2003–04 Parma A.C. season

Parma

2003–04 season
Manager	Cesare Prandelli
Serie A	5th
Coppa Italia	Quarter-finals
UEFA Cup	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: Alberto Gilardino (23) All: Alberto Gilardino (26)
Home colours Away colours
← 2002–03 2004–05 →

Parma F.C. endured a season of horror, in which the club formerly known as A.C. Parma went into bankruptcy in the middle of the season, seeing out the season in order to avoid the chaos it would cause to the league pyramid. The reason for the bankruptcy was the financial fraud of its owner Calisto Tanzi, who had embezzled money from his company Parmalat, which also went out of business. The club was reformed under its original name as Parma F.C., and finished fifth in the standings. Its glory days were over, however, and the club was forced to sell several key players in the 2004 summer, among them Hidetoshi Nakata, Matteo Ferrari and Matteo Brighi. However, its two most noted players, goalkeeper Sébastien Frey and top scorer and youngster Alberto Gilardino remained with the club, since it did not receive good enough offers to part with the two players.

The season was also the last in which Parma wore its distinctive blue and yellow colours at home, those being associated with Parmalat's ownership. From the 2004–05 season onwards the club reverted to its original white shirt with a black cross design. Club legend Antonio Benarrivo finished his career following the season, being the last player from the 1999 UEFA Cup winners to leave.

First-team squad

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

No. Position Player Squad at end of season[1] 1 GK Sébastien Frey 2 DF Sebastiano Girelli 3 DF Antonio Benarrivo 4 DF Anthony Šerić (on loan from Hellas Verona[2]) 5 DF Daniele Bonera 6 DF Giuseppe Cardone 7 MF Ianis Zicu (on loan from Dinamo București) 8 MF Simone Barone 10 MF Domenico Morfeo 11 FW Alberto Gilardino 13 DF Gabriel Oyola 14 DF Marcello Castellini 15 MF Marco Donadel 16 DF Mirko Stefani 18 FW Benito Carbone 19 DF Alessandro Potenza (on loan from Inter Milan)

No. Position Player 20 MF Alessandro Rosina 21 DF Matteo Ferrari 22 GK Giordano Vanin 23 MF Mark Bresciano 24 GK Fabio Virgili 25 FW Alex Gibbs 26 MF Ibrahima Camara 28 DF Paolo Cannavaro 30 MF Manuele Blasi (on loan from Juventus) 31 MF Paolo Ruffini 32 MF Marco Marchionni 33 MF Lorenzo Carotti 34 GK Marco Amelia (on loan from Lecce) 36 MF Manuele Sorti 37 FW Daniele Degano (on loan from Ancona) 38 FW Fabrizio Cammarata (on loan from Cagliari)

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. Position Player 7 MF Hidetoshi Nakata (to Bologna) 9 FW Adriano (to Inter Milan) 10 FW Adrian Mutu (to Chelsea) 16 MF Júnior (on loan to Siena) 17 MF Emanuele Filippini (to Palermo) 18 MF Emiliano Moretti (on loan to Bologna) 19 FW Gaetano Grieco (to Genoa)

No. Position Player 24 GK Alfonso De Lucia (on loan to Salernitana) 24 GK Vincenzo Sicignano (on loan to Lecce) 26 FW Matteo Brighi (on loan to Brescia) 27 FW Tonino Sorrentino (to Avellino) 29 MF Jorge Bolaño (to Lecce) 35 FW Isah Eliakwu (on loan from Inter Milan)

Competitions

Serie A

Adriano's record of scoring three goals in the first two matches was not matched for another 8 years by a Parma player – Sebastian Giovinco completing the feat in the autumn of 2010.^[3]

Results

1 30 August 2003	Bologna	2 - 2	Parma	Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna
	Guly  8' Locatelli  78'		Adriano  19', 87'

2 19 September 2003	Parma	3 - 0	Perugia	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Bresciano  26' Adriano  49' (pen.) Gilardino  82'

3 20 September 2003	Lazio	2 - 3	Parma	Stadio Olimpico, Rome
	Stam  33' Inzaghi  79'		Bresciano  1', 89' Adriano  63'

4 27 September 2003	Parma	1 - 1	Siena	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Adriano  79'		Lazetić  41'

5 4 October 2003	Parma	1 - 0	Sampdoria	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Adriano  19'

6 19 October 2003	Roma	2 - 0	Parma	Stadio Olimpico, Rome
	Samuel  28' Cassano  60'

