2002–03 Crewe Alexandra F.C. season

Crewe Alexandra

2002–03 season
Manager	Dario Gradi
Football League Second Division	2nd
FA Cup	Third Round
League Cup	Second Round
League Trophy	Quarter Final
← 2001–02 2003–04 →

The 2002–03 season saw Crewe Alexandra compete in the Football League Second Division where they finished in 2nd position with 86 points, gaining automatic promotion to the First Division.^[1]

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pl	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1.	Wigan Athletic	46	29	13	4	68	25	+43	100
2.	Crewe Alexandra	46	25	11	10	76	40	+36	86
3.	Bristol City	46	24	11	11	79	48	+31	83
4.	Queens Park Rangers	46	24	11	11	69	35	+24	83
5.	Oldham Athletic	46	22	16	8	68	38	+30	82
6.	Cardiff City	46	23	12	11	68	43	+25	81
7.	Tranmere Rovers	46	23	11	12	66	57	+9	80
8.	Plymouth Argyle	46	17	14	15	63	52	+11	65
9.	Luton Town	46	17	14	15	67	62	+5	65
10.	Swindon Town	46	16	12	18	59	63	-4	60
11.	Peterborough United	46	14	16	16	51	54	-3	58
12.	Colchester United	46	14	16	16	52	56	-4	58
13.	Blackpool	46	15	13	18	56	64	-8	58
14.	Stockport County	46	15	10	21	65	70	-5	55
15.	Notts County	46	13	16	17	62	70	-8	55
16.	Brentford	46	14	12	20	47	56	-9	54
17.	Port Vale	46	14	11	21	54	70	-16	53
18.	Wycombe Wanderers	46	13	13	20	59	66	-7	52
19.	Barnsley	46	13	13	20	51	64	-13	52
20.	Chesterfield	46	14	8	24	43	73	-30	50
21.	Cheltenham Town	46	10	18	18	53	68	-15	48
22.	Huddersfield Town	46	11	12	23	39	61	-22	45
23.	Mansfield Town	46	12	8	26	66	97	-31	44
24.	Northampton Town	46	10	9	27	40	79	-39	39

Results

Crewe Alexandra's score comes first

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

Football League Second Division

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	10 August 2002	Northampton Town	A	1 – 1	5,694	Sorvel
2	13 August 2002	Notts County	H	0 – 3	6,141
3	17 August 2002	Colchester United	H	2 – 0	5,138	Hulse, Bell
4	24 August 2002	Huddersfield Town	A	1 – 1	8,447	Hulse
5	27 August 2002	Cheltenham Town	H	1 – 0	5,488	Jack
6	31 August 2002	Mansfield Town	A	5 – 0	4,138	Walker, Jack, Hulse, Foster, Lunt
7	7 September 2002	Chesterfield	H	0 – 0	5,837
8	14 September 2002	Peterborough United	A	0 – 0	4,345
9	17 September 2002	Wycombe Wanderers	A	2 – 1	4,909	Hulse (2)
10	21 September 2002	Tranmere Rovers	H	2 – 0	6,875	Hulse, Curtis (o.g.)
11	28 September 2002	Cardiff City	A	1 – 2	13,208	Hulse
12	5 October 2002	Queens Park Rangers	H	2 – 0	7,683	Jones (2)
13	12 October 2002	Stockport County	A	4 – 1	6,468	Lunt, Jones, Hulse (2)
14	19 October 2002	Plymouth Argyle	A	0 – 1	6,733
15	26 October 2002	Port Vale	A	2 – 1	6,374	Hulse (2)
16	29 October 2002	Luton Town	H	0 – 1	6,030
17	2 November 2002	Wigan Athletic	A	0 – 2	7,086
18	9 November 2002	Brentford	H	2 – 1	5,663	Hulse (2)
19	23 November 2002	Blackpool	H	3 – 0	7,019	Hulse, Sodje, Tierney
20	30 November 2002	Bristol City	A	2 – 2	12,585	Hulse, Foster
21	14 December 2002	Barnsley	H	2 – 0	5,633	Jack, Foster
22	21 December 2002	Swindon Town	A	3 – 1	4,957	Foster, Ashton, Jack
23	26 December 2002	Cheltenham Town	A	4 – 0	5,548	Ashton, Jack, Brammer, Vaughan
24	29 December 2002	Oldham Athletic	H	1 – 2	9,006	Hulse
25	1 January 2003	Mansfield Town	H	2 – 0	6,931	Walton, Miles
26	11 January 2003	Colchester United	A	2 – 1	2,949	Jones (2)
27	18 January 2003	Huddersfield Town	H	1 – 0	5,819	Jones
28	25 January 2003	Oldham Athletic	A	3 – 1	7,579	Hulse (2), Ashton
29	1 February 2003	Northampton Town	H	3 – 3	6,164	Jones (2), Vaughan
30	4 February 2003	Notts County	A	2 – 2	3,875	Jones (2), Hulse
31	8 February 2003	Brentford	A	2 – 1	5,424	Lunt (2)
32	22 February 2003	Chesterfield	A	2 – 0	3,956	Jack, Wright
33	25 February 2003	Wigan Athletic	H	0 – 1	8,917
34	1 March 2003	Peterborough United	H	0 – 1	5,704
35	4 March 2003	Wycombe Wanderers	H	4 – 2	5,398	Lunt, Hulse, Ashton (2)
36	8 March 2003	Tranmere Rovers	A	1 – 2	8,670	Hulse
37	15 March 2003	Port Vale	H	1 – 1	8,146	Sorvel
38	18 March 2003	Plymouth Argyle	A	3 – 1	7,777	Jack, Ashton (2)
39	22 March 2003	Luton Town	A	4 – 0	6,607	Ashton (2), Jack, Vaughan
40	29 March 2003	Stockport County	H	1 – 0	7,336	Jack
41	12 April 2003	Blackpool	A	1 – 0	7,623	Lunt
42	15 April 2003	Bristol City	H	1 – 1	7,901	Lunt
43	19 April 2003	Swindon Town	A	0 – 1	6,384
44	21 April 2003	Barnsley	A	2 – 1	9,369	Sorvel, Hulse
45	26 April 2003	Queens Park Rangers	A	0 – 0	16,921
46	3 May 2003	Cardiff City	H	1 – 1	9,562	Walker

