1999–2000 Valencia CF season

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

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

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	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
2	Barcelona	38	19	7	12	70	46	+24	64[lower-alpha 1]
3	Valencia	38	18	10	10	59	39	+20	64[lower-alpha 1]	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
4	Zaragoza	38	16	15	7	60	40	+20	63	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round[lower-alpha 2]
5	Real Madrid	38	16	14	8	58	48	+10	62	Qualification for the Champions League group stage[lower-alpha 2]

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) Champion.
Notes:

1. VAL 3–1 BAR; BAR 3–0 VAL
2. Real Madrid qualified directly for the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League as holders. As a result, Zaragoza lost their spot to UEFA Champions League and had to resign with a spot of 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
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

Group F

Pos	Team	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			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)

Group B

Pos	Team	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			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
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Santiago Cañizares	23	-26	23	-26
20	DF		Jocelyn Angloma	30	1	30	1
5	DF		Miroslav Đukić	33	0	33	0
2	DF		Mauricio Pellegrino	33	1	33	1
15	DF		Amedeo Carboni	28	1	28	1
8	DM		Javier Farinós	34	5	34	5
6	MF		Gaizka Mendieta	33	13	33	13
18	MF		Kily González	31	2	31	2
14	AM		Gerard	33	4	33	4
17	FW		Juan Sánchez	32	5	32	5
7	FW		Claudio López	34	11	34	11
3	DF		Joachim Björklund	23	0	23	0
9	MF		Óscar	20	4	20	4
10	MF		Angulo	29	5	29	5
11	FW		Adrian Ilie	22	5	22	5
13	GK		Jorge Bartual
16	DF		Alain Roche	2	0	2	0
19	FW		Goran Vlaović	4	0	4	0
21	MF		Luis Milla	12	0	12	0
22	MF		Gerardo	10	0	10	0
23	MF		David Albelda	21	0	21	0
24	DF		Fagiani	8	0	8	0
25	GK		Andrés Palop	15	-13	15	-13
27	MF		Curro Montoya
29	GK		Jonathan
30	DF		Manuel Cabezas
37	MF		Alex Pascual
38	MF		José Braulio
	DF		Javier Navarro
	MF		Jandro

• Source:

La Liga

• Gaizka Mendieta 13
• Claudio López 11
• Javier Farinós 6
• Juan Sánchez 5
• Angulo 5
• Adrian Ilie 5
• Óscar 4

Champions League

• Claudio López 5
• Gaizka Mendieta 5

References

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.