2003–04 A.S. Roma season

Associazione Sportiva Roma had a tremendous season in the league, scoring most goals and conceding the fewest goals of all teams, but despite this, A.C. Milan were able to run away with the title, due to a greater efficiency in winning their matches.

Roma

2003–04 season
President	Franco Sensi
Manager	Fabio Capello
Stadium	Stadio Olimpico
Serie A	2nd
Coppa Italia	Quarter-finals
UEFA Cup	Fourth round
Top goalscorer	League: Francesco Totti (20) All: Francesco Totti (20)
Average home league attendance	55,413[1]
Home colours Away colours

In Fabio Capello's last season as Roma's coach, the squad did not manage to win any titles whatsoever, even though the results showed a resurgence from the anticlimactic 2002–03 season, in which Roma dipped to eighth in the league standings.

Financial worries forced the club to sell Emerson to Juventus and Walter Samuel to Real Madrid following the season's end. Capello controversially signed for Juventus as well, but key players such as Francesco Totti, Antonio Cassano and Cristian Chivu remained.

Players

Squad information

Last updated on 16 May 2004

Appearances include league matches only

No.	Name	Nat	Position(s)	Date of birth (Age at end of season)	Signed from	Signed in	Apps.	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	Cristiano Lupatelli		GK	21 June 1978 (aged 26)	Chievo	2003	0	0
12	Carlo Zotti		GK	3 September 1982 (aged 21)	Palermo	2001	4	0
22	Ivan Pelizzoli		GK	18 November 1980 (aged 23)	Atalanta	2001	55	0
Defenders
2	Christian Panucci (Vice-Captain)		RB / CB	12 April 1973 (aged 31)	Monaco	2001	84	4
4	Cristian Chivu		LB / CB	26 October 1980 (aged 23)	Ajax	2003	22	2
5	Jonathan Zebina		CB / RB	19 July 1978 (aged 25)	Cagliari	2000	88	1
19	Walter Samuel		CB	23 March 1978 (aged 26)	Boca Juniors	2000	122	9
26	Gianluca Galasso		CB	18 January 1984 (aged 20)	Youth Sector	2003	1	0
29	Giuseppe Scurto		CB	5 January 1984 (aged 20)	Youth Sector	2004	0	0
31	Traianos Dellas		CB	31 January 1976 (aged 28)	Perugia	2002	24	1
32	Vincent Candela		LB / LWB	24 October 1973 (aged 30)	Guingamp	1997	202	14
Midfielders
8	Francisco Lima		DM / CM	17 April 1971 (aged 33)	Bologna	2001	88	0
11	Emerson		DM / CM	4 April 1976 (aged 28)	Bayer Leverkusen	2000	105	13
15	Olivier Dacourt		AM / CM	25 September 1974 (aged 29)	Leeds United	2003	45	1
17	Damiano Tommasi		DM / CM	17 May 1974 (aged 30)	Hellas Verona	1996	236	12
21	Gaetano D'Agostino		CM / AM	3 June 1982 (aged 22)	Bari	2003	16	0
27	Daniele De Rossi		DM / CM	24 July 1983 (aged 20)	Youth Sector	2001	21	2
28	Adewale Wahab		CM	4 October 1984 (aged 19)	Reggiana	2001	1	0
30	Mancini		LW / RW / AM	1 August 1980 (aged 23)	Venezia	2003	33	8
33	Akande Ajide		CM	24 December 1985 (aged 18)	Youth Sector	2004	1	0
37	Raffaele De Martino		CM	8 April 1986 (aged 18)	Youth Sector	2003	0	0
Forwards
9	Vincenzo Montella		CF / ST	18 June 1974 (aged 30)	Sampdoria	1999	118	58
10	Francesco Totti (Captain)		AM / LW / SS / CF / ST	27 September 1976 (aged 27)	Youth Sector	1992	272	86
18	Antonio Cassano		ST / SS	12 July 1982 (aged 21)	Bari	2001	82	28
23	John Carew		CF / ST	5 September 1979 (aged 24)	Valencia	2003	20	6
24	Marco Delvecchio		CF / ST	7 April 1973 (aged 31)	Internazionale	1995	227	62
25	Alessio Cerci		RW / SS	23 July 1987 (aged 16)	Youth Sector	2003	1	0
34	Daniele Corvia		CF / ST	22 November 1984 (aged 19)	Youth Sector	2003	3	0
Players transferred during the season
20	Luigi Sartor		LB / RB / CB	30 January 1975 (aged 29)	Parma	2002	12	0

