Season 2002–03 Period 2002 – 2003 Location Cyprus Matches played 182 | Champions Omonia
(19th title) Champion AC Omonia Goals scored 628 | |
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Champions League Omonia (2nd qualifying round) UEFA Cup Anorthosis (qualifying round)
APOEL (qualifying round; via Cypriot Cup) UEFA Intertoto Ethnikos Achna (1st round) Top goalscorer Marios Neophytou
(33 goals) Relegated Nea Salamis Famagusta FC, Aris Limassol FC, Alki Larnaca FC People also search for 2004–05 Cypriot First Division | ||
The 2002–03 Cypriot First Division was the 64th season of the Cypriot top-level football league. Omonia won their 19th title.
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Format
Fourteen teams participated in the 2002–03 Cypriot First Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The last three teams were relegated to the 2003–04 Cypriot Second Division.
The champions ensured their participation in the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League and the runners-up in the 2003–04 UEFA Cup.
The teams had to declare their interest to participate in the 2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup before the end of the championship. At the end of the championship, the higher placed teams among the interested ones participated in the Intertoto Cup (if they had not secured their participation in any other UEFA competition).
Point system
Teams received three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.
Changes from previous season
Ethnikos Assia, Doxa Katokopias and Ermis Aradippou were relegated from previous season and played in the 2002–03 Cypriot Second Division. They were replaced by the first three teams of the 2001–02 Cypriot Second Division, Nea Salamina, Digenis Morphou and Aris Limassol.
League standings
Points system: Won=3 points, Drawn=1 point, Lost=0 points
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal differences, 3) Goal for
1The third team, APOEL, qualified to 2003–04 UEFA Cup because the second team, Anorthosis, already qualified to the same competition through 2002–03 Cypriot Cup.