# 2000–01 Parma AC season

Parma Associazione Calcio had a moderately strong season in 2000–01, managing to qualify for the UEFA Champions League, but also losing the final of Coppa Italia and dropping out of the UEFA Cup too early for the board's liking, ultimately leading to coach Alberto Malesani being let go during the season.

## Summary

2000–01 also marked the first time in four years that Parma had to make do without star striker Hernán Crespo, who left for 2000 champions Lazio in the early summer. Sérgio Conceição and Matías Almeyda arrived from the Rome club as part of the transfer, but as they were midfielders Parma was staring at a potential striking crisis. Marco Di Vaio hit the back of the net 15 times, but Márcio Amoroso continued his miserable display in the Parma shirt, which saw him offloaded to Borussia Dortmund in the summer of 2001.
Still young, superstar goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon played out his final season with the club, along with defender Lilian Thuram. Both were sold to Juventus in the summer, and their absence was clearly felt in the 2001–02 season. 2001 remains the last time Parma qualified for the Champions League.

## Players
### Squad information

    Squad at end of season
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Davide Micillo |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Luigi Sartor |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Antonio Benarrivo |
| 4 | MF | GHA | Stephen Appiah |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Stefano Torrisi |
| 6 | DF | ARG | Roberto Sensini |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Diego Fuser |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Sabri Lamouchi |
| 9 | FW | SCG | Savo Milošević |
| 10 | FW | BRA | Márcio Amoroso |
| 11 | MF | POR | Sérgio Conceição |
| 14 | MF | FRA | Alain Boghossian |
| 16 | DF | BRA | Júnior |
| 17 | DF | ITA | Fabio Cannavaro |
| 18 | MF | FRA | Johan Micoud |
| 20 | FW | ITA | Marco Di Vaio |
| 21 | DF | FRA | Lilian Thuram |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 25 | MF | ARG | Matías Almeyda |
| 26 | FW | COL | Johnnier Montaño |
| 28 | DF | ITA | Paolo Cannavaro |
| 29 | MF | COL | Jorge Bolaño |
| 30 | FW | ITA | Simone Basso |
| 31 | MF | ITA | Alessio D'Imporzano |
| 32 | DF | ITA | Carlalberto Ludi |
| 33 | DF | ITA | Gianluca Falsini |
| 34 | FW | ITA | Saverio Guarinello |
| 35 | MF | ITA | Manuel Saccani |
| 36 | MF | ITA | Francesco Cardillo |
| 37 | DF | ITA | Davide Stirpe |
| 38 | DF | GUI | Alain Roger Bangoura |
| 70 | FW | CMR | Patrick Mboma |
| 77 | GK | ITA | Gianluigi Buffon |
| 99 | GK | ITA | Matteo Guardalben |

### Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Dino Baggio (to Lazio) |
| 13 | MF | ITA | Giampiero Maini (on loan to Vicenza) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | MF | ITA | Pietro Strada (to Cosenza) |
| 24 | FW | ITA | Emiliano Bonazzoli (on loan to Hellas Verona) |

### Transfers

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| FW | Savo Milošević | Real Zaragoza | €25,000,000 |
| MF | Sérgio Conceição | SS Lazio | €14,696,000 |
| MF | Matías Almeyda | SS Lazio | €14,696,000 |
| MF | Roberto Sensini | SS Lazio | |
| MF | Stephen Appiah | Udinese | |
| FW | Patrick Mboma | Cagliari | |
| MF | Sabri Lamouchi | Monaco | |
| DF | Júnior | Palmeiras |
| MF | Johan Micoud | Bordeaux | |
| FW | Emiliano Bonazzoli | Brescia | |
| DF | Gianluca Falsini | Hellas Verona | |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| FW | Hernán Crespo | Lazio | €25,696,000 |
| FW | Mario Stanić | Chelsea | €8,960,000 |
| FW | Ariel Ortega | River Plate | €5,681,029.99 |
| MF | Dino Baggio | Lazio | €5,164,572.72 |
| MF | Roberto Breda | Genoa | |
| DF | Luigi Apolloni | Hellas Verona | |
| MF | Pietro Strada | Cosenza | |
| MF | Ousmane Dabo | Monaco | |
| DF | Paolo Vanoli | Fiorentina | |
| MF | Johan Walem | Udinese | |
| DF | Michele Serena | Internazionale | |
| DF | Saliou Lassissi | Fiorentina | loan |
| MF | Davide Zoboli | Benevento | loan |
| MF | Raffaele Longo | Vicenza | loan |
| FW | Emiliano Bonazzoli | Hellas Verona | loan |

