2002–03 Preston North End F.C. season

Preston North End

2002–03 season

Football League First Division

12th

← 2001–02

2003–04 →

The 2002–03 season saw Preston North End compete in the Football League First Division where they finished in 12th position with 61 points.^[1]

Final league table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Portsmouth	46	29	11	6	97	45	+52	98
2	Leicester City	46	26	14	6	73	40	+33	92
3	Sheffield United	46	23	11	12	72	52	+20	80
4	Reading	46	25	4	17	61	46	+15	79
5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	20	16	10	81	44	+37	76
6	Nottingham Forest	46	20	14	12	82	50	+32	74
7	Ipswich Town	46	19	13	14	80	64	+16	70
8	Norwich City	46	19	12	15	60	49	+11	69
9	Millwall	46	19	9	18	59	69	–10	66
10	Wimbledon	46	18	11	17	76	73	+3	65
11	Gillingham	46	16	14	16	56	65	–9	62
12	Preston North End	46	16	13	17	68	70	–2	61
13	Watford	46	17	9	20	54	70	–16	60
14	Crystal Palace	46	14	17	15	59	52	+7	59
15	Rotherham United	46	15	14	17	62	62	0	59
16	Burnley	46	15	10	21	65	89	–24	55
17	Walsall	46	15	9	22	57	69	–12	54
18	Derby County	46	15	7	24	55	74	–19	52
19	Bradford City	46	14	10	22	51	73	–22	52
20	Coventry City	46	12	14	20	46	62	–16	50
21	Stoke City	46	12	14	20	45	69	–24	50
22	Sheffield Wednesday	46	10	16	20	56	73	–17	46
23	Brighton & Hove Albion	46	11	12	23	49	67	–18	45
24	Grimsby Town	46	9	12	25	48	85	–37	39

Key: P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Results

Preston North End's score comes first

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League First Division

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	10 August 2002	Crystal Palace	H	1 – 2	14,663	Fuller
2	14 August 2002	Nottingham Forest	A	2 – 2	18,065	Fuller, Etuhu
3	17 August 2002	Rotherham United	A	0 – 0	6,885
4	24 August 2002	Stoke City	H	4 – 3	15,422	Healy (2), Fuller, Cresswell
5	26 August 2002	Gillingham	A	1 – 1	7,785	Cresswell
6	1 September 2002	Ipswich Town	H	0 – 0	15,357
7	14 September 2002	Sheffield Wednesday	H	2 – 2	13,652	Fuller, Cresswell
8	17 September 2002	Watford	H	1 – 1	12,408	Cresswell
9	21 September 2002	Derby County	A	2 – 0	29,257	Healy, Etuhu
10	24 September 2002	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	0 – 4	23,695
11	28 September 2002	Norwich City	H	1 – 2	13,550	Cresswell
12	5 October 2002	Bradford City	A	1 – 1	13,215	Alexander
13	19 October 2002	Walsall	A	3 – 3	6,832	Alexander, Healy, Lucketti
14	26 October 2002	Reading	H	1 – 0	13,021	Cresswell
15	29 October 2002	Portsmouth	A	2 – 3	18,367	Cresswell, Alexander
16	2 November 2002	Burnley	H	3 – 1	16,046	Fuller (2), McKenna
17	9 November 2002	Millwall	A	1 – 2	7,554	Fuller
18	16 November 2002	Grimsby Town	A	3 – 3	5,774	Cresswell, Alexander, Etuhu
19	23 November 2002	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	2 – 2	13,068	Cresswell, Lucketti
20	26 November 2002	Leicester City	H	2 – 0	13,048	Fuller (2)
21	30 November 2002	Coventry City	A	2 – 1	13,313	Cresswell, Lewis
22	7 December 2002	Wimbledon	H	3 – 5	12,415	Leigertwood (o.g.), McKenna, Alexander
23	14 December 2002	Grimsby Town	H	3 – 0	12,420	Alexander, Cresswell, Healy
24	21 December 2002	Sheffield United	A	0 – 1	16,342
25	26 December 2002	Rotherham United	H	0 – 2	15,542
26	28 December 2002	Crystal Palace	A	0 – 2	18,484
27	1 January 2003	Stoke City	A	1 – 2	14,862	Abbott
28	18 January 2003	Ipswich Town	A	0 – 3	24,666
29	25 January 2003	Nottingham Forest	H	1 – 1	13,503	Cartwright
30	1 February 2003	Gillingham	H	3 – 0	12,121	Lewis, Alexander, Ashby (o.g.)
31	8 February 2003	Millwall	H	2 – 1	13,117	Lewis, Cartwright
32	22 February 2003	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	0 – 2	16,070
33	1 March 2003	Sheffield Wednesday	A	1 – 0	18,912	Cresswell
34	4 March 2003	Watford	A	1 – 0	11,101	Alexander
35	8 March 2003	Derby County	H	4 – 2	14,003	Alexander, Etuhu, Koumantarakis, Cresswell
36	15 March 2003	Leicester City	A	1 – 2	30,713	Lewis
37	18 March 2003	Walsall	H	5 – 0	11,170	Alexander, Etuhu, Cresswell, Koumantarakis (2)
38	22 March 2003	Portsmouth	H	1 – 1	16,665	McKenna
39	5 April 2003	Coventry City	H	2 – 2	13,026	Cresswell, Abbott
40	8 April 2003	Burnley	A	0 – 2	12,245
41	12 April 2003	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	2 – 0	6,669	Cresswell, Jackson
42	15 April 2003	Reading	A	1 – 5	14,012	Mears
43	19 April 2003	Sheffield United	H	2 – 0	14,793	Etuhu, Lewis
44	21 April 2003	Wimbledon	A	0 – 2	1,053
45	26 April 2003	Bradford City	H	1 – 0	13,652	Abbott
46	4 May 2003	Norwich City	A	0 – 2	20,232

