2002–03 Parma AC season

Parma Associazione Calcio regained its respect following a lacklustre Serie A and Champions League performance the year before. Under new coach Cesare Prandelli, Parma played an offensive 4–3–3 formation, in which new offensive signings Adrian Mutu and Adriano starred. Both made up for the departure of Marco Di Vaio to Juventus. Mutu scored 18 goals from the left wing, and Parma accepted a multimillion-pound offer from Chelsea in the summer, which meant the Romanian international only spent a year at the club. Also impressing were goalkeeper Sébastien Frey and young centre-halves Matteo Ferrari and Daniele Bonera, who proved to be acceptable replacements for departed captain Fabio Cannavaro, who had joined Inter in late August 2002.

Parma

2002–03 season
Owner	Parmalat
President	Stefano Tanzi
Manager	Cesare Prandelli
Stadium	Stadio Ennio Tardini
Serie A	5th
Supercoppa Italiana	Runners-up
Coppa Italia	Second round
UEFA Cup	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Adrian Mutu (18) All: Adrian Mutu (22)
Average home league attendance	16,306[1]
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2001–02 2003–04 →

Parma finished fifth in Serie A and missed out on Champions League qualification to Lazio by four points. It had the upper hand on Udinese for fifth on goal difference, and was one point clear of Chievo in seventh. That solitary point qualified Parma for European football in 2003–04. Parma also spent part of pre-season playing in the 2002 Amsterdam Tournament.

Players

Squad information

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FRA Sébastien Frey 2 DF  ITA Aimo Diana 3 DF  ITA Giuseppe Cardone 4 DF  SVK Vratislav Gresko 5 DF  ITA Daniele Bonera 6 MF  ITA Simone Barone 7 MF  ITA Marco Marchionni 8 MF  FRA Sabri Lamouchi 9 FW  BRA Adriano 10 MF  JPN Hidetoshi Nakata 11 FW  ITA Emiliano Bonazzoli 13 DF  ARG Gabriel Oyola 14 DF  ITA Stefano Torrisi 16 DF  BRA Júnior

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  ITA Emanuele Filippini 18 FW  ITA Alberto Gilardino 19 FW  ITA Roberto Massaro 20 FW  ROU Adrian Mutu 21 DF  ITA Matteo Ferrari 22 GK  BRA Cláudio Taffarel 23 MF  AUS Mark Bresciano 24 DF  ITA Sebastiano Siviglia 25 GK  ITA Alfonso De Lucia 26 MF  ITA Matteo Brighi 27 DF  ITA Antonio Benarrivo 28 DF  ITA Paolo Cannavaro 29 MF  ITA Massimo Donati

Transfers

In
Pos.	Name	from	Type
FW	Adriano	Internazionale	co-ownership
FW	Adrian Mutu	Hellas Verona
FW	Alberto Gilardino	Hellas Verona
DF	Daniele Bonera	Brescia Calcio
MF	Emanuele Filippini	Brescia Calcio
MF	Simone Barone	Chievo Verona
MF	Mark Bresciano	Empoli F.C.
MF	Matteo Brighi	Bologna F.C.
DF	Paolo Cannavaro	Hellas Verona
MF	Massimo Donati	A.C. Milan
DF	Vratislav Gresko	Internazionale
DF	Sebastiano Siviglia	A.S. Roma
FW	Savo Milosevic	Real Zaragoza	loan ended
FW	Patrick M'Boma	Sunderland F.C.	loan ended
DF	Gabriel Oyola	Talleres de Cordoba

Out
Pos.	Name	To	Type
DF	Fabio Cannavaro	Internazionale
FW	Marco Di Vaio	Juventus
DF	Martin Djetou	Fulham F.C.	loan
MF	Alain Boghossian	RCD Espanyol
DF	Luigi Sartor	A.S. Roma
MF	Matias Almeyda	Internazionale
MF	Johan Micoud	Werder Bremen
DF	Nestor Sensini	Udinese Calcio
FW	Hakan Sukur	Blackburn Rovers
MF	Jorge Bolaño	Sampdoria	loan
MF	Stephen Appiah	Brescia Calcio	loan
FW	Savo Milosevic	RCD Espanyol	loan
DF	Stefano Torrisi	Reggina Calcio
FW	Patrick M'Boma	Al-Ittihad
DF	Sergey Gurenko	Piacenza Calcio
MF	Giampiero Maini	Ancona Calcio

