2003–04 Burnley F.C. season

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League Cup
Third round
FA CupFifth round
Top goalscorerLeague:
Robbie Blake (19)
All:
Robbie Blake (22)
Highest home attendance18,852 (vs. Sunderland, 9 May)
Lowest home attendance9,473 (vs. Reading, 25 November)
Average home league attendance12,424

The 2003–04 season was Burnley's fourth season in the second tier of English football. They were managed by Stan Ternent in his sixth full season since he replaced Chris Waddle at the beginning 1998–99 campaign.

Season summary

Burnley struggled all season, and finished the season in 19th, two points above the relegation zone.[1] As with the previous season, Burnley's defense was their downfall - the team conceded 77 goals, bettered in the First Division only by bottom club Wimbledon and in the entire Football League by Second Division side Notts County.

Appearances and goals

No. Pos Nat Player Total First Division
League Cup
FA Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK Denmark DEN
Brian Jensen
 52 0 46 0 3 0 3 0
2 DF England ENG Lee Roche 30 1 21+4 1 1+1 0 3 0
3 DF Guinea GUI Mo Camara 51 0 45 0 3 0 2+1 0
4 DF England ENG Paul Weller 37 0 25+8 0 2 0 1+1 0
5 DF England ENG David May 39 4 34+1 4 1 0 3 0
6 DF England ENG Graham Branch 41 3 30+8 3 2 0 0+1 0
7 MF England ENG Glen Little 38 3 33+1 3 2 0 2 0
8 FW England ENG Robbie Blake 51 22 44+1 19 3 1 3 2
9 FW Wales WAL Gareth Taylor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 FW Nigeria NGA Dele Adebola (on loan) 3 1 0+3 1 0 0 0 0
10 FW England ENG Ian Moore 45 13 38+2 9 2 1 3 3
11 MF Republic of Ireland IRL Alan Moore 17 0 5+8 0 1 0 1+2 0
12 MF England ENG Tony Grant 42 0 34+3 0 2 0 3 0
14 DF England ENG Mark McGregor 26 1 20+3 1 0 0 3 0
15 DF England ENG Dean West 35 1 25+7 1 2+1 0 0 0
16 MF Republic of Ireland IRL Gareth Farrelly (on loan) 14 0 9+3 0 1+1 0 0 0
16 DF England ENG Jay McEveley (on loan) 5 0 0+4 0 0 0 1 0
16 MF England ENG Lenny Johnrose 7 0 4+3 0 0 0 0 0
17 DF Ivory Coast CIV Arthur Gnohéré 16 1 12+2 1 2 0 0 0
18 MF England ENG Luke Chadwick (on loan) 40 6 23+13 5 2 1 1+1 0
19 FW Grenada GRN Delroy Facey (on loan) 16 5 12+2 5 2 0 0 0
19 GK England ENG Nathan Abbey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 MF England ENG Richard Chaplow 44 5 30+9 5 1+1 0 3 0
21 MF England ENG Matthew O'Neill 4 0 0+4 0 0 0 0 0
22 MF England ENG Joel Pilkington 1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
23 DF England ENG
Paul Scott
 2 0 0+2 0 0 0 0 0
24 DF England ENG
Andy Todd
(on loan) 		8 0 7 0 1 0 0 0
24 MF England ENG Bradley Orr (on loan) 4 0 1+3 0 0 0 0 0
24 DF Australia AUS Ryan Townsend 1 0 0+1 0 0 0 0 0
25 MF England ENG Neil Wood (on loan) 11 1 8+2 1 0 0 1 0
26 GK United States USA Paul Rachubka (on loan) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
26 MF England ENG Marc Pugh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Transfers

In

# Pos Player From Fee Date
3 DF Guinea Mo Camara Wolverhampton Wanderers Free 23 May 2003
2 DF England Lee Roche Manchester United Free 26 June 2003
1 GK
Brian Jensen
 West Bromwich Albion Free 30 June 2003
18 MF England Luke Chadwick Manchester United Loan 10 July 2003
16 MF Republic of Ireland Gareth Farrelly Bolton Wanderers Loan 1 September 2003
19 FW Grenada Delroy Facey Bolton Wanderers Loan 1 September 2003
24 DF
Andy Todd
 Blackburn Rovers Loan 4 September 2003
16 DF England Jay McEveley Blackburn Rovers Loan 11 December 2003
19 GK England Nathan Abbey Ipswich Town Free 16 January 2004
24 MF England Bradley Orr Newcastle United Loan 28 January 2004
26 GK United States Paul Rachubka Charlton Athletic Loan 29 January 2004
25 MF England Neil Wood Manchester United Loan 29 January 2004
9 FW Nigeria Dele Adebola Coventry City Loan 25 March 2004
16 MF England Lenny Johnrose Swansea City Free 25 March 2004

