2002–03 Regionalliga

Regionalliga
Season	2002–03
Promoted	Erzgebirge Aue VfL Osnabrück SpVgg Unterhaching Jahn Regensburg
Relegated	SC Verl SV Babelsberg 03 Bayer Leverkusen (A) Dresdner SC SV Darmstadt 98 Eintracht Frankfurt (A) Borussia Neunkirchen
Matches played	648
Goals scored	1821 (2.81 per match)
Top goalscorer	Francisco Copado (SpVgg Unterhaching) - 24
Total attendance	1,740,933
Average attendance	2,686
← 2001–02 2003–04 →

The 2002–03 Regionalliga season was the ninth season of the Regionalliga at tier three (III) of the German football league system.

The Regionalliga was split into two divisions, the Regionalliga Nord and the Regionalliga Süd. The league champions, Erzgebirge Aue and SpVgg Unterhaching, and the runners-up in both divisions, VfL Osnabrück and Jahn Regensburg, were promoted to the 2003–04 2. Bundesliga.

Teams

SV Babelsberg 03, 1. FC Saarbrücken, 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 and SpVgg Unterhaching came down from the 2001–02 2. Bundesliga, replacing VfB Lübeck, Eintracht Braunschweig, Wacker Burghausen and Eintracht Trier.

Borussia Dortmund (A), Dynamo Dresden, Hamburger SV (A), 1. FC Köln (A), FC Augsburg, Eintracht Frankfurt (A) Borussia Neunkirchen and SC Pfullendorf were promoted from the Oberliga, replacing 1. FC Magdeburg, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Fortuna Köln, VfR Mannheim, VfB Stuttgart (A), SpVgg Ansbach and Borussia Fulda.

Regionalliga Nord

Final table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1.	Erzgebirge Aue	34	20	6	8	59	34	+25	68	Promotion to 2. Bundesliga
2.	VfL Osnabrück	34	19	8	7	56	29	+27	65	Promotion to 2. Bundesliga
3.	Rot-Weiß Essen	34	16	12	6	56	33	+23	60
4.	SG Wattenscheid 09	34	16	8	10	66	48	+17	56
5.	Borussia Dortmund (A)	34	13	12	9	47	51	+6	51
6.	Werder Bremen (A)	34	13	11	10	59	53	+6	49
7.	Dynamo Dresden	34	13	11	10	34	34	0	49
8.	SC Paderborn 07	34	13	8	13	58	49	+9	47
9.	1. FC Köln (A)	34	12	9	13	52	55	-3	45
10.	KFC Uerdingen	34	13	6	15	43	51	-8	45
11.	Chemnitzer FC	34	12	8	14	47	55	-8	44
12.	Preußen Münster	34	12	7	15	45	55	-10	43
13.	Holstein Kiel	34	10	12	12	54	54	0	42
14.	Hamburger SV (A)	34	10	11	13	44	52	-8	41
15.	SC Verl	34	12	4	18	47	65	-18	40	Relegation to Oberliga
16.	SV Babelsberg 03	34	9	7	18	54	73	-19	34
17.	Bayer Leverkusen (A)	34	9	6	20	46	59	-13	33
18.	Dresdner SC	34	7	8	19	32	58	-26	29

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Dmitrijus Guščinas	Holstein Kiel	23
2.	Ersin Demir	Chemnitzer FC	18
2.	Veselin Petkov Gerov	SC Paderborn 07	18
4.	Alexander Löbe	SG Wattenscheid 09	17
5.	Halil Altıntop	SG Wattenscheid 09	16
5.	Achim Weber	Rot-Weiß Essen	16
7.	Nelson Valdez	Werder Bremen (A)	15
8.	Marco Antwerpen	Preußen Münster	14
9.	Christian Claaßen	VfL Osnabrück	11
9.	Ronny Jank	Erzgebirge Aue	11

Regionalliga Süd

Five teams were due to be relegated, but Stuttgarter Kickers and Sportfreunde Siegen were reprieved because two of the relegated teams from the 2. Bundesliga, SSV Reutlingen and SV Waldhof Mannheim, could not achieve a Regionalliga license, and dropped another level, to the Oberliga.

Final table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1.	SpVgg Unterhaching	36	22	7	7	75	34	+41	73	Promotion to 2. Bundesliga
2.	Jahn Regensburg	36	22	7	7	66	25	+41	73	Promotion to 2. Bundesliga
3.	FC Augsburg	36	17	8	11	55	39	+16	59
4.	Bayern Munich (A)	36	16	9	11	51	35	+16	57
5.	TSG Hoffenheim	36	15	10	11	60	44	+16	55
6.	1. FC Saarbrücken¹	36	15	12	9	43	38	+5	53
7.	SV Wehen	36	13	11	12	52	47	+5	50
8.	Kickers Offenbach	36	11	17	8	42	38	+4	50
9.	Rot-Weiß Erfurt	36	12	14	10	44	44	0	50
10.	VfR Aalen²	36	14	6	16	48	55	-7	47
11.	SC Pfullendorf	36	13	8	15	51	61	-10	47
12.	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	36	13	6	17	56	64	-8	45
13.	1. FC Kaiserslautern (A)	36	11	12	13	43	47	-4	45
14.	SV Elversberg	36	11	12	13	38	51	-13	45
15.	Stuttgarter Kickers	36	11	12	13	40	43	-14	45
16.	Sportfreunde Siegen	36	11	10	15	47	55	-8	43
17.	SV Darmstadt 98	36	11	9	16	42	53	-11	42	Relegation to Oberliga
18.	Eintracht Frankfurt (A)	36	7	11	18	36	64	-28	32
19.	Borussia Neunkirchen	36	3	9	24	23	74	-51	18

1.^ 1. FC Saarbrücken were docked four points due to errors in the licensing process.
2.^ VfR Aalen were docked one point due to errors in the licensing process.

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Francisco Copado	SpVgg Unterhaching	24
2.	Mark Römer	SC Pfullendorf	22
3.	Veselin Popović	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	20
4.	Thomas Ollhoff	TSG Hoffenheim	19
5.	Jörg Reeb	FC Augsburg	15
6.	Christoph Teinert	TSG Hoffenheim	14
7.	Miguel Coulibaly	FC Augsburg	13
	Sead Mehić	SV Wehen
	Vlado Papić	Jahn Regensburg
	András Tölcséres	Jahn Regensburg

References

External links

Regionalliga at the German Football Association (German)
Regionalliga Nord 2002–03 at kicker.de
Regionalliga Süd 2002–03 at kicker.de

Regionalliga seasons

As tier II	1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74

As tier III	1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08

As tier IV	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

2002–03 in German football

« 2001–02

2003–04 »

League competitions

Men	Bundesliga 2. Bundesliga Regionalliga

Women	Bundesliga

Cup competitions

Men	DFB-Pokal (Final)

Women	DFB-Pokal

Team seasons

Men's Bundesliga

Arminia Bielefeld
Bayer Leverkusen
Bayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund
VfL Bochum
Energie Cottbus
Hamburger SV
Hannover 96
Hansa Rostock
Hertha BSC
1. FC Kaiserslautern
Borussia Mönchengladbach
1860 Munich
1. FC Nuremberg
Schalke 04
VfB Stuttgart
Werder Bremen
VfL Wolfsburg

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