2003–04 UEFA Champions League

The 2003–04 UEFA Champions League was the 12th season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, the UEFA Champions League, since its rebranding from the European Cup in 1992, and the 49th tournament overall. This was the first UEFA Champions League edition to feature a new format with a 16-team knockout round instead of a second group stage.^[1]

2003–04 UEFA Champions League

The final was played at Arena AufSchalke in Gelsenkirchen.
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 16 July – 27 August 2003 Competition proper: 16 September 2003 – 26 May 2004
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 72
Final positions
Champions	Porto (2nd title)
Runners-up	Monaco
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	309 (2.47 per match)
Attendance	4,540,677 (36,325 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Fernando Morientes (Monaco) 9 goals
← 2002–03 2004–05 →

The competition was won by Portugal's Porto, who defeated Monaco of France 3–0 at the Arena AufSchalke in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. This was Portugal's first win since 1987, and Porto's second European trophy in two years, following their UEFA Cup success from the previous season. This was the second consecutive victory in a European cup for Porto coach José Mourinho, who beat Monaco coached by Didier Deschamps, a two-time winner of the competition as a player.

AC Milan were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Deportivo de La Coruña in the quarter-finals.

Qualification

A total of 72 teams from 48 UEFA member associations participated in the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League. Liechtenstein (who does not have their own domestic league) as well as Andorra and San Marino did not participate. Also not admitted was Azerbaijan, which was suspended by UEFA. Each association enters a certain number of clubs to the Champions League based on its league coefficient; associations with a higher league coefficient may enter more clubs than associations with a lower league coefficient, but no association may enter more than four teams.

• Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify.
• Associations 4–6 each have three teams qualify.
• Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify.
• Associations 16–52 (except Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino) each have one team qualify.

Association ranking

For the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2002 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1997–98 to 2001–02.^[2]

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1 Spain 68.467 4 2 Italy 58.668 3 England 55.459 4 Germany 52.990 3 5 France 42.352 6 Greece 36.116 7 Netherlands 34.165 2 8 Turkey 28.725 9 Portugal 28.249 10 Russia 27.291 11 Czech Republic 26.625 12 Scotland 26.125 13 Ukraine 25.958 14 Belgium 25.525 15 Austria 23.250 16 Switzerland 22.625 1 17 Norway 21.475 18 Israel 21.332

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 19 Croatia 21.041 1 20 Poland 17.500 21 Denmark 17.375 22 Sweden 17.241 23 Serbia and Montenegro 16.331 24 Slovakia 15.665 25 Bulgaria 15.165 26 Romania 13.916 27 Hungary 13.749 28 Slovenia 11.832 29 Cyprus 9.332 30 Finland 8.041 31 Latvia 7.165 32 Georgia 6.999 33 Moldova 5.165 34 Iceland 4.832 35 Belarus 4.083

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 36 Lithuania 3.831 1 37 Republic of Ireland 3.331 38 Macedonia 2.997 39 Malta 2.498 40 Wales 1.832 41 Estonia 1.665 42 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.333 43 Armenia 1.332 44 Northern Ireland 1.331 45 Albania 1.165 46 Faroe Islands 1.165 47 Azerbaijan 1.165 0 48 Liechtenstein 1.000 49 Luxembourg 0.832 1 50 Andorra 0.000 0 51 San Marino 0.000 52 Kazakhstan 0.000 1

Distribution

Since the title holders (Milan) also qualified for the Champions League Third qualifying round through their domestic league, one Third qualifying round spot was vacated. Due to this, as well as due to suspension of Azerbaijan, the following changes to the default access list are made:

• The champions of association 16 (Switzerland) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The champions of associations 26, 27 and 28 (Romania, Hungary and Slovenia) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round (20 teams)	20 champions from associations 29–52 (except Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino)
Second qualifying round (28 teams)	12 champions from associations 17–28 6 runners-up from associations 10–15	10 winners from the first qualifying round
Third qualifying round (32 teams)	7 champions from associations 10–16 3 runners-up from associations 7–9 5 third-place finishers from associations 1–6 (except Italy) 3 fourth-place finishers from associations 1–3	14 winners from the second qualifying round
Group stage (32 teams)	1 current Champions League title holder (Milan) 9 champions from associations 1–9 6 runners-up from associations 1–6	16 winners from the third qualifying round
Knockout phase (16 teams)		8 group winners from the group stage 8 group runners-up from the group stage

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders).

