1999–2000 Middlesbrough F.C. season

Middlesbrough

1999–2000 season
Chairman	Steve Gibson
Manager	Bryan Robson
Stadium	Riverside Stadium
Premiership	12th
FA Cup	Third round
League Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Ricard (12) All: Ricard (14)
Average home league attendance	33,263
Home colours Away colours
← 1998–99 2000–01 →

During the 1999–2000 season, Middlesbrough participated in the FA Premier League.

Season summary

Middlesbrough experienced another satisfactory season, finishing 12th in the Premiership. They never looked like qualifying for Europe, but were never in any danger of relegation. Nor did they make much of an impact in the cup competitions.

Kit

Middlesbrough's kit was produced by Errea. The home shirt consisted of a red shirt with white hoop, red shorts and red socks with white trim. The away strip consisted of a black shirt with red and white stripes in the middle, plain black shorts and black socks.^[1]

Middlesbrough were again sponsored by BT Cellnet.

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pl	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Manchester United	38	28	7	3	97	45	+52	91
2	Arsenal	38	22	7	9	73	43	+30	73
3	Leeds United	38	21	6	11	58	43	+15	69
4	Liverpool	38	19	10	9	51	30	+21	67
5	Chelsea	38	18	11	9	53	34	+19	65
6	Aston Villa	38	15	13	10	46	35	+11	58
7	Sunderland	38	16	10	12	57	56	+1	58
8	Leicester City	38	16	7	15	55	55	0	55
9	West Ham United	38	15	10	13	52	53	−1	55
10	Tottenham Hotspur	38	15	8	15	57	49	+8	53
11	Newcastle United	38	14	10	14	63	54	+9	52
12	Middlesbrough	38	14	10	14	46	52	−6	52
13	Everton	38	12	14	12	59	49	+10	50
14	Coventry City	38	12	8	18	47	54	−7	44
15	Southampton	38	12	8	18	45	62	−17	44
16	Derby County	38	9	11	18	44	57	−13	38
17	Bradford City	38	9	9	20	38	68	−30	36
18	Wimbledon	38	7	12	19	46	74	−28	33
19	Sheffield Wednesday	38	8	7	23	38	70	−32	31
20	Watford	38	6	6	26	35	77	−42	24

Key
Qualified for the Champions League
Qualified for the UEFA Cup
Relegated to Division 1

Results Summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	14	10	14	46	52	−6	52	8	5	6	23	26	−3	6	5	8	23	26	−3

Source: Statto

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
Result	L	W	W	W	L	L	W	L	L	L	W	W	W	D	L	D	D	W	L	L	D	L	L	L	W	D	D	W	D	W	W	L	L	D	W	D	D	W
Position	16	10	4	2	4	10	7	10	11	11	11	10	6	7	8	9	10	8	10	13	14	14	15	16	14	14	13	13	14	12	12	12	13	12	13	13	13	12

Source: Statto.com
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results

Middlesbrough's score comes first^[2]

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

FA Premier League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
7 August 1999	Bradford City	H	0–1	33,762
10 August 1999	Wimbledon	A	3–2	11,036	Ziege, Ricard (2, 1 pen)
14 August 1999	Derby County	A	3–1	24,045	Deane, Ziege, Ricard (pen)
21 August 1999	Liverpool	H	1–0	34,783	Deane
24 August 1999	Leicester City	H	0–3	33,126
28 August 1999	Aston Villa	A	0–1	28,728
11 September 1999	Southampton	H	3–2	32,165	Pallister, Gascoigne (pen), Deane
19 September 1999	Leeds United	A	0–2	34,122
25 September 1999	Chelsea	H	0–1	34,183
3 October 1999	Newcastle United	A	1–2	36,421	Deane
17 October 1999	West Ham United	H	2–0	31,862	Deane, Armstrong
24 October 1999	Watford	A	3–1	16,081	Williams (own goal), Juninho, Ince
30 October 1999	Everton	H	2–1	33,916	Ziege, Deane
6 November 1999	Sunderland	H	1–1	34,793	Ricard
20 November 1999	Arsenal	A	1–5	38,082	Ricard
27 November 1999	Wimbledon	H	0–0	31,400
4 December 1999	Bradford City	A	1–1	17,708	Ricard
18 December 1999	Tottenham Hotspur	H	2–1	33,129	Ziege, Deane
26 December 1999	Sheffield Wednesday	A	0–1	28,531
15 January 2000	Derby County	H	1–4	32,745	Campbell
22 January 2000	Liverpool	A	0–0	44,324
29 January 2000	Manchester United	A	0–1	61,267
5 February 2000	Leicester City	A	1–2	17,550	Campbell
14 February 2000	Aston Villa	H	0–4	31,571
19 February 2000	Coventry City	H	2–0	32,798	Festa, Ricard
26 February 2000	Leeds United	H	0–0	34,800
4 March 2000	Southampton	A	1–1	15,223	Ricard (pen)
12 March 2000	Arsenal	H	2–1	34,244	Ince, Ricard
18 March 2000	Sunderland	A	1–1	42,013	Ziege
25 March 2000	Sheffield Wednesday	H	1–0	32,748	Campbell
3 April 2000	Tottenham Hotspur	A	3–2	31,796	Carr (own goal), Ricard (2)
10 April 2000	Manchester United	H	3–4	34,775	Campbell, Ince, Juninho
15 April 2000	Coventry City	A	1–2	19,435	Ziege (pen)
22 April 2000	Chelsea	A	1–1	34,467	Ricard
29 April 2000	West Ham United	A	1–0	25,472	Deane (pen)
2 May 2000	Newcastle United	H	2–2	34,744	Juninho, Festa
6 May 2000	Watford	H	1–1	32,930	Stockdale
14 May 2000	Everton	A	2–0	34,663	Deane, Juninho

