2000–01 Atlético Madrid season

The 2000–01 campaign was the 95th season in Atlético Madrid's history and their 1st season in Segunda Division of Spanish football. Also the club competed in Copa del Rey.

Club Atletico de Madrid

2000–01 season
President	Jesús Gil
Manager	Fernando Zambrano (1st-5th round) Marcos Alonso Peña (6th-35th round) Carlos García Cantarero (36th-42nd round)
Stadium	Vicente Calderón
Segunda División	4th
Copa del Rey	Semifinals
Top goalscorer	League: Salva (21) All: Salva (26)
Highest home attendance	56,000 vs Betis (25 February 2001)
Lowest home attendance	6,000 vs Osasuna (3 January 2001)
Average home league attendance	38,808
Home colours

Summary

For the first time ever, Atletico competes in a Segunda Division tournament since 1929 when Primera División was registered as the top league. Owing to a chaotic environment outside the field in spite of President Gil appointing club legend Paulo Futre as Manager on 3 November 2000 and three coaches fired,[1] the team never reached the 3rd position on the table and classifying to La Liga finishing tied in points along CD Tenerife but lost the goal average.

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 Toni Jimenez 2 DF  ESP Iván Amaya 3 DF  ESP Toni 4 MF   SUI Raphaël Wicky 5 DF  ESP Juan Manuel López 6 DF  ESP Santi Denia 7 MF  ARG Juan Gomez 8 MF  ARG Oscar Mena 9 FW  ESP Salva 10 FW  URU Fernando Correa 11 FW  ESP Jordi Lardín 12 FW  NGA Abass Lawal 13 MF  ESP Sergio Sánchez Sánchez 14 DF  YUG Zoran Njeguš

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  ESP Carlos Aguilera 16 MF  ESP Albert Luque 17 DF  FRA Jean-François Hernandez 18 MF  ESP Roberto Fresnedoso 19 FW  ESP Kiko 20 MF  POR Hugo Leal 21 MF  POR Dani 22 FW  ESP Juan Carlos Gómez Díaz 23 DF  BIH Mirsad Hibić 24 MF  ESP Carcedo 25 DF  ARG Daniel Fagiani 28 MF  ESP David Cubillo 35 FW  ESP Fernando Torres

Competitions

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
2	Real Betis	42	21	12	9	49	32	+17	75	Promoted to Primera División
3	CD Tenerife	42	21	11	10	58	32	+26	74
4	Atlético de Madrid	42	21	11	10	59	39	+20	74
5	Albacete	42	18	12	12	46	40	+6	66
6	Recreativo de Huelva	42	15	20	7	45	29	+16	65

Source:

Results by round

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	39	40	41	42
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	L	L	W	D	D	D	W	D	L	L	W	D	D	W	L	W	W	D	L	W	D	D	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	W	W	W	L	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	W
Position	22	22	21	20	20	19	19	17	15	18	19	17	17	18	17	17	18	16	17	16	15	13	13	15	13	12	13	6	6	5	7	7	5	5	4	5	5	5	4	4	4	4

Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; P = Promoted to Primera División;   = Relegated to Segunda División B

Matches

3 September 2000 1	Levante UD	4-1	Atletico Madrid	Valencia
	Salillas  34' Roa  52' Kaiku  69' Alberto  90'	Report	43' Salva	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 10,000[2] Referee: Bernardino González

9 September 2000 2	Atletico Madrid	0-1	Recreativo Huelva	Madrid
		Report	36' (own goal) J. Gómez	Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 45,000[3] Referee: José Luis Renales

18 September 2000 3	Real Jaen	1-0	Atletico Madrid	Jaén
	Puche  53'	Report		Stadium: La Victoria Attendance: 11,500[4] Referee: Antonio Jávega

23 September 2000 4	Atletico Madrid	2-0	SD Compostela	Madrid
	Salva  26' Salva  85'	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 45,000[5] Referee: Manuel Ángel Pérez

1 October 2000 5	Real Betis	1-1	Atletico Madrid	Sevilla
	Casas  45'	Report	97' (pen) Correa	Stadium: Manuel Ruiz de Lopera Attendance: 30,000[6] Referee: Fidel Valle

