2000–01 Serie A

Serie A

Season	2000–01
Champions	Roma 3rd title
Relegated	Reggina Vicenza Napoli Bari
Champions League	Roma Juventus Lazio Parma
UEFA Cup	Internazionale Milan Fiorentina
Matches played	306
Goals scored	845 (2.76 per match)
Top goalscorer	Hernán Crespo (26 goals)
Average attendance	29,441
← 1999–2000 2001–02 → 2000–01 Serie A team distribution

The 2000-01 season of Serie A, the major Italian professional football league, was contested by 18 teams, for the 13th consecutive season since 1988–89.

A.S. Roma won its first Scudetto since the 1982–83 season, its third title overall. Juventus finished second, and these two teams automatically qualified for the first group stage of the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League. Lazio, the defending champions, and Parma finished third and fourth respectively, to enter the third qualifying round of the same competition. Internazionale and Milan finished fifth and sixth, and qualified for the 2001–02 UEFA Cup along with A.C. Fiorentina, the winners of the Coppa Italia. Brescia Calcio gained entry into the 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup.

Vicenza, Napoli and Bari were automatically relegated to Serie B. Reggina and Verona were forced to contest a relegation tie-breaker after finishing level on points, with Verona winning on away goals to relegate Reggina.

Rule changes

In the middle of the season, the old quota system was abolished, meaning that each team was no longer limited to having no more than five non-EU players and using no more than three in each match.^[1][2]

Passport scandal

Concurrent with the abolition of the quota system, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) investigated footballers from South America and Africa who had used fake passports in order to enable their teams to field them as Europeans. Alberto, Warley, Alejandro Da Silva and Jorginho Paulista of Udinese Calcio,^[3] Fábio Júnior and Gustavo Bartelt of Roma,^[4] Dida of Milan, Álvaro Recoba of Inter, Thomas Job, Francis Zé and Jean Ondoa of U.C. Sampdoria, and Jeda and Dede of Vicenza were all handed bans in July 2001, ranging from six months to one year.^[5] However, most of these bans were subsequently reduced.

Personnels and Sponsoring

Team	Head Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Atalanta	Giovanni Vavassori	Asics	Ortobell
Bari	Eugenio Fascetti Arcangelo Sciannimanico	Lotto	TELE +
Bologna	Francesco Guidolin	Macron	Granarolo
Brescia	Carlo Mazzone	Garman	Ristora
Fiorentina	Fatih Terim Roberto Mancini	Diadora	Toyota
Inter	Marco Tardelli	Nike	Pirelli
Juventus	Carlo Ancelotti	Lotto	TELE +
Lazio	Sven-Göran Eriksson	Puma	Siemens
Lecce	Alberto Cavasin	Asics	Banca 121 (Banca del Salento)
Milan	Cesare Maldini	Adidas	Opel
Napoli	Zdenek Zeman Emiliano Mondonico	Diadora	Peroni
Parma	Renzo Ulivieri	Champion	Parmalat
Perugia	Serse Cosmi	Galex	Daewoo
Roma	Fabio Capello	Kappa	INA Assitalia
Reggina	Franco Colomba	Asics	Caffe Mauro
Udinese	Luigi De Canio	Diadora	Telit
Verona	Alberto Malesani	Lotto	NET Business
Vicenza	Edoardo Reja	Umbro	ARTEL

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Roma (C)	34	22	9	3	68	33	+35	75	2001–02 UEFA Champions League First group stage
2	Juventus	34	21	10	3	61	27	+34	73
3	Lazio	34	21	6	7	65	36	+29	69	2001–02 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4	Parma	34	16	8	10	51	31	+20	56
5	Internazionale	34	14	9	11	47	47	0	51	2001–02 UEFA Cup First round
6	Milan	34	12	13	9	56	46	+10	49
7	Atalanta	34	10	14	10	38	34	+4	44
8	Brescia	34	10	14	10	44	42	+2	044^1	UEFA Intertoto Cup 2001Third round
9	Fiorentina	34	10	13	11	53	52	+1	043^2	2001–02 UEFA Cup First round
10	Bologna	34	11	10	13	49	53	−4	43
11	Perugia	34	10	12	12	49	53	−4	42
12	Udinese	34	11	5	18	49	59	−10	38
13	Lecce	34	8	13	13	40	54	−14	037^3
14	Reggina (R)	34	10	7	17	32	49	−17	37	Qualification to Relegation tie-breaker
15	Hellas Verona	34	10	7	17	40	59	−19	37
16	Vicenza (R)	34	9	9	16	37	51	−14	36	Relegation to Serie B
17	Napoli (R)	34	8	12	14	35	51	−16	36
18	Bari (R)	34	5	5	24	31	68	−37	20

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 Brescia gained entry to the 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup after Atalanta declined to take part.
² Fiorentina gained entry to the 2001–02 UEFA Cup as the 2000–01 Coppa Italia champions.
³ Lecce were placed above Reggina on goal difference.
(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

