2003–04 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season

In the 2003–04 season, Albion had their best League Cup run for 22 years, beating Newcastle United and Manchester United before losing to Arsenal in the quarter-finals. The team also enjoyed good form in the league, remaining in the top two from mid-October until the end of the season, winning promotion back to the Premiership, again as runners-up, at the first attempt.^[1]

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pl	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1.	Norwich City	46	28	10	8	79	39	+40	94
2.	West Bromwich Albion	46	25	11	10	64	42	+22	86
3.	Sunderland	46	22	13	11	62	45	+17	79
4.	West Ham United	46	19	17	10	67	45	+22	74
5.	Ipswich Town	46	21	10	15	84	72	+12	73
6.	Crystal Palace	46	21	10	15	72	61	+11	73
7.	Wigan Athletic	46	18	17	11	60	45	+15	71
8.	Sheffield United	46	20	11	15	65	56	+9	71
9.	Reading	46	20	10	16	55	57	-2	70
10.	Millwall	46	18	15	13	55	48	+7	69
11.	Stoke City	46	18	12	16	58	55	+3	66
12.	Coventry City	46	17	14	15	67	54	+13	65
13.	Cardiff City	46	17	14	15	68	58	+10	65
14.	Nottingham Forest	46	15	15	16	61	51	+10	60
15.	Preston North End	46	15	14	17	69	71	-2	59
16.	Watford	46	15	12	19	54	68	-14	57
17.	Rotherham United	46	13	15	18	53	61	-8	54
18.	Crewe Alexandra	46	14	11	21	57	66	-9	53
19.	Burnley	46	13	14	19	60	77	-17	53
20.	Derby County	46	13	13	20	53	67	-14	52
21.	Gillingham	46	14	9	23	48	67	-19	51
22.	Walsall	46	13	12	21	45	65	-20	51
23.	Bradford City	46	10	6	30	38	69	-31	36
24.	Wimbledon (later MK Dons)	46	8	5	33	41	89	-48	29

Results

West Bromwich Albion's score comes first^[2]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League First Division

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
9 August 2003	Walsall	A	1-4	11,030	Koumas
16 August 2003	Burnley	H	4-1	22,489	Šakiri, Hulse, Hughes (2)
23 August 2003	Watford	A	1-0	15,023	Hughes
25 August 2003	Preston North End	H	1-0	24,402	Hughes (pen)
30 August 2003	Derby County	A	1-0	21,499	Hulse
13 September 2003	Ipswich Town	H	4-1	24,954	Gaardsøe, Hulse (2), Diallo (own goal)
16 September 2003	Wigan Athletic	A	0-1	12,874
20 September 2003	Crystal Palace	A	2-2	17,477	Hulse, Koumas
27 September 2003	Stoke City	H	1-0	24,297	Dobie
30 September 2003	Millwall	H	2-1	22,909	Koumas, Dobie
4 October 2003	Gillingham	A	2-0	8,883	Dobie, Clement
14 October 2003	Sheffield United	H	0-2	27,195
18 October 2003	Norwich City	H	1-0	24,966	Koumas
21 October 2003	Wimbledon	H	0-1	22,048
25 October 2003	Rotherham United	A	3-0	7,815	Barker (own goal), Hulse (2)
1 November 2003	Sunderland	H	0-0	26,135
8 November 2003	West Ham United	A	4-3	30,359	Hulse (2), Deane (own goal), Hughes
22 November 2003	Reading	H	0-0	22,839
25 November 2003	Cardiff City	A	1-1	17,678	Koumas
29 November 2003	Nottingham Forest	A	3-0	27,331	Koumas (2), Louis-Jean (own goal)
6 December 2003	West Ham United	H	1-1	26,194	Mullins (own goal)
9 December 2003	Bradford City	A	1-0	11,198	Dobie
13 December 2003	Crewe Alexandra	H	2-2	22,825	Haas, Gregan
20 December 2003	Coventry City	A	0-1	17,616
26 December 2003	Derby County	H	1-1	26,412	Gaardsøe
28 December 2003	Wimbledon	A	0-0	6,376
9 January 2004	Walsall	H	2-0	24,558	Koumas, Horsfield
17 January 2004	Burnley	A	1-1	13,106	Horsfield
31 January 2004	Watford	H	3-1	23,958	Horsfield (2), Hughes
7 February 2004	Preston North End	A	0-3	16,569
14 February 2004	Cardiff City	H	2-1	25,196	Clement, Hughes
21 February 2004	Sheffield United	A	2-1	24,805	Moore, Gaardsøe
28 February 2004	Rotherham United	H	0-1	24,104
2 March 2004	Norwich City	A	0-0	23,223
6 March 2004	Coventry City	H	3-0	25,414	Horsfield, Hulse, Kinsella
13 March 2004	Crewe Alexandra	A	2-1	8,335	Johnson, Hughes
16 March 2004	Wigan Athletic	H	2-1	13,931	Hughes (pen), Gaardsøe
27 March 2004	Crystal Palace	H	2-0	24,990	Moore, Dyer
4 April 2004	Ipswich Town	A	3-2	24,608	Koumas, Dyer, Horsfield
10 April 2004	Gillingham	H	1-0	24,524	Hughes
12 April 2004	Millwall	A	1-1	13,304	Johnson
18 April 2004	Sunderland	A	1-0	32,201	Koumas
24 April 2004	Bradford City	H	2-0	26,143	Horsfield, Hughes
1 May 2004	Reading	A	0-1	20,619
4 May 2004	Stoke City	A	1-4	18,352	Dobie
9 May 2004	Nottingham Forest	H	0-2	26,821

FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	3 January 2004	Nottingham Forest	A	0-1	11,843

League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	12 August 2003	Brentford	H	4-0	10,490	Hulse (2), Haas, Dobie
R2	23 September 2003	Hartlepool United	A	2-1	5,265	Clement, Hulse
R3	29 October 2003	Newcastle United	A	2-1	46,932	Ameobi (own goal), Hughes
R4	3 December 2003	Manchester United	H	2-0	25,282	Haas, Dobie
R5	16 December 2003	Arsenal	H	0-2	20,369

Squad

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	Russell Hoult
2	DF	Bernt Haas
3	DF	Neil Clement
4	MF	James O'Connor
5	DF	Darren Moore^[3]
6	DF	Phil Gilchrist
7	DF	Ronnie Wallwork
10	MF	Andy Johnson^[4]
11	MF	Mark Kinsella
12	FW	Scott Dobie^[5]
14	MF	Sean Gregan
15	FW	Rob Hulse
16	MF	Lee Marshall
17	DF	Lárus Sigurðsson
18	MF	Jason Koumas
19	FW	Lee Hughes
20	MF	Artim Šakiri

No.	Position	Player
21	GK	Joe Murphy
22	DF	James Chambers
23	DF	Adam Chambers
24	MF	Thomas Gaardsøe
25	DF	Joost Volmer
26	DF	Sékou Berthé
28	MF	Simon Brown
29	MF	Lloyd Dyer
30	DF	Tamika Mkandawire
31	GK	Daniel Crane
32	DF	Alassane N'Dour (on loan from AS Saint-Etienne)
33	DF	Paul Robinson
34	FW	Geoff Horsfield
35	FW	Delroy Facey
36	FW	Morten Skoubo
37	GK	Simon Miotto

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
8	MF	Michael Appleton (retired)
9	FW	Danny Dichio (to Millwall)
11	FW	Jason Roberts^[6] (to Wigan Athletic)

No.		Position	Player
27		DF	Ross Adams (to Hednesford Town)
37		GK	Kevin Pressman (on loan from Sheffield Wednesday)

References

↑ "West Brom 2-0 Bradford". BBC Sport. 2004-04-24. Retrieved 2012-01-19.
↑ "West Bromwich Albion 2003–2004 Results". Tony Brown. Statto.com. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
↑ Moore was born in Birmingham, England, but also qualified to represent Jamaica internationally through his parents and would make his international debut for Jamaica in 2006.
↑ Johnson was born in Bristol, England, but also qualified to represent Wales internationally and made his international debut for Wales in 1998.
↑ Dobie was born in Workington, England, but also qualified to represent Scotland internationally and made his international debut for Scotland in May 2002.
↑ Roberts was born in Park Royal, London, England, but also qualified to represent Grenada internationally and made his international debut for Grenada in 1999.

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