2002–03 Crystal Palace F.C. season

English football club season February 2015 February 2015 Crystal Palace 2002–03 Trevor Francis (until 18 April) Steve Kember (caretaker from 18 April) Simon Jordan Selhurst Park First Division 14th FA Cup Fifth round League Cup Fifth round Johnson (11)http://www.11v11.com/teams/crystal-palace/tab/players/season/2003/comp/22 Crystal Palace players: League Division 1 2003 Johnson (14)http://www.11v11.com/teams/crystal-palace/tab/players/season/2003 All Crystal Palace players: 2003 16,867 _samredstripes 0000ff 0000ff 0000ff ff0000 ff0000 _blackborder _collarblack_laced _blackborder FFD700 FFD700 FFD700 FFD700 FFD700 2001–02 2003–04 During the 2002–03 English football season, Crystal Palace competed in the Football League First Division. Season summary Under Francis, Palace were unable to mount a serious promotion challenge and they finished mid-table in Division One. The main highlight of the season was in February 2003 when Palace knocked Liverpool out of the FA Cup in a fourth round replay at Anfield. Having drawn the first match 0–0 at Selhurst Park, Palace went to Anfield as the clear underdogs. A goal from Julian Gray and an own goal from Liverpool's Stephen Henchoz meant that Palace progressed to a 5th round where they played at home against Leeds United. They lost 2–1 in controversial circumstances, as Palace were denied a first half goal despite the ball clearly crossing the line. Francis resigned on 18 April after another difficult season, and was replaced by long-serving coach Steve Kember. The end of Francis' tenure, however, saw the beginning of a remarkable, two-year-long transfer saga. Clinton Morrison, a youth team product who had been one of the team's most reliable goalscorers, headed to Birmingham for a £4 million fee in a part-exchange deal which saw Andrew Johnson come to Selhurst Park for £750,000, having been deemed surplus to requirements by Blues boss Steve Bruce. Johnson went on to become an even bigger success at Palace than Morrison, and helped take the club into the Premier League before eventually moving on to Everton for a fee of £8.6million in 2006; Morrison's return to Selhurst Park a year earlier cost Palace £2 million, meaning the club were left with the same player and a total profit of £9,850,000. Final league table 2002–03 Football League First Division y CRY Players First-team squad Squad at end of seasonhttp://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/2002-2003/d1/cpalace.htm FootballSquads - Crystal Palace - 2002/03 1 ENG GK Matt Clarke 2 IRL DF Curtis FlemingFleming was born in Manchester, England, but also qualified to represent the Republic of Ireland internationally and made his international debut for the Republic of Ireland in April 1996. 3 ENG DF Danny Granville 4 ENG DF Danny Butterfield 5 WAL DF Kit SymonsSymons was born in Basingstoke, England, but also qualified to represent Wales internationally through his father and made his international debut for Wales in February 1992. 6 AUS DF Tony Popovic 7 ENG MF Hayden Mullins 8 ENG FW Andy Johnson 9 SCO FW Dougie Freedman 10 ENG MF Shaun Derry 11 ENG MF Julian Gray 12 ENG DF Jamie Smith 13 LAT GK Aleksandrs Koliņko 14 SCO MF Steven Thomson 15 FIN MF Aki Riihilahti 16 ENG MF Tommy Black 22 ENG MF Wayne Routledge 23 WAL FW Gareth WilliamsWilliams was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, but also qualified to represent Wales internationally and represented them at U-21 level. 24 GHA DF Will AntwiAntwi was born in Epsom, England, but also qualified to represent Ghana internationally and made his international debut for Ghana in 2003. 26 ENG MF Ben Surey 27 ENG DF David Hunt 31 NGA FW Dele Adebola 32 ENG DF Darren Powell 33 FRA GK Cédric Berthelin 35 ENG FW Noel Whelan on loan from Middlesbrough 38 ENG DF Gary Borrowdale 42 ENG MF Ben Watson 43 ENG DF Sam Togwell 55 NGA FW Ade AkinbiyiAkinbiyi was born in Hackney, England, but also qualified to represent Nigeria internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Nigeria in 1999. Left club during season 17 LAT FW Andrejs Rubins released 18 ENG DF Dean Austin to Woking 20 ENG FW Steve Kabba to Sheffield United 21 ENG DF Andy Frampton to Brentford 25 USA DF Gregg Berhalter to Energie Cottbus 25 GER GK Sven Scheuer to Grazer AK 33 GRE GK Nikolaos Michopoulos on loan from Burnley Reserve squad 19 ENG DF Craig Harrison 28 ENG MF Robert Smith 29 Mauritius MF Gavin HeerooHeeroo was born in Haringey, England, but also qualified to represent Mauritius internationally and made his international debut for Mauritius in 2002. 30 ENG GK Lance Cronin References Notes notes 2002-03 Crystal Palace