2003–04_Irish_Premier_League

Irish Premier League
Season	2003–04
Champions	Linfield; 45th Irish title
Relegated	Glenavon
UEFA Champions League	Linfield
UEFA Cup	Portadown; Glentoran
UEFA Intertoto Cup	Ballymena United
Matches played	240
	← 2002–03 2004–05 →

2003–04 Irish Premier League

Football league season

The 2003–04 Irish Premier League was the 103rd edition of the Irish League, the highest level of league competition in Northern Irish football. For this season there was a change from the structure of previous seasons, with the First Division reverting to intermediate status and the new Premier Division being renamed as the Irish Premier League. The league consisted of 16 teams, and Linfield won the championship.

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Belfast

Belfast teams : Cliftonville
Crusaders
Glentoran
Linfield

Location of teams in the 2003–04 Irish Premier League

Location of the Belfast-based teams in the 2003–04 Irish Premier League

Results

Each team played every other team twice (home and away) for a total of 30 games.

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Source: Irish League Archive
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

The first three games of the season by Glentoran were subsequently rated 0–1 for the respective opponents. Glentoran had used an ineligible player.

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[table_note_res_UC1a0.93237316698412-1] As Irish Cup winners

[table_note_1_GLT_LIS0.72223976567492-2] The first three games of the season by Glentoran were subsequently rated 0–1 for the respective opponents. Glentoran had used an ineligible player.

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Linfield (C)	30	22	7	1	67	16	+51	73	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2	Portadown	30	22	4	4	71	22	+49	70	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Lisburn Distillery	30	16	7	7	45	30	+15	55
4	Coleraine	30	14	9	7	48	36	+12	51
5	Glentoran	30	15	5	10	48	27	+21	50	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round^{[lower-alpha 1]}
6	Ballymena United	30	13	8	9	41	35	+6	47	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
7	Limavady United	30	12	5	13	41	44	−3	41
8	Ards	30	9	11	10	36	46	−10	38
9	Crusaders	30	10	6	14	33	38	−5	36
10	Dungannon Swifts	30	10	6	14	36	48	−12	36
11	Institute	30	9	7	14	38	53	−15	34
12	Newry Town	30	8	9	13	35	53	−18	33
13	Omagh Town	30	9	4	17	37	58	−21	31
14	Larne	30	7	8	15	42	51	−9	29
15	Cliftonville	30	6	8	16	27	45	−18	26	Qualification to Promotion/relegation play-off
16	Glenavon (R)	30	4	4	22	24	67	−43	16	Relegation to Irish First Division

Home \ Away	ARD	BYM	CLI	COL	CRU	DUN	GLV	GLT	INS	LRN	LIM	LIN	LIS	NEW	OMA	POR
Ards		1–1	0–0	2–2	2–0	0–2	2–4	2–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–4	1–1	4–0	2–1	2–1
Ballymena United	1–0		0–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	4–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–3	0–0	1–4	4–0	3–1	1–4
Cliftonville	2–1	0–3		2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–0	3–2	1–4	0–0	1–2	1–2	0–1
Coleraine	4–1	4–0	1–0		0–1	3–1	2–1	0–1	4–2	0–4	2–1	2–0	0–0	4–3	0–0	3–1
Crusaders	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1		0–1	0–4	0–1	3–1	3–2	2–0	1–3	0–1	2–2	4–1	1–2
Dungannon Swifts	2–2	0–0	2–2	3–2	2–1		3–1	1–4	1–1	2–5	1–2	0–4	2–0	3–0	1–0	1–2
Glenavon	1–2	0–3	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–2		1–2	0–2	0–4	2–3	0–2	2–2	0–2	0–3	0–3
Glentoran	3–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	0–1^{[lower-alpha 1]}	1–0	4–0		1–0	1–0	2–1	1–3	0–1^{[lower-alpha 1]}	4–0	4–0	1–2
Institute	0–1	0–4	2–1	2–2	1–3	1–0	1–0	3–1		4–1	0–4	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–3
Larne	5–1	1–2	2–1	0–2	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–4	2–4		2–1	0–3	0–2	3–3	1–2	2–4
Limavady United	0–1	0–1	3–1	3–3	2–3	3–1	2–0	1–0^{[lower-alpha 1]}	2–1	0–0		0–2	0–3	1–0	3–2	0–6
Linfield	2–2	4–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	6–0	1–0	3–2		3–0	5–0	2–0	0–0
Lisburn Distillery	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	5–0	1–1	3–2	1–0	0–1	1–1		3–2	1–2	1–0
Newry Town	0–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	4–0	0–0	2–1	3–3	1–1	1–2	1–0		1–0	1–2
Omagh Town	1–4	2–0	2–3	1–1	0–3	1–3	2–1	1–4	0–3	0–0	2–0	1–3	3–2	3–0		2–5
Portadown	4–0	0–1	5–1	2–1	4–0	5–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	4–1	2–0	1–0

2003–04_Irish_Premier_League

2003–04 Irish Premier League

League standings

Results

Promotion/relegation play-off

References

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