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2002–03 Scottish Third Division

Field	Value
competition	Scottish Third Division
season	[2002–03](2002-03-in-scottish-football)
winners	Greenock Morton
promoted	Greenock Morton
East Fife
prevseason	[2001–02](2001-02-scottish-third-division)
nextseason	[2003–04](2003-04-scottish-third-division)

East Fife The 2002–03 Scottish Third Division was won by Greenock Morton who, along with second placed East Fife, gained promotion to the Second Division. East Stirlingshire finished bottom. This season saw Gretna elected to the league, after the dissolution of Clydebank, who merged with Airdrieonians to form Airdrie United, Gretna finished in sixth place in their debut season.

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Events

In the course of a 3-1 loss to Albion Rovers, East Stirlingshire used four goalkeepers. Starting keeper Chris Todd was taken off injured after only seven minutes to be replaced by Scott Findlay who was sent off for fouling John Bradford 40 yards from goal eight minutes into the second half. Findlay was replaced by Graham McLaren, who was in turn shown the red card when he fouled Charles McLean inside the box to concede a penalty kick. Kevin McCann took over and tipped McLean's penalty effort over the crossbar

Attendance

The average attendance for Scottish Third Division clubs for season 2002/03 are shown below:

Club	Average
Greenock Morton	2,333
East Fife	759
Queen's Park	719
Peterhead	712
Stirling Albion	658
Albion Rovers	491
Elgin City	484
Gretna	419
Montrose	376
East Stirlingshire	324

References

Forsyth, Roddy. "Sterling effort by East Fife". www.telegraph.co.uk.

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