2003–04 West Ham United F.C. season

West Ham United
2003–04 season
Chairman	Terry Brown
Manager	Glenn Roeder (until 24 August); Sir Trevor Brooking (caretaker); Alan Pardew (from October)
Stadium	Boleyn Ground
First Division	4th (qualified for play-offs)
Play-offs	Runners-up
FA Cup	Fifth round
League Cup	Third round
Top goalscorer	League: ; Marlon Harewood (13); All: ; Jermain Defoe (15)
Average home league attendance	31,325
	← 2002–03 2004–05 →

During the 2003–04 English football season, West Ham United competed in the First Division. It was their first season in English football's second tier since the 1992–93 season, having been relegated from the Premiership in 18th place last season.

Season summary

Manager Glenn Roeder was sacked three games into the season. Sir Trevor Brooking took over as caretaker manager until October, when the club signed Alan Pardew of Reading as their new manager. Despite the loss of key players like Joe Cole, Paolo Di Canio and Glen Johnson before the start of the season, and David James and Jermain Defoe during the season, Pardew managed to guide the Hammers to fourth place, qualifying for the play-offs. West Ham managed to beat Ipswich Town in the semi-final, but were beaten in the final by Crystal Palace, meaning the Hammers were consigned to another season in English football's second tier.

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pl	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1.	Norwich City	46	28	10	8	79	39	+40	94
2.	West Bromwich Albion	46	25	11	10	64	42	+22	86
3.	Sunderland	46	22	13	11	62	45	+17	79
4.	West Ham United	46	19	17	10	67	45	+22	74
5.	Ipswich Town	46	21	10	15	84	72	+12	73
6.	Crystal Palace	46	21	10	15	72	61	+11	73
7.	Wigan Athletic	46	18	17	11	60	45	+15	71
8.	Sheffield United	46	20	11	15	65	56	+9	71
9.	Reading	46	20	10	16	55	57	-2	70
10.	Millwall	46	18	15	13	55	48	+7	69
11.	Stoke City	46	18	12	16	58	55	+3	66
12.	Coventry City	46	17	14	15	67	54	+13	65
13.	Cardiff City	46	17	14	15	68	58	+10	65
14.	Nottingham Forest	46	15	15	16	61	51	+10	60
15.	Preston North End	46	15	14	17	69	71	-2	59
16.	Watford	46	15	12	19	54	68	-14	57
17.	Rotherham United	46	13	15	18	53	61	-8	54
18.	Crewe Alexandra	46	14	11	21	57	66	-9	53
19.	Burnley	46	13	14	19	60	77	-17	53
20.	Derby County	46	13	13	20	53	67	-14	52
21.	Gillingham	46	14	9	23	48	67	-19	51
22.	Walsall	46	13	12	21	45	65	-20	51
23.	Bradford City	46	10	6	30	38	69	-31	36
24.	Wimbledon (later MK Dons)	46	8	5	33	41	89	-48	29

Results

West Ham United's score comes first

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League First Division

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
9 August 2003	Preston North End	A	2-1	18,246	Defoe, Connolly
16 August 2003	Sheffield United	H	0-0	28,972
23 August 2003	Rotherham United	A	0-1	8,739
26 August 2003	Bradford City	H	1-0	30,370	Defoe
30 August 2003	Ipswich Town	A	2-1	29,679	Defoe, Connolly
13 September 2003	Reading	H	1-0	32,634	Dailly
16 September 2003	Crewe Alexandra	A	3-0	9,575	Connolly (2), Etherington
20 September 2003	Gillingham	A	0-2	11,418
28 September 2003	Millwall	H	1-1	31,626	Connolly
1 October 2003	Crystal Palace	H	3-0	31,861	Defoe, Mellor (2)
4 October 2003	Derby County	A	1-0	22,810	Hutchison
15 October 2003	Norwich City	H	1-1	31,308	Edworthy (own goal)
18 October 2003	Burnley	H	2-2	31,474	Connolly, Hutchison
22 October 2003	Nottingham Forest	H	1-1	29,544	Defoe
25 October 2003	Cardiff City	A	0-0	19,202
1 November 2003	Coventry City	A	1-1	19,126	Defoe
8 November 2003	West Bromwich Albion	H	3-4	30,359	Defoe, Deane (2)
22 November 2003	Watford	A	0-0	20,950
25 November 2003	Wimbledon	A	1-1	8,118	Deane
29 November 2003	Wigan Athletic	H	4-0	34,375	Horlock, Jarrett (own goal), Harewood (2, 1 pen)
6 December 2003	West Bromwich Albion	A	1-1	26,194	Deane
9 December 2003	Stoke City	H	0-1	24,365
13 December 2003	Sunderland	H	3-2	30,329	Defoe (2), Pearce
20 December 2003	Walsall	A	1-1	9,272	Harewood
26 December 2003	Ipswich Town	H	1-2	35,021	Defoe
28 December 2003	Nottingham Forest	A	2-0	27,491	Harewood, Defoe
10 January 2004	Preston North End	H	1-2	28,777	Connolly
17 January 2004	Sheffield United	A	3-3	22,787	Carrick, Harley, Harewood
31 January 2004	Rotherham United	H	2-1	34,483	Deane, Dailly
7 February 2004	Bradford City	A	2-1	13,078	Zamora, Harewood
21 February 2004	Norwich City	A	1-1	23,940	Harewood
28 February 2004	Cardiff City	H	1-0	31,858	Zamora
2 March 2004	Burnley	A	1-1	12,440	Connolly (pen)
6 March 2004	Walsall	H	0-0	33,177
9 March 2004	Wimbledon	H	5-0	29,818	Etherington (3), Zamora, Reo-Coker
13 March 2004	Sunderland	A	0-2	29,533
17 March 2004	Crewe Alexandra	H	4-2	31,158	Harewood (2), Reo-Coker, McAnuff
21 March 2004	Millwall	A	1-4	14,055	Harewood (pen)
27 March 2004	Gillingham	H	2-1	34,551	Zamora, Etherington
3 April 2004	Reading	A	0-2	21,718
10 April 2004	Derby County	H	0-0	28,207
12 April 2004	Crystal Palace	A	0-1	23,977
17 April 2004	Coventry City	H	2-0	27,890	Zamora, Connolly (pen)
24 April 2004	Stoke City	A	2-0	18,227	Connolly, Harewood
1 May 2004	Watford	H	4-0	34,685	Hutchison, Dailly, Harewood (2, 1 pen)
9 May 2004	Wigan Athletic	A	1-1	20,669	Deane

