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2002–03 Divizia B

63rd season of Romania's Divizia B

Field	Value
country
competition	Divizia B
season	2002–03
teams	32 (2x16)
promoted	Petrolul Ploiești
Apulum Alba Iulia
FC Oradea
relegated	Bucovina Suceava
Gilortul Târgu Cărbunești
Foresta Fălticeni
UM Timișoara
league topscorer	Dan Codreanu (14 goals)
prevseason	[2001–02](2001-02-divizia-b)
nextseason	[2003–04](2003-04-divizia-b)

Apulum Alba Iulia FC Oradea Gilortul Târgu Cărbunești Foresta Fălticeni UM Timișoara

The 2002–03 Divizia B was the 63rd season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system.

The format has been maintained to two series, each of them having 16 teams. At the end of the season, the winners of the series promoted to Divizia A and the last two places from both series relegated to Divizia C. A promotion play-off was played between the 13th and 14th-placed in the Divizia A and the runners-up of the Divizia B series.

Team changes

To Divizia B

Promoted from Divizia C

Politehnica Unirea Iași
Gloria Buzău
Medgidia
Rulmentul Alexandria
Gilortul Târgu Cărbunești
Corvinul Hunedoara
CFR Cluj
Bucovina Suceava**

Relegated from Divizia A

Petrolul Ploiești
UM Timișoara

From Divizia B

Relegated to Divizia C

Tractorul Brașov
Dinamo Poiana Câmpina
Petrolul Moinești
ASA Târgu Mureș
Laminorul Roman
Jiul Petroșani
Rocar București
Politehnica Timișoara**

Promoted to Divizia A

AEK București**
UTA Arad

Other

AEK București merged with Politehnica Timișoara and was absorbed. Politehnica played directly in the first tier, instead of third and also was renamed as Politehnica AEK Timișoara.

Bucovina Suceava break the alliance with Foresta Fălticeni, bought the place from Tractorul Brașov and was enrolled directly in the second tier.

Olimpia Satu Mare bought the place of Metrom Brașov, which chose to sell it again, instead of playing at the second level.

Renamed teams

Diplomatic Focșani was renamed as Unirea Focșani.

Foresta Suceava was moved back from Suceava to Fălticeni and renamed as Foresta Fălticeni.

Politehnica Unirea Iași was renamed as Politehnica Iași.

FC Bihor Oradea was renamed as FC Oradea.

League tables

Seria I

Seria II

Divizia A play-off

The 13th and 14th-placed teams of the Divizia A faced the 2nd-placed teams of the Divizia B.

|} Silvășan Bătrânu C.Prodan Oprea C.Petre Apostol Guriță Buia Zanc

Top scorers

;14 goals

ROU Dan Codreanu (Universitatea Cluj)

;12 goals

ROU Ovidiu Maier (Apulum Alba Iulia)
ROU Cătălin Bozdog (Olimpia Satu Mare)

;10 goals

HUN Zoltán Csehi (FC Oradea)

;9 goals

ROU George Florescu (Universitatea Cluj)
ROU Cosmin Tilincă (CFR Cluj)

;8 goals

ROU Tudorel Stanciu (Unirea Focșani)
ROU Bogdan Vrăjitoarea (FC Oradea)
ROU Daniel Stan (Internațional Pitești) ;7 goals
ROU Sorin Oncică (CFR Cluj)
ROU Claudiu Boaru (Gaz Metan Mediaș)

References

[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesr/roem03.html rsssf.org]
[http://www.romaniansoccer.ro/divizia_b/tables/2002_03.shtml romaniansoccer.ro]

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