# 1999–2000 AS Roma season

The 1999–2000 season saw Associazione Sportiva Roma continue its long drought of titles, finishing a frustrating 6th place in Serie A.
New manager Fabio Capello did not make an immediate impact, and its position actually worsened with one spot, despite 18 goals from Sampdoria signing Vincenzo Montella. Reward for Capello's new 3–4–1–2 system would come in 2000–01, however, when summer signings Gabriel Batistuta, Walter Samuel and Emerson completed the thin squad of the 1999–2000 season, and Roma was able to claim the title. That seemed far away as city rivals Lazio celebrated the 2000 league title.

## Players
### Squad information

| No. | Name | Position(s) | Date of birth (Age) |
| Goalkeepers |||||
| 1 | Francesco Antonioli | GK | (1969-09-14)14 September 1969 (aged 30) |
| 12 | Cristiano Lupatelli | GK | (1978-06-21)21 June 1978 (aged 21) |
| 25 | Andrea Campagnolo | GK | (1978-06-17)17 June 1978 (aged 21) |
| Defenders |||||
| 2 | Cafu | RB | (1965-11-30)30 November 1965 (aged 29) |
| 3 | Zago | CB | (1969-03-14)14 March 1969 (aged 31) |
| 6 | Aldair | CB | (1965-11-30)30 November 1965 (aged 34) |
| 19 | Sergei Gurenko | CB | (1972-09-30)30 September 1972 (aged 27) |
| 20 | Amedeo Mangone | CB | (1968-07-12)12 July 1968 (aged 31) |
| 23 | Alessandro Rinaldi | CB | (1974-11-23)23 November 1974 (aged 25) |
| 30 | Fabio Petruzzi | CB | (1970-10-24)24 October 1970 (aged 29) |
| 32 | Vincent Candela | LB | (1973-10-24)24 October 1973 (aged 26) |
| Midfielders |||||
| 4 | Cristiano Zanetti | DM | (1977-04-14)14 April 1977 (aged 23) |
| 5 | Marcos Assunção | CM | (1976-07-25)25 July 1976 (aged 23) |
| 8 | Hidetoshi Nakata | CM | (1977-01-22)22 January 1977 (aged 23) |
| 11 | Eusebio Di Francesco | CM | (1969-09-08)8 September 1969 (aged 30) |
| 13 | Manuele Blasi | LM | (1980-08-17)17 August 1980 (aged 19) |
| 17 | Damiano Tommasi | DM | (1974-05-17)17 May 1974 (aged 26) |
| 16 | Ivan Tomić | CM | (1976-01-05)5 January 1976 (aged 24) |
| Strikers |||||
| 7 | Gustavo Bartelt | CF | (1974-09-02)2 September 1974 (aged 25) |
| 9 | Vincenzo Montella | CF | (1974-06-18)18 June 1974 (aged 25) |
| 10 | Francesco Totti (c) | FW | (1976-09-27)27 September 1976 (aged 23) |
| 18 | Paolo Poggi | CF | (1971-02-16)16 February 1971 (aged 29) |
| 24 | Marco Delvecchio | CF | (1973-04-07)7 April 1973 (aged 27) |
| 27 | Fábio Júnior | CF | (1977-11-20)20 November 1977 (aged 22) |

