2000–01 A.C. Fiorentina season

Fiorentina

2000–01 season
Chairman	Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Manager	Fatih Terim Luciano Chiraughi Roberto Mancini
Serie A	9th
Coppa Italia	Winners
UEFA Cup	First Round
Top goalscorer	League: Enrico Chiesa (22) All: Enrico Chiesa (27)
← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

A.C. Fiorentina fell a couple of steps back in its first season following striker Gabriel Batistuta's departure. While Batistuta finally won a long overdue Serie A title with Roma, Fiorentina had a struggling season, where coach Fatih Terim suddenly resigned and accepted the same job in Milan instead, and the club sensationally opted for recently retired Roberto Mancini to take over.

Although respectability in the league was upheld by goalkeeper Francesco Toldo, playmaker Rui Costa and striker Enrico Chiesa, both Toldo and Rui Costa departed for the Milanese clubs in the summer of 2001, as president Vittorio Cecchi Gori desperately tried to save a collapsing economy. Even though the top players of the club held very high standards, the depth in the squad was not at a very strong level, which would ensure 2001-02 to be a testing time for the Florence faithful.

The cup title was some consolation for the worries, with Paolo Vanoli scoring the winner against Parma in the first final, then drawing 1-1 at home, when Portuguese international Nuno Gomes scored the all-important equaliser.

Squad

Goalkeepers

• Francesco Toldo
• Gianmatteo Mareggini
• Mattia Passarini
• Giuseppe Taglialatela

Defenders

• Tomáš Řepka
• Moreno Torricelli
• Daniele Adani
• Saliou Lassissi
• Paolo Vanoli
• Alessandro Pierini
• Giovanni Bartolucci
• Andrea Tarozzi
• Emiliano Moretti

Midfielders

• Rui Costa
• Fabio Rossitto
• Amaral
• Domenico Morfeo
• Sandro Cois
• Marco Rossi
• Christian Amoroso
• Mauro Bressan
• Danilo Stefani

Attackers

• Predrag Mijatović
• Leandro
• Enrico Chiesa
• Nuno Gomes
• Riccardo Taddei
• Georgios Vakouftsis
• Sead Zilić

Serie A

Matches

1	Parma	2–2	Fiorentina
	M. Amoroso  5', 90+2'		Pierini  64' C. Amoroso  82'

2	Fiorentina	2–1	Reggina
	Nuno Gomes  86' Leandro  90+1'		Marazzina  68'

3	Brescia	1–1	Fiorentina
	Hübner  50'		Leandro  70'

4	Fiorentina	2–2	Bari
	Rui Costa  32' Nuno Gomes  88'		Masinga  72' Cassano  80'

5	Fiorentina	3–4	Perugia
	Di Livio  22' Leandro  45+3', 77'		Vryzas  39', 50', 65' Saudati  42' (pen.)

6	Bologna	1–1	Fiorentina
	Cruz  38'		Leandro  64' (pen.)

7	Fiorentina	3–2	Vicenza
	Nuno Gomes  10', 51' Adani  75'		Toni  44' Comotto  45+1'

8	Roma	1–0	Fiorentina
	Batistuta  82'

9	Lecce	1–1	Fiorentina
	Conticchio  11'		Chiesa  54' (pen.)

10	Fiorentina	2–0	Inter
	Rui Costa  49' Chiesa  90'

11	Udinese	1–3	Fiorentina
	Jørgensen  8'		Chiesa  38' Sottil  65' (o.g.) Rui Costa  67'

12	Fiorentina	2–0	Verona
	Chiesa  22' (pen.), 50'

13	Juventus	3–3	Fiorentina
	Conte  33' Inzaghi  49' (pen.), 57'		Chiesa  5', 64' Nuno Gomes  18'

14	Fiorentina	4–0	Milan
	Nuno Gomes  15' Cois  47' Chiesa  72' Rui Costa  87'

15	Atalanta	0–0	Fiorentina

16	Fiorentina	1–4	Lazio
	Chiesa  82' (pen.)		Nedvěd  33' Crespo  58', 74' Salas  85'

17	Napoli	1–0	Fiorentina
	Pecchia  90'

18	Fiorentina	0–1	Parma
			Conceição  6'

19	Reggina	1–1	Fiorentina
	Zanchetta  45'		Chiesa  11'

20	Fiorentina	2–2	Brescia
	Chiesa  23' Nuno Gomes  62'		R. Baggio  4', 67'

21	Bari	2–1	Fiorentina
	Cassano  43' D. Andersson  87'		Rui Costa  40'

22	Perugia	2–2	Fiorentina
	Di Loreto  23' Liverani  45'		Chiesa  56' Lassissi  66'

23	Fiorentina	1–1	Bologna
	Mijatović  54'		Cipriani  12'

24	Vicenza	1–1	Fiorentina
	Sommense  10'		Rui Costa  75'

25	Fiorentina	3–1	Roma
	Chiesa  10', 82' Candela  58' (o.g.)		Emerson  30'

26	Fiorentina	2–0	Lecce
	Chiesa  5', 83'

27	Internazionale	4–2	Fiorentina
	Vieri  11', 40' (pen.) Dalmat  44' Şükür  57'		Bressan  64' Chiesa  90'

28	Fiorentina	2–1	Udinese
	Chiesa  51', 56'		Muzzi  12'

29	Verona	2–1	Fiorentina
	Salvetti  62' Italiano  67'		Chiesa  90'

30	Fiorentina	1–3	Juventus
	M. Rossi  40'		Zidane  24' Tudor  29' Trezeguet  89'

31	Milan	1–2	Fiorentina
	Shevchenko  29'		Chiesa  11', 18'

32	Fiorentina	1–1	Atalanta
	Nuno Gomes  13' (pen.)		Doni  21'

33	Lazio	3–0	Fiorentina
	Pierini  34' (o.g.) Crespo  44' Negro  55'

34	Fiorentina	1–2	Napoli
	Nuno Gomes  83'		Amoruso  48' Edmundo  90'

Top Scorers

• Enrico Chiesa 22 (3)
• Nuno Gomes 9
• Rui Costa 6
• Leandro 5 (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
34	10	13	11	53	52	+1	43	8	4	5	32	25	+7	2	9	6	21	27	−6

Sources

ACF Fiorentina seasons 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1944 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

2000–01 in Serie A Atalanta Bari Bologna Brescia Fiorentina Internazionale Juventus Lazio Lecce Milan Napoli Parma Perugia Reggina Roma Udinese Verona Vicenza