1999–2000 Juventus F.C. season

Juventus
1999–2000 season
President Vittorio Chiusano
Manager Carlo Ancelotti
Stadium Stadio delle Alpi
Serie A 2nd
Coppa Italia Quarter-finals
UEFA Intertoto Cup Winners
UEFA Cup Fourth round
Top goalscorer League:
Filippo Inzaghi (15)
All:
Filippo Inzaghi (26)
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours
← 1998–99 2000–01 →

Juventus Football Club came close to adding to its collection of league titles, but in the end, a controversial refereeing decision denied them the title.

Juventus led 1–0 at home to Parma in their penultimate match. Parma made a huge effort to equalise, and thought they had got the desired goal when Fabio Cannavaro headed the ball into the back of the net during stoppage time. However, referee Massimo De Santis discovered a foul that was only apparent to him and, despite wild protest from the Parma players, the goal was disallowed.

On the last day of the season, title rivals Lazio beat Reggina by 3–0 at home, but Juventus unexpectedly ran into problems at Perugia, where the heavens opened at 0–0 in half-time. Referee Pierluigi Collina nonetheless decided to kick off the game, albeit half an hour too late. Nervous Laziali and players followed the Perugia–Juventus game via radio, hoping that Juventus would be defeated. A draw would mean a re-match between the sides to decide the title, while a win would give Juventus another scudetto. The Juventus players' efforts were in vain, since Alessandro Calori struck a half-volley into the back of the net with half an hour to go. With Juventus unable to reply, they lost the title in the final round of the season.

It was a bitter end to the season for the Turin club, who had led the table for most of the campaign and lost just one of their first 26 matches, only to collapse in the final 8 games (4 losses suffered in those games). To make matters worse, Juventus had endured a humiliating UEFA Cup run, being beaten 4–0 and eliminated in the round of 16 by Spanish club Celta Vigo. This was their earliest exit from European competitions since the 1987–88 UEFA Cup.

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 Netherlands GK Edwin van der Sar
2 Italy DF Ciro Ferrara
3 Serbia and Montenegro DF Zoran Mirković
4 Uruguay DF Paolo Montero
5 Nigeria MF Sunday Oliseh
7 Italy DF Gianluca Pessotto
8 Italy MF Antonio Conte (captain)
9 Italy FW Filippo Inzaghi
10 Italy FW Alessandro Del Piero
11 Uruguay FW Daniel Fonseca
12 Italy GK Michelangelo Rampulla
13 Italy DF Mark Iuliano
14 Italy MF Jonathan Bachini
15 Italy DF Alessandro Birindelli
No. Position Player
18 Serbia and Montenegro FW Darko Kovačević
19 Argentina FW Juan Esnáider
20 Italy MF Alessio Tacchinardi
21 France MF Zinédine Zidane
22 Sweden GK Andreas Isaksson
23 Italy DF Gianluca Zambrotta
24 Italy MF Enzo Maresca
25 Italy MF Simone Perrotta
26 Netherlands MF Edgar Davids
27 Italy MF Marco Rigoni
28 Croatia DF Igor Tudor
34 Italy GK Andrea D'Amico
34 Italy GK Egi Mareta


Competitions

Serie A

Main article: 1999–2000 Serie A

League table

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Lazio (C) 34 21 9 4 64 33+31 72 2000–01 UEFA Champions League
First group stage
2 Juventus 34 21 8 5 46 20+26 71
3 Milan 34 16 13 5 65 40+25 61 2000–01 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4 Internazionale 34 17 7 10 58 36+22 58
5 Parma 34 16 10 8 52 37+15 58 2000–01 UEFA Cup First round
6 Roma 34 14 12 8 57 34+23 54
7 Fiorentina 34 13 12 9 48 38+10 0511
8 Udinese 34 13 11 10 55 45+10 50 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
9 Hellas Verona 34 10 13 11 40 45−5 43
10 Perugia 34 12 6 16 36 52−16 42
11 Bologna 34 9 13 12 32 39−7 40
12 Reggina 34 9 13 12 31 42−11 40
13 Lecce 34 10 10 14 33 49−16 40
14 Bari 34 10 9 15 34 48−14 39
15 Torino (R) 34 8 12 14 35 47−12 36 Relegation to Serie B
16 Venezia (R) 34 6 8 20 30 60−30 26
17 Cagliari (R) 34 3 13 18 29 54−25 22
18 Piacenza (R) 34 4 9 21 19 45−26 21

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 Fiorentina gained entry to the 2000–01 UEFA Cup as both 1999–2000 Coppa Italia finalists qualified to the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League.
(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.

Results summary

OverallHomeAway
PldWDLGFGAGDPtsWDLGFGAGDWDLGFGAGD
34 21 8 5 46 20 +26 71 14 2 1 28 8 +20 7 6 4 18 12 +6

Last updated: 14 May 2000.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
GroundHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHA
Result D W W L W W D W D W D W W D W D W W D D W W W W W W L L W W W L W L

Last updated: 14 May 2000.
Source: Competitive matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

Coppa Italia

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

UEFA Intertoto Cup

Third round

Semi-finals

Final

UEFA Cup

Main article: 1999–2000 UEFA Cup

First round

Second round

Third round

Fourth round

Statistics

Goalscorers

Serie A

References

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