Winter

In
Pos.	Name	from	Type
DF	Giuseppe Cardone	Piacenza Calcio
DF	Alessandro Pierini	Reggina Calcio
MF	Johnnier Montaño	Piacenza Calcio

Out
Pos.	Name	To	Type
FW	Emiliano Bonazzoli	Reggina Calcio
MF	Massimo Donati	Torino F.C.
DF	Aimo Diana	Reggina Calcio
MF	Marco Marchionni	Piacenza Calcio
DF	Sebastiano Siviglia	Atalanta B.C.

Competitions

Supercoppa Italiana

Main article: 2002 Supercoppa Italiana

Juventus v Parma

25 August 2002	Juventus	2–1	Parma	Tripoli, Libya
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Del Piero 38', 73'		Di Vaio 64'	Stadium: June 11 Stadium Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Stefano Farina

Serie A

Main article: 2002–03 Serie A

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
3	Milan[a]	34	18	7	9	55	30	+25	61	Qualification to Champions League group stage
4	Lazio	34	15	15	4	57	32	+25	60	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
5	Parma	34	15	11	8	55	36	+19	56[b]	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
6	Udinese	34	16	8	10	38	35	+3	56
7	Chievo	34	16	7	11	51	39	+12	55

Source: 2002–03 Serie A, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Draw. (Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played).^[2]
Notes:

1. Milan qualified for the Champions League group stage as defending champions.
2. Parma finished ahead of Udinese on head-to-head points: Udinese 1–1 Parma, Parma 3–2 Udinese.

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	15	11	8	55	36	+19	56	11	2	4	31	19	+12	4	9	4	24	17	+7

Last updated: 24 May 2003.
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	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	D	W	D	D	L	W	L	D	L	W	W	W	L	L	D	W	D	W	D	L	W	D	D	W	W	W	L	W	D	L	D	W	W
Position	9	5	8	7	11	8	9	7	9	11	8	7	7	7	9	8	7	8	6	7	7	7	7	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	5

Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss;   = Leader, 2003-04 UEFA Champions League group stage;   = 2003-04 UEFA Champions League group stage;   = 2003-04 UEFA Champions League qualifying round;   = 2003-04 UEFA Cup;   = 2003-04 Serie B

Matches

Udinese v Parma

15 September 2002 1	Udinese	1–1	Parma	Udine
15:00 CEST	Alberto 54'	Report	Adriano 24'	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 15,636 Referee: Paolo Dondarini

Parma v Como

22 September 2002 2	Parma	2–0	Como	Parma
15:00 CEST	Lamouchi 14' Adriano 47'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 15,831 Referee: Fiorenzo Treossi

Juventus v Parma

28 September 2002 3	Juventus	2–2	Parma	Turin
18:00 CEST	Tudor 87' Del Piero 90+5'	Report	Nakata 66' Adriano 81'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 38,993 Referee: Stefano Cassarà

Parma v Perugia

6 October 2002 4	Parma	2–2	Perugia	Parma
15:00 CEST	Mutu 20' Donati 53'	Report	Tedesco 64', 72'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 13,177 Referee: Massimiliano Saccani

Modena v Parma

20 October 2002 5	Modena	2–1	Parma	Modena
20:30 CEST	Fabbrini 67' Kamara 85'	Report	Mutu 41'	Stadium: Stadio Alberto Braglia Attendance: 14,741 Referee: Pasquale Rodomonti

Parma v Atalanta

27 October 2002 6	Parma	2–1	Atalanta	Parma
15:00 CET	Nakata 14' Mutu 71'	Report	Comandini 85'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 13,476 Referee: Emilio Pellegrino

Parma v Chievo

3 November 2002 7	Parma	0–1	Chievo	Parma
20:30 CET		Report	Pellissier 90+4'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 13,358 Referee: Daniele Tombolini

