The 1998–99 season was Società Sportiva Lazio's 99th season since the club's existence and their 11th consecutive season in the top-flight of Italian football. In this season, Lazio finished second in Serie A, and won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and Supercoppa Italiana.
Season review Lazio kicked off the 1998–99 season by defeating Juventus 2–1 to win the Supercoppa in the pre-season, and then set a searing pace in the league thanks to the striking partnership of world transfer record signing Christian Vieri and Marcelo Salas. The pair of them together netted 27 goals, as Lazio led the way for most of the season. Twenty-year-old Yugoslav starlet Dejan Stanković also impressed by scoring on his league debut.
Milan peaked late during the season, while Lazio had a barren spell, which enabled Milan to make up the deficit. Lazio finally squandered the title lead in the penultimate match of the season, where it had to settle for a draw against Fiorentina away from home.
Following the season, Vieri left the club for Inter, accusing chairman Sergio Cragnotti of lying to him. The money from Vieri's transfer was used to bring Juan Sebastián Verón, Simone Inzaghi and Diego Simeone to Rome, moves that all proved essential when Lazio clinched the title in 2000, where those three found the net in the last game of the season.
Lazio's best moment of the 1998-99 season came when they beat Mallorca 2-1 at Villa Park in Birmingham in the 1999 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final, following goals by Vieri and Pavel Nedvěd.
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Players
Squad information Squad at end of season
Transfers In Pos. Name from Type FW Christian Vieri Atletico Madrid FW Marcelo Salas River Plate MF Iván de la Peña Barcelona DF Fernando Couto Barcelona DF Siniša Mihajlović Sampdoria MF Sérgio Conceição Porto MF Dejan Stanković Crvena Zvezda DF Stefano Lombardi Genoa GK Flavio Roma Foggia loan ended MF Roberto Baronio Vicenza loan ended MF Daniele Franceschini Foggia loan ended MF Marco Piovanelli Piacenza co-ownership ended FW Alessandro Iannuzzi Lecce loan ended FW Igor Protti Napoli loan ended FW Giuseppe Signori Sampdoria co-ownership ended Out Pos. Name To Type FW Pierluigi Casiraghi Chelsea DF José Chamot Atletico Madrid MF Vladimir Jugović Atletico Madrid MF Diego Fuser Parma DF Alessandro Grandoni Sampdoria MF Daniele Franceschini Chievo Verona MF Mirko Laurentini Siena MF Marco Piovanelli Genoa GK Fernando Orsi retired GK Flavio Roma Chievo Verona loan FW Giuseppe Signori Bologna loan
Autumn In Pos. Name from Type Out Pos. Name ToType DF Giovanni Lopez Napoli FW Igor Protti Reggiana FW Roberto Rambaudi Genoa DF Maurizio Domizzi Livorno loan MF Dario Marcolin Blackburn Rovers loan
Winter In Pos. Name from Type DF Federico Crovari Monza MF Attilio Lombardo Crystal Palace Out Pos. Name To Type MF Giorgio Venturin Atletico Madrid FW Alessandro Iannuzzi A.C. Milan
Left club during season
Competitions
Supercoppa Italiana
Serie A
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Matches
Coppa Italia
Second round
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
First round
Second round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Other matches and friendlies Pre-season
Post-season
Statistics Players statistics
References