| Season: | 2002–03[1] |
| Winners: | Yeovil Town (1st Football Conference title) |
| Continentalcup1: | Direct promotion |
| Continentalcup2: | Promoted through play-offs |
| Continentalcup3: | FA Trophy winners |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Burscough (Northern Premier League Premier Division) (1st FA Trophy title) |
| League Topscorer: | Paul Barnes (Doncaster Rovers), 25 |
| Biggest Home Win: | Yeovil – Southport 6–0 (5 October 2002) |
| Biggest Away Win: | Woking – Morecambe 0–6 (22 February 2003) |
| Highest Scoring: | Burton Albion – Telford 4–7 (8 February 2003) |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1342 |
| Longest Wins: | ? |
| Longest Unbeaten: | ? |
| Longest Losses: | ? |
| Highest Attendance: | Yeovil Town v Chester City, 8,111 (26 April 2003) |
| Lowest Attendance: | ? |
| Average Attendance: | 1,616 (+ 18% compared with the previous season) |
| Nextseason: | 2003–04 |
The 2002–03 Football Conference season was the 24th season of the Football Conference.
This season the number of teams promoted to the Football League Division Three was increased from one to two, and play-offs were introduced to determine the second team to be promoted, along with the Conference champions. The bottom three, as usual, were relegated to either the Northern Premier League, the Southern Premier League or the Isthmian League.
Yeovil Town clinched the league title and won promotion to the Football League Division Three.
Doncaster Rovers also earned promotion to Division Three following their 3–2 play-off win over Dagenham & Redbridge, during extra time with a sudden death goal in the 110th minute.
The regular season began on 17 August 2002, and ended on 26 April 2003.
See main article: 2003 Football Conference play-off Final. The Conference National play-offs determine the second team that will be promoted to the Football League Division Three. The teams placed second through fifth qualify for the play-offs. The semi-finals are played in a two-leg, home and away format, while the final is played as one leg, and this season it was held on 10 May 2003 at Britannia Stadium, Stoke, before a crowd of 13,092.
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Doncaster Rovers win 4–3 on penalties after tying 2–2 on Aggregate.----Dagenham & Redbridge win 3–2 on penalties after tying 3–3 on Aggregate.
| width=20 | Rank | width=155 | Player | width=155 | Club | width=50 | League | width=50 | Play-offs | width=50 | FA Cup | width=50 | FA Trophy | width=50 | LDV | width=50 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Barnes | Doncaster Rovers | 25 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28 | |||||||||
| 2 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22 | |||||||||||
| 4 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||||||
| 6 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||||||
| = | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |||||||||||
| 8 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 | |||||||||||
| = | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||||||
| = | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17 | |||||||||||
| = | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17 | |||||||||||
| 12 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 20 | |||||||||||
| = | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |||||||||||
| 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | |||||||||||
| = | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | |||||||||||
| 16 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 16 | |||||||||||
| = | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | |||||||||||
| = | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | |||||||||||
| = | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
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