2003–04 Mansfield Town F.C. season

Mansfield Town
2003–04 season
Manager	Keith Curle
Stadium	Field Mill
Football League Third Division	5th
FA Cup	Third round
League Cup	First round
Football League Trophy	First round
	Home colours
	Home colours
	← 2002–03 2004–05 →

During the 2003–04 English football season, Mansfield Town Football Club competed in the Football League Third Division where they finished in 5th position with 75 points, reaching the 2004 Football League Third Division play-off final where they lost on penalties to Huddersfield Town.^[1]

Final league table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
3	Torquay United (P)	46	23	12	11	68	44	+24	81	Promotion to Football League One
4	Huddersfield Town (O, P)	46	23	12	11	68	52	+16	81	Qualification for the Third Division play-offs
5	Mansfield Town	46	22	9	15	76	62	+14	75
6	Northampton Town	46	22	9	15	58	51	+7	75
7	Lincoln City	46	19	17	10	68	47	+21	74

Source: ^[2]
Rules for classification: In the Football League goals scored (GF) takes precedence over goal difference (GD).
(O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted

Results

Mansfield Town's score comes first

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League Third Division

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	9 August 2003	Kidderminster Harriers	A	1–2	3,180	Corden
2	16 August 2003	Leyton Orient	H	1–1	3,920	Dimech
3	23 August 2003	Southend United	A	3–0	3,837	Christie (3)
4	26 August 2003	Scunthorpe United	H	5–0	5,142	Christie, Day, Mendes, Lawrence (2)
5	30 August 2003	Swansea City	A	1–4	6,991	Vaughan
6	6 September 2003	Macclesfield Town	H	3–2	4,206	Artell, Mendes, Lawrence
7	13 September 2003	Oxford United	A	1–1	5,625	MacKenzie
8	16 September 2003	Bury	H	5–3	4,145	Lawrence (2), Corden (2), Mendes
9	20 September 2003	Yeovil Town	H	0–1	5,270
10	27 September 2003	Cambridge United	A	2–1	4,068	Lawrence, Disley
11	30 September 2003	Bristol Rovers	A	3–1	8,451	Disley (2), Mendes
12	4 October 2003	Darlington	H	3–1	4,621	Corden, Christie, Tony Vaughan
13	11 October 2003	York City	H	2–0	4,914	Artell, Beardsley
14	18 October 2003	Doncaster Rovers	A	2–4	8,500	Lawrence, Corden
15	21 October 2003	Torquay United	A	0–1	2,773
16	25 October 2003	Cheltenham Town	H	4–0	4,095	Lawrence (2), Larkin (2)
17	1 November 2003	Boston United	H	2–1	5,161	Mendes (2)
18	15 November 2003	Carlisle United	A	2–0	4,154	Mendes, Corden
19	22 November 2003	Huddersfield Town	H	3–3	5,823	Day, Artell, Disley
20	29 November 2003	Northampton Town	A	3–0	5,019	Disley, Lawrence, Christie
21	13 December 2003	Lincoln City	H	1–2	5,797	Lawrence
22	20 December 2003	Hull City	A	1–0	15,005	MacKenzie
23	26 December 2003	Rochdale	H	1–0	6,963	Larkin
24	28 December 2003	Macclesfield Town	A	1–1	6,963	Christie
25	10 January 2004	Kidderminster Harriers	H	1–0	4,574	Day
26	17 January 2004	Leyton Orient	A	1–3	4,072	Buxton
27	24 January 2004	Southend United	H	1–0	4,292	Corden
28	27 January 2004	Scunthorpe United	A	0–0	3,113	Corden
29	7 February 2004	Rochdale	A	0–3	3,157
30	14 February 2004	York City	A	2–1	4,068	Lawrence, Pacquette
31	21 February 2004	Doncaster Rovers	H	1–2	7,724	Lawrence
32	28 February 2004	Cheltenham Town	A	2–4	3,818	Corden, Christie
33	6 March 2004	Hull City	H	1–0	6,859	D'Jaffo
34	13 March 2004	Lincoln City	A	1–4	6,034	Lawrence
35	16 March 2004	Bury	A	0–3	2,119
36	16 March 2004	Swansea City	H	1–1	2,119	Lawrence
37	27 March 2004	Yeovil Town	A	1–1	6,002	Day
38	30 March 2004	Torquay United	H	2–1	4,552	Larkin, Mendes
39	3 April 2004	Cambridge United	H	1–1	4,325	Mendes
40	3 April 2004	Oxford United	H	3–1	5,132	Mendes, Larkin, Day
41	10 April 2004	Darlington	A	0–1	4,946
42	12 April 2004	Bristol Rovers	H	0–0	4,735
43	17 April 2004	Boston United	A	2–1	3,826	Larkin, Lawrence
44	24 April 2004	Carlisle United	H	2–3	5,361	Lawrence (2)
45	1 May 2004	Huddersfield Town	A	3–1	18,663	Lawrence, Day, Mendes
46	8 May 2004	Northampton Town	H	1–2	8,065	Larkin