Group stage
Real Madrid (1st)	Manchester United (1st)	Lyon (1st)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)
Real Sociedad (2nd)	Arsenal (2nd)	Monaco (2nd)	Beşiktaş (1st)
Juventus (1st)	Bayern Munich (1st)	Olympiacos (1st)	Porto (1st)
Internazionale (2nd)	VfB Stuttgart (2nd)	Panathinaikos (2nd)	Milan (3rd)TH
Third qualifying round
Deportivo La Coruña (3rd)	Borussia Dortmund (3rd)	Benfica (2nd)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)
Celta de Vigo (4th)	Marseille (3rd)	Lokomotiv Moscow (1st)	Club Brugge (1st)
Lazio (4th)	AEK Athens (3rd)	Sparta Prague (1st)	Austria Wien (1st)
Newcastle United (3rd)	Ajax (2nd)	Rangers (1st)	Grasshopper (1st)
Chelsea (4th)	Galatasaray (2nd)
Second qualifying round
CSKA Moscow (2nd)	GAK (2nd)	Copenhagen (1st)	CSKA Sofia (1st)
Slavia Prague (2nd)	Rosenborg (1st)	Djurgården (1st)	Rapid București (1st)
Celtic (2nd)	Maccabi Tel Aviv (1st)	Partizan (1st)	MTK Budapest (1st)
Shakhtar Donetsk (2nd)	Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Žilina (1st)	Maribor (1st)
Anderlecht (2nd)	Wisła Kraków (1st)
First qualifying round
Omonia (1st)	KR (1st)	Sliema Wanderers (1st)	Glentoran (1st)
HJK (1st)	BATE Borisov (1st)	Barry Town (1st)	Tirana (1st)
Skonto (1st)	FBK Kaunas (1st)	Flora Tallinn (1st)	HB (1st)
Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)	Bohemians (1st)	Leotar (1st)	Grevenmacher (1st)
Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Vardar (1st)	Pyunik (1st)	Irtysh Pavlodar (1st)

Notes

1. ^
   Azerbaijan (AZE): Clubs from Azerbaijan were not admitted to UEFA competitions as no domestic league took place in 2002–03 season and AFFA was suspended by UEFA as a result of ongoing conflict between the clubs and federation.^[3]

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).^[4]

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	20 June 2003	16 July 2003	23 July 2003
	Second qualifying round		30 July 2003	6 August 2003
	Third qualifying round	25 July 2003	12–13 August 2003	26–27 August 2003
Group stage	Matchday 1	28 August 2003 (Monaco)	16–17 September 2003
	Matchday 2		30 September – 1 October 2003
	Matchday 3		21–22 October 2003
	Matchday 4		4–5 November 2003
	Matchday 5		25–26 November 2003
	Matchday 6		9–10 December 2003
Knockout phase	Round of 16	12 December 2003	24–25 February 2004	9–10 March 2004
	Quarter-finals	12 March 2004	23–24 March 2004	6–7 April 2004
	Semi-finals		20–21 April 2004	4–5 May 2004
	Final		26 May 2004 at Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2003–04 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pyunik	2–1	KR	1–0	1–1
Sheriff Tiraspol	2–1	Flora Tallinn	1–0	1–1
HB	1–5	FBK Kaunas	0–1	1–4
BATE Borisov	1–3	Bohemians	1–0	0–3
Vardar	4–2	Barry Town	3–0	1–2
Grevenmacher	0–2	Leotar	0–0	0–2
Glentoran	0–1	HJK	0–0	0–1
Sliema Wanderers	3–3 (a)	Skonto	2–0	1–3
Omonia	2–1	Irtysh Pavlodar	0–0	2–1
Dinamo Tbilisi	3–3 (2–4 p)	KF Tirana	3–0	0–3 (aet)

Second qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
MTK	3–2	HJK	3–1	0–1
Pyunik	0–3	CSKA Sofia	0–2	0–1
FBK Kaunas	0–5	Celtic	0–4	0–1
Leotar	1–4	Slavia Prague	1–2	0–2
Sheriff Tiraspol	0–2	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–0	0–2
Žilina	2–1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–0	1–1
Bohemians	0–5	Rosenborg	0–1	0–4
Maribor	2–3	Dinamo Zagreb	1–1	1–2
CSKA Moscow	2–3	Vardar	1–2	1–1
Rapid Bucureşti	2–3	Anderlecht	0–0	2–3
Partizan	3–3 (a)	Djurgården	1–1	2–2
Wisła Kraków	7–4	Omonia	5–2	2–2
Copenhagen	10–1	Sliema Wanderers	4–1	6–0
KF Tirana	2–7	GAK	1–5	1–2

