2002–03 Regionalliga

The 2002–03 Regionalliga season was the ninth season of the Regionalliga at tier three (III) of the German football league system.

Regionalliga
Season2002–03
PromotedErzgebirge Aue
VfL Osnabrück
SpVgg Unterhaching
Jahn Regensburg
RelegatedSC Verl
SV Babelsberg 03
Bayer Leverkusen (A)
Dresdner SC
SV Darmstadt 98
Eintracht Frankfurt (A)
Borussia Neunkirchen
Matches played648
Goals scored1,821 (2.81 per match)
Top goalscorerFrancisco Copado (SpVgg Unterhaching) - 24
Total attendance1,740,933
Average attendance2,686

The Regionalliga was split into two divisions, the Regionalliga Nord and the Regionalliga Süd. The league champions, Erzgebirge Aue and SpVgg Unterhaching, and the runners-up in both divisions, VfL Osnabrück and Jahn Regensburg, were promoted to the 2003–04 2. Bundesliga.

Teams

SV Babelsberg 03, 1. FC Saarbrücken, 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 and SpVgg Unterhaching came down from the 2001–02 2. Bundesliga, replacing VfB Lübeck, Eintracht Braunschweig, Wacker Burghausen and Eintracht Trier.

Borussia Dortmund (A), Dynamo Dresden, Hamburger SV (A), 1. FC Köln (A), FC Augsburg, Eintracht Frankfurt (A) Borussia Neunkirchen and SC Pfullendorf were promoted from the Oberliga, replacing 1. FC Magdeburg, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Fortuna Köln, VfR Mannheim, VfB Stuttgart (A), SpVgg Ansbach and Borussia Fulda.

Regionalliga Nord

Final table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Erzgebirge Aue 34 20 6 8 59 34 +25 66 Promotion to 2. Bundesliga
2 VfL Osnabrück 34 19 8 7 56 29 +27 65
3 Rot-Weiß Essen 34 16 12 6 56 33 +23 60
4 SG Wattenscheid 09 34 16 8 10 66 48 +18 56
5 Borussia Dortmund (A) 34 13 12 9 47 51 −4 51
6 Werder Bremen (A) 34 13 11 10 59 53 +6 50
7 Dynamo Dresden 34 13 11 10 34 34 0 50
8 SC Paderborn 07 34 13 8 13 58 49 +9 47
9 1. FC Köln (A) 34 12 9 13 52 55 −3 45
10 KFC Uerdingen 34 13 6 15 43 51 −8 45
11 Chemnitzer FC 34 12 8 14 47 55 −8 44
12 Preußen Münster 34 12 7 15 45 55 −10 43
13 Holstein Kiel 34 10 12 12 54 54 0 42
14 Hamburger SV (A) 34 10 11 13 44 52 −8 41
15 SC Verl 34 12 4 18 47 65 −18 40 Relegation to Oberliga
16 SV Babelsberg 03 34 9 7 18 54 73 −19 34
17 Bayer Leverkusen (A) 35 9 6 20 46 59 −13 33
18 Dresdner SC 34 7 8 19 32 58 −26 29
Source:

Top scorers
# Player Club Goals
1. Dmitrijus Guščinas Holstein Kiel 23
2. Ersin Demir Chemnitzer FC 18
Veselin Petkov Gerov SC Paderborn 07
4. Alexander Löbe SG Wattenscheid 09 17
5. Halil Altıntop SG Wattenscheid 09 16
Achim Weber Rot-Weiß Essen
7. Nelson Valdez Werder Bremen (A) 15
8. Marco Antwerpen Preußen Münster 14
9. Christian Claaßen VfL Osnabrück 11
Ronny Jank Erzgebirge Aue

Regionalliga Süd

Five teams were due to be relegated, but Stuttgarter Kickers and Sportfreunde Siegen were reprieved because two of the relegated teams from the 2. Bundesliga, SSV Reutlingen and SV Waldhof Mannheim, could not achieve a Regionalliga license, and dropped another level, to the Oberliga.

Final table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 SpVgg Unterhaching 36 22 7 7 75 34 +41 73 Promotion to 2. Bundesliga
2 Jahn Regensburg 36 22 7 7 66 25 +41 73
3 FC Augsburg 36 17 8 11 55 39 +16 59
4 Bayern Munich (A) 36 16 9 11 51 35 +16 57
5 TSG Hoffenheim 36 15 10 11 60 44 +16 55
6 1. FC Saarbrücken 36 15 12 9 43 38 +5 53[lower-alpha 1]
7 SV Wehen 36 13 11 12 52 47 +5 50
8 Kickers Offenbach 36 11 17 8 42 38 +4 50
9 Rot-Weiß Erfurt 36 12 14 10 44 44 0 50
10 VfR Aalen 36 14 6 16 48 55 −7 47[lower-alpha 2]
11 SC Pfullendorf 36 13 8 15 51 61 −10 47
12 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 36 13 6 17 56 64 −8 45
13 1. FC Kaiserslautern (A) 36 11 12 13 43 47 −4 45
14 SV Elversberg 36 11 12 13 38 51 −13 45
15 Stuttgarter Kickers 36 11 12 13 40 43 −3 45
16 Sportfreunde Siegen 36 11 10 15 47 55 −8 43
17 SV Darmstadt 98 36 11 9 16 42 53 −11 42 Relegation to Oberliga
18 Eintracht Frankfurt (A) 36 7 11 18 36 64 −28 32
19 Borussia Neunkirchen 36 3 9 24 23 74 −51 18
Source:
Notes:
  1. 1. FC Saarbrücken were docked four points due to errors in the licensing process.
  2. VfR Aalen were docked one point due to errors in the licensing process.

Top scorers
# Player Club Goals
1. Francisco Copado SpVgg Unterhaching 24
2. Mark Römer SC Pfullendorf 22
3. Veselin Popović 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 20
4. Thomas Ollhoff TSG Hoffenheim 19
5. Jörg Reeb FC Augsburg 15
6. Christoph Teinert TSG Hoffenheim 14
7. Miguel Coulibaly FC Augsburg 13
Sead Mehić SV Wehen
Vlado Papić Jahn Regensburg
András Tölcséres Jahn Regensburg

References
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