2003–04 Preston North End F.C. season

Preston North End

2003–04 season

Football League First Division

15th

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2004–05 →

The 2003–04 season saw Preston North End compete in the Football League First Division where they finished in 15th position with 59 points.^[1]

Final league table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Norwich City	46	28	10	8	79	39	+40	94
2	West Bromwich Albion	46	25	11	10	64	42	+22	86
3	Sunderland	46	22	13	11	62	45	+17	79
4	West Ham United	46	19	17	10	67	45	+22	74
5	Ipswich Town	46	21	10	15	84	72	+12	73
6	Crystal Palace	46	21	10	15	72	61	+11	73
7	Wigan Athletic	46	18	17	11	60	45	+15	71
8	Sheffield United	46	20	11	15	65	56	+9	71
9	Reading	46	20	10	16	55	57	–2	70
10	Millwall	46	18	15	13	55	48	+7	69
11	Stoke City	46	18	12	16	58	55	+3	66
12	Coventry City	46	17	14	15	67	54	+13	65
13	Cardiff City	46	17	14	15	68	58	+10	65
14	Nottingham Forest	46	15	15	16	61	51	+3	60
15	Preston North End	46	15	14	17	69	71	–2	59
16	Watford	46	15	12	19	54	68	–14	57
17	Rotherham United	46	13	15	18	53	61	–8	54
18	Crewe Alexandra	46	14	11	21	57	66	–9	53
19	Burnley	46	13	14	19	60	77	–17	53
20	Derby County	46	13	13	20	53	67	–14	52
21	Gillingham	46	14	9	23	48	67	–19	51
22	Walsall	46	13	12	21	45	65	–20	51
23	Bradford City	46	10	6	30	38	69	–31	36
24	Wimbledon	46	8	5	33	41	89	–48	29

Key: P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Results

Preston North End's score comes first

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League First Division

Main article: 2003–04 Football League

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	9 August 2003	West Ham United	H	1 – 2	18,246	Lewis
2	16 August 2003	Wigan Athletic	A	1 – 1	12,073	Fuller
3	23 August 2003	Sunderland	H	0 – 2	14,018
4	25 August 2003	West Bromwich Albion	A	0 – 1	24,402
5	30 August 2003	Stoke City	H	1 – 0	12,965	McKenna
6	13 September 2003	Bradford City	A	1 – 2	11,243	Fuller
7	16 September 2003	Coventry City	H	4 – 2	11,886	Fuller (2), Cresswell, Keane
8	20 September 2003	Rotherham United	H	4 – 1	12,340	Fuller, Cresswell, Alexander, O'Neil
9	27 September 2003	Walsall	A	1 – 2	6,981	Fuller
10	1 October 2003	Nottingham Forest	A	1 – 0	22,278	Abbott
11	4 October 2003	Wimbledon	H	1 – 0	13,801	Fuller
12	14 October 2003	Millwall	A	1 – 0	8,015	McKenna
13	18 October 2003	Reading	A	2 – 3	13,130	Fuller, Alexander
14	21 October 2003	Crewe Alexandra	A	1 – 2	7,012	Etuhu
15	25 October 2003	Ipswich Town	H	1 – 1	14,863	Healy
16	1 November 2003	Derby County	H	3 – 0	12,836	Healy, Alexander, Fuller
17	4 November 2003	Watford	H	2 – 1	11,152	Abbott, Healy
18	8 November 2003	Crystal Palace	A	1 – 1	14,608	Healy
19	22 November 2003	Norwich City	H	0 – 0	14,775
20	29 November 2003	Sheffield United	A	0 – 2	21,003
21	6 December 2003	Crystal Palace	H	4 – 1	12,836	Etuhu, Alexander, Healy, Lewis
22	9 December 2003	Cardiff City	A	2 – 2	13,703	Healy, Fuller
23	13 December 2003	Gillingham	A	1 – 0	7,602	Fuller
24	20 December 2003	Burnley	H	5 – 3	18,802	Fuller (3), Lewis, Healy
25	26 December 2003	Stoke City	A	1 – 1	20,126	Healy
26	28 December 2003	Crewe Alexandra	H	0 – 0	15,830
27	10 January 2004	West Ham United	A	2 – 1	28,777	Healy, Fuller
28	17 January 2004	Wigan Athletic	H	2 – 4	19,161	Etuhu, Alexander
29	7 February 2004	West Bromwich Albion	H	3 – 0	16,569	Lewis, Healy, Alexander
30	14 February 2004	Watford	A	0 – 2	12,675
31	21 February 2004	Millwall	H	1 – 2	12,903	Davis
32	28 February 2004	Ipswich Town	A	0 – 2	23,359
33	2 March 2004	Reading	H	2 – 1	11,745	Healy (2)
34	6 March 2004	Burnley	H	1 – 1	15,837	Alexander
35	10 March 2004	Sunderland	A	3 – 3	27,181	Mears, Healy, Lewis
36	13 March 2004	Gillingham	H	0 – 0	13,111
37	17 March 2004	Coventry City	A	1 – 4	13,142	Fuller
38	20 March 2004	Walsall	H	1 – 2	11,551	Alexander
39	27 March 2004	Rotherham United	A	0 – 1	6,268
40	3 April 2004	Bradford City	H	1 – 0	12,376	Gemmill
41	10 April 2004	Wimbledon	A	3 – 3	2,866	McKenna, Lynch, Koumantarakis
42	12 April 2004	Nottingham Forest	H	2 – 2	15,117	McKenna, Lucketti
43	17 April 2004	Derby County	A	1 – 5	24,162	Mawéné (o.g.)
44	24 April 2004	Cardiff City	H	2 – 2	11,972	McKenna, Lewis
45	1 May 2004	Norwich City	A	2 – 3	23,673	McKenna, Healy
46	9 May 2004	Sheffield United	H	3 – 3	16,612	Alexander, Healy, Fuller

