2003–04 Serie A

Serie A
Season	2003–04
Champions	Milan 17th title
Relegated	Perugia Modena Empoli Ancona
Champions League	Milan (Group stage) Roma (Group stage) Juventus (Third qualifying round) Internazionale (Third qualifying round)
UEFA Cup	Parma (First round) Lazio (First round) Udinese (First round)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	811 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorer	Andriy Shevchenko (24)
Biggest home win	Internazionale 6–0 Reggina (22 November 2003) Roma 6–0 Siena (22 February 2004)
Biggest away win	Bologna 0–4 Roma (23 November 2003)
Highest scoring	Brescia 4–4 Reggina (21 September 2003)
Longest unbeaten run	Milan 19 games
← 2002–03 2004–05 →

A.C. Milan's 17th scudetto celebrations

The 2003–04 season in Italian Serie A football contained 18 teams for the 16th and last time from the 1988-89 season. With the bottom three being relegated, the 15th placed side would face the 6th highest team from Serie B, with the winner playing in the Serie A in 2004–05.

As usual, the top two teams would progress directly to the UEFA Champions League group stage, while 3rd and 4th place would have to begin in the 3rd qualifying round. The UEFA Cup places would be awarded to 5th and 6th place, and the winners of the Coppa Italia.

A.C. Milan won their 17th scudetto; Roma impressed and were pushing for the title until the last few weeks of the season; Internazionale only made it to the Champions League ahead of Parma and Lazio on the last day thanks to Adriano, who had been signed from Parma earlier in the season; Lazio won the Coppa Italia against Juventus, handing Udinese the UEFA Cup spot; Ancona were relegated with only two wins, the joint lowest tally ever (Brescia Calcio's 12 points in 1994–95 Serie A is still the lowest ever); Empoli and Modena were also relegated; Perugia lost their play-off with Fiorentina, who returned to Serie A after a two-year absence.

Ukrainian forward Andriy Shevchenko of Milan was the top scorer with 24 goals. The 2003–04 league was the last professional season in the career of former European Footballer of the Year and Italian international Roberto Baggio, who finished among the tournament's top ten scorers with 12 goals, and among the all-time top five scorers in Serie A, with 205 career goals. It was also the last Serie A season for Baggio's former teammate Giuseppe Signori, who then moved to the Superleague Greece. Signori ended his career in Italy as the seventh highest scorer ever in Serie A.

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.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Head Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Ancona	Giovanni Galeone	Le Coq Sportif	Banca Marche
Bologna	Carlo Mazzone	Macron	Area Banca
Brescia	Gianni de Biasi	Kappa	Banca Lombarda
Chievo	Luigi Del Neri	Lotto	Paluani
Empoli	Attilio Perotti	Erreà	Sammontana
Inter	Alberto Zaccheroni	Nike	Pirelli
Juventus	Marcello Lippi	Nike	Fastweb
Lazio	Roberto Mancini	Puma	Parmacotto
Lecce	Delio Rossi	Asics	Salento
Milan	Carlo Ancelotti	Adidas	Opel
Modena	Alberto Malesani	Erreà	Immergas
Parma	Cesare Prandelli	Champion	Parmalat · Cariparma
Perugia	Serse Cosmi	Galex	Toyota
Reggina	Giancarlo Camolese	Asics	Credit Suisse
Roma	Fabio Capello	Diadora	Mazda
Sampdoria	Walter Novellino	Asics	ERG
Siena	Giuseppe Papadopulo	Lotto	Monte Paschi Vita
Udinese	Luciano Spalletti	Le Coq Sportif	Bernardi

Managerial changes

Ancona appointed Leonardo Menichini as successor to Luigi Simoni, but he was sacked in early September and replaced him by Nedo Sonetti. Sonetti lasted 15 games before being replaced by Giovanni Galeone.
Bologna sacked Francesco Guidolin before start of season and replaced by former Brescia Calcio boss Carlo Mazzone.
Brescia appointed Gianni De Biasi as manager before start of season, following the departure of Carlo Mazzone to Bologna.
Empoli appointed Daniele Baldini as successor to Silvio Baldini, but he was sacked in early October and replaced him with Attilio Perotti.
Internazionale sacked Héctor Cúper in October and replaced him by Alberto Zaccheroni.
Modena appointed Alberto Malesani as successor to Gianni De Biasi, but he was sacked in early March and he was replaced by Gianfranco Bellotto.
Reggina appointed Franco Colomba as the new manager during pre-season, but he was sacked in early November and replaced him by Giancarlo Camolese.