Out

# Pos Player To Fee Date
FW England Anthony Shandran
Spennymoor United
 Free 20 May 2003
GK Greece Nikolaos Michopoulos
Omonia Nicosia
 Free 20 May 2003
MF England Mark Rasmussen Accrington Stanley Free 20 May 2003
DF England Earl Davis Swansea City Free 20 May 2003
DF England Andrew Leeson
Blyth Spartans
 Free 20 May 2003
MF England Paul Cook Accrington Stanley Free 23 May 2003
DF Guinea Drissa Diallo Ipswich Town Free 4 June 2003
DF Trinidad and Tobago Ian Cox Gillingham Free 5 June 2003
MF England Gordon Armstrong Accrington Stanley Free 5 June 2003
FW England Andy Payton Stalybridge Celtic Free 17 June 2003
MF England Brad Maylett Swansea City Free 18 June 2003
DF
Steve Davis
 Blackpool Free 2 July 2003
FW
Dimitrios Papadopoulos
 Panathinaikos £200k 4 July 2003
DF England Lee Briscoe Preston North End Free 22 July 2003
MF England Andy Waine Accrington Stanley Free 23 July 2003
9 FW Wales Gareth Taylor Nottingham Forest £500,000 27 August 2003
7 MF England Glen Little Bolton Wanderers Loan 1 September 2003
17 DF Ivory Coast Arthur Gnohéré Queens Park Rangers Loan 5 September 2003
GK England Marlon Beresford Bradford City Free 15 September 2003
17 DF Ivory Coast Arthur Gnohéré Queens Park Rangers Free 19 February 2004

