# 1902–03 Dundee F.C. season

The 1902–03 season was the 10th season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One. In what would be their best season to date, Dundee finished in the league in 2nd place, finishing 6 points behind champions Hibernian. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup, where they would progress to the semi-finals before losing in a replay to Hearts. This would be the first season where Dundee would wear dark blue uniforms as their definitive home colours, with their kit for the season being described as "dark blue semmets and pants, the latter being relieved with a nice red stripe down the side".

## Scottish Division One

Statistics provided by Dee Archive
| Match Day | Date | Opponent | H/A | Score | Dundee Scorer(s) | Attendance |
| 1 | 16 August | Queen's Park | H | 2–0 | White, Bell | 8,000 |
| 2 | 23 August | Heart of Midlothian | A | 2–0 | MacFarlane, Turnbull | 10,000 |
| 3 | 30 August | Kilmarnock | H | 2–0 | Turnbull, Bell | 10,000 |
| 4 | 6 September | Partick Thistle | A | 2–0 | MacFarlane, Bell | 7,000 |
| 5 | 13 September | Port Glasgow Athletic | H | 2–1 | MacFarlane, Bell | 8,000 |
| 6 | 20 September | St Mirren | H | 2–1 | McDiarmid, Bell | 13,000 |
| 7 | 27 September | Hibernian | A | 0–1 | | 18,000 |
| 8 | 4 October | Third Lanark | H | 0–0 | | 14,000 |
| 9 | 11 October | St Mirren | A | 0–1 | | 11,500 |
| 10 | 18 October | Heart of Midlothian | H | 0–1 | | 12,800 |
| 11 | 25 October | Hibernian | H | 0–3 | | 15,000 |
| 12 | 1 November | Port Glasgow Athletic | A | 0–0 | | |
| 13 | 15 November | Greenock Morton | H | 3–0 | Bell, Gilligan, White | 12,000 |
| 14 | 22 November | Greenock Morton | A | 2–0 | McDiarmid, T. Robertson | 400 |
| 15 | 29 November | Celtic | A | 2–2 | MacFarlane, White | 1,000 |
| 16 | 6 December | Rangers | H | 3–1 | McDiarmid, White (2) | 12,000 |
| 17 | 13 December | Kilmarnock | A | 2–0 | Gilligan, White | 3,000 |
| 18 | 20 December | Queen's Park | A | 0–0 | | 10,000 |
| 19 | 27 December | Partick Thistle | H | 3–0 | Dickson (3) | 6,000 |
| 20 | 17 January | Rangers | A | 1–1 | Dickson | 10,000 |
| 21 | 21 March | Celtic | H | 2–0 | Sharp, MacFarlane | 9,000 |
| 22 | 4 April | Third Lanark | A | 1–0 | Gilligan | |

### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Hibernian | 22 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 48 | 18 | +30 | 37 |
| 2 | Dundee | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 31 | 12 | +19 | 31 |
| 3 | Rangers | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 56 | 24 | +32 | 29 |
| 4 | Heart of Midlothian | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 46 | 27 | +19 | 28 |
| 5 | Celtic | 22 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 36 | 30 | +6 | 26 |

## Scottish Cup

Statistics provided by Dee Archive
| Match Day | Date | Opponent | H/A | Score | Dundee Scorer(s) | Attendance |
| 1st round | 24 January | Barholm Rovers | H | w/o | | |
| 2nd round | 31 January | Nithsdale Wanderers | H | 7–0 | White (3), Dickson (3), T. Robertson | 7,000 |
| Quarter-finals | 7 February | Hibernian | A | 0–0 | | 15,000 |
| QF replay | 14 February | Hibernian | H | 0–0 | | 24,000 |
| QF 2nd replay | 21 February | Hibernian | N | 1–0 | Bell | 36,000 |
| Semi-finals | 28 February | Heart of Midlothian | H | 0–0 | | 22,000 |
| SF replay | 7 March | Heart of Midlothian | A | 0–1 | | 32,000 |

## Player statistics

Statistics provided by Dee Archive
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | First Division | First Division | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| | FW | SCO | Alan Bell | 27 | 7 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| | DF | SCO | Vice Bonthrone | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Dickie Boyle | 21 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Johnny Darroch | 28 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Jimmy Dickson | 8 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| | FW | SCO | Sam Gilligan | 9 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Dave Gowans | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Alick Halkett | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | George Henderson | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Jimmy Jeffray | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Joe Kerr | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Sandy MacFarlane | 28 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Fred McDiarmid | 26 | 3 | 22 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| | GK | SCO | Willie Muir | 28 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Peter Robertson | 25 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Tommy Robertson | 19 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| | DF | SCO | Jimmy Sharp | 28 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Jimmy Turnbull | 12 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Bill White | 26 | 9 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 3 |