Parma v Brescia

6 November 2002 8	Parma	4–3	Brescia	Parma
20:30 CET	Ferrari 15' Mutu 27' Bonazzoli 53' Gilardino 74'	Report	Appiah 14' R. Baggio 25', 60' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 14,952 Referee: Emidio Morganti

Lazio v Parma

10 November 2002 9	Lazio	0–0	Parma	Rome
15:00 CET		Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 37,155 Referee: Domenico Messina

Milan v Parma

17 November 2002 10	Milan	2–1	Parma	Milan
15:00 CET	Pirlo 48' (pen.), 70' (pen.)	Report	Filippini 63'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 59,648 Referee: Paolo Bertini

Parma v Roma

24 November 2002 11	Parma	3–0	Roma	Parma
15:00 CET	Bonazzoli 10', 72' Mutu 22' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 17,223 Referee: Pierluigi Collina

Torino v Parma

1 December 2002 12	Torino	0–4	Parma	Turin
15:00 CET		Report	Brighi 15' Mutu 24' Adriano 49', 67'	Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi Attendance: 12,718 Referee: Marco Gabriele

Parma v Reggina

8 December 2002 13	Parma	2–0	Reggina	Parma
15:00 CET	Adriano 57', 79'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 14,398 Referee: Alfredo Trentalange

Bologna v Parma

14 December 2002 14	Bologna	2–1	Parma	Bologna
20:30 CET	Cruz 42', 44'	Report	Adriano 28'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Attendance: 21,717 Referee: Alfredo Trentalange

Parma v Internazionale

22 December 2002 15	Parma	1–2	Internazionale	Parma
20:30 CET	Zanetti 55' (o.g.)	Report	Di Biagio 37' Recoba 75'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 21,133 Referee: Pierluigi Collina

Piacenza v Parma

12 January 2003 16	Piacenza	1–1	Parma	Piacenza
15:00 CET	Tosto 46'	Report	Mutu 28'	Stadium: Stadio Leonardo Garilli Attendance: 7,080 Referee: Pasquale Rodomonti

Parma v Empoli

18 January 2003 17	Parma	2–0	Empoli	Parma
18:00 CET	Gilardino 58' Mutu 82'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 14,542 Referee: Pierluigi Collina

Brescia v Parma

26 January 2003 18	Brescia	1–1	Parma	Brescia
15:00 CET	Baggio 39'	Report	Bonera 22'	Stadium: Stadio Mario Rigamonti Attendance: 14,221 Referee: Stefano Farina

Parma v Udinese

2 February 2003 19	Parma	3–2	Udinese	Parma
15:00 CET	Adriano 11' Barone 56' Nakata 85'	Report	Pizarro 57' Jankulovski 90+2'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 12,980 Referee: Pasquale Rodomonti

Como v Parma

9 February 2003 20	Como	2–2	Parma	Piacenza
15:00 CET	Grosso 66' Amoruso 78'	Report	Mutu 30' (pen.), 88' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Leonardo Garilli Attendance: 6,400 Referee: Luca Palanca

Parma v Juventus

16 February 2003 21	Parma	1–2	Juventus	Parma
15:00 CET	Mutu 90'	Report	Di Vaio 13' Tacchinardi 30'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 23,451 Referee: Emilio Pellegrino

Perugia v Parma

23 February 2003 22	Perugia	1–2	Parma	Perugia
20:30 CET	Grosso 51'	Report	Adriano 30' Ferrari 72'	Stadium: Stadio Renato Curi Attendance: 7,197 Referee: Paolo Bertini

Parma v Modena

1 March 2003 23	Parma	1–1	Modena	Parma
20:30 CET	Adriano 28'	Report	Scoponi 30'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 16,881 Referee: Pasquale Rodomonti

Atalanta v Parma

9 March 2003 24	Atalanta	0–0	Parma	Bergamo
15:00 CET		Report		Stadium: Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia Attendance: 14,994 Referee: Roberto Rosetti

Chievo v Parma

16 March 2003 25	Chievo	0–4	Parma	Verona
15:00 CET		Report	Mutu 6' Nakata 59' Lamouchi 67' Gilardino 90+1'	Stadium: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi Attendance: 13,983 Referee: Cosimo Bolognino

