# 2000–01 Atlético Madrid season

The 2000–01 campaign was the 95th season in Atlético Madrid's history and their 1st season in Segunda División of Spanish football. Also the club competed in Copa del Rey.

## Summary

For the first time ever, Atletico competes in a Segunda División tournament since 1929 when Primera División was registered as the top league. Owing to a chaotic environment outside the field in spite of President Gil appointing club legend Paulo Futre as Manager on 3 November 2000 and three coaches fired, the team never reached the 3rd position on the table and classifying to La Liga finishing tied in points along CD Tenerife but lost the goal average.

## Squad

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 | ESP | Toni Jiménez |
| 2 | DF | ESP | Iván Amaya |
| 3 | DF | ESP | Toni |
| 4 | MF | SUI | Raphaël Wicky |
| 5 | DF | ESP | Juan Manuel López |
| 6 | DF | ESP | Santi Denia |
| 7 | MF | ARG | Juan Gomez |
| 8 | MF | ARG | Óscar Mena |
| 9 | FW | ESP | Salva |
| 10 | FW | URU | Fernando Correa |
| 11 | FW | ESP | Jordi Lardín |
| 12 | FW | NGA | Abass Lawal |
| 13 | GK | ESP | Sergio Sánchez Sánchez |
| 14 | DF | YUG | Zoran Njeguš |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 15 | DF | ESP | Carlos Aguilera |
| 16 | MF | ESP | José Juan Luque |
| 17 | DF | FRA | Jean-François Hernandez |
| 18 | MF | ESP | Roberto Fresnedoso |
| 19 | FW | ESP | Kiko |
| 20 | MF | POR | Hugo Leal |
| 21 | MF | POR | Dani |
| 22 | FW | ESP | Juan Carlos Gómez Díaz |
| 23 | DF | BIH | Mirsad Hibić |
| 24 | MF | ESP | Carcedo |
| 25 | DF | ARG | Daniel Fagiani |
| 28 | MF | ESP | David Cubillo |
| 35 | FW | ESP | Fernando Torres |

### Transfers

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| FW | Salva | Racing Santander | |
| DF | Iván Amaya | Rayo Vallecano | |
| MF | Juan Gomez | Real Sociedad | |
| MF | Sergio Sanchez | Sporting Gijon | loan ended |
| DF | Jean-François Hernandez | Rayo Vallecano | |
| FW | Juan Carlos | Sevilla CF | |
| DF | Mirsad_Hibić | Sevilla CF | |
| MF | Juan Carcedo | OGC Nice | loan |
| FW | Fernando Torres | Atletico Madrid B | |
| FW | Abass Lawal | Atletico Madrid B | |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To |
| FW | Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | Chelsea F.C. |
| GK | José Molina | Deportivo |
| MF | Juan Carlos Valeron | Deportivo |
| DF | Joan Capdevila | Deportivo |
| MF | Ruben Baraja | Valencia CF |
| MF | Santiago Solari | Real Madrid |
| DF | Carlos Gamarra | Flamengo |
| DF | Celso Ayala | São Paulo |
| MF | Radek Bejbl | RC Lens |

#### Winter

In :
| Pos. | Name | from |
| DF | Raphaël Wicky | Werder Bremen |
| MF | Dani | Benfica |
| DF | Daniel Fagiani | Boca Juniors |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| MF | Leonel Pilipauskas | Peñarol | |
| MF | Veljko Paunovic | Real Oviedo | loan |
| FW | Jordi Lardín | RCD Espanyol | |

## Competitions
### Segunda División
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 2 | Betis (P) | 42 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 49 | 32 | +17 | 75 | Promotion to La Liga |
| 3 | Tenerife (P) | 42 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 58 | 32 | +26 | 74 | Promotion to La Liga |
| 4 | Atlético Madrid | 42 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 59 | 39 | +20 | 74 | |
| 5 | Albacete | 42 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 46 | 40 | +6 | 66 | |
| 6 | Recreativo | 42 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 45 | 29 | +16 | 65 | |

#### 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 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | L | L | W | D | D | D | W | D | L | L | W | D | D | W | L | W | W | D | L | W | D | D | W | W | W | W | W | L | D | W | W | W | L | L | W | W | D | W | W | W | W |
| Position | 22 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |

#### Matches
### Copa del Rey
#### Semifinals
## Statistics
### Squad statistics

| Competition | Points | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | GD |
| Competition | Points | G | W | D | L | GS | GR | GD |
| 2000–01 Segunda División | 74 | 42 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 59 | 39 | +20 |
| 2000–01 Copa del Rey | – | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 6 | +7 |
| Total | 74 | 50 | 27 | 12 | 11 | 72 | 45 | +27 |

### Players statistics

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Segunda Division | Segunda Division | Copa del Rey | Copa del Rey |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | ESP | Toni | 34 | -30 | 30 | -27 | 4 | -3 |
| 15 | DF | ESP | Carlos Aguilera | 46 | 6 | 34+5 | 6 | 4+3 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ESP | Santi | 27 | 0 | 20+3 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | BIH | Hibic | 33 | 2 | 30 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | YUG | Njegus | 32 | 2 | 23+3 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ARG | Juan Gomez | 42 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 5+1 | 1 |
| 20 | MF | POR | Hugo Leal | 43 | 4 | 33+3 | 4 | 6+1 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | ESP | Luque | 36 | 5 | 19+11 | 5 | 5+1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ESP | Salva | 41 | 27 | 33 | 21 | 8 | 6 |
| 10 | FW | URU | Correa | 44 | 11 | 26+12 | 8 | 4+2 | 3 |
| 19 | FW | ESP | Kiko | 36 | 1 | 20+12 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 13 | GK | ESP | Sergio Sanchez | 16 | -15 | 12 | -12 | 4 | -3 |
| 25 | DF | ARG | Fagiani | 26 | 1 | 20+2 | 0 | 3+1 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | ARG | Óscar Mena | 24 | 1 | 15+4 | 1 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | ESP | Amaya | 19 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | ESP | Roberto | 25 | 2 | 9+11 | 2 | 3+2 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | POR | Dani | 23 | 5 | 10+9 | 4 | 2+2 | 1 |
| 17 | DF | FRA | Hernandez | 16 | 0 | 11+3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | ESP | Llorens | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | ESP | Juan Carlos | 14 | 1 | 8+4 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 4 | MF | SUI | Wicky | 13 | 0 | 8+3 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | ESP | Carcedo | 16 | 0 | 7+4 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | ESP | Cubillo | 14 | 1 | 4+8 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ESP | Toni Muñoz | 13 | 0 | 7+1 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | ESP | Gaspar | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | ESP | Jordi Lardín | 9 | 0 | 5+4 | 0 |
| 12 | FW | NGA | Lawal | 10 | 0 | 1+5 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | YUG | Paunovic | 5 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 |
| 35 | FW | ESP | Fernando Torres | 6 | 1 | 1+3 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | ESP | Juanma López | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | ESP | Zahinos | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | ESP | Antonio Lopez | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | ESP | Carlos | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
* Source: https://www.bdfutbol.com/es/t/t2000-017.html