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2002–03 Divizia A
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85th season of top-tier football league in Romania
October 2022
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The 2002–03 Divizia A was the eighty-fifth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania. Season began in August 2002 and ended in May 2003. Rapid București became champions on 24 May 2003.
Team changes
Relegated
The teams that were relegated to Divizia B at the end of the previous season:
Petrolul Ploiești
UM Timișoara
Promoted
The teams that were promoted from Divizia B at the start of the season:
Poli AEK Timișoara
UTA Arad
Venues
Poli AEK Timișoara Steaua București Universitatea Craiova Rapid București Dan Păltinișanu Steaua Ion Oblemenco Giulești-Valentin Stănescu Capacity: 32,972 Capacity: 28,365 Capacity: 25,252 Capacity: 19,100 230px 200px 200px 200px FCM Bacău Farul Constanța Dinamo București Argeș Pitești Dumitru Sechelariu Gheorghe Hagi Dinamo Nicolae Dobrin Capacity: 17,500 Capacity: 15,520 Capacity: 15,032 Capacity: 15,000 200px 230px 200px 200px Sportul StudențescRomania none 600 Romania 44.438683 26.103516 Bucharest Green pog.svg bottom
Romania 44.846692 24.866413 Argeș top
Romania 44.928569 26.004408 Astra top
Romania 46.557384 26.913517 Bacău bottom
Romania 45.664753 25.585746 Brașov left
Romania 46.938462 26.354369 Ceahlăul bottom
Romania 44.313892 23.784275 Craiova bottom
Romania 44.197343 28.639143 Farul bottom
Romania 47.130716 24.502774 Gloria top
Romania 45.430119 28.022316 Oțelul bottom
Romania 45.740423 21.244343 Poli AEK right
Romania 46.192576 21.311839 UTA right
Romania TransparentPlaceholder.png 1 47.8 20.2 Bucharest teamsDinamoNaționalRapidSportulSteaua
Bucharest 200 right Location of Bucharest teams. Bucharest 44.455083 26.100222 Dinamo right
Bucharest 44.427666 26.074955 Național right
Bucharest 44.455916 26.056833 Rapid top
Bucharest 44.448250 26.053083 Sportul bottom
Bucharest 44.412901 26.040604 Steaua left Național București Regie Cotroceni Capacity: 15,000 Capacity: 14,542 200px 200px Oțelul Galați Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț Oțelul Ceahlăul Capacity: 13,500 Capacity: 12,500 200px 200px FC Brașov UTA Arad Gloria Bistrița Astra Ploiești Tineretului UTA Gloria Astra Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 7,800 Capacity: 7,000 200px 220px 230px 200px
Personnel and kits
Team Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt Sponsor Argeș Pitești ROU Ion Moldovan ROU Cristian Bălașa Erreà Pic Astra Ploiești ROU Florin Marin ROU Daniel Petroesc Lotto Petrom, InterAgro Brașov ROU Marius Lăcătuș ROU Cosmin Bodea Joma Prescon Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț ROU Viorel Hizo ROU Radu Lefter Ancada Rifil, Romalfa Dinamo București ROU Ioan Andone ROU Giani Kiriță Lotto Cosmorom Farul Constanța ROU Marin Ion ROU Cristian Șchiopu Erreà Argus Universitatea Craiova ROU Sorin Cârțu ROU Pavel Badea Erreà SIF Oltenia FCM