| Club: | Club Atlético de Madrid |
| Season: | 2000–01 |
| Manager: |  Fernando Zambrano (1st-5th round) Marcos Alonso Peña (6th-35th round) Carlos García Cantarero (36th-42nd round) |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Chairman: | Jesús Gil |
| Chrtitle: | President |
| Stadium: | Vicente Calderón |
| League: | Segunda División |
| League Result: | 4th |
| Cup1: | Copa del Rey |
| Cup1 Result: | Semifinals |
| League Topscorer: | Salva (21) |
| Season Topscorer: | Salva (26) |
| Highest Attendance: | vs Betis (25 February 2001) |
| Lowest Attendance: | vs Osasuna (3 January 2001) |
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| Prevseason: | 1999–2000 |
| Nextseason: | 2001–02 |
The 2000–01 campaign was the 95th season in Atlético Madrid's history and their 1st season in Segunda División of Spanish football. Also the club competed in Copa del Rey.
For the first time ever, Atletico competes in a Segunda División tournament since 1929 when Primera División was registered as the top league. Owing to a chaotic environment outside the field in spite of President Gil appointing club legend Paulo Futre as Manager on 3 November 2000 and three coaches fired,[1] the team never reached the 3rd position on the table and classifying to La Liga finishing tied in points along CD Tenerife but lost the goal average.
| In | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=3% | Pos. | width=32% | Name | width=30% | from | width=35% | Type |
| FW | Salva | ||||||
| DF | Iván Amaya | ||||||
| MF | Juan Gomez | ||||||
| MF | Sergio Sanchez | loan ended | |||||
| DF | Jean-François Hernandez | ||||||
| FW | Juan Carlos | ||||||
| DF | Mirsad_Hibić | ||||||
| MF | Juan Carcedo | loan | |||||
| FW | Fernando Torres | ||||||
| FW | Abass Lawal | ||||||
| Out | |||||||
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| width=3% | Pos. | width=32% | Name | width=30% | To | width=35% | Type |
| FW | Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | ||||||
| GK | José Molina | ||||||
| MF | Juan Carlos Valeron | ||||||
| DF | Joan Capdevila | ||||||
| MF | Ruben Baraja | ||||||
| MF | Santiago Solari | ||||||
| DF | Carlos Gamarra | ||||||
| DF | Celso Ayala | ||||||
| MF | Radek Bejbl | ||||||
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| width=3% | Pos. | width=32% | Name | width=30% | from | width=35% | Type |
| DF | Raphaël Wicky | ||||||
| MF | Dani | ||||||
| DF | Daniel Fagiani | ||||||
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| width=3% | Pos. | width=32% | Name | width=30% | To | width=35% | Type |
| MF | Leonel Pilipauskas | ||||||
| MF | Veljko Paunovic | loan | |||||
| FW | Jordi Lardín | ||||||
See main article: 2000–01 Segunda División.
See main article: 2000–01 Copa del Rey.
| Competition | Points | Total | GD | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | 42 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 59 | 39 | +20 | ||
| 2000–01 Copa del Rey | – | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 6 | +7 | |
| Total | 74 | 50 | 27 | 12 | 11 | 72 | 45 | +27 | |