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2002–03 Burnley F.C. season

English football club season

Field	Value
club	Burnley
season	2002–03
manager	Stan Ternent
chairman	Barry Kilby
league	First Division
league result	16th
cup1	League Cup
cup1 result	Fourth round
cup2	FA Cup
cup2 result	Quarter-final
league topscorer
Gareth Taylor (16)
season topscorer
Gareth Taylor (17)
highest attendance	22,034 (vs. Manchester United, 3 December)
lowest attendance	5,436 (vs. Grimsby Town, 14 January)
average attendance	13,977
prevseason	2001–02
nextseason	2003–04

Gareth Taylor (16) Gareth Taylor (17)

The 2002–03 season was Burnley's 3rd season in the second tier of English football. They were managed by Stan Ternent in his fifth full season since he replaced Chris Waddle at the beginning 1998–99 campaign.

Season summary

Four straight losses at the beginning of the season saw Burnley bottom of the First Division, before a ten-match unbeaten run lifted the Clarets to the brink of the play-off places. However, that would be as good as it got for the Lancashire club, who spent most of the season hovering in mid-table. A poor finish to the season – 10 losses in the club's final 14 matches – saw them fall to 16th. Burnley's downfall was their poor defence, which was the worst in the league: 5 goals conceded against both Grimsby and Reading, 6 against Rotherham, 7 against Sheffield Wednesday and Watford, and 89 overall, the worst in the First Division and third-worst in the entire Football League.

Appearances and goals

Transfers

In

#	Pos	Player	From	Fee	Date
22	GK	ENG Marlon Beresford	York City	Free	5 September 2002
3	DF	GUI Drissa Diallo	KV Mechelen	Free	10 January 2003

Out

#	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date
	MF	ENG Lenny Johnrose		Released	24 April 2002
	MF	ENG Kevin Ball		Retired	24 April 2002
	DF	ENG John Williamson		Released	24 April 2002
	GK	GRE Luigi Cennamo		Released	24 April 2002
	DF	ENG Mitchell Thomas		Retired	24 April 2002
	MF	ENG Paul Gascoigne		Released	16 August 2002
	MF	ENG Tony Ellis	Leigh RMI	Free	16 August 2002
1	GK	GRE Nikolaos Michopoulos	Crystal Palace	Loan	28 September 2002
25	MF	ENG Lenny Johnrose	Bury	Free	4 October 2002
32	DF	ENG Earl Davis	Stalybridge Celtic	Loan	26 November 2002
17	FW	ENG Anthony Shandran	York City	Loan	31 January 2003
32	DF	ENG Earl Davis	Southport	Loan	7 March 2003
20	MF	ENG Brad Maylett	Swansea City	Loan	15 March 2003
7	MF	ENG Glen Little	Reading	Loan	1 April 2003

Results

First Division

Brooker Zamora Irwin Cooper Butler Barton Papadopoulos I. Moore Davies Proctor Taylor Little I. Moore Davis Ambrose Papadopoulos Todorov Harper Livingstone Campbell Pouton Ford I. Moore Blake McKenna Grant Davenport Little Smith Mullin Byfield Smith King Blake West I. Moore West Salako Henderson Taylor Ndlovu Blake Carbon Matías Little Benjamin Gray Davis Hyde Cox Chopra Blake Abbey Diallo Johnson Westwood Wood Evans Haslam Gnohéré Quinn

Final league position

League Cup

Papadopoulos Davis Solskjær

FA Cup

Mansaram Weller Little Blake Cook Little I. Moore Diallo Glass

References

Simpson (2007), p. 466
"Burnley 2002-2003 Home - statto.com".

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