1999–2000 Valencia CF season

Valencia CF
1999–00 season
Chairman	Pedro Cortés
Manager	Héctor Cúper
Stadium	Estadio Mestalla
La Liga	3rd (in UEFA Champions League)
Copa del Rey	Round of 32
Champions League	Runners-up
Top goalscorer	Gaizka Mendieta (13)
Home colours	Away colours
	← 1998–99 2000–01 →

During the 1999–2000 Spanish football season, Valencia competed in La Liga.

Season summary

During Spring of 1999, after rumours of Claudio Ranieri being linked to Atletico Madrid^[1] the club replaced the Italian head coach for the upcoming season, the final choices were Radomir Antic from Atletico Madrid with a contract until 2000 with colchoneros and Argentine Héctor Cúper from RCD Mallorca free in June^[2] and whom, finally, was appointed as new manager.^[3] Valencia CF emerged as a world football heavyweight after reaching the Champions League final. New coach Héctor Cúper ^[4] focused heavily on making the defence invincible, although, despite the general perception of a much more defensive Valencia, they actually conceded the same amount of league goals as they had under previous coach Claudio Ranieri. Among the key players were playmaker Gaizka Mendieta (voted as the best midfielder in the Champions League), fellow midfielder Gerard, goalkeeper Santiago Cañizares, winger Javier Farinós and striker Claudio López, who was sold to Lazio at the end of the season. Lazio had been Valencia's opponents in the quarter-final of the Champions League, which resulted in a 5–2 victory for Valencia against the eventual Italian champions. Gerard was also sold, to the team that had nurtured him, Barcelona, for £15 million. Barcelona had been Valencia's opponents in the semi-finals, and had been crushed 4–1 away. A 2–1 defeat at the Camp Nou still saw Valencia progress to the final at Stade de France, where they came up against Real Madrid in the first ever all-Spanish final of the competition. Valencia's dreams were shattered by a clear 3–0 defeat.

Squad

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	ESP	Santiago Cañizares
2	DF	ARG	Mauricio Pellegrino
3	DF	SWE	Joachim Björklund
4	DF	ESP	Javier Navarro
5	DF	SRB	Miroslav Đukić
6	MF	ESP	Gaizka Mendieta
7	FW	ARG	Claudio López
8	MF	ESP	Javier Farinós
9	MF	ESP	Óscar
10	MF	ESP	Angulo
11	FW	ROU	Adrian Ilie
12	MF	ESP	Jandro
13	GK	ESP	Jorge Bartual
14	DF	ESP	Gerard
15	DF	ITA	Amedeo Carboni
16	DF	FRA	Alain Roche
17	FW	ESP	Juan Sánchez
18	FW	ARG	Kily González
19	FW	CRO	Goran Vlaović


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	DF	FRA	Jocelyn Angloma
21	MF	ESP	Luis Milla
22	MF	ESP	Gerardo
23	MF	ESP	David Albelda
24	DF	ARG	Daniel Fagiani
25	GK	ESP	Andrés Palop
26	MF	ESP	Francisco Padalino
27	MF	ESP	Curro Montoya
28	DF	ESP	Antonio Diallo
29	GK	ESP	Jonathan López
30	DF	ESP	Manuel Cabezas
31	FW	ESP	Fernando Mayora
32	FW	ESP	Luciano Alkorta
33	DF	ESP	Jesús Pañenka
34	MF	ESP	Francisco Muedra
35	MF	ESP	Íker Dañobeitia
36	DF	ESP	Ignacio Dearro
37	MF	ESP	Alex Pascual
38	MF	ESP	José Braulio

Transfers

In
Pos.	Name	from	Type
DF	Mauricio Pellegrino	FC Barcelona
MF	Gerard López	Deportivo Alavés
MF	Kily González	Real Zaragoza
FW	Juan Sánchez	Celta Vigo
GK	Andrés Palop	Villarreal CF
MF	David Albelda	Villarreal CF
FW	Óscar	FC Barcelona
MF	Gerardo	Villarreal CF
DF	Fagiani	Newell's Old Boys

