1999–2000 Serie A

Serie A
Season	1999–2000
Champions	Lazio; 2nd title
Relegated	Torino; Venezia; Cagliari; Piacenza
Champions League	Lazio; Juventus; Milan; Internazionale
UEFA Cup	Parma; Roma; Fiorentina
Intertoto Cup	Udinese
Matches played	306
Goals scored	764 (2.5 per match)
Top goalscorer	Andriy Shevchenko ; (24 goals)
	← 1998–99 2000–01 → Serie A 1999-2000 team distribution

The 1999–2000 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 98th season of top-tier Italian football, the 68th in a round-robin tournament. It was contested by 18 teams.

By late March, Juventus topped the table by nine points over Lazio with only eight games remaining, but they lost to Milan, to Lazio at the Stadio delle Alpi, and to Hellas Verona, with Lazio only dropping two points, against Fiorentina.^[1] Lazio won the title on the final day of the season when Juventus lost their match against Perugia 1–0 on an almost flooded pitch, while Lazio comfortably beat Reggina 3–0 at home at the Stadio Olimpico.^[1]^[2]

Teams[]

Hellas Verona, Torino, Lecce and Reggina had been promoted from Serie B.

Personnels and Sponsoring[]

Team	Head Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Bari	Eugenio Fascetti	Lotto	TELE +
Bologna	Sergio Buso Francesco Guidolin	Diadora	Granarolo
Cagliari	Óscar Tabárez Renzo Ulivieri	Biemme	Pecorino Sardo
Fiorentina	Giovanni Trapattoni	Fila	Toyota
Internazionale	Marcelo Lippi	Nike	Pirelli
Juventus	Carlo Ancelotti	Kappa	D+ Liberta Digitale
Lazio	Sven-Göran Eriksson	Puma	Cirio
Lecce	Alberto Cavasin	Asics	Banca 121 (Banca del Salento)
Milan	Alberto Zaccheroni	Adidas	Opel
Parma	Alberto Malesani	Champion	Parmalat
Perugia	Carlo Mazzone	Galex	Perugina
Piacenza	Luigi Simoni	Lotto	Copra
Roma	Fabio Capello	Diadora	INA Assitalia
Reggina	Franco Colomba	Asics	Caffe Mauro
Torino	Emiliano Mondonico	Kelme	SDA
Udinese	Luigi De Canio	Diadora	Telit
Venezia	Luciano Spalletti Giuseppe Materazzi Francesco Oddo	Kronos	Emmezeta
Hellas Verona	Cesare Prandelli	Errea	Salumi Marsili

Number of teams by region[]

	Region	Number of teams	Teams
1	Emilia-Romagna	3	Bologna, Parma and Piacenza
2	Apulia	2	Bari and Lecce
	Lazio	2	Lazio and Roma
	Lombardy	2	Internazionale and Milan
	Piedmont	2	Juventus and Torino
	Veneto	2	Venezia and Hellas Verona
7	Calabria	1	Reggina
	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	1	Udinese
	Sardinia	1	Cagliari
	Tuscany	1	Fiorentna
	Umbria	1	Perugia

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	Qualification to Champions League first group stage
2	Juventus	34	21	8	5	46	20	+26	71	Qualification to Champions League first group stage
3	Milan	34	16	13	5	65	40	+25	61	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Internazionale^[a]	34	17	7	10	58	36	+22	58	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
5	Parma	34	16	10	8	52	37	+15	58	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
6	Roma	34	14	12	8	57	34	+23	54
7	Fiorentina^[b]	34	13	12	9	48	38	+10	51
8	Udinese	34	13	11	10	55	45	+10	50	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
9	Hellas Verona	34	10	13	11	40	45	−5	43
10	Perugia^[c]	34	12	6	16	36	52	−16	42	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
11	Bologna	34	9	13	12	32	39	−7	40^[d]
12	Reggina	34	9	13	12	31	42	−11	40^[d]
13	Lecce	34	10	10	14	33	49	−16	40^[d]
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: Serie A, RSSSF.com, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw. (Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played).^[3]
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Internazionale entered the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League after winning the UEFA Champions League qualification match against Parma.
^ Fiorentina gained entry to the 2000–01 UEFA Cup as both 1999–2000 Coppa Italia finalists had qualified for the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League.
^ Perugia gained entry to the 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup as Hellas Verona had declined to enter.
^ ^a ^b ^c REG: 9 pts; BOL: 4 pts → BOL 2–0 LEC; LEC: 4 pts → LEC 1–1 BOL

Results[]

