| Club: | Parma |
| Season: | 2002–03 |
| Owner: | Parmalat |
| Manager: | Cesare Prandelli |
| Chairman: | Stefano Tanzi |
| Chrtitle: | President |
| Stadium: | Stadio Ennio Tardini |
| League: | Serie A |
| League Result: | 5th |
| Cup1: | Supercoppa Italiana |
| Cup1 Result: | Runners-up |
| Cup2: | Coppa Italia |
| Cup2 Result: | Second round |
| Cup3: | UEFA Cup |
| Cup3 Result: | Second round |
| League Topscorer: | Adrian Mutu (18) |
| Season Topscorer: | Adrian Mutu (22) |
| Average Attendance: | 16,306[1] |
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| Prevseason: | 2001–02 |
| Nextseason: | 2003–04 |
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.
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| width=3% | Pos. | width=32% | Name | width=30% | from | width=35% | Type |
| FW | Adriano | co-ownership | |||||
| FW | Adrian Mutu | ||||||
| FW | Alberto Gilardino | ||||||
| DF | Daniele Bonera | ||||||
| MF | Emanuele Filippini | ||||||
| MF | Simone Barone | ||||||
| MF | Mark Bresciano | ||||||
| MF | Matteo Brighi | ||||||
| DF | Paolo Cannavaro | ||||||
| MF | Massimo Donati | ||||||
| DF | Vratislav Gresko | ||||||
| DF | Sebastiano Siviglia | ||||||
| FW | Savo Milosevic | loan ended | |||||
| FW | Patrick M'Boma | loan ended | |||||
| DF | Gabriel Oyola | ||||||
| Out | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=3% | Pos. | width=32% | Name | width=30% | To | width=35% | Type |
| DF | Fabio Cannavaro | ||||||
| FW | Marco Di Vaio | ||||||
| DF | Martin Djetou | loan | |||||
| MF | Alain Boghossian | ||||||
| DF | Luigi Sartor | ||||||
| MF | Matias Almeyda | ||||||
| MF | Johan Micoud | ||||||
| DF | Nestor Sensini | ||||||
| FW | Hakan Sukur | ||||||
| MF | Jorge Bolaño | loan | |||||
| MF | Stephen Appiah | loan | |||||
| FW | Savo Milosevic | loan | |||||
| DF | Stefano Torrisi | ||||||
| FW | Patrick M'Boma | ||||||
| DF | Sergey Gurenko | ||||||
| MF | Giampiero Maini | ||||||
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| width=3% | Pos. | width=32% | Name | width=30% | from | width=35% | Type |
| DF | Giuseppe Cardone | ||||||
| DF | Alessandro Pierini | ||||||
| MF | Johnnier Montaño | ||||||
| Out | |||||||
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| width=3% | Pos. | width=32% | Name | width=30% | To | width=35% | Type |
| FW | Emiliano Bonazzoli | ||||||
| MF | Massimo Donati | ||||||
| DF | Aimo Diana | ||||||
| MF | Marco Marchionni | ||||||
| DF | Sebastiano Siviglia | ||||||
See main article: article and 2002 Supercoppa Italiana.
See main article: article and 2002–03 Serie A.
See main article: article and 2002–03 Coppa Italia.
See main article: article and 2002–03 UEFA Cup.
See main article: article and 2002–03 UEFA Cup first round.
See main article: article and 2002–03 UEFA Cup second round.
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=80 | Serie A | width=80 | Coppa Italia | width=80 | UEFA Cup | width=80 | Supercoppa | width=80 | Total |
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| 1 | FW | 18 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 22 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | FW |  | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | FW |  | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | MF |  | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| FW | | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | MF | | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| MF |  | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| DF | | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| MF | | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 10 | MF | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| MF | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| DF | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| DF | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| FW | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 55 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 65 | ||||||||||||||