| Club: | Roma |
| Season: | 2002–03 |
| Manager: | Fabio Capello |
| Chairman: | Franco Sensi |
| Chrtitle: | President |
| Stadium: | Stadio Olimpico |
| League: | Serie A |
| League Result: | 8th |
| Cup1: | Coppa Italia |
| Cup1 Result: | Runners-up |
| Cup2: | UEFA Champions League |
| Cup2 Result: | Second group stage |
| League Topscorer: | Francesco Totti (14) |
| Season Topscorer: | Francesco Totti (20) |
| Average Attendance: | 57,160[1] |
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| Prevseason: | 2001–02 |
| Nextseason: | 2003–04 |
Associazione Sportiva Roma crashed down to earth following its previous two remarkable seasons, where it had won Serie A in 2000–01 and finished a close second in 2001–02. Despite the acquisition of Pep Guardiola as central midfielder, he did not apparently fit into Fabio Capello's first-team plans. The squad was essentially the same as the year before, and Guardiola's absence from the starting XI spoke volumes about the reputation of the Roma players at the time. However, things began to go against Roma following its tense competition in Serie A with Juventus. Suspecting things were amiss, both chairman Franco Sensi and manager Capello publicly condemned the judgements.
Due to all the 'misfortune' with decisions, Roma's season soon descended into complete darkness, the only highlight of the season being the qualification for the Coppa Italia final, which they lost to Milan. In the league, only a strong final third of the season saved eighth place, with only Francesco Totti reaching his normal level.
Last updated on 31 May 2003
| In | |||||||
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| width=3% | Pos. | width=33% | Name | width=28% | from | width=36% | Type |
| DF | €9.81 million | ||||||
| DF | - | ||||||
| DF | end of contract | ||||||
| MF | free | ||||||
| MF | - | ||||||
| FW | Lecco | loan ended | |||||
| FW | loan ended | ||||||
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| DF | - | ||||||
| DF | end of contract | ||||||
| MF | - | ||||||
| FW | - | ||||||
| DF | - | ||||||
| FW | - | ||||||
| FW | loan | ||||||
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| MF | loan | ||||||
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| style=text-align:center; width:150px; | Competition | style=text-align:center; width:100px; | Started round | style=text-align:center; width:100px; | Final position | style=text-align:center; width:150px; | First match | style=text-align:center; width:140px; | Last match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style=text-align:left; | Serie A | Matchday 1 | 8th | 14 September 2002 | 24 May 2003 | ||||
| style=text-align:left; | Coppa Italia | style=background:#B2BEB5; | Runners-up | 4 December 2002 | 31 May 2003 | ||||
| style=text-align:left; | Champions League | Group stage | Second group stage | 17 September 2002 | 19 March 2003 |
Last updated: 31 May 2003
See main article: 2002–03 Serie A.
See main article: 2002–03 Coppa Italia.
See also: Derby della Capitale.
See main article: 2003 Coppa Italia Final.
See main article: 2002–03 UEFA Champions League.
|-! colspan=14 style="background:#B21B1C; color:#FFD700; text-align:center"| Players transferred out during the season
| width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=145 | Name | width=80 | Serie A | width=80 | Coppa Italia | width=80 | UEFA CL | width=80 | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | FW |  | Francesco Totti | 14 | 3 | 3 | 20 | |||||||||
| 2 | 18 | FW | | Antonio Cassano | 9 | 1 | 4 | 14 | |||||||||
| 3 | 9 | FW | | Vincenzo Montella | 9 | 2 | 0 | 11 | |||||||||
| 4 | 24 | FW | | Marco Delvecchio | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||
| 5 | 11 | MF |  | Emerson | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||
| 33 | FW |  | Gabriel Batistuta | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 7 | 17 | MF | | Damiano Tommasi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| 8 | 19 | DF | | Walter Samuel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| 27 | MF | | Daniele De Rossi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 10 | 2 | DF | | Cafu | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| 23 | DF | | Christian Panucci | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 25 | MF | Gianni Guigou | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 31 | DF | Traianos Dellas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 32 | DF |  | Vincent Candela | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Own goal | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 55 | 16 | 10 | 81 | |||||||||||||
Last updated: 31 May 2003
| width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=145 | Name | width=80 | Serie A | width=80 | Coppa Italia | width=80 | UEFA CL | width=80 | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | GK | | Francesco Antonioli | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | |||||||||
| 2 | 22 | GK | | Ivan Pelizzoli | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |||||||||
| Totals | 5 | 1 | 5 | 11 | |||||||||||||
Last updated: 31 May 2003
| Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | UEFA CL | Total | |||||||||||||||||||
| width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#ff8888;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#ff8888;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#ff8888;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#ff8888;" | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
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