2003–04 SS Lazio season
| 2003–04 season | ||
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| Manager | Roberto Mancini | |
| Serie A | 6th | |
| Coppa Italia | Winners | |
| UEFA Champions League | Group stage | |
| Top goalscorer | Bernardo Corradi (10) | |
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S.S. Lazio was still a club in turmoil during the 2003–04 season, and it was the last year before the squad was almost completely depleted of quality.
Season
Lazio had qualifed for the UEFA Champions League thanks to a great team spirit during the difficult 2002–03 season. The Capitalia bank still controlled the club, and it tried to enhance the sale value of the club by bringing in Udinese midfielders David Pizarro and Martin Jørgensen to the club. The deal fell through however, due to a couple of undisclosed Lazio players refusing to move to Udinese as exchange for the transfer-targets. The reasoning behind the deal from Capitalia was that a great Champions League result should help them find an investor, and therefore the departure of the club in the Group Phase nearly got to be end of the club.
Prior to the season had Capitalia released enough funds to sign Demetrio Albertini, Luciano Zauri and Roberto Muzzi to the club, but at the same time key midfielder Diego Simeone left for Atlético Madrid, which turned out to be a blow for the midfield play in the 2003–04 season.
Lazio started off greatly, fending off newcomers Lecce 4–1 and Sampdoria 2–1 away from home. Talk of a title challenge faded afterwards, when the play got really inconsistent, and the goalscoring was not at the same level as in the year before. Expected star striker Claudio López had his worst season with the club, while Bernardo Corradi scored his accustomary ten goals. Jaap Stam and Stefano Fiore were the players who got the most fanfare, especially Fiore, following a sensational display against Juventus, when Lazio won the Coppa Italia.
In the end, despite beating both Juventus and Internazionale at home in the league, Lazio came up short in taking a vital fourth place that would have enabled the club to receive income from Champions League play. It ended up sixth, following a defeat at the hans of Brescia and an inspired Roberto Baggio. Inter clinched the final Champions League spot, and Lazio was doomed to sell several key players during the summer, if the club would even make it through.
Squad
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Francesco Colonnese- Luciano Zauri
Siniša Mihajlović- Duccio Innocenti
Guerino Gottardi- Giuseppe Favalli
- Massimo Oddo
- Paolo Negro
Fernando Couto
Jaap Stam
Midfielders
Christian Manfredini- Demetrio Albertini
Ousmane Dabo
César- Dejan Stanković
- Stefano Fiore
- Giuliano Giannichedda
- Fabio Liverani
- Sérgio Conçeicão
Attackers
Serie A
Matches
| 1 | Lazio | 4–1 | Lecce | Rome |
Albertini  20' Corradi 25' Fiore 36' Oddo 84' |
Konan 50' |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
| 2 | Sampdoria | 1–2 | Lazio | Genoa |
| Bazzani 73' |
S. Inzaghi 9' Albertini 64' (pen.) |
Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris |
| 3 | Lazio | 2–3 | Parma | Rome |
| Stam 33' S. Inzaghi 79' |
Bresciano 1, 89' Adriano 63' |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
| 4 | Empoli | 2–2 | Lazio | Empoli |
| Di Natale 74' Tavano 78' |
Stanković 37' Fiore 87' |
Stadium: Stadio Carlo Castellani |
| 5 | Lazio | 1–0 | Chievo | Rome |
| Mihajlović 64' |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
| 7 | Lazio | 2–1 | Bologna | Rome |
| S. Inzaghi 83' Corradi 90 + 1' |
Dabo 87' (o.g.) |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
| 8 | Udinese | 1–2 | Lazio | Udine |
| Iaquinta 27' |
Corradi 16' S. Inzaghi 33' |
Stadium: Stadio Friuli |
| 10 | Lazio | 3–1 | Perugia | Rome |
| Stanković 45+2' Corradi 87' S. Inzaghi 90+4' |
Grosso 62' |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
| 13 | Ancona | 0–1 | Lazio | Ancona |
| Liverani 76' |
Stadium: Stadio del Conero |
| 15 | Reggina | 2–1 | Lazio | Reggio Calabria |
| Di Michele 60' Cozza 71' |
Liverani 16' |
Stadium: Stadio Oreste Granillo |
| 16 | Lazio | 0–1 | Brescia | Rome |
| Di Biagio 5' |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
| 17 | Modena | 1–1 | Lazio | Modena |
| Campedelli 61' |
C. López 24' |
Stadium: Stadio Alberto Braglia |
| 18 | Lecce | 0–1 | Lazio | Lecce |
| César 55' |
Stadium: Stadio Via del Mare |
| 22 | Chievo | 0–0 | Lazio | Verona |
| Stadium: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi |
| 23 | Lazio | 0–1 | Milan | Rome |
| Ambrosini 75' |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
| 24 | Bologna | 2–1 | Lazio | Bologna |
| Signori 34' C. Amoroso 64' |
Fiore 38' |
Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara |
| 25 | Lazio | 2–2 | Udinese | Rome |
| Muzzi 5' S. Inzaghi 6' |
Castromán 11' Iaquinta 88' |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
| 26 | Perugia | 1–2 | Lazio | Perugia |
| Brienza 49' |
Fiore 29' Giannichedda 58' |
Stadium: Stadio Renato Curi |
| 27 | Lazio | 5–2 | Siena | Rome |
| César 4, 45 + 1, 49' Fiore 29' Corradi 78' |
Guigou 9' Taddei 24' |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
| 28 | Juventus | 1–0 | Lazio | Turin |
| Trezeguet 88' |
Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi |
| 29 | Lazio | 4–2 | Ancona | Rome |
| Couto 12, 81' Fiore 73' Zauri 89' |
Bucchi 12' D. Andersson 64' |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
Top Scorers
- Bernardo Corradi 10
- César 6
- Simone Inzaghi 6
- Stefano Fiore 6
Claudio López 4 (1)
Results summary
| Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
| 34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 52 | 38 | +14 | 56 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 35 | 19 | +16 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 19 | −2 |
Champions League
Third qualifying round
- Lazio-Benfica 3-1
- 1-0 Bernardo Corradi (16)
- 2-0 Stefano Fiore (52)
- 2-1 Simão (63)
- 3-1 Siniša Mihajlović (83)
Group stage
- Beşiktaş-Lazio 0-2
- 0-1 Jaap Stam (37)
- 0-2 Stefano Fiore (77)
- Lazio-Sparta Prague 2-2
- 0-1 Libor Sionko (27)
- 0-2 Karel Poborský (36)
- 1-2 Simone Inzaghi (46)
- 2-2 Simone Inzaghi (61 pen)
- Chelsea-Lazio 2-1
- 0-1 Simone Inzaghi (39)
- 1-1 Frank Lampard (57)
- 2-1 Adrian Mutu (65)
- Lazio-Chelsea 0-4
- 0-1 Hernán Crespo (14)
- 0-2 Eiður Guðjohnsen (70)
- 0-3 Damien Duff (75)
- 0-4 Frank Lampard (80)
- Lazio-Beşiktaş 1-1
- 0-1 Daniel Pancu (45 pen)
- 1-1 Roberto Muzzi (55)
- Sparta Prague-Lazio 1-0
- 1-0 Marek Kincl (90)