2002–03 Süper Lig

The 2002-03 Süper Lig was the 45th edition of top-flight professional football in Turkey. The season celebrated the centenary of Beşiktaş J.K., who became champions. Moreover, Malatyaspor qualified for the first time in a European cup competition after a 2–0 away win at Turkish Cup winners Trabzonspor combined with Fenerbahçe's draw at İzmir with relegated Göztepe, 1–1, despite being ahead in the first half. They are the first team from Eastern Anatolia to play in UEFA competitions.

Süper Lig

The 2002–03 Süper Lig champions' trophy.
Season	2002–03
Champions	Beşiktaş 12th title
Relegated	Altay Göztepe Kocaelispor
Champions League	Beşiktaş Galatasaray
UEFA Cup	Trabzonspor Gençlerbirliği Gaziantepspor Malatyaspor
Matches played	306
Goals scored	853 (2.79 per match)
Top goalscorer	Okan Yılmaz (24 goals)
← 2001–02 2003–04 →

Locations

Beşiktaş

Galatasaray

Gençlerbirliği

Gaziantepspor

Malatyaspor

Fenerbahçe

Trabzonspor

Ankaragücü

İstanbulspor

Denizlispor

Adanaspor

Samsunspor

Elazığspor

Diyarbakırspor

Bursaspor

Altay

Göztepe

Kocaelispor

Location of teams in Süper Lig 2002–03

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Former Players
Adanaspor	Pachola	Rosen Emilov	Svetlin Simeonov	Ohene Kennedy	Marián Ľalík	Milan Timko
Altay	Buba Yohanna	Ghislain Chameni	Jean-Emmanuel Effa Owona
Beşiktaş	Ronaldo Guiaro	Zago	Óscar Córdoba	Pascal Nouma	Federico Giunti	Daniel Pancu	Marius Măldărășanu		Amaral
Bursaspor	Mirza Varešanović	Glauber	Júnior	Antonio Franja	Josip Bulat	Radosław Majdan	Marián Kelemen
Denizlispor	Rafael	Janne Hietanen	Dirk Heinen	Péter Kabát	Henrich Benčík	Roman Kratochvíl	Jones Kusi-Asare
Diyarbakırspor	Altin Rraklli	Dida	Gerino Moura	Saliou Diallo
Elazığspor	Marcio Jarro	Robson Carioca	Zé Roberto	Mohammed Lawal	Juraj Czinege	Ľubomír Meszároš
Fenerbahçe	Ariel Ortega	Washington	Milan Rapaić	Samuel Johnson	Miroslav Stević	Zoran Mirković	Vladimir Beschastnykh	Serhiy Rebrov	Haim Revivo
Galatasaray	Elvir Baljić	Fábio Pinto	João Batista	Faryd Mondragón	Ali Lukunku	Haim Revivo	Sergio Almaguer	Abel Xavier	Christian Felipe Mohamed Sarr
Gaziantepspor	Júlio César	Régis Pitbull	Viola	Maksim Romaschenko	Gustavo Victoria	Yaw Preko	Riadh Bouazizi
Gençlerbirliği	Filip Daems	Marcel Mbayo	Abdel-Zaher El-Saqqa	Ahmed Hassan	Souleymane Youla	Tomasz Zdebel	Damir Botonjič
Göztepe	Rachid Djebaili	Helman Mkhalele							N'Dayi Kalenga Joseph Amoah Kamel Ouejdide
İstanbulspor	Alban Bushi	André Paulo Pinto	Aleksandar Aleksandrov	Ivaylo Petkov	Zdravko Zdravkov	Alioum Boukar	Alioum Saidou	Uche Okechukwu	Andre Kona
Kocaelispor	Con Blatsis	Stanimir Georgiev	Zdravko Lazarov	Milorad Korać	Givi Didava	Grigol Imedadze	Revaz Kemoklidze	Zaza Janashia	Viktor Paço Capone Aleksandar Aleksandrov
Malatyaspor	Klodian Duro	Johnson Macaba	Martin Stankov	Ayman Abdel-Aziz	Arsim Abazi	Petar Miloševski			Paulo Isidoro
MKE Ankaragücü	Rogério Belém	Simão	Augustine Ahinful	Stephen Baidoo	Radu Niculescu				Stelian Carabaș
Samsunspor	Juninho Cearense	Milton do Ó	Sandro Sousa	Ike Shorunmu	Mutiu Adepoju	Stojan Ignatov	Zoran Jovanovski		Bekim Kuli Sandro Yokota
Trabzonspor	Michael Petkovic	Hans Somers	Marco Aurélio	Oumar Dieng	Lee Eul-yong				Alban Bushi

