S.S. Lazio

S.S. Lazio

Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...

failed to defend their Serie A

Serie A

Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

 title won in 2000 following a troubled season, in which Sven-Göran Eriksson

Sven-Göran Eriksson

Sven-Göran Eriksson , in Sweden commonly referred to just by his nickname Svennis, is a Swedish ex-football manager. From October 2010 to October 2011 he managed Football League Championship side Leicester City....

 resigned following the announcement by the FA that he would succeed Kevin Keegan

Kevin Keegan

Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE is a former international footballer and former manager of the England national football team and several English clubs, most notably Newcastle United....

 as England's manager.

Dino Zoff

Dino Zoff

Dino Zoff is an Italian former football goalkeeper and is the oldest winner ever of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian team in the 1982 tournament in Spain, at the age of 40 years, 4 months and 13 days.Zoff was a goalkeeper of outstanding ability and has a place in the...

 replaced Eriksson and led Lazio to a third place in Serie A, but once again Lazio failed in its ambition to win the Champions League

UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...

, not even being close to reach the Quarter Finals.

Hernán Crespo

Hernán Crespo

Hernán Jorge Crespo is an Argentine footballer who plays for Parma in the Italian Serie A. Crespo has scored over 300 goals in a career spanning 18 years. His honors include an Olympic Games silver medal, a Copa Libertadores, an English Premier League title and three Scudettos. He was topscorer in...

 was the most prolific player in Lazio's season, scoring 26 goals in his first season for the club, ensuring Lazio's heavy investment in bringing him to the club paid off.

Defenders

Paolo Negro

Paolo Negro

Paolo Negro is a former Italian footballer. He could either play as a central defender or a right back.-Club career:...

 Daniel Ola

Daniel Ola

Daniel Ola is a Ghanaian-Nigerian football defender, who currently plays for FC Jūrmala in the Latvian Higher League.-Career :...

  Néstor Sensini  Siniša Mihajlović

Siniša Mihajlovic

Siniša Mihajlović is a Serbian football manager and former player. He was in charge of Serie A club Fiorentina since June 2010 to November 2011....

 Alessandro Nesta

Alessandro Nesta

Alessandro Nesta, Ufficiale OMRI , is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Milan. Considered by many as one of the best centre backs to have ever played the game, he is a four-time member of the annual UEFA Team of the Year.-Early life:Nesta was raised in...

 Giuseppe Pancaro

Giuseppe Pancaro

Giuseppe Pancaro is a former Italian football defender.Pancaro started his career with Cagliari Calcio in 1992. After Cagliari were relegated in 1997, he transferred to S.S. Lazio. In summer 2003, Pancaro transferred to A.C. Milan in exchange for Demetrio Albertini. In 2004, he signed a one year...

 Emanuele Pesaresi

Emanuele Pesaresi

Emanuele Pesaresi is an Italian footballer. He is a fast and aggressive defender who is known for his quick pace and counter attacking.-Sampdoria:...

  Guerino Gottardi

Guerino Gottardi

Guerino Gottardi is a retired Swiss-Italian football player. After joining Lazio in 1995 from Neuchatel Xamax, Gottardi was often used as a "supersub" and was instrumental in Lazio's 1998 Coppa Italia victory...

 Giuseppe Favalli

Giuseppe Favalli

Giuseppe Favalli is a retired Italian footballer who played as a defender for Serie A clubs Lazio, Internazionale and Milan.-Cremonese:He started his career with then-Serie B squad Cremonese...

 Fernando Couto

Fernando Couto

Fernando Manuel Silva Couto, OIH is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a central defender.During a 21-year professional career, he played in a number of top teams in Portugal, Spain and Italy , appearing in nearly 600 official games and winning the national league title of each country,...

 Maurizio Domizzi

Maurizio Domizzi

Maurizio Domizzi is an Italian football defender who plays for Udinese.A S.S. Lazio youth product, Domizzi was farmed to Livorno at Serie C1 in October 1998. In summer 2001, he joined A.C. Milan, by immediately loaned to Modena at Serie B. In the next season he joined league rival U.C. Sampdoria...

 Francesco Colonnese

Francesco Colonnese

Francesco Colonnese is an Italian former football defender.- Club :He began his career in Potenza - where he played from 1989 to 1991 - before moving first to Giarre Football and then to Cremonese, where he made 66 appearances.In the 1994-1995 season, Colonnese was bought by AS Roma to strengthen...