Parma v Lazio

23 March 2003 26	Parma	2–1	Lazio	Parma
15:00 CET	Cardone 4' Adriano 90+2'	Report	Stanković 50'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 15,732 Referee: Domenico Messina

Parma v Milan

5 April 2003 27	Parma	1–0	Milan	Parma
20:30 CEST	Adriano 77'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 25,603 Referee: Stefano Farina

Roma v Parma

13 April 2003 28	Roma	2–1	Parma	Rome
15:00 CEST	Totti 45' Guigou 73'	Report	Adriano 40'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 55,320 Referee: Matteo Trefoloni

Parma v Torino

19 April 2003 29	Parma	1–0	Torino	Parma
15:00 CEST	Mutu 75' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 14,709 Referee: Alberto Castellani

Reggina v Parma

27 April 2003 30	Reggina	0–0	Parma	Reggio Calabria
15:00 CEST		Report		Stadium: Stadio Oreste Granillo Attendance: 23,528 Referee: Salvatore Racalbuto

Parma v Bologna

3 May 2003 31	Parma	1–2	Bologna	Parma
15:00 CEST	Mutu 65'	Report	Paramatti 60' Locatelli 67'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 15,485 Referee: Emilio Pellegrino

Internazionale v Parma

10 May 2003 32	Internazionale	1–1	Parma	Milan
15:00 CEST	Kallon 36'	Report	Mutu 63'	Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 56,399 Referee: Nicola Ayroldi

Parma v Piacenza

17 May 2003 33	Parma	3–2	Piacenza	Parma
15:00 CEST	Gilardino 67' Adriano 70' Mutu 89'	Report	Maresca 33' Hübner 40'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Attendance: 14,267 Referee: Stefano Cassarà

Empoli v Parma

24 May 2003 34	Empoli	0–2	Parma	Empoli
15:00 CEST		Report	Mutu 16' Filippini 86'	Stadium: Stadio Carlo Castellani Attendance: 5,847 Referee: Pasquale Rodomonti

Coppa Italia

Main article: 2002–03 Coppa Italia

Second round

Vicenza v Parma

25 September 2002 First leg	Vicenza	2–0	Parma	Vicenza
	Veronese 11' Jeda 67' (pen.)			Stadium: Stadio Romeo Menti Referee: Stefano Farina

Parma v Vicenza

23 October 2002 Second leg	Parma	2–1 (a.e.t.) (2–3 agg.)	Vicenza	Parma
	Bonazzoli 24' Gilardino 63'		Cristallini 98'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Referee: Paolo Dondarini

UEFA Cup

Main article: 2002–03 UEFA Cup

First round

Main article: 2002–03 UEFA Cup first round

CSKA Moscow v Parma

19 September 2002 First leg	CSKA Moscow	1–1	Parma	Ramenskoye, Russia
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Gusev  54' Popov 67'	Report	Filippini  43' Bonera  45' Mutu 53'	Stadium: Saturn Stadium Referee: Georgios Kasnaferis (Greece)

Parma v CSKA Moscow

3 October 2002 Second leg	Parma	3–2 (4–3 agg.)	CSKA Moscow	Parma, Italy
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Adriano 8' Ferrari  24' Filippini  52' Mutu 66', 90'	Report	Yanovskiy  23' Rahimić  25' Semak 37', 43' Solomatin  46' A. Berezutski  53' Nigmatullin  88'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Referee: Uriah Rennie (England)

Second round

Main article: 2002–03 UEFA Cup second round

Parma v Wisła Kraków

31 October 2002 First leg	Parma	2–1	Wisła Kraków	Parma, Italy
21:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Donati 26' Diana  60' Mutu 74' Barone  84'	Report	Żurawski 46' Stolarczyk  49' Baszczyński  78'	Stadium: Stadio Ennio Tardini Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