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Final position	First match	Last match
Serie A	Matchday 1	Runners-up	31 August 2003	16 May 2004
Coppa Italia	Round of 16	Quarter-finals	4 December 2003	22 January 2004
UEFA Cup	First round	Fourth round	24 September 2003	8 December 2004

Last updated: 16 May 2004

Serie A

League 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	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Roma	34	21	8	5	68	19	+49	71
3	Juventus	34	21	6	7	67	42	+25	69	Qualification to 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	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio – La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) tiebreaker for relevant positions 3) head-to-head points and goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	21	8	5	68	19	+49	71	13	1	3	45	12	+33	8	7	2	23	7	+16

Last updated: 16 May 2004.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	W	D	W	D	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	D	L	W	D	W	W	W	D	D	L	W	W	W	W	L	L	D

Updated to match(es) played on 16 May 2004. Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

31 August 2003 1	Udinese	1–2	Roma	Udine
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Krøldrup  26'	Report	Delvecchio  13' Montella  70'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 17,054 Referee: Matteo Trefoloni

14 September 2003 2	Roma	5–0	Brescia	Rome
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Montella  11' Chivu  16' Totti  23', 58' Carew  88' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 49,931 Referee: Tiziano Pieri

21 September 2003 3	Juventus	2–2	Roma	Turin
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Di Vaio  21', 35'	Report	Chivu  25' Zebina  87'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 43,042 Referee: Emilio Pellegrino

28 September 2003 4	Roma	3–0	Ancona	Rome
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Montella  48' Totti  78' Delvecchio  86'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 51,150 Referee: Cosimo Bolognino

5 October 2003 5	Siena	0–0	Roma	Siena
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report		Stadium: Stadio Artemio Franchi – Montepaschi Arena Attendance: 13,310 Referee: Roberto Rosetti

19 October 2003 6	Roma	2–0	Parma	Rome
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Samuel  28' Cassano  61'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 54,531 Referee: Pierluigi Collina

26 October 2003 7	Internazionale	0–0	Roma	Milan
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report		Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 68,641 Referee: Pierluigi Collina

2 November 2003 8	Roma	2–0	Reggina	Rome
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Montella  17' Carew  81'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 52,050 Referee: Emilio Pellegrino

9 November 2003 9	Roma	2–0	Lazio	Rome
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Mancini  81' Emerson  86'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 72,844 Referee: Matteo Trefoloni

23 November 2003 10	Bologna	0–4	Roma	Bologna
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report	Totti  16' Montella  34' Panucci  38' Cassano  49'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 27,495 Referee: Pierluigi Collina

30 November 2003 11	Roma	3–1	Lecce	Rome
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Mancini  18' Carew  45' Totti  77'	Report	Chevantón  89'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 51,619 Referee: Paolo Dondarini

7 December 2003 12	Chievo	0–3	Roma	Verona
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report	Totti  67' Mancini  70' Cassano  72'	Stadium: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi Attendance: 19,023 Referee: Paolo Bertini

14 December 2003 13	Roma	1–0	Modena	Rome
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Totti  8' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 47,046 Referee: Domenico Messina

20 December 2003 14	Empoli	0–2	Roma	Empoli
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report	Totti  23' (pen.), 45+1'	Stadium: Stadio Carlo Castellani Attendance: 12,224 Referee: Tiziano Pieri

6 January 2004 15	Roma	1–2	Milan	Rome
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Cassano  45+3'	Report	Shevchenko  24', 63'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 73,383 Referee: Gianluca Paparesta

11 January 2004 16	Perugia	0–1	Roma	Perugia
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report	Mancini  3'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Curi Attendance: 18,796 Referee: Daniele Tombolini

18 January 2004 17	Roma	3–1	Sampdoria	Rome
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Carew  10' Totti  60', 67'	Report	Bazzani  6'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 51,813 Referee: Nicola Ayroldi

25 January 2004 18	Roma	1–1	Udinese	Rome
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Panucci  15'	Report	Jankulovski  88'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 44,882 Referee: Matteo Trefoloni

