1998–99 Juventus F.C. season

Juventus F.C. endured its worst domestic season since 1990–91, following a serious knee injury on superstar Alessandro Del Piero and a backlash for France's World Cup hero Zinedine Zidane. Contrary to the previous four seasons under the guidance of Marcello Lippi, Juventus' offense malfunctioned, and in February Lippi was let go by the club, with successful former Parma coach Carlo Ancelotti taking over.

With Ancelotti at the helm, Juve managed to salvage some respectability by reaching the semi finals of the Champions League, where eventual champions Manchester United just got the better of the Italian champions. But following that narrow defeat, Juventus had to settle for the UEFA Cup the next season, due to a lowly seventh place in the league.

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Angelo Peruzzi 2 DF Ciro Ferrara 3 DF Zoran Mirković 4 DF Paolo Montero 5 MF Fabio Pecchia 6 DF Dimas 6 FW Thierry Henry 7 MF Angelo Di Livio 8 MF Antonio Conte (captain) 9 FW Filippo Inzaghi 10 FW Alessandro Del Piero 11 FW Daniel Fonseca 12 GK Michelangelo Rampulla 13 DF Mark Iuliano 14 MF Didier Deschamps 15 DF Alessandro Birindelli 16 FW Nicola Amoruso 17 DF Gianluca Pessotto

No. Position Player 18 MF Jocelyn Blanchard 19 DF Igor Tudor 20 MF Alessio Tacchinardi 21 MF Zinedine Zidane 22 GK Morgan De Sanctis 23 MF Simone Perrotta 24 FW Marcelo Zalayeta 25 DF Massimo Paci 26 MF Edgar Davids 27 DF Massimiliano Marchio 28 MF Luca Pellegrini 29 MF Marco Rigoni 30 MF Salvatore Papa 31 DF Francesco Scardina 32 MF Manuel Sinato 33 GK Stefano Pergolizzi 34 FW Juan Esnáider

Serie A

Matches

1 13 September 1998	Perugia	3 – 4	Juventus	Perugia
	Nakata  52', 59' Bernardini  87' (pen.)		Davids  22' Tudor  32' Pessotto  45' Fonseca  65'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Curi Attendance: 25,005 Referee: Daniele Tombolini (Loreto)

2 20 September 1998	Juventus	1 – 0	Cagliari	Turin
	Inzaghi  8'			Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Domenico Messina (Cava de' Tirreni)

3	Parma	1–0	Juventus
	D. Baggio  47'

4	Juventus	1–0	Piacenza
	F. Inzaghi  8'

5	Vicenza	1–1	Juventus
	Zauli  40'		Del Piero  45'

6	Juventus	1–0	Inter
	Del Piero  87' (pen.)

7	Juventus	2–0	Sampdoria
	F. Inzaghi  44, 59'

8	Udinese	2–2	Juventus
	Bachini  65' Sosa  90'		Zidane  44' F. Inzaghi  49'

9	Roma	2–0	Juventus
	Paulo Sérgio  45' Candela  87'

11	Bologna	3–0	Juventus
	Paramatti  3' Signori  9' Fontolan  28'

12	Juventus	0–1	Lazio
			Salas  82'

13	Fiorentina	1–0	Juventus
	Batistuta  32'

14	Juventus	3–0	Salernitana
	F. Inzaghi  20, 29, 87'

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

16	Juventus	1–1	Bari
	Davids  47'		D. Andersson  76'

17	Venezia	1–1	Juventus
	Pedone  6'		Fonseca  54'

18	Juventus	2–1	Perugia
	Fonseca  49' Zidane  55'		Kaviedes  20'

19	Cagliari	1–0	Juventus
	Berretta  17'

20	Juventus	2–4	Parma
	Tacchinardi  14' Fonseca  71'		Crespo  34, 39, 57' Chiesa  38'

21	Piacenza	0–2	Juventus
			Manighetti  45' (o.g.) Birindelli  90'

22	Juventus	2–0	Vicenza
	Amoruso  11' Conte  29'

24	Sampdoria	1–2	Juventus
	Ortega  64'		Amoruso  74' F. Inzaghi  90'

25	Juventus	2–1	Udinese
	Fonseca  30' F. Inzaghi  77'		Sosa  48'

26	Juventus	1–1	Roma
	Iuliano  72'		Delvecchio  52'

27	Empoli	1–0	Juventus
	Bianconi  26'

28	Juventus	2–2	Bologna
	F. Inzaghi  16' Di Livio  81'		Kolyvanov  34' Cappioli  51'

29	Lazio	1–3	Juventus
	Mancini  54'		Henry  34, 64' Amoruso  45'

30	Juventus	2–1	Fiorentina
	F. Inzaghi  24' Conte  87'		Tacchinardi  85'

31	Salernitana	1–0	Juventus
	Di Vaio  37'

32	Juventus	0–2	Milan
			Weah  46, 64'

33	Bari	0–1	Juventus
			Conte  82'

34	Juventus	3–2	Venezia
	Conte  12' F. Inzaghi  45' Volpi  85' (o.g.)		Pedone  63' Recoba  90'

UEFA Cup Playoffs

2	Juventus	1–1	Udinese
	F. Inzaghi  23' (pen.)		Poggi  71'

Udinese qualifying for the 1999-2000 UEFA Cup on away goals. Juventus declared 7th in Serie A.

Top Scorers

• Filippo Inzaghi 13
• Daniel Fonseca 6
• Antonio Conte 4
• Nicola Amoruso 3

Sources

| RSSSF - Italy 1998/99