## Competitions
### Overall

| Competition | Started round | Current position | Final position | First match | Last match |
| Serie A | Matchday 1 | — | 4th | 1 October 2000 | 17 June 2001 |
| Coppa Italia | Round of 16 | — | Runners-up | 17 September 2000 | 13 June 2001 |
| UEFA Cup | First round | — | Fourth round | 14 September 2000 | 22 February 2001 |
Last updated: 17 June 2001

### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 2 | Juventus | 34 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 61 | 27 | +34 | 73 | Qualification to Champions League first group stage |
| 3 | Lazio | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 65 | 36 | +29 | 69 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Parma | 34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 51 | 31 | +20 | 56 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 5 | Internazionale | 34 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 47 | 47 | 0 | 51 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 6 | Milan | 34 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 56 | 46 | +10 | 49 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 17 June 2001. Source: Competitive matches

#### 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | D | D | L | W | W | W | L | W | W | L | L | D | L | D | D | W | L | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | L | W | D | W | W | L | W | W | L | L |
| Position | 6 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Cup
#### First round
#### Eightfinals
## Statistics
### Players statistics

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa | Coppa | UEFA | UEFA |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 77 | GK | ITA | Buffon | 43 | -40 | 34 | -31 | 2 | -2 | 7 | -7 |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Torrisi | 30 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | ITA | Cannavaro | 46 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | FRA | Thuram | 45 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Sartor | 29 | 1 | 17+2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | POR | Conceição | 36 | 7 | 21+4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Lamouchi | 43 | 3 | 29 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ITA | Fuser | 37 | 0 | 19+7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | FRA | Micoud | 39 | 7 | 23+6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 20 | FW | ITA | Di Vaio | 39 | 20 | 19+8 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 9 | FW | SCG | Milošević | 31 | 12 | 18+3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| 99 | GK | ITA | Guardalben | 7 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | -5 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | ARG | Almeyda | 23 | 0 | 15+1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | BRA | Amoroso | 34 | 14 | 14+9 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 16 | DF | BRA | Júnior | 29 | 3 | 13+4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | ITA | Falsini | 20 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ARG | Sensini | 23 | 0 | 11+8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | FW | CMR | Mboma | 27 | 6 | 10+10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | MF | GHA | Appiah | 26 | 2 | 9+6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Benarrivo | 19 | 0 | 8+5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | FRA | Boghossian | 23 | 2 | 7+5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 29 | MF | COL | Bolano | 19 | 0 | 4+8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | ITA | P. Cannavaro | 9 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 26 | FW | COL | Montano | 11 | 3 | 1+4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| | FW | ITA | Bonazzoli | 2 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Micillo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | FW | ITA | Basso | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Baggio | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | ITA | Ludi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | MF | ITA | Saccani | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | MF | ITA | Cardillo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | DF | ITA | Stirpe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | DF | GUI | Bangoura | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* Source: http://calcio-seriea.net/presenze/2000/1186/

### Goalscorers

| Place | Position | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | UEFA Cup | Total |
| 1 | FW | Marco Di Vaio | 15 | 3 | 2 | 20 |
| 2 | FW | Márcio Amoroso | 7 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| 3 | FW | Savo Milošević | 8 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 4 | MF | Sérgio Conceição | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| = | MF | Johan Micoud | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | FW | Patrick Mboma | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | MF | Sabri Lamouchi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| = | MF | Júnior | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| = | MF | Johnnier Montaño | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | FW | Emiliano Bonazzoli | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| = | MF | Stephen Appiah | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | DF | Stefano Torrisi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| = | | Own Goal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| = | DF | Luigi Sartor | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| | | TOTALS | 51 | 15 | 16 | 82 |