FA Cup

Main article: 2003–04 FA Cup

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R3	3 January 2004	Reading	H	3 – 3	9,428	Fuller (2), O'Neil
R3 Replay	13 January 2004	Reading	A	2 – 1	9,314	Cresswell, Koumantarakis
R4	24 January 2004	Swansea City	A	1 – 2	10,200	Etuhu

Football League Cup

Main article: 2003–04 Football League Cup

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	12 August 2003	Notts County	H	0 – 0 (6 – 7 pens)	5,016

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Total
No.	Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	David Lucas	1(1)	0	0	0	0	0	1(1)	0
2	DF	Graham Alexander	45	9	3	0	1	0	49	9
3	DF	Brian O'Neil	27(2)	1	3	1	0	0	30(2)	2
4	MF	Dickson Etuhu	23(8)	3	2	1	1	0	26(8)	4
5	DF	Michael Jackson	41(2)	0	1	0	1	0	43(2)	0
6	DF	Marlon Broomes	30	0	1	0	0	0	31	0
7	MF	Lee Cartwright	2(10)	0	0	0	1	0	3(10)	0
8	MF	Craig Burley	1(3)	0	0	0	0	0	1(3)	0
8	MF	Scot Gemmill	7	1	0	0	0	0	7	1
9	FW	Ricardo Fuller	37(1)	17	2	2	1	0	40(1)	19
10	FW	George Koumantarakis	1(6)	1	2	1	0	0	2(6)	2
11	FW	David Healy	27(11)	15	3	0	0(1)	0	30(12)	15
13	GK	Andy Lonergan	8	0	0	0	0	0	8	0
14	DF	Lee Briscoe	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
15	DF	Rob Edwards	16(8)	0	1	0	1	0	18(8)	0
16	MF	Paul McKenna	39	6	3	0	0	0	42	6
17	MF	Eddie Lewis	26(7)	6	2	0	0	0	28(7)	6
18	FW	Pawel Abbott	2(7)	2	0(3)	0	0(1)	0	2(11)	2
19	MF	Michael Keane	21(9)	1	2	0	1	0	23(9)	1
20	DF	Chris Lucketti	37	1	1	0	1	0	39	1
22	DF	Claude Davis	16(6)	1	2	0	0	0	18(6)	1
24	DF	Tyrone Mears	11(1)	1	1	0	0(1)	0	12(2)	1
25	FW	Richard Cresswell	41(4)	2	1	1	1	0	43(4)	3
26	FW	Éric Skora	0(2)	0	0	0	1	0	1(2)	0
27	MF	Alan McCormack	2(3)	0	0	0	0	0	2(3)	0
32	DF	Jeff Smith	0(5)	0	0	0	0	0	0(5)	0
34	FW	Simon Lynch	6(12)	1	0	0	0	0	6(12)	1
40	GK	Jonathan Gould	37	0	3	0	1	0	41	0

References

↑ "Preston North End 2003/04". Statto. Retrieved 12 January 2015.

External links

Preston North End 2003–04 at Soccerbase.com (select relevant season from dropdown list)

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FA competitions

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Club seasons

Premier League	Arsenal Aston Villa Birmingham City Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Charlton Athletic Chelsea Everton Fulham Leeds United Leicester City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Middlesbrough Newcastle United Portsmouth Southampton Tottenham Hotspur Wolverhampton Wanderers

First Division	Bradford City Burnley Cardiff City Coventry City Crewe Alexandra Crystal Palace Derby County Gillingham Ipswich Town Millwall Norwich City Nottingham Forest Preston North End Reading Rotherham United Sheffield United Stoke City Sunderland Walsall Watford West Bromwich Albion West Ham United Wigan Athletic Wimbledon

Second Division	Barnsley Blackpool Bournemouth Brentford Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol City Chesterfield Colchester United Grimsby Town Hartlepool United Luton Town Notts County Oldham Athletic Peterborough United Plymouth Argyle Port Vale Queens Park Rangers Rushden & Diamonds Sheffield Wednesday Stockport County Swindon Town Tranmere Rovers Wrexham Wycombe Wanderers

Third Division	Boston United Bristol Rovers Bury Cambridge United Carlisle United Cheltenham Town Darlington Doncaster Rovers Huddersfield Town Hull City Kidderminster Harriers Leyton Orient Lincoln City Macclesfield Town Mansfield Town Northampton Town Oxford United Rochdale Scunthorpe United Southend United Swansea City Torquay United Yeovil Town York City

Non-League	AFC Wimbledon Gateshead Newport County Shrewsbury Town

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