# 2001–02 Inter Milan season

The 2001–02 season was Inter Milan's 93rd in existence and 86th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football.

## Season overview

After a disappointing previous season, Massimo Moratti appointed former Valencia coach Héctor Cúper as the new head coach. Cúper managed to line-up a new team, buying players such as Toldo, Materazzi, Kallon and Ventola. Inter had a sprint-start, topping the league and passing several challenges in Europe. 2001 closed with Giuseppe Prisco's death, vice-chairman since 1962.
In the second part of season, Inter showed signs of exhaustion: 1–2 home loss to Atalanta was followed, on Thursday, by European elimination. Before the last league game, against Lazio, Inter was still at the top, with one point over Juventus and two over Roma. In the first half, Inter scored twice, but both goals were equalized by Lazio's Poborsky. During second half of the match, Lazio - still in race for a UEFA Cup spot - scored another two goals, eventually winning the match. Inter fell to third place, enough to qualify for next season's Champions League playoff. The Lazio-Inter game also marked Ronaldo's last appearance with Inter.

## First-team squad

    Squad at end of season.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Francesco Toldo |
| 2 | DF | COL | Iván Córdoba |
| 3 | FW | SLE | Mohamed Kallon |
| 4 | DF | ARG | Javier Zanetti (captain) |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Pasquale Padalino |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Cristiano Zanetti |
| 7 | MF | POR | Sérgio Conçeicão |
| 8 | MF | ESP | Francisco Farinós |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Ronaldo |
| 10 | MF | NED | Clarence Seedorf |
| 11 | MF | ARG | Guly |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Alberto Fontana |
| 13 | DF | CRO | Dario Šimić |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Luigi Di Biagio |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Salvatore Ferraro |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | DF | URU | Gonzalo Sorondo |
| 17 | DF | ITA | Michele Serena |
| 18 | MF | FRA | Stéphane Dalmat |
| 20 | FW | URU | Álvaro Recoba |
| 21 | MF | GRE | Grigorios Georgatos |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Marco Materazzi |
| 24 | DF | SVK | Vratislav Greško |
| 25 | DF | FRA | Laurent Blanc |
| 28 | FW | BRA | Adriano |
| 31 | DF | ARG | Nelson Vivas |
| 32 | FW | ITA | Christian Vieri |
| 33 | MF | TUR | Emre Belözoğlu |
| 54 | FW | TUR | Hakan Şükür |
| 77 | MF | TUR | Okan Buruk |
| 78 | FW | ITA | Nicola Ventola |

### Transfers

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| GK | Francesco Toldo | Fiorentina | (U$26,0 million) |
| GK | Alberto Fontana | Napoli | (U$3 million) |
| DF | Gonzalo Sorondo | Defensor Sporting | (U$9 million) |
| DF | Marco Materazzi | Perugia | (U$12 million) |
| MF | Sérgio Conceição | Parma | €18.00 million |
| DF | Nelson Vivas | Arsenal | €7.00 million |
| MF | Andres Guly | Milan | |
| DF | Pasquale Padalino | Bologna | loan |
| MF | Okan Buruk | Galatasaray | free |
| MF | Emre Belözoğlu | Galatasaray | free |
| FW | Mohamed Kallon | Reggina | loan ended |
| FW | Nicola Ventola | Atalanta | loan ended |
| MF | Cristiano Zanetti | Roma | loan ended |
| DF | Salvatore Fresi | Napoli | loan ended |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| MF | Andrea Pirlo | Milan | (U$17,0 million) |
| GK | Sébastien Frey | Parma | €21.00 million |
| GK | Marco Ballotta | Modena | |
| DF | Laurent Blanc | Manchester United | free |
| DF | Bruno Cirillo | Lecce | co-ownership |
| DF | Matteo Ferrari | Parma | co-ownership |
| DF | Fabio Macellari | Bologna | co-ownership |
| MF | Cristian Brocchi | Milan | |
| MF | Benoît Cauet | Torino | |
| MF | Vladimir Jugović | Monaco | |
| FW | Marco Ferrante | Torino | loan ended |
| FW | Corrado Colombo | Atalanta | |
| DF | Salvatore Fresi | Bologna | |
| FW | Adrian Mutu | Hellas Verona | €2,633 million |

#### Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Laurent Blanc (to Manchester United) |
| 15 | MF | FRA | Benoît Cauet (to Torino) |
| 28 | FW | BRA | Adriano (on loan to Fiorentina) |
| 19 | FW | TUR | Hakan Şükür (to Parma) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Jonatan Binotto (to Brescia) |
| 29 | FW | URU | Antonio Pacheco (on loan to Espanyol) |
| 73 | DF | ITA | Salvatore Fresi (to Bologna) |

#### Reserve squad

    The following players did not make an appearance for the first team.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | MF | ITA | Nicola Beati |
| 22 | GK | FRA | Mathieu Moreau |
| 30 | FW | NGA | Obafemi Martins |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 39 | GK | ITA | Alex Cordaz |
| 42 | DF | ITA | Giovanni Pasquale |
| 43 | DF | ITA | Luca Perfetti |

## Competitions
### Serie A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Juventus (C) | 34 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 64 | 23 | +41 | 71 | Qualification to Champions League first group stage |
| 2 | Roma | 34 | 19 | 13 | 2 | 58 | 24 | +34 | 70 | Qualification to Champions League first group stage |
| 3 | Internazionale | 34 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 62 | 35 | +27 | 69 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Milan | 34 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 47 | 33 | +14 | 55 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 5 | Chievo | 34 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 57 | 52 | +5 | 54 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | D | W | W | W | D | L | D | W | D | W | W | W | L | W | W | D | W | W | D | D | L | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | L | W | D | W | L |
| Position | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Cup
#### First round

Inter Milan won 6–0 on aggregate.

#### Second round

Inter Milan won 2–1 on aggregate.

#### Third round

Inter Milan won 4–2 on aggregate.

#### Fourth round

Inter Milan won 5–3 on aggregate.

#### Quarter-finals

Inter Milan won 2–1 on aggregate.

#### Semi-finals

Feyenoord won 3–2 on aggregate.

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

    As of 30 June 2002
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | UEFA Cup | UEFA Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Toldo | 43 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ARG | Zanetti J | 44 | 2 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 2 | DF | COL | Cordoba | 42 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Materazzi | 32 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 24 | DF | SVK | Gresko | 34 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8+1 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | POR | Conçeicão | 32 | 1 | 16+7 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 5+3 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Zanetti C | 33 | 2 | 25+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Di Biagio | 42 | 4 | 31 | 3 | 1+1 | 0 | 8+1 | 1 |
| 11 | MF | ARG | Guly | 33 | 1 | 20+3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 32 | FW | ITA | Vieri | 28 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 0+1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | FW | SLE | Kallon | 39 | 15 | 16+12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 10+1 | 6 |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Fontana | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | NED | Seedorf | 32 | 4 | 17+3 | 3 | 0+2 | 1 | 6+4 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | URU | Recoba | 22 | 6 | 15+3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 |
| 78 | FW | ITA | Ventola | 26 | 10 | 12+3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7+2 | 5 |
| 18 | MF | FRA | Dalmat | 24 | 1 | 11+5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4+3 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Ronaldo | 15 | 7 | 9+1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | GRE | Georgatos | 12 | 1 | 9+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | URU | Sorondo | 12 | 0 | 8+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | CRO | Simic | 21 | 0 | 6+6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5+3 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ESP | Farinos | 16 | 0 | 5+5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | TUR | Okan | 11 | 0 | 3+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | ARG | Vivas | 16 | 0 | 1+12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | TUR | Emre | 20 | 0 | 0+13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | ITA | Serena | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Padalino | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Ferraro | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
| 15 | MF | FRA | Cauet | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 28 | FW | BRA | Adriano | 14 | 1 | 0+8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
Last updated: 10 May 2002 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | UEFA Cup | Total |
| 32 | FW | | Christian Vieri | 22 | 0 | 3 | 25 |
| 3 | FW | | Mohamed Kallon | 9 | 0 | 6 | 15 |
| 78 | FW | | Nicola Ventola | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 9 | FW | | Ronaldo | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 20 | FW | | Álvaro Recoba | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 10 | MF | | Clarence Seedorf | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 14 | MF | | Luigi Di Biagio | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | DF | | Javier Zanetti | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | MF | | Cristiano Zanetti | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 23 | DF | | Marco Materazzi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | DF | | Iván Córdoba | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | MF | | Sérgio Conçeicão | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | MF | | Guly | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | MF | | Stéphane Dalmat | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 | MF | | Grigorios Georgatos | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | DF | | Vratislav Greško | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | FW | | Adriano | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| # | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | 62 | 3 | 20 | 85 |
Last updated: 5 May 2002 Source: Calcio.com