Midfielders

Dino Baggio

Dino Baggio

Dino Baggio is a retired Italian football defensive midfielder. He has 60 caps at international level for the Italian national team.-Clubs and achievements:...

 Karel Poborský

Karel Poborský

Karel Poborský is a former Czech footballer. A right winger, Poborský is the all-time leader in appearances for the Czech national team, and was most noted for his technical ability.-Club career:...

 Roberto Baronio  Diego Simeone Pavel Nedvěd

Pavel Nedved

Pavel Nedvěd is a retired Czech football midfielder. He is one of the most successful Czech players to emerge from the newly formed Czech Republic, winning numerous accolades with Lazio and Juventus, including the last ever Cup Winners' Cup...

 Dejan Stanković

Dejan Stankovic

Dejan Stanković is a Serbian association football player who plays for the Italian Serie A side Inter. He captained the Serbian national football team until 2011, when he announced his retirement from international football...

 Attilio Lombardo

Attilio Lombardo

Attilio Lombardo is a retired football player turned manager.-Playing:...

  Lucas Castromán

Lucas Castromán

Lucas Castromán is an Argentine football midfielder or forward. He is currently playing with Racing Club de Avellaneda of the Primera División Argentina...

 Iván de la Peña

Iván de la Peña

Iván de la Peña López is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a central midfielder. During his career, de la Peña earned the nicknames Little Buddha and Lo Pelat due to his shaven head and slight frame....

  Juan Sebastián Verón

Juan Sebastián Verón

Juan Sebastián Verón is an Argentinian professional football player who is the current captain and midfielder for Estudiantes de La Plata in the Argentine Primera División....

Attackers

  Claudio López Marcelo Salas

Marcelo Salas

José Marcelo Salas Melinao , better known as El Matador, Shileno or simply Marcelo Salas, is a former football player from Chile. He, along with world cup veterans, 3 time Best Player of America Elías Figueroa and former Real Madrid and Inter Milan forward Iván Zamorano, has been one of Chile's...

  Hernán Crespo

Hernán Crespo

Hernán Jorge Crespo is an Argentine footballer who plays for Parma in the Italian Serie A. Crespo has scored over 300 goals in a career spanning 18 years. His honors include an Olympic Games silver medal, a Copa Libertadores, an English Premier League title and three Scudettos. He was topscorer in...

 Simone Inzaghi

Simone Inzaghi

Simone Inzaghi is a retired Italian professional footballer who played as a striker.During his professional career, he played for a host of clubs, namely Lazio, where he remained for more than one decade, being used irregularly....

 Fabrizio Ravanelli

Fabrizio Ravanelli

Fabrizio Ravanelli is a former international Italian football player, who won five titles with Juventus, including a Serie A championship in 1995 and a Champions League title in 1996....

Matches

Results summary

Top Scorers

Hernán Crespo

Hernán Crespo

Hernán Jorge Crespo is an Argentine footballer who plays for Parma in the Italian Serie A. Crespo has scored over 300 goals in a career spanning 18 years. His honors include an Olympic Games silver medal, a Copa Libertadores, an English Premier League title and three Scudettos. He was topscorer in...

 26 (1) Pavel Nedvěd

Pavel Nedved

Pavel Nedvěd is a retired Czech football midfielder. He is one of the most successful Czech players to emerge from the newly formed Czech Republic, winning numerous accolades with Lazio and Juventus, including the last ever Cup Winners' Cup...

 9 Marcelo Salas

Marcelo Salas

José Marcelo Salas Melinao , better known as El Matador, Shileno or simply Marcelo Salas, is a former football player from Chile. He, along with world cup veterans, 3 time Best Player of America Elías Figueroa and former Real Madrid and Inter Milan forward Iván Zamorano, has been one of Chile's...

 6 (1) Siniša Mihajlović

Siniša Mihajlovic

Siniša Mihajlović is a Serbian football manager and former player. He was in charge of Serie A club Fiorentina since June 2010 to November 2011....

 4 (2) Simone Inzaghi

Simone Inzaghi

Simone Inzaghi is a retired Italian professional footballer who played as a striker.During his professional career, he played for a host of clubs, namely Lazio, where he remained for more than one decade, being used irregularly....

 4 (1) Juan Sebastián Verón

Juan Sebastián Verón

Juan Sebastián Verón is an Argentinian professional football player who is the current captain and midfielder for Estudiantes de La Plata in the Argentine Primera División....

