2006–07 A.C. Milan season

Milan
	2006–07 season
President	Silvio Berlusconi
Manager	Carlo Ancelotti
Stadium	San Siro
Serie A	4th
Coppa Italia	Semi-finals
UEFA Champions League	Winners
Top goalscorer	League:; Alberto Gilardino (12); All:; Kaká (18)
Average home league attendance	47,117
← 2005–06	2007–08 →

The 2006–07 season has had its ups and downs for Milan. Having started the season with an 8-point penalty due to the Italian football scandal, a bad run of results where Milan failed to win for 9 matches in a row left them in a lowly 15th place on only 11 points. After two consecutive losses against Atalanta and Roma, Milan had a streak of seven consecutive matches without defeat. Two wins against Catania and Udinese left Milan only 6 points behind fourth place and qualification for the Champions League. Milan eventually finished fourth in the league, behind Lazio. After showing a bad physical condition throughout most of the autumn, the team took a January retreat in Malta, to regain condition and try to achieve a fourth-place finish in Serie A and further progression in the Champions League.

Milan's performances in the Champions League were a different story. Drawn in a group described as easy by some pundits, with AEK Athens, Lille and Anderlecht, Milan comfortably won the group. Milan eventually won the Champions League, overcoming Celtic in the round of 16, Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals, Manchester United in the semi-finals and Liverpool in the final. Kaká was in particular good form for Milan in the Champions League, scoring 10 goals in 12 matches and winning that year's Champions League Golden Boot.

Squad statistics

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Dida

Cafu

Nesta

Maldini

Jankulovski

Gattuso

Ambrosini

Pirlo

Inzaghi

Kaká

Seedorf

Starting line-up. The so-called Christmas Tree which led Milan to the seventh European title.

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Serie A		Champions League		Coppa Italia
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Dida	41	0	25	0	13	0	3	0
2	DF		Cafu	35	0	21+3	0	4+4	0	3	0
3	DF		Paolo Maldini	27	1	16+2	1	9	0	0	0
4	DF		Kakha Kaladze	26	1	14+4	1	5+2	0	1	0
5	DF		Alessandro Costacurta	11	1	3	1	3	0	5	0
7	FW		Ricardo Oliveira	37	5	16+10	3	4+2	0	5	2
8	MF		Gennaro Gattuso	47	1	24+6	1	12+1	0	4	0
9	FW		Filippo Inzaghi	37	11	11+9	2	10+2	6	5	3
10	MF		Clarence Seedorf	51	10	26+6	7	12+2	3	5	0
11	FW		Alberto Gilardino	45	16	25+5	12	7+4	2	4	2
13	DF		Alessandro Nesta	22	0	12+2	0	8	0	0	0
15	FW		Marco Borriello	14	3	4+5	1	1+2	0	2	2
16	GK		Zeljko Kalac	16	0	10	0	2+1	0	3	0
17	DF		Dario Šimić	34	0	17+5	0	5+1	0	6	0
18	DF		Marek Jankulovski	50	3	26+7	3	11+2	0	4	0
19	DF		Giuseppe Favalli	22	2	12+3	2	1+3	0	3	0
20	MF		Yoann Gourcuff	34	2	9+12	1	5+4	1	4	0
21	MF		Andrea Pirlo	52	3	31+3	2	13+1	1	4	0
22	MF		Kaká	48	18	30+1	8	14+1	10	2	0
23	MF		Massimo Ambrosini	34	3	19	3	12	0	3	0
24	DF		Leandro Grimi	4	0	1+2	0	0	0	1	0
25	DF		Daniele Bonera	36	0	23+2	0	4+2	0	5	0
26	GK		Marco Storari	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
27	DF		Serginho	9	0	4+2	0	2+1	0	0	0
28	MF		Alex Guerci	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
29	GK		Valerio Fiori	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	DF		Luca Antonelli	3	0	0+1	0	0	0	2	0
32	MF		Cristian Brocchi	42	2	25+4	1	4+4	0	5	1
33	FW		Davide Di Gennaro	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
34	MF		Gastone Bottini	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
36	DF		Matteo Darmian	2	0	0+1	0	0	0	1	0
38	MF		Matteo Lunati	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
44	DF		Massimo Oddo	18	1	8+2	1	7	0	1	0
99	FW		Ronaldo	18	9	12+2	7	4	2	0	0

Competitions

Serie A

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

10 September 2006 1	Milan	2–1	Lazio	Milan
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Inzaghi 27' Cafu 35' Inzaghi 45' Oliveira 70' Maldini 83'	Report	Mudingayi 32' Ledesma 63' Cribari 69' Makinwa 73'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 44,770 Referee: Paolo Bertini

17 September 2006 2	Parma	0–2	Milan	Parma
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Paci 36'	Report	Seedorf 25' Oliveira 29' Bonera 32' Kaká 85' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 19,746 Referee: Matteo Trefoloni

20 September 2006 3	Milan	1–0	Ascoli	Milan
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Jankulovski 67'	Report	Nastase 43' Delvecchio 90'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 43,085 Referee: Paolo Dondarini

23 September 2006 4	Livorno	0–0	Milan	Livorno
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Passoni 33' Balleri 40'	Report	Nesta 30' Ambrosini 45' Bonera 70'	Stadium: Stadio Armando Picchi Attendance: 12,456 Referee: Nicola Ayroldi

1 October 2006 5	Milan	0–0	Siena	Milan
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Bertotto 66' Gastaldello 66' Rinaudo 70' Brevi 90'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 44,658 Referee: Nicola Stefanini

14 October 2006 6	Sampdoria	1–1	Milan	Genoa
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bonazzoli 69' Zenoni 71' Delvecchio 84'	Report	Jankulovski 73' Kaká 80' Kaladze 84' Bonera 90'	Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris Attendance: 25,334 Referee: Roberto Rosetti

