# 1999–2000 Inter Milan season

The 1999–2000 season was Inter Milan's 91st in existence and 84th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football.

## Season

Following a poor previous season, Inter welcomed the arrival of Marcello Lippi on the bench. Striker Christian Vieri was acquired from Lazio for €49,000,000 which broke the world transfer record at the time. The other purchases were Di Biagio, Peruzzi, Blanc (France national team captain), Panucci, Jugović, and the winter window added Iván Córdoba and Seedorf.
Vieri proved to be an excellent goalscorer, scoring five times in first the month of the league, bringing Inter to the top of the standings. However, when autumn came, the side lost him and his partner, Ronaldo, to heavy injuries. Inter was not able to retain their advantage: Lazio and Juventus surpassed them, leaving Lippi's side in fourth place. After the regular season, Inter beat Parma in a play-off awarding the last spot of the Champions League: Inter won 3–1, with two goals scored from Roberto Baggio in his last appearance for the side. Inter also had the chance to win a trophy but failed, losing the final of the Coppa Italia to Lazio for a 2–1 aggregate.

## 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 | Angelo Peruzzi |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Christian Panucci |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Francesco Colonnese |
| 4 | DF | ARG | Javier Zanetti |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Laurent Blanc |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Michele Serena |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Francesco Moriero |
| 8 | MF | YUG | Vladimir Jugović |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Ronaldo |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Roberto Baggio |
| 11 | DF | ITA | Salvatore Fresi |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Giorgio Frezzolini |
| 13 | DF | CRO | Dario Šimić |
| 14 | MF | NED | Clarence Seedorf |
| 15 | MF | FRA | Benoît Cauet |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | FW | ROU | Adrian Mutu |
| 17 | DF | CIV | Cyril Domoraud |
| 18 | FW | CHI | Iván Zamorano |
| 19 | FW | ITA | Nello Russo |
| 20 | FW | URU | Álvaro Recoba |
| 21 | MF | ITA | Carlo Raffaele Trezzi |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Fabrizio Ferron |
| 23 | MF | ITA | Luigi Di Biagio |
| 25 | DF | URU | Martín Rivas |
| 26 | DF | COL | Iván Córdoba |
| 28 | MF | ITA | Giuseppe Imburgia |
| 30 | MF | POR | Hugo Infante |
| 31 | DF | GRE | Grigoris Georgatos |
| 32 | FW | ITA | Christian Vieri |

### 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 |
| 6 | MF | POR | Paulo Sousa (to Parma) |
| 14 | MF | FRA | Ousmane Dabo (to Parma) |
| 16 | FW | ITA | Davide Sinigaglia (released) |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Cristiano Zanetti (to Roma) |
| 21 | MF | ITA | Andrea Pirlo (on loan to Reggina) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 26 | DF | FRA | Zoumana Camara (on loan to Bastia) |
| 24 | DF | FRA | Mikaël Silvestre (to Manchester United) |
| 27 | DF | NGA | Taribo West (to Milan) |
| 30 | DF | ITA | Fabio Galante (to Torino) |

