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Hamburger SV
2002–03 season
Manager Kurt Jara
Bundesliga 4th
DFB-Pokal Last 16
Top goalscorerLeague: Bernardo Romeo (14)
All: Bernardo Romeo (16)
←  2001–02
2003–04 →

Hamburger SV nearly qualified for the Champions League, only just falling short to Borussia Dortmund. Given that HSV had been mired in the midfield for the last few seasons, the season was regarded as a successful one.

Players

First-team squad

Squad at end of season [1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Germany  GER Martin Pieckenhagen
2 DF Germany  GER Marcel Maltritz
3 MF Germany  GER Christian Rahn
4 DF Germany  GER Ingo Hertzsch
5 DF Netherlands  NED Nico-Jan Hoogma
6 MF Switzerland  SUI Raphaël Wicky
7 MF Germany  GER Martin Groth
8 DF Austria  AUT Michael Baur
9 FW Argentina  ARG Bernardo Romeo
11 FW Netherlands  NED Erik Meijer
12 DF Denmark  DEN Lars Jacobsen
13 FW Denmark  DEN Kim Christensen
14 MF Bosnia and Herzegovina  BIH Sergej Barbarez
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 MF Iran  IRN Mehdi Mahdavikia
16 MF Namibia  NAM Collin Benjamin
17 MF Austria  AUT Richard Kitzbichler
18 DF Czech Republic  CZE Milan Fukal
19 MF Lebanon  LBN Roda Antar [notes 1] (on loan from Tadamon Sour)
20 MF Germany  GER Bernd Hollerbach
21 DF Czech Republic  CZE Tomáš Ujfaluši
22 MF Argentina  ARG Cristian Ledesma
24 DF Germany  GER Stephan Kling
27 MF Argentina  ARG Rodolfo Cardoso
28 GK Germany  GER Thomas Hillenbrand
29 GK Germany  GER Stefan Wächter
32 FW Japan  JPN Naohiro Takahara

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
10 MF Germany  GER Jörg Albertz (to Shanghai Shenhua)
23 FW Czech Republic  CZE Marek Heinz (to Arminia Bielefeld)
No. Pos. Nation Player
30 GK Germany  GER Carsten Wehlmann (to VfB Lübeck)

Competitions

Bundesliga

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
2 VfB Stuttgart 34 17 8 9 53 39 +14 59 Qualification to Champions League group stage
3 Borussia Dortmund 34 15 13 6 51 27 +24 58 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4 Hamburger SV 34 15 11 8 46 36 +10 56 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5 Hertha BSC 34 16 6 12 52 43 +9 54
6 Werder Bremen 34 16 4 14 51 50 +1 52 Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
Source: bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Matches

References

  1. ^ "FootballSquads - Hamburger SV - 2002/03".

Notes

  1. ^ Antar was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, but also qualified to represent Lebanon internationally and represented Lebanon at U-21 level before making his international debut for Lebanon in 1998.