 3

1st Group Stage

• Shaktar Donetsk-Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
   0-3
• 0-1 Claudio López (27)
• 0-2 Pavel Nedvěd
  Pavel Nedved
  Pavel Nedvěd is a retired Czech football midfielder. He is one of the most successful Czech players to emerge from the newly formed Czech Republic, winning numerous accolades with Lazio and Juventus, including the last ever Cup Winners' Cup...
  
   (68)
• 0-3 Simone Inzaghi
  Simone Inzaghi
  Simone Inzaghi is a retired Italian professional footballer who played as a striker.During his professional career, he played for a host of clubs, namely Lazio, where he remained for more than one decade, being used irregularly....
  
   (78)

• Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
  -Sparta Prague 3-0
• 1-0 Simone Inzaghi
  Simone Inzaghi
  Simone Inzaghi is a retired Italian professional footballer who played as a striker.During his professional career, he played for a host of clubs, namely Lazio, where he remained for more than one decade, being used irregularly....
  
   (35)
• 2-0 Diego Simeone (58)
• 3-0 Simone Inzaghi
  Simone Inzaghi
  Simone Inzaghi is a retired Italian professional footballer who played as a striker.During his professional career, he played for a host of clubs, namely Lazio, where he remained for more than one decade, being used irregularly....
  
   (70)

• Arsenal
  Arsenal F.C.
  Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
  
  -Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
   2-0
• 1-0 Fredrik Ljungberg
  Fredrik Ljungberg
  Karl Fredrik "Freddie" Ljungberg is a Swedish footballer who currently plays as a right winger for Shimizu S-Pulse in Japan. Ljungberg was captain of the Swedish national team until he announced his international retirement after UEFA Euro 2008.Ljungberg was a model for Calvin Klein underwear...
  
   (43)
• 2-0 Fredrik Ljungberg
  Fredrik Ljungberg
  Karl Fredrik "Freddie" Ljungberg is a Swedish footballer who currently plays as a right winger for Shimizu S-Pulse in Japan. Ljungberg was captain of the Swedish national team until he announced his international retirement after UEFA Euro 2008.Ljungberg was a model for Calvin Klein underwear...
  
   (56)

• Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
  -Arsenal
  Arsenal F.C.
  Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
  
   1-1
• 1-0 Pavel Nedvěd
  Pavel Nedved
  Pavel Nedvěd is a retired Czech football midfielder. He is one of the most successful Czech players to emerge from the newly formed Czech Republic, winning numerous accolades with Lazio and Juventus, including the last ever Cup Winners' Cup...
  
   (24)
• 1-1 Robert Pirès
  Robert Pirès
  Robert Emmanuel Pirès is a former French international footballer. He is perhaps best known for his time with Arsenal, with whom he won three FA Cups and two FA Premier League titles including the club's famous unbeaten season of 2003–04...
  
   (88)

• Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
  -Shaktar Donetsk 5-1
• 1-0 Giuseppe Favalli
  Giuseppe Favalli
  Giuseppe Favalli is a retired Italian footballer who played as a defender for Serie A clubs Lazio, Internazionale and Milan.-Cremonese:He started his career with then-Serie B squad Cremonese...
  
   (19)
• 1-1 Andriy Vorobey (41)
• 2-1 Claudio López (48)
• 3-1 Juan Sebastián Verón
  Juan Sebastián Verón
  Juan Sebastián Verón is an Argentinian professional football player who is the current captain and midfielder for Estudiantes de La Plata in the Argentine Primera División....
  
   (58)
• 4-1 Claudio López (68)
• 5-1 Claudio López (90)

• Sparta Prague-Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
   0-1
• 0-1 Fabrizio Ravanelli
  Fabrizio Ravanelli
  Fabrizio Ravanelli is a former international Italian football player, who won five titles with Juventus, including a Serie A championship in 1995 and a Champions League title in 1996....
  
   (43)

2nd Group Stage

• Anderlecht-Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
   1-0
• 1-0 Tomasz Radzinski
  Tomasz Radzinski
  Not to be confused with the Czech footballer Tomáš RosickýTomasz Radzinski is a Canadian association footballer who plays as a striker. He is currently unattached.-Club career:...
  
   (82)

• Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
  -Leeds
  Leeds United A.F.C.
  Leeds United Association Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, who play in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English football league system...
  
   0-1
• 0-1 Alan Smith (80)

• Real Madrid
  Real Madrid C.F.
  Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...
  
