1998–99 AC Milan season

Milan
President	Silvio Berlusconi
Manager	Alberto Zaccheroni
Stadium	San Siro
Serie A	1st
Coppa Italia	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: ; Oliver Bierhoff (20); All: ; Oliver Bierhoff (20)
	← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

In the 1998-99 season, Associazione Calcio Milan competed in the Serie A for the 65st time, as well as in the Coppa Italia. It was their 16nd consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football. It was the club's second season in a row in which they haven't participated in any UEFA competition, as they failed to qualify during the previous season, finishing in 10th place.

A.C. Milan returned to its previous glorious ways under the guidance of new coach Alberto Zaccheroni. The highly rated coach, hired from Udinese, brought lethal striker Oliver Bierhoff and the defensive right-winger Thomas Helveg with him. He introduced Milan to his unorthodox 3-4-3 formation, in which Bierhoff was a perfect centre forward, scoring 20 goals in the league.

Milan had a marvelous second half of the season, in which it kept pace with Serie A championship leaders Lazio, then passing the Romans when they had a couple of slips. In the end, a win in the final round was more than enough to clinch Milan's first league title for three years.

Squad

Squad information

Abbiati

Sala

Costacurta

Maldini

Guglielminpietro

Helveg

Albertini

Ambrosini

Boban

Bierhoff

Weah

Starting line-up since Zaccheroni adopted, at the end of the first half of the season, a formation with a trequartista. Earlier, he used a 3-4-3 with Leonardo as a right forward and Boban in the midfield on Albertini's side.

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	ITA	Sebastiano Rossi
2	DF	ARG	Roberto Ayala
3	DF	ITA	Paolo Maldini
4	MF	ITA	Demetrio Albertini
5	DF	ITA	Alessandro Costacurta
7	MF	FRA	Ibrahim Ba
8	MF	ITA	Roberto Donadoni
9	FW	LBR	George Weah
10	MF	BRA	Leonardo
11	FW	ITA	Maurizio Ganz
12	GK	ITA	Christian Abbiati
13	DF	ITA	Giampiero Maini
13	FW	ITA	Alessandro Iannuzzi
14	MF	DEN	Thomas Helveg
15	DF	BRA	André Cruz
16	MF	ITA	Massimo Ambrosini


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	FW	NGA	Mohammed Aliyu Datti
17	DF	GER	Christian Ziege
18	MF	CRO	Zvonimir Boban
19	DF	ALG	Samir Beloufa
20	FW	GER	Oliver Bierhoff
21	DF	ITA	Giuseppe Cardone
21	MF	ITA	Federico Giunti
23	MF	ARG	Andrés Guglielminpietro
24	GK	GER	Jens Lehmann
25	DF	FRA	Bruno N'Gotty
26	DF	ITA	Luigi Sala
27	DF	ITA	Francesco Coco
28	FW	ITA	Andrea Rabito
29	MF	ITA	Lorenzo Rossetti
30	FW	ITA	Domenico Morfeo
31	GK	ITA	Giorgio Frezzolini

Serie A

Matches

1	Milan	3–0	Bologna
	Cappioli 45' (o.g.) Bierhoff 51' (pen.) Leonardo 82'

2	Salernitana	1–2	Milan
	Breda 88'		Bierhoff 68' Leonardo 87'

3	Milan	1–3	Fiorentina
	Bierhoff 69' (pen.)		Batistuta 6, 46, 52'

4	Venezia	0–2	Milan
			Bierhoff 3' Leonardo 69'

5	Cagliari	1–0	Milan
	De Patre 19'

6	Milan	3–2	Roma
	Leonardo 45' Ziege 58' Weah 72'		Delvecchio 8, 69'

7	Piacenza	1–1	Milan
	S. Inzaghi 44'		Ganz 90 + 2'

8	Milan	2–2	Inter
	Weah 13' Albertini 90' (pen.)		Ronaldo 7' Moriero 48'

9

Bari

0–0

Milan

10	Milan	1–0	Lazio
	Leonardo 90'

11	Parma	4–0	Milan
	Chiesa 25' Crespo 36, 60' Boghossian 90'

12	Milan	3–0	Udinese
	Weah 22' Leonardo 41' Bierhoff 60'

13	Milan	1–0	Vicenza
	Weah 84'

14	Sampdoria	2–2	Milan
	Palmieri 58' Ortega 86'		Leonardo 39' Bierhoff 73'

15	Milan	1–1	Juventus
	Albertini 27' (pen.)		Fonseca 85'

16	Empoli	1–1	Milan
	Di Napoli 59'		Ziege 84'

17	Milan	2–1	Perugia
	Guly 37' Bierhoff 40'		Nakata 90' (pen.)

18	Bologna	2–3	Milan
	Signori 15, 44'		Guly 21' Magoni 52' (o.g.) N'Gotty 90'

19	Milan	3–2	Salernitana
	Bierhoff 3, 60' Weah 25'		Giampaolo 7' Del Grosso 14'

20

Fiorentina

0–0

Milan

21	Milan	2–1	Venezia
	Guly 39' Ganz 53'		Tuta 70'

22	Milan	1–0	Cagliari
	M. Villa 49' (o.g.)

23	Roma	1–0	Milan
	Paulo Sérgio 64'

24	Milan	1–0	Piacenza
	Bierhoff 43'

25	Inter	2–2	Milan
	N'Gotty 7' (o.g.) J. Zanetti 77'		Leonardo 14, 52'

26	Milan	2–2	Bari
	Bierhoff 42' Ganz 90'		Osmanovski 6, 80'

27

Lazio

0–0

Milan

28	Milan	2–1	Parma
	Maldini 59' Ganz 72'		Balbo 39'

29	Udinese	1–5	Milan
	Amoroso 58'		Boban 15, 37' Bierhoff 45, 60' Weah 63'

30	Vicenza	0–2	Milan
			Bierhoff 40' Leonardo 72'

31	Milan	3–2	Sampdoria
	Ambrosini 17' Leonardo 79' Castellini 90' (o.g.)		Montella 60' Franceschetti 86'

32	Juventus	0–2	Milan
			Weah 46, 62'

33	Milan	4–0	Empoli
	Bierhoff 32, 55, 60' Leonardo 88'

34	Perugia	1–2	Milan
	Nakata 79' (pen.)		Guly 11' Bierhoff 31'

Topscorers

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