2002–03 Ligue 1

Ligue 1

Season	2002–03
Champions	Lyon
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 2003–04 →

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. Olympique Lyonnais won Ligue 1 season 2002/2003 of the French Association Football League with 68 points.

Participating teams

AC Ajaccio Auxerre Bastia Bordeaux Guingamp Le Havre Lens Lille Olympique Lyonnais Olympique de Marseille

AS Monaco Montpellier FC Nantes Atlantique OGC Nice Paris Saint-Germain FC Stade Rennais FC Sedan FC Sochaux-Montbéliard RC Strasbourg Troyes AC

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

Final table

2002–03 Ligue 1 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	2003–04 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Monaco	38	19	10	9	66	33	+33	67
3	Marseille	38	19	8	11	41	36	+5	65	2003–04 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4	Bordeaux	38	18	10	10	57	36	+21	64	2003–04 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	2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
8	Lens	38	14	16	8	43	31	+12	58	2003–04 UEFA Cup First round
9	Nantes	38	16	8	14	37	39	−2	56	2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
10	Nice	38	13	16	9	39	31	+8	55	2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round
11	Paris Saint-Germain	38	14	11	13	47	36	+11	53
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 Template:Fb competition 2003-04 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:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Promoted from Ligue 2, who will play in Ligue 1 season 2003/2004

• • Toulouse FC : champion of Ligue 2
  • Le Mans UC 72 : runners-up
  • FC Metz : third place

Top goalscorers

Position	Player's name	Nationality	Club	Goals
1	Shabani Nonda	D.R. Congo	AS Monaco	26
2	Pedro Pauleta	Portugal	Bordeaux	23
3	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	EA Guingamp	17
4	Djibril Cissé	France	AJ Auxerre	14
4	Henri Camara	Senegal	CS Sedan	14
6	Juninho Pernambucano	Brazil	Olympique Lyonnais	13
7	Sonny Anderson	Brazil	Olympique Lyonnais	12
7	Dado Pršo	Croatia	AS Monaco	12
7	Kaba Diawara	Guinea	OGC Nice	12
7	Antoine Sibierski	France	RC Lens	12
11	Jean-Claude Darcheville	France	Bordeaux	11
11	Ludovic Giuly	France	AS Monaco	11
11	Péguy Luyindula	France	Olympique Lyonnais	11
14	Stéphane Carnot	France	EA Guingamp	10
14	Florent Malouda	France	EA Guingamp	10
14	Florian Maurice	France	SC Bastia	10
14	Frédéric Piquionne	France	Stade Rennais	10
18	Mickaël Pagis	France	FC Sochaux-Montbéliard	9
18	Pierre-Alain Frau	France	FC Sochaux-Montbéliard	9