List of English football transfers summer 2003

This is a list of English football transfers for the 2003 summer transfer window. Only moves featuring at least one Premier League or First Division club are listed.

The summer transfer window opened on 1 July 2003, although a few transfers took place prior to that date. Players without a club may join one at any time, either during or in between transfer windows. Clubs below Premier League level may also sign players on loan at any time. If need be, clubs may sign a goalkeeper on an emergency loan, if all others are unavailable.

Transfers[edit]

Date	Name	Moving from	Moving to	Fee
30 April 2003	Yakubu	Maccabi Haifa	Portsmouth	Undisclosed^[1]
8 May 2003	Billy Mehmet	West Ham United	Dunfermline Athletic	Free
11 May 2003	Christophe Dugarry	Girondins de Bordeaux	Birmingham City	Free
12 May 2003	Darren Kenton	Norwich City	Southampton	Free
15 May 2003	Michael Bird	Bolton Wanderers	Aberdeen	Free
23 May 2003	Joseph Yobo	Marseille	Everton	£3.5m
27 May 2003	Teddy Lučić	Leeds United	Bayer Leverkusen	Free
27 May 2003	Gifton Noel-Williams	Watford	Stoke City	Free
30 May 2003	Graham Barrett	Arsenal	Coventry City	Free
1 June 2003	Philippe Senderos	Servette	Arsenal	Undisclosed^[2]
3 June 2003	Gary Montgomery	Coventry City	Rotherham United	Free
4 June 2003	David Seaman	Arsenal	Manchester City	Free
4 June 2003	Michael Tarnat	Bayern Munich	Manchester City	Free
6 June 2003	Patrik Berger	Liverpool	Portsmouth	Free
9 June 2003	Steve Finnan	Fulham	Liverpool	£3.5m^[3]
10 June 2003	Bjarne Goldbæk	Fulham	Rot-Weiss Essen	Free
11 June 2003	Cliff Byrne	Sunderland	Scunthorpe United	Free
16 June 2003	Matt Holland	Ipswich Town	Charlton Athletic	£750,000
20 June 2003	Dejan Stefanović	Vitesse	Portsmouth	£1.85m
23 June 2003	Luke Cornwall	Fulham	Bradford City	Free
24 June 2003	Ian Taylor	Aston Villa	Derby County	Free
24 June 2003	Boris Živković	Bayer Leverkusen	Portsmouth	Free
25 June 2003	Hélder Postiga	Porto	Tottenham Hotspur	£6.25m
26 June 2003	Lee Roche	Manchester United	Burnley	Free
27 June 2003	Leo Fortune-West	Cardiff City	Doncaster Rovers	Free
30 June 2003	Brian Jensen	West Bromwich Albion	Burnley	Free
30 June 2003	Teddy Sheringham	Tottenham Hotspur	Portsmouth	Free^[4]
1 July 2003	Gareth Ainsworth	Cardiff City	Queens Park Rangers	Free
1 July 2003	David Beckham	Manchester United	Real Madrid	£25m
1 July 2003	David Bellion	Sunderland	Manchester United	Compensation
1 July 2003	Lee Bowyer	West Ham United	Newcastle United	Free
2 July 2003	Florent Laville	Olympique Lyonnais	Bolton Wanderers	£500,000
2 July 2003	Gianfranco Zola	Chelsea	Cagliari	Free
3 July 2003	Eric Djemba-Djemba	Nantes	Manchester United	£3.5m
3 July 2003	Jürgen Macho	Sunderland	Chelsea	Free
4 July 2003	Ian Gray	Rotherham United	Huddersfield Town	Free
7 July 2003	Chris Armstrong	Oldham Athletic	Sheffield United	£100,000
7 July 2003	David Dunn	Blackburn Rovers	Birmingham City	£5.5m
7 July 2003	Oleh Luzhnyi	Arsenal	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Free^[5]
7 July 2003	Harald Wapenaar	Utrecht	Portsmouth	Free
8 July 2003	Scott Murray	Bristol City	Reading	£400,000
8 July 2003	Niclas Jensen	Manchester City	Borussia Dortmund	Undisclosed
