2002–03 Divizia A

Divizia A
Season 2002–03
Champions Rapid Bucureşti
Relegated Sportul
UTA Arad
Champions League Rapid Bucureşti
UEFA Cup Steaua
Dinamo Bucureşti
Intertoto Cup Gloria Bistriţa
Ceahlăul
Matches played 240
Goals scored 627 (2.61 per match)
Average goals/game 2.61
Top goalscorer Răducanu (21)
Biggest home win Ceahlăul 6 – 0 UTA
(24 Aug 2002)
UTA 6 – 0 Bistriţa
(28 May 2003)
Biggest away win Farul 0 – 5 Progresul
(08 Mar 2003)
Highest scoring Sportul 5 – 6 Dinamo Bucureşti
(07 May 2003)
Longest winning run Rapid Bucureşti (6)
Longest unbeaten run Craiova (9)
Steaua (9)
Longest losing run Timişoara (9)

The 2002/03 season of the Divizia A began in August 2002 and ended in May 2003. Rapid Bucureşti became champions on 24 May 2003.

Contents

League table

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
 Head-to-head
1 Rapid București (C) 30 20 3 7 59 25 +34 63 2003–04 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2 Steaua București 30 16 8 6 42 27 +15 56 2003–04 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
3 Gloria Bistrița 30 13 6 11 32 33 −1 45 2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round GLO 3-1 BRA
BRA 0-1 GLO
4 Brașov 30 13 6 11 37 33 +4 45
5 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 30 12 8 10 43 33 +10 44 2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round CH 3-2 D; D 5-0 CH
CR 3-1 D; D 1-0 CR
CR 0-0 CH; CH 3-0 CR
6 Dinamo București 30 13 5 12 49 46 +3 44 2003–04 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
7 Universitatea Craiova 30 12 8 10 36 37 −1 44
8 Naţional Bucureşti 30 12 7 11 41 36 +5 43
9 Astra Ploiești 30 13 3 14 42 42 0 42
10 Farul Constanţa 30 12 4 14 35 47 −12 40
11 Argeş Piteşti 30 11 5 14 37 41 −4 38 ARG 3-1 BAC
BAC 2-3 ARG
12 Bacău 30 10 8 12 31 31 0 38
13 Oțelul Galați 30 9 9 12 25 37 −12 36 Qualification to the Divizia A-B Playoffs
14 Politehnica AEK Timişoara 30 11 2 17 37 52 −15 35
15 Sportul Studențesc (R) 30 9 4 17 44 55 −11 31 Relegation to the Divizia B
16 UTA Arad (R) 30 8 6 16 37 52 −15 30

Source: [1] (Romanian)
Rules for classification: 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.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Divizia A 2002–03 Winners
Rapid Bucureşti
3rd Title

Positions by round

Team \ Round

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Argeş Piteşti 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 Constanţa 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
Progresul Bucureşti 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
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

Source: [2] (Romanian)

Results

Home \ Away1 ARG AST BAC BRA CEA UCR DIN FAR GBI OŢE PRO RAP SPO STE TIM UTA
Argeş Piteşti 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 Constanţa 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
Progresul Bucureşti 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
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

Source: [3] (Romanian)
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goal scorers

Goalscorers Goals Team
Claudiu Răducanu
21
 Steaua Bucureşti
Ionel Dănciulescu
16
 Dinamo Bucureşti
Laurenţiu Diniţă
15
 Sportul Studenţesc
Cosmin Bărcăuan
13
 Dinamo Bucureşti
Sergiu Marian Radu
12
 Naţional Bucureşti

See also

References

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