| 2002–03 season | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chairman | John McClelland | |||
| Manager | Alex McLeish | |||
| Ground | Ibrox Stadium | |||
| Scottish Premier League | 1st (champions) | |||
| Scottish Cup | Winners | |||
| League Cup | Winners | |||
| UEFA Cup | First round | |||
| Top goalscorer | League: Barry Ferguson Ronald de Boer (16 each) All: Ronald de Boer (20 goals) | |||
The2002–03 season was the 123rd season of competitivefootball byRangers.
Rangers played a total of 50 competitive matches during the 2002–03 season. They won their seventhdomestic treble in managerAlex McLeish's first full season in charge, having taken over fromDick Advocaat the previous season. The league championship was won on goal difference in the last match of the season with a 6–1 win againstDunfermline Athletic. The club finished on +73 GD, just one ahead ofCeltic.[1][2]
TheLeague Cup was won with a 2–1 final win againstCeltic[3] and theScottish Cup with a 1–0 win againstDundee.[4] Despite domestic success, Rangers crashed out of Europe at the first round stage to little knownCzech teamVictoria Zizkov losing on the away goals rule.[5]
| Date | Player | From | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2002 |  Mikel Arteta | Barcelona | £5,800,000[6] |
 Kevin Muscat |  Wolverhampton Wanderers | Free[7] | |
| 26 December 2002 |  Steven Thompson | Dundee United | £200,000[8] |
| 27 January 2003 |  Jérôme Bonnissel | Bordeaux | Free[9] |
| 31 January 2003 |  Dan Eggen | Alavés | Free[10] |
| Date | Player | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2002 |  Sebastian Rozental |  Grasshopper | Free[11] |
| 1 June 2002 | Scott Wilson | Dunfermline Athletic | Free[12][13] |
 Andrei Kanchelskis | Southampton | Free[14][15] | |
| Tony Vidmar | Middlesbrough | Free[16][17] | |
| 16 June 2002 |  Lee Feeney | Linfield | Free[18] |
| 20 June 2002 |  Tero Penttilä | HJK Helsinki | Free[19] |
| Jani Kauppila | Tervarit | Free[20] | |
| 23 July 2002 |  Jesper Christiansen |  VfL Wolfsburg | Loan[21] |
| 30 August 2002 | Tore André Flo | Sunderland | £6,750,000[22] |
| 30 October 2002 |  Dariusz Adamczuk | Contract terminated[23] | |
| 30 December 2002 | Billy Dodds | Dundee United | Free[24] |
| 31 December 2002 | Paul Reid | Northampton Town | Loan[25] |
| 14 January 2003 |  Russell Latapy | Dundee United | Free[26][27] |
£6,000,000
£6,750,000 £750,000| Total | Scottish Premier League | UEFA Cup | Scottish Cup | League Cup | ||||||||||
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| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Sts | App | Gls | App | Gls | App | Gls | App | Gls | App | Gls |
| 1 | GK | | Stefan Klos | 50 | 50 | 38 | 2 | 6 | 4 | |||||
| 2 | DF |  | Fernando Ricksen | 46 | 46 | 3 | 35 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | |||
| 3 | DF | | Craig Moore | 51 | 44 | 4 | 35 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 4 | DF |  | Lorenzo Amoruso | 32 | 32 | 6 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 5 | DF | | Arthur Numan | 35 | 35 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | |||
| 6 | MF | | Barry Ferguson | 48 | 48 | 18 | 36 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 7 | FW |  | Claudio Caniggia | 14 | 36 | 12 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |
| 8 | MF | | Christian Nerlinger | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| 9 | FW | | Tore Andre Flo | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||
| 10 | FW | | Michael Mols | 30 | 35 | 14 | 27 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 11 | MF | | Neil McCann | 16 | 26 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 12 | DF | | Robert Malcolm | 26 | 33 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | |||
| 14 | MF | | Ronald de Boer | 43 | 43 | 20 | 33 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 15 | DF | | Bert Konterman | 10 | 24 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 16 | FW | | Billy Dodds | 1 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| 16 | DF | | Jérôme Bonnissel | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
| 17 | DF | | Kevin Muscat | 26 | 29 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| 19 | FW | | Steven Thompson | 1 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| 20 | MF | | Russell Latapy | 2 | 8 | 7 | 1 | |||||||
| 21 | DF | | Maurice Ross | 22 | 27 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
| 22 | GK | | Allan McGregor | |||||||||||
| 23 | MF | | Mikel Arteta | 34 | 35 | 5 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||
| 24 | FW |  | Shota Arveladze | 31 | 40 | 16 | 30 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 26 | MF | | Peter Løvenkrands | 27 | 33 | 12 | 27 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| 27 | MF | | Stephen Hughes | 7 | 16 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 36 | FW | | Steven MacLean | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| 53 | DF | | Alan Hutton | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Game | Date | Tournament | Round | Ground | Opponent | Score1 | Report | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 11 July 2002 | Friendly | N | NJC All Stars | 3–0 |
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| 2 | 13 July 2002 | Friendly | N | River Plate | 2–3 |
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| 3 | 17 July 2002 | Friendly | N | Reading Rage | 4–1 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 20 July 2002 | Friendly | N | Santos | 0–1 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | 28 July 2002 | Friendly | H | AC Milan | 2–2 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 30 July 2002 | Friendly | A | Linfield | 2–0 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | 7 August 2002 | Friendly | H | Leeds United | 1–1 |
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| 8 | 18 January 2003 | Friendly | N | Energie Cottbus | 1–1 |
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Last updated: 18 January 2003
Source:[citation needed]
1Rangers goals come first.