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Beşiktaş (C)	34	26	7	1	63	21	+42	85	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Galatasaray	34	24	5	5	61	27	+34	77	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
3	Gençlerbirliği	34	19	9	6	76	40	+36	66	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
4	Gaziantepspor	34	16	9	9	61	41	+20	57
5	Malatyaspor	34	14	10	10	56	45	+11	52
6	Fenerbahçe	34	13	12	9	55	42	+13	51[a]
7	Trabzonspor	34	13	12	9	44	33	+11	51[a]	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round[b]
8	MKE Ankaragücü	34	15	4	15	44	42	+2	49
9	İstanbulspor	34	12	7	15	42	48	−6	43
10	Denizlispor	34	10	10	14	37	42	−5	40[c]
11	Adanaspor	34	10	10	14	44	54	−10	40[c]
12	Samsunspor	34	10	9	15	42	59	−17	39
13	Elazığspor	34	10	7	17	40	59	−19	37
14	Diyarbakırspor	34	9	9	16	34	47	−13	36[d]
15	Bursaspor	34	9	9	16	42	62	−20	36[d]
16	Altay (R)	34	9	8	17	48	69	−21	35	Relegation to Turkish Second League Category A
17	Göztepe A.Ş. (R)	34	5	11	18	32	57	−25	26
18	Kocaelispor (R)	34	6	4	24	32	66	−34	22

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

1. Fenerbahçe were ahead of Trabzonspor on head-to-head record: Fenerbahçe–Trabzonspor 3–2, Trabzonspor–Fenerbahçe 0–0.
2. Trabzonspor have won the 2002–03 Turkish Cup competition and thus are qualified for the first round of the UEFA Cup.
3. Denizlispor were ahead of Adanaspor on head-to-head goal difference: Denizlispor–Adanaspor 2–0, Adanaspor–Denizlispor 2–1.
4. Diyarbakırspor were ahead of Bursaspor on head-to-head goal difference: Bursaspor–Diyarbakırspor 4–1, Diyarbakırspor–Bursaspor 4–0.

Results

Home \ Away	ADA	ALT	BJK	BUR	DEN	DYB	ELA	FNB	GAL	GAZ	GEN	GÖZ	İST	KOC	MAL	AGÜ	SAM	TRA
Adanaspor		5–2	0–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	0–0	3–1	0–0	0–2	2–7	1–2	0–3	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–1
Altay	0–4		0–1	2–1	3–1	2–2	5–1	1–3	1–2	0–0	3–3	4–2	4–3	5–0	0–2	2–3	2–2	1–4
Beşiktaş	3–0	2–0		1–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	7–3	2–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	0–0
Bursaspor	3–0	2–1	2–2		2–0	4–1	1–1	2–1	0–4	1–1	3–1	1–0	1–2	4–2	1–1	0–2	2–1	1–2
Denizlispor	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–2		2–0	3–1	1–1	1–3	1–0	1–3	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–1
Diyarbakırspor	2–0	1–1	1–0	4–0	0–0		1–2	3–0	1–3	0–1	1–4	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	2–0
Elazığspor	4–2	2–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	0–1		3–3	0–0	1–3	0–3	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	2–0
Fenerbahçe	1–1	0–1	0–1	7–1	3–2	0–0	4–2		6–0	2–0	3–3	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–2
Galatasaray	2–2	5–0	0–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	3–0	2–0		2–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	4–1	2–1
Gaziantepspor	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	4–0	3–3	1–2		2–0	3–1	4–3	2–1	3–0	4–2	4–2	0–0
Gençlerbirliği	0–2	1–0	1–2	2–0	0–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–1		3–1	4–1	5–1	3–0	0–1	1–1	2–1
Göztepe	1–4	0–2	2–2	1–1	2–3	3–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	0–0		1–1	1–2	0–3	0–1	0–0	1–2
İstanbulspor	2–2	0–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–3	1–3	3–1		2–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–2
Kocaelispor	1–2	3–0	0–5	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–3	1–2	0–1	0–3	1–3	1–3	0–1		2–3	3–0	1–2	2–2
Malatyaspor	1–0	6–0	1–2	4–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–1	5–4	4–1	1–2	2–1		3–1	2–1	2–2
MKE Ankaragücü	1–1	3–0	0–1	4–0	1–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	1–2	5–3	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1		3–2	2–0
Samsunspor	0–2	2–4	3–4	1–0	0–0	3–1	4–3	1–3	0–1	2–1	2–7	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–0		1–3
Trabzonspor	3–1	0–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–2	3–0	0–1

Source: TFF, Mackolik
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Okan Yılmaz	Bursaspor	24
2	Necati Ateş	Adanaspor	19
3	Augustine Ahinful	Ankaragücü	16
	Ümit Karan	Galatasaray
5	Paulo Sérgio Rosa	Gaziantepspor	14
	Fatih Tekke	Trabzonspor / Gaziantepspor
7	Ahmed Hassan	Gençlerbirliği	13
	Cenk Işler	Istanbulspor
	Serkan Aykut	Samsunspor
10	Fazlı Ulusoy	Malatyaspor	12

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