Serie A 2002-03

In the 2002-03 season, the Serie A, the major football Italian professional league, was composed by 18 teams, for the 15th consecutive time from season 1988-89.

The first three teams qualified directly to UEFA Champions League, team ending in the 4th place had to play Champions League qualifications, teams ending in the 5th and 6th places qualified to UEFA Cup (another spot was given to the winner of Coppa Italia), while the last four teams were to be relegated in Serie B.

Juventus won its 27th national title, with Inter Milan placed second. Milan and Lazio were admitted to the Champions League preliminary phase, whereas Parma, Udinese and Roma (through the Coppa Italia finals) obtained a spot to the next UEFA Cup. Brescia and Perugia were admitted to play the UEFA Intertoto Cup, after ChievoVerona renounced to play it.

Piacenza, Torino, Como and Atalanta relegated to Serie B, with the latter after having lost a relegation tiebreaker against Reggina.

Final classification

Results

Football (soccer) table results 18 teams
Atalanta | 2-2 | 2-0 | 1-0 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 2-0 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 0-0
Bologna | 2-3 | 3-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 1-0 | 0-2 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 1-0
Brescia | 3-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 3-1 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 1-0 | 1-1
Chievo | 4-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 2-0 | 1-0 | 2-1 | 1-4 | 1-1 | 3-2 | 2-0 | 0-4 | 3-0 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 3-0
Como | 1-1 | 5-1 | 1-1 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 2-0 | 1-0 | 0-2
Empoli | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 3-1 | 4-2 | 1-3 | 1-1 | 1-1
Inter | 1-0 | 2-0 | 4-0 | 2-1 | 4-0 | 3-0 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 2-0 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 3-1 | 3-0 | 3-3 | 1-0 | 1-2
Juventus | 3-0 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 3-0 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 2-0 | 5-0 | 2-1 | 2-0 | 1-0
Lazio | 0-0 | 1-1 | 3-1 | 2-3 | 3-0 | 4-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 4-0 | 0-0 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 2-1
Milan | 3-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 0-1 | 1-0 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 2-0 | 1-0 | 6-0 | 1-0
Modena | 0-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-1
Parma | 2-1 | 1-2 | 4-3 | 0-1 | 2-0 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 1-0 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 3-2 | 2-0 | 3-0 | 1-0 | 3-2
Perugia | 1-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 3-0 | 1-3 | 4-1 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 1-0 | 2-1 | 0-2
Piacenza | 2-0 | 3-1 | 1-4 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 4-2 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 5-1 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 2-0
Reggina | 1-1 | 1-0 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 4-1 | 1-0 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 2-3 | 2-1 | 3-2
Roma | 1-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 3-1 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 3-1 | 4-1
Torino | 1-1 | 2-1 | 0-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-4 | 2-1 | 1-3 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-1
Udinese | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 1-0 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 1-0 | 2-1 | 1-1 |

Relegation tie-breaker

Atalanta B.C. relegated to Serie B.

Transfer

* [http://www.lega-calcio.it/ita/CalcioMercato2002.pdf Summer Transfer]
* [http://www.lega-calcio.it/ita/CalcioMercatoGennaio2003.pdf Winter Transfer]
* [http://www.lega-calcio.it/ita/partecipazioni2002.pdf co-ownership]
* [http://www.lega-calcio.it/ita/buste2002.pdf co-ownership]

References and Sources

*"Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004", Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

External links

* [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classifica_calcio_Serie_A_italiana_2003] - Italian version with pictures and info.
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/ital03.html] - All results on RSSSF Website.
* [http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/italy/2002-2003/seriea.htm 2002/2003 Serie A Squads] - (www.footballsquads.com)

Footnotes