National flags forGround andOpponent columns are only shown when different from that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground:H = Home,A = Away,N = Neutral,HR = Home replacement,AR = Away replacement.
Last updated: 25 May 2003
Source:Wikipedia article
1Rangers goals come first.
National flags forGround andOpponent columns are only shown when different from that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground:H = Home,A = Away,N = Neutral,HR = Home replacement,AR = Away replacement.
| Game | Date | Tournament | Round | Ground | Opponent | Score1 | Report | ||||||||||||
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| 14 | 24 October 2002 | League Cup | 3 | A | Hibernian | 3–2 |
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| 17 | 7 November 2002 | League Cup | QF | A | Dunfermline Athletic | 1–0 |
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| 32 | 4 February 2003 | League Cup | SF | N | Heart of Midlothian | 1–0 |
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| 38 | 16 March 2003 | League Cup | F | N | Celtic | 2–1 |
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Last updated: 16 March 2003
Source:Wikipedia article
1Rangers goals come first.
National flags forGround andOpponent columns are only shown when different from that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground:H = Home,A = Away,N = Neutral,HR = Home replacement,AR = Away replacement.
| Game | Date | Tournament | Round | Ground | Opponent | Score1 | Report | ||||||||||||
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| 29 | 25 January 2003 | Scottish Cup | 3 | A | Arbroath | 3–0 |
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| 35 | 22 February 2003 | Scottish Cup | 4 | A | Ayr United | 1–0 |
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| 40 | 23 March 2003 | Scottish Cup | QF | A | Dunfermline Athletic | 1–1 |
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| 42 | 9 April 2003 | Scottish Cup | QF R | H | Dunfermline Athletic | 3–0 |
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| 44 | 19 April 2003 | Scottish Cup | SF | N | Motherwell | 4–3 |
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| 50 | 31 May 2003 | Scottish Cup | F | N | Dundee | 1–0 |
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Last updated: 31 May 2003
Source:Wikipedia article
1Rangers goals come first.
National flags forGround andOpponent columns are only shown when different from that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground:H = Home,A = Away,N = Neutral,HR = Home replacement,AR = Away replacement.
| Game | Date | Tournament | Round | Ground | Opponent | Score1 | Report | ||||||||||||
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| 8 | 17 September 2002 | UEFA Cup | 1 | A |  Viktoria Žižkov | 0–2 |
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| 11 | 3 October 2002 | UEFA Cup | 1 | H | Viktoria Žižkov | 3–1 |
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Last updated: 3 October 2002
Source:Wikipedia article
1Rangers goals come first.
National flags forGround andOpponent columns are only shown when different from that of Rangers.
M = Match; Ground:H = Home,A = Away,N = Neutral,HR = Home replacement,AR = Away replacement.
| Competition | Started round | Final position / round | First match | Last match |
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| Scottish Premier League | — | 1st | 3 August | 25 May |
| UEFA Cup | 1st Round | 1st Round | 17 September | 3 October |
| Scottish League Cup | 3rd Round | Winners | 24 October | 16 March |
| Scottish Cup | 3rd Round | Winners | 25 January | 31 May |
Source:Competitions
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation[a] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rangers(C) | 38 | 31 | 4 | 3 | 101 | 28 | +73 | 97 | Qualification for theChampions League third qualifying round |
| 2 | Celtic | 38 | 31 | 4 | 3 | 98 | 26 | +72 | 97 | Qualification for theChampions League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Heart of Midlothian | 38 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 57 | 51 | +6 | 63 | Qualification for theUEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Kilmarnock | 38 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 47 | 56 | −9 | 57 | |
| 5 | Dunfermline Athletic | 38 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 54 | 71 | −17 | 46 |
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| Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
| 38 | 31 | 4 | 3 | 101 | 28 | +73 | 97 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 55 | 12 | +43 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 46 | 16 | +30 |
Last updated: 25 May 2003.
Source:Wikipedia article
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