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2003–04 Crystal Palace F.C. season

English football club season

Field	Value
club	Crystal Palace
season	2003–04
manager	Steve Kember
Kit Symons (caretaker)
Iain Dowie
chairman	Simon Jordan
stadium	Selhurst Park
league	[First Division](2003-04-football-league)
league result	[6th](2003-04-football-league-first-division) (qualified for play-offs)
cup1	[Play-offs](2004-football-league-play-offs-first-division)
cup1 result	[Winners](2004-football-league-first-division-play-off-final)
cup2	FA Cup
cup2 result	[Third round](2003-04-fa-cup-third-round-proper)
cup3	League Cup
cup3 result	[Fourth round](2003-04-football-league-cup-fourth-round)
league topscorer
Andy Johnson (28)
season topscorer
Andy Johnson (32)
average attendance	19,968
prevseason	[2002–03](2002-03-crystal-palace-f-c-season)
nextseason	[2004–05](2004-05-crystal-palace-f-c-season)

Kit Symons (caretaker) Iain Dowie Andy Johnson (28) Andy Johnson (32) During the 2003–04 English football season, Crystal Palace competed in the Football League First Division.

Season summary

Crystal Palace started the season on the right foot, winning their first three games to top the table, but that was as good as it got under manager Steve Kember and, after a 5–0 defeat at newly promoted Wigan Athletic in November saw the club in 20th place, Kember was sacked (chairman Simon Jordan had previously declared that Kember would have a "job for life" at Palace). Kit Symons stepped up as caretaker until Northern Irishman and former Palace striker Iain Dowie was appointed. Under Dowie, Palace rocketed up the table to reach the play-offs. After beating Sunderland on penalties in the semi-final to reach the Millennium Stadium, they beat West Ham United to regain promotion to the Premiership.

Crucial to Palace's promotion was striker Andy Johnson, who scored 28 times in the league alone. He finished as the First Division's top scorer, and was voted as the club's Player of the Year.

Kit

English company Admiral Sportswear became Palace's kit manufacturers. The new home kit retained the navy shorts worn last season, albeit with a new blue and red striped design along the sides, and the navy socks, which now featured white trim. Palace's traditional blue and red striped shirts were modified with navy trim on the sleeves.

Churchill Insurance remained the kit sponsors for the fourth consecutive season.

Final league table

Main article: 2003–04 Football League First Division

Results

Crystal Palace's score comes first

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League First Division

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
9 August 2003	Burnley	A	3–2	12,976	Freedman (3, 1 pen)
16 August 2003	Watford	H	1–0	15,333	Shipperley
23 August 2003	Wimbledon	A	3–1	6,113	Butterfield, Freedman (pen), Hughes
26 August 2003	Sheffield United	H	1–2	15,466	Johnson
30 August 2003	Millwall	A	1–1	14,425	Watson
13 September 2003	Sunderland	A	1–2	27,324	Johnson
16 September 2003	Bradford City	H	0–1	13,514
20 September 2003	West Bromwich Albion	H	2–2	17,477	Freedman, Johnson
27 September 2003	Norwich City	A	1–2	16,425	Derry
1 October 2003	West Ham United	A	0–3	31,861
4 October 2003	Cardiff City	H	2–1	16,160	Routledge, Shipperley
14 October 2003	Derby County	H	1–1	14,344	Butterfield
18 October 2003	Rotherham United	H	1–1	18,715	Freedman
21 October 2003	Ipswich Town	H	3–4	15,483	Johnson, Freedman (2, 1 pen)
25 October 2003	Gillingham	A	0–1	8,889
1 November 2003	Wigan Athletic	A	0–5	6,796
8 November 2003	Preston North End	H	1–1	14,608	Johnson
22 November 2003	Walsall	A	0–0	6,910
25 November 2003	Stoke City	A	1–0	10,277	Johnson
29 November 2003	Coventry City	H	1–1	14,622	Edwards
6 December 2003	Preston North End	A	1–4	12,836	Derry
9 December 2003	Crewe Alexandra	H	1–3	12,259	Butterfield
13 December 2003	Nottingham Forest	H	1–0	16,935	Johnson
20 December 2003	Reading	A	3–0	12,743	Johnson (2), Routledge
26 December 2003	Millwall	H	0–1	19,737
28 December 2003	Ipswich Town	A	3–1	27,629	Johnson, Gray
10 January 2004	Burnley	H	0–0	15,276
17 January 2004	Watford	A	5–1	15,017	Johnson (2, 1 pen), Routledge, Gray, Freedman
24 January 2004	Bradford City	A	2–1	10,310	Johnson, Shipperley
31 January 2004	Wimbledon	H	3–1	20,552	Johnson (2), Granville
7 February 2004	Sheffield United	A	3–0	23,816	Johnson, Popovic, Shipperley
14 February 2004	Stoke City	H	6–3	16,715	Johnson (3, 2 pens), Hughes, Shipperley, Routledge
21 February 2004	Derby County	A	1–2	21,856	Hughes
28 February 2004	Gillingham	H	1–0	17,485	Butterfield
6 March 2004	Reading	H	2–2	17,853	Freedman, Johnson
13 March 2004	Nottingham Forest	A	2–3	28,306	Shipperley, Granville
20 March 2004	Norwich City	H	1–0	23,798	Routledge
27 March 2004	West Bromwich Albion	A	0–2	24,990
6 April 2004	Rotherham United	A	2–1	6,001	Gray, Shipperley
10 April 2004	Cardiff City	A	2–0	16,656	Johnson, Routledge
12 April 2004	West Ham United	H	1–0	23,977	Freedman
17 April 2004	Wigan Athletic	H	1–1	18,799	Granville
21 April 2004	Sunderland	H	3–0	18,291	Johnson (pen), Shipperley, Freedman
24 April 2004	Crewe Alexandra	A	3–2	8,136	Johnson (3, 1 pen)
1 May 2004	Walsall	H	1–0	21,518	Johnson
9 May 2004	Coventry City	A	1–2	22,195	Freedman

First Division play-offs

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
SF 1st Leg	14 May 2004	Sunderland	H	3–2	25,287	Shipperley, Butterfield, Johnson
SF 2nd Leg	17 May 2004	Sunderland	A	1–2 (won 5–4 on pens)	34,536	Powell
F	29 May 2004	West Ham United	N	1–0	72,523	Shipperley

FA Cup

Main article: 2003–04 FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
	R3	3 January 2004	Tottenham Hotspur	A	0–3	32,340

League Cup

Main article: 2003–04 Football League Cup

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	12 August 2003	Torquay United	A	1–1 (won 3–1 on pens)	3,366	Freedman
R2	23 September 2003	Doncaster Rovers	H	2–1	4,904	Johnson (2 pens)
R3	28 October 2003	Blackpool	A	3–1	6,010	Johnson (2), Freedman
R4	3 December 2003	Aston Villa	A	0–3	24,258

Players

First-team squad

Left club during season

Notes

References

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