	2–0 (4–0 agg.)	KS Teuta	Parma, Italy
20:45	Melli  8' Inzaghi  90'			Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 10,291 Referee: Milan Mitrović (Slovenia)

Second round

Halmstad v Parma

19 October 1995 First leg	Halmstad	3–0	Parma	Gothenburg, Sweden
20:05	Gudmundsson  7', 31' R. Andersson  75'			Stadium: Gamla Ullevi Attendance: 9,306 Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Germany)

Parma v Halmstad

2 November 1995 Second leg	Parma	4–0 (4–3 agg.)	Halmstad	Parma, Italy
20:30	Inzaghi  2' D. Baggio  38' Stoichkov  53' Benarrivo  69'			Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 13,053 Referee: Finn Lambek (Denmark)

Quarter-finals

Parma v Paris Saint-Germain

7 March 1996 First leg	Parma	1–0	Paris Saint-Germain	Parma, Italy
20:45	Stoichkov  58'			Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 12,447 Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)

Paris Saint-Germain v Parma

21 March 1996 Second leg	Paris Saint-Germain	3–1 (3–2 agg.)	Parma	Paris, France
20:30	Raí  9' (pen.), 69' (pen.) Loko  38'		Melli  26'	Stadium: Parc des Princes Attendance: 43,686 Referee: Leif Sundell (Sweden)

Statistics

Goalscorers

• Gianfranco Zola 10
• Hristo Stoichkov 5
• Dino Baggio 4
• Alessandro Melli 4
• Antonio Benarrivo 3

References