# 1999–2000 Juventus FC season

The 1999–2000 season was Juventus Football Club's 102nd in existence and 98th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football.

## Season review

Juventus came close to adding to its collection of league titles, but in the end, a controversial refereeing decision denied them the title.
Juventus led 1–0 at home to Parma in their penultimate match. Parma made a huge effort to equalise, and thought they had done so when Fabio Cannavaro headed the ball into the back of the net during stoppage time. However, referee Massimo De Santis controversially disallowed the goal due to a perceived foul, despite protests from the Parma players.
On the last day of the season, title rivals Lazio beat Reggina by 3–0 at home, but Juventus unexpectedly ran into problems at Perugia, where heavy rainfall began with the score tied at 0–0 in half-time. Referee Pierluigi Collina nonetheless decided to kick off the game, albeit half an hour too late. Nervous Laziali and players followed the Perugia–Juventus game via radio, hoping that Juventus would be defeated. A draw would mean a re-match between the sides to decide the title, while a win would give Juventus another scudetto. The Juventus players' efforts were in vain, since Alessandro Calori struck a half-volley into the back of the net with half an hour to go. With Juventus unable to make a comeback, they lost the title in the final round of the season.
It was a bitter end to the season for the Turin club, who had led the table for most of the campaign and lost just one of their first 26 matches, only to collapse in the final 8 games (4 losses suffered in those games). To make matters worse, despite initially winning the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup, Juventus had endured a humiliating UEFA Cup run, being beaten 4–0 and eliminated in the round of 16 by Spanish club Celta Vigo. This was their earliest exit from European competitions since the 1987–88 UEFA Cup.

## Players
### Squad information

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 | NED | Edwin van der Sar |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Ciro Ferrara |
| 3 | DF | SCG | Zoran Mirković |
| 4 | DF | URU | Paolo Montero |
| 5 | MF | NGA | Sunday Oliseh |
| 7 | DF | ITA | Gianluca Pessotto |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Antonio Conte (captain) |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Filippo Inzaghi |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Alessandro Del Piero |
| 11 | FW | URU | Daniel Fonseca |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Michelangelo Rampulla |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Mark Iuliano |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Jonathan Bachini |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Birindelli |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | FW | YUG | Darko Kovačević |
| 19 | FW | ARG | Juan Esnáider |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Alessio Tacchinardi |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Zinedine Zidane |
| 22 | GK | SWE | Andreas Isaksson |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Gianluca Zambrotta |
| 24 | MF | ITA | Enzo Maresca |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Simone Perrotta |
| 26 | MF | NED | Edgar Davids |
| 27 | MF | ITA | Marco Rigoni |
| 28 | DF | CRO | Igor Tudor |
| 34 | GK | ITA | Andrea D'Amico |
| 34 | GK | ITA | Egi Mareta |

#### Transfers

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| GK | Andreas Isaksson | Trelleborg | |
| GK | Edwin van der Sar | AFC Ajax | |
| DF | Marco Zamboni | Lecce | loan ended |
| MF | Raffaele Ametrano | Salernitana | loan ended |
| MF | Jonathan Bachini | Udinese Calcio | |
| MF | Ronnie O'Brien | Middlesbrough F.C. | |
| MF | Sunday Oliseh | AFC Ajax | |
| MF | Fabio Pecchia | Sampdoria | loan ended |
| MF | Gianluca Zambrotta | Bari | |
| FW | Darko Kovačević | Real Sociedad | |
| FW | Marcelo Zalayeta | Empoli F.C. | loan ended |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| GK | Morgan De Sanctis | Udinese Calcio | co-ownership |
| GK | Angelo Peruzzi | Inter Milan | |
| DF | Angelo Di Livio | Fiorentina | |
| DF | Marco Zamboni | Udinese Calcio | co-ownership |
| MF | Raffaele Ametrano | Cagliari Calcio | loan |
| MF | Jocelyn Blanchard | RC Lens | |
| MF | Didier Deschamps | Chelsea F.C. | |
| MF | Ronnie O'Brien | Lugano | loan |
| MF | Fabio Pecchia | Torino F.C. | co-ownership |
| MF | Simone Perrotta | Bari | loan |
| FW | Nicola Amoruso | Perugia Calcio | loan |
| FW | Thierry Henry | Arsenal F.C. | |
| FW | Marcelo Zalayeta | Sevilla CF | loan |

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

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Lazio (C) | 34 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 64 | 33 | +31 | 72 | Qualification to Champions League first group stage |
| 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 |

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | 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 |
| Result | D | W | W | L | W | W | D | W | D | W | D | W | W | D | W | D | W | W | D | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | L | L | W | W | W | L | W | L |
| Position | 6 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Cup
#### First round
#### Fourth round
## 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 |
| 1 | GK | NED | van der Sar | 46 | -34 | 32 | -18 | 3 | -4 | 11 | -12 |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Iuliano | 42 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Ferrara | 41 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | URU | Montero | 40 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 7 | DF | ITA | Pessotto | 44 | 1 | 25+5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | ITA | Zambrotta | 45 | 3 | 24+8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Tacchinardi | 45 | 3 | 27+3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 3 |
| 21 | MF | FRA | Zidane | 41 | 5 | 32 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | NED | Davids | 38 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Inzaghi | 43 | 26 | 32+1 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Del Piero | 45 | 12 | 34 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 2 |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Rampulla | 7 | -5 | 2+1 | -1 | 1 | -1 | 3 | -3 |
| 3 | DF | SCG | Mirkovic | 22 | 0 | 1+7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | NGA | Oliseh | 19 | 1 | 2+6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Conte | 38 | 7 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| 11 | FW | URU | Fonseca | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | ITA | Bachini | 20 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Birindelli | 38 | 0 | 4+18 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | YUG | Kovacevic | 44 | 20 | 3+23 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 11 |
| 19 | FW | ARG | Esnaider | 13 | 2 | 1+5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 28 | DF | CRO | Tudor | 28 | 2 | 7+10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| 24 | MF | ITA | Maresca | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | SWE | Isaksson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | ITA | Perrotta |
| 27 | FW | ITA | Rigoni | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | GK | ITA | D'Amico | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | ITA | Sculli |
* Source: http://calcio-seriea.net/presenze/1999/1166/