2002–03 FC Dinamo București season

FC Dinamo București
2002–03 season
Manager	Cornel Dinu; Ion Moldovan (rounds 1-3); Florin Marin (rounds 4-7); Cornel Dinu (rounds 8-18); Ioan Andone
Liga I	6th
Romanian Cup	Winner
UEFA Champions League	2nd qual. round
Top goalscorer	Ionel Dănciulescu (16 goals)
	← 2001–02 2003–04 →

The 2002–03 season was FC Dinamo București's 54th season in Divizia A. In this season, Dinamo was affected again by the big number of players who left the team, which became a tradition for the bosses of the club to sell players after winning a title. Thus, Dinamo was again facing another reconstruction. They started the season badly, losing the two games in the UEFA Champions League qualifying phase, and leaving early the European competitions. Cornel Dinu was sacked after this two losses. In Divizia A Dinamo had hard times, changing a lot of managers and losing seven consecutive games. The team finished the season on the sixth position. A momentum of the season came in November, in the Romanian Cup, last 16, where Dinamo met the biggest rival Steaua. Dinamo won 3-0 the game played at the Cotroceni stadium.^[1] After Ioan Andone came to the team, Dinamo played a spectacular semifinal with Astra Ploieşti. They lost the first game, 2–1 in Ploieşti in the middle of the crisis, but then the team beat Astra in Bucharest 3-1 after extra time. They then went on to win the Romanian Cup, after beating FC Naţional in the final 1–0 on a goal scored by Iulian Tameş.

Results

Divizia A
Round	Date	Opponent	Stadium	Result
1	17 August 2002	Ceahlăul	H	5–0
2	22 August 2002	Astra	A	2–4
3	31 August 2002	FCM Bacău	H	1–1
4	15 September 2002	Steaua București	A	1–1
5	21 September 2002	FC Argeș	H	3–0
6	28 September 2002	Rapid București	A	1–3
7	5 October 2002	Gloria Bistriţa	H	0–2
8	20 October 2002	Naţional București	A	2–0
9	26 October 2002	UTA	H	5–0
10	3 November 2002	Farul Constanţa	A	1–0
11	10 November 2002	Sportul Studenţesc	H	3–1
12	16 November 2002	Oţelul Galaţi	A	0–2
13	24 November 2002	FC Brașov	H	1–0
14	30 November 2002	Poli Timişoara	A	3–2
15	8 December 2002	U Craiova	H	1–0
16	19 March 2003	Ceahlăul	A	2–3
17	8 March 2003	Astra	H	0–3
18	15 March 2003	FCM Bacău	A	1–3
19	23 March 2003	Steaua București	H	2–4
20	5 April 2003	FC Argeș	A	0–2
21	13 April 2003	Rapid București	H	0–2
22	16 April 2003	Gloria Bistriţa	A	0–1
23	19 April 2003	Naţional București	H	1–1
24	26 April 2003	UTA	A	0–0
25	3 May 2003	Farul Constanţa	H	2–0
26	7 May 2003	Sportul Studenţesc	A	6–5
27	10 May 2003	Oţelul Galaţi	H	1–0
28	17 May 2003	FC Brașov	A	2–2
29	24 May 2003	Poli Timişoara	H	2–1
30	28 May 2003	U Craiova	A	1–3

Cupa României
Round	Date	Opponent	Stadium	Result
Last 32	6 November 2002	UM Timişoara	Timişoara	1–0
Last 16	27 November 2002	Steaua București	București	3–0
QF-1st leg	12 March 2003	Farul Constanţa	Constanţa	1–0
QF-2nd leg	2 April 2003	Farul Constanţa	București	2–2
SF-1st leg	23 April 2003	Astra Ploieşti	Ploieşti	1–2
SF-2nd leg	14 May 2003	Astra Ploieşti	București	3–1
Final	31 May 2003	Naţional București	București	1–0