Wisła Kraków v Parma

13 November 2002 Second leg	Wisła Kraków	4–1 (a.e.t.) (5–3 agg.)	Parma	Kraków, Poland
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Kosowski 70' Żurawski 80', 94' Dubicki 107'	Report	Adriano 6' Benarrivo  35' Lamouchi  70'	Stadium: Stadion Miejski im. Henryka Reymana Referee: Dejan Delević (Serbia)

Statistics

Players statistics

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Serie A		Coppa		UEFA Cup		Supercoppa
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	FRA	Frey	39	-46	34	-36	0	0	4	-8	1	-2
3	DF	ITA	Cardone	13	1	13	1
5	DF	ITA	Bonera	38	1	32	1	1	0	4	0	1	0
21	DF	ITA	Ferrari	37	2	32	2	0	0	4	0	1	0
16	DF	BRA	Júnior	30	0	27	0	1	0	2	0
10	MF	JPN	Nakata	37	4	29+2	4	1	0	4	0	1	0
6	MF	ITA	Barone	34	1	26+3	1	2	0	2	0	1	0
8	MF	FRA	Lamouchi	36	2	28+2	2	1	0	4	0	1	0
17	MF	ITA	Filippini	34	2	29+1	2	1	0	3	0
20	FW	ROU	Mutu	36	22	31	18	1	0	4	4
9	FW	BRA	Adriano	32	17	28	15	1	0	2	2	1	0
22	GK	BRA	Taffarel	2	-3	0	0	2	-3
27	DF	ITA	Benarrivo	23	0	16+3	0	0	0	4	0
26	MF	ITA	Brighi	25	1	13+9	1	3	0
28	DF	ITA	Cannavaro	16	0	9+5	0	2	0
23	MF	AUS	Bresciano	27	0	7+17	0	2	0	1	0
11	FW	ITA	Bonazzoli	9	10	6+2	3
18	FW	ITA	Gilardino	28	5	4+20	4	2	1	2	0
29	MF	ITA	Donati	13	2	4+3	1	2	0	3	1	1	0
4	DF	SVK	Greško	8	0	3+2	0	2	0	1	0
2	DF	ITA	Diana	9	0	2+3	0	2	0	1	0	1	0
7	MF	ITA	Marchionni	8	0	1+4	0	2	0	1	0
15	MF	ITA	Rosina	6	0	1+5	0
24	DF	ITA	Siviglia	4	0	1+1	0	1	0	1	0
29	DF	ITA	Pierini	4	0	0+4	0
4	FW	ITA	Porcari	1	0	0+1	0
11	MF	COL	Montaño	1	0	0+1	0
	FW	ITA	Di Vaio	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
	DF	ITA	Falsini	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
12	DF	ARG	Oyola	0	0	0	0
25	GK	ITA	De Lucia	0	0	0	0
19	FW	ITA	Massaro	0	0	0	0
7	MF	ITA	Ruffini	0	0	0	0

• Source: http://calcio-seriea.net/allenatori_squadra/2002/1226/

Goalscorers

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Serie A	Coppa Italia	UEFA Cup	Supercoppa	Total
1	FW			Adrian Mutu	18	0	4	0	22
2	FW			Adriano	15	0	2	0	17
3	FW			Alberto Gilardino	4	1	0	0	5
4	MF			Hidetoshi Nakata	4	0	0	0	4
	FW			Emiliano Bonazzoli	3	1	0	0	4
6	MF			Massimo Donati	1	0	1	0	2
	MF			Sabri Lamouchi	2	0	0	0	2
	DF			Matteo Ferrari	2	0	0	0	2
	MF			Emanuele Filippini	2	0	0	0	2
10	MF			Matteo Brighi	1	0	0	0	1
	MF			Simone Barone	1	0	0	0	1
	DF			Daniele Bonera	1	0	0	0	1
	DF			Giuseppe Cardone	1	0	0	0	1
	FW			Marco Di Vaio	0	0	0	1	1
				Own Goal	1	0	0	0	1
				TOTALS	55	2	7	1	65

References

1. "Statistiche Spettatori Serie a 2002-2003 Attendance Statistics of Serie A (1st Div) 2002-2003".
2. Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005 "Norme organizzative interne della F.I.G.C. - Art. 51.6" (PDF) (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.