# 2003–04 Parma AC season

During the 2003–04 season Parma Associazione Calcio competed in Serie A, Coppa Italia and UEFA Cup.

## Summary

The team endured a season of horror, in which the club formerly known as Parma A.C. went into bankruptcy in the middle of the season, seeing out the season in order to avoid the chaos it would cause to the league pyramid. The reason for the bankruptcy was the financial fraud of its owner Calisto Tanzi, who had embezzled money from his company Parmalat, which also went out of business. On 28 June 2004 the club was reformed under its original name as Parma F.C., and finished fifth in the standings. Its glory days were over, however, and the club was forced to sell several key players in the summer of 2004, among them Hidetoshi Nakata, Matteo Ferrari and Matteo Brighi. However, its two most noted players, goalkeeper Sébastien Frey and top scorer and youngster Alberto Gilardino remained with the club, since it did not receive good enough offers to part with the two players.
The season was also the last in which Parma wore its distinctive blue and yellow colours at home, those being associated with Parmalat's ownership. From the 2004–05 season onwards the club reverted to its original white shirt with a black cross design. Club legend Antonio Benarrivo finished his career following the season, being the last player from the 1999 UEFA Cup winning team to leave.

## Players
### Squad information

    Squad at end of season
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 | Sebastiano Girelli |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Antonio Benarrivo |
| 4 | DF | CRO | Anthony Šerić (on loan from Hellas Verona) |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Daniele Bonera |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Giuseppe Cardone |
| 7 | MF | ROU | Ianis Zicu (on loan from Dinamo București) |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Simone Barone |
| 10 | MF | ITA | Domenico Morfeo |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Alberto Gilardino |
| 13 | DF | ARG | Gabriel Oyola |
| 14 | DF | ITA | Marcello Castellini |
| 15 | MF | ITA | Marco Donadel |
| 16 | DF | ITA | Mirko Stefani |
| 18 | FW | ITA | Benito Carbone |
| 19 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Potenza (on loan from Internazionale) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Alessandro Rosina |
| 21 | DF | ITA | Matteo Ferrari |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Giordano Vanin |
| 23 | MF | AUS | Mark Bresciano |
| 24 | GK | ITA | Fabio Virgili |
| 25 | FW | ITA | Alex Gibbs |
| 26 | MF | GUI | Ibrahima Camara |
| 28 | DF | ITA | Paolo Cannavaro |
| 30 | MF | ITA | Manuele Blasi (on loan from Juventus) |
| 31 | MF | ITA | Paolo Ruffini |
| 32 | MF | ITA | Marco Marchionni |
| 33 | MF | ITA | Lorenzo Carotti |
| 34 | GK | ITA | Marco Amelia (on loan from Lecce) |
| 36 | MF | ITA | Manuele Sorti |
| 37 | FW | ITA | Daniele Degano (on loan from Ancona) |
| 38 | FW | ITA | Fabrizio Cammarata (on loan from Cagliari) |

### Transfers

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| MF | Domenico Morfeo | Internazionale | |
| MF | Benito Carbone | Como Calcio | |
| DF | Marcello Castellini | Bologna F.C. | |
| MF | Marco Donadel | U.S. Lecce | |
| DF | Anthony Seric | Brescia Calcio | |
| MF | Manuele Blasi | Perugia Calcio | loan ended |
| MF | Stephen Appiah | Brescia Calcio | loan ended |
| DF | Mirko Stefani | A.C. Milan | |
| DF | Emiliano Moretti | Juventus | |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| FW | Adrian Mutu | Chelsea F.C. | |
| MF | Stephen Appiah | Juventus | |
| MF | Sabri Lamouchi | Internazionale | |
| DF | Alessandro Pierini | Udinese Calcio | |
| GK | Claudio Taffarel | | retired |

#### Winter

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| DF | Alessandro Potenza | Ancona Calcio | |
| FW | Fabrizio Cammarata | Cagliari Calcio | |
| FW | Ianis Zicu | Internazionale | loan |
| FW | Daniele Degano | Ancona Calcio | |
| GK | Marco Amelia | U.S. Lecce | |
| DF | Ibrahima Camara | | |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| FW | Adriano | Internazionale | |
| MF | Hidetoshi Nakata | Bologna F.C. | loan |
| DF | Júnior | A.C. Siena | loan |
| MF | Emanuele Filippini | Palermo | |
| MF | Emiliano Moretti | Bologna F.C. | loan |
| FW | Gaetano Grieco | Genoa | |
| GK | Alfonso De Lucia | Salernitana | loan |
| GK | Vincenzo Sicignano | Lecce | loan |
| MF | Matteo Brighi | Brescia Calcio | loan |
| FW | Tonino Sorrentino | Avellino | |
| MF | Jorge Bolaño | Lecce | |
| FW | Isah Eliakwu | Internazionale | loan |