8 October 2000 6	Atletico Madrid	1-1	Racing Ferrol	Madrid
	Correa  47'	Report	46' Jordi	Stadium: Vicente Calderón

14 October 2000 7	CD Badajoz	0-0	Atletico Madrid	Badajoz
		Report		Stadium: Nuevo Vivero

21 October 2000 8	Atletico Madrid	2-0	Elche CF	Madrid
	Correa  10' (rig) Juan Carlos  59'	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón

29 October 2000 9	Atletico Madrid	1-1	Cordoba CF	Madrid
	Cubillo  85'	Report	90+3' Melgar	Stadium: Vicente Calderón

1 November 2000 10	Universidad Las Palmas	2-1	Atletico Madrid	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
	Jonathan  8' Prieto  47'	Report	71' (rig) Correa	Stadium: Alfonso Silva

5 November 2000 11	Atletico Madrid	1-2	CD Tenerife	Madrid
	Aguilera  48'	Report	58', 72' Luis García	Stadium: Vicente Calderón

11 November 2000 12	CF Extremadura	0-1	Atletico Madrid	Almendralejo
		Report	13' Correa	Stadium: Francisco de la Hera

18 November 2000 13	Atletico Madrid	1-1	SD Eibar	Madrid
	Salva  21'	Report	70' Sendoa	Stadium: Vicente Calderón

26 November 2000 14	Real Murcia	1-1	Atletico Madrid	Murcia
	Loreto  65'	Report	27' Hugo Leal	Stadium: La Condomina

2 December 2000 15	Atletico Madrid	3-0	UD Salamanca	Madrid
	Salva  14', 83' Aguilera  38'	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón

10 December 2000 16	Sevilla CF	3-1	Atletico Madrid	Sevilla
	Víctor  36' Olivera  44' Diego	Report	72' Salva	Stadium: Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán

17 December 2000 17	Atletico Madrid	3-2	UE Lleida	Madrid
	Aguilera  28' Salva  38' (rig), 49'	Report	15' Álvarez  48' Lusarreta	Stadium: Vicente Calderón

21 December 2000 18	CD Leganes	1-2	Atletico Madrid	Leganés
	Macanás  30'	Report	36' Hibić  69' Salva	Stadium: Butarque

7 January 2001 19	Atletico Madrid	0-0	Albacete Balompié	Madrid
		Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón

14 January 2001 20	Sporting Gijon	1-0	Atletico Madrid	Gijón
	Soto  72'	Report		Stadium: El Molinón

20 January 2001 21	Atletico Madrid	2-1	Getafe CF	Madrid
	Roberto F.  70' Hugo Leal  76'	Report	63' Nzinkeu	Stadium: Vicente Calderón

27 January 2001 22	Atletico Madrid	1-1	Levante UD	Madrid
	Aguilera  39'	Report	67' (rig) Saavedra	Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 35,000[7] Referee: Alexis Pérez

3 February 2001 23	Recreativo Huelva	1-1	Atletico Madrid	Huelva
	David  56'	Report	89' Mena	Stadium: Colombino

11 February 2001 24	Atletico Madrid	5-0	Real Jaen	Madrid
	Njeguš  12', 90' Hugo Leal  56' Correa  61' Salva  68' (rig)	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón

17 February 2001 25	SD Compostela	2-3	Atletico Madrid	Santiago de Compostela
	Gudelj  25', 35'	Report	60' Luque  63' (aut) Pinillos  90+1' Hugo Leal	Stadium: San Lázaro

25 February 2001 26	Atletico Madrid	2-1	Real Betis	Madrid
	Aguilera  19' Dani  63'	Report	36' Arzu	Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 56,000[8]

4 March 2001 27	Racing Ferrol	0-2	Atletico Madrid	Ferrol
		Report	83' Correa  90' Salva	Stadium: A Malata

10 March 2001 28	Atletico Madrid	2-0	CD Badajoz	Madrid
	Dani  36', 58'	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón

17 March 2001 29	Elche CF	2-1	Atletico Madrid	Elche
	Benja  31' Șerban  46'	Report	59' Salva	Stadium: Manuel Martínez Valero

24 March 2001 30	Cordoba CF	1-1	Atletico Madrid	Cordoba
	Gallego  91'	Report	19' Salva	Stadium: Nuevo Arcángel Attendance: 15,500[9] Referee: Fernando Teixeira

31 March 2001 31	Atletico Madrid	2-0	Universidad Las Palmas	Madrid
	Salva  63' Carlos Aguilera  92'	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 45,000[10] Referee: Xabier Eleicegui

