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2003 Brisbane Lions season

The Brisbane Lions' 2003 season was its seventh season in the Australian Football League (AFL). In it, the club won its third consecutive premiership, and third overall.

2003 season
Leigh Matthews
Michael Voss
The Gabba (Capacity: 37,600)
3rd
Premiers
Michael Voss
Alastair Lynch (62 goals)
36,803 vs. Collingwood (17 April 2003)
24,321 vs. Western Bulldogs (27 April 2003)
31,717
25,578

The Brisbane Lions' 2003 season was its seventh season in the Australian Football League (AFL). In it, the club won its third consecutive premiership, and third overall.

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6	Column 7
Rd	Date and local time	Opponent	Scores	Venue	Attendance
1	29 March (7:10 pm)	Essendon	104	61	The Gabba (H)	36,197
2	5 April (7:10 pm)	Port Adelaide	86	76	Football Park (A)	27,876
3	12 April (7:10 pm)	Kangaroos	109	109	Docklands Stadium (A)	24,359
4	17 April (7:40 pm)	Collingwood	95	81	The Gabba (H)	36,803
5	27 April (1:10 pm)	Western Bulldogs	106	79	The Gabba (H)	24,341
6	4 May (2:40 pm)	Geelong	92	78	Kardinia Park (A)	21,246
7	11 May (1:10 pm)	Sydney	79	98	SCG (A)	23,276
8	17 May (7:10 pm)	Adelaide	107	89	The Gabba (H)	34,469
9	24 May (2:10 pm)	Carlton	153	76	Princes Park (A)	24,906
10	31 May (7:10 pm)	Melbourne	123	63	The Gabba (A)	29,634
11	7 June (7:10 pm)	St Kilda	85	90	Docklands Stadium (A)	30,313
12	15 June (1:10 pm)	West Coast	91	160	The Gabba (H)	31,185
13	28 June (7:10 pm)	Richmond	104	61	The Gabba (H)	32,623
14	5 July (1:40 pm)	Fremantle	72	75	Subiaco Oval (A)	28,450
15	13 July (1:10 pm)	Hawthorn	93	81	The Gabba (H)	29,684
16	19 July (7:10 pm)	Essendon	86	94	Docklands Stadium (A)	47,744
17	26 July (7:10 pm)	Port Adelaide	103	104	The Gabba (H)	32,043
18	2 August (7:10 pm)	Kangaroos	137	83	The Gabba (H)	28,044
19	9 August (2:10 pm)	Collingwood	101	62	MCG (A)	61,868
20	17 August (1:10 pm)	Sydney	76	90	The Gabba (H)	32,988
21	23 August (7:10 pm)	Geelong	123	86	The Gabba (H)	30,515
22	30 August (7:10 pm)	Western Bulldogs	170	86	Docklands Stadium (A)	22,361

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6	Column 7
Rd	Date and local time	Opponent	Scores	Venue	Attendance
Second qualifying final	6 September (7:30 pm)	Collingwood	7.9 (51)	9.12 (66)	MCG	66,092
First semi-final	12 September (7:30 pm)	Adelaide	18.16 (124)	12.10 (82)	The Gabba	32,432
Second preliminary final	20 September (7:30 pm)	Sydney	14.16 (100)	8.8 (56)	Stadium Australia	71,019
Grand Final	27 September (2:30 pm)	Collingwood	20.14 (134)	12.12 (84)	MCG	79,451

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6


Saturday, 6 September 7:30pm	Collingwood	def.	Brisbane Lions	MCG (crowd: 66,092)	Report
	2.2 (14)5.5 (35)6.8 (44)9.12 (66)	Q1Q2Q3Final	3.2 (20)6.5 (41)7.5 (47)7.9 (51)	Umpires: Allen, Goldspink, McBurney Television broadcast: Network Ten


Tarrant 3Didak, Buckley 2Rocca, Johnson 1	Goals	3 Lynch1 McGrath, Akermanis, Brown, Lappin
Buckley, Clement, Tarrant, Fraser, Johnson, Cloke, Scotland	Best	Brown, Akermanis, Lappin, Michael, White, Hart
Nil	Injuries
Nil	Reports	Notting reported for charging Scotland

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6


Friday, 12 September 7:30pm	Brisbane Lions	def.	Adelaide	The Gabba (crowd: 32,432)	Report
	3.3 (21)6.9 (45)11.12 (78)18.16 (124)	Q1Q2Q3Final	3.2 (20)4.4 (28)10.7 (67)12.10 (82)	Umpires: McBurney, Rosebury, Allen Television broadcast: Network Ten


Lynch 6Brown 3Akermanis 2McGrath, Lappin, Black, Power, Johnson, McRae, Copeland 1	Goals	4 Burton, Stevens2 McLeod1 Shirley, Bode
Lynch, Black, Akermanis, Leppitsch, Voss, Power	Best	Burton, Ricciuto, Goodwin, McLeod, Smart, Stevens
Ashcroft (knee)	Injuries	Nil
Nil	Reports	Nil

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6


Saturday, 20 September 7:30pm	Sydney	def. by	Brisbane Lions	Telstra Stadium (crowd: 71,019)	Report
	2.2 (14)4.4 (28)8.7 (55)8.8 (56)	Q1Q2Q3Final	2.7 (19)6.7 (43)8.10 (58)14.16 (100)	Umpires: James, McLaren, Goldspink Television broadcast: Network Ten


Hall 2Davis, Cresswell, Williams, Kennelly, Ablett, Roberts-Thomson 1	Goals	3 Lynch, Pike2 Caracella, McGrath, Brown1 McRae, Black
Matthews, Hall, Williams, C. Bolton, Goodes	Best	Lappin, Charman, Caracella, Pike, Brown, Black
Nil	Injuries	Lappin (ribs)
Nil	Reports	Nil

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6


Saturday, 27 September 2:40pm	Brisbane Lions	def.	Collingwood	MCG (crowd: 79,451)	Report
	5.5 (35)11.7 (73)14.12 (96)20.14 (134)	Q1Q2Q3Final	3.3 (21)4.7 (31)9.7 (61)12.12 (84)	Umpires: McBurney, Kennedy, Allen Norm Smith Medal: Simon Black (Brisbane Lions) Television broadcast: Network Ten National anthem: Christine Anu


Akermanis 5Lynch 4Caracella, Brown 2McRae, Pike, Hadley, Black, Leppitsch, Hart, Bradshaw 1	Goals	3 Didak2 Burns1 Davis, Woewodin, Buckley, Licuria, Tarrant, Fraser, Scotland
Black, Akermanis, Voss, Lappin, Hart, Michael, Pike, Power	Best	Fraser, Burns, Buckley, Johnson, Licuria
Nil	Injuries	Nil
Nil	Reports	Nil

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