2003 Football League Second Division play-off Final
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The 2003 Football League Second Division play-off Final was a football match played at Millennium Stadium
on 25 May 2003, at the end of the 2002–03 season. It was the 17th play-off final in all at the third level of English football. The match determined the third and final team to gain promotion
from Division Two
to Division One
, and was contested by Queens Park Rangers
, who had finished fourth during the league season, and Cardiff City
, who had finished sixth. Andy Campbell
scored the only goal of the game in extra time to give Cardiff a 1-0 victory.
. In the Play-off semi-finals Queens Park Rangers progressed with a 2-1 aggregate win over fifth placed side Oldham Athletic
and Cardiff City beat Severnside
rivals Bristol City
1-0 on aggregate.
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Queens Park Rangers:
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GK
1
Chris Day
DF
32
Stephen Kelly
DF
6
Danny Shittu
DF
5
Clarke Carlisle
DF
3
Gino Padula
MF
10
Kevin Gallen
MF
8
Marc Bircham
MF
4
Steve Palmer
MF
15
Kevin McLeod
FW
24
Richard Pacquette
FW
29
Paul Furlong
Substitutes:
GK
13
Nick Culkin
DF
2
Terrell Forbes
DF
33
Tom Williams
FW
27
Andy Thomson
FW
31
Brett Angell
Manager:
Ian Holloway
Millennium Stadium
The Millennium Stadium is the national stadium of Wales, located in the capital, Cardiff. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and also frequently stages games of the Wales national football team, but is also host to many other large scale events, such as the Super Special Stage...
on 25 May 2003, at the end of the 2002–03 season. It was the 17th play-off final in all at the third level of English football. The match determined the third and final team to gain promotion
Promotion and relegation
In many sports leagues around the world, promotion and relegation is a process that takes place at the end of each season. Through it, teams are transferred between divisions based on their performance that season...
from Division Two
Football League Second Division
From 1892 until 1992, the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football.This ended with the creation of the FA Premier League, prior to the start of the 1992–93 season, which caused an administrative split between The Football League and the teams...
to Division One
Football League First Division
The First Division was a division of The Football League between 1888 and 2004 and the highest division in English football until the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The secondary tier in English football has since become known as the Championship....
, and was contested by Queens Park Rangers
Queens Park Rangers F.C.
Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in White City, Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. As the 2010-11 Football League Championship champions, they now play in the top tier of English football the Premier League, for the first time in 15 years...
, who had finished fourth during the league season, and Cardiff City
Cardiff City F.C.
Cardiff City Football Club are a Welsh professional football club based in Cardiff, Wales. The club competes in the English football pyramid and is currently playing in the Football League Championship. Cardiff City is the best supported football club in Wales, averaging approximately 22,500 for...
, who had finished sixth. Andy Campbell
Andy Campbell
Andrew Paul "Andy" Campbell is an English footballer, who plays for Whitby Town.-Career:Born in Middlesbrough, Campbell started his career with his hometown team Middlesbrough, whom he left for Cardiff City for £1m...
scored the only goal of the game in extra time to give Cardiff a 1-0 victory.
Route to the final
Queens Park Rangers finished the 2002–03 season in fourth place, two places ahead of Cardiff City who secured their play-off place by just one point over Tranmere RoversTranmere Rovers F.C.
Tranmere Rovers Football Club are an English team based in Birkenhead, Wirral. The club currently compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system...
. In the Play-off semi-finals Queens Park Rangers progressed with a 2-1 aggregate win over fifth placed side Oldham Athletic
Oldham Athletic A.F.C.
Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is an English association football club based at Boundary Park, on Sheepfoot Lane in Oldham, Greater Manchester. The club currently competes in the Football League One, the third tier of the English league...
and Cardiff City beat Severnside
Severnside Derby
The Severnside derby is a local derby in football in the United Kingdom between Welsh club Cardiff City F.C. and English club Bristol City F.C..The term Severnside derby can also be given to a match between Cardiff City F.C...
rivals Bristol City
Bristol City F.C.
