The 2002–03 season was the 123rd season of competitive football by Rangers.
Overview
Rangers played a total of 50 competitive matches during the 2002–03 season. They won their seventh domestic treble in manager Alex McLeish's first full season in charge, having taken over from Dick Advocaat the previous season. The league championship was won on goal difference in the last match of the season with a 6–1 win against Dunfermline Athletic. The club finished on +73 GD, just one ahead of Celtic.
The League Cup was won with a 2–1 final win against Celtic and the Scottish Cup with a 1–0 win against Dundee. Despite domestic success, Rangers crashed out of Europe at the first round stage to little known Czech team Victoria Zizkov losing on the away goals rule.
Players
Transfers
In
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Date
!Player
!From
!Fee
|-
|rowspan=2|1 July 2002
| Mikel Arteta || Barcelona || £5,800,000
|-
| Kevin Muscat || Wolverhampton Wanderers || Free
|-
|26 December 2002
| Steven Thompson || Dundee United || £200,000
|-
|27 January 2003
| Jérôme Bonnissel || Bordeaux || Free
|-
|31 January 2003
| Dan Eggen || Alavés || Free
|}
Out
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Date
!Player
!To
!Fee
|-
|20 May 2002
| Sebastian Rozental || Grasshopper || Free
|-
|rowspan=3|1 June 2002
| Scott Wilson|| Dunfermline Athletic||Free
|-
| Andrei Kanchelskis|| Southampton||Free
|-
| Tony Vidmar|| Middlesbrough||Free
|-
|16 June 2002
| Lee Feeney|| Linfield|| Free
|-
|rowspan=2|20 June 2002
| Tero Penttilä|| HJK Helsinki|| Free
|-
| Jani Kauppila|| Tervarit|| Free
|-
|23 July 2002
| Jesper Christiansen|| VfL Wolfsburg|| Loan
|-
|30 August 2002
| Tore André Flo || Sunderland|| £6,750,000
|-
|30 October 2002
| Dariusz Adamczuk || || Contract terminated
|-
|30 December 2002
| Billy Dodds || Dundee United || Free
|-
|31 December 2002
| Paul Reid || Northampton Town || Loan
|-
|14 January 2003
| Russell Latapy || Dundee United|| Free
|}
- Expenditure: £6,000,000
- Income: £6,750,000
- Total loss/gain: £750,000