7 26 October 2003	Parma	3 - 0	Modena	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Morfeo  26' Adriano  86' Marchionni  88'

8 2 November 2003	Brescia	2 - 3	Parma	Stadio Mario Rigamonti, Brescia
	Matuzalém  4' Di Biagio  38'		Morfeo  12' Marchionni  43' Gilardino  71'

9 9 November 2003	Parma	0 - 0	Milan	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma

10 23 November 2003	Empoli	1 - 0	Parma	Stadio Carlo Castellani, Empoli
	Foggia  90+1'

11 30 November 2003	Parma	3 - 1	Chievo	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Morfeo  52' Marchionni  70' Gilardino  81' (pen.)		Pellissier  74'

12 7 December 2003	Lecce	1 - 2	Parma	Stadio Via del Mare, Lecce
	Chevantón  73'		Gilardino  47', 78'

13 14 December 2003	Juventus	4 - 0	Parma	Stadio delle Alpi, Turin
	Miccoli  10', 32' Del Piero  71' Nedvěd  77'

14 20 December 2003	Parma	1 - 2	Reggina	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Gilardino  85' (pen.)		Di Michele  27' Cozza  90+1'

15 6 January 2004	Ancona	0 - 2	Parma	Stadio del Conero, Ancona
			Barone  27', 64'

16 10 January 2004	Parma	1 - 0	Inter	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Filippini  41'

17 17 January 2004	Udinese	1 - 1	Parma	Stadio Friuli, Udine
	Ferrari  23' (o.g.)		Adriano  80'

18 25 January 2004	Parma	0 - 0	Bologna	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma

19 1 February 2004	Perugia	2 - 2	Parma	Stadio Renato Curi, Perugia
	Hübner  8' Zé Maria  42' (pen.)		Gilardino  35' Morfeo  38'

20 8 February 2004	Parma	0 - 3	Lazio	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
			López  40', 57' Corradi  65'

21 15 February 2004	Siena	1 - 2	Parma	Stadio Artemio Franchi, Siena
	Chiesa  43'		Gilardino  58' Bresciano  90+1'

22 21 February 2004	Sampdoria	1 - 2	Parma	Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa
	Flores  82'		Gilardino  59' Bresciano  74'

23 29 February 2004	Parma	1 - 4	Roma	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Gilardino  30'		Cassano  45' Emerson  52' Totti  70' Mancini  77'

24 6 March 2004	Modena	2 - 2	Parma	Stadio Alberto Braglia, Modena
	Pivotto  42' Domizzi  60'		Gilardino  45' (pen.) Ferrari  87'

25 14 March 2004	Parma	2 - 2	Brescia	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Carbone  5' Marchionni  60'		Di Biagio  32' Baggio  74'

26 20 March 2004	Milan	3 - 1	Parma	San Siro, Milan
	Tomasson  33', 52' Shevchenko  65'		Gilardino  82'

27 28 March 2004	Parma	4 - 0	Empoli	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Barone  37' Gilardino  60', 63' Bresciano  79'

28 4 April 2004	Chievo	0 - 2	Parma	Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi, Verona
			Marchionni  31' Gilardino  72'

29 10 April 2004	Parma	3 - 1	Lecce	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Carbone  1' Gilardino  42', 83'		Chevantón  62'

30 18 April 2004	Parma	2 - 2	Juventus	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Carbone  35' Gilardino  81'		Di Vaio  78' Tudor  90+2'

31 25 April 2004	Reggina	1 - 1	Parma	Stadio Oreste Granillo, Reggio Calabria
	Torrisi  49'		Bresciano  9'

32 2 May 2004	Parma	3 - 1	Ancona	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Gilardino  9' Carbone  15' Bresciano  30'		Bucchi  34'

33 9 May 2004	Inter	1 - 0	Parma	San Siro, Milan
	Adriano  62'

34 16 May 2004	Parma	4 - 3	Udinese	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Gilardino  60', 71', 77', 85'		Krøldrup  55' Jørgensen  74' Jankulovski  90+1'