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Milan !Milan (C)	34	25	7	2	65	24	+41	82	2004–05 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Roma !Roma	34	21	8	5	68	19	+49	71	2004–05 UEFA Champions League Group stage
3	Juventus !Juventus	34	21	6	7	67	42	+25	69	2004–05 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4	Internazionale !Internazionale	34	17	8	9	59	37	+22	59	2004–05 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
5	Parma !Parma	34	16	10	8	57	46	+11	58	2004–05 UEFA Cup First round
6	Lazio !Lazio	34	16	8	10	52	38	+14	56
7	Udinese !Udinese	34	13	11	10	44	40	+4	050¹
8	Sampdoria !Sampdoria	34	11	13	10	40	42	−2	46
9	Chievo !Chievo	34	11	11	12	36	37	−1	44
10	Lecce !Lecce	34	11	8	15	43	56	−13	41
11	Brescia !Brescia	34	9	13	12	52	57	−5	40
12	Bologna !Bologna	34	10	9	15	45	53	−8	39
13	Reggina !Reggina	34	6	16	12	29	45	−16	34
14	Siena !Siena	34	8	10	16	41	54	−13	34
15	Perugia !Perugia (R)	34	6	14	14	44	56	−12	32	Serie A qualification
16	Modena !Modena (R)	34	6	12	16	27	46	−19	30	Relegation to Serie B
17	Empoli !Empoli (R)	34	7	9	18	26	54	−28	30
18	Ancona !Ancona (R)	34	2	7	25	21	70	−49	13

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Udinese gained entry to the 2004–05 UEFA Cup as Coppa Italia finalists Lazio and Juventus qualified for the 2004–05 UEFA Cup and the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League through league position, respectively.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away	Ancona !ANC	Bologna !BOL	Brescia !BRE	Chievo !CHV	Empoli !EMP	Internazionale !INT	Juventus !JUV	Lazio !LAZ	Lecce !LCE	Milan !MIL	Modena !MOD	Parma !PAR	Perugia !PER	Reggina !REG	Roma !ROM	Sampdoria !SAM	Siena !SIE	Udinese !UDI
Ancona !Ancona		3–2	1–1	0–2	2–1	0–2	2–3	0–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–3
Bologna !Bologna	3–2		3–0	3–1	2–1	0–2	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	2–2	2–2	2–2	0–4	0–1	3–1	2–0
Brescia !Brescia	5–2	0–0		1–1	2–0	2–2	2–3	2–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–3	1–1	4–4	1–0	1–1	4–2	1–2
Chievo !Chievo	1–0	2–1	3–1		0–0	0–2	1–2	0–0	2–3	0–2	2–0	0–2	4–1	0–0	0–3	1–1	1–1	0–0
Empoli !Empoli	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–1		2–3	3–3	2–2	0–0	0–1	0–3	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	2–0
Internazionale !Internazionale	3–0	4–2	1–3	0–0	0–1		3–2	0–0	3–1	1–3	2–0	1–0	2–1	6–0	0–0	0–0	4–0	1–2
Juventus !Juventus	3–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	5–1	1–3		1–0	3–4	1–3	3–1	4–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	4–2	4–1
Lazio !Lazio	4–2	2–1	0–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	2–0		4–1	0–1	2–1	2–3	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	5–2	2–2
Lecce !Lecce	3–1	1–2	1–4	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–1		1–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–3	0–0	0–0	2–1
Milan !Milan	5–0	2–1	4–2	2–2	1–0	3–2	1–1	1–0	3–0		2–0	3–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–2
Modena !Modena	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–1		2–2	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–3	0–1
Parma !Parma	3–1	0–0	2–2	3–1	4–0	1–0	2–2	0–3	3–1	0–0	3–0		3–0	1–2	1–4	1–0	1–1	4–3
Perugia !Perugia	1–0	4–2	2–2	0–2	1–1	2–3	1–0	1–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	2–2		0–0	0–1	3–3	2–2	3–3
Reggina !Reggina	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–2	0–2	2–1	1–3	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–2		0–0	2–2	2–1	0–1
Roma !Roma	3–0	1–2	5–0	3–1	3–0	4–1	4–0	2–0	3–1	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–3	2–0		3–1	6–0	1–1
Sampdoria !Sampdoria	2–0	3–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–2	1–2	1–2	2–2	0–4	1–1	1–2	3–2	2–0	0–0		2–1	1–3
Siena !Siena	3–2	0–0	0–1	1–2	4–0	0–1	1–3	3–0	2–1	1–4	4–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0		1–0
Udinese !Udinese	3–0	1–3	4–3	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–1

Source: lega-calcio.it (Italian)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Serie A qualification

Perugia had to play a qualification match with 6th-placed team of Serie B, Fiorentina.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Perugia	1-2	Fiorentina	0-1	1-1

A.C. Perugia relegated to Serie B, while ACF Fiorentina was promoted to Serie A.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Andriy Shevchenko	Milan	24
2	Alberto Gilardino	Parma	23
3	Francesco Totti	Roma	20
4	Javier Chevantón	Lecce	19
5	Adriano	Inter/Parma	17
6	David Trézéguet	Juventus	16
7	Antonio Cassano	Roma	14
8	Fabio Bazzani	Sampdoria	13
8	Christian Vieri	Inter	13
10	Roberto Baggio	Brescia	12
	Andrea Caracciolo	Brescia
	Dino Fava	Udinese
	Jon Dahl Tomasson	Milan

Season transfers

References

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

Footnotes

↑ "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.

External links

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