  -Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
   3-2
• 0-1 Hernán Crespo
  Hernán Crespo
  Hernán Jorge Crespo is an Argentine footballer who plays for Parma in the Italian Serie A. Crespo has scored over 300 goals in a career spanning 18 years. His honors include an Olympic Games silver medal, a Copa Libertadores, an English Premier League title and three Scudettos. He was topscorer in...
  
   (4)
• 1-1 Fernando Morientes
  Fernando Morientes
  Fernando Morientes Sánchez is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a striker.His main asset was his aerial and strong goalscoring abilities. He played for a number of clubs throughout his career, including Real Madrid, Monaco, Liverpool, and Valencia...
  
   (32)
• 2-1 Iván Helguera (82)
• 2-2 Guerino Gottardi
  Guerino Gottardi
  Guerino Gottardi is a retired Swiss-Italian football player. After joining Lazio in 1995 from Neuchatel Xamax, Gottardi was often used as a "supersub" and was instrumental in Lazio's 1998 Coppa Italia victory...
  
   (84)
• 3-2 Luís Figo
  Luís Figo
  Luís Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo, OIH, is a Portuguese former international footballer. He played as a midfielder for Sporting CP, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Internazionale, during a career which spanned over a period of 20 years. He retired from football on 31 May 2009...
  
   (89 pen)

• Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
  -Real Madrid
  Real Madrid C.F.
  Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...
  
   2-2
• 1-0 Pavel Nedvěd
  Pavel Nedved
  Pavel Nedvěd is a retired Czech football midfielder. He is one of the most successful Czech players to emerge from the newly formed Czech Republic, winning numerous accolades with Lazio and Juventus, including the last ever Cup Winners' Cup...
  
   (4)
• 1-1 Santiago Solari
  Santiago Solari
  Santiago Hernán Solari Poggio is a retired Argentine professional football player.-Career:El Indiecito. Solari played for Newell's Old Boys, local amateur Renato Cesarini and attended Richard Stockton College playing one season before moving to Buenos Aires' CA River Plate in 1996...
  
   (32)
• 2-1 Hernán Crespo
  Hernán Crespo
  Hernán Jorge Crespo is an Argentine footballer who plays for Parma in the Italian Serie A. Crespo has scored over 300 goals in a career spanning 18 years. His honors include an Olympic Games silver medal, a Copa Libertadores, an English Premier League title and three Scudettos. He was topscorer in...
  
   (53)
• 2-2 Raúl
  Raúl González
  Raúl González Blanco , known simply as Raúl, is a Spanish footballer who plays as a striker. He currently plays for German club Schalke 04....
  
   (73)

• Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
  -Anderlecht 2-1
• 1-0 Claudio López (40)
• 1-1 Alin Stoica
  Alin Stoica
  Alin Tudor Adi Stoica is a Romanian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder.Played nearly one decade in his professional career in Belgium, winning almost ten major titles with Anderlecht and Club Brugge combined...
  
   (49)
• 2-1 Roberto Baronio (77)

• Leeds
  Leeds United A.F.C.
  Leeds United Association Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, who play in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English football league system...
  
  -Lazio
  S.S. Lazio
  Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
  
   3-3
• 1-0 Lee Bowyer
  Lee Bowyer
  Lee David Bowyer is an English professional footballer born in Canning Town, London, who plays as a midfielder for Ipswich Town of the Football League Championship....
  
   (9)
• 1-1 Fabrizio Ravanelli
  Fabrizio Ravanelli
  Fabrizio Ravanelli is a former international Italian football player, who won five titles with Juventus, including a Serie A championship in 1995 and a Champions League title in 1996....
  
   (21)
• 1-2 Siniša Mihajlović
  Siniša Mihajlovic
  Siniša Mihajlović is a Serbian football manager and former player. He was in charge of Serie A club Fiorentina since June 2010 to November 2011....
  
   (29 pen)
• 2-2 Jason Wilcox
  Jason Wilcox
  Jason Wilcox is a former professional footballer who played as a left winger. He made 5 appearances for England including 3 at full international level.-Blackburn:...
  
   (43)
• 3-2 Mark Viduka
  Mark Viduka
  Mark Anthony Viduka is a former Australian soccer player who played as a centre forward. He captained the Australian national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany to the last 16.-Melbourne Croatia:...
  
   (62)
• 3-3 Siniša Mihajlović
  Siniša Mihajlovic
  Siniša Mihajlović is a Serbian football manager and former player. He was in charge of Serie A club Fiorentina since June 2010 to November 2011....
  
  (90)