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2003–04 Chelsea F.C. season

English football club season

Field	Value
club	Chelsea
season	2003–04
manager	Claudio Ranieri
chairman	Ken Bates
(until March 2004)
Bruce Buck
owner	Roman Abramovich
league	FA Premier League
league result	[2nd](2003-04-fa-premier-league)
cup1	[FA Cup](2003-04-fa-cup)
cup1 result	[Fifth round](2003-04-fa-cup-fifth-round-proper)
cup2	[League Cup](2003-04-football-league-cup)
cup2 result	[Quarter-finals](2003-04-football-league-cup-quarter-finals)
cup3	[UEFA Champions League](2003-04-uefa-champions-league)
cup3 result	[Semi-finals](2003-04-uefa-champions-league-semi-finals)
league topscorer	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (13)
season topscorer	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (18)
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prevseason	[2002–03](2002-03-chelsea-f-c-season)
nextseason	[2004–05](2004-05-chelsea-f-c-season)

(until March 2004) Bruce Buck The 2003–04 season was Chelsea F.C.'s 12th consecutive season in the Premier League and 98th year as a club. Manager Claudio Ranieri was sacked on 31 May 2004 and was replaced by José Mourinho. In July 2003, long-time chairman Ken Bates sold the club to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

Chelsea finished the season as runners-up in the Premier League. In the Champions League Chelsea reached the semi-finals against AS Monaco, but failed to reach the final, losing 5–3 on aggregate to the French side. They also exited the FA Cup in the fifth round to Arsenal and the Carling Cup in the quarter-finals to Aston Villa.

Team kit

The team kit was produced by Umbro. The shirt sponsor was the airline Emirates; the kit bore the "Fly Emirates" logo. Chelsea's home kit was all blue with a white collar. Their new away kit was all white with black and blue stripes down the centre. Last season's away kit (all black with blue accents) was retained as the club's third kit.

First team squad

:Squad at end of season

Reserve squad

Transfers

In

#	Pos	Player	From	Fee	Date
1	GK	AUT Jürgen Macho	ENG Sunderland	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/3048195.stm	title=Macho to join Chelsea	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-05-21	date=21 May 2003}}	1 July 2003
31	GK	ITA Marco Ambrosio	ITA Chievo Verona	Free	1 July 2003
2	DF	ENG Glen Johnson	ENG West Ham United	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3055361.stm	title=Johnson seals Chelsea move	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-07-15	date=15 July 2003	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030712110141/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3055361.stm	archive-date= 12 July 2003	url-status= live}}	15 July 2003
14	MF	CMR Geremi	ESP Real Madrid	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3056069.stm	title=Geremi signs for Chelsea	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-07-16	date=16 July 2003}}	16 July 2003
18	DF	ENG Wayne Bridge	ENG Southampton	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3080479.stm	title=Bridge signs for Chelsea	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-07-21	date=21 July 2003}}	21 July 2003
11	MF	IRL Damien Duff	ENG Blackburn Rovers	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3081647.stm	title=Duff completes Chelsea move	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-07-21	date=21 July 2003	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030722222513/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3081647.stm	archive-date= 22 July 2003	url-status= live}}	21 July 2003
10	MF	ENG Joe Cole	ENG West Ham United	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3130415.stm	title=Cole completes Chelsea move	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-08-06	date=6 August 2003}}	6 August 2003
20	MF	ARG Juan Sebastián Verón	ENG Manchester United	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3120081.stm	title=Veron signs for Chelsea	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-08-07	date=7 August 2003}}	6 August 2003
7	FW	ROM Adrian Mutu	ITA Parma	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3145465.stm	title=Mutu completes Chelsea switch	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-08-12	date=12 August 2003}}	12 August 2003
5	MF	RUS Alexey Smertin	FRA Bordeaux	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3158015.stm	title=Chelsea bag Smertin	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-08-25	date=25 August 2003	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030819001010/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3158015.stm	archive-date= 19 August 2003	url-status= live}}	25 August 2003
21	FW	ARG Hernán Crespo	ITA Inter Milan	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3183431.stm	title=Chelsea sign Crespo	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-08-26	date=26 August 2003	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030904041433/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3183431.stm	archive-date= 4 September 2003	url-status= live}}	26 August 2003
34	GK	SCO Neil Sullivan	ENG Tottenham Hotspur	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3190149.stm	title=Chelsea sign Sullivan	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-08-29	date=29 August 2003	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030829165342/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3190149.stm	archive-date= 29 August 2003	url-status= live}}	29 August 2003
4	MF	FRA Claude Makélélé	ESP Real Madrid	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3196017.stm	title=Chelsea sign Makelele	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-09-01	date=1 September 2003	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030902012402/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3196017.stm	archive-date= 2 September 2003	url-status= live}}	31 August 2003
19	MF	ENG Scott Parker	ENG Charlton Athletic	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3443465.stm	title=Parker joins Chelsea	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2012-05-27	date=30 January 2004}}	30 January 2004