Out
Pos.	Name	To	Type
MF	Stefan Schwarz	Sunderland
DF	Juanfran	Celta Vigo
MF	Gabriel Popescu	Numancia
FW	Cristiano Lucarelli	Lecce
FW	Ruben Navarro	Numancia
DF	Óscar Téllez	Deportivo Alavés
FW	Sabin Ilie
FW	Nicolás Olivera	Sevilla CF
DF	Curro Torres	Recreativo Huelva

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.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	DF	ESP	Francisco Camarasa (to Valencia B)
12	DF	ESP	Miguel Ángel Soria López (on loan to Numancia)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	MF	ROU	Dennis Serban (on loan to Villareal)

Competitions

La Liga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Deportivo La Coruña (C)	38	21	6	11	66	44	+22	69	Qualification for the Champions League group stage^[a]
2	Barcelona	38	19	7	12	70	46	+24	64^[b]	Qualification for the Champions League group stage^[a]
3	Valencia	38	18	10	10	59	39	+20	64^[b]	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
4	Zaragoza	38	16	15	7	60	40	+20	63	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round^[c]
5	Real Madrid	38	16	14	8	58	48	+10	62	Qualification for the Champions League group stage^[c]

Source: LFP
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ Deportivo La Coruña also qualified for the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship as a host nation representative, that ended up being cancelled.
^ ^a ^b VAL 3–1 BAR; BAR 3–0 VAL
^ ^a ^b Real Madrid qualified directly for the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League as holders. As a result, Zaragoza lost their spot in the UEFA Champions League and had to participate in the UEFA Cup.

Position by round

Team / 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
Team / Round
Valencia	13	18	19	20	20	19	16	18	14	15	18	15	15	11	8	7	6	5	9	9	11	9	8	8	9	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	4	5	3

Matches

20 August 1999 1	Valencia	1-2	Racing Santander	Valencia
	Gaizka Mendieta 75'	Report	Miroslav Đukić 22' (o.g.) Salva 65'	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

28 August 1999 2	Espanyol	3-2	Valencia	Barcelona
	Benítez 10' Enrique de Lucas 13' Martín Posse 52'	Report	Gaizka Mendieta 46' (pen.) Juan Sánchez 90'	Stadium: Estadio Olimpico de Montjuic

10 September 1999 3	Valencia-	0-2	Alavés	Valencia
		Report	Magno 84' Martín Astudillo 90'	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

17 September 1999 4	Betis	1-0	Valencia	Sevilla
	Oli 26'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Benito Villamarin

24 September 1999 5	Valencia	0-0	Valladolid	Valencia
		Report		Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

2 October 1999 6	Real Madrid	2-3	Valencia	Madrid
	Fernando Morientes 46' Fernando Morientes 65'	Report	Gaizka Mendieta 11' (pen.) Gerard 23' Claudio López 39'	Stadium: Estadio Santiago Bernabeu

12 October 1999 7	Valencia	4-0	Numancia	Valencia
	Adrian Ilie 30' Adrian Ilie 51' Javier Farinós 68' Javier Farinós 89'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

15 October 1999 8	Athletic Bilbao	1-0	Valencia	Bilbao
	Ismael Urzaiz 9'	Report		Stadium: Estadio San Mames

22 October 1999 9	Valencia	2-0	Deportivo	Valencia
	Kily González 27' Gerard 86'	Report	1-0	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

29 October 1999 10	Málaga	1-1	Valencia	Málaga
	Edgar 27'	Report	Claudio López 67'

6 November 1999 11	Mallorca	1-1	Valencia	Palma de Mallorca
	Diego Tristán 50'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Son Moix

19 November 1999 12	Valencia	3-1	Barcelona	Valencia
	Claudio López 32' Adrian Ilie 36' Gerard 90'	Report	Boudewijn Zenden 45'	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

27 November 1999 13	Real Oviedo	0-0	Valencia	Oviedo
		Report		Stadium: Estadio Carlos Tartiere

3 December 1999 14	Valencia	2-0	Sevilla	Valencia
	Juan Sánchez 6' Claudio López 70'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

