The 2002–03 Divizia B was the 63rd season of the second tier of the

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. The format has been maintained to two series, each of them having 16 teams. At the end of the season, the winners of the series promoted to

Divizia A Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

and the last two places from both series relegated to

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. A promotion play-off was played between the 13th and 14th-placed in the

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Team changes

To Divizia B

Promoted from

* Politehnica Unirea Iași * Gloria Buzău *

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* Rulmentul Alexandria * Gilortul Târgu Cărbunești * Corvinul Hunedoara *

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* Bucovina Suceava** Relegated from

* Petrolul Ploiești * UM Timișoara

From Divizia B

Relegated to

* Tractorul Brașov * Dinamo Poiana Câmpina * Petrolul Moinești * ASA Târgu Mureș * Laminorul Roman * Jiul Petroșani * Rocar București * Politehnica Timișoara** Promoted to

* AEK București** *

UTA Arad Asociația Fotbal Club UTA Arad (), commonly known as UTA Arad or simply UTA (''Uzina Textilă Arad''; ), is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Arad, Arad County that competes in the Liga I. The team was founded in 1945 ...

Other

''AEK București'' merged with ''Politehnica Timișoara'' and was absorbed. Politehnica played directly in the first tier, instead of third and also was renamed as Politehnica AEK Timișoara. Bucovina Suceava break the alliance with

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, bought the place from Tractorul Brașov and was enrolled directly in the second tier.

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bought the place of Metrom Brașov, which chose to sell it again, instead of playing at the second level.

Renamed teams

''Diplomatic Focșani'' was renamed as Unirea Focșani. ''Foresta Suceava'' was moved back from

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and renamed as

. ''Politehnica Unirea Iași'' was renamed as Politehnica Iași. ''FC Bihor Oradea'' was renamed as FC Oradea.

League tables

Seria I

Seria II

Divizia A play-off

The 13th and 14th-placed teams of the

faced the 2nd-placed teams of the Divizia B.

Top scorers

;14 goals * Dan Codreanu ( Universitatea Cluj) ;12 goals * Ovidiu Maier ( Apulum Alba Iulia) * Cătălin Bozdog (

) ;10 goals * Zoltán Csehi ( FC Oradea) ;9 goals * George Florescu ( Universitatea Cluj) *

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(

) ;8 goals * Tudorel Stanciu ( Unirea Focșani) * Bogdan Vrăjitoarea ( FC Oradea) * Daniel Stan ( Internațional Pitești) ;7 goals * Sorin Oncică (

) * Claudiu Boaru (

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)

References

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