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AC Milan's 17th scudetto celebrations

The 2003-2004 season in Italian Serie A football contained 18 teams for the 16th and last time from the 1988-89 season. With the bottom three being relegated, the 15th placed side would face the 6th highest team from Serie B, with the winner playing in the Serie A in 2004-2005.

As usual, the top two teams would progress directly to the UEFA Champions League group stage, while 3rd and 4th place would have to begin in the 3rd qualifying round. The UEFA Cup places would be awarded to 5th and 6th place, and the winners of the Coppa Italia.

AC Milan won their 17th scudetto; Roma impressed and were pushing for the title until the last few weeks of the season; Internazionale only made it to the Champions League ahead of Parma and Lazio on the last day thanks to Adriano, who had been signed from Parma earlier in the season; Lazio won the Coppa Italia against Juventus, handing Udinese the UEFA Cup spot; Ancona were relegated with only two wins, the joint lowest tally ever (Brescia Calcio's 12 points in Serie A 1994-95 is still the lowest ever); Empoli and Modena were also relegated; Perugia lost their play-off with Fiorentina, who returned to Serie A after a two year absence.

Ukrainian forward Andriy Shevchenko of Milan was the top scorer with 24 goals. The 2003-2004 league was the last professional season in the career of former European Footballer of the Year and Italian international Roberto Baggio, who finished among the tournament's top ten scorers with 12 goals, and among the all-time top five scorers, with 205 career goals. It was also the last Serie A season for Baggio's former teammate Giuseppe Signori, who then moved to the Greek Super League. Signori ended his career in Italy as the seventh highest scorer ever in Serie A.

[edit] Final classification

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Milan (C)	34	25	7	2	65	24	+41	82	UEFA Champions League 2004-05 Group stage
2	Roma	34	21	8	5	68	19	+49	71	UEFA Champions League 2004-05 Group stage
3	Juventus	34	21	6	7	67	42	+25	69	UEFA Champions League 2004-05 Third qualyfing round
4	Internazionale	34	17	8	9	59	37	+22	59	UEFA Champions League 2004-05 Third qualyfing round
5	Parma	34	16	10	8	57	46	+11	58	UEFA Cup 2004-05 First round
6	Lazio	34	16	8	10	52	38	+14	56
7	Udinese	34	13	11	10	44	40	+4	050¹
8	Sampdoria	34	11	13	10	40	42	−2	46
9	Chievo	34	11	11	12	36	37	−1	44
10	Lecce	34	11	8	15	43	56	−13	41
11	Brescia	34	9	13	12	52	57	−5	40
12	Bologna	34	10	9	15	45	53	−8	39
13	Reggina	34	6	16	12	29	45	−16	34
14	Siena	34	8	10	16	41	54	−13	34
15	Perugia	34	6	14	14	44	56	−12	32	Serie A qualification
16	Modena (R)	34	6	12	16	27	46	−19	30	Relegation to Serie B
17	Empoli (R)	34	7	9	18	26	54	−28	30
18	Ancona (R)	34	2	7	25	21	70	−49	13

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
¹ Udinese gained entry to the 2004-05 UEFA Cup as Coppa Italia 2003-04 finalists Lazio and Juventus qualified for the 2004-05 UEFA Cup through championship's placement and to 2004-05 Champions League respectively.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] Results

	Ancona	Bologna	Brescia	Chievo	Empoli	Inter	Juventus	Lazio	Lecce	Milan	Modena	Parma	Perugia	Reggina	Roma	Sampdoria	Siena	Udinese
Ancona		3-2	1-1	0-2	2-1	0-2	2-3	0-1	0-2	0-2	1-1	0-2	0-0	1-1	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-3
Bologna	3-2		3-0	3-1	2-1	0-2	0-1	2-1	1-1	0-2	1-1	2-2	2-2	2-2	0-4	0-1	3-1	2-0
Brescia	5-2	0-0		1-1	2-0	2-2	2-3	2-1	1-2	0-1	0-0	2-3	1-1	4-4	1-0	1-1	4-2	1-2
Chievo	1-0	2-1	3-1		0-0	0-2	1-2	0-0	2-3	0-2	2-0	0-2	4-1	0-0	0-3	1-1	1-1	0-0
Empoli	2-0	2-0	1-1	0-1		2-3	3-3	2-2	0-0	0-1	0-3	1-0	1-0	1-1	0-2	1-1	1-0	2-0
Inter	3-0	4-2	1-3	0-0	0-1		3-2	0-0	3-1	1-3	2-0	1-0	2-1	6-0	0-0	0-0	4-0	1-2
Juventus	3-0	2-1	2-0	1-0	5-1	1-3		1-0	3-4	1-3	3-1	4-0	1-0	1-0	2-2	2-0	4-2	4-1
Lazio	4-2	2-1	0-1	1-0	3-0	2-1	2-0		4-1	0-1	2-1	2-3	3-1	1-1	1-1	1-1	5-2	2-2
Lecce	3-1	1-2	1-4	1-2	2-1	2-1	1-1	0-1		1-1	1-0	1-2	1-2	2-1	0-3	0-0	0-0	2-1
Milan	5-0	2-1	4-2	2-2	1-0	3-2	1-1	1-0	3-0		2-0	3-1	2-1	3-1	1-0	3-1	2-1	1-2
Modena	2-1	2-0	1-1	0-3	1-1	1-1	0-2	1-1	2-0	1-1		2-2	1-0	1-2	0-1	1-0	1-3	0-1
Parma	3-1	0-0	2-2	3-1	4-0	1-0	2-2	0-3	3-1	0-0	3-0		3-0	1-2	1-4	1-0	1-1	4-3
Perugia	1-0	4-2	2-2	0-2	1-1	2-3	1-0	1-2	2-2	1-1	1-1	2-2		0-0	0-1	3-3	2-2	3-3
Reggina	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2-0	0-2	0-2	2-1	1-3	2-1	1-1	1-1	1-2		0-0	2-2	2-1	0-1
Roma	3-0	1-2	5-0	3-1	3-0	4-1	4-0	2-0	3-1	1-2	1-0	2-0	1-3	2-0		3-1	6-0	1-1
Sampdoria	2-0	3-2	2-1	1-0	2-0	2-2	1-2	1-2	2-2	0-3	1-1	1-2	3-2	2-0	0-0		2-1	1-3
Siena	3-2	0-0	0-1	1-2	4-0	0-1	1-3	3-0	2-1	1-2	4-0	1-2	2-1	0-0	0-0	0-0		1-0
Udinese	3-0	1-3	4-3	1-1	2-0	0-0	0-0	1-2	1-0	0-0	1-0	1-1	1-1	1-0	1-2	0-1	1-1

[edit] Serie A qualification

Perugia had to play a qualification match with 6th-placed team of Serie B, Fiorentina.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Perugia	1-2	Fiorentina	0-1	1-1

A.C. Perugia relegated to Serie B, while ACF Fiorentina was promoted to Serie A.

[edit] Leading scorers

Place	Scorer	Scored	Team
1	Andriy Shevchenko	24	Milan
2	Alberto Gilardino	23	Parma
3	Francesco Totti	20	Roma
4	Javier Chevantón	19	Lecce
5	Adriano	17	Inter; Parma
6	David Trézéguet	16	Juventus
7	Antonio Cassano	14	Roma
8	Fabio Bazzani	13	Sampdoria
	Christian Vieri	13	Inter
10	Roberto Baggio	12	Brescia
	Andrea Caracciolo	12	Brescia
	Dino Fava	12	Udinese
	Jon Dahl Tomasson	12	Milan

[edit] Season transfers

[edit] References

Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

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