2009–10 Inter Milan season


The 2009–10 season was Football Club Internazionale Milano's 101st in existence and 94th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football.
Inter had the greatest season in their history completing a historic Treble of Serie A, Coppa Italia and UEFA Champions League, becoming the sixth European club to complete the treble and the only Italian club to achieve this feat to date.

Season overview

The main transfer move was an exchange with Barcelona, as Zlatan Ibrahimović and Samuel Eto'o swapped clubs. From a tactical point of view, the line-up was not made up from this fact: Eto'o was himself a centre-forward. His partner was Diego Milito, acquired from Genoa, like the midfielder Thiago Motta. There were also the arrivals of the centre-back Lúcio and the playmaker Wesley Sneijder. Inter unveiled the season losing the Supercoppa Italiana, due to a 2–1 knockout against Lazio.
During the brief pause in September, Inter had four points in the league, which became 16 before the October pause. Meanwhile, the side had started its European adventure drawing in the first part of the stage: it was renamed the "group of death" due to the presences of only national champions, from Spain, Ukraina and Russia. Inter retained the first place in Serie A without obstacles and managed to recover the Champions League gap, finishing the group in second place behind Barcelona. In the round of 16, they defeated Chelsea via a 3–1 aggregate; in the quarter-finals, CSKA Moscow was beaten 1–0 in both legs. The last obstacle toward the final resulted – once again – Barcelona. Four days before the first leg, Inter won 2–0 over Juventus. The Spanish side lost the first leg, despite having scored the first goal : the final score was 3–1, enough for Inter to progress to the final despite a 1–0 loss in the second leg, and down to 10 men with a red card to Thiago Motta. As result, Inter went to their first UEFA final in 12 years since the 1998 UEFA Cup.
Prior to the final, Mourinho added two trophies to the season: a Coppa Italia and the second consecutive Scudetto, both won due to Milito's goals and leaving Roma behind. Milito was also man of the match for Champions League final, scoring both goals in the 2–0 victory whereby Inter defeated Bayern Munich, winning this trophy for the first time since 1965, and for the third overall. Inter became the first Italian club to achieve the Treble.

Players

Transfers

Confirmed transfers 2009-10

In

Total spending: €89.05 million

Out

Total income: €97 million

Out on loan

Club

Non-playing staff

Pre-season and friendlies

World Football Challenge

TIM Trophy

Other friendlies

Competitions

Overview

Supercoppa Italiana

Serie A

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Coppa Italia

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Knockout phase

Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final

Statistics

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

Goalscorers

Last updated: 22 May 2010

Disciplinary record