1998–99 S.S. Lazio season

Lazio

1998–99 season

Chairman

Sergio Cragnotti

Manager

Stadium

2nd

Winners

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Winners

Top goalscorer

League:
Marcelo Salas (15)
All:
Marcelo Salas (23)

Home colours

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Società Sportiva Lazio had a season to remember in 1998–99, finishing second in Serie A and winning the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and Supercoppa Italiana. However, the fact that the club lost the title race following a poor spell in the second half of the season still was a frustration for the supporters, the players and the staff.

Season summary

Lazio kicked off the 1998–99 season by defeating Juventus 2–1 to win the Supercoppa in the pre-season, and then set a searing pace in the league thanks to the lethal striking partnership of world transfer record signing Christian Vieri and Marcelo Salas. The pair of them together netted 27 goals, as Lazio led the way for most of the season. Twenty-year-old Yugoslav starlet Dejan Stanković also impressed by scoring on his league debut.

Milan peaked late during the season, while Lazio had a barren spell, which enabled Milan to make up the deficit. Lazio finally squandered the title lead in the penultimate match of the season, where it had to settle for a draw against Fiorentina away from home.

Following the season, Vieri left the club for Inter, accusing chairman Sergio Cragnotti of lying to him. The money from Vieri's transfer was used to bring Juan Sebastián Verón, Simone Inzaghi and Diego Simeone to Rome, moves that all proved essential when Lazio clinched the title in 2000, where those three found the net in the last game of the season.

Lazio's best moment of the 1998-99 season came when they beat Mallorca 2-1 at Villa Park in Birmingham in the 1999 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final, following goals by Vieri and Pavel Nedvěd.

The most prolific players during the season was captain and centre-half Alessandro Nesta, free-kick specialist Siniša Mihajlović, winger Nedvěd, and the striker pairing of Vieri and Salas.

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[1]

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	Luca Marchegiani
2	DF	Paolo Negro
3	DF	Stefano Lombardi
5	DF	Giuseppe Favalli
6	MF	Federico Crovari
7	MF	Attilio Lombardo
9	FW	Marcelo Salas
10	FW	Roberto Mancini
11	DF	Siniša Mihajlović
12	GK	Emanuele Concetti
13	DF	Alessandro Nesta
14	MF	Sérgio Conceição
15	DF	Giuseppe Pancaro
16	MF	Paul Okon

No.	Position	Player
17	DF	Guerino Gottardi
18	MF	Pavel Nedvěd
19	FW	Alen Bokšić
20	MF	Dejan Stanković
21	MF	Iván de la Peña
22	GK	Marco Ballotta
24	DF	Fernando Couto
25	MF	Matías Almeyda
26	MF	Roberto Baronio
29	MF	Giampiero Pinzi
31	MF	Valentino Sbaccanti
32	FW	Christian Vieri
33	DF	Stefano Di Fiordo

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
4	MF	Dario Marcolin (on loan to Blackburn Rovers)
6	DF	Giovanni Lopez (to Napoli)
7	MF	Roberto Rambaudi (to Genoa)
8	FW	Igor Protti (on loan to Reggiana)

No.	Position	Player
23	MF	Giorgio Venturin (to Atlético Madrid)
27	FW	Alessandro Iannuzzi (to Milan)
28	DF	Maurizio Domizzi (on loan to Livorno)
30	FW	Rosario Aquino (to Livorno)

Results

Serie A

1	Piacenza	1–1	Lazio
	S. Inzaghi 87'		Stanković 29'

2	Lazio	0–0	Bari

3	Perugia	2–2	Lazio
	Bucchi 4' Nakata 65'		Couto 19' Mihajlović 72'

4	Lazio	2–0	Cagliari
	Couto 45' Stanković 69'

5	Inter	3–5	Lazio
	Winter 22' Ventola 77, 90'		Salas 2' Nedvěd 29' Conceição 36, 53' Mancini 40'

6	Lazio	1–1	Vicenza
	Mancini 53'		Schenardi 30'

7	Salernitana	1–0	Lazio
	Di Vaio 88'

8	Lazio	4–1	Empoli
	Negro 22, 26' Salas 30' Mancini 62'		Carparelli 80'

9	Venezia	2–0	Lazio
	Tuta 5' Pedone 38'

10	Milan	1–0	Lazio
	Leonardo 90'

11	Lazio	3–3	Roma
	Mancini 28, 56' Salas 58' (pen.)		Delvecchio 25' Di Francesco 78' Totti 81'

12	Juventus	0–1	Lazio
			Salas 82'

13	Lazio	5–2	Sampdoria
	Mihajlović 29, 45, 52' Stanković 82' Salas 90'		Palmieri 37' (pen.), 56' (pen.)

14	Lazio	3–1	Udinese
	Mancini 17' Salas 55, 90'		T. Locatelli 5'

15	Bologna	0–1	Lazio
			Vieri 77'

16	Lazio	2–0	Fiorentina
	Vieri 66' Mihajlović 90'

17	Parma	1–3	Lazio
	Crespo 53' (pen.)		Salas 51' (pen.) Mancini 68' Vieri 90'

18	Lazio	4–1	Piacenza
	Mihajlović 9' Salas 59' Stanković 77' Mancini 81'

19	Bari	1–3	Lazio
	Salas 73' (o.g.)		Lombardo 21' Vieri 38, 87'

20	Lazio	3–0	Perugia
	Vieri 41' Salas 45, 76'

21	Cagliari	0–0	Lazio

22	Lazio	1–0	Inter
	Conceição 36'

23	Vicenza	1–2	Lazio
	Cardone 77'		Conceição 48' Dicara 90' (o.g.)

24	Lazio	6–1	Salernitana
	Negro 44' Vieri 51' Salas 60, 69' Fresi 82' (o.g.) Nesta 90'		Vannucchi 31'

25	Empoli	0–0	Lazio

26	Lazio	2–0	Vicenza
	Conceição 7' Mihajlović 14'

27	Lazio	0–0	Milan

28	Roma	3–1	Lazio
	Delvecchio 12, 43' Totti 90'		Vieri 78'

29	Lazio	1–3	Juventus
	Mancini 56'		Henry 34, 64' Amoruso 45'

30	Sampdoria	0–1	Lazio
			Vieri 60'

31	Udinese	0–3	Lazio
			Mihajlović 21' Vieri 49' Mancini 58'

32	Lazio	2–0	Bologna
	Almeyda 50' Vieri 89'

33	Fiorentina	1–1	Lazio
	Batistuta 15'		Vieri 28'

34	Lazio	2–1	Parma
	Salas 27, 76'		Vanoli 54'

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	20	9	5	62	31	+31	69	12	4	1	38	14	+24	8	5	4	24	17	+7

Top scorers

Serie A

References

↑ http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/italy/1998-1999/seriea/lazio.htm

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Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	20	9	5	62	31	+31	69	12	4	1	38	14	+24	8	5	4	24	17	+7

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	20	9	5	62	31	+31	69	12	4	1	38	14	+24	8	5	4	24	17	+7

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	20	9	5	62	31	+31	69	12	4	1	38	14	+24	8	5	4	24	17	+7