2002–03 Bayer 04 Leverkusen season

Bayer 04 Leverkusen had a shocking season, in which it went from being in the final of the UEFA Champions League the previous season, to finish 15th in Bundesliga, only just escaping relegation to the second tier. It also went out of the Champions League in the second group stage, not even clinching a single point.

Bayer Leverkusen

2002–03 season
Manager	Klaus Toppmöller Thomas Hörster Klaus Augenthaler
Bundesliga	15th
Champions League	2nd Group Stage
DFB-Pokal	Semi Final
Top goalscorer	Daniel Bierofka (7)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Squad

First team

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Hans-Jörg Butt 2 DF Christoph Preuß 3 DF Lúcio 4 DF Juan 5 DF Jens Nowotny 6 DF Boris Živković 8 MF Jan Šimák 9 FW Ulf Kirsten 10 MF Yıldıray Baştürk 11 FW França 12 FW Dimitar Berbatov 13 MF Daniel Bierofka 14 MF Hanno Balitsch 15 MF Jurica Vranjes 16 FW Ioannis Masmanidis 17 MF Pascal Ojigwe 19 MF Marko Babić

No. Position Player 20 GK Frank Jurić 21 MF Radosław Kałużny 22 DF Cris (on loan from Cruzeiro) 23 FW Thomas Brdarić 25 MF Bernd Schneider 26 MF Zoltán Sebescen 27 FW Oliver Neuville 28 MF Carsten Ramelow 31 GK Tom Starke 33 FW Anel Džaka 34 FW Hüzeyfe Doğan 35 DF Diego Placente 46 DF Mile Božić 47 DF Thomas Kleine 51 MF Nasir El Kasmi 57 FW Sebastian Schoof

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player DF Markus Daun (at Werder Bremen) DF Emanuel Pogatetz (at FC Aarau) DF Michael Zepek (at LR Ahlen) MF Robson Ponte (at VfL Wolfsburg)

No. Position Player FW Thorsten Burkhardt (at SpVgg Greuther Fürth) FW Landon Donovan (at San Jose Earthquakes) FW Cha Doo-Ri (at Arminia Bielefeld) FW Clemens Fritz (at Karlsruher SC)

Reserve team

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

No. Position Player GK René Adler GK Maurice Gillen DF Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker DF Petr Čoupek DF Fabian Käfer-Ewertz DF Alexander Meyer DF Sven Schaffrath MF Domenico Cozza MF Gall Dhompirom

No. Position Player MF Oliver Dittrich MF Michael Habljak MF Tim Jerat MF Tim Kruse MF Erkan Öztürk FW Henrique Luizão FW Pascal Olivier FW Kenan Şahin FW Danny Thönes