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Milan (C)	34	25	7	2	65	24	+41	82	2004–05 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Roma	34	21	8	5	68	19	+49	71
3	Juventus	34	21	6	7	67	42	+25	69	2004–05 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4	Internazionale	34	17	8	9	59	37	+22	59
5	Parma	34	16	10	8	57	46	+11	58	2004–05 UEFA Cup First round
6	Lazio	34	16	8	10	52	38	+14	56
7	Udinese	34	13	11	10	44	40	+4	0501
8	Sampdoria	34	11	13	10	40	42	−2	46
9	Chievo	34	11	11	12	36	37	−1	44
10	Lecce	34	11	8	15	43	56	−13	41
11	Brescia	34	9	13	12	52	57	−5	40
12	Bologna	34	10	9	15	45	53	−8	39
13	Reggina	34	6	16	12	29	45	−16	34
14	Siena	34	8	10	16	41	54	−13	34
15	Perugia (R)	34	6	14	14	44	56	−12	32	Serie A qualification
16	Modena (R)	34	6	12	16	27	46	−19	30	Relegation to Serie B
17	Empoli (R)	34	7	9	18	26	54	−28	30
18	Ancona (R)	34	2	7	25	21	70	−49	13

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Udinese gained entry to the 2004-05 UEFA Cup as Coppa Italia 2003-04 finalists Lazio and Juventus qualified for the 2004-05 UEFA Cup through championship's placement and to 2004-05 Champions League respectively.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Coppa Italia

Round of 16 1st Leg 25 November 2003	Venezia	0 - 2	Parma	Stadio Pierluigi Penzo, Venice
			Rosina  53' Grieco  72' (pen.)

Round of 16 2nd Leg 16 December 2003	Parma	0 - 1	Venezia	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
			Matteo  90+'

Parma won 2-1 on aggregate

Quarter finals 1st Leg 13 January 2004	Lazio	2 - 0	Parma	Stadio Olimpico, Rome
	Muzzi  36' Stankovic  60'

Quarter finals 2nd Leg 20 January 2004	Parma	1 - 1	Lazio	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
	Bresciano  81'		Stankovic  71'

Parma lost 3-1 on aggregate

UEFA Cup

First Round 1st Leg 24 September 2003	Metalurh Donetsk	1 - 1	Parma	Metalurh Stadium, Donetsk
17:00 UTC+2	Shyshchenko  44'	Report	Adriano  67'	Referee: Tonny Kolbech Poulsen (Denamrk)

First Round 2nd Leg 15 October 2003	Parma	3 - 0	Metalurh Donetsk	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
20:45 C.E.T.	Gilardino  44', 46' Marchionni  73'	Report		Referee: Leif Sundell (Sweden)

Parma won 4-1 on aggregate

Second Round 1st Leg 6 November 2003	Austria Salzburg	0 - 4	Parma	Linzer Stadion, Linz
20:30 C.E.T.		Report	Filippini  60' (pen.) Gilardino  65' Nakata  84' Rosina  87'	Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)

Second Round 2nd Leg 27 November 2003	Parma	5 - 0	Austria Salzburg	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
18:00 C.E.T.	Carbone  1', 7' Filippini  43' Sorrentino  47', 86'	Report		Referee: Nikolay Ivanov (Russia)

Parma won 9-0 on aggregate

Third Round 1st Leg 26 February 2004	Parma	0 - 1	Gençlerbirliği	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
19:45 C.E.T.		Report	Skoko  60'	Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

Third Round 2nd Leg 3 March 2004	Gençlerbirliği	3 - 0	Parma	19 Mayıs Stadyumu, Ankara
16:45 C.E.T.	Daems  37' (pen.) Ferrari  81' (o.g.) Tandoğan  90+5'	Report	Frey  34'	Referee: Eric Poulat (France)

Parma lost 4-0 on aggregate

Squad Statistics

Top Scorers

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Serie A	Coppa Italia	UEFA Cup	Total
1	FW			Alberto Gilardino	23	0	3	26
2	FW			Adriano	8	0	1	9
	MF			Mark Bresciano	8	1	0	9
4	MF			Marco Marchionni	5	0	1	6
	FW			Benito Carbone	4	0	2	6
6	MF			Domenico Morfeo	4	0	0	4
7	MF			Simone Barone	3	0	0	3
	MF			Emanuele Filippini	1	0	2	3
9	MF			Alessandro Rosina	0	1	1	2
	FW			Gaetano Grieco	0	1	0	2
	FW			Tonino Sorrentino	0	0	2	2
	MF			Alessandro Rosina	0	1	1	2
13	MF			Matteo Ferrari	1	0	0	1
	MF			Hidetoshi Nakata	0	0	1	1
				TOTALS	57	3	13	73

References

Sources

• RSSSF - Italy 2003/04

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