Home \ Away	BAR	BOL	CAG	FIO	INT	JUV	LAZ	LCE	MIL	PAR	PER	PIA	REG	ROM	TOR	UDI	VEN	VER
Bari		1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	3–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–1
Bologna	1–0		1–0	0–0	3–0	0–2	2–3	2–0	2–3	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–0
Cagliari	2–3	2–2		1–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–3	2–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–3	1–1	0–1
Fiorentina	1–0	2–2	2–0		2–1	1–1	3–3	3–0	2–1	0–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	3–0	4–1
Internazionale	3–0	1–1	2–1	0–4		1–2	1–1	6–0	1–2	5–1	5–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	3–0	3–0
Juventus	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0		0–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–2	4–1	1–0	1–0
Lazio	3–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–2	0–0		4–2	4–4	0–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	3–2	4–0
Lecce	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–1		2–2	0–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–1
Milan	4–1	4–0	2–2	1–1	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–2		2–1	3–1	1–0	2–2	2–2	2–0	4–0	3–0	3–3
Parma	2–1	1–1	3–1	0–4	1–1	1–1	1–2	4–1	1–0		1–2	1–0	3–0	2–0	4–1	0–0	3–1	3–0
Perugia	1–2	3–2	3–0	1–2	1–2	1–0	0–2	2–2	0–3	1–1		2–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–5	2–1	0–0
Piacenza	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–3	0–2	0–2	1–1	0–1	1–2	0–0		0–0	1–1	0–2	0–1	2–2	1–0
Reggina	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	1–0		0–4	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–1
Roma	3–1	2–0	2–2	4–0	0–0	0–1	4–1	3–2	1–1	0–0	3–1	2–1	0–2		1–0	1–1	5–0	3–1
Torino	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–4	1–2	2–2	2–2	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–1		0–1	2–1	0–3
Udinese	5–1	2–1	5–2	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–3	2–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	3–0	3–2	0–2	0–0		5–2	3–3
Venezia	0–1	0–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	0–4	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–3	2–2	1–1		2–2
Hellas Verona	0–1	0–0	2–0	2–2	1–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	4–3	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	2–2	1–0

Source: lega-calcio.it (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

UEFA Champions League qualification[]

23 May 2000

20:30 CEST

Internazionale	3–1	Parma
Baggio 35', 73' Zamorano 89'		Stanić 69'

Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi, Verona

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Graziano Cesari (Genoa)

Internazionale qualified to 2000–01 UEFA Champions League's third qualifying round, while Parma qualified to the 2000–01 UEFA Cup first round.

Top goalscorers[]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Andriy Shevchenko	Milan	24
2	Gabriel Batistuta	Fiorentina	23
3	Hernán Crespo	Parma	22
4	Marco Ferrante	Torino	18
4	Vincenzo Montella	Roma	18
6	Filippo Inzaghi	Juventus	15
	Cristiano Lucarelli	Lecce
	Giuseppe Signori	Bologna
9	Christian Vieri	Internazionale	13
10	Roberto Muzzi	Udinese	12
10	Marcelo Salas	Lazio	12

References and sources[]

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

Footnotes[]

^ ^a ^b Newman, Blair (30 March 2015). "How Sven-Goran Eriksson's Lazio won the great Serie A title race of 1999-2000". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
^ Sutherland, Ben (9 October 2019). "Typhoon Hagibis: When the weather changed a sporting result". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
^ Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. – Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

External links[]

it:Classifica calcio Serie A italiana 2000 – Italian version with pictures and info.
[1] – All results on RSSSF Website.
1999/2000 Serie A Squads – (www.footballsquads.com)

[table_note_INT0.71674064067972-3] Internazionale entered the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League after winning the UEFA Champions League qualification match against Parma.

[table_note_FIO0.71674064067972-4] Fiorentina gained entry to the 2000–01 UEFA Cup as both 1999–2000 Coppa Italia finalists had qualified for the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League.

[table_note_PER0.71674064067972-5] Perugia gained entry to the 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup as Hellas Verona had declined to enter.

[table_hth_REG0.71674064067972-6] REG: 9 pts; BOL: 4 pts → BOL 2–0 LEC; LEC: 4 pts → LEC 1–1 BOL

[Blair_Newman-1] Newman, Blair (30 March 2015). "How Sven-Goran Eriksson's Lazio won the great Serie A title race of 1999-2000". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 February 2017.

[2] Sutherland, Ben (9 October 2019). "Typhoon Hagibis: When the weather changed a sporting result". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 October 2019.

[7] Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. – Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

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Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '99 '00 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '99 '00 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzeg-Bosnia, Republika Srpska) Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '99 '00 Faroe Islands '99 '00 Finland '99 '00 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '99 '00 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '99 '00 Latvia '99 '00 Lithuania '99 '00 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '99 '00 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia '99 '00 San Marino Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '99 '00 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales FR Yugoslavia
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