Bacău ROU Ilie Dumitrescu ROU Florin Prunea Legea Sonoma Gloria Bistrița ROU Remus Vlad ROU Vasile Popa Umbro Darimex Național București ITA Walter Zenga ROU Petre Marin Lotto Astra Asigurări, LG Corporation Oțelul Galați ROU Costel Orac ROU Cătălin Tofan Lotto Ispat Sidex Poli AEK Timișoara ROU Gheorghe Mulțescu ROU Florin Constantinovici Erreà ARGIROM Rapid București ROU Mircea Rednic ROU Adrian Iencsi Erreà LaDorna Sportul Studențesc ROU Cezar Zamfir ROU Laurențiu Diniță Lotto Omniasig Steaua București ROU Victor Pițurcă ROU Mirel Rădoi Nike — UTA Arad ROU Constantin Pană ROU Marius Popescu Erreà —
League table
main WDL 5 QR RAP Rapid București STE Steaua București GBI Gloria Bistrița BRA Brașov CEA Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț DIN Dinamo București FCU Universitatea Craiova NAT Național București AST Astra Ploiești FAR Farul Constanța ARG Argeș Pitești BAC Bacău OȚE Oțelul Galați TIM Politehnica AEK Timișoara SPO Sportul Studențesc București UTA UTA Arad 20 3 7 59 25 C 16 8 6 42 27 13 6 11 32 33 13 6 11 37 33 12 8 10 43 33 13 5 12 49 46 12 8 10 36 37 12 7 11 41 36 13 3 14 42 42 12 4 14 35 47 11 5 14 37 41 10 8 12 31 31 9 9 12 25 37 11 2 17 37 52 9 4 17 44 55 R 8 6 16 37 52 R GLO 3-1 BRA; BRA 0-1 GLO GBI CH 3-2 D; D 5-0 CH; CR 3-1 D; D 1-0 CR; CR 0-0 CH; CH 3-0 CR CEA CEA ARG 3-1 BAC; BAC 2-3 ARG ARG green1 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round CL2 blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round UCQR UCQR #CCCCFF Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round IC1 IC1 red2 Qualification to relegation play-offs RP RP red1 Relegation to Divizia B R R complete LT ro 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.
Positions by round
table br Argeș Pitești 14/12/15/14/15/14/13/12/12/12/10/11/ 9/11/14/14/12/13/12/12/13/11/12/11/11/11/10/12/10/11 Astra Ploiești 13/ 8/10/13/14/15/16/16/14/16/15/16/15/15/13/10/11/ 9/ 7/ 9/ 8/10/ 7/ 7/ 9/ 8/ 7/ 8/ 7/ 9 Bacău 15/14/13/12/11/13/15/15/16/15/14/13/11/12/ 9/ 9/ 7/ 6/ 6/ 8/10/12/10/10/10/10/12/11/12/12 Brașov 7/10/ 6/10/12/12/10/ 9/ 7/ 5/ 6/ 5/ 5/ 6/ 7/ 5/ 6/ 7/ 8/ 6/ 5/ 5/ 3/ 3/ 4/ 3/ 3/ 3/ 3/ 4 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 16/ 7/ 9/ 9/ 9/10/ 9/ 7/10/10/12/15/12/13/10/12/10/ 8/11/11/ 9/ 6/ 6/ 6/ 6/ 9/ 9/ 9/ 8/ 5 Universitatea Craiova 2/ 3/ 1/ 1/ 4/ 6/ 6/11/11/13/11/12/10/ 9/11/11/13/15/15/13/11/ 7/ 8/ 8/ 7/ 6/ 5/ 7/ 9/ 7 Dinamo București 1/ 6/ 7/ 8/ 6/ 7/ 8/ 8/ 6/ 3/ 2/ 4/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 5/ 7/ 9/ 9/ 9/ 8/ 7/ 6/ 6/ 5/ 6 Farul Constanța 8/13/11/11/ 7/ 9/11/10/ 8/ 9/ 9/10/14/10/15/15/14/11/10/ 7/ 6/ 8/11/12/12/12/11/10/11/10 Gloria Bistrița 9/ 5/ 8/ 4/ 8/ 5/ 4/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 5/ 6/ 7/ 8/ 5/ 6/ 5/ 5/ 4/ 4/ 4/ 4/ 5/ 5/ 5/ 5/ 8/ 5/ 4/ 3 Oțelul Galați 3/ 9/ 5/ 6/ 5/ 3/ 3/ 4/ 9/ 8/ 8/ 7/ 8/ 7/ 8/ 8/ 8/10/ 9/10/12/13/13/14/13/13/13/13/13/13 Național București 5/ 2/ 3/ 5/ 3/ 2/ 2/ 3/ 3/ 4/ 3/ 2/ 3/ 3/ 4/ 4/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 