31 January 2004 19	Brescia	1–0	Roma	Brescia
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Bachini  43' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Stadio Mario Rigamonti Attendance: 15,005 Referee: Cosimo Bolognino

8 February 2004 20	Roma	4–0	Juventus	Rome
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Dacourt  13' Totti  53' (pen.) Cassano  70', 85'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 73,325 Referee: Pierluigi Collina

15 February 2004 21	Ancona	0–0	Roma	Ancona
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report		Stadium: Stadio del Conero Attendance: 20,850 Referee: Gianluca Paparesta

22 February 2004 22	Roma	6–0	Siena	Rome
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Cassano  19', 24', 70' Mancini  30' Delvecchio  81' Totti  86'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 49,579 Referee: Pierluigi Collina

29 February 2004 23	Parma	1–4	Roma	Parma
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Gilardino  30'	Report	Cassano  44' Emerson  52' Totti  70' Mancini  77'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 19,031 Referee: Pierluigi Collina

7 March 2004 24	Roma	4–1	Internazionale	Rome
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Cassano  45' Mancini  63', 90+4' Totti  89' (pen.)	Report	Vieri  73'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 59,508 Referee: Roberto Rosetti

14 March 2004 25	Reggina	0–0	Roma	Reggio Calabria
15:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		Report		Stadium: Stadio Oreste Granillo Attendance: 21,286 Referee: Gianluca Paparesta

28 March 2004 27	Roma	1–2	Bologna	Rome
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Cassano  33'	Report	Pecchia  26' Tare  78'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 44,123 Referee: Paolo Bertini

4 April 2004 28	Lecce	0–3	Roma	Lecce
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Emerson  50' D'Agostino  54' Totti  90+4' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Via del Mare Attendance: 16,266 Referee: Matteo Trefoloni

10 April 2004 29	Roma	3–1	Chievo	Palermo
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Carew  29' Cassano  60' Frezzolini  77' (o.g.)	Report	Cossato  32'	Stadium: Stadio Renzo Barbera Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Daniele Tombolini

18 April 2004 30	Modena	0–1	Roma	Modena
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Totti  55'	Stadium: Stadio Alberto Braglia Attendance: 15,690 Referee: Emilio Pellegrino

21 April 2004 26	Lazio	1–1	Roma	Rome
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Corradi  40'	Report	Totti  61' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 51,590 Referee: Roberto Rosetti

25 April 2004 31	Roma	3–0	Empoli	Palermo
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Totti  41', 89' Carew  65'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Renzo Barbera Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Salvatore Racalbuto

2 May 2004 32	Milan	1–0	Roma	Milan
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Shevchenko  2'	Report		Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 76,911 Referee: Domenico Messina

9 May 2004 33	Roma	1–3	Perugia	Palermo
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Cassano  12'	Report	Zé Maria  19', 24' (pen.) Ravanelli  83'	Stadium: Stadio Renzo Barbera Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Cosimo Bolognino

16 May 2004 34	Sampdoria	0–0	Roma	Genoa
15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report		Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris Attendance: 25,152 Referee: Alberto Castellani

Coppa Italia

Round of 16

4 December 2003 First leg	Roma	1–0	Palermo	Rome
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Delvecchio  41'			Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Referee: Massimiliano Saccani

17 December 2003 Second leg	Palermo	1–2 (1–3 agg.)	Roma	Palermo
17:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Pepe  30'		Tommasi  69' Delvecchio  80'	Stadium: Stadio Renzo Barbera Referee: Emidio Morganti

Quarter-finals

14 January 2004 First leg	Milan	2–1	Roma	Milan
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Tomasson  40' Ambrosini  90'		Carew  33'	Stadium: San Siro Referee: Domenico Messina

22 January 2004 Second leg	Roma	1–2 (2–4 agg.)	Milan	Rome
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Mancini  81'		Nesta  49' Tomasson  57'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Referee: Emilio Pellegrino

UEFA Cup

First round

24 September 2003 First leg	Roma	4–0	Vardar	Rome, Italy
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Lima  7' Dellas  13' De Rossi  21' Dacourt  32' Carew  54' Delvecchio  90+2'	Report	Branković  36' Ristovski  66'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Florian Meyer (Germany)

