2002–03 Ligue 1

For the 2002–03 season, the French Division 1 was renamed as Ligue 1 and was expanded to contain 20 clubs, which played 38 matches against each other, rather than the 34 matches in previous seasons. Lyon won the 2002–03 Ligue 1 season of the French Association Football League with 68 points.

Ligue 1

Season	2002–03
Dates	2 August 2002 – 24 May 2003
Champions	Lyon (2nd Title)
Relegated	Le Havre Sedan Troyes
Champions League	Lyon Monaco Marseille
UEFA Cup	Bordeaux Sochaux Auxerre Lens
Matches played	380
Goals scored	837 (2.2 per match)
Top goalscorer	Shabani Nonda (26 goals)
← 2001–02 (Division 1) 2003–04 →

Participating teams

Ajaccio

Auxerre

Bastia

Bordeaux

Guingamp

Le Havre

Lens      

Lille

Lyon

Marseille

AS Monaco

Montpellier

Nantes

Nice

PSG

Rennes

Sedan

Sochaux

Strasbourg

Troyes

Location of teams in 2002–03 Ligue 1

• AC Ajaccio
• Auxerre
• Bastia
• Bordeaux
• Guingamp
• Le Havre
• Lens
• Lille
• Lyon
• Marseille
• Monaco
• Montpellier
• Nantes
• Nice
• Paris Saint-Germain
• Rennes
• Sedan
• Sochaux
• Strasbourg
• Troyes

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lyon (C)	38	19	11	8	63	41	+22	68	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Monaco	38	19	10	9	66	33	+33	67
3	Marseille	38	19	8	11	41	36	+5	65	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Bordeaux	38	18	10	10	57	36	+21	64	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Sochaux	38	17	13	8	46	31	+15	64
6	Auxerre	38	18	10	10	38	29	+9	64
7	Guingamp	38	19	5	14	59	46	+13	62	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
8	Lens	38	14	15	9	43	31	+12	57	Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round[a]
9	Nantes	38	16	8	14	37	39	−2	56	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
10	Nice	38	13	16	9	39	31	+8	55	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
11	Paris Saint-Germain	38	14	12	12	47	36	+11	54
12	Bastia	38	12	11	15	40	48	−8	47
13	Strasbourg	38	11	12	15	40	54	−14	45
14	Lille	38	10	12	16	29	44	−15	42
15	Rennes	38	10	10	18	35	45	−10	40
16	Montpellier	38	10	10	18	37	54	−17	40
17	Ajaccio	38	9	12	17	29	49	−20	39
18	Le Havre (R)	38	10	8	20	27	47	−20	38	Relegation to Ligue 2
19	Sedan (R)	38	9	9	20	41	59	−18	36
20	Troyes (R)	38	7	10	21	23	48	−25	31

Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Lens qualified for the UEFA Cup qualifying round through the UEFA Fair Play ranking award.

Results

Home \ Away	ACA	AUX	BAS	BOR	GUI	LHA	RCL	LIL	OL	OM	ASM	MHS	NAN	NIC	PSG	REN	SED	SOC	STR	TRO
Ajaccio		1–0	1–1	1–6	0–2	1–2	0–0	2–2	0–1	0–2	2–4	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0
Auxerre	1–0		1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	3–1[a]	2–0	0–0	1–0
Bastia	1–2	2–0		2–1	0–2	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	3–1	1–1	1–0	3–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–1
Bordeaux	1–0	0–1	0–2		4–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	3–1	2–2	3–1	0–0	4–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–2	1–0
Guingamp	3–1	0–2	3–0	0–0		1–2	1–0	1–0	3–3	0–0	3–1	3–1	2–0	0–0	3–2	3–0	0–1	2–0	2–3	2–0
Le Havre	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–2		1–3	0–0	1–2	1–3	0–3	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0
Lens	1–1	3–1	2–0	3–3	1–3	1–0		0–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	4–0	0–1	0–0	3–2	1–0	4–0	1–1	1–1	1–0
Lille	2–0	2–2	1–1	0–3	2–1	1–0	0–2		2–1	3–0	1–3	2–0	0–1	0–3	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0
Lyon	3–1	3–0	4–1	4–2	1–4	2–1	1–0	0–0		1–0	1–3	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	4–1	6–1	4–1	2–1	0–0
Marseille	3–1	0–0	2–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–1		1–1	2–0	0–2	2–0	0–3	2–0	4–2	1–0	1–0	0–0
Monaco	3–2	3–1	0–0	0–1	4–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1		3–1	2–1	0–1	3–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	6–0
Montpellier	0–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	2–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–2		1–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–2	2–1	2–2
Nantes	1–0	1–4	1–0	0–0	0–4	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	3–1		0–0	1–1	1–0	4–1	0–1	4–1	2–1
Nice	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–1		0–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	4–0	1–0
Paris SG	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	5–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–1	1–3	0–1	1–1		0–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	4–2
Rennes	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–4	2–1	0–0	1–1	5–1	0–1	1–3	0–0	3–1	1–0	2–2	1–0		1–0	2–2	2–3	0–0
Sedan	1–1	1–2	2–2	0–1	2–0	4–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–2	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–3		0–0	2–1	4–0
Sochaux	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–2	2–1	3–0	0–0	0–0	4–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–1		2–0	1–0
Strasbourg	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–4	0–0	1–0	3–2	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–3	1–1	1–3		2–1
Troyes	1–0	1–2	3–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–4	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	2–0	0–2	1–0

Source: Ligue 1
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Counting for the Round 8 of Ligue 1, and initially concluded on 21 September 2002 with the same score of 3-1 (goals, in that order, from Kapo, N'Diefi and doubled by Benjani), the match was canceled following a technical reservation filed by Sedan after the second Auxerre goal: this goal had indeed been scored immediately after the Sedan equalizer, but the Sedan players had not all returned to their camp at kick-off. The match was finally replayed on 8 April 2003 (two months after the "return" match, played on 5 February 2003) with a similar result (goals, in that order, from Benjani, N'Diefi, Benjani and Cissé).

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[1]
1	Shabani Nonda	Monaco	26
2	Pauleta	Bordeaux	23
3	Didier Drogba	Guingamp	17
4	Djibril Cissé	Auxerre	14
	Henri Camara	Sedan
6	Juninho	Lyon	13
7	Sonny Anderson	Lyon	12
	Dado Pršo	Monaco
	Kaba Diawara	Nice
	Antoine Sibierski	Lens

Overall

• Most wins - Lyon, Monaco, Marseille and Guingamp (19)
• Fewest wins - Troyes (7)
• Most draws - Nice (16)
• Fewest draws - Guingamp (5)
• Most losses - Troyes (21)
• Fewest losses - Lyon and Sochaux
• Most goals scored - Monaco (66)
• Fewest goals scored - Troyes (23)
• Most goals conceded - Sedan (59)
• Fewest goals conceded - Auxerre (29)