2003–04 Serie B

Serie B TIM
Season	2003–04
Promoted	Palermo (3rd title); Cagliari; Messina; Livorno; Atalanta; Fiorentina
Relegated	Como; Avellino; Napoli
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,287 (2.33 per match)
Top goalscorer	Luca Toni (30 goals)
	← 2002–03 2004–05 →

AlbinoLeffe
Atalanta

Ascoli

Bari

Como

Livorno

Messina

Napoli

Palermo

Pescara

Piacenza

Salernitana

Ternana

Torino

Treviso
Venezia

Triestina

Verona

Vicenza

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Serie B 2003-04 team distribution

The 2003–04 Serie B is the 72nd season since its establishment in 1929. It is the second highest football league in Italy.

Teams[]

Treviso, Avellino, AlbinoLeffe and Pescara had been promoted from Serie C, while Atalanta, Piacenza, Como, and Torino had been relegated from Serie A. Following the Caso Catania, Fiorentina was added.

Events[]

Following the Caso Catania, the league had been expanded to 24 clubs, and six special promotions were decided to descend to 22.

Relegation play-offs were also introduced.

Final classification[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Palermo (P, C)	46	22	17	7	75	39	+36	83	Promotion to Serie A
2	Cagliari (P)	46	23	14	9	80	51	+29	83
3	Livorno (P)	46	20	19	7	75	45	+30	79
4	Messina (P)	46	21	16	9	71	45	+26	79
5	Atalanta (P)	46	19	20	7	59	36	+23	77
6	Fiorentina (P)	46	19	16	11	53	48	+5	73	Promotion play-offs
7	Ternana	46	18	15	13	64	52	+12	69
8	Piacenza	46	17	17	12	50	47	+3	68
9	Catania	46	18	13	15	53	53	0	67
10	Triestina	46	15	19	12	50	50	0	64
11	Ascoli	46	14	18	14	54	54	0	60
12	Torino	46	14	17	15	57	54	+3	59
13	Vicenza	46	12	20	14	48	51	−3	56
14	Napoli^[a] (R)	46	10	26	10	35	43	−8	56	Relegation to Serie C1
15	Treviso	46	12	19	15	48	51	−3	55
16	Genoa	46	13	16	17	57	62	−5	55
17	Salernitana	46	14	13	19	36	53	−17	55
18	AlbinoLeffe	46	13	15	18	47	59	−12	54
19	Hellas Verona	46	13	14	19	54	65	−11	53
20	Venezia	46	12	15	19	40	57	−17	51	Relegation play-offs
21	Bari^[b] (T)	46	13	11	22	50	63	−13	50	Spared from relegation
22	Pescara^[c] (T)	46	11	13	22	46	69	−23	46	Spared from relegation
23	Avellino (R)	46	8	13	25	51	69	−18	37	Relegation to Serie C1
24	Como (R)	46	7	12	27	34	71	−37	33	Relegation to Serie C1

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated; (T) Qualified, but not yet to the particular phase indicated
Notes:

^ Folded after bankruptcy, new entity re-admitted to Serie C1 by Lodo Petrucci.
^ Relegated after relegation play-off and later readmitted in place of Napoli.
^ Relegated and later readmitted after newly relegated Ancona's bankruptcy.

Results[]