8 July 2003	Danny Webber	Manchester United	Watford	Free
9 July 2003	Léandre Griffit	Amiens	Southampton	Compensation
9 July 2003	Harry Kewell	Leeds United	Liverpool	£5m
9 July 2003	Lilian Laslandes	Sunderland	Nice	Free
10 July 2003	Brett Emerton	Feyenoord	Blackburn Rovers	Undisclosed
11 July 2003	Les Ferdinand	West Ham United	Leicester City	Free
11 July 2003	Rob Hulse	Crewe Alexandra	West Bromwich Albion	£750,000
14 July 2003	Lorenzo Amoruso	Rangers	Blackburn Rovers	£1.4m
14 July 2003	Bernt Haas	Sunderland	West Bromwich Albion	£500,000
14 July 2003	Fitz Hall	Oldham Athletic	Southampton	£250,000
15 July 2003	Olivier Dacourt	Leeds United	Roma	£3.5m
15 July 2003	Tim Howard	MetroStars	Manchester United	£2.3m^[6]
15 July 2003	Glen Johnson	West Ham United	Chelsea	£6m
16 July 2003	Geremi	Real Madrid	Chelsea	£7m
16 July 2003	Tony Vidmar	Middlesbrough	Cardiff City	Free
17 July 2003	Ben Thatcher	Tottenham Hotspur	Leicester City	Free
18 July 2003	Iván Campo	Real Madrid	Bolton Wanderers	Free
18 July 2003	Paul Merson	Portsmouth	Walsall	Free
18 July 2003	Jody Morris	Chelsea	Leeds United	Free
18 July 2003	Bobby Zamora	Brighton & Hove Albion	Tottenham Hotspur	£1.5m
21 July 2003	Wayne Bridge	Southampton	Chelsea	£7m
21 July 2003	Damien Duff	Blackburn Rovers	Chelsea	£17m
21 July 2003	Graeme Le Saux	Chelsea	Southampton	£500,000
21 July 2003	Trevor Sinclair	West Ham United	Manchester City	£2.5m
21 July 2003	Doriva	Celta Vigo	Middlesbrough	Free
22 July 2003	Damien Francis	Wimbledon	Norwich City	£375,000^[7]
23 July 2003	Kevin Davies	Southampton	Bolton Wanderers	Free
23 July 2003	Luciano Figueroa	Rosario Central	Birmingham City	£2.5m
24 July 2003	Gavin McCann	Sunderland	Aston Villa	£2.25m
24 July 2003	Neil Shipperley	Wimbledon	Crystal Palace	Undisclosed^[8]
25 July 2003	Yoann Folly	Saint-Étienne	Southampton	£250,000
26 July 2003	Jens Lehmann	Borussia Dortmund	Arsenal	Undisclosed^[9]
26 July 2003	Guillaume Warmuz	Arsenal	Borussia Dortmund	Undisclosed^[9]
28 July 2003	Steven Reid	Millwall	Blackburn Rovers	£2.5m
31 July 2003	David Connolly	Wimbledon	West Ham United	£285,000
31 July 2003	Jody Craddock	Sunderland	Wolverhampton Wanderers	£1.75m
31 July 2003	Thomas Gaardsøe	Ipswich Town	West Bromwich Albion	£520,000
31 July 2003	Artim Šakiri	CSKA Sofia	West Bromwich Albion	Nominal
1 August 2003	Henri Camara	Sedan	Wolverhampton Wanderers	£1.5m
1 August 2003	Steffen Freund	Tottenham Hotspur	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Free^[10]
1 August 2003	Shaun Goater	Manchester City	Reading	£500,000
1 August 2003	Vratislav Gresko	Parma	Blackburn Rovers	£1.2m
1 August 2003	Steffen Iversen	Tottenham Hotspur	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Free
1 August 2003	Luke Wilkshire	Middlesbrough	Bristol City	£250,000
4 August 2003	David Artell	Rotherham United	Mansfield Town	Free
4 August 2003	Gaël Clichy	Cannes	Arsenal	Compensation
4 August 2003	Matthew Etherington	Tottenham Hotspur	West Ham United	£1m
4 August 2003	Frédéric Kanouté	West Ham United	Tottenham Hotspur	£3.5m
4 August 2003	Rob Lee	Derby County	West Ham United	Free
4 August 2003	Antoine Sibierski	Lens	Manchester City	£700,000
4 August 2003	Jeff Whitley	Manchester City	Sunderland	Free