### Transfers

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| FW | Vincenzo Montella | Sampdoria | €25.82 million |
| MF | Hidetoshi Nakata | Perugia | €21.69 million |
| GK | Francesco Antonioli | Bologna | |
| MF | Marcos Assunção | Flamengo | |
| MF | Cristiano Zanetti | Cagliari | |
| FW | Paolo Poggi | Udinese | |
| GK | Cristiano Lupatelli | Fidelis Andria | |
| DF | Sergei Gurenko | Lokomotiv Moscow | |
| DF | Amedeo Mangone | Bologna | |
| DF | Joseph Dayo Oshadogan | Foggia | |
| DF | Filippo Dal Moro | Ternana | |
| MF | Neşat Gülünoğlu | Vfl Bochum | |
| MF | Giuseppe Colucci | Foggia | |
| MF | Manuele Blasi | Lecce | |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| FW | Paulo Sérgio | Bayern Munich | €6.60 million |
| GK | Michael Konsel | Venezia | free |
| MF | Luigi Di Biagio | Internazionale | |
| DF | Pierre Womé | Bologna | |
| GK | Antonio Chimenti | Lecce | |
| GK | Giorgio Sterchele | Perugia | |
| DF | Omari Tetradze | PAOK | |
| DF | Luca Ferri | Lecco | |
| DF | Filippo Dal Moro | Lecco | loan |
| DF | Marco Quadrini | Genoa | |
| DF | Joseph Dayo Oshadogan | Reggina | |
| MF | Daniele Conti | Cagliari | |
| MF | Neşat Gülünoğlu | Siegen | free |
| MF | Dmitri Alenichev | Perugia | loan |
| MF | Giuseppe Colucci | Bordeaux | loan |
| MF | Daniele De Vezze | Savoia | |
| MF | Alessandro Frau | Palermo | |
| FW | Lampros Choutos | Olympiacos | |
| FW | Carmine Gautieri | Piacenza | |

## Competitions
### Overall

| Competition | Started round | Final position | First match | Last match |
| Serie A | Matchday 1 | 6th | 29 August 1999 | 14 May 2000 |
| Coppa Italia | Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | 1 December 1999 | 25 January 2000 |
| UEFA Cup | First round | Fourth round | 16 September 1999 | 9 March 2000 |
Last updated: 14 May 2000

### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 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 |
| 7 | Fiorentina | 34 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 48 | 38 | +10 | 51 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 8 | Udinese | 34 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 55 | 45 | +10 | 50 | Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round |
* ↑ 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.

#### Results summary

| 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

#### 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A |
| Result | D | D | W | W | W | L | D | D | W | W | W | W | L | L | W | D | W | W | L | W | D | W | L | W | L | L | L | D | D | W | D | D | D | D |
| Position | 4 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Cup
#### First round
#### Round of 16
## Statistics
### Players statistics

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | UEFA | UEFA |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Antonioli | 38 | -33 | 30 | -31 | 8 | -2 |
| 2 | DF | BRA | Cafu | 33 | 2 | 28 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | BRA | Aldair | 42 | 2 | 34 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Zago | 35 | 2 | 25+2 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | FRA | Candela | 34 | 3 | 26 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | ITA | Tommasi | 39 | 2 | 25+8 | 2 | 5+1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | ITA | Di Francesco | 37 | 2 | 24+6 | 2 | 4+3 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | BRA | Assunção | 27 | 2 | 20+1 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Totti (c) | 32 | 8 | 27 | 7 | 4+1 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Montella | 38 | 21 | 30+1 | 18 | 7 | 3 |
| 24 | FW | ITA | Delvecchio | 34 | 12 | 27+1 | 11 | 6 | 1 |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Lupatelli | 4 | -3 | 4 | -3 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | ITA | Mangone | 28 | 0 | 19+6 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Rinaldi | 29 | 0 | 18+5 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | JPN | Nakata | 17 | 3 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | ITA | Zanetti | 13 | 0 | 6+5 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | ITA | Poggi | 11 | 0 | 4+7 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | RUS | Alenichev | 10 | 4 | 3+4 | 1 | 2+1 | 3 |
| 27 | FW | BRA | Fábio Júnior | 13 | 2 | 1+8 | 1 | 3+1 | 1 |
| 19 | DF | BLR | Gurenko | 9 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | ITA | Blasi | 5 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | SCG | Tomić | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | ARG | Bartelt | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 |
| 25 | FW | GRE | Choutos | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | GNB | Ednilson | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Gautieri | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 25 | GK | ITA | Campagnolo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | ITA | Petruzzi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | GK | ITA | Amelia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | GK | AUT | Konsel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | ITA | D'Agostino | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | ITA | Bonanni | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | ITA | Ferri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | DF | ITA | Zamperini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | ITA | Colucci |
* Source: http://calcio-seriea.net/rose/1999/1175/

### Goalscorers

* Vincenzo Montella 18 (4)
* Marco Delvecchio 11
* Francesco Totti 7 (4)
* Vincent Candela 3