| Competition: | The Football League |
| Season: | 2003–04 |
| Winners: | Norwich City |
| Promoted: | Norwich City West Bromwich Albion Crystal Palace |
| Relegated: | Carlisle United York City |
| Continentalcup1: | New Clubs in League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Yeovil Town Doncaster Rovers |
| Prevseason: | 2002–03 |
| Nextseason: | 2004–05 |
The 2003–04 Football League (known as the Nationwide Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 105th completed season of The Football League.
This was the last season of the Football League with the Nationwide Building Society as title sponsor, and the last in which the divisions were known as the First, Second and Third Divisions: from the following season they would be known as the Championship, League One and League Two respectively.
Norwich City won the First Division, thus returning to the Premier League for the first time since 1994–95. Also promoted to the top flight were West Bromwich Albion and Crystal Palace. Plymouth Argyle won the Second Division, while Doncaster Rovers won the Third.
The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website, with home and away statistics separated. Play-off results are from the same website.
See main article: 2003–04 Football League First Division.
| Competition: | First Division |
| Season: | 2003–04 |
| Winners: | Norwich City |
| Promoted: | Norwich City West Bromwich Albion Crystal Palace |
| Relegated: | Walsall Bradford City Wimbledon |
| Continentalcup1: | UEFA Cup |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Millwall |
| League Topscorer: | Andrew Johnson (27 goals)[1] |
| Matches: | 552 |
| Total Goals: | 1435 |
| Prevseason: | 2002–03 |
| Nextseason: | 2004–05 (Championship) |
| width=20 | Rank | width=155 | Player | width=155 | Club | width=50 | League |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrew Johnson | Crystal Palace | 28 | ||||
| 2 | 25 | ||||||
| 3 | 21 | ||||||
| 4 | 19 | ||||||
| = | 19 | ||||||
| 6 | 18 | ||||||
| 7 | 17 | ||||||
| = | 17 | ||||||
| 9 | 16 | ||||||
| 10 | 15 | ||||||
| = | 15 | ||||||
| = | 15 |
| Competition: | Football League Second Division |
| Season: | 2003–04 |
| Winners: | Plymouth Argyle |
| Promoted: | Plymouth Argyle Queens Park Rangers Brighton & Hove Albion |
| Relegated: | Grimsby Town Notts County Rushden & Diamonds Wycombe Wanderers |
| League Topscorer: | Leon Knight (Brighton & Hove Albion), 25 Stephen McPhee (Port Vale), 25 |
| Matches: | 552 |
| Total Goals: | 1460 |
| Prevseason: | 2002–03 |
| Nextseason: | 2004–05 |
| width=20 | Rank | width=155 | Player | width=155 | Club | width=50 | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leon Knight | Brighton & Hove Albion | 26 | ||||
| 2 | 25 | ||||||
| 3 | 20 | ||||||
| = | 20 | ||||||
| 5 | 19 | ||||||
| 6 | 17 | ||||||
| 7 | 16 | ||||||
| = | 16 | ||||||
| = | 16 | ||||||
| 10 | 15 |
| Competition: | Football League Third Division |
| Season: | 2003–04 |
| Winners: | Doncaster Rovers |
| Promoted: | Doncaster Rovers Hull City Torquay United Huddersfield Town |
| Continentalcup3: | Relegated to Conference |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Carlisle United York City |
| Continentalcup4: | New clubs in the league |
| Continentalcup4 Qualifiers: | Doncaster Rovers Yeovil Town |
| League Topscorer: | Steven MacLean (Scunthorpe United), 23 |
| Matches: | 552 |
| Total Goals: | 1398 |
| Prevseason: | 2002–03 |
| Nextseason: | 2004–05 |
| width=20 | Rank | width=155 | Player | width=155 | Club | width=50 | League |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steven MacLean | Scunthorpe United | 23 | ||||
| 2 | 22 | ||||||
| 3 | 21 | ||||||
| 4 | 19 | ||||||
| 5 | 18 | ||||||
| = | 18 | ||||||
| 7 | 17 | ||||||
| = | 17 | ||||||
| 9 | 16 | ||||||
| = | 16 |