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2003–04 Serie A

102nd season of top-tier Italian football

Field	Value
competition	Serie A
season	2003–04
dates	30 August 2003 – 16 May 2004
winners	Milan
17th title
relegated	Perugia
Modena
Empoli
Ancona (to C2 after bankruptcy)
continentalcup1	[Champions League](2004-05-uefa-champions-league)
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Milan
Roma
Juventus
Internazionale
continentalcup2	[UEFA Cup](2004-05-uefa-cup)
continentalcup2 qualifiers	Parma
Lazio
Udinese
league topscorer	Andriy Shevchenko
(24 goals)
biggest home win	Internazionale 6–0 Reggina
(22 November 2003)
Roma 6–0 Siena
(22 February 2004)
biggest away win	Bologna 0–4 Roma
(23 November 2003)
highest scoring	Brescia 4–4 Reggina
(21 September 2003)
matches	306
total goals	816
longest winless	Ancona
28 games
longest unbeaten	Milan
19 games
highest attendance	78,334
Milan v Internazionale
lowest attendance	3,774
Empoli v Udinese
prevseason	[2002–03](2002-03-serie-a)
nextseason	[2004–05](2004-05-serie-a)

17th title Modena Empoli Ancona (to C2 after bankruptcy) Roma Juventus Internazionale Lazio Udinese (24 goals) (22 November 2003) Roma 6–0 Siena (22 February 2004) (23 November 2003) (21 September 2003) 28 games 19 games Milan v Internazionale Empoli v Udinese

The 2003–04 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 102nd season of top-tier Italian football, the 72nd in a round-robin tournament. It contained 18 teams for the 16th and last time from the 1988–89 season. With the bottom three being relegated, the 15th placed side would face the sixth-highest team from Serie B, with the winner playing in the Serie A in the subsequent 2004–05 season.

As usual, the top two teams would progress directly to the UEFA Champions League group stage, while third and fourth place would have to begin in the third qualifying round. The UEFA Cup places would be awarded to fifth and sixth place, and the winners of the Coppa Italia.

Milan won their 17th scudetto; Roma impressed and were pushing for the title until the last few weeks of the season; Internazionale only made it to the Champions League ahead of Parma and Lazio on the last day thanks to Adriano, who had been signed from Parma earlier in the season; Lazio won the Coppa Italia against Juventus, handing Udinese the UEFA Cup spot; Ancona were relegated with only two wins, the joint lowest tally ever (Brescia's 12 points in 1994–95 Serie A is still the lowest ever); Empoli and Modena were also relegated; Perugia lost their special play-off, imposed to expand the league, against Fiorentina, who returned to Serie A after a two-year absence.

Ukrainian forward Andriy Shevchenko of Milan was the top scorer, with 24 goals. The 2003–04 league was the last professional season in the career of former European Footballer of the Year and Italian international Roberto Baggio, who finished among the tournament's top ten scorers with 12 goals, and among the all-time top five scorers in Serie A, with 205 career goals. It was also the last Serie A season for Baggio's former teammate Giuseppe Signori, who then moved to the Super League Greece. Signori ended his career in Italy as the seventh highest scorer ever in Serie A.

Teams

Eighteen teams competed in the league – the top fourteen teams from the previous season and the four teams promoted from the Serie B. The promoted teams were Siena, Sampdoria, Lecce and Ancona. Sampdoria, Lecce and Ancona returned to the top flight after an absence of four, one and ten years respectively, while Siena played in the top flight for the first time in history. They replaced Atalanta (relegated after three seasons in the top flight), Piacenza, Torino (both teams relegated after a two-years presence) and Como (relegated after a season's presence).

Rule changes

Unlike La Liga, which imposed a quota on the number of non-EU players on each club, Serie A clubs could sign as many non-EU players as available on domestic transfer. But for the 2003–04 season a quota was imposed on each of the clubs limiting the number of non-EU, non-EFTA and non-Swiss players who may be signed from abroad each season, following provisional measures introduced in the 2002–03 season, which allowed Serie A & B clubs to sign only one non-EU player in the 2002 summer transfer window.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Head coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Ancona*	ITA Giovanni Galeone	Le Coq Sportif	Banca Marche
Bologna	ITA Carlo Mazzone	Macron	Area Banca
Brescia	ITA Gianni De Biasi	Umbro/Kappa	Banca Lombarda
Chievo	ITA Luigi Del Neri	Lotto	Paluani/Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International
Empoli	ITA Attilio Perotti	Erreà	Sammontana
Internazionale	ITA Alberto Zaccheroni	Nike	Pirelli
Juventus	ITA Marcello Lippi	Nike	Fastweb/Tamoil (in UEFA matches)
Lazio	ITA Roberto Mancini	Puma	Parmacotto/Indesit (in UEFA matches)
Lecce*	ITA Delio Rossi	Asics	Salento
Milan	ITA Carlo Ancelotti	Adidas	Opel Meriva
Modena	ITA Gianfranco Bellotto	Erreà	Immergas
Parma	ITA Cesare Prandelli	Champion	Parmalat/Cariparma/Santàl (in UEFA matches)
Perugia	ITA Serse Cosmi	Galex	Toyota
Reggina	ITA Giancarlo Camolese	Asics	Spi Serramenti/Credit Suisse/FamilyMart/Stocco&Stocco (in cup matches)
Roma	ITA Fabio Capello	Diadora	Mazda
Sampdoria*	ITA Walter Novellino	Asics	Erg
Siena*	ITA Giuseppe Papadopulo	Lotto	Monte Paschi Vita
Udinese	ITA Luciano Spalletti	Le Coq Sportif	Bernardi/Postalmarket

