2002–03 1. FC Kaiserslautern season

Season summary

With Kaiserslautern in the relegation zone and eliminated from the Intertoto Cup, manager Andreas Brehme was sacked. After a brief caretaker spell under his assistant manager, Karl-Heinz Emig, former PSV Eindhoven manager Eric Gerets was recruited. Although the defense was improved, conceding only 3 goals more all season than in the championship season of 1998, the attacking record suffered and Kaiserslautern finished 14th, 4 points ahead of the relegation zone. However, the team did make a run to the final of the DFB-Pokal; despite a 3-1 defeat to double winners Bayern Munich, the team qualified again for the UEFA Cup.

Players

First-team squad
Squad at end of season[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  GER Georg Koch
2 DF  COD Nzelo Hervé Lembi
3 DF  CMR Bill Tchato
4 DF  SVN Aleksander Knavs
5 DF  GER Thomas Hengen
6 DF  EGY Hany Ramzy
7 MF  BUL Marian Hristov
8 MF  GRE Dimitrios Grammozis[notes 1]
9 FW  CZE Vratislav Lokvenc
10 MF  BRA Lincoln
11 FW  GER Miroslav Klose[notes 2]
12 GK  GER Tim Wiese
13 MF   SUI Ciriaco Sforza
14 MF  GER Selim Teber
15 MF  CRO Nenad Bjelica
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF  BRA Ratinho
18 MF  GER Markus Anfang
20 DF  POL Tomasz Kłos
21 FW  MLT Michael Mifsud
22 FW  GER Christian Timm
23 MF  GER Thomas Riedl
24 DF  GER Harry Koch
26 MF  GER Torsten Reuter
27 MF  GER Silvio Adzic
28 MF  GER Stefan Malz
29 FW  GER Danko Bošković
30 MF  GER Mario Basler
31 GK  GER Jens Kern
32 MF  POR José Dominguez

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
3 DF  CZE Petr Gabriel (on loan to Teplice)

Notes
  1. Grammozis was born in Wuppertal, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent Greece internationally through his parents and represented Greece at U-21 level.
  2. Klose was born in Opole, Poland, but was raised in Germany from the age of 8 and made his international debut for Germany in March 2001.

References
  1. "FootballSquads - 1.FC Kaiserslautern - 2002/03". www.footballsquads.co.uk.
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