2003 Santos FC season explained

Club:	Santos
Season:	2003
Chairman:	Marcelo Teixeira
Chrtitle:	President
Manager:	Emerson Leão
Mgrtitle:	Coach
Stadium:	Vila Belmiro
League:	Campeonato Brasileiro
League Result:	2nd
League2:	Campeonato Paulista
League2 Result:	9th
Cup1:	Copa Libertadores
Cup1 Result:	Runners-up
Cup2:	Copa Sudamericana
Cup2 Result:	Quarter-finals
League Topscorer:	Fabiano (10)
Season Topscorer:	Ricardo Oliveira (20)
Prevseason:	2002
Nextseason:	2004

The 2003 season was Santos Futebol Clube's ninety-first season in existence and the club's fifty consecutive season in the top flight of Brazilian football.

Players

Squad information

Source:^[1]

Appearances and goals

Pos.	Name	Brasileirão		Libertadores		Paulistão		Sudamericana		Total
Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
GK	Fábio Costa	35	0	12	0	5	0	6	0	58	0
GK	Júlio Sérgio	11(1)	0	2	0	1(1)	0	0	0	16	0
DF	Alex	34	9	13	4	6	1	6	1	59	15
DF	André Luis	36	3	9(2)	1	2	1	5	0	54	5
DF	Preto	8(8)	1	2(1)	0	4(1)	0	1	0	25	1
DF	Pereira	14(1)	1	4(1)	0	1(1)	0	0	0	22	1
DF	Silvio	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
DF	Léo	43	3	14	2	6	0	5(1)	1	69	6
DF	Reginaldo Araújo	30(8)	0	6	0	3	0	5(1)	0	53	0
DF	Rubens Cardoso	2(10)	0	0(3)	0	0	0	1(1)	0	17	0
DF	Neném	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	8	0
DF	Michel	1(1)	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	6	0
DF	Jaílson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
MF	Renato	44	9	13	1	6	0	5	0	68	10
MF	Elano	39	8	12	1	5	2	5	1	61	12
MF	Diego	33	9	14	4	6	1	4	0	57	14
MF	Fabiano	21(13)	10	4(6)	1	1(1)	0	3(2)	1	51	12
MF	Paulo Almeida	28	0	13	0	6	0	3	0	50	0
MF	Alexandre	9(11)	0	2	0	0(3)	0	2(2)	0	29	0
MF	Daniel Paulista	12(11)	1	0(2)	0	0	0	2(1)	0	28	1
MF	Jerri	11(12)	5	0	0	0	0	1(2)	0	26	5
MF	Wellington	4(8)	0	3(1)	0	0(1)	0	0	0	17	0
MF	Narciso	1(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
FW	Robinho	32	9	14	4	6	0	6	2	58	15
FW	Nenê	18(4)	8	2(10)	3	0(3)	0	0(1)	0	38	11
FW	Ricardo Oliveira	14	4	11	9	6	7	0	0	31	20
FW	William	9(10)	9	1(1)	0	0(2)	0	4	2	27	11
FW	Douglas	5(10)	3	1(4)	0	0(1)	0	0	0	21	3
FW	Marcelo Peabirú	2(4)	0	0	0	0	0	0(3)	0	9	0
FW	Val Baiano	1(5)	0	0	0	0	0	1(1)	0	8	0
FW	Júlio César	1(5)	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	7	0
FW	Adiel	0	0	0	0	1(1)	0	0	0	2	0

Source: Match reports in Competitive matches

In

P	Player	Moving from	Source
MF	Nenê	Paulista	^[2]
FW	Ricardo Oliveira	Portuguesa
FW	Fabiano	Internacional
DF	Reginaldo Araújo	Coritiba	^[3]
DF	Rubens Cardoso	Palmeiras
MF	Daniel Paulista	Comercial
FW	Júlio César	Gaziantepspor	^[4]
FW	Val Baiano	Paranavaí	^[5]
FW	Marcelo Peabirú	ADAP
DF	Nenêm	Palmeiras	^[6]

Out

P	Player	Moving to	Source
DF	Maurinho	Cruzeiro	^[7]
DF	Bernardi	União São João
DF	Leandro	Brasiliense
DF	Michel	Goiás
MF	Robert	Consadole Sapporo
FW	Fabiano Souza	Mogi Mirim
MF	Canindé	Paulista
FW	Bruno Moraes	Porto B
FW	Alberto	Dynamo Moscow
DF	Marcão	Sport
FW	Ricardo Oliveira	Valencia	^[8]
FW	Fabiano	Albacete
MF	Nenê	Mallorca
FW	Marcelo Peabirú	Free agent	^[9]

Friendlies

Source:^[10] ^[11] ^[12]

Competitions

Overall summary

Competition	Started round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Campeonato Brasileiro	—	2nd	30 March	14 December
Campeonato Paulista	Group Stage	Group Stage	25 January	15 February
Copa Libertadores	Group Stage	Runners-up	6 February	2 July
Copa Sudamericana	Brazil 1 preliminary	Quarterfinals	13 August	29 October

Detailed overall summary

	Total	Home	Away
Games played	72	36	36
Games won	37	21	16
Games drawn	21	11	10
Games lost	14	4	10
Biggest win	7–4 v Bahia	5–1 v Inter de Limeira	7–4 v Bahia
Biggest loss	0–3 v Cruzeiro	1–3 v Boca Juniors	0–3 v Cruzeiro
Clean sheets	16	7	9
Goals scored	143	79	64
Goals conceded	93	44	49
Goal difference	+50	+35	+15
Average GF per game	1.98	2.19	1.77
Average GC per game	1.29	1.22	1.36
Most appearances	Léo (69)	Léo and Renato (34)	Léo (35)
Top scorer	Ricardo Oliveira (20)	Ricardo Oliveira (13)	Robinho (10)
Points	132/216 (61.11%)	74/108 (68.51%)	58/108 (53.7%)
Winning rate	51.38%	58.33%	44.44%