Football League Third Division play-offs

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
Semi-final 1st leg	16 May 2004	Northampton Town	A	2–0	6,960	Day, Mendes
Semi-final 2nd leg	20 May 2004	Northampton Town	H	1–3 (5–4 pens)	9,243	Curtis
Final	31 May 2004	Huddersfield Town	N	0–0 (1–4 pens)	37,298

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	8 November 2003	Bishop's Stortford	H	6–0	4,679	MacKenzie (3), Mendes, Larkin, Curtis
R2	5 December 2003	Wycombe Wanderers	A	1–1	3,212	Christie
R2 Replay	16 December 2003	Wycombe Wanderers	H	3–2	5,512	Lawrence (3)
R3	3 January 2004	Burnley	H	0–2	8,290

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	13 August 2003	Sunderland	H	1–2	5,665	Kyle (o.g.)

Football League Trophy

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	14 October 2003	Stockport County	H	1–2	3,718	Day

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		League Trophy		Play-offs		Total
No.	Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Kevin Pilkington	46	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	55	0
2	DF	Jamie Clarke	11(1)	0	1(1)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	14(2)	0
3	DF	Adam Eaton	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	6	0
4	DF	Tom Curtis	34(4)	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	3	1	41(4)	2
5	DF	Rhys Day	40(1)	6	4	0	0(1)	0	1	1	3	1	48(2)	9
6	DF	Tony Vaughan	32	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	35	2
7	MF	Liam Lawrence	41	18	4	3	1	0	0	0	3	0	49	21
8	MF	Craig Disley	18(16)	5	3(1)	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	25(17)	5
9	FW	Colin Larkin	19(18)	7	1(1)	1	0	0	1	0	0(3)	0	21(22)	8
10	FW	Richard Pacquette	3(2)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3(2)	1
11	MF	Wayne Corden	40(4)	8	2(1)	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	47(5)	8
12	DF	Bobby Hassell	33(1)	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	41(1)	0
13	GK	Jason White	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	MF	Neil MacKenzie	25(7)	2	2	3	0(1)	0	1	0	0(3)	0	28(11)	5
15	DF	Alex John-Baptiste	14(3)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	18(3)	0
16	DF	Jake Buxton	9	1	0(1)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	10(1)	1
17	FW	Chris Beardsley	2(13)	1	0(1)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3(14)	1
18	FW	Craig Mitchell	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0
19	FW	Andy White	2(12)	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0(1)	0	0	0	2(14)	0
20	FW	Junior Mendes	36(3)	11	4	1	1	0	0	0	3	1	44(3)	13
21	DF	Luke Dimech	17(3)	1	1(1)	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	19(4)	1
22	FW	Iyseden Christie	24(3)	8	2(1)	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	27(3)	9
24	MF	Lee Williamson	29(6)	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	37(7)	0
25	DF	David Artell	24(2)	3	3(1)	0	1	0	0(1)	0	0	0	28(4)	3
26	FW	Lance Mulligan	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0
27	DF	Mark Hurst	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF	Dean Hankey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	MF	Tom Curle	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0
30	FW	Laurent D'Jaffo	4(4)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(3)	0	4(7)	1
–	–	Own goals	–	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	–	0	–	1

References

General

Mansfield Town 2003–04 at soccerbase.com (use drop down list to select relevant season)

Specific

^ "Mansfield Town 2003/04". Statto. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
^ "England 2003–04". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 27 January 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2010.

[1] "Mansfield Town 2003/04". Statto. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.

[rsssf-2] "England 2003–04". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 27 January 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2010.

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