Results

First Division

Burnley2 – 3Crystal Palace
Blake 11'
Roche 19'		 (Report) Freedman 6' (pen.) 32' 67'
C Foy
West Bromwich Albion4 – 1Burnley
Šakiri 31'
Hulse 59'
Hughes 88' 89'		 (Report) Blake 28'
Attendance: 22,489
Referee: M Clattenburg
Burnley0 – 2Wigan Athletic
(Report) Kennedy 13'
Ellington 77'
Attendance: 13,231
Referee: A Butler
Gillingham0 – 3Burnley
(Report) I. Moore 27'
West 30'
Blake 77'
Attendance: 7,645
Referee: M Halsey
Burnley1 – 0Crewe Alexandra
Chaplow 52' (Report)
Attendance: 11,495
Referee: G Laws
Stoke City1 – 2Burnley
Asaba 53' (Report) May 18'
Chadwick 27'
Britannia Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent
Norwich City2 – 0Burnley
Crouch 58'
Roberts 90'		 (Report)
Attendance: 16,407
Referee: C Penton
Burnley0 – 3Nottingham Forest
(Report) Harewood 7'
Reid 76'
Taylor 82'
Attendance: 12,530
Referee: A Kaye
Burnley4 – 0Bradford City
I. Moore 43'
Chadwick 54' 60'
Blake 68'		 (Report)
Attendance: 12,719
Referee: M Dean
Wimbledon2 – 2Burnley
Holdsworth 66'
Agyemang 71'		 (Report) Blake 21' 37'
National Hockey Stadium, Milton Keynes
Attendance: 5,639
Referee: M Warren
Watford1 – 1Burnley
Fitzgerald
45'		 (Report) Chadwick 54'
Attendance: 11,573
Referee: A Hall
Burnley3 – 1Walsall
Facey 4' 82' 87' (Report) Merson 24'
Attendance: 10,532
Referee: M Jones
Ipswich Town6 – 1Burnley
Couñago 20' 22'
Wright 28'
Bart-Williams 30'
Chaplow 40' (o.g.)
Kuqi 90'		 (Report) Facey 49'
Attendance: 22,048
Referee: P Joslin
West Ham United2 – 2Burnley
Connolly 20'
Hutchison 86'		 (Report) Facey 38'
I. Moore 82'
Attendance: 31,474
Referee: I Williamson
Burnley1 – 1Millwall
I. Moore 60' (Report)
Whelan
53'
Attendance: 10,435
Referee: A Bates
Burnley1 – 1Cardiff City
Chaplow 52' (Report) Earnshaw 76'
Attendance: 10,886
Referee: H Webb
Sheffield United1 – 0Burnley
Tonge 45' (Report)
Attendance: 20,967
Referee: G Cain
Derby County2 – 0Burnley
Morris 20'
Taylor 90' (pen.)		 (Report)
Attendance: 21,960
Referee: U Rennie
Burnley1 – 1Rotherham United
Blake 35' (Report) Mullin 51'
Attendance: 12,928
Referee: R Olivier
Burnley3 – 0Reading
Blake 5'
Chaplow 47'
Chadwick 54'		 (Report)
Attendance: 9,473
Referee: M Pike
Sunderland1 – 1Burnley
Kyle 39' (Report) I. Moore 72'
Attendance: 29,852
Referee: A Kaye
Burnley3 – 2Sheffield United
Blake 17' 45' (pen.)
I. Moore 34'		 (Report) Montgomery 24'
Whitlow 31'
Attendance: 11,452
Referee: N Barry
Burnley1 – 2Coventry City
Blake 53' (Report) Suffo 8'
Weller 40' (o.g.)
Attendance: 10,358
Referee: M Fletcher
Preston North End5 – 3Burnley
Fuller 18' 71' 82'
Lewis 60'
Healy 88'		 (Report) I. Moore 24'
Gnohéré 64'
Blake 78' (pen.)
Deepdale, Preston
Attendance: 18,802
Referee: M Dean
Crewe Alexandra3 – 1Wigan Athletic
S. Jones
55' 90'		 (Report) Blake 89' (pen.)
Burnley0 – 1Stoke City
(Report) Akinbiyi 52'
Attendance: 12,812
Referee: D Gallagher
Crystal Palace0 – 0Burnley
(Report)
Attendance: 15,276
Referee: A Wiley
Burnley1 – 1West Bromwich Albion
Blake 68' (Report) Horsfield 73'
Attendance: 13,106
Referee: N Miller
Wigan Athletic0 – 0Burnley
(Report)
JJB Stadium, Wigan
Attendance: 11,147
Referee: U Rennie
Burnley1 – 0Gillingham
Little 83' (Report)
Attendance: 10,400
Referee: P Danson
Burnley4 – 2Ipswich Town
Little 26'
May 28'
Chaplow 61'
Blake 90'		 (Report) Westlake 65'
Reuser 88'
Attendance: 11,343
Referee: M Dean
Reading2 – 2Burnley
Owusu 19'
Harper 90'		 (Report) I. Moore 23'
May 67'
Attendance: 10,543
Referee: A Penn
Millwall2 – 0Burnley
Ifill 12'
Sweeney 52'		 (Report)
The New Den, London
Burnley1 – 1West Ham United
Branch 31' (Report) Connolly 36' (pen.)
Attendance: 12,440
Referee: P Dowd
Burnley1 – 1Preston North End
Blake 19' (Report) Alexander 58' (pen.)
Attendance: 15,837
Referee: D Pugh
Coventry City4 – 0Burnley
Joachim 10'
McSheffrey 33' 39' (pen.)
Konjić 78'		 (Report)
Attendance: 12,953
Referee: A Bates
Nottingham Forest1 – 1Burnley
Taylor 80' (Report) Chaplow 15'
Attendance: 26,885
Referee: R Olivier
Bradford City1 – 2Burnley
Cadamarteri 18' (Report) Blake 8'
I. Moore 90'
Attendance: 13,667
Referee: G Laws
Burnley3 – 5Norwich City
Wood 7'
May 30'
Blake 38'		 (Report) Svensson 14' 62'
Huckerby 32' 89'
McKenzie 51'
Attendance: 12,417
Referee: A Hall
Walsall0 – 1Burnley
(Report) Blake 56' (pen.)
Attendance: 7,769
Referee: S Bennett
Burnley2 – 3Watford
McGregor 30'
Adebola 86'		 (Report) Devlin 39' (pen.)
Helguson 55'
Cook 84'
Attendance: 11,413
Referee: C Boyeson
Cardiff City2 – 0Burnley
Langley 78' (pen.)
Campbell 80'		 (Report)
Attendance: 13,525
Referee: M Jones
Burnley2 – 0Wimbledon
Branch 26'
Ntimban-Zeh 45' (o.g.)		 (Report)
Attendance: 13,555
Referee: G Cain
Burnley1 – 0Derby County
Branch 42' (Report)
Attendance: 16,189
Referee: E Evans
Rotherham United3 – 0Burnley
Butler 15'
Stockdale 39'
Proctor 85' (pen.)		 (Report)
Attendance: 9,157
Referee: P Walton
Burnley1 – 2Sunderland
Little 11' (Report) Breen 37'
Kyle 66'
Attendance: 18,852
Referee: K Hill

Final league position

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
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
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

League Cup

First round

a.e.t.)
Burnley
Report
Penalties
Hudson soccer ball with red X
Hurst soccer ball with red X
Evatt
soccer ball with red X		 2 – 3 soccer ball with check mark Weller
soccer ball with check mark West
soccer ball with red X Blake
soccer ball with check mark Little
Attendance: 2,928
Referee: P Robinson

Second round

Scunthorpe United2 – 3Burnley
MacLean 32'
Beagrie
85'		 Report Chadwick 22'
Blake 42'
I. Moore 77'
Attendance: 2,915
Referee: M Fletcher

Third round

Wolverhampton Wanderers2 – 0Burnley
Miller 48'
Craddock 81'		 Report
Chris Foy

FA Cup

Third round

Mansfield Town0 – 2Burnley
Report I. Moore 30', 73'
Attendance: 8,290
Referee: P Prosser

Fourth round

Burnley3 – 1Gillingham
I. Moore 30'
Blake 33', 64'		 Report Henderson 71'
Attendance: 9,735
Referee: Graham Laws

Fifth round

Millwall1 – 0Burnley
Dichio 70' Report
The New Den, London
Attendance: 10,420
Referee: Howard Webb

References

  1. ^ "Burnley 2003-2004 Home - statto.com". Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
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