2001–02 Serie A

The 2001–02 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 100th season of top-tier Italian football, the 70th in a round-robin tournament. It was composed by 18 teams, for the 14th consecutive time from season 1988–89.

Serie A

Season	2001–02
Dates	25 August 2001 – 5 May 2002
Champions	Juventus 26th title
Relegated	Hellas Verona Lecce Fiorentina (to C2) Venezia
Champions League	Juventus Roma Internazionale Milan
UEFA Cup	Chievo Lazio Parma
Intertoto Cup	Bologna Perugia Torino
Matches played	306
Goals scored	806 (2.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dario Hübner David Trezeguet (24 goals each)
Biggest home win	Lazio 5–0 Brescia (4 November 2001) Lazio 5–0 Perugia (20 January 2002) Piacenza 5–0 Venezia (17 February 2002) Juventus 5–0 Brescia (28 April 2002) Roma 5–0 Chievo (28 April 2002)
Biggest away win	Atalanta 1–5 Udinese (21 October 2001) Lazio 1–5 Roma (10 March 2002)
Highest scoring	Lazio 5–4 Hellas Verona (21 April 2002)
Average attendance	25,992
← 2000–01 2002–03 →

The first two teams qualified directly to the UEFA Champions League, teams ending in the third and fourth places had to play Champions League qualifications, teams ending in the fifth and sixth places qualified for the UEFA Cup (another spot was given to the winner of Coppa Italia), while the last four teams were to be relegated to Serie B. However, Fiorentina's subsequent bankruptcy led to them being placed in the fourth tier of Italian football.

Juventus won its 26th title on the final day of the season after original leaders Internazionale (who finished third) lost 4–2 away to Lazio, and with it their chance at winning their first Scudetto since 1989. Second place went to Roma.

This season also featured Chievo's "miracle". The club, newly promoted to Serie A for the first time, were top of the table for six weeks early in the season. However, after the Christmas break, they hit some bad form and finished the season in fifth place.

Eighteen teams competed in the league, with four promoted teams from Serie B, Torino, Piacenza, Chievo and Venezia, replacing the four relegated teams from the 2000–01 Serie A season, Reggina, Vicenza, Napoli and Bari.

Personnel and sponsoring

2001–02 Serie A team distribution

Team	Head Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Atalanta	Giovanni Vavassori	Asics	Ortobell
Bologna	Francesco Guidolin	Macron	Area Banca
Brescia	Carlo Mazzone	Garman	Banca Lombarda
Chievo*	Luigi Delneri	Joma	Paluani
Fiorentina	Luciano Chiarugi	Mizuno	Toyota
Hellas Verona	Alberto Malesani	Lotto	Amica Chips
Internazionale	Héctor Cúper	Nike	Pirelli
Juventus	Marcello Lippi	Lotto	Fastweb/Tu Mobile (in UEFA matches)
Lazio	Alberto Zaccheroni	Puma	Siemens Mobile
Lecce	Delio Rossi	Asics	Banca 121
Milan	Carlo Ancelotti	Adidas	Opel
Parma	Pietro Carmignani	Champion	Parmalat/Santàl (in UEFA matches)
Perugia	Serse Cosmi	Galex	Daewoo
Piacenza*	Walter Novellino	Lotto	Publitel
Roma	Fabio Capello	Kappa	INA Assitalia
Torino*	Giancarlo Camolese	Asics	Conto Arancio
Udinese	Giampiero Ventura	Diadora	Ristora
Venezia*	Alfredo Magni	Kelme	Emmezeta

• Promoted from Serie B.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Position in table
Juventus	Carlo Ancelotti	End of contract	30 June 2001	Marcello Lippi	1 July 2001	Pre-season
Hellas Verona	Attilio Perotti		30 June 2001	Alberto Malesani	1 July 2001
Udinese	Luciano Spalletti		30 June 2001	Roy Hodgson	1 July 2001
Milan	Cesare Maldini	Resigned	30 June 2001	Fatih Terim	1 July 2001
Internazionale	Marco Tardelli	Sacked	30 June 2001	Héctor Cúper	1 July 2001
Lazio	Dino Zoff		September 2001	Alberto Zaccheroni	September 2001	14th
Venezia	Cesare Prandelli		October 2001	Sergio Buso (caretaker)	October 2001	18th
Venezia	Sergio Buso	End of caretaker spell	October 2001	Alfredo Magni	October 2001	18th
Parma	Renzo Ulivieri	Sacked	October 2001	Pietro Carmignani (caretaker)	November 2001	14th
Parma	Pietro Carmignani	End of caretaker spell	November 2001	Daniel Passarella	November 2001	11th
Milan	Fatih Terim	Sacked	November 2001	Carlo Ancelotti	November 2001	5th
Udinese	Roy Hodgson		December 2001	Giampiero Ventura	December 2001	9th
Parma	Daniel Passarella		December 2001	Pietro Carmignani	December 2001	17th
Fiorentina	Roberto Mancini		January 2002	Luciano Chiarugi (caretaker)	January 2002	17th
Fiorentina	Luciano Chiarugi	End of caretaker spell	January 2002	Ottavio Bianchi	January 2002	17th
Lecce	Alberto Cavasin	Sacked	January 2002	Delio Rossi	January 2002	16th
Fiorentina	Ottavio Bianchi		April 2002	Luciano Chiarugi	April 2002	17th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Juventus (C)	34	20	11	3	64	23	+41	71	Qualification to Champions League first group stage
2	Roma	34	19	13	2	58	24	+34	70
3	Internazionale	34	20	9	5	62	35	+27	69	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Milan	34	14	13	7	47	33	+14	55
5	Chievo	34	14	12	8	57	52	+5	54	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
6	Lazio	34	14	11	9	50	37	+13	53
7	Bologna	34	15	7	12	40	40	0	52	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
8	Perugia	34	13	7	14	38	46	−8	46
9	Atalanta	34	12	9	13	41	50	−9	45
10	Parma[lower-alpha 1]	34	12	8	14	43	47	−4	44	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
11	Torino[lower-alpha 2]	34	10	13	11	37	39	−2	43	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
12	Piacenza	34	11	9	14	49	43	+6	42
13	Brescia	34	9	13	12	43	52	−9	40[lower-alpha 3]
14	Udinese	34	11	7	16	41	52	−11	40[lower-alpha 3]
15	Hellas Verona (R)	34	11	6	17	41	53	−12	39	Relegation to Serie B
16	Lecce (R)	34	6	10	18	36	56	−20	28
17	Fiorentina[lower-alpha 4] (R, E, R)	34	5	7	22	29	63	−34	22	Phoenix in Serie C2
18	Venezia (R)	34	3	9	22	30	61	−31	18	Relegation to Serie B