11 December 1999 15	Atlético Madrid	1-2	Valencia	Madrid
	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 28'	Report	Gaizka Mendieta 16' Juan Sánchez 54'	Stadium: Estadio Vicente Calderon

18 December 1999 16	Valencia	3-1	Rayo Vallecano	Valencia
	Juan Sánchez 12' Juan Sánchez 75' Gaizka Mendieta 90'	Report	Luis Cembranos 70'	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

21 December 1999 17	Real Sociedad	0-0	Valencia	San Sebastian
		Report		Stadium: Estadio Anoeta

3 January 2000 18	Valencia	1-1	Celta Vigo	Valencia
	Gerard 6'	Report	Velasco 49'	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

8 January 2000 19	Real Zaragoza	4-2	Valencia	Zaragoza
	Juanele 26' Savo Milošević 32' Vladislav Radimov 58' Juanele 68'	Report	Gaizka Mendieta 24' (pen.) Gaizka Mendieta 66'	Stadium: Estadio La Romareda

15 January 2000 20	Racing Santander	1-1	Valencia	Santander
	Salva 90' (pen.)	Report	Gaizka Mendieta 34' (pen.)	Stadium: Estadio El Sardinero

22 January 2000 21	Valencia	1-2	Espanyol	Valencia
	Kily González 29'	Report	Benítez 15' Arteaga 52'	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

29 January 2000 22	Alavés	0-1	Valencia	Vitoria
		Report	Javier Farinós 70' (pen.)

4 February 2000 23	Valencia	3-1	Betis	Valencia
	Adrian Ilie 2' Gaizka Mendieta 82' (pen.) Javier Farinós 83'	Report	Iulian Filipescu 60'	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

11 February 2000 24	Valladolid	0-0	Valencia	Valladolid
		Report		Stadium: Estadio Jose Zorrilla

19 February 2000 25	Valencia	1-1	Real Madrid	Valencia
	Adrian Ilie 35'	Report	Guti 59'	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

25 February 2000 26	Numancia	1-2	Valencia	Numancia
	Miguel Ángel Soria 77'	Report	Gaizka Mendieta 4' Claudio López 60'

3 March 2000 27	Valencia	2-0	Athletic Bilbao	Valencia
	Óscar 83' Claudio López 86'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

11 March 2000 28	Deportivo	2-0	Valencia	La Coruña
	Fran 24' Flávio Conceição 50'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Riazor

17 March 2000 29	Valencia	2-2	Málaga	Valencia
	Angulo 51' Angulo 67'	Report	Catanha 62' Catanha 90' (pen.)	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

24 March 2000 30	Valencia	1-0	Mallorca	Valencia
	Jocelyn Angloma 49'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

1 April 2000 31	Barcelona	3-0	Valencia	Barcelona
	Winston Bogarde 63' Patrick Kluivert 68' Patrick Kluivert 90'	Report		Stadium: Camp Nou

8 April 2000 32	Valencia	6-2	Real Oviedo	Valencia
	Claudio López 18' Frédéric Danjou 30' (o.g.) Claudio López 50' Angulo 58' Javier Farinós 61' (pen.) Óscar 83'	Report	Viktor Onopko 65' Roberto Pompei 85'	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

14 April 2000 33	Sevilla	1-2	Valencia	Sevilla
	Jesuli 78'	Report	Gaizka Mendieta 70' Marcelo Zalayeta 90' (o.g.)	Stadium: Estadio Sanchez Pizjuan

21 April 2000 34	Valencia	2-0	Atlético Madrid	Valencia
	Claudio López 23' Angulo 88'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

28 April 2000 35	Rayo Vallecano	1-3	Valencia	Madrid
	Bolo 86'	Report	Javier Farinós 11' Gaizka Mendieta 36' Óscar 82'	Stadium: Estadio Campo Vallecas

5 May 2000 36	Valencia	4-0	Real Sociedad	Valencia
	Angulo 18' Claudio López 52' Amedeo Carboni 79' Gaizka Mendieta 89'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

