2003–04 Serie B

Italian football league season October 2025 Serie B TIM 2003–04 Palermo (3rd title)CagliariMessinaLivornoAtalantaFiorentina ComoAvellinoNapoli ITA 2003 Luca Toni (30 goals) 552 1287 2002–03 2004–05 Italy right 300 Serie B 2003-04 team distribution Italy 45.8 9.9 AlbinoLeffeAtalanta top Italy 42.85 13.583333 Ascoli Italy 45.7 9.666667 Italy 40.916667 14.783333 Avellino Italy 41.133333 16.866667 Bari Italy 39.246389 9.0575 Cagliari Italy 37.516667 15.066667 Catania Italy 45.816667 9.083333 Como left Italy 43.771667 11.253611 Fiorentina Italy 44.4 8.916667 Genoa left Italy 43.55 10.316667 Livorno left Italy 38.183333 15.55 Messina left Italy 40.833333 14.25 Napoli left Italy 38.116667 13.366667 Palermo left Italy 42.466667 14.2 Pescara Italy 45.047778 9.700556 Piacenza bottom Italy 40.683333 14.766667 Salernitana bottom Italy 42.566667 12.65 Ternana left Italy 45.066667 7.7 Torino Italy 45.666667 12.25 TrevisoVenezia top Italy 45.633333 13.8 Triestina Italy 45.433333 12.316667 Italy 45.433333 10.983333 Verona bottom Italy 45.55 11.55 Vicenza left The 2003–04 Serie B is the 72nd season since its establishment in 1929. It is the second highest football league in Italy. This 46 matchdays championship was the longest tournament in all the history of the Italian football. Teams Treviso, Avellino, AlbinoLeffe and Pescara had been promoted from Serie C, while Atalanta, Piacenza, Como, and Torino had been relegated from Serie A. Following the Caso Catania, Fiorentina was added. Personnel and sponsoring TeamManagerKit manufacturerShirt sponsorAlbinoLeffeITA 2003 Elio GustinettiLegeaSCAMEAscoliITA 2003 Aldo AmmazzalorsoUhlsportCarisapAtalantaITA 2003 Andrea MandorliniAsicsPromatechAvellinoCZE 2003 Zdeněk ZemanDevisNewNet Gruppo TufanoBariITA 2003 Giuseppe PillonLottoPasta AmbraCagliariITA 2003 Edoardo RejaA-LineTerra SardaCataniaITA 2003 Nedo SonettiGalexToyotaComoITA 2003 Roberto GaliaErreàIntegratori Integra SportFiorentinaITA 2003 Emiliano MondonicoAdidasFondiaria-SaiGenoaITA 2003 Luigi De CanioErreàCosta CruisesHellas VeronaITA 2003 Sergio MaddèLegeaClermanLivornoITA 2003 Walter MazzarriAsicsGruppo Banca CarigeMessinaITA 2003 Bortolo MuttiLegeaConfcommercio/Caffè Miscela d'Oro, ConfcommercioNapoliITA 2003 Luigi SimoniLegeaRusso di CiccianoPalermoITA 2003 Francesco GuidolinLottoProvincia di Palermo, Regione SicilianaPescaraITA 2003 Cetteo Di MascioEnnedueSaquella CaffèPiacenzaITA 2003 Luigi CagniLottoUNICEFSalernitanaITA 2003 Stefano PioliDevisCentrale del Latte di SalernoTernanaITA 2003 Bruno BolchiErreàEnerTADTorinoITA 2003 Ezio RossiAsicsBavariaTrevisoITA 2003 Adriano BuffoniLottoSegafredo, Provincia di TrevisoTriestinaITA 2003 Attilio TesserAsicsSan Marco ImagingVeneziaITA 2003 Angelo GregucciSportikaGioco CalcioVicenzaITA 2003 Giuseppe IachiniBiemmeCaffè Vero Events Following the Caso Catania, the league had been expanded to 24 clubs, and six special promotions were decided to descend to 22. Relegation play-offs were also introduced. Final classification main WDL PR 5 PAL Palermo CAG Cagliari LIV Livorno MES Messina ATA Atalanta FIO Fiorentina TER Ternana PIA Piacenza CTN