## Competitions
### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 3 | Juventus | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 67 | 42 | +25 | 69 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Internazionale | 34 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 59 | 37 | +22 | 59 | Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round |
| 5 | Parma | 34 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 57 | 46 | +11 | 58 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 6 | Lazio | 34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 52 | 38 | +14 | 56 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 7 | Udinese | 34 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 44 | 40 | +4 | 50 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
* ↑ Udinese gained entry to the 2004–05 UEFA Cup as Coppa Italia because both finalists Lazio and Juventus qualified for the 2004–05 UEFA Cup and the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League through league position, respectively.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 16 May 2004. 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 | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | W | W | D | W | L | W | W | D | L | W | W | L | L | W | W | D | D | D | L | W | W | L | D | D | L | W | W | W | D | D | W | L | W |
| Position | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Cup
#### First round
#### Third round
## Statistics
### Players statistics

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | 2003-04 Serie A | 2003-04 Serie A |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | FRA | Sébastien Frey | 33 | -46 | 33 | -46 |
| 14 | DF | ITA | Marcello Castellini | 32 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Daniele Bonera | 24 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | ITA | Paolo Cannavaro | 16 | 0 | 14+2 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | ITA | Matteo Ferrari | 33 | 1 | 33 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Simone Barone | 33 | 3 | 33 | 3 |
| 15 | MF | ITA | Marco Donadel | 24 | 0 | 19+5 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | AUS | Mark Bresciano | 33 | 8 | 32+1 | 8 |
| 32 | MF | ITA | Marco Marchionni | 32 | 5 | 30+2 | 5 |
| 18 | FW | ITA | Benito Carbone | 19 | 4 | 12+7 | 4 |
| 11 | FW | ITA | Alberto Gilardino | 34 | 23 | 27+7 | 23 |
| | GK | ITA | Sicignano | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | ITA | Domenico Morfeo | 23 | 4 | 16+7 | 4 |
| 4 | DF | CRO | Anthony Šerić | 17 | 0 | 12+5 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | ITA | Manuele Blasi | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Potenza | 13 | 0 | 6+7 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ROU | Ianis Zicu | 7 | 0 | 2+5 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Antonio Benarrivo | 6 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | ITA | Alessandro Rosina | 7 | 0 | 1+6 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | ITA | Giuseppe Cardone | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | ARG | Gabriel Oyola | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 37 | FW | ITA | Daniele Degano | 4 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 |
| 38 | FW | ITA | Fabrizio Cammarata | 8 | 0 | 0+8 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | ITA | Mirko Stefani | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Giordano Vanin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | ITA | Eliakwu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | GK | ITA | Marco Amelia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | MF | ITA | Manuele Sorti | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | GUI | Ibrahima Camara | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | DF | BRA | Junior | 14 | 0 | 12+2 | 0 |
| | MF | ITA | Filippini | 12 | 1 | 5+7 | 1 |
| | MF | JPN | Nakata | 12 | 0 | 6+6 | 0 |
| | FW | BRA | Adriano | 9 | 8 | 8+1 | 8 |
| | FW | ITA | Grieco | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| | MF | COL | Jorge Bolaño | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
* Source: http://calcio-seriea.net/presenze/2003/1235/

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | UEFA Cup | Total |
| 1 | 11 | FW | | Alberto Gilardino | 23 | 0 | 3 | 26 |
| 2 | 9 | FW | | Adriano | 8 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | 23 | MF | | Mark Bresciano | 8 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 4 | 18 | FW | | Benito Carbone | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 32 | MF | | Marco Marchionni | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | 10 | MF | | Domenico Morfeo | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | 8 | MF | | Simone Barone | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | 17 | MF | | Emanuele Filippini | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | 20 | MF | | Alessandro Rosina | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | 27 | FW | | Tonino Sorrentino | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | 7 | MF | | Hidetoshi Nakata | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | 19 | FW | | Gaetano Grieco | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 21 | DF | | Matteo Ferrari | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 57 | 3 | 13 | 73 |
Last updated: 16 May 2004