4 August 2003	Alan Wright	Aston Villa	Middlesbrough	Free
5 August 2003	Dave Beasant	Brighton & Hove Albion	Fulham	Free^[11]
5 August 2003	Gary Breen	West Ham United	Sunderland	Free
5 August 2003	Amdy Faye	Auxerre	Portsmouth	Undisclosed
5 August 2003	Neil McCann	Rangers	Southampton	£1.5m
5 August 2003	Noel Whelan	Middlesbrough	Millwall	Undisclosed
6 August 2003	Julien Baudet	Oldham Athletic	Rotherham United	Free
6 August 2003	Joe Cole	West Ham United	Chelsea	£6.6m
6 August 2003	Juan Sebastián Verón	Manchester United	Chelsea	£15m
8 August 2003	Scott Minto	West Ham United	Rotherham United	Free
8 August 2003	Darel Russell	Norwich City	Stoke City	£125,000
8 August 2003	Thomas Sørensen	Sunderland	Aston Villa	£2.25m
9 August 2003	James Beaumont	Newcastle United	Nottingham Forest	Undisclosed^[12]
9 August 2003	Ross Gardner	Newcastle United	Nottingham Forest	Undisclosed^[12]
11 August 2003	Paolo Di Canio	West Ham United	Charlton Athletic	Free
12 August 2003	Kléberson	Atletico Paranaense	Manchester United	£6m
12 August 2003	Adrian Mutu	Parma	Chelsea	£15.8m
12 August 2003	Cristiano Ronaldo	Sporting CP	Manchester United	£12.24m
13 August 2003	Mark Crossley	Middlesbrough	Fulham	Undisclosed
13 August 2003	Mbulelo Mabizela	Orlando Pirates	Tottenham Hotspur	Undisclosed^[13]
13 August 2003	Sebastian Schemmel	West Ham United	Portsmouth	Undisclosed
14 August 2003	Aboubacar Fofana	Juventus	Millwall	Undisclosed^[14]
14 August 2003	Alan Lee	Rotherham United	Cardiff City	£850,000
14 August 2003	Carlo Nash	Manchester City	Middlesbrough	Nominal
14 August 2003	Kevin Phillips	Sunderland	Southampton	£3.25m
15 August 2003	Kevin Horlock	Manchester City	West Ham United	£300,000
15 August 2003	Richard Langley	Queens Park Rangers	Cardiff City	£200,000
20 August 2003	Bob Peeters	Vitesse	Millwall	Undisclosed
21 August 2003	Leon Knight	Chelsea	Brighton & Hove Albion	£100,000
22 August 2003	David Tarka	Perth Glory	Nottingham Forest	£100,000
23 August 2003	Tore André Flo	Sunderland	Siena	Undisclosed
26 August 2003	Pegguy Arphexad	Liverpool	Coventry City	Free
26 August 2003	Hernán Crespo	Internazionale	Chelsea	£16.8m
26 August 2003	Alexei Smertin	Bordeaux	Chelsea	£3.45m
27 August 2003	Gareth Taylor	Burnley	Nottingham Forest	£500,000
28 August 2003	Anthony Tonkin	Stockport County	Crewe Alexandra	£150,000
29 August 2003	Barry Ferguson	Rangers	Blackburn Rovers	£7.5m
29 August 2003	Kevin Muscat	Rangers	Millwall	Free
29 August 2003	Claudio Reyna	Sunderland	Manchester City	£2.5m
29 August 2003	Neil Sullivan	Tottenham Hotspur	Chelsea	£500,000
29 August 2003	Emerson Thome	Sunderland	Bolton Wanderers	Free
30 August 2003	Steve McManaman	Real Madrid	Manchester City	Free
1 September 2003	Dexter Blackstock	Oxford United	Southampton	Undisclosed
1 September 2003	Gordon Greer	Blackburn Rovers	Kilmarnock	Free
1 September 2003	Kevin Kilbane	Sunderland	Everton	£1m
1 September 2003	Claude Makélélé	Real Madrid	Chelsea	£16.6m
1 September 2003	Nigel Martyn	Leeds United	Everton	Nominal
1 September 2003	James McFadden	Motherwell	Everton	Undisclosed
1 September 2003	Mark Pembridge	Everton	Fulham	Undisclosed
1 September 2003	Pavel Srníček	Brescia	Portsmouth	Undisclosed