22 October 2006 7	Milan	0–2	Palermo	Milan
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Gattuso 31'		Biava 26' Bresciano 48' Corini 57' Diana 61' Amauri 74'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 50,028 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi

25 October 2006 8	Chievo	0–1	Milan	Verona
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Luciano 22' Mandelli 69'		Jankulovski 30', 31' Šimić 48'	Stadium: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi Attendance: 12,343 Referee: Nicola Rizzoli

28 October 2006 9	Milan	3–4	Internazionale	Milan
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Gattuso 5' Inzaghi 19' Seedorf 30', 51' Gilardino 51', 76' Kaká 90'		Vieira 4' Crespo 17' Stanković 22' Ibrahimović 47' Maicon 54' Materazzi 68', 55', 69' Júlio César 88' Burdisso 90+5'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 78,921 Referee: Stefano Farina

5 November 2006 10	Atalanta	2–0	Milan	Bergamo
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Ventola 50' Donati 61' Soncin 90+2'		Šimić 11' Gourcuff 55'	Stadium: Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia Attendance: 23,799 Referee: Tiziano Pieri

11 November 2006 11	Milan	1–2	Roma	Milan
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Brocchi 56' Oliveira 61' Brocchi 72'		Totti 7', 83' De Rossi 61' Mancini 76' Pizarro 85'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 55,322 Referee: Domenico Messina

18 November 2006 12	Empoli	0–0	Milan	Empoli
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Moro 38' Balli 84'		Costacurta 23' Pirlo 28' Brocchi 75'	Stadium: Stadio Carlo Castellani Attendance: 7,327 Referee: Paolo Tagliavento

25 November 2006 13	Milan	1–0	Messina	Milan
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Maldini 13'		Iuliano 31' De Vezze 36' Lavecchia 47' Zoro 71' Di Napoli 78'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 42,515 Referee: Gabriel Gava

Coppa Italia

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Group H
Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Milan	6	3	1	2	8	4	+4	10
Lille	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	9
AEK Athens	6	2	2	2	6	9	−3	8
Anderlecht	6	0	4	2	7	11	−4	4

13 September 2006 1	Milan	3–0	AEK Athens	Milan, Italy
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Inzaghi 17' Maldini 23' Gourcuff 41' Kaká 76' (pen.)	Report	Cirillo 27' Moras 64'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Mike Riley (England)

26 September 2006 2	Lille	0–0	Milan	Lens, France
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Cabaye 90+4'	Report	Jankulovski 88'	Stadium: Stade Félix Bollaert Attendance: 22,500 Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)

17 October 2006 3	Anderlecht	0–1	Milan	Anderlecht, Belgium
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Vanden Borre 7'	Report	Kaladze 25' Bonera 32', 47' Kaká 58'	Stadium: Constant Vanden Stock Stadium Attendance: 20,129 Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)

1 November 2006 4	Milan	4–1	Anderlecht	Milan, Italy
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Kaká 6' (pen.), 22', 56' Gattuso 74' Gilardino 88', 89'	Report	Biglia 58' Juhász 61' Hassan 83'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 42,300 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)

21 November 2006 5	AEK Athens	1–0	Milan	Athens, Greece
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Júlio César 32' Tziortziopoulos 34' Tőzsér 58'	Report	Oliveira 45' Seedorf 75'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 56,203 Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)

6 December 2006 6	Milan	0–2	Lille	Milan, Italy
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report	Odemwingie 7' Keïta 58', 67'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 27,067 Referee: Graham Poll (England)

Knockout phase

Round of 16

20 February 2007 First leg	Celtic	0–0	Milan	Glasgow, Scotland
20:45	Nakamura 36'	Report	Maldini 10' Gilardino 71'	Stadium: Celtic Park Attendance: 58,785 ^[2] Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)

7 March 2007 Second leg	Milan	1–0 (a.e.t.) (1–0 agg.)	Celtic	Milan, Italy
20:45	Ambrosini 42' Kaká 93'	Report	McManus 41' Naylor 56' McGeady 86' Lennon 104'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 65,000^[3] Referee: Konrad Plautz (Austria)

Quarter-finals

3 April 2007 First leg	Milan	2–2	Bayern Munich	Milan, Italy
20:45	Pirlo 40' Gilardino 53' Kaká 84' (pen.)	Report	Salihamidžić 33' Van Buyten 78', 90+4', 84'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 77,700^[4] Referee: Yuri Baskakov (Russia)

11 April 2007 Second leg	Bayern Munich	0–2 (2–4 agg.)	Milan	Munich, Germany
20:45	Van Bommel 47' Salihamidžić 63'	Report	Seedorf 27' Inzaghi 31'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 65,000^[5] Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)

Semi-finals

24 April 2007 First leg	Manchester United	3–2	Milan	Manchester, England
19:45	Ronaldo 6' Evra 42' Rooney 59', 90+1' Giggs 62'	Report	Kaká 22', 37', 62' Bonera 74'	Stadium: Old Trafford Attendance: 73,820^[6] Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Greece)

2 May 2007 Second leg	Milan	3–0 (5–3 agg.)	Manchester United	Milan, Italy
20:45	Kaká 11' Seedorf 30' Ambrosini 75' Gilardino 78' Gattuso 81'	Report	Ronaldo 84'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 78,500^[7] Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

Final

23 May 2007 Final	Milan	2–1	Liverpool	Athens, Greece
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Inzaghi 45', 82' Gattuso 40' Jankulovski 54'	Report	Mascherano 58' Carragher 60' Kuyt 89'	Stadium: OACA Spyro Louis Stadium Attendance: 74,000 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)