Southampton squad – Football Research Archive

Squad 2002/03

Season statistics: Wikipedia. The archive holds no team sheets for 2002/03, so these are Southampton'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

players' league goals add up to 42; the club scored 43. The article lists no own goals, so the difference (1) is open until match scorers are read.

Southampton 2002/03: league appearances and goals per player, according to Wikipedia
Player	Pos.	Apps	Starts	Sub	Goals	All apps	All goals
Paul Jones	GK	14	13	1	0	16	0
Jason Dodd	DF	15	13	2	0	19	0
Wayne Bridge	DF	34	34	0	1	40	1
Chris Marsden	MF	30	30	0	1	39	3
Claus Lundekvam	DF	33	33	0	0	41	0
Paul Williams	DF	12	10	2	0	13	0
Andrei Kanchelskis	MF	1	0	1	0	2	0
Matthew Oakley	MF	31	28	3	0	40

Southampton scored 43 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 Southampton F.C. season”, revision 1372962022, 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

Southampton 2002/03: players joining, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	From	Move
27 Aug 2002	Antti Niemi	Heart of Midlothian	Transfer
31 Aug 2002	Marcus Hall	Nottingham Forest	Transfer
31 Aug 2002	Andrei Kanchelskis	Rangers	Transfer
8 Jan 2003	Federico Arias	Not held	Loan
31 Jan 2003	Danny Higginbotham	Derby County	Transfer
31 Jan 2003	David Prutton	Nottingham Forest	Transfer
12 May 2003	Darren Kenton	Norwich City	Transfer
12 May 2003	Dexter Blackstock	Oxford United	Transfer

Southampton 2002/03: players leaving, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	To	Move
2 Jul 2002	Dani Rodrigues	Walsall	Transfer
2 Jul 2002	Dan Petrescu	Unattached	Released
3 Jul 2002	Scott McDonald	Not held	Loan
10 Jul 2002	Jacinto Ela	Not held	Loan
10 Jul 2002	Scott Bevan	Not held	Loan
13 Sept 2002	Neil Moss	Not held	Loan
13 Sept 2002	Kevin Davies	Not held	Loan
28 Oct 2002	Alan Blayney	Not held	Loan
10 Dec 2002

According to Wikipedia: the transfer tables of the club-season article. Fees are held but not shown.

Includes data from Wikipedia (“2002–03 Southampton F.C. season”, revision 1372962022, 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.

Former players

People in this archive whose Wikidata career includes a senior spell at Southampton that has ended
Player	Years	Matches	Goals
Mateus Fernandes	2024–2025	39	2
Roméo Lavia	2022–2023	29	1
Tino Livramento	2021–2023	30	1
Armando Broja	2021–2022	32	6
Kevin Danso	2019–2020	6	0
Virgil van Dijk	2015–2018	67	4
Nathaniel Clyne	2012–2015	94	3
Luke Shaw	2011–2014	60	0
Graham Potter	1996–1997	8	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.