Out

#	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date
17	DF	ESP Albert Ferrer	Unattached	Released	3 June 2003
25	FW	ITA Gianfranco Zola	ITA Cagliari	Free	2 July 2003
20	MF	ENG Jody Morris	ENG Leeds United	Free	18 July 2003
14	DF	ENG Graeme Le Saux	ENG Southampton	£500,000	21 July 2003
1	GK	NED Ed de Goey	ENG Stoke City	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/s/stoke_city/3116041.stm	title=Stoke sign De Goey	publisher=BBC Sport	access-date=2003-08-01	date=1 August 2003	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030803062430/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/stoke_city/3116041.stm	archive-date= 3 August 2003	url-status= live}}	1 August 2003

Overall transfer activity

Total Spending

Summer: £111,150,000

Winter: £10,000,000

Total: £121,150,000

Income

Summer: £500,000

Winter: £0

Total: £500,000

Expenditure

Summer: £110,650,000

Winter: £10,000,000

Total: £120,650,000

Competitions

Premier League

Main article: 2003–04 FA Premier League

League table

Results summary

Matches

Hasselbaink Mutu Geremi Rogers Scimeca Hasselbaink Mutu Hasselbaink Hasselbaink Duff Crespo Crespo Henry Crespo Lampard Duff Guðjohnsen Terry Holland Johansson Euell Guðjohnsen Lampard Geremi Diouf Mutu Babayaro Gallagher Johnson Crespo Edu Duff Duff Lampard Hasselbaink Craddock Hitzlsperger Hendrie Shearer Lampard Johnson Huth

UEFA Champions League

Main article: 2003–04 UEFA Champions League

Third qualifying round

Main article: 2003–04 UEFA Champions League#Third qualifying round

Drahno Huth Hasselbaink

Group stage

Main article: 2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage#Group G

Mutu Guðjohnsen Duff Lampard Bridge

Knockout phase

Main article: 2003–04 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Bridge

Semi-finals

Morientes Nonda

Lampard Morientes

FA Cup

Main article: 2003–04 FA Cup

Mahon Lampard Replay Hasselbaink Guðjohnsen

League Cup

Main article: 2003–04 Football League Cup

Guðjohnsen Cole Stallard McCann

Statistics

|} Statistics taken from http://www.soccerbase.com/squad_season.sd?teamid=536 and http://www.11v11.com/teams/chelsea/tab/players/season/2004. Squad details and shirt numbers from http://www.zanziball.it/en/28/6808.html and http://www.eufo.de/football/eng/2003/chela_fc.htm.

References

Makelele was born in [[Kinshasa]], [[Zaire]].
Forssell was born in [[Steinfurt]], [[West Germany]].
Ma-Kalambay was born in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]], and has represented [[Belgium]] internationally at youth level, but also qualified to represent the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo. DR Congo]] and made his full international debut for [[Democratic Republic of Congo national football team. DR Congo]] in May 2010.
Hollands previously wore the #41 jersey, until it was given to Rocastle.
(21 May 2003). "Macho to join Chelsea". BBC Sport.
(15 July 2003). "Johnson seals Chelsea move". BBC Sport.
(16 July 2003). "Geremi signs for Chelsea". BBC Sport.
(21 July 2003). "Bridge signs for Chelsea". BBC Sport.
(21 July 2003). "Duff completes Chelsea move". BBC Sport.
(6 August 2003). "Cole completes Chelsea move". BBC Sport.
(7 August 2003). "Veron signs for Chelsea". BBC Sport.
(12 August 2003). "Mutu completes Chelsea switch". BBC Sport.
(25 August 2003). "Chelsea bag Smertin". BBC Sport.
(26 August 2003). "Chelsea sign Crespo". BBC Sport.
(29 August 2003). "Chelsea sign Sullivan". BBC Sport.
(1 September 2003). "Chelsea sign Makelele". BBC Sport.
(30 January 2004). "Parker joins Chelsea". BBC Sport.
(2 July 2003). "Zola quitting Chelsea". BBC News.
(19 July 2003). "Morris completes Leeds move". BBC News.
(1 August 2003). "Stoke sign De Goey". BBC Sport.

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