15 October 2003 Second leg	Vardar	1–1 (1–5 agg.)	Roma	Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
18:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Zaharievski  40'	Report	Samuel  29' Mancini  63' Cassano  66'	Stadium: Philip II Arena Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Miroslav Liba (Czech Republic)

Second round

6 November 2003 First leg	Roma	1–0	Hajduk Split	Rome, Italy
21:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Montella  75' Cassano  90+1'	Report	Vejić  47'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)

27 November 2003 Second leg	Hajduk Split	1–1 (1–2 agg.)	Roma	Split, Croatia
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Bule  14',  33' Neretljak  31' Miladin  87'	Report	Samuel  37' Zebina  76' Tommasi  79' Cassano  85'	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Stuart Dougal (Scotland)

Third round

26 February 2004 First leg	Gaziantepspor	1–0	Roma	Gaziantep, Turkey
18:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Yusuf  19' İlhan  69'	Report		Stadium: Kamil Ocak Stadium Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Yuri Baskakov (Russia)

3 March 2004 Second leg	Roma	2–0 (2–1 agg.)	Gaziantepspor	Rome, Italy
17:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Cassano  5',  43' Emerson  23',  51' Carew  45'	Report	Johnson  82'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Referee: Alain Hamer (Luxembourg)

Fourth round

11 March 2004 First leg	Villarreal	2–0	Roma	Villarreal, Spain
21:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Anderson  29' José Mari  35'	Report		Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

25 March 2004 Second leg	Roma	2–1 (2–3 agg.)	Villarreal	Rome, Italy
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Emerson  10' Cassano  50'	Report	Martí  33' Belletti  42' Anderson  66'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 29,100 Referee: Gilles Veissière (France)

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Serie A		Coppa Italia		UEFA Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Cristiano Lupatelli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	GK		Carlo Zotti	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	GK		Ivan Pelizzoli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF		Christian Panucci	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF		Cristian Chivu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF		Jonathan Zebina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	DF		Walter Samuel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	DF		Gianluca Galasso	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	DF		Giuseppe Scurto	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	DF		Traianos Dellas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	DF		Vincent Candela	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
8	MF		Francisco Lima	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	MF		Emerson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	MF		Olivier Dacourt	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	MF		Damiano Tommasi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	MF		Gaetano D'Agostino	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	MF		Daniele De Rossi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF		Adewale Wahab	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	MF		Mancini	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	MF		Akande Ajide	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	MF		Raffaele De Martino	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
9	FW		Vincenzo Montella	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW		Francesco Totti	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	FW		Antonio Cassano	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	FW		John Carew	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	FW		Marco Delvecchio	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	FW		Alessio Cerci	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	FW		Daniele Corvia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players transferred out during the season
20	DF		Luigi Sartor	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: Competitions

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Nat	Name	Serie A	Coppa Italia	UEFA Cup	Total
1	10	FW		Francesco Totti	20	0	0	20
2	18	FW		Antonio Cassano	14	0	4	18
3	30	MF		Mancini	8	1	1	10
4	23	FW		John Carew	6	1	1	8
5	24	FW		Marco Delvecchio	3	2	1	6
6	9	FW		Vincenzo Montella	5	0	0	5
	11	MF		Emerson	3	0	2	5
8	2	DF		Christian Panucci	2	0	0	0
	13	DF		Cristian Chivu	2	0	0	2
10	5	DF		Jonathan Zebina	1	0	0	1
	15	MF		Olivier Dacourt	1	0	0	1
	16	MF		Daniele De Rossi	0	0	1	1
	17	MF		Damiano Tommasi	0	1	0	1
	19	DF		Walter Samuel	1	0	0	1
	21	MF		Gaetano D'Agostino	1	0	0	1
	31	DF		Traianos Dellas	0	0	1	1
Own goal					1	0	0	1
Totals					68	5	11	84

Last updated: 16 May 2004

Clean sheets

Rank	No.	Pos	Nat	Name	Serie A	Coppa Italia	UEFA Cup	Total
1	22	GK		Ivan Pelizzoli	20	0	1	21
2	12	GK		Carlo Zotti	0	1	2	3
Totals					20	1	3	24

Last updated: 16 May 2004

Disciplinary record

No.	Pos	Nat	Name	Serie A			Coppa Italia			UEFA Cup			Total
Totals				0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated:

References

1. http://www.stadiapostcards.com/A03-04.htm