8 April 2001 32	CD Tenerife	1-2	Atletico Madrid	Santa Cruz de Tenerife
	Luis García  68' (pen)	Report	6' Luque  74' Hibić	Stadium: Heliodoro Rodríguez López Attendance: 23,000[11] Referee: Eduardo Pérez

15 April 2001 33	Atletico Madrid	2-0	CF Extremadura	Madrid
	Salva  65', 85' (pen)	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 54,000[12] Referee: Manuel Ángel Pérez

22 April 2001 34	SD Eibar	2-1	Atletico Madrid	Irun
	Léniz  28' Arenaza  35'	Report	72' Salva	Stadium: Ipurúa Attendance: 5,000[13] Referee: José Luis Bello

28 April 2001 35	Atletico Madrid	0-3	Real Murcia	Madrid
		Report	26' Zárate  63' Loreto  80' Luis Gil	Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 50,000[14] Referee: Jesús Téllez

6 May 2001 36	UD Salamanca	1-3	Atletico Madrid	Salamanca
	Toedtli  64'	Report	3' Luque  29' Salva  85' Dani	Stadium: El Helmántico Attendance: 9,214[15] Referee: Bernardino González

12 May 2001 37	Atletico Madrid	2-0	Sevilla CF	Madrid
	Salva  56' Roberto F.  69'	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 53,000[16] Referee: Emilio Rubio

20 May 2001 38	UE Lleida	1-1	Atletico Madrid	Lleida
	Renaldo  43'	Report	71' Correa	Stadium: Camp d'Esports Attendance: 6,000[17] Referee: Francisco Manuel Arcas

27 May 2001 39	Atletico Madrid	1-0	CD Leganes	Madrid
	Luque  54'	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 35,000[18] Referee: Emilio Navas

3 June 2001 40	Albacete Balompié	0-1	Atletico Madrid	Albacete
		Report	80' F. Torres	Stadium: Carlos Belmonte Attendance: 16,500[19] Referee: Francisco Javier Muñoz

10 June 2001 41	Atletico Madrid	1-0	Sporting Gijon	Madrid
	Luque  69'	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 55,000[20] Referee: José Luis Parada

17 June 2001 42	Getafe CF	0-1	Atletico Madrid	Getafe
		Report	27' Luque	Stadium: Coliseum Alfonso Pérez Attendance: 14,000[21] Referee: Antonio Jávega

Round of 64

13 December 2000 1	Atletico Madrid	1-0	UD Salamanca	Madrid
	Salva  23'	Report		Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 18,000[22] Referee: Fidel Valle

Round of 32

3 January 2001 1	Atletico Madrid	3-1	Osasuna	Madrid
	J. Gómez  45' Correa  54', 80'	Report	75' Armentano	Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 6,000[23] Referee: Julián Rodríguez

Eightfinals

11 January 2001 1	Atletico Madrid	2-2	Rayo Vallecano	Madrid
	Salva  21', 25'	Report	69' Quevedo  85' De Quintana	Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 15,000[24] Referee: Rafael Ramírez

17 January 2001 2	Rayo Vallecano	0-2	Atletico Madrid	Madrid
		Report	16' Salva  78' Kiko	Stadium: Teresa Rivero Attendance: 16,000[25] Referee: Alfonso Pérez

Quarterfinals

31 January 2001 1	Granada CF	0-1	Atletico Madrid	Granada
		Report	40' Correa	Stadium: Los Cármenes Attendance: 15,000[26] Referee: Xabier Eleicegui

6 February 2001 2	Atletico Madrid	3-1	Granada CF	Madrid
	Salva  31', 74' Dani  53'	Report	75' Puntas	Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 20,000[27] Referee: Jesús Téllez

Semifinals

20 June 2001 1	Atletico Madrid	0-2	Real Zaragoza	Madrid
		Report	28' Acuña  69' Jamelli	Stadium: Vicente Calderón Attendance: 25,000[28] Referee: Fernando Carmona

23 June 2001 2	Real Zaragoza	0-1 (2-1 agg.)	Atletico Madrid	Zaragoza
		Report	29' Fagiani	Stadium: La Romareda Attendance: 30,000[29] Referee: José Losantos

