Middlesbrough 1 – 0 Blackburn Rovers, 2002/03 – Football Research Archive

Middlesbrough 1 – 0 Blackburn Rovers

Source OpenFootballUpdated 15 Oct 2026, 07:29 BSTSource changed on or before 15 Oct 2026Kickoff 31 Aug 2002, 15:00 BST

Middlesbrough

1 – 0Half time 0 – 0

Blackburn Rovers

Match statistics

According to football-data.co.uk. Referee: M Halsey.

Aggregate match statistics according to football-data.co.uk
Statistic	Middlesbrough	Blackburn Rovers
Shots	7	10
Shots on target	3	7
Corners	8	6
Fouls committed	19	16
Yellow cards	3	3
Red cards	0	0

Yellow cards exclude the first yellow when a player is sent off for a second yellow. Missing values are not held.

Source file, line 31; read 16 Oct 2026, 06:46 BST.

Kickoff

31 Aug 2002, 15:00 BST

Published as 15:00 Europe/London

Ground

Riverside Stadium

Middlesbrough's home ground on that date, from its ground history. The source does not give the venue.

Attendance

28,270

According to Wikipedia

Referee

Matchday 4

Goals

90′GoalJoseph Desire-JobMiddlesbrough1 – 0

According to Wikipedia: the scorers and minutes in the clubs' season articles, shown because each article's score equals this archive's and the scorers add up to it. Own goals are listed under the side they counted for.

Includes data from Wikipedia (“2002–03 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season”, revision 1360522971, read 16 Oct 2026; “2002–03 Middlesbrough F.C. season”, revision 1324706888, 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.

Coverage

What this archive holds for this match

Held: the result, goalscorers and minutes (according to Wikipedia), attendance (according to Wikipedia). Not held: team match statistics (shots, corners, fouls), full event data, team sheets, bookings, match officials, venue. Absence here is not zero.

Sources

Result: OpenFootball
Scorers, attendance, referee: English Wikipedia, the clubs' season articles (secondary source, CC BY-SA 4.0), each checked against the stored result before use
Data last updated: 15 Oct 2026, 07:29 BST (the archive's last successful import)
Source file last changed: on or before 15 Oct 2026
This record last changed: 15 Oct 2026, 07:18 BST
Last correction: None

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