# 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 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. 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 |
| DF | Giuseppe Cardone | Piacenza Calcio |
| DF | Alessandro Pierini | Reggina Calcio |
| MF | Johnnier Montaño | Piacenza Calcio |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To |
| 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
### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 3 | Milan | 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 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 6 | Udinese | 34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 38 | 35 | +3 | 56 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
| 7 | Chievo | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 51 | 39 | +12 | 55 | |
* ↑ Milan qualified for the Champions League group stage as defending champions.
* ↑ Parma finished ahead of Udinese on head-to-head points: Udinese 1–1 Parma, Parma 3–2 Udinese.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
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 |

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

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa | Coppa | UEFA Cup | UEFA Cup | Supercoppa | Supercoppa |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | 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 | 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 |
| 4 | FW | Emiliano Bonazzoli | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | MF | Massimo Donati | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | MF | Sabri Lamouchi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | DF | Matteo Ferrari | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | MF | Emanuele Filippini | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | MF | Matteo Brighi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | MF | Simone Barone | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | DF | Daniele Bonera | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | DF | Giuseppe Cardone | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | FW | Marco Di Vaio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | | Own Goal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | | TOTALS | 55 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 65 |