The 2003–04 Bundesliga was the 41st season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. It began on 1 August 2003, with defending champions Bayern Munich hosting Eintracht Frankfurt, and concluded on 22 May 2004.
Teams Eighteen teams competed in the league – the top fifteen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the 2. Bundesliga. The promoted teams were SC Freiburg, 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt. SC Freiburg and 1. FC Köln returned to the top flight after an absence of one year while Eintracht Frankfurt returned to the top fight after an absence of two years. They replaced Arminia Bielefeld, 1. FC Nürnberg and Energie Cottbus, ending their top flight spells of one, two and three years respectively.
Team overview
Stadiums Club Location Ground Capacity Berlin Olympiastadion 76,000 Bochum Ruhrstadion 36,000 Bremen Weserstadion 36,000 Dortmund Westfalenstadion 68,600 * Frankfurt Waldstadion 62,000 * Freiburg Dreisamstadion 25,000 Hamburg AOL Arena 62,000 Hanover Niedersachsenstadion 60,400 Kaiserslautern Fritz Walter Stadion 41,500 * Cologne Müngersdorfer Stadion 46,000 Leverkusen BayArena 22,500 Mönchengladbach Bökelbergstadion 34,500 Munich Olympiastadion 63,000 Munich Olympiastadion 63,000 Rostock Ostseestadion 25,850 Gelsenkirchen Arena AufSchalke 61,973 Stuttgart Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion 53,700 Wolfsburg Volkswagen Arena 30,000 (*) Promoted from 2. Bundesliga.
Personnel and sponsoring TeamManagerKit manufacturerShirt sponsor Gerald VanenburgNikeLiqui Moly Klaus AugenthalerAdidasRWE Ottmar HitzfeldAdidasT-Mobile/Deutsche Telekom (in UEFA matches) Peter NeururerNikeDWS Matthias SammerGoool.deE.ON Holger FachLottoJever Willi ReimannJakoFraport Volker FinkeJakoNaturEnergie Klaus ToppmöllerNikeAbu Dhabi Investment Group Ewald LienenUhlsportTUI Group Juri SchlünzJakoVita Cola Hans MeyerNikeArcor Kurt JaraKappaDeutsche Vermögensberatung Marcel KollerSallerfunny-frisch Jupp HeynckesAdidasVictoria Versicherung Felix MagathPumaDebitel Thomas SchaafKappaYoung Spirit Jürgen RöberPumaVolkswagen
League table
Results
Overall Most wins - Werder Bremen (22) Fewest wins - 1. FC Köln (6) Most draws - Hertha BSC (12) Fewest draws - VfL Wolfsburg (3) Most losses - 1. FC Köln (23) Fewest losses - Werder Bremen (4) Most goals scored - Werder Bremen (79) Fewest goals scored - 1860 Munich and 1. FC Köln (32) Most goals conceded - SC Freiburg (67) Fewest goals conceded - VfB Stuttgart (24)
Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals1 Aílton Werder Bremen282 Roy Makaay Bayern Munich233 Martin Max Hansa Rostock204 Dimitar Berbatov Bayer Leverkusen16 Vahid Hashemian VfL Bochum Jan Koller Borussia Dortmund Ewerthon Borussia Dortmund8 Diego Klimowicz VfL Wolfsburg159 França Bayer Leverkusen1410 Ivan Klasnić Werder Bremen13 Peter Madsen VfL Bochum
Attendances
Source:
No. Team Average Change Highest 1 Borussia Dortmund 79,618 17,4% 83,000 2 Schalke 04 61,041 0,8% 61,266 3 Bayern München 55,118 6,2% 69,000 4 Hamburger SV 48,074 5,4% 55,500 5 VfB Stuttgart 42,940 24,2% 54,088 6 Hertha BSC 40,087 -4,8% 60,800 7 1. FC Köln 40,058 51,4% 50,997 8 1. FC Kaiserslautern 38,618 6,5% 47,315 9 Werder Bremen 37,666 14,6% 43,000 10 Borussia Mönchengladbach 32,276 11,6% 34,500 11 TSV 1860 28,659 8,9% 69,000 12 VfL Bochum 27,189 8,8% 32,645 13 Eintracht Frankfurt 26,321 61,8% 37,500 14 SC Freiburg 24,162 13,8% 25,000 15 Hannover 96 23,358 -36,0% 27,537 16 VfL Wolfsburg 23,046 19,9% 30,000 17 Bayer Leverkusen 22,500 0,0% 22,500 18 Hansa Rostock 22,371 12,7% 29,800
References
External links 2003–04 Bundesliga on kicker.de