Ligue 1 2002/03

	Ligue 1 2002/03
master	Olympique Lyon
Champions League	Olympique Lyon ; AS Monaco
Champions League ; qualification	Olympique Marseille
Uefa cup	Girondins Bordeaux ; FC Sochaux ; AJ Auxerre ; Racing Lens
UI cup	FC Nantes Atlantique , OGC Nice
Cup winners	AJ Auxerre
Relegated	Le Havre AC , CS Sedan ; ES Troyes AC
Teams	20th
Games	380
Gates	837 (ø 2.2 per game)
spectator	7,519,464 (ø 19,788 per game)
Top scorer	Shabani Nonda , ; (AS Monaco)
	← Division 1 2001/02 Ligue 1 2003/04 →
	Ligue 2 2002/03 ↓

The Ligue 1 2002/03 was the 65th season of the top French football league and at the same time the first season under the new name Ligue 1. The season began on August 2, 2002 with the opening game EA Guingamp against Olympique Lyon (3: 3) and ended on May 24, 2003.

With the change of the name was connected that from this season 20 teams played in the first French league, whereby in the preseason only two teams were relegated, but four teams from Ligue 2 were added. As the climbers were AC Ajaccio , Racing Strasbourg , OGC Nice and Le Havre AC from the Ligue 2 this. Defending champion Olympique Lyon ended the season as champions. Lyon, AS Monaco and Olympique Marseille qualified for the UEFA Champions League . Girondins Bordeaux , FC Sochaux and AJ Auxerre qualified for the UEFA Cup via the two cup competitions and Racing Lens via the fair play rating. In the UEFA Intertoto Cup the following year EA Guingamp played, the FC Nantes Atlantique and OGC Nice. AC Le Havre, CS Sedan and ES Troyes AC had to relegate to Ligue 2 .

Teams

Montpellier

Division 1 venues in 2002/03

society	city	Stadion	capacity
AC Ajaccio	Ajaccio	François-Coty Stadium	08,200
Le Havre AC	Le Havre	Stade Jules Deschaseaux	16,400
AJ Auxerre	Auxerre	Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps	23,500
AS Monaco	Monaco	Stade Louis II	18,500
CS Sedan	Sedan	Stade Louis-Dugauguez	23,200
EA Guingamp	Guingamp	Stade du Roudourou	18,100
ES Troyes AC	Troyes	Stade de l'Aube	21,900
FC Nantes Atlantique	Nantes	Louis-Fonteneau stadium	38,300
FC Sochaux	Sochaux	Stade Auguste-Bonal	20,000
Girondins Bordeaux	Bordeaux	Parc Lescure	34,700
HSC Montpellier	Montpellier	Stade de la Mosson	35,500
OGC Nice	Nice	Stade you Ray	17,400
Olympique Lyon	Lyon	Stade Gerland	40,500
Olympique Marseille	Marseille	Stade Velodrome	60,000
Lille OSC	Lille	Stade Grimonprez-Jooris	21,100
Paris Saint-Germain	Paris	Parc des Princes	48,500
Racing Lens	Lens	Stade Félix-Bollaert	41,600
SC Bastia	Bastia	Stade Armand Cesari	12,500
Rennes stadium	Rennes	Stade de la Route de Lorient	31,100
Racing Strasbourg	Strasbourg	Stade de la Meinau	29,000

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Olympique Lyon (M)	38	19th	11	8th	063:410	+22	68
2.	AS Monaco	38	19th	10	9	066:330	+33	67
3.	Olympique Marseille	38	19th	8th	11	041:360	+5	65
4th	Girondins Bordeaux (L)	38	18th	10	10	057:360	+21	64
5.	FC Sochaux	38	17th	13	8th	046:310	+15	64
6th	AJ Auxerre	38	18th	10	10	038:290	+9	64
7th	EA Guingamp	38	19th	5	14th	059:460	+13	62
8th.	Racing Lens	38	14th	15th	9	043:310	+12	57
9.	FC Nantes Atlantique	38	16	8th	14th	037:390	−2	56
10.	OGC Nice (N)	38	13	16	9	039:310	+8	55
11.	Paris Saint-Germain	38	14th	12	12	047:360	+11	54
12.	SC Bastia	38	12	11	15th	040:480	−8	47
13.	Racing Strasbourg (N)	38	11	12	15th	040:540	−14	45
14th	Lille OSC	38	10	12	16	029:440	−15	42
15th	Rennes stadium	38	10	10	18th	035:450	−10	40
16.	HSC Montpellier	38	10	10	18th	037:540	−17	40
17th	AC Ajaccio (N)	38	9	12	17th	029:490	−20	39
18th	Le Havre AC (N)	38	10	8th	20th	027:470	−20	38
19th	CS Sedan	38	9	9	20th	041:590	−18	36
20th	ES Troyes AC	38	7th	10	21st	023:480	−25	31