(*) Promoted from Serie B.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Position in table
Empoli	ITA Silvio Baldini	End of contract	30 June 2003	ITA Daniele Baldini	1 July 2003	Pre-season
Ancona	ITA Luigi Simoni	Mutual consent	30 June 2003	ITA Leonardo Menichini	1 July 2003	Pre-season
Reggina	ITA Luigi de Canio	Mutual consent	30 June 2003	ITA Franco Colomba	1 July 2003	Pre-season
Modena	ITA Gianni De Biasi	End of contract	30 June 2003	ITA Alberto Malesani	1 July 2003	Pre-season
Brescia	ITA Carlo Mazzone	End of contract	30 June 2003	ITA Gianni De Biasi	1 July 2003	Pre-season
Bologna	ITA Francesco Guidolin	Sacked	26 August 2003	ITA Carlo Mazzone	28 August 2003	Pre-season
Ancona	ITA Leonardo Menichini	Sacked	29 September 2003	ITA Nedo Sonetti	1 October 2003	18th
Internazionale	ARG Héctor Cúper	Sacked	20 October 2003	ITA Alberto Zaccheroni	21 October 2003	8th
Empoli	ITA Daniele Baldini	Sacked	21 October 2003	ITA Attilio Perotti	22 October 2003	17th
Reggina	ITA Franco Colomba	Sacked	24 November 2003	ITA Sergio Buso (caretaker)	27 November 2003	13th
Reggina	ITA Sergio Buso	End of caretaker spell	1 December 2003	ITA Giancarlo Camolese	3 December 2003	12th
Ancona	ITA Nedo Sonetti	Sacked	27 January 2004	ITA Giovanni Galeone	28 January 2004	18th
Modena	ITA Alberto Malesani	Sacked	23 March 2004	ITA Gianfranco Bellotto	24 March 2004	15th

League table

Results

Qualification play-offs

Perugia had to play a qualification match with 6th-placed team of Serie B, Fiorentina.

Fiorentina won 2–1 on aggregate and were promoted to 2004–05 Serie A; Perugia were relegated to 2004–05 Serie B.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	UKR Andriy Shevchenko	Milan	24
2	ITA Alberto Gilardino	Parma	23
3	ITA Francesco Totti	Roma	20
4	URU Javier Chevantón	Lecce	19
5	BRA Adriano	Internazionale, Parma	17
6	FRA David Trezeguet	Juventus	16
7	ITA Antonio Cassano	Roma	14
8	ITA Fabio Bazzani	Sampdoria	13
ITA AUS Christian Vieri	Internazionale
10	ITA Roberto Baggio	Brescia	12
ITA Andrea Caracciolo	Brescia
ITA Dino Fava	Udinese
DEN Jon Dahl Tomasson	Milan

Season transfers

Attendances

Source:

#	Club	Avg. attendance	Highest
1	AC Milan	63,245	78,334
2	Internazionale	58,352	75,831
3	SS Lazio	49,341	60,929
4	AS Roma	46,458	73,383
5	Juventus FC	34,365	53,883
6	UC Sampdoria	26,224	35,557
7	Bologna FC	23,062	33,782
8	Reggina Calcio	20,523	24,082
9	Udinese Calcio	17,642	29,819
10	US Lecce	16,409	31,967
11	Parma AC	15,904	23,663
12	Modena FC	15,480	18,748
13	ChievoVerona	14,868	34,624
14	Brescia Calcio	13,807	20,878
15	AC Ancona	13,235	23,306
16	AC Siena	11,142	13,310
17	AC Perugia	11,047	18,796
18	Empoli FC	7,340	16,186

References

Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

Footnotes

References

(2003-03-05). "Italy blocks non-EU players". [[UEFA]].
(2002-07-17). "Italians bar non-EU imports". [[UEFA]].
https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/ita/aveita04.htm

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