Catania TRI Triestina ASC Ascoli TOR Torino VIC Vicenza NAP Napoli TRV Treviso GEN Genoa SAL Salernitana ALB AlbinoLeffe HEL Hellas Verona VEN Venezia BAR Bari PES Pescara AVE Avellino COM Como 22 17 7 75 39 PC 23 14 9 80 51 P 20 19 7 75 45 P 21 16 9 71 45 P 19 20 7 59 36 P 19 16 11 53 48 P 18 15 13 64 52 17 17 12 50 47 18 13 15 53 53 15 19 12 50 50 14 18 14 54 54 14 17 15 57 54 12 20 14 48 51 10 26 10 35 43 ER 12 19 15 48 51 13 16 17 57 62 14 13 19 36 53 13 15 18 47 59 13 14 19 54 65 12 15 19 40 57 13 11 22 50 63 T 11 13 22 46 69 T 8 13 25 51 69 R 7 12 27 34 71 R Folded after bankruptcy, new entity re-admitted to Serie C1 by Lodo Petrucci. Relegation play-off’s losers later readmitted in place of Napoli. Later readmitted after newly relegated Ancona's bankruptcy. green1 Promotion to Serie A P P P P P green2 Promotion test-match PP red1 Relegation to Serie C1 R R black1 Phoenix in Serie C1 RR white Relegation play-offs (annulled) RP white Reinstated RP RRA complete 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored. Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 Results main FBR ALB ASC ATA AVE BAR CAG CTN COM FIO GEN LIV MES NAP PAL PES PIA SAL TER TOR TRV TRI VEN HEL VIC AlbinoLeffe 3–3 0–4 1–0 3–1 0–0 1–1 2–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–1 1–2 2–2 1–0 0–0 0–0 2–0 2–1 Ascoli 2–1 1–1 0–1 1–1 3–1 1–0 4–0 0–1 0–1 2–1 1–1 1–2 2–1 0–0 0–0 3–2 0–0 2–2 1–3 2–1 1–0 3–0 3–1 Atalanta 2–1 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 3–0 2–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 2–2 0–0 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 2–2 4–1 0–0 0–2 3–2 Avellino 0–3 2–2 1–1 1–2 2–3 0–0 0–0 0–1 2–1 1–1 0–1 3–0 0–0 3–2 1–3 2–1 0–2 1–3 2–3 1–0 1–0 6–0 0–1 Bari 0–1 1–2 2–1 2–1 0–0 1–2 1–0 0–0 1–0 3–2 1–3 0–0 2–1 2–2 2–1 3–0 1–2 2–1 0–0 4–1 1–2 1–2 2–1 Cagliari 1–0 3–0 5–1 3–1 2–1 2–1 3–2 3–1 2–0 4–1 1–1 1–1 3–2 3–0 0–2 3–1 3–0 0–0 1–1 3–1 2–2 1–1 0–0 Catania 2–1 1–1 1–1 2–0 1–0 0–3 0–0 1–1 1–0 0–3 1–0 1–0 0–2 2–0 3–0 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 3–0 1–1 1–1 Como 1–1 2–1 0–3 0–3 1–3 1–3 1–4 0–2 1–3 3–5 1–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 2–2 1–0 0–2 0–2 2–1 0–0 1–1 0–2 0–1 Fiorentina 2–1 0–0 1–1 3–1 3–1 2–1 3–2 1–0 2–2 1–1 2–0 2–1 2–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 Genoa 4–2 1–1 0–3 1–1 2–0 4–2 1–3 0–1 2–1 0–1 2–2 2–2 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–2 4–1 2–1 0–0 2–2 1–0 4–1 2–0 Livorno 3–0 1–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 2–2 2–1 2–0 1–1 3–0 3–0 1–1 5–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 3–1 2–0 1–1 0–0 3–0 1–2 Messina 4–1 2–1 3–0 3–2 1–0 2–2 3–0 3–0 3–0 4–0 2–1 1–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 3–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–1 Napoli 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–3 0–1 2–2 0–0 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–0 2–1 2–2 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–2 1–1 Palermo 2–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 3–0 1–0 5–0 2–1 2–0 3–1 4–1 0–0 4–0 2–1 1–1 0–2 2–1 2–1 2–3 3–1 4–0 3–1 3–0 