13 May 2000 37	Celta Vigo	0-0	Valencia	Vigo
		Report		Stadium: Estadio Balaidos

18 May 2000 38	Valencia-	2-1	Real Zaragoza	Valencia
	Gary Sundgren 59' (o.g.) Claudio López 70'	Report	Savo Milošević 5'	Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

Copa del Rey

Eightfinals

14 December 1999

Osasuna

3-0

Valencia CF

Pamplona

11 January 2000	Valencia CF	2-0	Osasuna	Valencia
				Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

UEFA Champions League

Third qualifying round

11 August 1999	Valencia	2-0	Hapoel Haifa	Valencia
				Stadium: Estadio Mestalla

28 August 1999

Hapoel Haifa

0-2

Valencia

Haifa

First group stage

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	VAL	BAY	RAN	PSV
1	Valencia	6	3	3	0	8	4	+4	12	Advance to second group stage	—	1–1	2–0	1–0
2	Bayern Munich	6	2	3	1	7	6	+1	9	Advance to second group stage	1–1	—	1–0	2–1
3	Rangers	6	2	1	3	7	7	0	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup	1–2	1–1	—	4–1
4	PSV Eindhoven	6	1	1	4	5	10	−5	4		1–1	2–1	0–1	—

Source: UEFA

14 September 1999	Valencia	2–0	Rangers	Estadio Mestalla, Valencia
	Moore 55' (o.g.) Kily González 76'	Report		Attendance: 31,524 Referee: Lubos Michel (Slovakia)

22 September 1999	PSV Eindhoven	1–1	Valencia	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven
	van Nistelrooy 72' (pen.)	Report	C. López 4'	Attendance: 26,500 Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)

29 September 1999	Bayern Munich	1–1	Valencia	Olympic Stadium, Munich
	Élber 6'	Report	G. López 80'	Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Graziano Cesari (Italy)

20 October 1999	Valencia	1–1	Bayern Munich	Estadio Mestalla, Valencia
	Ilie 11'	Report	Effenberg 18' (pen.)	Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

26 October 1999	Rangers	1–2	Valencia	Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
	Moore 60'	Report	Mendieta 35' C. López 45'	Attendance: 50,063 Referee: Günter Benkö (Austria)

2 November 1999	Valencia	1–0	PSV Eindhoven	Estadio Mestalla, Valencia
	López 70'	Report		Attendance: 26,266 Referee: Graham Barber (England)

Second group stage

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MU	VAL	FIO	BOR
1	Manchester United	6	4	1	1	10	4	+6	13	Advance to knockout stage	—	3–0	3–1	2–0
2	Valencia	6	3	1	2	9	5	+4	10	Advance to knockout stage	0–0	—	2–0	3–0
3	Fiorentina	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8		2–0	1–0	—	3–3
4	Bordeaux	6	0	2	4	5	14	−9	2		1–2	1–4	0–0	—

Source: UEFA

23 November 1999	Valencia	3–0	Bordeaux	Estadio Mestalla, Valencia
	Farinós 60' Ilie 68' Kily González 90'			Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)

8 December 1999	Manchester United	3–0	Valencia	Old Trafford, Manchester
	Keane 38' Solskjær 47' Scholes 70'			Attendance: 54,606 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

1 March 2000	Fiorentina	1–0	Valencia	Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence
	Mijatović 20' (pen.)			Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

7 March 2000	Valencia	2–0	Fiorentina	Estadio Mestalla, Valencia
	Ilie 35' Mendieta 90+' (pen.)			Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Hellmut Krug (Germany)

15 March 2000	Bordeaux	1–4	Valencia	Parc Lescure, Bordeaux
	Wiltord 54'		Đukić 41' Mendieta 47' (pen.) Kily González 72' Sánchez 90+'	Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Fritz Stuchlik (Austria)

21 March 2000	Valencia	0–0	Manchester United	Estadio Mestalla, Valencia
				Attendance: 40,419 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)

Quarter-final

5 April 2000	Valencia	5–2	Lazio	Estadio Mestalla, Valencia
	Angulo 2' G. López 4', 40', 80' C. López 90+1'		Inzaghi 28' Salas 87'	Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

18 April 2000	Lazio	1–0	Valencia	Stadio Olimpico, Rome
	Verón 52'			Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)

