2002–03 Serie A

Serie A
Season	2002–03
Dates	14 September 2002 – 24 May 2003
Champions	Juventus; 27th title
Relegated	Atalanta; Piacenza; Como; Torino
Champions League	Juventus; Internazionale; Milan; Lazio
UEFA Cup	Parma; Udinese; Roma
Intertoto Cup	Perugia; Brescia
Matches played	306
Goals scored	789 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer	Christian Vieri ; (24 goals)
Biggest home win	Milan 6–0 Torino; (6 October 2002)
Biggest away win	Torino 0–4 Juventus; (17 November 2002); Torino 0–4 Parma; (1 December 2002); Chievo 0–4 Parma; (16 March 2003)
Highest scoring	Parma 4–3 Brescia; (6 November 2002); Empoli 3–4 Internazionale; (6 November 2002); Juventus 4–3 Chievo; (24 May 2003)
Highest attendance	78,843 ; Milan v Internazionale
Lowest attendance	350 ; Torino v Udinese
	← 2001–02 2003–04 →

The 2002–03 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 101st season of top-tier Italian football, the 71st in a round-robin tournament. It was composed by 18 teams, for the 15th consecutive time from season 1988–89.

The first two teams qualified directly to UEFA Champions League. Teams finishing in third and fourth position had to play Champions League qualifications. Teams finishing in fifth and sixth positions qualified to UEFA Cup (another spot was given to the winner of Coppa Italia). The bottom four teams were to be relegated in Serie B.

Juventus won its 27th national title, with Internazionale placing second and Milan third. Lazio was admitted to the UEFA 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 participate in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, after Chievo declined to participate.

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

Rule changes

Unlike La Liga, which imposed a quota on the number of non-EU players on each club, Serie A clubs could sign as many non-EU players as available on domestic transfer. But for the 2003–04 season a quota was imposed on each of the clubs limiting the number of non-EU, non-EFTA and non-Swiss players who may be signed from abroad each season,^[1] following provisional measures^[2] introduced in the 2002–03 season, which allowed Serie A & B clubs to sign only one non-EU player in the 2002 summer transfer window.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Udinese	Giampiero Ventura	End of contract	30 June 2002	Pre-season	Luciano Spalletti	1 July 2002
Reggina	Franco Colomba	End of contract	30 June 2002	Pre-season	Bortolo Mutti	1 July 2002
Piacenza	Walter Novellino	End of contract	30 June 2002	Pre-season	Andrea Agostinelli	1 July 2002
Parma	Pietro Carmignani	End of contract	30 June 2002	Pre-season	Cesare Prandelli	1 July 2002
Lazio	Alberto Zaccheroni	End of contract	30 June 2002	Pre-season	Roberto Mancini	1 July 2002
Torino	Giancarlo Camolese	Sacked	25 October 2002	16th	Renato Zaccarelli (caretaker)	26 October 2002
Torino	Renato Zaccarelli	End of caretaker spell	29 October 2002	17th	Renzo Ulivieri	30 October 2002
Reggina	Bortolo Mutti	Sacked	7 November 2002	16th	Luigi De Canio	8 November 2002
Como	Loris Dominissini	Sacked	25 November 2002	18th	Eugenio Fascetti	25 November 2002
Piacenza	Andrea Agostinelli	Sacked	3 February 2003^[3]	16th	Luigi Cagni	3 February 2003^[4]
Torino	Renzo Ulivieri	Sacked	24 February 2003	17th	Renato Zaccarelli	24 February 2003
Torino	Renato Zaccarelli	Sacked	15 April 2003	18th	Giacomo Ferri	15 April 2003
Atalanta	Giovanni Vavassori	Sacked	21 April 2003	15th	Giancarlo Finardi	21 April 2003

Personnel and sponsoring

Locations of the 2002–03 Serie A teams

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Atalanta	Ivan Ruggeri	Giancarlo Finardi	Asics	Promatech
Bologna	Renato Cipollini	Francesco Guidolin	Macron	Area Banca
Brescia	Luigi Corioni	Carlo Mazzone	Umbro	Banca Lombarda
Chievo	Luca Campedelli	Luigi Del Neri	Joma	Paluani
Como*	Enrico Preziosi	Eugenio Fascetti	Erreà	Temporary
Empoli*	Fabrizio Corsi	Silvio Baldini	Erreà	Sammontana
Internazionale	Massimo Moratti	Héctor Cúper	Nike	Pirelli
Juventus	Vittorio Chiusano	Marcello Lippi	Lotto	Fastweb/Tamoil (in UEFA matches)
Lazio	Sergio Cragnotti Ugo Longo	Roberto Mancini	Puma	Siemens Mobile
Milan	Silvio Berlusconi	Carlo Ancelotti	Adidas	Opel
Modena*	Romano Amadei	Gianni De Biasi	Erreà	Immergas
Parma	Stefano Tanzi	Cesare Prandelli	Champion	Parmalat
Perugia	Luciano Gaucci	Serse Cosmi	Galex	Toyota
Piacenza	Fabrizio Garilli	Luigi Cagni	Lotto	LPR Brakes
Reggina*	Pasquale Foti	Luigi De Canio	Asics	Caffè Mauro
Roma	Francesco Sensi	Fabio Capello	Kappa	Mazda
Torino	Attilio Romero	Giacomo Ferri	Asics	Ixfin
Udinese	Franco Soldati	Luciano Spalletti	Le Coq Sportif	Bernardi