Bundesliga

Matches

• Energie Cottbus-Bayer Leverkusen 1–1
• 0–1 Jan Šimák (63)
• 1–1 Vilmos Sebők (80)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Borussia Dortmund 1–1
• 1–0 Diego Placente (23)
• 1–1 Jan Koller (61)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Bochum 2–4
• 1–0 Jan Šimák (8)
• 1–1 Thordur Gudjonsson (13)
• 1–2 Dariusz Wosz (33)
• 1–3 Frank Fahrenhorst (44)
• 1–4 Thomas Christiansen (60)
• 2–4 França (76)
• Hansa Rostock-Bayer Leverkusen 1–3
• 0–1 Oliver Neuville (5)
• 0–2 Thomas Brdarić (22)
• 1–2 Jochen Kientz (75)
• 1–3 Bernd Schneider (88)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Hannover 1–3
• 1–0 Yıldıray Baştürk (11)
• 1–1 Fredi Bobić (41)
• 1–2 Fredi Bobić (80)
• 1–3 Mohamadou Idrissou (83)
• Werder Bremen-Bayer Leverkusen 3–2
• 0–1 Thomas Brdarić (11)
• 1–1 Ailton (25 pen)
• 2–1 Angelos Charisteas (27)
• 3–1 Angelos Charisteas (32)
• 3–2 Paul Stalteri (42 og)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Bayern Munich 2–1
• 1–0 Lúcio (9)
• 2–0 Daniel Bierofka (63)
• 2–1 Hasan Salihamidžić (89)
• Wolfsburg-Bayer Leverkusen 2–0
• 1–0 Tomislav Marić (6)
• 2–0 Stefan Effenberg (64)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Kaiserslautern 1–0
• 1–0 Thomas Brdarić (19)
• Hertha Berlin-Bayer Leverkusen 1–1
• 1–0 Arne Friedrich (20)
• 1–1 Juan (54)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Stuttgart 0–1
• 0–1 Silvio Meißner (19)
• Schalke 04-Bayer Leverkusen 0–1
• 0–1 Bernd Schneider (90 pen)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Mönchengladbach 2–2
• 0–1 Igor Demo (25)
• 1–1 Daniel Bierofka (29)
• 1–2 Bernd Korzynietz (70)
• 2–2 Daniel Bierofka (87)
• Arminia Bielefeld-Bayer Leverkusen 2–2
• 0–1 Thomas Brdarić (17)
• 1–1 Artur Wichniarek (26)
• 1–2 Boris Živković (69)
• 2–2 Artur Wichniarek (83)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Hamburg 2–3
• 0–1 Bernardo Romeo (3)
• 1–1 Hanno Balitsch (11)
• 2–1 Yıldıray Baştürk (21)
• 2–2 Bernardo Romeo (52)
• 2–3 Sergej Barbarez (76)
• 1860 Munich-Bayer Leverkusen 0–3
• 0–1 Daniel Bierofka (10)
• 0–2 Dimitar Berbatov (51)
• 0–3 Oliver Neuville (89)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Nürnberg 0–2
• 0–1 Saša Ćirić (59)
• 0–2 Júnior (88)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Energie Cottbus 0–3
• 0–1 Marcel Gebhardt (15)
• 0–2 Marko Topić (32)
• 0–3 Andrzej Juskowiak (85)
• Borussia Dortmund-Bayer Leverkusen 2–0
• 1–0 Ewerthon (3)
• 2–0 Jan Koller (29)
• Bochum-Bayer Leverkusen 2–1
• 1–0 Vahid Hashemian (69)
• 1–1 Marko Babić (78)
• 2–1 Vahid Hashemian (84)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Hansa Rostock 1–2
• 0–1 Bachirou Salou (35)
• 1–1 Marko Babić (38)
• 1–2 Bachirou Salou (41)
• Hannover-Bayer Leverkusen 1–2
• 1–0 Gheorghe Popescu (14)
• 1–1 Sebastian Schoof (80)
• 1–2 Jan Šimák (90)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Werder Bremen 3–0
• 1–0 Daniel Bierofka (11)
• 2–0 Sebastian Schoof (50)
• 3–0 Juan (61)
• Bayern Munich-Bayer Leverkusen 3–0
• 1–0 Claudio Pizarro (2)
• 2–0 Giovane Élber (22)
• 3–0 Giovane Élber (75)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Wolfsburg 1–1
• 1–0 Carsten Ramelow (68)
• 1–1 Tomislav Marić (81)
• Kaiserslautern-Bayer Leverkusen 1–0
• 1–0 Miroslav Klose (40)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Hertha Berlin 4–1
• 1–0 Hans-Jörg Butt (14)
• 2–0 Bernd Schneider (32)
• 3–0 Oliver Neuville (41)
• 4–0 Oliver Neuville (70)
• 4–1 Michael Preetz (76)
• Stuttgart-Bayer Leverkusen 3–0
• 1–0 Ioannis Amanatidis (9)
• 2–0 Alexander Hleb (17)
• 3–0 Ioan Ganea (50)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Schalke 04 1–3
• 1–0 Dimitar Berbatov (9)
• 1–1 Jörg Böhme (12)
• 1–2 Ebbe Sand (61)
• 1–3 Gerald Asamoah (90)
• Mönchengladbach-Bayer Leverkusen 2–2
• 1–0 Igor Demo (6)
• 1–1 Daniel Bierofka (17)
• 1–2 Dimitar Berbatov (47)
• 2–2 Morten Skoubo (89)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Arminia Bielefeld 3–1
• 0–1 Ansgar Brinkmann (34 pen)
• 1–1 Lúcio (38)
• 2–1 Lúcio (69)
• 3–1 Hanno Balitsch (71)
• Hamburg-Bayer Leverkusen 4–1
• 1–0 Sergej Barbarez (18)
• 2–0 Bernardo Romeo (55)
• 2–1 Hanno Balitsch (88)
• 3–1 Lars Jacobsen (90)
• 4–1 Erik Meijer (90)
• Bayer Leverkusen-1860 Munich 3–0
• 1–0 Daniel Bierofka (8)
• 2–0 Dimitar Berbatov (44)
• 3–0 Marko Babić (48)
• Nürnberg-Bayer Leverkusen 0–1
• 0–1 Yıldıray Baştürk (35)