Semi-final

2 May 2000	Valencia	4–1	Barcelona	Estadio Mestalla, Valencia
	Angulo 10', 43' Mendieta 47' (pen.) C. López 90+2'		Pellegrino 27' (o.g.)	Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)

10 May 2000	Barcelona	2–1	Valencia	Camp Nou, Barcelona
	F. de Boer 78' Cocu 90+2'		Mendieta 69'	Attendance: 65,000 Referee: Vítor Melo Pereira (Portugal)

Final

24 May 2000	Real Madrid	3–0	Valencia	Stade de France, Paris
20:45	Morientes 39' McManaman 67' Raúl 75'			Attendance: 78,759 Referee: Stefano Braschi (Italy)

Statistics

Player Statistics

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		1999-2000 La Liga		1999-2000 Copa del Rey		1999-2000 UEFA Champions League
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	ESP	Santiago Cañizares	23	-26	23	-26
20	DF	FRA	Jocelyn Angloma	30	1	30	1
5	DF	SCG	Miroslav Đukić	33	0	33	0
2	DF	ARG	Mauricio Pellegrino	33	1	33	1
15	DF	ITA	Amedeo Carboni	28	1	28	1
8	DM	ESP	Javier Farinós	34	5	34	5
6	MF	ESP	Gaizka Mendieta	33	13	33	13
18	MF	ARG	Kily González	31	2	31	2
14	AM	ESP	Gerard	33	4	33	4
17	FW	ESP	Juan Sánchez	32	5	32	5
7	FW	ARG	Claudio López	34	11	34	11
3	DF	SWE	Joachim Björklund	23	0	23	0
9	MF	ESP	Óscar	20	4	20	4
10	MF	ESP	Angulo	29	5	29	5
11	FW	ROU	Adrian Ilie	22	5	22	5
13	GK	ESP	Jorge Bartual
16	DF	FRA	Alain Roche	2	0	2	0
19	FW	CRO	Goran Vlaović	4	0	4	0
21	MF	ESP	Luis Milla	12	0	12	0
22	MF	ESP	Gerardo	10	0	10	0
23	MF	ESP	David Albelda	21	0	21	0
24	DF	ARG	Fagiani	8	0	8	0
25	GK	ESP	Andrés Palop	15	-13	15	-13
27	MF	ESP	Curro Montoya
29	GK	ESP	Jonathan
30	DF	ESP	Manuel Cabezas
37	MF	ESP	Alex Pascual
38	MF	ESP	José Braulio
	DF	ESP	Javier Navarro
	MF	ESP	Jandro

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

La Liga

Champions League

Claudio López 5
Gaizka Mendieta 5

References

^ "Gil denies a contract with Ranieri". elpais.com. 10 March 1999. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
^ "Cuper left Mallorca" (in Spanish). elmundo.es. 31 May 1999. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
^ "Ranieri recommended Cuper for Valencia". elpais.com. 8 March 1999. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
^ "El Valencia de Cuper ya puede presumir de solidez defensiva" (in Spanish). elpais.com. 23 December 1999. Retrieved 2 August 2020.

[table_note_res_CLGS0.97116119320093-5] Deportivo La Coruña also qualified for the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship as a host nation representative, that ended up being cancelled.

[table_hth_VCF0.97116119320093-6] VAL 3–1 BAR; BAR 3–0 VAL

[table_note_res_UC10.97116119320093-7] Real Madrid qualified directly for the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League as holders. As a result, Zaragoza lost their spot in the UEFA Champions League and had to participate in the UEFA Cup.

[1] "Gil denies a contract with Ranieri". elpais.com. 10 March 1999. Retrieved 2 August 2020.

[2] "Cuper left Mallorca" (in Spanish). elmundo.es. 31 May 1999. Retrieved 2 August 2020.

[3] "Ranieri recommended Cuper for Valencia". elpais.com. 8 March 1999. Retrieved 2 August 2020.

[4] "El Valencia de Cuper ya puede presumir de solidez defensiva" (in Spanish). elpais.com. 23 December 1999. Retrieved 2 August 2020.

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