2001–02 Inter Milan season

The 2001–02 season was Inter Milan's 93rd in existence and 86th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football.

Season overview
After a disappointing previous season, Massimo Moratti appointed former Valencia coach Héctor Cúper as the new head coach. Cúper managed to line-up a new team, buying players such as Toldo, Materazzi, Kallon and Ventola. Inter had a sprint-start, topping the league and passing several challenges in Europe. 2001 closed with Giuseppe Prisco's death, vice-chairman since 1962.

In the second part of season, Inter showed signs of exhaustion: 1–2 home loss to Atalanta was followed, on Thursday, by European elimination. Before the last league game, against Lazio, Inter was still at the top, with one point over Juventus and two over Roma. In the first half, Inter scored twice, but both goals were equalized by Lazio's Poborsky. During second half of the match, Lazio - still in race for a UEFA Cup spot - scored another two goals, eventually winning the match. Inter fell to third place, enough to qualify for next season's Champions League playoff. The Lazio-Inter game also marked Ronaldo's last appearance with Inter.

First-team squad

 * Squad at end of season.

Reserve squad

 * The following players did not make an appearance for the first team.

First round
Inter Milan won 6–0 on aggregate.

Second round
Inter Milan won 2–1 on aggregate.

Third round
Inter Milan won 4–2 on aggregate.

Fourth round
Inter Milan won 5–3 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals
Inter Milan won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals
Feyenoord won 3–2 on aggregate.

Appearances and goals

 * As of 30 June 2002

! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Players transferred out during the season

Goalscorers
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align: center;" !width="7%"|No. !width="7%"|Pos. !width="7%"|Nation !width="20%"|Name !Serie A !Coppa Italia !UEFA Cup !Total
 * 32
 * FW
 * 🇮🇹
 * Christian Vieri
 * 22
 * 0
 * 3
 * 25
 * 3
 * FW
 * 🇸🇱
 * Mohamed Kallon
 * 9
 * 0
 * 6
 * 15
 * 78
 * FW
 * 🇮🇹
 * Nicola Ventola
 * 4
 * 1
 * 5
 * 10
 * 9
 * FW
 * 🇧🇷
 * Ronaldo
 * 7
 * 0
 * 0
 * 7
 * 20
 * FW
 * Álvaro Recoba
 * 6
 * 0
 * 0
 * 6
 * 10
 * MF
 * Clarence Seedorf
 * 3
 * 1
 * 0
 * 4
 * 14
 * MF
 * 🇮🇹
 * Luigi Di Biagio
 * 3
 * 0
 * 1
 * 4
 * 4
 * DF
 * 🇦🇷
 * Javier Zanetti
 * 0
 * 1
 * 1
 * 2
 * 6
 * MF
 * 🇮🇹
 * Cristiano Zanetti
 * 1
 * 0
 * 1
 * 2
 * 23
 * DF
 * 🇮🇹
 * Marco Materazzi
 * 1
 * 0
 * 1
 * 2
 * 2
 * DF
 * 🇨🇴
 * Iván Córdoba
 * 1
 * 0
 * 0
 * 1
 * 7
 * MF
 * Sérgio Conçeicão
 * 1
 * 0
 * 0
 * 1
 * 11
 * MF
 * 🇦🇷
 * Guly
 * 0
 * 0
 * 1
 * 1
 * 18
 * MF
 * 🇫🇷
 * Stéphane Dalmat
 * 1
 * 0
 * 0
 * 1
 * 21
 * MF
 * 🇬🇷
 * Grigorios Georgatos
 * 1
 * 0
 * 0
 * 1
 * 24
 * DF
 * 🇸🇰
 * Vratislav Greško
 * 0
 * 0
 * 1
 * 1
 * 28
 * FW
 * 🇧🇷
 * Adriano
 * 1
 * 0
 * 0
 * 1
 * colspan=3 | Own goals
 * 1
 * 0
 * 0
 * 1
 * - bgcolor="F1F1F1"
 * colspan=4 | TOTAL
 * 62
 * 3
 * 20
 * 85
 * 28
 * FW
 * 🇧🇷
 * Adriano
 * 1
 * 0
 * 0
 * 1
 * colspan=3 | Own goals
 * 1
 * 0
 * 0
 * 1
 * - bgcolor="F1F1F1"
 * colspan=4 | TOTAL
 * 62
 * 3
 * 20
 * 85
 * 62
 * 3
 * 20
 * 85