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	11 December 1999	Wrexham	A	1–2	11,755	Deane

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2 1st Leg	14 September 1999	Chesterfield	A	0–0	4,941
R2 2nd Leg	21 September 1999	Chesterfield	H	2–1 (won 2-1 on agg)	25,602	Ince, Vickers
R3	13 October 1999	Watford	H	1–0	8,846	Juninho
R4	30 November 1999	Arsenal	H	2–2 (won 3-1 on pens)	23,157	Ricard (2, 1 pen)
R5	14 December 1999	Tranmere Rovers	A	1–2	10,581	Ziege

Squad

^[3] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Mark Schwarzer 2 DF Curtis Fleming[4] 3 DF Dean Gordon 4 DF Steve Vickers 5 DF Gianluca Festa 6 DF Gary Pallister 7 MF Robbie Mustoe 8 MF Paul Gascoigne 9 MF Paul Ince 10 FW Brian Deane 11 MF Keith O'Neill 12 MF Alan Moore 13 GK Marlon Beresford 14 MF Phil Stamp 15 MF Neil Maddison 17 DF Christian Ziege 18 FW Andy Campbell

No. Position Player 19 FW Hamilton Ricard 20 FW Alun Armstrong 21 DF Craig Harrison 22 MF Mark Summerbell 23 MF Juninho (on loan from Atlético Madrid) 24 DF Steve Baker 25 GK Ben Roberts 26 MF Anthony Ormerod 27 DF Robbie Stockdale 28 DF Colin Cooper 29 DF Jason Gavin 32 MF Richard Kell 33 GK Chris Bennion 34 MF Carlos Marinelli 35 MF Sean Kilgannon 36 MF Luke Wilkshire

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 16 MF Andy Townsend (to West Bromwich Albion)

No. Position Player 30 MF Micky Cummins (to Port Vale)

Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player - GK Brad Jones - DF Christian Hanson - DF Stuart Parnaby - MF Mark Hudson

No. Position Player - MF Sean Prunty - FW Arthuro - FW Aaron Wilford

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
30 July 1999	MF	Paul Ince	Liverpool	£1,000,000
31 July 1999	DF	Christian Ziege	A.C. Milan	£4,000,000
27 October 1999	MF	Carlos Marinelli	Boca Juniors	£1,500,000
23 March 2000	FW	Arthuro	Criciúma	Free transfer

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
17 September 1999	MF	Andy Townsend	West Bromwich Albion	£50,000
17 March 2000	MF	Micky Cummins	Port Vale	Free transfer

Transfers in: £6,500,000

Transfers out: £50,000

Total spending: £6,450,000

Player statistics

Goalscorers

Goalscoring statistics for 1999-00.^[5]

Name	League	FA Cup	League Cup	Total
Hamilton Ricard	12	0	2	14
Brian Deane	9	1	0	10
Christian Ziege	6	0	1	7
Juninho	4	0	1	5
Andy Campbell	4	0	0	4
Paul Ince	3	0	1	4
Gianluca Festa	2	0	0	2
Gary Pallister	1	0	0	1
Paul Gascoigne	1	0	0	1
Alun Armstrong	1	0	0	1
Robbie Stockdale	1	0	0	1
Steve Vickers	0	0	1	1
Own goals	2	0	0	2

References

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