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.

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. As winners of the competition, Porto went on to represent UEFA in the 2004 Intercontinental Cup.

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

Association team allocation

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.

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1 Template:Fba 68.467 4 2 Template:Fba 58.668 3 Template:Fba 55.459 4 Template:Fba 52.990 3 5 Template:Fba 42.352 6 Template:Fba 36.116 7 Template:Fba 34.165 2 8 Template:Fba 28.725 9 Template:Fba 28.249 10 Template:Fba 27.291 11 Template:Fba 26.625 12 Template:Fba 26.125 13 Template:Fba 25.958 14 Template:Fba 25.525 15 Template:Fba 23.250 16 Template:Fba 22.625 1 17 Template:Fba 21.475 18 Template:Fba 21.332

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 19 Template:Fba 21.041 1 20 Template:Fba 17.500 21 Template:Fba 17.375 22 Template:Fba 17.241 23 Template:Fba 16.331 24 Template:Fba 15.665 25 Template:Fba 15.165 26 Template:Fba 13.916 27 Template:Fba 13.749 28 Template:Fba 11.832 29 Template:Fba 9.332 30 Template:Fba 8.041 31 Template:Fba 7.165 32 Template:Fba 6.999 33 Template:Fba 5.165 34 Template:Fba 4.832 35 Template:Fba 4.083

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 36 Template:Fba 3.831 1 37 Template:Fba 3.331 38 Template:Fba 2.997 39 Template:Fba 2.498 40 Template:Fba 1.832 41 Template:Fba 1.665 42 Template:Fba 1.333 43 Template:Fba 1.332 44 Template:Fba 1.331 45 Template:Fba 1.165 46 Template:Fba 1.165 47 Template:Fba 1.165 0 48 Template:Fba 1.000 49 Template:Fba 0.832 1 50 Template:Fba 0.000 0 51 Template:Fba 0.000 52 Template:Fba 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 the 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
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Template:Fbaicon Real Sociedad Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Manchester United Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Lyon Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon PSV Eindhoven Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Juventus Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Arsenal Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Monaco Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Beşiktaş Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Internazionale Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Bayern Munich Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Olympiacos Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Porto Template:Small
Third qualifying round
Template:Fbaicon Deportivo La Coruña Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Borussia Dortmund Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Benfica Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Celta Vigo Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Marseille Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Lokomotiv Moscow Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Club Brugge Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Lazio Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon AEK Athens Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Sparta Prague Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Austria Wien Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Newcastle United Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Ajax Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Rangers Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Grasshopper Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Chelsea Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Galatasaray Template:Small
Second qualifying round
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Template:Fbaicon Slavia Prague Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Rosenborg Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Djurgårdens IF Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Rapid București Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Celtic Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Maccabi Tel Aviv Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Partizan Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon MTK Hungária Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Dinamo Zagreb Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Žilina Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Maribor Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Anderlecht Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Wisła Kraków Template:Small
First qualifying round
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Template:Fbaicon HJK Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon BATE Borisov Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Barry Town Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Tirana Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Skonto Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Kaunas Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Flora Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon HB Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Dinamo Tbilisi Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Bohemians Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Leotar Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Grevenmacher Template:Small
Template:Fbaicon Sheriff Tiraspol Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Vardar Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Pyunik Template:Small	Template:Fbaicon Irtysh Template:Small

Notes

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).

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

First qualifying round

2003–04 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

Second qualifying round

2003–04 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

Third qualifying round

2003–04 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

Group stage

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.

Celta Vigo, Partizan, Real Sociedad and VfB Stuttgart made their debut appearances 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

2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage

Group B

2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage

Group C

2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage

Group D

2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage

Group E

2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage

Group F

2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage

Group G

2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage

Group H

2003–04 UEFA Champions League group stage

Knockout phase

Round of 16

2003–04 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Quarter-finals

2003–04 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Semi-finals

2003–04 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Final

2003–04 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds.

Top goalscorers

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

See also

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

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)
• 2003/04 List of participants