2002–03 2. Bundesliga

2. Bundesliga

Season	2002–03
Champions	SC Freiburg
Promoted	SC Freiburg 1. FC Köln Eintracht Frankfurt
Relegated	Eintracht Braunschweig SSV Reutlingen FC St. Pauli Waldhof Mannheim
Top goalscorer	Andriy Voronin (20)
← 2001–02 2003–04 →

The 2002–03 2. Bundesliga was the 29th season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system. SC Freiburg, 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt were promoted to the Bundesliga while Eintracht Braunschweig, SSV Reutlingen, FC St. Pauli and Waldhof Mannheim were relegated to the Regionalliga.

League table

For the 2002–03 season Wacker Burghausen, Eintracht Trier, VfB Lübeck and Eintracht Braunschweig were newly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Regionalliga while SC Freiburg, 1. FC Köln and FC St. Pauli had been relegated to the league from the Bundesliga.[1]

Aachen

Ahlen

Burghausen

Union

Braunschweig

Cologne

Duisburg

Frankfurt

Freiburg

Fürth

Karlsruhe

Lübeck

Mainz

Mannheim

Oberhausen

Reutlingen

St. Pauli

Trier

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Locations of the participating teams of the 2002–03 season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	SC Freiburg (C, P)	34	20	7	7	58	32	+26	67	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	1. FC Köln (P)	34	18	11	5	63	45	+18	65
3	Eintracht Frankfurt (P)	34	17	11	6	59	33	+26	62
4	Mainz 05	34	19	5	10	64	39	+25	62
5	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	34	15	12	7	52	48	+4	57
6	Alemannia Aachen	34	14	9	11	57	48	+9	51
7	Eintracht Trier	34	14	6	14	53	46	+7	48
8	MSV Duisburg	34	12	10	12	42	47	−5	46
9	Union Berlin	34	10	15	9	36	48	−12	45
10	Wacker Burghausen	34	10	14	10	48	41	+7	44
11	VfB Lübeck	34	13	5	16	51	50	+1	44
12	LR Ahlen	34	11	7	16	48	60	−12	40
13	Karlsruher SC	34	9	12	13	35	47	−12	39
14	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	34	10	7	17	38	48	−10	37
15	Eintracht Braunschweig (R)	34	8	10	16	33	53	−20	34	Relegation to Regionalliga[a]
16	SSV Reutlingen[b] (R)	34	11	6	17	43	53	−10	33
17	FC St. Pauli (R)	34	7	10	17	48	67	−19	31
18	Waldhof Mannheim (R)	34	6	7	21	32	71	−39	25

Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. FC St. Pauli and Eintracht Braunschweig were relegated to Regionalliga Nord. Waldhof Mannheim and SSV Reutlingen were relegated to Regionalliga Süd.
2. SSV Reutlingen were docked six points for violating the licensing requirements.

Results

Home \ Away	AAC	LRA	UNB	EBS	WBU	DUI	SGE	SCF	SGF	KSC	KOE	LUE	M05	WMA	RWO	R05	STP	TRI
Alemannia Aachen	—	3–0	3–0	1–3	2–3	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	4–1	3–0	1–2	2–0	3–1	4–1	0–1
LR Ahlen	1–2	—	1–1	1–2	2–4	0–0	1–1	1–3	3–0	2–2	0–0	1–0	4–3	1–4	2–1	2–0	3–2	2–1
Union Berlin	3–2	1–1	—	0–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	0–3	3–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	0–0	4–2	1–3
Eintracht Braunschweig	2–3	1–0	1–2	—	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–4	4–2	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–1
Wacker Burghausen	2–2	3–1	0–1	4–2	—	1–1	3–3	1–2	1–3	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–1
MSV Duisburg	3–3	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	—	0–2	3–2	1–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	2–4
Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	4–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–1	—	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	4–1	1–0	6–3	4–0	2–3
SC Freiburg	1–1	4–0	4–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	0–2	—	1–1	3–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	4–1	5–2	1–4	1–1	1–0
Greuther Fürth	0–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–2	1–0	0–1	4–0	—	0–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	5–0	2–2	2–0	2–1	1–2
Karlsruher SC	1–2	2–4	3–2	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	2–1	—	0–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1
1. FC Köln	3–3	2–1	7–0	1–1	1–0	4–3	3–2	1–0	3–2	3–0	—	2–1	1–4	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–3
VfB Lübeck	2–0	4–1	0–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–3	2–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	—	1–3	3–1	1–0	0–0	6–0	3–1
Mainz 05	3–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	3–1	3–2	0–0	1–3	2–2	2–2	5–1	—	2–0	2–1	1–3	1–1	2–0
Waldhof Mannheim	2–1	0–2	1–2	1–1	0–4	1–2	0–1	0–3	0–0	0–2	1–2	2–1	1–5	—	1–0	0–0	2–5	0–2
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	0–0	3–1	0–2	1–0	2–3	3–1	2–2	3–1	1–0	0–1	—	3–1	3–0	2–1
SSV Reutlingen	5–0	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–4	1–0	0–2	2–4	0–3	1–2	1–3	1–2	3–2	2–0	—	2–0	3–2
FC St. Pauli	1–4	1–4	2–2	7–1	2–2	4–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–3	2–0	1–4	2–1	0–0	1–2	—	0–0
Eintracht Trier	4–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	3–0	2–2	0–1	1–2	3–0	2–3	1–3	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–2	1–2	—

Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

The league's top scorers:[2]

Goals	Player	Team
20	Andriy Voronin	1. FSV Mainz 05
18	Nico Frommer	SSV Reutlingen
	Josef Ivanović	Alemannia Aachen
	Matthias Scherz	1. FC Köln
15	Zlatan Bajramović	SC Freiburg
	Marius Ebbers	MSV Duisburg
13	Najeh Braham	Eintracht Trier
	Dirk Lottner	1. FC Köln
	Sascha Rösler	SpVgg Greuther Fürth
12	Bruno Labbadia	Karlsruher SC

References

1. 2. Bundesliga 2002/2003 (in German) Weltfussball.de – League table 2002-03, retrieved 16 August 2012
2. 2. Bundesliga 2002/2003 .:. Torschützenliste (in German) Weltfussball.de – Top scorers 2002–03, retrieved 16 August 2012

External links

• Official Bundesliga site Archived 23 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in German and English)
• 2. Bundesliga @ DFB (in English and German)
• kicker.de (in German)