Home ╲ Away

ATA

BAR

BOL

BRE

FIO

INT

JUV

LAZ

LCE

MIL

NAP

PAR

PER

REG

ROM

UDI

HEL

VIC

Atalanta

0–0

2–2

2–0

0–0

0–1

2–1

2–2

1–0

1–1

1–1

0–1

0–0

1–1

0–2

0–1

3–0

1–1

Bari

0–2

2–0

1–3

2–1

1–2

0–1

1–2

3–2

1–3

0–1

0–1

3–4

2–1

1–4

2–1

1–1

2–2

Bologna

0–1

4–2

1–0

1–1

0–3

1–4

2–0

2–2

2–1

2–1

2–1

3–2

2–0

1–2

1–1

1–0

1–1

Brescia

0–3

3–1

0–0

1–1

1–0

0–0

0–1

2–2

1–1

1–1

0–0

1–0

4–0

2–4

3–1

1–0

2–1

Fiorentina

1–1

2–2

1–1

2–2

2–0

1–3

1–4

2–0

4–0

1–2

0–1

3–4

2–1

3–1

2–1

2–0

3–2

Internazionale

3–0

1–0

2–1

0–0

4–2

2–2

1–1

0–1

0–6

3–1

1–1

2–1

1–1

2–0

2–1

2–0

1–1

Juventus

2–1

2–0

1–0

1–1

3–3

3–1

1–1

1–1

3–0

3–0

1–0

1–0

1–0

2–2

1–2

2–1

4–0

Lazio

0–0

2–0

2–0

2–1

3–0

2–0

4–1

3–2

1–1

1–2

1–0

3–0

2–0

0–1

3–1

5–3

2–1

Lecce

0–2

2–0

0–0

0–3

1–1

1–2

1–4

2–1

3–3

1–1

1–2

2–2

2–1

0–4

2–1

4–2

3–1

Milan

3–3

4–0

3–3

1–1

1–2

2–2

2–2

1–0

4–1

1–0

2–2

1–2

1–0

3–2

3–0

1–0

2–0

Napoli

0–0

1–0

1–5

1–1

1–0

1–0

1–2

2–4

1–1

0–0

2–2

0–0

6–2

2–2

0–1

2–0

1–2

Parma

2–0

4–0

0–0

3–0

2–2

3–1

0–0

2–0

1–1

2–0

4–0

5–0

0–2

1–2

2–0

1–2

0–2

Perugia

2–2

4–1

1–3

2–2

2–2

2–3

0–1

0–1

1–1

2–1

1–1

3–1

1–1

0–0

3–1

1–0

1–0

Reggina

1–0

1–0

2–1

0–3

1–1

2–1

0–2

0–2

0–1

2–1

3–1

2–0

0–2

0–0

1–1

1–1

1–0

Roma

1–0

1–1

2–0

3–1

1–0

3–2

0–0

2–2

1–0

1–1

3–0

3–1

2–2

2–1

2–1

3–1

3–1

Udinese

2–4

2–0

3–1

4–2

1–3

3–0

0–2

3–4

2–0

0–1

0–0

1–3

3–3

3–0

1–3

2–1

2–3

Hellas Verona

2–1

3–2

5–4

2–1

2–1

2–2

0–1

2–0

0–0

1–1

2–1

0–2

2–1

0–3

1–4

1–1

1–0

Vicenza

1–2

1–0

4–2

1–1

1–1

0–0

0–3

1–4

0–0

2–0

2–0

0–1

1–0

2–1

0–2

1–2

2–2

Source: lega-calcio.it (Italian)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Overall

• Most wins - Roma (22)
• Fewest wins - Bari (5)
• Most draws - Atalanta and Brescia (15)
• Fewest draws - Udinese and Bari (5)
• Most losses - Bari (24)
• Fewest losses - Roma and Juventus (3)
• Most goals scored - Roma (68)
• Fewest goals scored - Bari (31)
• Most goals conceded - Bari (68)
• Fewest goals conceded - Juventus (27)

Relegation tie-breaker

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Verona	2-2	Reggina	1-0	1-2

Reggina Calcio relegated to Serie B.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Hernán Crespo	Lazio	26
2	Andriy Shevchenko	Milan	24
3	Enrico Chiesa	Fiorentina	22
4	Gabriel Batistuta	Roma	20
5	Christian Vieri	Internazionale	18
6	Dario Hübner	Brescia	17
7	Marco Di Vaio	Parma	15
	Giuseppe Signori	Bologna	15
	Roberto Sosa	Udinese	15
10	David Trezeguet	Juventus	14

References and sources

• Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

External links

• it:Serie A 2000-2001 - Italian version with pictures and info.
• - All results on RSSSF Website.
• 2000/2001 Serie A Squads - (www.footballsquads.com)

Footnotes

1. "Italians bar non-EU imports". UEFA.com. 2002-07-17. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
2. "Milan challenge non-EU rule". BBC Sport. 2000-11-03. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
3. "Fake passport scandal hits Serie A". BBC News. 2000-10-08. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
4. "Lazio hit with passport charges". BBC News. 2001-05-08. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
5. Kennedy, Frances (2001-06-28). "Players banned over false passport scandal". The Independent (London). Retrieved 2010-05-23.