2002–03 Borussia Dortmund season

Borussia Dortmund played the 2002–03 season in the Bundesliga. Aside from failing to retain the Bundesliga title, Dortmund failed to reach the Champions League knockout phase, despite winning away from home against eventual champions Milan. In the end, finishing third in Bundesliga was enough to go into the qualifying phase of the Champions League for the coming season.

Borussia Dortmund
2002–03 season
ChairmanGerd Niebaum
ManagerMatthias Sammer
Bundesliga3rd
DFB-PokalSecond round
Champions LeagueSecond group stage
Top goalscorerJan Koller (13)

Review and events

Players

First-team squad

Squad at end of season[1][2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   GER Jens Lehmann
2 DF   BRA Evanílson
3 MF   ARG Juan Fernández
4 DF   GER Christian Wörns
5 MF   GER Sebastian Kehl
6 MF   GER Jörg Heinrich
7 DF   GER Stefan Reuter
8 MF   GER Torsten Frings
9 FW   CZE Jan Koller
10 MF   CZE Tomáš Rosický
11 FW   GER Heiko Herrlich
12 FW   BRA Ewerthon
13 MF   GER Giuseppe Reina
14 DF   FRA Guy Demel[notes 1]
17 DF   BRA Dedê
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF   GER Lars Ricken
19 MF   GHA Otto Addo[notes 2]
21 DF   GER Christoph Metzelder
22 FW   BRA Márcio Amoroso
23 DF   MAR Ahmed Reda Madouni[notes 3]
24 MF   GER David Odonkor
26 GK   GER Roman Weidenfeller
27 DF   GER Deniz Sahin
28 MF   GER Francis Bugri
30 GK   GER Michael Ratajczak
34 FW   GER Sahr Senesie[notes 4]
38 MF   GER Florian Thorwart
41 DF   GER Timo Achenbach
43 MF   BRA Leandro (on loan from Atlético Mineiro)

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
15 MF   NGA Sunday Oliseh (on loan to VfL Bochum)
16 FW   GER Fredi Bobic[notes 5] (to Hanover 96)
20 GK   GER Philipp Laux (to Eintracht Braunschweig)
No. Pos. Nation Player
29 MF   NOR Jan-Derek Sørensen (to FK Lyn)
31 FW   GER Emmanuel Krontiris (on loan to Alemannia Aachen)
MF   GER Florian Kringe (on loan to 1. FC Köln)

Reserve team

[3] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK   PER George Forsyth
GK   GER Stefan Demuth
DF   GER Tobias Beckmann
DF   GER Markus Brzenska
DF   GER Benjamin Knoche
DF   GER Bastian Pinske
DF   IRL Patrick Kohlmann[notes 6]
DF   ISR Amos Sassi
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   GER David Faralich
MF   GER Stefan Hoffmann
MF   GER Adrian Mahr
MF   GER Uwe Seggewiß
MF   SCG Mladen Kašćelan
FW   GER Salvatore Gambino
FW   GER Mario Jurkschat
FW   TUR Mehmet Ali Şirin

Competitions

Bundesliga

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Bayern Munich (C) 34 23 6 5 70 25 +45 75 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 VfB Stuttgart 34 17 8 9 53 39 +14 59
3 Borussia Dortmund 34 15 13 6 51 27 +24 58 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4 Hamburger SV 34 15 11 8 46 36 +10 56 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5 Hertha BSC 34 16 6 12 52 43 +9 54
Source: bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions

Matches

Statistics

Topscorers

References

  1. ^ "Borussia Dortmund - 2002/03". FootballSquads. Archived from the original on 15 May 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Borussia Dortmund - Bundesliga 2002/2003" (in German). Fussballdaten. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  3. ^ "Borussia Dortmund II - Regionalliga Nord 2002/2003" (in German). Fussballdaten. Archived from the original on 10 April 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.

Notes

  1. ^ Demel was born in Orsay, France, but also qualified to represent the Ivory Coast internationally and made his international debut for Ivory Coast in 2004.
  2. ^ Addo was born in Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent Ghana internationally and made his international debut for Ghana in February 1999.
  3. ^ Madouni was born in Casablanca, Morocco, but also qualified to represent Algeria internationally and made his international debut for Algeria in June 2005.
  4. ^ Senesie was born in Koindu, Sierra Leone, but was raised in Germany from the age of 12 and represented them at U-20 and U-21 level.
  5. ^ Bobic was born in Maribor, SFR Yugoslavia (now Slovenia), but was raised in Germany and made his international debut for Germany in 1994.
  6. ^ Kohlmann was born in Dortmund, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent the Republic of Ireland internationally through his mother and represented them at U-21 level.