Home \ Away	ALB	ASC	ATA	AVE	BAR	CAG	CTN	COM	FIO	GEN	LIV	MES	NAP	PAL	PES	PIA	SAL	TER	TOR	TRV	TRI	VEN	HEL	VIC
AlbinoLeffe	—	3–3	0–4	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–1
Ascoli	2–1	—	1–1	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	4–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	0–0	0–0	3–2	0–0	2–2	1–3	2–1	1–0	3–0	3–1
Atalanta	2–1	2–0	—	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	4–1	0–0	0–2	3–2
Avellino	0–3	2–2	1–1	—	1–2	2–3	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	3–0	0–0	3–2	1–3	2–1	0–2	1–3	2–3	1–0	1–0	6–0	0–1
Bari	0–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	—	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–2	1–3	0–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	3–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	4–1	1–2	1–2	2–1
Cagliari	1–0	3–0	5–1	3–1	2–1	—	2–1	3–2	3–1	2–0	4–1	1–1	1–1	3–2	3–0	0–2	3–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–2	1–1	0–0
Catania	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–3	—	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–3	1–0	1–0	0–2	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–1
Como	1–1	2–1	0–3	0–3	1–3	1–3	1–4	—	0–2	1–3	3–5	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–2	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–2	0–1
Fiorentina	2–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	3–1	2–1	3–2	1–0	—	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1
Genoa	4–2	1–1	0–3	1–1	2–0	4–2	1–3	0–1	2–1	—	0–1	2–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	4–1	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	4–1	2–0
Livorno	3–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	—	3–0	3–0	1–1	5–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	1–2
Messina	4–1	2–1	3–0	3–2	1–0	2–2	3–0	3–0	3–0	4–0	2–1	—	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1
Napoli	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–3	0–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–0	—	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–1
Palermo	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	5–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	4–1	0–0	4–0	—	2–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	2–1	2–3	3–1	4–0	3–1	3–0
Pescara	4–3	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–2	0–2	—	1–0	2–2	2–2	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–0
Piacenza	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–0	4–4	1–3	1–0	2–3	2–2	2–1	—	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	1–0
Salernitana	0–3	0–0	1–3	1–0	2–0	3–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	0–3	0–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	—	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–0
Ternana	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	3–2	1–0	1–2	3–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–2	—	0–0	3–2	1–0	5–2	2–0	1–0
Torino	4–0	3–1	0–1	2–2	3–2	4–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	1–2	2–1	2–0	4–2	0–1	2–1	—	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1
Treviso	2–1	3–1	0–3	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	4–0	1–1	0–0	—	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–1
Triestina	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–2	2–1	2–1	4–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	—	1–0	2–2	0–1
Venezia	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–2	1–2	0–3	3–1	0–2	2–2	3–2	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	—	0–2	1–1
Hellas Verona	2–3	0–1	1–2	2–2	4–3	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–2	4–3	3–0	0–0	3–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	—	2–3
Vicenza	1–0	2–3	0–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–2	—

Source: Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion play-offs[]

Fiorentina had to play a qualification match with 15th-placed team of Serie A, Perugia.

16 June 2004

20:30 CEST

Perugia	0–1	Fiorentina
		Fantini 10'

Stadio Renato Curi, Perugia

Attendance: 23,500

Referee: Matteo Trefoloni

20 June 2004

20:30 CEST

Fiorentina	1–1	Perugia
Fantini 47'		do Prado 82'

Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence

Attendance: 43,000

Referee: Roberto Rosetti

A.C. Perugia relegated to Serie B, while ACF Fiorentina was promoted to Serie A.

Relegation play-off[]

16 June 2004

20:30 CEST

Bari	1–0	Venezia
Bruno 57'

Stadio San Nicola, Bari

Attendance: 22,583

Referee:

19 June 2004

20:30 CEST

Venezia	2–0	Bari
Brellier 50' Biancolino 90+4'

Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo, Venice

Attendance: 4,846

Referee: Stefano Farina

A.S. Bari was relegated to Serie C1 2004-05 but was later readmitted to Serie B in place of S.S.C. Napoli.

Top scorers[]

Luca Toni, Palermo: 30

[table_note_NAP0.35201870014519-1] Folded after bankruptcy, new entity re-admitted to Serie C1 by Lodo Petrucci.

[table_note_BAR0.35201870014519-2] Relegated after relegation play-off and later readmitted in place of Napoli.

[table_note_PES0.35201870014519-3] Relegated and later readmitted after newly relegated Ancona's bankruptcy.

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