(*) Promoted from Serie B.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Juventus (C)	34	21	9	4	64	29	+35	72	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Internazionale	34	19	8	7	64	38	+26	65
3	Milan^[a]	34	18	7	9	55	30	+25	61
4	Lazio	34	15	15	4	57	32	+25	60	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
5	Parma	34	15	11	8	55	36	+19	56^[b]	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
6	Udinese	34	16	8	10	38	35	+3	56	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
7	Chievo	34	16	7	11	51	39	+12	55
8	Roma^[c]	34	13	10	11	55	46	+9	49	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
9	Brescia	34	9	15	10	36	38	−2	42^[d]	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
10	Perugia^[e]	34	10	12	12	40	48	−8	42	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round^[5]
11	Bologna	34	10	11	13	39	47	−8	41
12	Modena	34	9	11	14	30	48	−18	38^[f]
13	Empoli	34	9	11	14	36	46	−10	38^[f]
14	Reggina	34	10	8	16	38	53	−15	38^[f]	Relegation tie-breaker
15	Atalanta (R)	34	8	14	12	35	47	−12	38	Serie B after tie-breaker^[g]
16	Piacenza (R)	34	8	6	20	44	62	−18	30	Relegation to Serie B
17	Como (R)	34	4	12	18	29	57	−28	24
18	Torino (R)	34	4	9	21	23	58	−35	21

Source: 2002–03 Serie A, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw. (Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played).^[6]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Milan qualified for the Champions League group stage as defending champions.
^ Parma finished ahead of Udinese on head-to-head points: Udinese 1–1 Parma, Parma 3–2 Udinese.
^ Roma qualified for the first round of the 2003-04 UEFA Cup as Coppa Italia runner-up because the winner, Milan, qualified for Champions League through championship position.
^ Brescia finished ahead of Perugia on head-to-head points: Brescia 3–1 Perugia, Perugia 0–0 Brescia.
^ Perugia gained entry to the 2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup after Chievo renounced; then they qualified to the 2003–04 UEFA Cup First round.
^ ^a ^b ^c Modena finished ahead of Empoli, Atalanta and Reggina on head-to-head points: Modena: 10 pts, Empoli: 9 pts, Atalanta: 7 pts, Reggina: 5 pts.
^ Atalanta to 2003–04 Serie B after tie-breaker.

Results

Home \ Away	ATA	BOL	BRE	CHV	COM	EMP	INT	JUV	LAZ	MIL	MOD	PAR	PER	PIA	REG	ROM	TOR	UDI
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^[a]	5–1	1–1	2–4		0–2	0–2	1–3^[b]	1–3	1–2	0–0	2–2^[c]	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0^[d]	1–0	0–2^[e]
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
Internazionale	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^[f]	0–2	0–4	0–1	0–3	1–1	0–4	2–1^[g]	1–3^[h]	1–0^[i]	0–1		0–1^[j]
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

Source: lega-calcio.it (in Italian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ The match was played at Stadio Giglio.
^ The match was played at Stadio Leonardo Garilli.
^ The match was played at Stadio Leonardo Garilli.
^ The match was played at Stadio Leonardo Garilli.
^ The match was abandoned due to Como fans rioting against a third penalty for Udinese in the match. Following previous misses by Vincenzo Iaquinta and Roberto Muzzi; David Pizarro was set to take the third one, but the riots ended the match prematurely. Udinese was handed the win 2–0, with Pinzi as the only goalscorer. Como was given a four-match suspension from playing at home.
^ The match was played at Stadio Giglio.
^ The match was played at Stadio Giglio.
^ The match was played at Stadio Ennio Tardini.
^ The match was played at Stadio Giglio.
^ The match was played at Stadio Giglio.

