2002–03 Ekstraklasa

The 2002–03 Ekstraklasa is the 77th season of the Polish Football Championship and the 69th season of the Ekstraklasa, the top Polish professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1927.

Liga

Season	2002–03
Champions	Wisła Kraków 9th Ekstraklasa title 8th Polish title
Relegated	Zagłębie Lubin Szczakowianka Jaworzno Ruch Chorzów KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Pogoń Szczecin
Top goalscorer	Stanko Svitlica (24 goals)
Average attendance	5,142 26.1%^[1]
← 2001–02 2003–04 →

Overview

16 teams competed in the 2002-03 season. Wisła Kraków won the championship.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Wisła Kraków (C)	30	21	5	4	75	28	+47	68	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski	30	18	8	4	56	26	+30	62	Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
3	Dospel Katowice	30	19	4	7	39	21	+18	61
4	Legia Warsaw	30	17	9	4	61	29	+32	60
5	Odra Wodzisław	30	17	5	8	55	42	+13	56	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
6	Amica Wronki	30	11	10	9	43	34	+9	43
7	Górnik Zabrze	30	10	11	9	46	32	+14	41
8	Polonia Warsaw	30	11	8	11	37	45	−8	41	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
9	Widzew Łódź	30	10	7	13	29	39	−10	37
10	Wisła Płock	30	10	7	13	29	38	−9	37	Qualification to UEFA Cup qualifying round
11	Lech Poznań	30	8	11	11	41	38	+3	35
12	Zagłębie Lubin (R)	30	8	8	14	34	44	−10	32	Qualification to relegation playoffs
13	Szczakowianka Jaworzno (R)	30	8	8	14	40	54	−14	32
14	Ruch Chorzów (R)	30	7	11	12	29	39	−10	32	Relegated to II liga
15	KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (R)	30	4	3	23	21	63	−42	15
16	Pogoń Szczecin (R)	30	2	3	25	14	77	−63	9

Source: 90minut.pl (in Polish)
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AMC	KAT	KSZ	RUC	GÓR	DSK	LPO	LEG	ODR	POG	PWA	WID	WIS	WPK	ZLU	SZJ
Amica Wronki		0–1	5–1	2–1	2–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–3	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–2	1–2
GKS Katowice	1–1		2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	4–0
KSZO Ostrowiec	0–2	0–3		0–2	1–2	1–3	1–3	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–2	1–0	3–1
Ruch Chorzów	1–0	2–0	1–1		0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	0–0	1–2	0–3	0–0	3–0	1–1
Górnik Zabrze	1–0	1–3	2–0	0–0		0–0	0–0	2–3	4–0	9–0	0–0	4–0	1–2	1–2	3–2	3–0
Dyskobolia	1–2	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–2		4–1	3–3	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	4–0	5–0
Lech Poznań	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	3–1	2–3		0–0	2–3	6–0	4–1	2–1	2–4	2–2	0–0	2–2
Legia Warsaw	4–3	3–0	6–0	3–3	0–0	0–2	2–0		0–0	0–0	4–1	2–0	3–2	1–0	3–1	2–1
Odra Wodzisław	0–3	0–3	2–1	1–1	1–3	3–1	2–1	2–1		3–1	2–2	5–1	3–2	2–0	3–0	4–0
Pogoń Szczecin	0–4	0–0	4–1	0–3	1–3	1–2	0–1	0–4	1–7		0–2	0–1	0–1	1–4	0–1	0–1
Polonia Warsaw	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–2	2–1		1–0	0–4	3–1	2–1	2–1
Widzew Łódź	1–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–2	2–2	1–3	0–0	1–1	3–2		2–3	1–0	2–0	1–0
Wisła Kraków	1–1	2–0	4–1	5–2	4–0	1–1	3–2	2–1	4–0	3–0	2–0	1–0		4–0	4–1	2–2
Wisła Płock	0–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	0–1	2–1	0–1	3–2	0–3		2–0	2–1
Zagłębie Lubin	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–3	0–1	5–0	3–1	0–0	1–4	1–1		0–0
Szczakowianka Jaworzno	2–2	0–1	3–1	6–2	1–1	2–4	1–2	1–1	2–3	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–2

Source: 90minut.pl (in Polish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation playoffs

The matches were played on 14, 15, 21 and 22 June 2003.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Górnik Łęczna	3–1	Zagłębie Lubin	1–0	2–1
Świt Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki	4–0	Szczakowianka Jaworzno	1–0	3–0

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[2]
1	Stanko Svitlica	Legia Warsaw	24
2	Maciej Żurawski	Wisła Kraków	22
3	Marcin Kuźba	Wisła Kraków	21
	Andrzej Niedzielan	Górnik Zabrze / Dyskobolia Grodzisk	21
5	Jacek Ziarkowski	Odra Wodzisław	14
6	Michał Chałbiński	Odra Wodzisław	13
7	Tomasz Dawidowski	Amica Wronki	12
	Krzysztof Gajtkowski	GKS Katowice / Lech Poznań	12
9	Grzegorz Rasiak	Dyskobolia Grodzisk	10
	Marek Saganowski	Legia Warsaw	10

References

1. "Attendances – Archive Poland". EFS.co.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
2. "Najlepsi strzelcy". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 10 September 2022.