Third qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vardar	4–5	Sparta Prague	2–3	2–2
MTK	0–5	Celtic	0–4	0–1
Rangers	3–2	Copenhagen	1–1	2–1
Austria Wien	0–1	Marseille	0–1	0–0
Club Brugge	3–3 (4–2 p)	Borussia Dortmund	2–1	1–2 (aet)
Shakhtar Donetsk	2–3	Lokomotiv Moscow	1–0	1–3
Lazio	4–1	Benfica	3–1	1–0
Dynamo Kyiv	5–1	Dinamo Zagreb	3–1	2–0
Rosenborg	0–1	Deportivo La Coruña	0–0	0–1
Grasshopper	2–3	AEK Athens	1–0	1–3
MŠK Žilina	0–5	Chelsea	0–2	0–3
Celta Vigo	3–2	Slavia Prague	3–0	0–2
Partizan	1–1 (4–3 p)	Newcastle United	0–1	1–0 (aet)
Galatasaray	6–0	CSKA Sofia	3–0	3–0
Anderlecht	4–1	Wisła Kraków	3–1	1–0
GAK	2–3	Ajax	1–1	1–2 (aet)

Group stage

Main article: 2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage

Anderlecht

Brugge

Sparta

Chelsea

Arsenal

Man. United

Real Madrd

Celta

Sociedad

Deportivo

Marseille

Monaco

Lyon

Bayern

Stuttgart

Olympiacos

Panathinaikos

AEK

Lazio

Juventus

Milan

Internazionale

PSV

Ajax

Porto

Lokomotiv

Celtic

Rangers

Partizan

Beşiktaş

Galatasaray

Dynamo

Location of teams of the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D;
Green: Group E; Blue: Group F; Purple: Group G; Pink: Group H.

Title holders, 16 winners from the third qualifying round, 9 champions from countries ranked 1–10, and six second-placed teams from countries ranked 1–6 were drawn into eight groups of four teams each. The top two teams in each group advanced to the Champions League play-offs, while the third-placed teams advanced to the Third Round of the UEFA Cup.

Tiebreakers, if necessary, were applied in the following order:

1. Points earned in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
2. Total goals scored in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
3. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
4. Cumulative goal difference in all group matches.
5. Total goals scored in all group matches.
6. Higher UEFA coefficient going into the competition.

Real Sociedad, Celta Vigo, Stuttgart and Partizan made their debut appearance in the group stage. This season became the first in the history of the Champions League in which three Greek clubs played in the group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		OL	BAY	CEL	AND
1	Lyon	6	3	1	2	7	7	0	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	3–2	1–0
2	Bayern Munich	6	2	3	1	6	5	+1	9			1–2	—	2–1	1–0
3	Celtic	6	2	1	3	8	7	+1	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		2–0	0–0	—	3–1
4	Anderlecht	6	2	1	3	4	6	−2	7			1–0	1–1	1–0	—

Source: RSSSF

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	LM	INT	DK
1	Arsenal	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	0–3	1–0
2	Lokomotiv Moscow	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8			0–0	—	3–0	3–2
3	Internazionale	6	2	2	2	8	11	−3	8	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–5	1–1	—	2–1
4	Dynamo Kyiv	6	2	1	3	8	8	0	7			2–1	2–0	1–1	—

Source:

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MON	DEP	PSV	AEK
1	Monaco	6	3	2	1	15	6	+9	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	8–3	1–1	4–0
2	Deportivo La Coruña	6	3	1	2	12	12	0	10			1–0	—	2–0	3–0
3	PSV Eindhoven	6	3	1	2	8	7	+1	10	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–2	3–2	—	2–0
4	AEK Athens	6	0	2	4	1	11	−10	2			0–0	1–1	0–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JUV	RSO	GAL	OLY
1	Juventus	6	4	1	1	15	6	+9	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	4–2	2–1	7–0
2	Real Sociedad	6	2	3	1	8	8	0	9			0–0	—	1–1	1–0
3	Galatasaray	6	2	1	3	6	8	−2	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		2–0	1–2	—	1–0
4	Olympiacos	6	1	1	4	6	13	−7	4			1–2	2–2	3–0	—

Source: RSSSF

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MU	STU	PAN	RAN
1	Manchester United	6	5	0	1	13	2	+11	15	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	5–0	3–0
2	Stuttgart	6	4	0	2	9	6	+3	12			2–1	—	2–0	1–0
3	Panathinaikos	6	1	1	4	5	13	−8	4	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	1–3	—	1–1
4	Rangers	6	1	1	4	4	10	−6	4			0–1	2–1	1–3	—