Overall

Most wins - Juventus (21)
Fewest wins - Como and Torino (4)
Most draws - Lazio and Brescia (15)
Fewest draws - Piacenza (6)
Most losses - Torino (21)
Fewest losses - Juventus and Lazio (4)
Most goals scored - Juventus and Internazionale (64)
Fewest goals scored - Torino (23)
Most goals conceded - Piacenza (62)
Fewest goals conceded - Juventus (29)

Relegation tie-breaker

29 May 2003

20:30 CEST

Reggina	0–0	Atalanta

Stadio Oreste Granillo, Reggio Calabria

Attendance: 27,000

Referee: Massimo de Santis (Rome)

2 June 2003

18:00 CEST

Atalanta	1–2	Reggina
Natali 18'		Cozza 33' Bonazzoli 85'

Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Viareggio)

Reggina won 2 – 1 on aggregate.

Atalanta relegated to Serie B.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Christian Vieri	Internazionale	24
2	Adrian Mutu	Parma	18
3	Filippo Inzaghi	Milan	17
4	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	16
6	Adriano	Parma	15
6	Claudio López	Lazio	15
8	Dario Hübner	Piacenza	14
8	Francesco Totti	Roma	14
10	Antonio Di Natale	Empoli	13

Transfer

References and sources

^ "Italy blocks non-EU players". UEFA.com. 2003-03-05. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
^ "Italians bar non-EU imports". UEFA.com. 2002-07-17. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
^ "Piacenza Sack Agostinelli". Soccerway. 3 February 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
^ "Cagni returns as Piacenza sack Agostinelli". Soccerway. 3 February 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
^ With consequent qualification to UEFA Cup first round
^ Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. - Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

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

External links

it:Classifica calcio Serie A italiana 2003 - Italian version with pictures and info.
[1] - All results on RSSSF Website.
2002/2003 Serie A Squads - (www.footballsquads.com)

[table_note_MIL0.87675903126446-6] Milan qualified for the Champions League group stage as defending champions.

[table_hth_PAR0.87675903126446-7] Parma finished ahead of Udinese on head-to-head points: Udinese 1–1 Parma, Parma 3–2 Udinese.

[table_note_ROM0.87675903126446-8] Roma qualified for the first round of the 2003-04 UEFA Cup as Coppa Italia runner-up because the winner, Milan, qualified for Champions League through championship position.

[table_hth_BRE0.87675903126446-9] Brescia finished ahead of Perugia on head-to-head points: Brescia 3–1 Perugia, Perugia 0–0 Brescia.

[table_note_PER0.87675903126446-10] Perugia gained entry to the 2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup after Chievo renounced; then they qualified to the 2003–04 UEFA Cup First round.

[table_hth_MOD0.87675903126446-11] Modena finished ahead of Empoli, Atalanta and Reggina on head-to-head points: Modena: 10 pts, Empoli: 9 pts, Atalanta: 7 pts, Reggina: 5 pts.

[table_note_res_RPL0.87675903126446-12] Atalanta to 2003–04 Serie B after tie-breaker.

[table_note_1_COM_ATA0.50513635925256-14] The match was played at Stadio Giglio.

[table_note_1_COM_JUV0.50513635925256-15] The match was played at Stadio Leonardo Garilli.

[table_note_1_COM_PAR0.50513635925256-16] The match was played at Stadio Leonardo Garilli.

[table_note_1_COM_ROM0.50513635925256-17] The match was played at Stadio Leonardo Garilli.

[table_note_1_COM_UDI0.50513635925256-18] The match was abandoned due to Como fans rioting against a third penalty for Udinese in the match. Following previous misses by Vincenzo Iaquinta and Roberto Muzzi; David Pizarro was set to take the third one, but the riots ended the match prematurely. Udinese was handed the win 2–0, with Pinzi as the only goalscorer. Como was given a four-match suspension from playing at home.

[table_note_1_TOR_EMP0.50513635925256-19] The match was played at Stadio Giglio.

[table_note_1_TOR_PER0.50513635925256-20] The match was played at Stadio Giglio.

[table_note_1_TOR_PIA0.50513635925256-21] The match was played at Stadio Ennio Tardini.

[table_note_1_TOR_REG0.50513635925256-22] The match was played at Stadio Giglio.

[table_note_1_TOR_UDI0.50513635925256-23] The match was played at Stadio Giglio.

[1] "Italy blocks non-EU players". UEFA.com. 2003-03-05. Retrieved 2010-03-09.

[provision-2] "Italians bar non-EU imports". UEFA.com. 2002-07-17. Retrieved 2010-03-09.

[3] "Piacenza Sack Agostinelli". Soccerway. 3 February 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2012.

[4] "Cagni returns as Piacenza sack Agostinelli". Soccerway. 3 February 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2012.

[5] With consequent qualification to UEFA Cup first round

[13] Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. - Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

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