Pescara 4–3 2–1 0–0 1–0 2–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–2 0–0 1–2 1–2 0–2 1–0 2–2 2–2 2–1 1–2 1–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 Piacenza 0–0 1–1 0–0 2–0 1–0 1–2 0–0 1–1 2–0 4–4 1–3 1–0 2–3 2–2 2–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 3–1 1–0 Salernitana 0–3 0–0 1–3 1–0 2–0 3–2 1–2 1–0 1–0 0–1 0–2 0–3 0–0 1–1 1–2 0–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 2–2 2–0 1–1 0–0 Ternana 0–0 1–1 2–1 2–2 0–0 1–1 3–1 0–0 3–2 1–0 1–2 3–0 0–0 1–1 3–0 2–0 1–2 0–0 3–2 1–0 5–2 2–0 1–0 Torino 4–0 3–1 0–1 2–2 3–2 4–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–3 1–2 2–1 2–0 4–2 0–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 Treviso 2–1 3–1 0–3 2–1 1–1 0–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–2 0–1 1–1 3–0 1–1 4–0 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 0–2 1–1 Triestina 3–0 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–2 0–0 2–2 2–1 2–1 4–3 1–1 0–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–2 0–1 Venezia 2–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 3–2 1–2 0–3 3–1 0–2 2–2 3–2 2–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 0–0 0–1 0–1 2–1 0–0 1–0 0–2 1–1 Hellas Verona 2–3 0–1 1–2 2–2 4–3 1–2 0–0 1–0 0–1 3–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 1–2 4–3 3–0 0–0 3–2 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–0 2–3 Vicenza 1–0 2–3 0–1 2–2 1–1 2–0 2–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 2–2 2–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 3–1 1–2 2–2 1–1 1–1 3–1 1–2 complete Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 Promotion play-offs Fiorentina had to play a qualification match with 15th-placed team of Serie A, Perugia. 16 June 2004 20:30 CEST Perugia 0–1 Fiorentina Fantini 10 Stadio Renato Curi, Perugia 23,500 Matteo Trefoloni 20 June 2004 20:30 CEST Fiorentina 1–1 Perugia Fantini 47 do Prado 82 Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence 43,000 Roberto Rosetti A.C. Perugia relegated to Serie B, while ACF Fiorentina was promoted to Serie A. Relegation play-off* 16 June 2004 20:30 CEST Bari 1–0 Venezia Bruno 57 Stadio San Nicola, Bari 22,583 Pasquale Rodomonti 19 June 2004 20:30 CEST Venezia 2–0 Bari Brellier 50Biancolino 90+4 Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo, Venice 4,846 Stefano Farina A.S. Bari was relegated but was later readmitted in place of S.S.C. Napoli. Top scorers Luca Toni, Palermo: 30 Attendances # Club Average 1 Fiorentina 25,887 2 Palermo 23,559 3 Genoa 17,347 4 Napoli 14,603 5 Cagliari 12,111 6 Atalanta 11,680 7 Hellas 10,667 8 Livorno 10,643 9 Salernitana 10,469 10 Catania 10,171 11 Messina 10,162 12 Torino 9,831 13 Ternana 8,645 14 Avellino 8,348 15 Triestina 7,905 16 Vicenza 7,170 17 Bari 6,620 18 Ascoli 5,962 19 Piacenza 5,239 20 Pescara 4,786 21 Treviso 3,421 22 Como 2,834 23 Venezia 2,790 24 AlbinoLeffe 2,458Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/ita/aveita04.htm Attendances Georgia average European-football-statistics.co.uk July 31, 2026 References Category:Serie B seasons Category:2003–04 in Italian football leagues Italy