Bristol City Football Club is one of two football league clubs in Bristol, England . They play at Ashton Gate, located in the south-west of the City...
1-0 on aggregate.
Match details
| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> | Cardiff City: | ||
| GK | 1 | Neil Alexander Neil Alexander Neil Alexander is a Scottish professional football goalkeeper who is currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Rangers.-Early career:... |
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| DF | 2 |  Rhys WestonRhys Weston Rhys David Weston is an English-born Welsh international football defender who plays for Dundee in the Scottish First Division.... |
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| DF | 6 | Danny Gabbidon |
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| DF | 5 | Spencer Prior Spencer Prior Spencer Justin Prior is an English former footballer. He was a central defender who retired at the end of the 2006-07 season, finishing his career with hometown club Southend United, where he began his career... |
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| DF | 23 | Chris Barker Chris Barker Christopher Andrew "Chris" Barker is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Southend United. He has also represented Barnsley, Cardiff City, Stoke City, Colchester United, Queens Park Rangers and Plymouth Argyle since beginning his career in 1997... |
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| MF | 12 | Willie Boland Willie Boland William John "Willie" Boland is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Limerick. He has recently moved to Teesside andn signed for Guisborough Town FC in the Northern League-Career:... |
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| MF | 8 | Graham Kavanagh Graham Kavanagh Graham Anthony Kavanagh is an Irish footballer. He is assistant manager for Carlisle United, having also played for Home Farm, Middlesbrough, Stoke City, Cardiff City, Wigan Athletic, Sunderland and two loan spells at Sheffield Wednesday... |
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| MF | 4 | Gareth Whalley Gareth Whalley Gareth Whalley is an English born footballer who qualifies to play for the Republic of Ireland under the parentage rule.-Career:... |
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| MF | 3 | Andy Legg Andy Legg Andrew "Andy" Legg is a Welsh footballer and Wales international who is currently player-manager of Welsh Premier League side Llanelli. He has previously played for Swansea City, Notts County, Birmingham City, Ipswich Town, Reading, Peterborough United, Cardiff City and Newport County... |
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| FW | 10 | Robert Earnshaw Robert Earnshaw Robert Earnshaw is a Welsh footballer who plays for Cardiff City and Wales. He is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in the English Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two , the League Cup, the FA Cup and for his country at International level.Earnshaw was born in Mufulira,... |
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| FW | 11 | Peter Thorne |
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| GK | 13 | Martyn Margetson Martyn Margetson Martyn Walter Margetson is a Welsh former professional footballer and Wales international, currently working for Football League Championship side West Ham United as a goalkeeping coach.... |
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| DF | 26 | Gary Croft Gary Croft Gary Croft is a former English football player who played as a left back. He played as a professional between 1992 and 2008 notably for Grimsby Town, Blackburn Rovers and Ipswich Town, having also had spells with Wigan Athletic, Cardiff City and Lincoln City... |
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| MF | 15 | Mark Bonner Mark Bonner Mark Bonner is an English former professional footballer.-Career:Bonner began his career in 1991 at Blackpool, where he progressed through the youth ranks under Jimmy Mullen and Graham Carr, and became a regular in the first team under Billy Ayre during the latter's final two years with the... |
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| MF | 14 | Jason Bowen Jason Bowen (footballer) Jason Peter Bowen is a Welsh former international footballer. Bowen was capped twice by Wales in a career which started at Swansea City.-Playing career:... |
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| FW | 7 | Andy Campbell Andy Campbell Andrew Paul "Andy" Campbell is an English footballer, who plays for Whitby Town.-Career:Born in Middlesbrough, Campbell started his career with his hometown team Middlesbrough, whom he left for Cardiff City for £1m... |
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| Lennie Lawrence Lennie Lawrence Robin Michael Lawrence, commonly known as Lennie Lawrence, is a British football manager who is assistant manager of Crystal Palace. He has managed a number of English clubs and one Welsh club in a coaching career spanning over 30 years... |
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Chris DayChris Day
Christopher Nicholas Day is an English professional football goalkeeper currently playing for League One side Stevenage....
