# 2000–01 Atalanta BC season

Atalanta BC returned to Serie A following a two-year absence, and immediately established itself on the top half of the table, finishing in 7th place. Coach Giovanni Vavassori was hailed as the main contributor to the success, having come from the youth side a couple of years before, first promoting the club, and then having such a successful inaugural Serie A campaign. Inter-owned Nicola Ventola scored ten league goals, enough to persuade Inter to take him back, and playmaker Cristiano Doni got his proper breakthrough as well. Experienced Massimo Carrera held the defence together, and was also widely praised, while goalkeeper Ivan Pelizzoli was signed by champions Roma.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 22 April 2021
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 |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Fabio Rustico |
| 3 | MF | ITA | Domenico Morfeo (on loan from Fiorentina) |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Massimo Paganin |
| 5 | MF | YUG | Ljubisa Dundjerski |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Fabio Gallo |
| 7 | FW | ITA | Marco Nappi |
| 8 | DF | ITA | Luciano Zauri |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Fausto Rossini |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Nicola Ventola (on loan from Inter) |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Maurizio Ganz (on loan from Milan) |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Davide Pinato |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Stefano Lorenzi |
| 16 | FW | DOM | José Espinal |
| 17 | DF | ITA | Mauro Minelli |
| 18 | MF | DOM | Vinicio Espinal |
| 19 | DF | ITA | Damiano Zenoni |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | DF | ITA | Massimo Carrera (captain) |
| 21 | MF | ITA | Alex Pinardi |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Ivan Pelizzoli |
| 24 | DF | ITA | Sebastiano Siviglia |
| 25 | FW | BRA | Piá |
| 26 | DF | ITA | Cristian Zenoni |
| 27 | MF | ITA | Cristiano Doni |
| 28 | MF | ITA | Daniele Berretta |
| 30 | DF | ITA | Gianpaolo Bellini |
| 31 | DF | ITA | Sergio Carnesalini |
| 32 | GK | ITA | Matteo Gritti |
| 33 | MF | ITA | Roberto Previtali |
| 36 | DF | AUS | Adrian Madaschi |
| 37 | FW | ITA | Biagio Pagano |
| 38 | FW | ITA | Rolando Bianchi |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving from | Type | Transfer window | Ends | Transfer fee | Source |
| 11 | FW | Maurizio Ganz | 31 | Milan | Loan | Summer | July 1, 2001 | | [ |
| 4 | DF | Massimo Paganin | 29 | Bologna | Transfer | Summer | | free | |
| 10 | FW | Nicola Ventola | 22 | Inter | Loan | Summer | June 30, 2001 | | |
| 28 | MF | Daniele Berretta | 28 | Cagliari | Transfer | Winter | | Undisclosed | |
Last updated: 7 June 2019

### Out

| N | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Age | Moving to | Type | Transfer window | Transfer fee | Source |
| 11 | FW | | Claudio Caniggia | 33 | Dundee | Transfer | Summer | free | |
| 10 | FW | | Nicola Caccia | 30 | Piacenza | Transfer | Summer | free | |
Last updated: 30 January 2020

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Serie A | 1 September 2000 | 16 June 2001 | Matchday 1 | Matchday 34 | 34 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 38 | 34 | +4 | 029.41 |
| Coppa Italia | 12 August 2000 | 13 December 2000 | Group stage | Quarter-finals | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 10 | +7 | 066.67 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 43 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 55 | 44 | +11 | 037.21 |
Last updated: 22 April 2021 Source:

### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 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 |
| 7 | Atalanta | 34 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 38 | 34 | +4 | 44 | |
| 8 | Brescia | 34 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 44 | 42 | +2 | 44 | Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round |
| 9 | Fiorentina | 34 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 53 | 52 | +1 | 43 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
* 1 2 Atalanta finished ahead of Brescia on head-to-head points: Atalanta 2–0 Brescia, Brescia 0–3 Atalanta.
* ↑ Brescia gained entry to the 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup after Atalanta declined.
* ↑ Fiorentina gained entry to the 2001–02 UEFA Cup as the 2000–01 Coppa Italia champions.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

#### 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 | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | D | W | W | W | D | W | D | W | L | D | W | L | L | L | D | W | W | D | D | D | L | D | W | D | W | L | D | D | L | L | D | D | L | L |
| Position | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |

#### Matches
### Coppa Italia
#### Group stage

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Atalanta | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 2 | Pistoiese | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 4 | |
| 3 | Ravenna | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | |
| 4 | Avellino | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 3 | |

#### Knockout stage
##### Quarter-finals
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Pelizzoli | 38 | -31 | 30+1 | -31 | 7 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ITA | Paganin | 32 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | ITA | Carrera | 40 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | ITA | Zenoni | 44 | 2 | 34 | 1 | 9+1 | 1 |
| 24 | DF | ITA | Siviglia | 36 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 7+3 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | ITA | Zenoni | 35 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 7+1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Zauri | 35 | 2 | 27 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 29 | MF | ITA | Donati | 34 | 1 | 21+5 | 0 | 7+1 | 1 |
| 27 | MF | ITA | Doni | 34 | 10 | 27 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
| 3 | AM | ITA | Morfeo | 17 | 5 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Ventola | 32 | 11 | 22+6 | 10 | 4 | 1 |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Pinato | 6 | -1 | 4 | -1 | 2 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Rossini | 25 | 5 | 15+3 | 4 | 6+1 | 1 |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Ganz | 33 | 9 | 14+10 | 5 | 7+2 | 4 |
| 28 | MF | ITA | Berretta | 16 | 1 | 13+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | ITA | Bellini | 29 | 2 | 12+11 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Lorenzi | 21 | 1 | 8+8 | 1 | 3+2 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | SRB | Dundjerski | 18 | 0 | 6+6 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | ITA | Nappi | 24 | 3 | 2+13 | 1 | 6+3 | 2 |
| 21 | MF | ITA | Pinardi | 24 | 1 | 5+6 | 0 | 8+5 | 1 |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Rustico | 6 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | ITA | Gallo | 11 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 7+2 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | DOM | Espinal | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | DOM | Espinal | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 37 | FW | ITA | Pagano | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | FW | ITA | Bianchi | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | ITA | Previtali | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Natali | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | GK | ITA | Gritti | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Regonesi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | ITA | Minelli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | ITA | Carnesalini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | ITA | Raimondi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | FW | BRA | Piá | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | ITA | Alberto Fontana | 1 | -2 | 1 | -2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Zini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | ITA | Pontarolla | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | ITA | Banchelli | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 18 April 2021 Source: http://calcio-seriea.net/presenze/2000/1178/

### Goalscorers

    As of 18 April 2021
| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Total |
| 1 | 10 | FW | | Nicola Ventola | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2 | 27 | MF | | Cristiano Doni | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 3 | 11 | FW | | Maurizio Ganz | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | 9 | FW | | Fausto Rossini | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | 3 | MF | | Domenico Morfeo | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | 7 | FW | | Marco Nappi | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 26 | DF | | Cristian Zenoni | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 30 | DF | | Gianpaolo Bellini | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | 8 | DF | | Luciano Zauri | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 29 | MF | | Massimo Donati | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | 15 | DF | | Stefano Lorenzi | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 21 | MF | | Alex Pinardi | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | 19 | DF | | Damiano Zenoni | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 37 | 17 | 54 |