3/ 3/ 3/ 4/ 4/ 3/ 4/ 4/ 4/ 6/ 8 Rapid București 6/ 1/ 4/ 2/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1 Sportul Studențesc 11/15/12/ 7/10/11/12/13/13/11/13/ 9/13/14/12/13/15/14/13/14/14/14/15/13/15/15/15/15/15/15 Steaua București 10/11/14/15/13/ 8/ 7/ 5/ 4/ 6/ 7/ 8/ 6/ 4/ 3/ 3/ 4/ 3/ 3/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2 Politehnica AEK Timișoara 4/ 4/ 2/ 3/ 2/ 4/ 5/ 6/ 5/ 7/ 4/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6/ 7/ 9/12/14/15/15/15/14/15/14/14/14/14/14/14 UTA Arad 12/16/16/16/16/16/14/14/15/14/16/14/16/16/16/16/16/16/16/16/16/16/16/16/16/16/16/16/16/16 1st 2nd 3rd red3 red1 LT ro September 2012
Results
main FBR ARG AST BAC BRA CEA FCU DIN FAR GBI OȚE NAT RAP SPO STE TIM UTA Argeș Pitești 1–0 3–1 0–0 2–1 2–2 2–0 2–1 2–0 2–2 2–0 0–2 0–2 2–3 5–1 1–0 Astra Ploiești 2–1 2–0 1–0 2–2 2–0 4–2 2–1 2–0 2–0 3–2 0–2 3–2 0–1 2–1 1–1 Bacău 2–3 2–0 4–0 0–0 2–3 3–1 1–2 0–0 0–1 2–2 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 Brașov 2–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 3–1 2–2 2–0 0–1 3–2 0–1 2–0 3–2 0–0 2–0 2–1 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 0–1 2–1 0–0 2–1 3–0 3–2 0–0 3–0 4–0 3–1 1–2 2–2 1–0 3–2 6–0 Universitatea Craiova 0–0 3–1 0–0 2–1 0–0 3–1 0–1 2–0 2–0 0–2 1–3 2–0 3–1 1–0 1–1 Dinamo București 3–0 0–3 1–1 1–0 5–0 1–0 2–0 0–2 1–0 1–1 0–2 3–1 2–4 2–1 5–0 Farul Constanța 2–1 1–4 0–3 0–1 4–2 2–2 0–1 0–0 0–1 0–5 2–1 1–0 2–1 3–1 1–0 Gloria Bistrița 1–0 2–0 0–0 3–1 1–0 4–0 1–0 1–3 1–0 3–0 0–3 3–0 0–0 2–0 4–1 Oțelul Galați 2–0 2–1 1–0 0–2 0–0 0–1 2–0 2–2 1–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 2–2 2–1 Național București 3–1 1–0 0–0 0–2 1–3 1–2 0–2 4–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 5–1 0–0 1–0 2–1 Rapid București 1–0 4–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 0–2 3–1 5–1 3–1 5–2 2–0 0–1 1–2 3–0 3–0 Sportul Studențesc 4–2 3–0 0–3 1–2 0–1 3–1 5–6 0–3 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–2 1–2 3–1 0–0 Steaua București 1–0 1–0 3–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 3–0 1–0 0–2 2–1 4–3 0–1 5–2 Politehnica AEK Timișoara 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–1 2–0 2–1 2–3 2–1 2–1 0–0 1–2 1–3 3–2 1–3 3–4 UTA Arad 2–2 2–1 3–1 3–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 0–1 6–0 3–0 1–2 0–2 0–2 2–0 0–1 complete LT ro
Promotion / relegation play-off
The teams placed on the 13th and 14th place in the Divizia A faced the 2nd placed teams from both groups of the Divizia B. Politehnica AEK Timișoara and FC Oradea won the relegation play-offs.2002–03 Divizia A at RSSSF
Even though Oțelul Galați lost the relegation play-off against FC Oradea, they kept their place in the Divizia A because Petrolul Ploiești, the club that won the Divizia B, Seria I, sold its promotion place to Oțelul Galați and merged with Astra Ploiești, the other team from the city of Ploiești, which finished on the 9th position this season.ProSport De Petrolul s-a ales praful! 26 May 2009 Romanian http://www.prosport.ro/fotbal-intern/liga-1/de-petrolul-s-a-ales-praful-4452661 2009-05-26