Source: 2001–02 Serie A, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw. (Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played).^[1]
(C) Champions; (E) Eliminated; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Parma gained entry to the 2002–03 UEFA Cup as the 2001–02 Coppa Italia champions.
2. Torino gained entry to the 2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup after Atalanta declined to take part.
3. Brescia finished ahead of Udinese on head-to-head goal difference: Brescia 2–0 Udinese, Udinese 3–2 Brescia.
4. Fiorentina was denied entry to the 2002–03 Serie B season, having entered administration. It was later admitted to the Lega Professionisti Serie C after bankruptcy.

Results

Home \ Away	ATA	BOL	BRE	CHV	FIO	INT	JUV	LAZ	LCE	MIL	PAR	PER	PIA	ROM	TOR	UDI	VEN	HEL
Atalanta		2–2	0–0	1–2	2–0	2–4	0–2	0–1	2–1	1–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–5	1–0	1–0
Bologna	1–0		2–1	3–1	3–2	2–1	0–0	2–0	4–3	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–3	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–1
Brescia	3–3	3–0		2–2	3–0	1–3	0–4	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–4	3–0	2–2	0–0	1–2	2–0	3–2	0–0
Chievo	2–1	2–0	1–1		2–2	2–2	1–3	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	4–2	0–3	3–0	1–2	1–1	2–1
Fiorentina	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–2		0–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–3	1–3	2–2	0–0	0–0	3–1	0–2
Internazionale	1–2	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–0		2–2	0–0	2–0	2–4	2–0	4–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	3–2	2–1	3–0
Juventus	3–0	2–1	5–0	3–2	2–1	0–0		1–1	3–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	0–2	3–3	3–0	4–0	1–0
Lazio	2–0	2–2	5–0	1–1	3–0	4–2	1–0		1–0	1–1	0–0	5–0	1–1	1–5	0–0	2–0	4–2	5–4
Lecce	0–2	1–0	1–3	2–3	4–1	1–2	0–0	1–2		0–1	1–1	2–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–1
Milan	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–2	5–2	0–1	1–1	2–0	3–0		3–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–3	1–1	2–1
Parma	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1		2–1	2–2	1–2	0–1	2–0	2–1	2–2
Perugia	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	0–2	0–4	0–0	2–1	3–1	2–1		1–0	0–0	2–0	1–2	2–0	3–1
Piacenza	1–2	2–0	0–1	2–2	3–0	2–3	0–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	2–3	2–0		2–0	3–1	1–2	5–0	3–0
Roma	3–1	3–1	0–0	5–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	5–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	2–0		1–0	1–1	1–0	3–2
Torino	1–2	1–1	1–3	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1		3–1	1–2	5–1
Udinese	1–2	0–1	3–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–4	0–1	1–2	3–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–2		1–0	2–1
Venezia	0–1	0–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–4	3–4	0–2	2–3	2–2	1–1	2–1		0–1
Hellas Verona	3–1	0–1	2–0	3–2	1–2	0–3	2–2	3–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0

Source: lega-calcio.it (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Overall

• Most wins – Juventus and Internazionale (20)
• Fewest wins – Venezia (3)
• Most draws – Roma, Milan, Torino and Brescia (13)
• Fewest draws – Hellas Verona (6)
• Most losses – Fiorentina and Venezia (22)
• Fewest losses – Roma (2)
• Most goals scored – Juventus (64)
• Fewest goals scored – Fiorentina (29)
• Most goals conceded – Fiorentina (63)
• Fewest goals conceded – Juventus (23)

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	David Trezeguet	Juventus	24
	Dario Hübner	Piacenza
3	Christian Vieri	Internazionale	22
4	Marco Di Vaio	Parma	20
5	Filippo Maniero	Venezia	18
6	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	16
	Cristiano Doni	Atalanta
8	Roberto Muzzi	Udinese	14
	Andriy Shevchenko	Milan
10	Hernán Crespo	Lazio	13
	Massimo Marazzina	Chievo
	Vincenzo Montella	Roma
	Luca Toni	Brescia
14	Adrian Mutu	Hellas Verona	12
15	Javier Chevantón	Lecce	11
	Roberto Baggio	Brescia

References

1. Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. – Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

• Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

External links

• it:Classifica calcio Serie A italiana 2002 – Italian version with pictures and info.
• – All results on RSSSF Website.
• 2001/2002 Serie A Squads – (www.footballsquads.com)