Statistics

Players statistics

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		2000-01 Segunda División		2000-01 Copa del Rey
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Toni Jimenez	30	-27	30	-27
15	DF		Carlos Aguilera	39	6	34+5	6
6	DF		Santi Denia	23	0	20+3	0
23	DF		Mirsad Hibić	30	2	30	2
14	DF		Zoran Njeguš	26	2	23+3	2
7	MF		Juan Gomez	36	0	36	0
20	MF		Hugo Leal	36	4	33+3	4
16	MF		Albert Luque	30	5	19+11	5
9	FW		Salva	33	21	33	21
10	FW		Fernando Correa	38	8	26+12	8
19	FW		Kiko	32	0	20+12	0
13	GK		Sergio Sánchez Sánchez	12	-12	12	-12
25	DF		Daniel Fagiani	22	0	20+2	0
8	MF		Oscar Mena	19	1	15+4	1
2	DF		Iván Amaya	15	0	15	0
18	MF		Roberto Fresnedoso	20	2	9+11	2
21	MF		Dani	19	4	10+9	4
17	DF		Jean-François Hernandez	14	0	11+3	0
25	DF		Carles Llorens	12	0	12	0
22	FW		Juan Carlos	12	1	8+4	1
4	MF		Raphaël Wicky	11	0	8+3	0
24	MF		Carcedo	11	0	7+4	0
28	MF		David Cubillo	12	1	4+8	1
3	DF		Toni	8	0	7+1	0
4	DF		Gaspar	7	0	7	0
11	FW		Jordi Lardín	9	0	5+4	0
12	FW		Abass Lawal	6	0	1+5	0
21	MF		Veljko Paunovic	5	0	2+3	0
35	FW		Fernando Torres	4	1	1+3	1
5	DF		Juan Manuel López	3	0	2+1	0
26	MF		Zahinos	2	0	1+1	0
29	DF		Antonio Lopez	2	0	1+1	0
30	MF		Carlos	2	0	0+2	0

• Source:

Squad statistics

Competition	Points	Total						GD
		G	W	D	L	GS	GR
2000-01 Segunda División	74	42	21	11	10	59	39	+20
2000-01 Copa del Rey	-	8	6	1	1	13	6	+7
Total	74	50	27	12	11	72	45	+27

References

1. "Gil Appointed Futre as Club Manager" (in Spanish). elpais.com. 3 November 2000. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
2. "Atletico Sends Bad Signals" (in Spanish). elpais.com. 4 September 2000. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
3. "The 'Recre' throw fire in at the 'hell' of Atletico" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 10 September 2000. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
4. "El Jaén se aprovecha de un Atlético más colista" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 18 September 2000. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
5. "Salva Saves Coach Zambrano" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 24 September 2000. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
6. "Big Hit against Betis" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 2 October 2000. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
7. "El Atlético vuelve a tropezar en uno de sus mejores partidos" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 28 January 2001. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
8. "El Atlético se sube al tren" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 26 February 2001. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
9. "Atletico is scared and pays an expensive cost" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 25 March 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
10. "A Very Grey Atletico suffers to defeat 'Uni'" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 1 April 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
11. "El Atlético goes to recoil" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 9 April 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
12. "Atletico almost touches La Liga" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 16 April 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
13. "Eibar dismounts Atletico" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 23 April 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
14. "Scandal at Calderon Stadium" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 29 April 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
15. "Cantarero Won in his debut at Salamanca" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 7 May 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
16. "Atletico is still Alive" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 13 May 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
17. "Grave tropiezo del Atlético en Lleida" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 21 May 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
18. "Luque mantiene vivo a un gris Atleti" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 28 May 2001.
19. "Atleti almost reaches La Liga" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 4 June 2001. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
20. "Atletico revives with Torres" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 11 June 2001.
21. "Bitter Victory to remain another year in the hell" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 18 June 2001. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
22. "Salva classifies Atletico" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 14 December 2000. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
23. "Dos golazos de Correa clasifican al Atlético" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 4 January 2001. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
24. "Atleti forgives and brings life to Rayo" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 12 January 2001. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
25. "Atleti again terminates Rayo" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 18 January 2001. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
26. "Atleti kept its play" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 1 February 2001. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
27. "Atleti makes the screen and advance to semifinals stage" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 6 February 2001. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
28. "Zaragoza takes advantage" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 21 June 2001. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
29. "Zaragoza to the Final" (PDF) (in Spanish). mundodeportivo.com. 24 June 2001. Retrieved 13 January 2021.

External links

• Campaign of Atletico Madrid in 2000–01 season.
• Matches of Atletico Madrid in 2000–01 season.