First Division play-offs


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
SF 1st Leg	15 May 2004	Ipswich Town	A	0-1	28,435
SF 2nd Leg	18 May 2004	Ipswich Town	H	2-0 (won 2-1 on agg)	34,002	Etherington, Dailly
F	29 May 2004	Crystal Palace	N	0-1	72,523

FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	3 January 2004	Wigan Athletic	A	2-1	11,793	Mullins, Connolly
R4	25 January 2004	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	3-1	24,413	Deane, Harewood, Connolly
R5	14 February 2004	Fulham	A	0-0	14,705
R5R	24 February 2004	Fulham	H	0-3	27,934

League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	13 August 2003	Rushden & Diamonds	H	3-1	13,715	Connolly (2), Defoe
R2	23 September 2003	Cardiff City	A	3-2	10,724	Defoe (3)
R3	30 October 2003	Tottenham Hotspur	A	0-1	36,053

First-team squad

Squad at end of season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	CZE	Tomáš Řepka
3	DF	ENG	Rufus Brevett
4	MF	SCO	Don Hutchison^[1]
5	MF	ENG	Rob Lee
6	MF	ENG	Michael Carrick
7	DF	SCO	Christian Dailly
8	FW	IRL	David Connolly^[2]
10	FW	ENG	Marlon Harewood
11	MF	NIR	Steve Lomas^[3]
12	MF	ENG	Matthew Etherington
14	DF	ENG	Wayne Quinn (on loan from Newcastle United)
15	DF	ENG	Anton Ferdinand
16	MF	NIR	Kevin Horlock^[4]
17	MF	ENG	Hayden Mullins


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
18	FW	FRA	Youssef Sofiane
19	MF	ENG	Adam Nowland
20	MF	ENG	Nigel Reo-Coker
21	MF	AUS	Richard Garcia
22	DF	WAL	Andy Melville
24	DF	ENG	Jon Harley (on loan from Fulham)
25	FW	ENG	Bobby Zamora
26	MF	JAM	Jobi McAnuff^[5]
27	DF	ENG	Shaun Byrne
29	FW	ENG	Brian Deane
30	GK	CZE	Pavel Srníček
32	GK	ENG	Stephen Bywater
34	DF	ENG	Elliott Ward
35	DF	ENG	Chris Cohen

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ENG	David James (to Manchester City)
9	FW	ENG	Jermain Defoe (to Tottenham Hotspur)
19	DF	ENG	Ian Pearce (to Fulham)
20	MF	SWE	Niclas Alexandersson (on loan from Everton)
20	MF	ENG	Robbie Stockdale (on loan from Middlesbrough)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	DF	ENG	Matthew Kilgallon (on loan from Leeds United)
28	MF	ENG	David Noble (to Boston United)
30	DF	FRA	Sebastian Schemmel (to Portsmouth)
30	GK	SWE	Rami Shaaban (on loan from Arsenal)
33	FW	ENG	Neil Mellor (on loan from Liverpool)

Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
31	GK	IRL	David Forde
36	MF	IRL	Daryl McMahon


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
37	MF	FRA	Sébastien Carole (on loan from AS Monaco)
38	MF	ENG	Mark Noble

Statistics

References

^ Hutchison was born in Gateshead, England.
^ Connolly was born in Brent, England.
^ Lomas was born in Hanover, Germany.
^ Horlock was born in Bexley, England.
^ McAnuff was born in Enfield, England.

[1] Hutchison was born in Gateshead, England.

[2] Connolly was born in Brent, England.

[3] Lomas was born in Hanover, Germany.

[4] Horlock was born in Bexley, England.

[5] McAnuff was born in Enfield, England.

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