FA Cup

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R3	4 January 2003	Rochdale	H	1 – 2	8,762	Anderson

Football League Cup

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	11 September 2002	Scunthorpe United	H	2 – 1	5,594	Fuller, Alexander
R2	1 October 2002	Macclesfield Town	A	2 – 1	2,036	Skora, Jackson
R3	5 November 2002	Birmingham City	A	2 – 0	12,241	Fuller, Lewis
R4	4 December 2002	Aston Villa	A	0 – 5	23,042

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Total
No.	Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	David Lucas	19(2)	0	0	0	4	0	23(2)	0
2	DF	Graham Alexander	45	10	1	0	4	1	50	11
3	DF	Brian O'Neil	12(3)	0	0	0	0	0	12(3)	0
4	MF	Dickson Etuhu	33(6)	6	1	0	4	0	38(6)	6
5	DF	Michael Jackson	21(1)	1	0	0	1	1	22(1)	2
6	DF	Marlon Broomes	21(7)	0	1	0	3	0	25(7)	0
6	DF	Sean Gregan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	MF	Lee Cartwright	13(9)	2	0(1)	0	0(2)	0	13(12)	0
8	MF	Mark Rankine	11(7)	0	0	0	1(3)	0	12(10)	0
9	FW	Ricardo Fuller	18	9	0	0	1(1)	2	19(1)	11
10	FW	George Koumantarakis	10	3	0	0	0	0	10	3
11	FW	David Healy	12(11)	5	1	0	4	0	17(11)	5
13	GK	Andy Lonergan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	DF	Colin Murdock	24	0	1	0	1(1)	0	26(1)	0
15	DF	Rob Edwards	26	0	0	0	2	0	28	0
16	MF	Paul McKenna	39(2)	3	1	0	3	0	43(2)	3
17	MF	Eddie Lewis	34(4)	5	1	0	3(1)	1	38(5)	6
18	FW	Pawel Abbott	6(10)	3	1	0	0	0	7(10)	3
19	MF	Michael Keane	1(4)	0	0	1	0	0	2(4)	0
20	DF	Chris Lucketti	43	2	1	0	4	0	48	2
21	GK	Tepi Moilanen	14(1)	0	1	0	0(2)	0	15(3)	0
22	DF	Adam Eaton	0(1)	0	0	0	1	0	1(10	0
23	FW	Mark Wright	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	DF	Tyrone Mears	11(11)	1	0(1)	0	1	0	12(12)	1
25	FW	Richard Cresswell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	FW	Éric Skora	30(5)	0	1	0	2	1	33(5)	1
27	MF	Alan McCormack	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF	Brian Barry-Murphy	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
29	FW	Joe O'Neill	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	GK	Kelham O'Hanlon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	MF	Iain Anderson	0(8)	0	0(1)	1	1	0	1(9)	1
34	FW	Simon Lynch	6(11)	0	0	0	0	0	6(11)	0
40	GK	Jonathan Gould	13(1)	0	0	0	0	0	13(1)	0

References

↑ "Preston North End 2002/03". Statto. Retrieved 14 June 2014.

External links

Preston North End 2002–03 at Soccerbase.com (select relevant season from dropdown list)

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Premier League	Arsenal Aston Villa Birmingham City Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Charlton Athletic Chelsea Everton Fulham Leeds United Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Middlesbrough Newcastle United Southampton Sunderland Tottenham Hotspur West Bromwich Albion West Ham United
First Division	Bradford City Brighton & Hove Albion Burnley Coventry City Crystal Palace Derby County Grimsby Town Gillingham Ipswich Town Leicester City Millwall Norwich City Nottingham Forest Portsmouth Preston North End Reading Rotherham United Sheffield United Sheffield Wednesday Stoke City Walsall Watford Wimbledon Wolverhampton Wanderers
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