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd goal difference - 3rd goals scored

French football champion and participation in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League

Participation in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League

Participation in the third qualifying round for the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League

Participation in the 2003/04 UEFA Cup

Participation in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2003

Relegation to Ligue 2 in 2003/04

(M)	reigning French champion
(L)	reigning league cup winner
(N)	Newcomers from Division 2 2001/02

Crosstab

The cross table shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column and the visiting team in the top row.

2002/03
Olympique Lyon		1-0	3-0	1-0	0-0	4: 2	0-0	4: 1	1-0	0-0	4: 1	4: 1	1: 1	6: 1	1: 3	1: 4	3: 1	2: 1	2: 2	2: 1
RC Lens	2: 2		3: 1	3: 2	0-0	3: 3	1-0	1: 1	0: 1	0: 1	2-0	1-0	4-0	4-0	1-0	1: 3	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	1-0
AJ Auxerre	1: 2	0-0		2-0	0-0	1-0	1-0	2-0	0-0	0: 1	1-0	1-0	2-0	3: 1	1: 1	2: 1	1-0	0-0	0: 2	1-0
Paris Saint-Germain	2-0	0: 1	1-0		1-0	1: 1	4: 2	1: 1	3-0	0: 1	1: 1	0-0	1: 3	2-0	2: 1	5-0	2: 2	3-0	1: 1	1-0
Lille OSC	2: 1	0: 2	2: 2	2: 1		0: 3	0-0	1-0	3-0	0: 1	1: 1	1-0	2-0	0-0	1: 3	2: 1	2-0	0: 1	0: 3	1-0
Girondins Bordeaux	0: 1	1-0	0: 1	0-0	2-0		1-0	2-0	3: 1	0-0	0: 2	2-0	3: 1	2: 2	2: 2	4: 2	1-0	1: 2	4-0	2-0
ES Troyes AC	1: 1	0-0	1: 2	1: 2	2-0	0: 1		0: 2	0-0	2-0	3-0	0: 1	0: 2	2-0	0: 4	0: 2	1-0	1-0	1-0	1: 1
FC Sochaux	2: 1	3-0	1: 1	0-0	2: 2	2-0	1-0		3-0	4: 2	2-0	1-0	0-0	2: 1	0-0	0-0	1: 1	2-0	1-0	1-0
Olympique Marseille	1: 1	0-0	0-0	0: 3	2-0	2: 1	0-0	1-0		0: 2	2: 1	2-0	2-0	4: 2	1: 1	0: 2	3: 1	1-0	2-0	2-0
FC Nantes	1-0	2: 2	1: 4	1: 1	1-0	0-0	2: 1	0: 1	1-0		1-0	1-0	3: 1	4: 1	0: 2	0: 4	1-0	4: 1	0-0	2-0
SC Bastia	2-0	1: 1	2-0	1-0	1-0	2: 1	1: 1	2: 2	2-0	3: 1		3: 1	1: 2	0: 1	1-0	0: 2	1: 2	1: 1	1: 1	3: 1
Rennes stadium	0: 1	1: 1	0-0	1-0	5: 1	3: 4	0-0	2: 2	1: 3	1-0	0: 1		3: 1	1-0	0-0	2: 1	0-0	2: 3	2: 2	0-0
HSC Montpellier	1: 1	0: 2	0-0	1: 1	1-0	0: 1	2: 2	0: 2	1: 2	1-0	2: 2	1-0		2-0	1: 2	2-0	0: 1	2: 1	2: 2	0-0
CS Sedan	1: 1	0: 1	1: 2	3: 1	0: 1	0: 1	4-0	0-0	1: 2	1-0	2: 2	1: 3	1: 2		2: 2	2-0	1: 1	2: 1	3-0	4-0
AS Monaco	2-0	1: 1	3: 1	3: 1	1: 1	0: 1	6-0	1-0	0: 1	2: 1	0-0	2: 1	3: 1	3-0		4-0	3: 2	2-0	0: 1	1: 1
EA Guingamp	3: 3	1-0	0: 2	3: 2	1-0	0-0	2-0	2-0	0-0	2-0	3-0	3-0	3: 1	0: 1	3: 1		3: 1	2: 3	0-0	1: 2
AC Ajaccio	0: 1	0-0	1-0	0-0	2: 2	1: 6	1-0	0: 1	0: 2	1-0	1: 1	1-0	0-0	1-0	2: 4	0: 2		0-0	2-0	1: 2
Racing Strasbourg	0: 4	2-0	1: 2	0: 1	2: 2	1: 1	2: 1	1: 3	0-0	2-0	2-0	1: 3	3: 2	1: 1	1-0	3: 1	1: 1		0-0	1: 1
OGC Nice	0: 1	0-0	1-0	0-0	2-0	1: 1	1-0	2: 2	2-0	1: 1	2-0	0-0	2: 1	0-0	1-0	1-0	3-0	4-0		1: 2
AC Le Havre	1: 2	1: 3	0: 1	0: 1	0-0	1-0	1-0	1-0	1: 3	1: 1	2-0	0: 1	1-0	2: 1	0: 3	1: 2	0: 1	1: 1	2: 1

