The 2002–03 Regionalliga season was the ninth season of the Regionalliga at tier three (III) of the German football league system.
The Regionalliga was split into two divisions, the Regionalliga Nord and the Regionalliga Süd. The league champions, Erzgebirge Aue and SpVgg Unterhaching, and the runners-up in both divisions, VfL Osnabrück and Jahn Regensburg, were promoted to the 2003–04 2. Bundesliga.
Teams SV Babelsberg 03, 1. FC Saarbrücken, 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 and SpVgg Unterhaching came down from the 2001–02 2. Bundesliga, replacing VfB Lübeck, Eintracht Braunschweig, Wacker Burghausen and Eintracht Trier.
Borussia Dortmund (A), Dynamo Dresden, Hamburger SV (A), 1. FC Köln (A), FC Augsburg, Eintracht Frankfurt (A) Borussia Neunkirchen and SC Pfullendorf were promoted from the Oberliga, replacing 1. FC Magdeburg, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Fortuna Köln, VfR Mannheim, VfB Stuttgart (A), SpVgg Ansbach and Borussia Fulda.
Regionalliga Nord
Final table
Top scorers #PlayerClubGoals1. Dmitrijus GuščinasHolstein Kiel232. Ersin DemirChemnitzer FC18 Veselin Petkov GerovSC Paderborn 074. Alexander LöbeSG Wattenscheid 09175. Halil AltıntopSG Wattenscheid 0916 Achim WeberRot-Weiß Essen7. Nelson ValdezWerder Bremen (A)158. Marco AntwerpenPreußen Münster149. Christian ClaaßenVfL Osnabrück11 Ronny JankErzgebirge Aue
Regionalliga Süd Five teams were due to be relegated, but Stuttgarter Kickers and Sportfreunde Siegen were reprieved because two of the relegated teams from the 2. Bundesliga, SSV Reutlingen and SV Waldhof Mannheim, could not achieve a Regionalliga license, and dropped another level, to the Oberliga.
Final table
Top scorers #PlayerClubGoals1. Francisco CopadoSpVgg Unterhaching242. Mark RömerSC Pfullendorf223. Veselin Popović1. FC Schweinfurt 05204. Thomas OllhoffTSG Hoffenheim195. Jörg ReebFC Augsburg156. Christoph TeinertTSG Hoffenheim147. Miguel CoulibalyFC Augsburg13 Sead MehićSV Wehen Vlado PapićJahn Regensburg András TölcséresJahn Regensburg
References
External links Regionalliga at the German Football Association Regionalliga Nord 2002–03 at kicker.de Regionalliga Süd 2002–03 at kicker.de