DFB League Cup 2003

The 2003 DFB League Cup was the eighth edition of the competition. Participants were the first five teams of the previous Bundesliga season and the ninth VfL Bochum, as the teams played from 6th to 8th place in the UI Cup . The Hamburger SV won by a 4: 2 against Borussia Dortmund in the final in Mainz. The top goalscorers of the competition with two goals each were Marcio Amoroso and Jan Koller from Borussia Dortmund, Michael Ballack from Bayern Munich and Bernardo Romeo from HSV.

Tournament course

Preliminary round matches

date	Time	Stadium, location	Team 1		Team 2	Result
July 16, 2003	20:30	Lohrheidestadion , Wattenscheid	Borussia Dortmund	-	VfL Bochum	2: 1 (2: 1)
July 17, 2003	20:30	Paul Greifzu Stadium , Dessau	Hamburger SV	-	Hertha BSC	2: 1 (1: 1)

Semifinals

date	Time	Stadium, location	Team 1		Team 2	Result
July 21, 2003	19:45	Municipal forest stadium , Aalen	VfB Stuttgart	-	Borussia Dortmund	0: 1 (0: 1)
July 22, 2003	20:30	Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld , Jena	FC Bayern Munich	-	Hamburger SV	3: 3 (1: 1), 1: 4 i. E.

final

pairing	Hamburger SV - Borussia Dortmund
Result	4: 2 (3: 1)
date	July 28, 2003 8:30 p.m.
Stadion	Bruchweg Stadium , Mainz Spectators: 16,700
referee	Jürgen Aust ( Cologne )
Gates	1-0 Nico-Jan Hoogma (3rd) 2-0 Rodolfo Cardoso (12th) 3-0 Naohiro Takahara (18th) 3-1 Márcio Amoroso (24th) 3-2 Jan Koller (61st) 4-2 Stefan Beinlich (68.)
Hamburger SV	Martin Pieckenhagen - Lars Jacobsen , Nico-Jan Hoogma , Tomáš Ujfaluši , Christian Rahn - Marcel Maltritz , Stefan Beinlich (89th Björn Schlicke ), Rodolfo Cardoso (59th Raphael Wicky ) - Mehdi Mahdavikia , Naohiro Takahara , Sergej Barbarez (77th Stephan Kling ) Trainer: Kurt Jara ( Austria )   Nico-Jan Hoogma, Christian Rahn, Marcel Maltritz
Borussia Dortmund	Roman Weidenfeller - Stefan Reuter (70th Otto Addo ), Christian Wörns , Ahmed Madouni , Dedê - Lars Ricken (66th Giuseppe Reina ), Guy Demel (81st David Odonkor ), Sebastian Kehl , Tomáš Rosický - Jan Koller , Márcio Amoroso coach : Matthias Sammer Dedê, Guy Demel, Christian Wörns (90./+3) Otto Addo, (90./+4) Sebastian Kehl

Goal scorers

rank	player	society	Gates
1	Márcio Amoroso	Borussia Dortmund	2
	Michael Ballack	FC Bayern Munich
	Jan Koller	Borussia Dortmund
	Bernardo Romeo	Hamburger SV
5	Sergei Barbarez	Hamburger SV	1
	Stefan Beinlich	Hamburger SV
	Fredi Bobic	Hertha BSC
	Rodolfo Cardoso	Hamburger SV
	Giovane Elber	FC Bayern Munich
	Vahid Hashemian	VfL Bochum
	Nico-Jan Hoogma	Hamburger SV
	Marcel Maltritz	Hamburger SV
	Christian Rahn	Hamburger SV
	Tomáš Rosický	Borussia Dortmund
	Naohiro Takahara	Hamburger SV

literature

• Kicker Almanach 2004 p. 232

Web links

• Game details on weltfussball.de