Champion team Olympique Lyon

1.	Olympique Lyon
	Goal: Grégory Coupet (35 / -); Nicolas Puydebois (2 / -); Rémy Vercoutre (2 / -) Defense: Caçapa (36/2); Jérémie Bréchet (31 / -); Edmílson (26 / -); Eric Deflandre (22 / -); Christophe Delmotte (18/1); Jean-Marc Chanelet (14/1); Florent Laville (5/1); Laurent Montoya (1 / -) Midfield: Juninho (37/13); Eric Carrière (37/6); Vikash Dhorasoo (37/2); Philippe Violeau (31/1); Sidney Govou (29/7); Mahamadou Diarra (28/1); Florent Balmont (9 / -); Alexandre Hauw (3 / -) Storm: Péguy Luyindula (33/11); Sonny Anderson (24/12); Tony Vairelles (15/2); Frédéric Née (8/1); Demba Touré (2 / -) Coach: Paul Le Guen

List of goalscorers

Pl.	player	society	Gates
01.	Congo Democratic Republic Shabani Nonda	AS Monaco	26th
02.	Portugal Pauleta	Girondins Bordeaux	23
03.	Ivory Coast Didier Drogba	EA Guingamp	17th
04th	Djibril Cissé	AJ Auxerre	14th
04th	Senegal Henri Camara	CS Sedan	14th
06th	Brazil Juninho	Olympique Lyon	13
07th	Brazil Sonny Anderson	Olympique Lyon	12
	Croatia Dado Pršo	AS Monaco
	Guinea-a Kaba Diawara	OGC Nice
	Antoine Sibierski	Racing Lens

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Goal scorers 2002/03. In: lfp.fr. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .

[1] Goal scorers 2002/03. In: lfp.fr. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .

Ligue 1 2002/03

master	Olympique Lyon
Champions League	Olympique Lyon AS Monaco
Champions League qualification	Olympique Marseille
Uefa cup	Girondins Bordeaux FC Sochaux AJ Auxerre Racing Lens
UI cup	FC Nantes Atlantique , OGC Nice
Cup winners	AJ Auxerre
Relegated	Le Havre AC , CS Sedan ES Troyes AC
Teams	20th
Games	380
Gates	837 (ø 2.2 per game)
spectator	7,519,464 (ø 19,788 per game)
Top scorer	Congo Democratic Republic Shabani Nonda , (AS Monaco)
← Division 1 2001/02 Ligue 1 2003/04 →
Ligue 2 2002/03 ↓