Notes[edit]

^ "Ayegbeni achieves Premiership goal". UEFA. 30 April 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
^ "Arsenal sign Swiss defender". BBC Sport. 20 December 2002. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
^ "Liverpool agree Finnan deal". BBC Sport. 9 June 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
^ "Sheringham signs for Pompey". BBC Sport. 30 June 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
^ "Luzhny fit for Wolves". BBC Sport. 7 July 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
^ "Howard joins Man Utd". BBC Sport. 15 July 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
^ Simons, Raoul (23 July 2003). "Holdsworth returns to Wimbledon". Evening Standard. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
^ "Shipperley agrees Palace deal". BBC Sport. 24 July 2003. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Lehmann seals Arsenal switch". UEFA. 26 July 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
^ "Freund joins Kaiserslautern". BBC Sport. 1 August 2003. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
^ "Beasant close to Fulham deal". BBC Sport. 5 August 2003. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Hart: Forest's hunt will go on". Nottingham Post. 9 August 2003 – via NewsBank.
^ "Mabizela nears Spurs move". BBC Sport. 13 August 2003. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
^ Spall, Leo (14 August 2003). "Millwall sign Juventus midfielder". Evening Standard. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

References[edit]

[1] "Ayegbeni achieves Premiership goal". UEFA. 30 April 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.

[2] "Arsenal sign Swiss defender". BBC Sport. 20 December 2002. Retrieved 23 November 2022.

[3] "Liverpool agree Finnan deal". BBC Sport. 9 June 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.

[4] "Sheringham signs for Pompey". BBC Sport. 30 June 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.

[5] "Luzhny fit for Wolves". BBC Sport. 7 July 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.

[6] "Howard joins Man Utd". BBC Sport. 15 July 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.

[7] Simons, Raoul (23 July 2003). "Holdsworth returns to Wimbledon". Evening Standard. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

[8] "Shipperley agrees Palace deal". BBC Sport. 24 July 2003. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

[lehmann-9] "Lehmann seals Arsenal switch". UEFA. 26 July 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2022.

[10] "Freund joins Kaiserslautern". BBC Sport. 1 August 2003. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

[11] "Beasant close to Fulham deal". BBC Sport. 5 August 2003. Retrieved 4 January 2023.

[nottinghampost-12] "Hart: Forest's hunt will go on". Nottingham Post. 9 August 2003 – via NewsBank.

[13] "Mabizela nears Spurs move". BBC Sport. 13 August 2003. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

[14] Spall, Leo (14 August 2003). "Millwall sign Juventus midfielder". Evening Standard. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

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