Danny ShittuDanny Shittu
Daniel Olusola "Danny" Shittu is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers."Olusola" is a nickname for the Yoruba name "Oluwanisola" .-Early career:...
Clarke CarlisleClarke Carlisle
Clarke James Carlisle is an English professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Football League One side Preston North End, on loan from Burnley. Born in Preston, he began playing football at a young age, taking inspiration from his father who played semi-professionally. Carlisle...
Gino PadulaGino Padula
Gino Padula is an Argentine footballer.-Career:Padula started his career with Argentine club River Plate in 1996 before moving to Huracán in 1997. In 1998 he moved to Europe to play for Xerez in Spain. His move to Europe was facilitated by the fact that he is the holder of an Italian passport...
Kevin GallenKevin Gallen
Kevin Andrew Gallen is an English professional footballer who is without a club. He most recently played for Braintree Town and is currently working for Queens Park Rangers academy in a youth development role similar to that previously held by his brother Joe Gallen.A former England Under-21...
Marc BirchamMarc Bircham
Marc Stephen John Bircham is an English-born Canadian international retired defensive midfield footballer, who currently works as Youth Manager at Queens Park Rangers F.C.-Club career:...
Steve PalmerSteve Palmer
Stephen Leonard Palmer is an English former footballer who played for Ipswich Town, Watford and Queens Park Rangers. He played either as centre-half or a central midfielder....
Kevin McLeodKevin McLeod
Kevin Andrew McLeod professional footballer, currently playing for Conference National side Braintree Town. His preferred position is as a left-sided midfielder....
Richard PacquetteRichard Pacquette
Richard Francis Pacquette is a footballer who plays for Hayes & Yeading United as a striker.Pacquette started his career with Queens Park Rangers and he made his first team debut towards the end of the 2000–01 season. He had loan spells with Stevenage Borough, Dagenham & Redbridge and Mansfield...
Paul FurlongPaul Furlong
Paul Furlong is an English professional footballer, currently playing for St Albans City in a player/coach role.-Career:...
Nick CulkinNick Culkin
Nicholas James "Nick" Culkin is an English footballer who plays for Radcliffe Borough as a goalkeeper.-Career:Born in York, North Yorkshire, Culkin signed for Premier League club Manchester United in September 1995, costing £100,000 from York City while still in the club's youth system...
Terrell ForbesTerrell Forbes
Terrell Dishan Forbes is an English professional footballer who plays for Leyton Orient. He was a member of the West Ham United 1999 FA Youth Cup winning team and gained promotion from Division Two with Queens Park Rangers in 2004.-Club career:Forbes was born in Southwark, London in 1981 and began...
Tom WilliamsTom Williams (footballer)
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Williams is an English-born Cypriot international footballer who plays primarily as a defender, but he can also play in midfield.-Club career:...
Andy ThomsonAndy Thomson (Scottish footballer)
Andrew "Andy" Thomson is a former Scottish professional football player. He played in 549 league matches, scoring 195 league goals in a career that saw him play for Queen of the South, Partick Thistle, Falkirk and Stenhousemuir in Scotland and Southend United, Oxford United, Gillingham and...
Brett AngellBrett Angell
Brett Ashley Mark Angell is an English association football coach and former player, now coaching in New Zealand. His brother Darren also played football professionally....
Ian HollowayIan Holloway
Ian Scott Holloway is an English football manager and former player. He became the manager of Blackpool in May 2009. Holloway is well-known amongst football fans for his off-the-wall interviews, with a wide selection of quotes and soundbites being printed. Holloway's playing career spanned 18...
MATCH RULES
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