FA Cup

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	16 November 2002	Port Vale	A	1 – 0	5,507	Ashton
R2	7 December 2002	Mansfield Town	H	3 – 0	4,563	Ashton, Brammer, Rix
R3	4 January 2003	Bournemouth	A	0 – 0	7,252
R3 Replay	14 January 2003	Bournemouth	H	2 – 2 (1 – 3 pens)	4,540	Jones, Sodje

Football League Cup

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	10 September 2002	Port Vale	A	2 – 0	3,765	Jack (2)
R2	1 October 2002	Manchester City	A	2 – 3	21,820	Jack, Hulse

Football League Trophy

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	22 October 2002	Mansfield Town	A	4 – 0	1,874	Jack, Hulse (3)
R2	12 November 2002	Blackpool	H	2 – 0	2,600	Jack, Ashton
QF	10 December 2002	Doncaster Rovers	H	8 – 0	2,189	Vaughan, Ashton (3), Jack (2), Lunt, Jones
SF	29 January 2003	Shrewsbury Town	A	2 – 4	4,646	Hulse, Ashton

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Ademola Bankole	2(1)	0	0(1)	0	0	0	4	0	6(2)	0
2	DF	David Wright	31	1	4	0	1	0	3(1)	0	39(1)	1
3	DF	Richard Walker	31(5)	2	1(1)	0	2	0	4	0	38(6)	2
4	MF	Kenny Lunt	46	7	4	0	2	0	4	2	56	9
5	DF	Dave Walton	27(1)	1	4	0	0(1)	0	0	0	31(2)	1
6	DF	Stephen Foster	35	4	3	0	1	0	4	0	43	4
7	FW	Colin Little	3(3)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4(3)	0
8	MF	Dave Brammer	41	1	4	1	2	0	2	0	49	1
9	FW	Rob Hulse	35(3)	22	1	0	1	1	2	4	39(3)	27
10	FW	Dean Ashton	24(14)	9	1(1)	2	1	0	3	5	34(15)	15
11	FW	Rodney Jack	35(3)	9	2	0	2	0	3	0	42(3)	9
12	MF	Neil Sorvel	39(4)	3	4	0	2	0	4	0	49(4)	3
13	GK	Clayton Ince	43	0	4	0	2	0	0	0	48	0
14	MF	David Vaughan	28(4)	3	4	0	1	0	2	1	35(4)	4
15	MF	Wayne Collins	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0(1)	0
16	DF	Efe Sodje	23(6)	1	0(3)	1	2	0	2	0	27(9)	2
17	MF	Steve Jones	18(12)	9	2(1)	1	0(1)	0	2(2)	1	23(16)	11
18	DF	Chris McCready	6(2)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	7(3)	0
19	MF	Ben Rix	17(6)	0	2(1)	1	0	0	1(1)	0	20(8)	0
20	MF	Lee Bell	3(13)	1	0(2)	0	0	0	1(3)	0	4(18)	0
21	FW	Paul Edwards	0(2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(2)	0
22	GK	Stuart Tomlinson	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0
23	MF	Alex Morris	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	DF	Sagi Burton	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
24	MF	James Robinson	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0
25	FW	John Miles	0(5)	1	2	0	1	0	0(2)	0	3(7)	1
26	FW	Michael Higdon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	DF	Adam Yates	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	FW	Andy White	0(2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(2)	0
29	DF	Paul Tierney	14(3)	1	2	0	0	0	3	0	19(3)	1
30	GK	Danny Milosevic	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
31	MF	Stefan Oakes	3(4)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3(4)	0
33	FW	Luke Varney	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	FW	Jonathan Walters	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

References

1. "Crewe Alexandra 2002/03". Statto. Retrieved 14 June 2014.

External links

• Crewe Alexandra 2002–03 at Soccerbase.com (select relevant season from dropdown list)