Topscorers

• Daniel Bierofka 7
• Dimitar Berbatov 4
• Oliver Neuville 4

Champions League

1st Group Stage

• Olympiacos-Bayer Leverkusen 6–2
• 0–1 Bernd Schneider (22)
• 1–1 Giovanni (27)
• 2–1 Stelios Giannakopoulos (38)
• 3–1 Predrag Đorđević (44)
• 4–1 Predrag Đorđević (64 pen)
• 5–1 Predrag Đorđević (73)
• 5–2 Bernd Schneider (78 pen)
• 6–2 Pär Zetterberg (87)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Manchester United 1–2
• 0–1 Ruud van Nistelrooy (31)
• 0–2 Ruud van Nistelrooy (44)
• 1–2 Dimitar Berbatov (52)
• Maccabi Haifa-Bayer Leverkusen 0–2
• 0–1 Marko Babić (31)
• 0–2 Marko Babić (62)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Maccabi Haifa 2–1
• 1–0 Marko Babić (45)
• 1–1 Nenad Pralija (53)
• 2–1 Juan (67)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Olympiacos 2–0
• 1–0 Juan (15)
• 2–0 Bernd Schneider (89 pen)
• Manchester United-Bayer Leverkusen 2–0
• 1–0 Juan Sebastián Verón (42)
• 2–0 Ruud van Nistelrooy (69)

2nd Group Stage

• Bayer Leverkusen-Barcelona 1–2
• 1–0 Dimitar Berbatov (39)
• 1–1 Javier Saviola (48)
• 1–2 Marc Overmars (88)
• Inter-Bayer Leverkusen 3–2
• 1–0 Luigi Di Biagio (14)
• 2–0 Luigi Di Biagio (27)
• 2–1 Boris Živković (62)
• 3–1 Hans-Jörg Butt (80 og)
• 3–2 França (90)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Newcastle 1–3
• 0–1 Shola Ameobi (5)
• 0–2 Shola Ameobi (15)
• 1–2 França (25)
• 1–3 Lomana Lua Lua (32)
• Newcastle-Bayer Leverkusen 3–1
• 1–0 Alan Shearer (5)
• 2–0 Alan Shearer (11)
• 3–0 Alan Shearer (36 pen)
• 3–1 Marko Babić (73)
• Barcelona-Bayer Leverkusen 2–0
• 1–0 Javier Saviola (16)
• 2–0 Thomas Kleine (49 og)
• Bayer Leverkusen-Inter 0–2
• 0–1 Obafemi Martins (36)
• 0–2 Emre Belözoğlu (90)

Kits

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References

1. "Bayer Leverkusen - 2002/03". FootballSquads. Retrieved 14 May 2014.