Politehnica AEK Timișoara 8–4 Gloria Buzău 5–3 3–1
Oțelul Galați 3–4 Oradea 2–1 1–3
14 June 2003 Leg 1 Politehnica AEK Timișoara 5–3 Gloria Buzău Zanc 28Silvășan 54Bătrânu 59Prodan 71Oprea 90+3 Gheorghe 13Petre 26Apostol 68 Stadionul Dan Păltinișanu
14 June 2003 Leg 1 Oțelul Galați 2–1 Oradea Cornea 28Guriță 67 Vrăjitoarea 45+1(p) Stadionul Oțelul
18 June 2003 Leg 2 Gloria Buzău 1–3 Politehnica AEK Timișoara Gheorghe 90+3 Constantinovici 13Buia 48Zanc 69 Stadionul Municipal
18 June 2003 Leg 2 Oradea 3–1 Oțelul Galați Vrăjitoarea 71, 81, 90+1 Tănase 28 Stadionul Iuliu Bodola
Attendances
1 324000 40000 6000 21600 0 1 Politehnica Timișoara
2 280000 40000 4000 18666 0 Universitatea Craiova
3 157000 20000 3000 10466 0 Rapid București
4 142250 24000 250 9483 0 Steaua București
5 124000 12000 4000 8266 0 1 UTA Arad
6 120000 18000 2000 8000 0 FCM Bacău
7 94000 12000 3000 6266 0 Oțelul Galați
8 87000 15000 2000 5800 0 Dinamo București
9 74000 8000 2000 4933 0 Farul Constanța
10 71500 12000 1000 4766 0 FC Brașov
11 64000 12000 300 4266 0 Argeș Pitești
12 60100 12000 900 4006 0 2 Național București
13 52750 10000 250 3516 0 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
14 48100 12000 300 3206 0 Gloria Bistrița
15 44000 10000 500 2933 0 Astra Ploiești
16 35150 8000 150 2510 0 Sportul Studențesc București
1777850 40000 150 7438 0 2 June 2019 League matches: Divizia A 2002/2003 1: Played last season in Divizia B.2: Național București played 1 match out of their stadium. August 2019
Top goalscorers
Positionhttp://www.romaniansoccer.ro/menu_items/topscorers.shtml Top Scorers romaniansoccer.ro 13 May 2021 Romanian Player Club Goals 1 Claudiu Răducanu Steaua București 21 2 Ionel Dănciulescu Dinamo București 16 3 Laurențiu Diniță Sportul Studențesc 15 4 Cosmin Bărcăuan Dinamo București 13 5 Sergiu Radu Național București 12
Champion squad
Rapid Bucureștihttps://www.romaniansoccer.ro/menu_items/champions.shtml Romania National Champions RomanianSoccer 13 May 2021Goalkeepers: Emilian Dolha (22 / 0); Ionuț Curcă (4 / 0); Boban Savić SCG (3 / 0); Răzvan Lucescu (1 / 0).
Defenders: Cornel Buta (3 / 0); Nicolae Constantin (3 / 0); Adrian Iencsi (27 / 4); Vasile Maftei (29 / 3); Camille Muzinga Congo DR (2 / 0); Dănuț Perjă (20 / 3); Răzvan Raț (28 / 2); Ion Voicu (19 / 1).
Midfielders: Valentin Bădoi (30 / 7); Roberto Bisconti Belgium (8 / 0); Emmanuel Godfroid Belgium (24 / 5); Nicolae Grigore (15 / 0); Robert Ilyes (23 / 5); Claudiu Mircea Ionescu (1 / 0); Marius Măldărășanu (14 / 2); Dorin Pandele (1 / 0); Ioan Sabău (16 / 1); Claudiu Saghin (1 / 0); Constantin Schumacher (10 / 1); Florin Costin Șoavă (28 / 1).
Forwards: Florin Bratu (27 / 11); Henry Makinwa Nigeria (11 / 2); Daniel Niculae (28 / 6); Robert Niță (19 / 5).
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
Manager: Mircea Rednic.
References
Category:Liga I seasons
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