Source: RSSSF

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RM	POR	OM	PAR
1	Real Madrid	6	4	2	0	11	5	+6	14	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	4–2	1–0
2	Porto	6	3	2	1	9	8	+1	11			1–3	—	1–0	2–1
3	Marseille	6	1	1	4	9	11	−2	4	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–2	2–3	—	3–0
4	Partizan	6	0	3	3	3	8	−5	3			0–0	1–1	1–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CHE	SP	BJK	LAZ
1	Chelsea	6	4	1	1	9	3	+6	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	0–2	2–1
2	Sparta Prague	6	2	2	2	5	5	0	8			0–1	—	2–1	1–0
3	Beşiktaş	6	2	1	3	5	7	−2	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–2	1–0	—	0–2
4	Lazio	6	1	2	3	6	10	−4	5			0–4	2–2	1–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIL	CEL	BRU	AJA
1	Milan	6	3	1	2	4	3	+1	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–2	0–1	1–0
2	Celta Vigo	6	2	3	1	7	6	+1	9			0–0	—	1–1	3–2
3	Club Brugge	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	1–1	—	2–1
4	Ajax	6	2	0	4	6	7	−1	6			0–1	1–0	2–0	—

Source: RSSSF

Knockout phase

Main article: 2003–04 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Bracket

	Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Bayern Munich	1	0	1
	Real Madrid	1	1	2
							Real Madrid	4	1	5
							Monaco (a)	2	3	5
	Lokomotiv Moscow	2	0	2
	Monaco (a)	1	1	2
													Monaco	3	2	5
													Chelsea	1	2	3
	VfB Stuttgart	0	0	0
	Chelsea	1	0	1
							Chelsea	1	2	3
							Arsenal	1	1	2
	Celta Vigo	2	0	2
	Arsenal	3	2	5
																			Monaco	0
																			Porto	3
	Porto	2	1	3
	Manchester United	1	1	2
							Porto	2	2	4
							Lyon	0	2	2
	Real Sociedad	0	0	0
	Lyon	1	1	2
													Porto	0	1	1
													Deportivo La Coruña	0	0	0
	Sparta Prague	0	1	1
	Milan	0	4	4
							Milan	4	0	4
							Deportivo La Coruña	1	4	5
	Deportivo La Coruña	1	1	2
	Juventus	0	0	0

Round of 16

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	1–2	Real Madrid	1–1	0–1
Celta Vigo	2–5	Arsenal	2–3	0–2
Deportivo La Coruña	2–0	Juventus	1–0	1–0
Lokomotiv Moscow	2–2 (a)	Monaco	2–1	0–1
Porto	3–2	Manchester United	2–1	1–1
Real Sociedad	0–2	Lyon	0–1	0–1
Sparta Prague	1–4	Milan	0–0	1–4
VfB Stuttgart	0–1	Chelsea	0–1	0–0

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chelsea	3–2	Arsenal	1–1	2–1
Milan	4–5	Deportivo La Coruña	4–1	0–4
Porto	4–2	Lyon	2–0	2–2
Real Madrid	5–5 (a)	Monaco	4–2	1–3

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Monaco	5–3	Chelsea	3–1	2–2
Porto	1–0	Deportivo La Coruña	0–0	1–0

Final

Main article: 2004 UEFA Champions League Final

As winners of the competition, Porto went on to represent Europe at the 2004 Intercontinental Cup.

Monaco	0–3	Porto
	Report	Carlos Alberto 39' Deco 71' Alenichev 75'

26 May 2004

20:45

Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen

Attendance: 53,053

Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Fernando Morientes	Monaco	9	1026
2	Dado Pršo	Monaco	7	512
3	Roy Makaay	Bayern Munich	6	720
	Walter Pandiani	Deportivo La Coruña	6	773
5	Didier Drogba	Marseille	5	515
	Hakan Şükür	Galatasaray	5	539
	Juninho	Lyon	5	799
	Thierry Henry	Arsenal	5	888
9	David Trezeguet	Juventus	4	359
	Wesley Sonck	Ajax	4	401
	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Manchester United	4	596
	Albert Luque	Deportivo La Coruña	4	640
	Benni McCarthy	Porto	4	643
	Ronaldo	Real Madrid	4	729
	Andriy Shevchenko	Milan	4	765
	Kaká	Milan	4	780
	Ludovic Giuly	Monaco	4	783
	Robert Pires	Arsenal	4	852
	Frank Lampard	Chelsea	4	1035

• Source: Top Scorers – Final – Wednesday 26 May 2004 (after match)

See also

• 2003–04 UEFA Cup
• 2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• 2003–04 UEFA Women's Cup

References

1. UEFA.com (2002-07-11). "New format for Champions League | UEFA Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
2. "UEFA Country Ranking 2002". Bert Kassies.
3. Azerbaijan 2002/03 at RSSSF
4. "UEFA European Football Calendar 2003/2004". Bert Kassies.

External links

• 2003–04 All matches – season at UEFA website
• 2003–04 season at UEFA website
• European Club Results at RSSSF
• All scorers 2003–04 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers qualifying round
• 2003/04 UEFA Champions League – results and line-ups (archive)
• "Regulations of the UEFA Champions League 2003/04" (PDF). August 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2003. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
• 2003/04 List of participants