Birmingham City squad – Football Research Archive

Squad 2002/03

Season statistics: Wikipedia. The archive holds no team sheets for 2002/03, so these are Birmingham City's league figures according to the club-season article on English Wikipedia, in the article's order. Players link to their page where the archive holds them, matched through Wikidata.

Checks still open

goals table under "Appearances and goals" skipped: no league column (none)
players' league goals add up to 39; the club scored 41. The article lists no own goals, so the difference (2) is open until match scorers are read.

Birmingham City 2002/03: league appearances and goals per player, according to Wikipedia
Player	Pos.	Apps	Starts	Sub	Goals	All apps	All goals
Ian Bennett	GK	10	10	0	0	12	0
Jeff Kenna	DF	37	36	1	1	39	1
Martin Grainger	DF	9	8	1	0	10	0
Steve Vickers	DF	5	5	0	0	6	0
Darren Purse	DF	20	19	1	1	21	1
Aliou Cissé	MF	21	21	0	0	21	0
Paul Devlin	MF	32	20	12	3	24	3
Robbie Savage	MF	33	33	0	4	34	4
Geoff Horsfield	FW	31	15	16	5	33	5
Bryan Hughes	MF	22	10	12	2	24	2
Stan Lazaridis	MF	30	17	13	2	32	2
Kenny Cunningham	DF	31	31	0	0	32	0
Stern John	FW	30	20	10	5	32	9
Jovan Kirovski	FW	17	5	12	2

Birmingham City scored 41 league goals that season by the archive's results. A dash means the article gives no figure, not zero.

Includes data from Wikipedia (“2002–03 Birmingham City F.C. season”, revision 1379609672, read 16 Oct 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia is edited by volunteers; the archive treats it as a secondary source and checks it against its own records where it can.

Transfers 2002/03

Birmingham City 2002/03: players joining, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	From	Move
30 May 2002	Robbie Savage	Leicester City	Transfer
9 Jul 2002	Aliou Cissé	Montpellier	Transfer
16 Jul 2002	Kenny Cunningham	Wimbledon	Transfer
30 Jul 2002	Clinton Morrison	Crystal Palace	Transfer
15 Aug 2002	Jovan Kirovski	(Crystal Palace)	Transfer
13 Sept 2002	Darryl Powell	(Derby County)	Transfer
1 Jan 2003	Ferdinand Coly	RC Lens	Loan
2 Jan 2003	Christophe Dugarry	Bordeaux	Loan
10 Jan 2003	Jamie Clapham	Ipswich Town	Transfer
10 Jan 2003	Stephen Clemence	Tottenham Hotspur	Transfer
21 Jan 2003	Piotr Świerczewski	Marseille	Loan
22 Jan 2003	Matthew Upson	Arsenal	Transfer
13 Mar 2003	Andy Marriott	Barnsley	Transfer

Birmingham City 2002/03: players leaving, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	To	Move
30 Jul 2002	Andrew Johnson	Undisclosed	Transfer
8 Aug 2002	Paul Furlong	Queens Park Rangers	Loan
8 Aug 2002	Jerry Gill	Northampton Town	Loan
8 Aug 2002	Tom Williams	Queens Park Rangers	Loan
5 Sept 2002	Paul Furlong	Free	Transfer
13 Sept 2002	Tommy Mooney	Stoke City	Loan
20 Sept 2002	Nicky Eaden	Wigan Athletic	Loan
20 Sept 2002	Graham Hyde	Peterborough United	Loan
21 Oct 2002	Nicky Eaden	Nominal	Transfer
11 Nov 2002

According to Wikipedia: the transfer tables of the club-season article. Fees are held but not shown. One move does not check out against Wikidata's career dates or the season's dates; both values are kept.

Show the moves that do not check out

Robbie Savage (in, 30 May 2002): dated 30 May 2002, outside the 2002/03 season

Former players

People in this archive whose Wikidata career includes a senior spell at Birmingham City that has ended
Player	Years	Matches	Goals
Hannibal Mejbri	2022–2023	38	1
Dan Burn	2013–2014	24	0
Chris Wood	2011–2012	23	9
Michael Carrick	2000	2	0
Gary Rowett	1998–2000	86	6
Steve Bruce	1996–1998	72	2
Graham Potter	1992–1993	25	2
Bruce Rioch	1978	3	0

Not limited to the season above, and not the club's full list: only people who appear elsewhere in this archive are listed. Years and figures are the spells' own, across all competitions, as Wikidata records them.