## Transfers
### Autumn

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| FW | Christian Vieri | Lazio | €46.48 million |
| GK | Angelo Peruzzi | Juventus | €19.00 million |
| DF | Christian Panucci | Real Madrid | €9.30 million |
| DF | Laurent Blanc | Olympique Marseille | €6.00 million |
| MF | Vladimir Jugović | Atletico Madrid | €2.00 million |
| MF | Luigi Di Biagio | Roma | |
| GK | Fabrizio Ferron | Sampdoria | |
| DF | Grigorios Georgatos | Olympiacos | €7.00 million |
| MF | Cyril Domoraud | Olympique Marseille | €7.00 million |
| GK | Luca Anania | | - |
| DF | Salvatore Fresi | Salernitana | loan ended |
| MF | Ousmane Dabo | Vicenza | loan ended |
| FW | Álvaro Recoba | Venezia | loan ended |
| GK | Giorgio Frezzolini | A.C. Milan | loan ended |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| DF | Giuseppe Bergomi | - | retired |
| MF | Ousmane Dabo | Parma | €15.49 million |
| GK | Gianluca Pagliuca | Bologna | |
| DF | Fabio Galante | Torino | |
| DF | Mauro Milanese | Perugia | |
| DF | Mikaël Silvestre | Manchester United | €5.70 million |
| DF | Massimo Tarantino | Bologna | |
| MF | Youri Djorkaeff | Kaiserslautern | €1.50 million |
| MF | Diego Simeone | Lazio | €10.90 million |
| MF | Zé Elias | Bologna | €0.750 million |
| MF | Aron Winter | Ajax | €0.60 million |
| DF | Gilberto | Vasco da Gama | |
| MF | Cristiano Zanetti | Roma | €3.615 million co-ownership |
| DF | Zoumana Camara | Bastia | loan |
| MF | Andrea Pirlo | Reggina | loan |
| FW | Nicola Ventola | Bologna | loan |
| FW | Mohammed Kallon | Reggina | loan |
| GK | Sébastien Frey | Hellas Verona | loan |
| GK | Luca Anania | Lecco | loan |
| DF | Matteo Ferrari | Bari | loan |

### Winter

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| MF | Clarence Seedorf | Real Madrid | €24.01 million |
| DF | Iván Córdoba | San Lorenzo | €14.00 million |
| FW | Adrian Mutu | Dinamo București | €6.50 million |
| DF | Michele Serena | Parma | loan |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| DF | Taribo West | A.C. Milan | €2.50 million |
| MF | Paulo Sousa | Parma | loan |

## Competitions
### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 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 | 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 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
* ↑ Internazionale entered the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League after winning the UEFA Champions League qualification match against Parma.

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | D | W | W | W | L | L | D | L | W | W | W | L | L | W | L | W | W | W | D | D | W | W | W | D | D | L | D | L | L | W | W | L | W |
| Position | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |

#### UEFA Champions League qualification

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

### Coppa Italia
#### Finals
## Statistics

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 14 May 2000. Source: Competitive matches

### Appearances and goals

    As of 31 June 2001
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Peruzzi | 37 | -31 | 33 | -31 | 4 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ARG | Zanetti | 42 | 2 | 34 | 1 | 7+1 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Blanc | 41 | 3 | 34 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Panucci | 31 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | GRE | Georgatos | 34 | 3 | 24+4 | 2 | 4+2 | 1 |
| 15 | MF | FRA | Cauet | 36 | 2 | 20+9 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 23 | MF | ITA | Di Biagio | 36 | 3 | 23+6 | 2 | 6+1 | 1 |
| 14 | MF | NED | Seedorf | 25 | 5 | 19+1 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 18 | FW | CHI | Zamorano | 35 | 8 | 22+8 | 7 | 3+2 | 1 |
| 32 | FW | ITA | Vieri | 24 | 18 | 16+3 | 13 | 3+2 | 5 |
| 20 | FW | URU | Recoba | 33 | 10 | 17+10 | 10 | 4+2 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Ferron | 8 | -6 | 1+3 | -6 | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | CRO | Simic | 23 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | COL | Cordoba | 24 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Moriero | 21 | 2 | 14+3 | 2 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | YUG | Jugovic | 21 | 2 | 10+7 | 2 | 2+2 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | POR | Paulo Sousa | 10 | 0 | 8+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | DF | ITA | Fresi | 13 | 0 | 8+1 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Baggio | 23 | 4 | 7+11 | 4 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Serena | 14 | 0 | 5+5 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Ronaldo | 8 | 3 | 5+2 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | ROU | Mutu | 14 | 2 | 3+7 | 0 | 2+2 | 2 |
| 14 | MF | FRA | Dabo | 10 | 0 | 3+5 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Colonnese | 11 | 0 | 2+5 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | CIV | Domoraud | 7 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | ITA | Russo | 2 | 1 | 0+1 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | URU | Rivas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Frezzolini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | NGA | West | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | ITA | Lizzori | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | ITA | Passiglia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | FRA | Silvestre | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | ITA | Sinigaglia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | ITA | Trezzi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* Source: http://calcio-seriea.net/presenze/1999/1164/