2003–04 Gençlerbirliği S.K. season

Gençlerbirliği S.K.

2003–04 season
Manager	Ersun Yanal
Süper Lig	10th
Turkish Cup	Runners-up
UEFA Cup	Second round
Top goalscorer	Souleymane Youla (16)
← 2002–03 2004–05 →

During the 2003–04 Turkish football season, Gençlerbirliği S.K. competed in the Süper Lig.

Season summary

Gençlerbirliği reached the fourth round of the UEFA Cup before being knocked out by eventual runners-up Valencia.

First-team squad

Squad at end of season

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

No. Position Player 2 DF Filip Daems 5 DF Abdel-Zaher El-Saqua 6 DF Erkan Özbey 7 MF Bülent Akın[1] 8 FW Mustafa Özkan[2] 9 FW Begeçarslan Ali Cansun 10 MF Nihat Baştürk 11 FW Souleymane Youla 12 MF Marcel Kimemba Mbayo 14 DF Ümit Bozkurt (captain) 16 GK Damir Botonjič 19 MF Kerem Şeras 20 MF Uğur Boral

No. Position Player 22 MF Ali Tandoğan 23 DF Baki Mercimek[3] 24 GK Bora Sevim 25 MF Deniz Barış 30 DF Serkan Balcı 33 MF Senol Erol 39 MF Mustafa Gürsel 50 FW Veysel Cihan 61 FW Bülent Karaman 67 DF Orhan Şam 99 GK Gökhan Tokgöz FW Ali Öztürk

UEFA Cup

First round

Gençlerbirligi v Blackburn Rovers

24 September 2003	Gençlerbirligi	3–1	Blackburn Rovers	Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium, Ankara
	Skoko  41' Youla  42', 59'	Report	56' Emerton	Referee: Paolo Bertini (Italy)

Blackburn Rovers v Gençlerbirligi

15 October 2003	Blackburn Rovers	1–1	Gençlerbirligi	Ewood Park, Blackburn
	Jansen  65'	Report	67' Özkan	Referee: Erik Braamhaar (Holland)

Second round

Gençlerbirliği v Sporting CP

6 November 2003	Gençlerbirliği	1–1	Sporting CP	19 Mayıs Stadyumu, Ankara
19:00		Report		Referee: Sorin Carpodean (Romania)

Sporting CP v Gençlerbirliği

27 November 2003	Sporting CP	0–3	Gençlerbirliği	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon
22:00		Report		Referee: Johan Verbist (Belgium)

Gençlerbirliği won 4–1 on aggregate.

Third round

Parma v Gençlerbirliği

26 February 2004	Parma	0–1	Gençlerbirliği	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
19:45		Report	Skoko  60'	Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

Gençlerbirliği v Parma

3 March 2004	Gençlerbirliği	3–0	Parma	19 Mayıs Stadium, Ankara
16:45	Daems  37' (pen.) Ferrari  81' (o.g.) Tandoğan  90+5'	Report		Referee: Éric Poulat (France)

Gençlerbirliği won 4–0 on aggregate.

Fourth round

Gençlerbirliği v Valencia

11 March 2004	Gençlerbirliği	1–0	Valencia	Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium, Ankara
19:30	Daems  12' (pen.)	Report		Referee: Tom Henning Øvrebø (Norway)

Valencia v Gençlerbirliği

25 March 2004	Valencia	2–0 (aet)	Gençlerbirliği	Mestalla Stadium, Valencia
21:30	Mista  63' Vicente  94'	Report		Referee: René Temmink (Netherlands)

Valencia won 2–1 on aggregate.

References

1. Akın was born in Brussels, Belgium.
2. Özkan was born in Forchheim, West Germany (now Germany).
3. Mercimek was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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