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Season
  
2002–03

Promoted through play-offs
  
Doncaster Rovers

Goals scored
  
1,342

Direct promotion
  
Yeovil Town

Champion
  
Yeovil Town F.C.

Matches played
  
462

2002–03 Football Conference

Champions
  
Yeovil Town (1st Football Conference title)

FA Trophy winners
  
Burscough (Northern Premier League Premier Division) (1st FA Trophy title)

Relegated to Level 6
  
Kettering Town, Nuneaton Borough, Southport

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2001–02 Football Conference

The 2002–03 Football Conference season was the 24th season of the Football Conference.

Contents

Overview

This season the number of teams promoted to the Football League Division Three was increased from one to two, and play-offs were introduced to determine the second team to be promoted, along with the Conference champions. The bottom three, as usual, were relegated to either the Northern Premier League, the Southern Premier League or the Isthmian League.

Yeovil Town clinched the league title and won promotion to the Football League Division Three.

Doncaster Rovers also earned promotion to Division Three following their 3–2 play-off win over Dagenham & Redbridge, during extra time with a sudden death goal in the 110th minute.

The regular season began on 17 August 2002, and ended on 26 April 2003.

Changes since the previous season

  • Burton Albion (promoted 2001–02)
  • Gravesend & Northfleet (promoted 2001–02)
  • Halifax Town (relegated from the Football League 2001–02)
  • Kettering Town (promoted 2001–02)

    • Final league table

  • Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
  • Points scored: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.
  • Source:

    • Results

    Source: [1] Soccerbase
    1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

    Play-offs

    The Conference National play-offs determine the second team that will be promoted to the Football League Division Three. The teams placed second through fifth qualify for the play-offs. The semi-finals are played in a two-leg, home and away format, while the final is played as one leg, and this season it was held on 10 May 2003 at Britannia Stadium, Stoke, before a crowd of 13,092.

    Source:

    Top scorers in order of league goals

  • Footballtransfers.co.uk contains information on many players on whom there is not yet an article in Wikipedia.

    • Source:

    References

    2002–03 Football Conference Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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