2002–03 Arminia Bielefeld season

Arminia Bielefeld played the 2002–03 season in the Bundesliga. They finished in 16th place, and were relegated from the Bundesliga for the sixth time in their history.^[1]

Review and events

Player details

First team

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Mathias Hain 2 DF Torjus Hansén 3 DF Márcio Borges 4 DF Bastian Reinhardt 5 MF Christoph Dabrowski 6 MF Detlev Dammeier 7 FW Cha Doo-Ri (on loan from Bayer Leverkusen) 8 DF Maciej Murawski 9 FW Rade Bogdanovic 10 MF Fatmir Vata 11 MF Jésus Sinisterra (on loan from Banfield) 12 MF Rüdiger Kauf 13 MF Michael Sternkopf 14 FW Ilija Aračić

No. Position Player 15 DF Daniel Bogusz 16 DF Benjamin Lense 17 MF Bernd Rauw 18 FW Artur Wichniarek 19 FW Mamadou Diabang 21 MF Massimilian Porcello 23 GK Dennis Eilhoff 24 FW Marek Heinz (on loan from Hamburger SV) 25 MF Saša Janić 27 DF Martin Amedick 28 MF Dirk Flock 29 GK Simon Henzler 30 MF Ansgar Brinkmann 33 MF Mirnel Sadović

Reserve team

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

No. Position Player GK Oliver Nestmann GK Sebastian Völzow DF Cetin Cakar DF Norman Klausch DF Matthias Langkamp DF Ivan Rako DF Carsten Rump DF David Schicht DF Nils-Christian Schmidt DF Sebastian Veith DF Dominik Werling MF Sebastian Block MF Engin Baytar MF Henning Grieneisen MF Finn Holsing MF Kai Heidenreich

No. Position Player MF Pascal Hofbüker MF Jonnie Klausch MF Matthias Klein MF Daniel Kurth MF Wojtek Kwasniok MF Rafael Psyk MF Firat Sansar MF Marco Schlobinski MF Christian Schnitker MF Jan-Christopher Smith FW Arsenije Klirusic FW Lars Mettenbrink FW Stefan Studtrucker FW Amir Spahić FW Salih Yavuz

Transfers

In

Player	From	Fee	Date	Notes
Rade Bogdanović	Werder Bremen	Free	July 2002	[2]
Saša Janić	SSV Reutlingen	Free	July 2002	[2]
Benjamin Lense	Darmstadt 98	€200,000	July 2002	[2]
Maciej Murawski	Legia Warsaw	Free	July 2002	[2]
Bernd Rauw	Alemannia Aachen	€180,000	July 2002	[2]
Jésus Sinisterra	Banfield	Loan	July 2002	[2]
Mirnel Sadović	Austria Vienna	Free	July 2002	[2]
Torjus Hansén	Lillestrøm	€150,000	August 2002	[3]
Cha Doo-Ri	Bayer Leverkusen	Loan	August 2002
Marek Heinz	Hamburger SV	Loan	January 2003
Simon Henzler	FC St. Pauli		January 2003

Out

Player	To	Fee	Date	Notes
Lawrence Adjei	Eintracht Trier	Free	July 2002	[2]
Jörg Bode	FC Augsburg	Free	July 2002	[2]
Arne Friedrich	Hertha BSC	€1,800,000	July 2002	[2]
André Hofschneider	FC Augsburg	Free	July 2002	[2]
Alexander Klitzpera	Alemannia Aachen	Free	July 2002	[2]
Zdenko Miletić	FC Augsburg	Free	July 2002	[2]
Bartosz Partyka	Pogoń Szczecin	Free	July 2002	[2]
Tobias Schäper	BV Cloppenburg	Free	July 2002	[2]
Christian Wück	Retired		July 2002	[2]
Dirk van der Ven	Yokohama FC	Free	January 2003
Erhan Albayrak	Fenerbahçe S.K.	Undisclosed	January 2003
Heinz Müller	FC St. Pauli		January 2003

References